December 2011
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“The U.S. Government doesn’t drop bombs on people because of their race....”
– Norman Solomon, This War and Racism (via darkjez)
speaking of bombs, how bout this truth bomb?
(via velocicrafter)
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midwestmountainmama:
ok, ONE LAST THING I SWEAR SWEAR TRIPLE SWEAR. AND THEN THAT’S IT.
i’m saying it here instead of feministe, because it will never be heard there.
i just hope that people don’t depoliticized WHY mr wound himself up a prominent member of the online feminist community. it wasn’t simply that people didn’t know about him and one day he wound up being all the head of the world...
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“Europeans did not enslave Africans because they considered Africans inferior,...”
– Robert L Harris Jr, PHD. Professor of African American Studies at Cornell University. Quote from Soaring High: Teaching our Young Men the Winning Combination (via latinegro)
^THIS.
(via mujerinterrumpida)
what i was saying earlier.
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Black kid prollums
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liquornspice:
I feel like I talk and people don’t hear words. Black people speak on their other identities and experiences and folks just glaze right over it.
“We must be sensitive to people’s traumatic reactions. You Negroes need to stop yelling at me!”
“You triggered me when you called me dumb after I was racist at you! You must have compassion for people after they are...
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“I still believe that the unexamined life is not worth living: and I know that...”
– JAMES BALDWIN-Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son (essays; 1961)
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The Estrangement of Trans Gay Men from Cis Gay Men
femmesandfamily:
I have two queer identities and they are at war with each other. I have one queer identity and it is fully integrated. I have one queer identity placed in conflict with itself by outside forces. I have to pick one. I refuse to pick one.
There’s always been a troubled relationship between the (cis) gay male...
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Vegan Colonialism
jemimaaslana:
nodamncatnodamncradle:
Speaking of animals having it worse than POC….
Kenya’s Samburu tribe was violently thrown off of their own land recently by a police raid because it have been sold to US wildlife charities and she must be having a fucking field day.
What the fucking fuck is wrong with this world…
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I'm clearly just trying to find reasons to call...
jemimaaslana:
doctorsheldoncooperforthewin:
firstrisingvibes:
I mean, sure, I can’t get in certain buildings because there isn’t an elevator or a ramp and on a bad day, I can’t walk up stairs. Sure, I have meltdowns because people are covered in perfume or find it funny to play with camera flash guns in the pub, or put up extremely bright flashing Christmas lights everywhere. Sure, I got...
There's a huge difference between internalizing...
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awyeahmona:
I think it was @eateroftrees who I read discussing this with some other people a while ago, and I got to thinking about it today, about how often the two are conflated.
If one is aware of their oppression, if one is aware of how their oppression impacts them and their self-image and preferences and choices, how one deals with their own self-image from their is THEIR...
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thehallsofknowledge:
i guess what i’m saying is even thought I’m down with God and Historical Jesus (not White Republican Jesus), I am totes not down with missionary work and in fact tend to run the other way whenever someone is like, yeah I make it my life’s work to shame/guilt/psychologically manipulate others into adopting my religion as the One True Way
#adventuresofaVeryBadCatholic
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“There is a kind of crying I hope you have not experienced, and it is not just...”
– Lemony Snicket (via amantesuntamentes)
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