April 2011
Oi With The Poodles Already: Kyriarchy And Shoes →
jaded16india:
So I’m tipsy today and was talking to Renee earlier and we were both talking about how we should have been more aware of social justice issues earlier and this state of being unaware is a big regret for both of us.
Renee: well maybe not my greatest [regret], but a great one
Me: Mine too!…
“I want to live in a world where little girls are not pinkified, but where little...”
– s. e. smith, “Get Your Anti-Femininity out of my Feminism” (via roxanneritchi) (via elonjames)
I feel like Elon James reblogging someone quoting me is pretty much an automatic reblog since it’s a recursive web of awesome.
(via meloukhia)
“I think marriage in general is not a healthy institution in our society. If...”
– bell hooks (via queeraspie)
This is like the most beautiful summation of how I feel on ‘gay marriage’ ever.
I would like to smash the system of marriage so that ALL non traditional families can have rights, thank you, not just get a few rights for a few lucky gay people.
(via badparsiqueer)
On Obama basically getting pulled over for... →
crunkfeministcollective:
Beyond my sarcasm, though, I think the president has set a horrible precedent. I mean, on a grand scale, he just got pulled over and asked to show papers proving his citizenship. I could be optimistic, I suppose, and think, “Well, maybe now he’ll take a firmer stand on the treatment of immigrants and other people of color who are harassed, badgered, interrogated and...
“Here’s the thing about the 1970s British and American punk scenes: they were...”
– “Poly Styrene, Multiracial Feminist Punk Icon, Dead at 53” by Channing Kennedy (via Colorlines)
It sucks I only learn about her now that she’s died. The punk scene has done its part to erase women in rock.
(via norma-desmond)
And Black people altogether. Righteous chick. God bless.
(via...
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
– Jalal-al-Din Rumi (via m-e-l-t)
What to say, and not say, to an autistic adult →
DON’T SAY: “I never would have known. You must be very high functioning.” SAY: “I obviously don’t know anything about autism.”
DON’T SAY: “Are you sure?” SAY: “I obviously really don’t know anything about autism.”
DON’T SAY: “Isn’t that, you know, a kid thing?” SAY: “Damn, the media works hard to erase you. That sucks.”
DON’T SAY: “Don’t you get that from vaccines?” SAY: “I almost just...
“Some may blackly (angrily) accuse me of trying to blacken (defame) the English...”
– Robert B. Moore, “Racist Stereotyping in the English Language” (via supporterleschenilles)
I have one issue with this, and that’s that niggardly isn’t actually about colours, shades or races… as I understand it, it came to us from the Norse, where it meant “fussing about small details”, and it took...
“Is it truly about the journey? Because [Lady Gaga’s] journey isn’t that...”
– M.I.A. on Lady Gaga (via queen)
Fuck yes. M.I.A > everyone else
(via theval)
“Cultural identity… is a matter of “becoming” as well as “being.” It belongs to...”
– Stuart Hall, “Cultural Identity and Diaspora” (via banji-realness)
mewmew foucault: invisibility, homonormativity,... →
calloutqueen:
Queer stories don’t belong to brown bodies
Feminist stories don’t belong to brown bodies
Gender fluid stories don’t belong to brown bodies
Femme stories don’t belong to brown bodies
Body positive stories don’t belong to brown bodies
Coming out stories don’t belong to brown bodies
How do I MAKE stories belong to my beautiful brown body when there’s so much in the way? How do I...
The WOC Survival Kit: From Feminism for Real:... →
tiaramerchgirl:
queer fury: Two-Spirit people & Women-Only Spaces.
curiouserjane:
One of the ways I have experienced feminism re-settling (or re-invading) Turtle Island is through “women-only” spaces. They claim that being a woman means being born female and that all who live…
“How many Americans do you figure have even heard, for example, that black youth...”
– What Kind of Card is Race - Hot Topics - Danielle Belton’s The Black Snob (via robot-heart-politics)
Just Another Radical Lefty: gwenfrankenstien:... →
gwenfrankenstien:
nicocoer:
Oh and to reiterate the giftedness isn’t privilege point
duyukdv:
ireallyhope:
eateroftrees:
When you develop significantly out of sync with your peers (to the point of reading college textbooks in elementary school, for example) that’s not…
“The people who run our cities don’t understand graffiti because they think...”
– Banksy (via redefinedcool)
Preach.
(via dominickbrady)
Smash the White Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchy:... →
ramou:
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White privilege is a set of unearned privileges that one benefits from because they are White. It is both a favored state of one race over another as well as a systematic conferred dominance of one race over another. Research scientist and anti-racist activist Peggy…
“There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue...”
– Audre Lorde (via julietburgess)
Sometimes I feel like the most radical thing...
“The current model of “class-mobility” reinforces separatism and a...”
– Megan Lee: “Maybe I’m Not Class-Mobile; Maybe I’m Class-Queer”, from the anthology Feminism For Real: Deconstructing The Academic Industrial Complex of Feminism. Quoted at Racialicious, March 8, 2011. (via lenachen)
fuck yeah sarah bernard: i fucking hate “reblog... →
fuckyeahsarahbernard:
i fucking hate “reblog this if” but fucking hell this shit sorta kinda resonnates
24geek:
Donald Glover- “Black Nerds”
Reblog this only if you are a black nerd. Back when wearing glasses and high waterswasn’t cool. Reblog this if you were always the token black kid, and you were the…
sexgenderbody: fourloves: It’s Autism Awareness... →
fourloves:
It’s Autism Awareness Month and, as a person with autism, I urge you to remain as unaware as possible. If someone encourages you to watch a movie or read a book about autism, run as fast as you can in the opposite direction. Movies and books about autism suck. They’re almost…