February 2012
goldenheartedrose:
fatandgeeky:
grrlyman:
Ellie Ranting: Unfollowed someone today
every-inch-but-one:
skankassqueer:
queerkidjess:
skankassqueer:
goldenheartedrose:
Who made a snarky comment about people who put “stay at home mom” under their “employer” on Facebook, and then went on to criticize the amount of time these people spend on Facebook. Oh, and THEN she tried to justify...
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French Socialist Party presidential candidate...
golden-zephyr:
In a February 12 interview on Canal Plus TV, François Hollande, Socialist Party candidate for president in the upcoming elections, proposed as a “solution” to the presence in France of Roma European Union (EU) citizens “the creation of camps … to accommodate them”.
The association of a “solution” in relation to specific racial groups with special camps can only bring to mind the...
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the one word all brown people hate
almondskeyes:
exotic
the number of heads i’ve tried to expode with my mind
“The denial of racism is a form of racism itself.”
– TIm Wise
YES. SO MUCH TO SAY ABOUT THIS BECAUSE OF SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED IN ONE OF MY CLASSES TODAY
(via feministpizza)
“When you have 40 percent of kids being born out of wedlock, and among certain...”
– Mitt Romney, at Wednesday’s CNN debate in Arizona.
Hey, you know what prevents unwanted pregnancy? This.
Love the insinuation that poverty IS child abuse. And the racism. That throwaway remark is quite possibly one of the worst things to come out of last night’s debate.
I could say more, but...
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dykosaur: stfuconfederates: Deaf Aspie: Challenge... →
softserved:
green-street-politics:
galesofnovember:
At this point then, I’m not even sure the point of the original post. You eat only 2 things and then challenge someone to find you a food budget and object because the food budget they create requires you to eat only 1 (different) thing. Or object because their meal plan of peanut butter sandwiches with hashbrowns is less, uh, something...
dykosaur: stfuconfederates: Deaf Aspie: Challenge... →
lilacturtl:
vegetables-in-a-paper-bag:
lilacturtl:
galesofnovember:
At this point then, I’m not even sure the point of the original post. You eat only 2 things and then challenge someone to find you a food budget and object because the food budget they create requires you to eat only 1 (different) thing. Or object because their meal plan of peanut butter sandwiches with hashbrowns is...
“The Framers also recognized a second reason to oppose the linkage of state and...”
– PoliticalProf, laying it down. I recommend The Godless Constitution for further reading on the subject. Not a few of the strongest advocates for the Separation of Church and State in colonial America were religious leaders who recognized that melding church and state together (where the terms...
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dykosaur: stfuconfederates: Deaf Aspie: Challenge... →
galesofnovember:
At this point then, I’m not even sure the point of the original post. You eat only 2 things and then challenge someone to find you a food budget and object because the food budget they create requires you to eat only 1 (different) thing. Or object because their meal plan of peanut butter sandwiches with hashbrowns is less, uh, something than a diet of only fried chicken and...
“….because when a grown-assed adult claims the “texture” of something normal like...”
– lilacturtle here.
Yes, they just said you can’t have sensorineural texture issues because of autism. No, they’re not joking.
(via teaandtheatre)
What the hell. Yes, lilacturtle — we like making our lives more difficult. Fuck you.
(via goldenheartedrose)
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.redeye: Etsy "Native Inspired" Treasuries... →
mylittlehyena:
mylittlehyena:
Are really tiring. It’s tiring to continually see the community of Native Artists on Etsy getting overlooked and unappreciated.
If you have a favorite Native Etsy shop let me know. I’ve started to leave comments on the “tribal, southwestern, navajo-aztec, wolf, moon, shaman, indian hat, ethnic, spiritual”, etc treasuries with this:
“If anyone truly enjoys...
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Would You Rather Be Blind Or Deaf?
ethnicallyambiguous:
I love asking this question to friends and new acquaintances.
The majority of people will say they would rather be deaf. Vision is super important to us as humans, some would argue it is our most important sense, especially when it comes to basic survival. Sure you can smell a predator, you can hear a predator, but I think it probably is most valuable to see the predator,...
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As the opposite to Mike's post about ASL in the...
thelegalizeddeafies:
As in, going to the store and noticing your server or cashier is deaf, has hearing aids/CI, etc.
Now, as with approaching customers who are deaf, you must take a multifaceted approach, and even then, you might not avoid offending everyone. But first, a quick story to explain my experience with this sort of thing.
When I was still working as a cook in a restaurant, we had...
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“You can’t say, outing is so terrible and so wrong and so tragic and so possibly...”
– Dorothy Snarker hits the nail on the head once again (via avocadosalad)
villainess: Like or reblog if a White person has... →
wickedblackwitch:
deliciouskaek:
wickedblackwitch:
howtokillasofa:
wickedblackwitch:
howtokillasofa:
howtokillasofa:
wickedblackwitch:
howtokillasofa:
this is stupid. what? just because you’re black you’re going to be mistaken as a worker? Excuse me, I may not be white but my skin sure is and people ask me if i’m an associate of any store I’m in. This honestly has nothing to...
Like or reblog if a White person has mistaken you...
howtokillasofa:
wickedblackwitch:
so-treu:
wickedblackwitch:
And I wasn’t even wearing the uniform.
neither was i. and i’ve been asked this question since i was 12. -_-
it started happening to me once i turned 16. the only time a white person got a pass for that is when i was working at the movies and i’d went to walmart because our uniforms looked just like theirs.
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The NDNsurgency: apihtawikosisan: Why Indigenous... →
apihtawikosisan:
apihtawikosisan:
Why Indigenous Studies shouldn’t be mandatory…it’s unfair, and coercion causes resentment?
In line with the “when you talk about racism you stop racism from disappearing” and “I wasn’t a racist until you questioned my privilege”, we now have people arguing that a…
The comments there are preeeeety damn good so far I have to say. I am pleasantly surprised. ...
ndnsurgency:
apihtawikosisan:
Why Indigenous Studies shouldn’t be mandatory…it’s unfair, and coercion causes resentment?
In line with the “when you talk about racism you stop racism from disappearing” and “I wasn’t a racist until you questioned my privilege”, we now have people arguing that a mandatory course in indigenous studies will make people hate natives even more.
Considering this is...
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“The racialization of religion permits such assumptions through the conflation of...”
– Khyati Y. Joshi (The Racialization of Hinduism, Islam, and Sikhism in the United States)
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“White privilege conditions white people not to see white rage. However, it makes...”
– Crunktastic, White Women’s Rage: 5 Thoughts On Why Jan Brewer Should Keep Her Fingers to Herself, Crunk Feminist Collective 1/27/12 (via racialicious)
Fantastic post.
(via fatbodypolitics)
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Based on the colour of one’s skin
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What narrowing race down to skin colour alone does is to allow understandings of racism to get narrowed down. It opens up the potential for racists to say, okay, something I just said or did had nothing to do with literal skin colour, so how can it be racist? It pins race down to the individual body rather than the institutional problem. If instances of racism are based on the...
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Based on the colour of one’s skin
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In this historical moment and in a lot of contexts, skin colour is a prominent feature to which racism is attached. Not only, however, do not all people of colour have dark skin, or consistent skin tone across their particular grouping, but all the plastic surgery and denigrating of noses and rear ends and such should tell you that ideas of good and bad supposed racial...
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Deaf Aspie: Challenge to Vegans: →
wibblywobblynina:
stfuconfederates:
deaf-aspie:
violetbelle:
deaf-aspie:
violetbelle:
deaf-aspie:
Make me a vegan diet plan for 2 weeks. And if I like it, I’ll actually try it.
But it’s not so simple. See, I’m poor. And by poor, I mean, your meal plan can’t cost me more than $30 for 2 weeks (and I mean not a cent more).
And I live in the northeast by the great lakes. This means...
Poems of the Dead: You don't get to tell... →
poemsofthedead:
Whether it is a name/pejorative term, a symbol, or a culturally significant item, “reclaiming” is not something outsiders can
tell marginalized people to do
suggest as an alternative to being angry about outsiders using/misusing it
demand that marginalized people should always be willing to do
expect all members of a marginalized group to do, even if/just because some members...
“Trans people are told by the law, state agencies, private discriminators, and...”
– Dean Spade, Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law, p 41
I mean, basically, yeah.
(via funkyfest)
He’s coming to my school in April.
(via handgrenade2)
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“I’m writing because I have things to say about disability, ableism, and my...”
– On writing about disability by Chally
So happy to find a feminist who is POC and disabled!
(via stogucheme)
reading the shit out of those posts tomorrow
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Deaf Aspie: Challenge to Vegans: →
deaf-aspie:
stfuconfederates:
deaf-aspie:
violetbelle:
deaf-aspie:
violetbelle:
deaf-aspie:
Make me a vegan diet plan for 2 weeks. And if I like it, I’ll actually try it.
But it’s not so simple. See, I’m poor. And by poor, I mean, your meal plan can’t cost me more than $30 for 2 weeks (and I mean not a cent more).
And I live in the northeast by the great lakes. This means that…
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Watchgloomy-teen:
sit your whore ass down
fucking bag of dicks. slut-shaming, especially in front of what is apparently an impressionable young child? infinitely worse and more damaging than possibly being accidentally exposed to 2 seconds of vulva.
Maladjusted.: U G H - I am going to swear a lot... →
solemnhypnotik:
Why does so much transmisogyny and privilege-denying bull shit exist within the trans* guy community? This bull shit is ESPECIALLY exhibited by well-off white dudes who are supposed spokespeople for ‘our’ community.
(I.e. Buck Angel, Ryan Cassata, Lucas Silveira, etc.)
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Complaint #505
withrevolutionarycries:
smithiescomplaints:
Anne Spurzem, class of 1984, majored in economics, attended the MacDuffie School for Girls. She attended Duke University after Smith, where she got her MBA in marketing, before moving to Greenwich, Connecticut, the 2006 American city with the highest median income, where I am sure there are no low-income young lesbians of color or international...
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On Being a Bunch Of Poor Minority Lesbian Ivy...
Posted: February 23, 2012 | Author: minkandvelvet | Filed under: Uncategorized |5 Comments »
Editor’s note: This is a response to a Letter to the Editor featured in this week’s issue of the Sophian. You can find the original letter here.
from anonymous:
Ms. Spurzem’s letter to the editor in this week’s Sophian shocked me. Not only does it reflect poorly on her as an individual, but...
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Next Time You Have a Thought- Just Let it Go…
Posted: February 23, 2012 | Author: ladysmithd | Filed under: Features, News |4 Comments »
As a senior, I looked forward to Rally Day- enjoyed donning my senior hat, my graduation gown, and taking pictures with my friends. This idyllic day was sadly interrupted when I read a Letter to the Editor today in The Sophian. By now, if you are reading this, I am sure that you know what I...