May 2013
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theuppitynegras:
veganrantss:
White people get mad when you wear a band t shirt of a band you don’t listen to, but they’re fine with wearing headdresses from cultures they know and care nothing about.
Harper government withheld documents in indigenous... →
jakke:
The Harper government withheld tens of thousands of documents that it was obligated to disclose as part of a human-rights case in which it is accused of discriminating against indigenous children. Now, it is using its failure to hand over the files to try to get the proceedings put on hold.
The First Nations Child and Family Caring Society filed a complaint with the Canadian Human...
girljanitor:
indica-tor:
POC who live here in America: I realize you’re hurt by the ignorant words of “white people” who don’t know what they’re talking about, and I’m sorry. But I have a question for you. In this “land of the free”…aren’t you free? What are their words doing to you, unless you LET them affect you? I thought this was a free country, where people were allowed to speak their...
ccosettefauchelevent:
Please stop equating straight-passing relationships with heterosexuality. Queer doesn’t always mean gay and when you insist that it does you are telling me and every other non-gay queer person that our identities and relationships don’t matter because we’re not ~queer~ enough.
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Swazi princess aims to empower women →
theuppitynegras:
SWAZI princess Sikhanyiso Dlamini is bent on empowering young women.
SWAZI princess Sikhanyiso Dlamini is bent on empowering young women.
Dlamini is the first daughter of King Mswati III and Inkhosikati LaMbikiza (Sibonelo Mngomezulu), and one of his 24 children.
Dlamini said she was starting a campaign to empower young girls in her homeland and would officially launch the...
yalllllllll, tap water is NOT free in the US
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“It is not historically correct to insert Filipinos into the homogenizing...”
– E. San Juan Jr., Carlos Bulosan in a Time of the Wars on Terror (via heartmarten)
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a message I sent back to someone who messaged me
tragicblessing:
I am not suggesting that stupid hollywood bitches should get to appropriate any culture they want.
I am suggesting that it is unfair that as an american I can not be in love with other cultures so much that I emulate them.
The history of culture and dress shows us that this is how the evolution of such things happen. Japanese and Chinese culture and dress get muddled as they...
Ugh, No, No George Bloody Takei
goldenheartedrose:
madgastronomer:
sleepydumpling:
The man spews out fat hate and misogyny all over the place yet people deify him like he’s some kind of progressive God.
JUST NO.
He is such a dick is such typical gay male ways, and I utterly hate that, but as a queer person I also really enjoy his commentary and humor on homophobia… Really falls under the heading of “how to enjoy...
Commissions for Medical Needs! →
inriri:
Hello, Tumblr! As some of you may know I recently was diagnosed with diabetes and am now struggling to pay for insulin and other needs (clean needles, finger prick tests/strips, etc.)
You guys have responded fantastically to help me out, thank you so much - you’re really incredible. Now, I’m going to still need money, but I’d like to give you guys something in return for your...
Help a TWOC survive summer →
mtfbutches:
mocosyamores:
Hi everyone,
I’m getting over my shame and internalized ableism and asking for help. I’m a chronically ill unemployed trans gurl who just left sex work (as in, yesterday) because I finally lost my shit. I’m also moving out of my abusive household in June, around the 15th or so. I don’t have a place to stay yet so the more money I have saved up, the more likely...
“It’s easy to be considered a misandrist when men are socialized to feel entitled...”
– (via angrywomanistcritic)
e-slut:
things! not! to! say! to! asexuals!:
‘aren’t you just asexual becuase no one likes you?’
‘asexuality isn’t even real’
‘you’ll grow out of it’
‘well do you masturbate?’
anything of or pertaining to amoebas
‘so does that mean you’re gonna die alone then?’
‘you don’t dress like an asexual’
One more time for the cheap seats: Why the idea...
girljanitor:
crackerhell:
Triggers are supposedly when you are very suddenly pulled into a flashback, crawl into a corner and start sobbing like a baby/screaming/some OUT THERE!!!!! and obvious reaction that everyone can see.
This is wrong.
This is wrong because different people have different panic responses. Discomfort isn’t being triggered for sure, but becoming unable to function? By...
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[wreck it ralph gifs at link] →
goldenheartedrose:
cydandthat:
thechocolatebrigade:
eddplant:
quazza:
lavastormsw:
lordsquiggleshire:
pixelnoton:
#tw: dynamite gal
Oh wait now I get what triggers are
Yeah, see, THIS is a trigger. Something that prompts a horrible flashback that makes someone go into a literal panic attack. It is NOT something that makes you slightly uncomfortable, so can we all just stop...
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bitchouttahell:
i don’t hate you bc you’re white i hate you bc being white has blinded you and you have been taught to be a racist piece of shit and then you expect me to fix it for you
emphasis mine
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“The most significant differences between those who smoked marijuana and those...”
– The Atlantic’s Lindsay Abrams, reporting on the results of a recent study on the health effects of marijuana. In addition, regular pot smokers were skinnier than those who abstained, “even after adjusting for factors like age, sex, tobacco and alcohol use, and physical activity levels,” and had...
poodlepants:
I’ve been harping on this subject a lot lately, but I feel like somebody has to. The fact that Khan has been changed to a white man is quietly being accepted, and the performance lauded. I’ve seen people trying to say JJ did a good thing by taking color out of the equation, and that they are tired of POC being cast as the villains.
Do people not realize the history that was made...
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commiepup:
i hate the idea that there needs to be some “balance” in the world between good and evil, because i cant even imagine how many liberals use that mentality to justify their ideology in accepting capitalism and imperialism and it probably helps them sleep at night and it makes me want to barf on their face
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Heroification and Silencing
disabledtalk:
“Teachers have held up Helen Keller, the blind and deaf girl who overcame her physical handicaps, as an inspiration to generations of schoolchildren. Every fifth grader knows the scene in which Anne Sullivan spells water into young Helen’s hand at the pump. At least a dozen movies and filmstrips have been made on Keller’s life. Each yields its version of the same cliche. A...
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Do not let any people who currently pass as white...
gadaboutgreen:
karnythia:
girljanitor:
sonzaishiteruhime:
As much as those people were hated, Black people were hated worse. People who had lived here for generations where actually kicked from the jobs they held when immigrants began to come here in spades, kicked to give the immigrants jobs.
Those people, the Italians, the Irish people, the Polish people, and many others, they were at...
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There's an article on Weather.com that has an...
“Are Healthy Foods Destroying the Environment?”
The link to the article was an image of fresh spinach captioned, “Is THIS destroying the environment?”
Then the first line of the article is this: “Eating leafy greens is an essential part of staying healthy, but it also might be destroying the land around America’s “salad bowl.””
And yet the...
