March 2013
3 posts
whores eye view: street harassment and being a... →
everythingbutharleyquinn:
I guess this is sort of a companion piece to this post I made earlier today.
last night when I was working I was wearing a leopard print dress with a pink ruffle trim. now, wearing this dress out to a social occasion, I’d team it with pink shoes and all but…
basedsushigoat:
people who go on about how identity politics distract from class struggle remind me of those guys who sit with their legs spread wide in crowded buses
December 2012
5 posts
A Journey into the Dreams with Kumjings →
everythingbutharleyquinn:
Another project by EMPOWER, migrant sex workers who are prevented from crossing borders and travelling for work due to not having proper identification papers, make papier-mache likenesses of themselves to be taken to AIDS conferences to highlight their issues. It is possible for organisations to adopt Kumjings and Scarlet Alliance, the Australian sex workers...
A Journey into the Dreams with Kumjings →
everythingbutharleyquinn:
Another project by EMPOWER, migrant sex workers who are prevented from crossing borders and travelling for work due to not having proper identification papers, make papier-mache likenesses of themselves to be taken to AIDS conferences to highlight their issues. It is possible for organisations to adopt Kumjings and Scarlet Alliance, the Australian sex workers...
Girl in Four Colors: Thoughts On "The Hawkeye... →
girlinfourcolors:
Artists: Lauren Armstrong (left) & Kenneth Rocafort (right)
Disclaimers may be in order.
First, I hate everything. It’s seriously the first thing out of my friends’ mouths when I’m done speaking to them. “Ceridwen, why do you hate everything?” Let’s just get that out of the way so I…
Adam Serwer: "Shaniqua" →
adamserwer:
I don’t want to get too bent out of shape about a bunch of errant tweets—Twitter is basically the world’s largest comment section, so it’s easy to find a bunch of morons if you look hard enough.
Gawker’s Max Read found a bunch of people making the exact same joke about the news that Prince…
November 2012
30 posts
“Condemning whiteness is not the same as condemning white people. Whiteness is a...”
– George Lipsitz in How Racism Takes Place (via bi-racial)
How do you find a vegan at a dinner party?
fag-nificent:
veganraincloud:
flopryn:
Don’t worry, they’ll let you know.
How do you find a meat-eater at a party? Don’t worry, they’ll be everywhere, BBQing dead animals and stuffing them in their mouths and saying ‘omg vegans are so preachy’
I found the vegan.
Trans Day of Remembrance: Thoughts on the Erasure... →
tangledupinlace:
mmmajestic:
Today is observed by many as the Transgender Day of Remembrance. In her article, Undoing Theory Viviane Namaste explains this day as “ an annual occasion to take stock of the violence to which trans people are subjected. Taking place in the United…
Did he say it? Misquoting Noam Chomsky on Gaza →
darkjez:
downlo:
I just saw this exact Chomsky quote on my Dash and did a quick google to see if he really said it. I came across this piece, which did the fact-checking for me:
In the flurry of memes and quotations being passed around social media since Israel began its latest attack on Gaza a few days ago, one in particular caught our eye. It’s often titled ”Noam Chomsky statement on Gaza”...
The 'Fake Geek Girl' has got to go →
randomredux:
And by that I mean the whole stupid, foolhardy concept. I’ve said before that if you really believe there’s a horde of attractive women faking interest in nerdy things just to get your attention, you have a massive case of unwarranted self-importance, and I still believe that. I…
“Most Whites find it easy to ignore residential segregation. I experienced a good...”
– Jane H. Hill, The Everyday Language of White Racism (via wretchedoftheearth)
*****
This is like when me and my white soon-to-be husband were looking for places. I’d call up and they’d say, “Come on down! Get an application!”. Because I don’t “sound” black.
Then I’d walk in 2 minutes later and...
negaversace:
Capitalists hate her! Local mom discovers one weird trick to liberate the proletariat!
Mayhem's Scratchpad: Previous Question →
moremaggiemayhem:
That last question did not come with a reply option like most of my other messages. (I rarely get messages from people to start.)
My answer is this:
You are never putting someone into jail “for their own good.” Those with the least privilege are always the most impacted by these laws. You cannot…
Black Girl Dangerous: I'm Not Innocent, and I... →
blackgirldangerous:
November 13, 2012
by Mia McKenzie
The days and weeks leading up to the Presidential election were tough. As a person who does not support Obama and did not vote for him this time around, as a person who believes that he is responsible for terrible evils taking place in the world, it was really…
Better Than You: theeducatedfieldnegro:... →
theeducatedfieldnegro:
Psychiatrists and doctors report a deeply stressed population in parts of the tribal areas. In their ninth year of bombing, US drones now fly almost constantly over towns such as Mir Ali and Miranshah.
One psychiatrist told researchers that many of his patients…
Better Than You: A friend of mine wrote this and... →
everythingbutharleyquinn:
A friend of mine wrote this and you should read it.
marginalutilite:
Sex Workers: We Know What We Want
Article by Ryan Cole | Published November 13, 2012
Sex Workers: We know what we want
Gender & Sexuality Opinions / Leave a comment
© abc.net.au
By Ryan…
everythingbutharleyquinn:
Token Angels Wendy...
Better Than You: Green and Indigenous →
selchieproductions:
There’s a long tradition of fetishising the idea of the green native in Western thinking. To the Western mind indigenous people are seen as rooted, as connected to a now gone but ultimately easier, greener time, all this in an era which according to the same school of…
Better Than You: dissimilarto:... →
dissimilarto:
friendlyangryfeminist:
fempirestrikesback:
friendlyangryfeminist:
remember the time I made a joking post about how my favorite makeup palette was the one women used to communicate with each other and people got huffy because MEN WEAR MAKEUP TOO
Because…
leonine antiheroine: Did you know that because... →
howtobeterrell:
We’re either not allowed for 200 years to own land or property and then another round of centuries of terrorist attacks led by whites that made them sell their land or give it away for virtually free that it has cost blacks billions of dollars in equity. Shit they will never…
School district calls 12-year-old rape victim... →
Topics: Moraga School District ♦ sexual abuse
The Moraga School District in Moraga, California alleged that a 12-year-old girl, who suffered prolonged sexual abuse at the hands of two different middle school teachers in the 1990s, was “negligent,” “careless” and “was herself responsible for the acts and damages of which she claims.”
Kristen Cunnane, now 30, told the Contra Costa Times on...
“We are not used to thinking of nursing homes or banks or even HMOs as violent...”
– Beyond Power/Knowledge
an exploration of the relation of
power, ignorance and stupidity
David Graeber
October 2012
29 posts
Better Than You: Girl, by Jamaica Kincaid →
hellomyoldcountryhello:
Wash the white clothes on Monday and put them on the stone heap; wash the color clothes on Tuesday and put them on the clothesline to dry; don’t walk barehead in the hot sun; cook pumpkin fritters in very hot sweet oil; soak your little cloths right after you take…
dissimilarto:
Cis people need to stop saying that trans people were “socialized as[X]”. That is not how this works. It’s not how socialization works. Just stop trying to define trans persons by some ridiculous Before and After infomercial narrative.
Our culture is complex and varied and humans are complex and varied. Categorically degendering people to account for, explain away, or accuse of...
AP poll: Majority harbor prejudice against blacks →
karnythia:
I feel this incredible urge to say DUH & laugh hysterically at people who claim America is past racism. Or that black people have overcome it & can now expect better treatment because a black man was elected President.
Dear Vagenda Editors… →
leonineantiheroine:
Black Feminists contesting that race and other oppressions interfere with the so-called core oppression of gender. There are feminists still making these arguments in writing without a smile on their face. Like obviously the marginalised feminists experience it but to still see those words being written…I don’t even know what they’re arguing. The rest of us have moved on....
THE UNTITLED MAG WANTS YOU: What if feminism is a... →
farahjoon:
syriaslyradical:
fearsome-fag:
A prof told me the other day that the title is what her partner thinks, that she is sure that feminism is simply an idea planted by the system to keep actual change from occuring. My prof expanded on it a bit, and I sat down and thought about it too, so heres a mix of our…
Yes but let’s keep in mind these criticisms of feminism have long been...
Red Light Politics: I blame Schwyzer for the... →
redlightpolitics:
A while ago, everyone was talking about Anne Marie Slaugher’s piece “Why women can’t have it all”. Back then I wrote that the reason why women cannot have it all is because feminism has stopped being about dreams and utopia and revolution and instead, it has become a movement set to compromise…
Bolded for truth. Click through and read the rest!
“We are also telling them they should just give up. This week, ABC radio’s PM...”
– Defeated in a cruel game (via ahipstory)
let’s talk about how the myth (and it is a myth) of the rational, efficient state bureaucracy is one of the great justifications for evil of our time
(via ourcatastrophe)
: OFFICIAL: LEAH HAS BEEN RELEASED →
freeleah:
First and foremost, do not panic.
Leah wanted for us to express these points to you with this news:
She is extremely traumatized and experienced a lot of very, very bad things, but she is alive. The state of her mental health is also very bad.
She asks that people do not jump…
