May 2012
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May 27th
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May 26th
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“In life, I believe in being civilized and not committing acts of social violence...”
– Nina Arsenault, interview with sexlifecanada.ca (2012)
May 26th
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“If you had in this chair some of the people who developed quantum mechanics back...”
– Cosmologist Brian Greene, in an interview with The Daily Beast. Investing in basic science must be disconnected from traditional returns, and instead viewed as an investment in the intellectual capital of tomorrow. It’s hard to put a price tag on inspiration, and Goldman Sachs has yet to write an...
May 26th
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May 25th
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May 25th
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“We let Willow cut her hair. When you have a little girl, it’s like how can you...”
– (On why he let Willow cut all of her hair off) Read more: Will Smith On Allowing Willow To Cut Her Hair: ‘She Has Got To Have Command Of Her Body’ | Necole Bitchie.com - He raises a really great point. What would it mean to believe very early that my body was mine. That it’s not for anyone or for...
May 25th
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Spell your tumblr name with your tags. DO IT!
zoedelaluna: repetition-is-holy: religion Ellen Page poetry is not a luxury exhibitionist thesisthesisthesis I not only have a brain - I also know a lot about them too hot to fuck I nearly vomited so I had to do something okay the other thing I have to say is that she does a lot of straight porn narwhal I really like puppets spoon theory hipster Tegan our healthcare system is...
May 25th
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Martha Jones
lupinatic: The thing that makes Martha Jones shine so much compared to other NewWho companions, to me at least, is how she was the only one to deal with her end-of-season menace without superpowers. Rose took the power of the TARDIS, became a literal deux es machina and solved everything in five minutes flat. Donna accidentally took on the brainpower of the Doctor and solved everything in five...
May 24th
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Let's be clear about this (again):
kiriamaya: No, you don’t have to have sex with anyone you don’t want to. But that doesn’t mean your reasons for not wanting to have sex with certain people aren’t bigoted. If you’ve preemptively decided that you don’t want to have sex with any black people ever (and you’ve singled out black people specifically), that’s your prerogative, but you are still a racist. And if you’ve preemptively...
May 24th
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May 24th
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“Slowly I began to understand fully that there was no place in academe for folks...”
– bell hooks (via wretchedoftheearth) And if you don’t abide by this, you basically get the cold shoulder from academia. You have to fight to defend your work more than the average student because your perspective as a marginalized person is one that was meant for a study, a dissertation, or some...
May 24th
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May 24th
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“The Floppy Disk Icon means “save” for a whole generation of people who have...”
– The Floppy Disk means Save, and 14 other old people Icons that don’t make sense anymore - Scott Hanselman (via interestingsnippets)
May 23rd
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May 23rd
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May 23rd
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May 23rd
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“self-care includes holding each other accountable because we are interconnected....”
– alexis pauline gumbs, quoted by leah lakshmi piepzna-samarasinha in a transformative justice workshop at hampshire earlier this year. (via femmefilth)
May 23rd
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Bigots who hide behind a sense of...
thecurvature: Either it is wrong to misgender a trans people or it is not. It is that simple. There aren’t exceptions. Even if the particular trans person in question happens to be a really, really bad person. You don’t get some super extra-cool anti-sexual violence points for being oppressive towards them and saying they’ve lost their right to not be misgendered. You don’t get to try to shame...
May 23rd
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May 22nd
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Describing white people using food items
aznbitchesfuckyouup: dank-potion: crankycritic: ai-yo: James had a kingsmill white bread complexion, he blushed slightly it seemed like someone had spread strawberry jam over his cheeks. His hair was the colour of custard that had been watered down severely like the nasty one they served back in primary school that I begged the lunch ladies not to let near my cake. I didn’t care that the...
May 22nd
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May 22nd
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Labor Union Racism
freedominwickedness: One of the most important pieces of erased — not “lost” or “missing, but erased — history is that American labor unions strongly embraced racism in general and anti-Asian racism in particular. Throughout the late 1800s and early 1900s, the American labor movement carried out a full-fledged campaign of domestic terrorism against Asian-Americans, organizing and...
May 22nd
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May 22nd
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May 22nd
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May 22nd
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May 22nd
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May 21st
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May 21st
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May 21st
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"Empowering femininity" has to mean more than just...
kiriamaya: This was going to be a long post, but it really doesn’t need to be, because the thought I’m having is pretty simple: I agree with Serano when she says that a major key to gender liberation is “work[ing] to empower femininity, in all its forms.” But I don’t think that a lot of us have given enough thought to what that means. Cultural constructions of “femininity” involve much more...
May 21st
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May 20th
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A Question
gailsimone: Dear Gail, Have you ever written any trans women of colour? And if not, can you point me in the right direction? Love your work, — jemeryl I have, in fact.   And if all goes well, we will be talking about what that book will be very shortly.  :) ooOOooh! Gail Simone, you are the best! I can’t wait to hear what this is.
May 20th
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warminvention: spaceykate: A design by Jack Kirby done for a 1969 production of William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. Seriously! Shakespeare by Kirby. How cool is that?? Holiest of shits!! That would have been amazing! Click the link! There’s a picture of the finished costumes. :)
May 20th
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May 20th
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May 20th
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Y'all gotta read this poem.
ninasafiri: Göttin der Dummheit: Two Women arielnietzsche: I am a woman. I am a woman. I am a woman born of a woman whose man owned a factory. I am a woman born of a woman whose man labored in a factory. I am a woman whose man wore silk suits, who constantly watched his weight. I am a woman whose man wore tattered clothing, whose heart was constantly strangled by hunger. I am a...
May 19th
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May 18th
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May 18th
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May 18th
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Hate is a helluva drug
bankuei: I’ve been thinking about how systems of oppression are like fucked up narcotics: It’s a poison; and it makes you want more Hate and systems of oppression become a thing people ingest, and create - when you fully buy into the system, you want others to make it so you can get your fix, and to do so, you make sure everyone else has to take the hate you’ve got. Obviously, privilege is...
May 18th
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May 18th
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May 18th
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May 17th
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May 17th
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...what just happened...???
have-tardis-will-time-travel: So, I was falling asleep during class…I was just going to doodle a bit to keep myself awake…and this happened…I…I don’t understand…my mind… EDIT: Here is Harold’s new blog: http://harold-the-dancing-dalek.tumblr.com/
May 17th
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butch femme realness: The sad part is →
widdershinsgirl: angrybanette: tal9000: angrybanette: Transmisogynist trans men think I’m sinking to their level by telling them to die in a fire. Wrong. Let me explain what that slur means to trans women: you’re not a woman have a reminder about your triggering genitalia and surgical status T-Wood is still using the T-word as their primary business name - they don’t appear to have...
May 17th
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I need transfeminism. . .
maxmovinghands: whoneedstransfeminism: because there are transmisogynist “professors” who spread transmisogyny in schools. Story time: I had a professor in University who decided to talk about Orlando by Virginia Wolf in a required intro to English Lit class.  This person… I don’t know if she had anything beyond a bachelors. Which isn’t bad in and of itself but she definitely didn’t know...
May 17th
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May 17th
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May 17th
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