May 2012
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genuineeee:
i hate when people post their racist/cissexist/sexist/classist perspective as “unpopular opinion.”
no your opinion isn’t unpopular. actually your opinion~~ is the foundation of the society in which we live.
your stance is not novel.
you are not unique~~~.
you are a carbon copy of those who thrive off systematic hate, kept alive by mindless drones like yourself.
a bridge is...
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On Transmisogyny
freedominwickedness:
It is a complete red herring for AFAB trans* people to claim that they’ve been called “tr***y” or “sh*****e”, because no one has ever seriously argued that AFAB trans* people are never, ever called these things. The argument is that the use of these terms against AFABs is incidental, whereas the use of these terms against AMAB trans* people is pervasive, systemic, and...
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Poverty is not simply having no money — it is isolation, vulnerability,...
– Megan Lee (via sociolab)
I think maybe I have Posted this before but that does not make it any less relevant
(via afterromulus)
Oh! Oh shit. All the feels.Yes. This.
Not being assaulted is not a privilege to be earned through the judicious...
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Emily Nagoski. (via rapeisnotajoke)
I’ve reblogged this before, but here it is again because it’s still as fucking important as it was the first time. (via viviopsis)
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Sebastian's Arrows: Letters and Mementos of...
mattachinereview:
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Sebastian’s Arrows: Letters and Mementos of Salvador Dali and Federico Garcia Lorca “Let us agree,” Federico Garcia Lorca wrote, “that one of man’s most beautiful postures is that of St. Sebastian.”“In my ‘Saint Sebastian’ I remember you,” Salvador Dali replied to Garcia Lorca, referring to the essay on aesthetics that Dali had just written, “… and sometimes I...
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I hate when people lecture me about self-care.
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pomme-poire-peche:
*applause* It’s a fundamentally capitalist discourse, in a way, that we as activists have this responsibility to make ourselves productive, our worth is determined by our productivity, and any impedances to this productivity must be dealt with, and on our own time/with our own energy/with our own resources.
What gets me is that so...
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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)
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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)
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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)
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...
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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...
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...
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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...
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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.
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. :)