February 2011
What You Should Know About Looting
uhuh-she-said:
The army is holding back and watching looters in both Cairo and Suez. Why? The police just let the Museum in Cairo get sacked despite the best intentions from normal Egyptians guarding it. Why?
Because the looters are commissioned by the government in times like these. Oftentimes during protests government leader will actually release prisoners and encourage them to reek as much...
OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE MEDIA.
thejuthikakid:
Stop painting the protesters as Islamic extremists! Your subtle ways of putting the us-vs-them argument all over your fucking screen is bullshit.
Egyptian protesters do not want to force Islam in the United States. Muslim protesters can fight for something else other than Islam because they are people, not religious propaganda.
January 2011
Further thoughts
lucypaw:
onetinycorner:
Re: the casting of cis people as trans women. There’s a story about Transamerica that the trans women who auditioned were rejected for being “too feminine” so they went with Felicity Huffman and some very silly prosthetics.
Is this casting process not a case of the ideological preceding the actual? It “makes sense” to cis people ideologically that trans women look...
“Vicki J. Greene, who represents Dan, has argued in documents and in court that...”
– Maria L. La Ganga at the Los Angeles Times, ‘Disabled mother battling for visitation rights gets precious time with her kids.’
I have been following this case for some time, and it is terrifying and horrifying. Her ex-husband is trying to argue that she should never see her children again because...
“Many families in Egypt are fast running out of staples such as bread, beans and...”
– Okay so this is pretty bleak. Egypt imports a whole lot of its food supply, and people living in urban areas acquire basically all their food through shopping, so there’s a whole complicated supply chain upon which everyone is relying, and that’s breaking down. This probably puts a time limit of...
URGENT MESSAGE FROM ACTIVIST IN EGYPT. PLEASE...
wine-loving-vagabond:
[via]
“To all the people of world” Alicia Ali Marsden To all the people of world The people in Egypt are under governmental siege. Mubarak regime is banning Facebook, Twitter, and all other popular internet sites Now, the internet are completely blocked in Egypt. Tomorrow the government will block the 3 mobile phone network will be completely blocked. And there is news...
The House GOP's Plan to Redefine Rape
genderbitch:
rabbleprochoice:
corruptpolitics:
Rape is only really rape if it involves force. So says the new House Republican majority as it now moves to change abortion law.
For years, federal laws restricting the use of government funds to pay for abortions have included exemptions for pregnancies resulting from rape or incest. (Another exemption covers pregnancies that could endanger...
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Fat Mama
(trigger warnings for mentions of body hatred and eating disorders behind the cut. Also pictures.)
Inspired by this post.
I have been back and forth on posting pictures of my belly.
I’m at almost 6 months now, and my belly has definitely gotten poochy :) I love it.
One of my first worries about pregnancy had to do with my hatred of my body.
For years I would freak out over my belly,...
Santa Barbara to realign sidewalk benches used by... →
lucypaw:
tranzient:
emilyswash:
abbyjean:
Cities have tried many ways to move panhandlers and vagrants out of prime shopping districts, but Santa Barbara believes it has a new angle — 90 degrees. Using $50,000 in redevelopment funds, the city is planning to turn 14 benches perpendicular to the State Street storefronts they now face. The idea is to make it more difficult for beggars to...
I follow so many sexy people. It makes me feel...
genderbitch:
NO, SHUT UP, KINSEY’S BRAIN. SHUT. THE. FUCK. UP. BAD BRAIN. BAD.
I find you incredibly sexy. I have such a super crush on you its not even funny.
For those of you in the U.S. Who want to do...
genderbitch:
afghanipoppy:
squashed:
Call your Congress people and urge them to publicly support the Egyptians’ right to self-determination and free expression.
Egypt is an important U.S. ally—and we do a lot to help Mubarak stay in power. Making it costly for the U.S. to back up the Egyptian regime’s crack down could do something to unsettle Mubarak’s grip on power—or at least increase the...
Link leads to image of a bare midriff of a body... →
genderbitch:
tranzient:
fiercelynative:
keatscommajohn:
cooneyx269:
So there is a problem because she is proud of her stomach and her fitness? When someone calls you “Fat” don’t get mad because you are. She’s not. She’s even telling you what you could look like.
Isn’t she allowed to express herself on her own blog without being harassed? You can flip her off all you’d like but she’s...
"I am not a pretty girl": Reblog with your Blog... →
nudiemuse:
radicallyhottoff:
numol:
haterina:
alliterate:
spankingboy:
dramedy:
crimsonviper:
iandsharman:
‘Random Ramblings of a Ragamuffin’
It was the title of my old LJ, and, well…I thought it appropriate as there’s no real theme to what…
Fierce…Flawless
Its the title and the chorus of an Ani DiFranco song that…is really hard to describe. Its...
The Companies Who Support Censoring The Internet |... →
Richard P. Sloan at New York Times: A Fighting... →
But such beliefs have implications for how we regard people who are ill. If people are insufficiently upbeat after a cancer diagnosis or inadequately “spiritual” after a diagnosis of AIDS, are we to assume they have willfully placed their health at risk? And if they fail to recover, is it really their fault? The incessant pressure to be positive imposes an enormous burden on patients whose...
No seriously, I know I seem unapologetic, but I...
genderbitch:
sugaredvenom:
genderbitch:
I internalized all that shit. That girls aren’t supposed to have a lot of sex. Every time someone calls me a slut or a whore it’s like getting kicked in the face.
I still constantly question why I have so much sex, often asking myself through internalized sexism if I’m just emotionally damaged and fucking the pain away.
I attack the way I dress and a...
more notes on the cairo protests
guerrillamamamedicine:
among other things this protest shows the power of social media organizing in the middle east.
riot police presence is heavy in the city. big black trucks lined up sitting by the sidewalks.
i think we may be witnessing the beginning of a revolution.
abbyjean:
sexartandpolitics:
sonderweg replied to your quote: A state lawmaker wants random drug testing of…
Hi, Could you explain why you think this is a terrible idea? I live in Rockford, IL and a similar debate is happening here. I dont really have an opinion, people sell food stamps for drugs here, but I havent heard from people against drug testing.
One: Why should we treat everybody on...
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Study: Abortion Doesn't Increase Mental Health... →
rabbleprochoice:
Having an abortion does not increase the risk of mental health problems, but having a baby does, one of the largest studies to compare the aftermath of both decisions suggests.
This is relevant to the question we got earlier this week asking for studies that compare the negative psychological effects of an abortion vs. keeping a pregnancy.
I’m just gonna leave this...
Image of OP's midriff that is associated with OP's... →
pianycist:
taniada:
keatscommajohn:
whatisamegan:
attention chubby girls. you could look like this.
think about it.
Attention OP: I don’t look like that. I do, however, look like this:
So there’s that.
^ flawless victory.
Reblogging for keatscommajohn’s awesome commentary.
Oh, how precious. Someone who feels so self important/insecure that they have to try and make other people...
Your characterization of welfare recipients makes...
inautumn-inkashmir:
I’m really not surprised at the demonization of welfare recipients or the characterization of us all as thieves and lazy no-gooders who use your money to buy our TVs and drugs. I just thought I’d be safe from it here.
If you think that I getting money and help to get through college makes me the scum of the earth, just another welfare queen or whatever your stereotype of us...
I'm sorry, but how the fuck can that woman be...
ieatstickersallthetimedude-:
Kelley Williams-Bollar sent her children to a school district where they didn’t live and now she has a criminal record.
I’ve read so many articles by republican pundits saying that she deserved this because “tax payers would have to pay for her children’s education”, and I’m fucking sick of it.
The moral justification behind capitalism is that the best of the best...
Cairo: 32 dead and at least 1,030 injured after... →
Thousands of protesters defied a curfew and stormed government buildings in another day of bloody rioting in Cairo yesterday.
Police and the military clashed with rioters as President Hosni Mubarak sent the army on to the streets and demonstrators burned government buildings, including his party’s headquarters.
They also targeted the foreign ministry and Egypt’s state television HQ.
The...
“Two of the major factors that are fueling the protests in the Middle East and...”
– Poverty News Blog: Four people killed in Egypt protests (via guerrillamamamedicine)
faithampersandbegorrah:
Also, and this already sounds super fucking obnoxious so please forgive me oh christ I’m sorry just ugh, but I heavily stock up on dry goods - flour, sugar, chocolate, corn meal, black beans, kasha, nuts, pasta, etc ad infinitum - at the very start of the semester so it’s one less thing to think about.
I’ve started making granola, which saves money - a pound of rolled...
“I reserve the same disdain for pushy smug atheists who like to try to make all...”
– antagonist: Just so we’re all clear.
“It is a tragedy, I feel, that people of a different sexual type are caught in a...”
– Emma Goldman in correspondence to Magnus Hirschfeld (via thatswhatshesaidquotes)
When I get my TARDIS I am so visiting Emma Goldman and asking her to dance (and, yes, that is a reference to her most famous quote).
(via lucypaw)
Can I dance with you?
(via telegantmess)
I would be very happy to...
Black Mother Jailed for Sending Kids to White...
sheresists:
firesandwords:
Black Mother Jailed For Sending Kids to White School District
An Ohio mother of two was sentenced to 10 days in jail and placed on three years probation after sending her kids to a school district in which they did not live. Kelly Williams-Bolar was sentenced by Judge Patricia Cosgrove on Tuesday and will begin serving her sentence immediately.
The jury...
this ain't livin': Fatty McFatty FAT! →
The way we think about fat in pop culture translates to the way we see it in the media. Fat characters are defined solely by their fat, and thus, when we see reports about fat and fat issues, they almost always feature the ubiquitous headless fatty. Why would you need to see a person’s face? The body, the fat body, the terrifying jiggling rolling smelly spongy soft squishy fat body, that is the...
Undercover police cleared 'to have sex with...
genderbitch:
tranzient:
feministindianmanifesto:
huskerdewgongxvx:
Undercover police cleared ‘to have sex with activists’
deepwithfuture:
grundmc:
artistontheinside:
vruz:
vruz: it’s not a war. in the daily show.
Undercover police officers routinely adopted a tactic of “promiscuity” with the blessing of senior commanders, according to a former agent who worked in a secretive...
“Calling net neutrality the “free speech issue of our time,” Franken (D-MN)...”
– Comcast Is Trying To Whack Netflix: Sen. Al Franken
(via janedoe225)
I am very pro-choice but
lucypaw:
juthikalalaa:
inautumn-inkashmir:
radicallyhottoff:
inautumn-inkashmir:
etrehumain:
sailorlollirot:
getting an abortion after the third trimester has begun is fucked up. There is no denying at that point it IS a baby, not a cluster of cells. It is most definitely murder and there are almost no exceptions to that.
What do you guys think? I’ve always been dubious about...
Glenn Beck targets a female college professor as... →
meowsense:
Frances Fox Piven is a distinguished professor of political science and sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
At 78, she has taught several generations of students about how and why poor people don’t get a fair shake in the United States and how to increase their organizational power and encourage voter registration.
…
[Beck] accused her of being...