July 2011
I was fired from my job today for being...
transpride:
Hey fellas. Usually when I post here I’m in a relatively good mood, but today was rough.
It was the 2nd day of a new job, I informed management in beginning of Day 1 of my preferred name and pronouns and that I’m trans. It went really well and my supervisor was quite supportive.
Apparently my supervisor and coworkers were fine with it, but the HR representative, who I never even...
weexist-weresist:
PASS THIS AROUND NOW: GIRL BROUGHT TO US AS A 3-DAY OLD INFANT IS BEING DEPORTED
queerdesi:
72 hours after she came into the world, Sandra Lopez was brought to the United States. Now 20 years old, Sandra is facing deportation in 4 daysfor committing a felony. Her crime? Attempting to return to the only country she has called home since she was 3 days old.
Take Action:
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House Committee votes to recommend passage of a... →
peecharrific:
nattycattynat:
parisoutthebackdoor:
nattycattynat:
missshirley:
There’s a contact-your-representative-in-opposition form at the link.
This is really fucking SCARY.
Contact your fucking representatives.
Reblogging for this^
what’s really sad is this only has 300 notes
they’ll do exactly what we let them do, ya’ll.
Help a fellow Whovian →
elevendoctor:
weeping-angel:
If you have ever seen pictures of 10th Doctor costumers, then you’ve surely seen Ryan Jones. He is, arguably, one of the best ones there is. He’s also an acquaintance of mine (and friend to several of my close friends) and an incredibly nice guy.
Ryan has had some Ryan has had some pretty serious health issues lately. He was in the hospital for 11 days, spending...
the boy wonder: queerfury: An open letter to Queer... →
queerfury:
An open letter to Queer academics, artists, and activists
Dear queers, academics, artists and activists,
Some of you might be planning a visit to Israel to participate, and maybe even support, queer, cultural or academic events. Some of you might be visiting for religious or personal reasons, or perhaps simply out of curiosity. While an invitation to Israel might seem...
this ain't livin': Problem Dogs or Problem... →
Blaming aggressive behaviour on dogs themselves is missing the point when the fault lies with the handler. Dogs are the victims of their handlers in these cases and should be treated as such; not as criminals for doing what they were trained to do and what they are constantly told to do, but as casualties. Many of these supposedly irredeemable aggressive dogs are actually capable of repatterning...
Sterilization of Women of Color: Does “Unforced”... →
latinosexuality:
foxxyleopatra:
U.S. women of color have historically been the victims of forced sterilization. Some women were sterilized during Cesarean sections and never told; others were threatened with termination of welfare benefits or denial of medical care if they didn’t “consent” to the procedure; others received unnecessary hysterectomies at teaching hospitals as practice for...
70 Percent of Anti-LGBT Murder Victims Are People... →
The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs released its annual report on hate violence motivated by sexual orientation, gender identity and expression and HIV status last week. The report documents 27 anti-LGBT murders in 2010, which is the second highest annual total recorded since 1996. A whopping 70 percent of these 27 victims were people of color; 44 percent of them were transgender...
“Ironically, Adolf Hitler displayed more knowledge of how we treated Native...”
– James W. Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me (via thesnarkwasaboojum)
Diane Anderson-Munchall at The Advocate:... →
kiriamaya:
princessbackpack:
kiriamaya:
unnomjuste:
uthenera:
unnomjuste:
Potential to make testes into ovaries?
i wonder if they could also make ovaries into testes that’d be awesome
Certainly a good question. It seemed to me that the change only went one way – from male to female.
If this is legit… holy fucking shit, the potential.
(It’ll also kill the “BUTBUTBUT YOU’RE MALE...
old jokes home
Q. How did the hipster burn his mouth?
A. He ate the pizza before it was cool.
the wonderful thing about time lords
iambickilometer:
is time lords are wonderful things. their ships are made out of stardust. (except when they’re made out of springs.) they’re wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey, phonebox-loads of fun! but the most wonderful thing about time lords is I’m the only one!
I’m the…
…only one
“Israel has been regularly attacking Palestinian fishermen within the purported 3...”
– Joe Catron, an American human rights worker aboard the Oliva ..
_The Israeli navy attacked Civil Peace Service Gaza volunteers along with international press and Palestinian fishermen today. One of the Israeli ships targeted the boats with high pressure water cannons.Meanwhile, a small naval boat...
Two things I'm angry about the Oslo bombing:
stfuislamobigotry:
The fact that it happened in the first place, of course.
It’s fucking incredible how easy it is to blame Muslims for such things. Of course the white guy is simply deranged or psychotic, but if a Muslim did it, that means that all Muslims are bad.
From this attack, I can clearly say that all white males want to bomb capital cities and their mentality are all the same, and...
“Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of...”
– Carl Sagan (via thegreat-catsby)
“We got lumped in together, but I don’t think we sound alike at all. We were...”
– Adele, on the strange insistence critics seem to have for lumping female musicians together simply because they happen to be ladies (via meloukhia)
guerrillamamamedicine:
Radically Hott Off: here’s the other thing i’m thinking about men breastfeeding. it pisses…
radicallyhottoff:
here’s the other thing i’m thinking about men breastfeeding. it pisses me off when I hear that because it *sounds* like the logic of getting men to breastfeed is operating under a liberatory anti-patriarchal dualistic gender construct.
but when you...
guerrillamamamedicine:
Radically Hott Off: you know what tho? I keep seeing people posting htat milk production…
radicallyhottoff:
you know what tho? I keep seeing people posting htat milk production can be stimulated even if u’ve never been pregnant (talking about cis men)—that shit’s not easy. I know several women who adopted and tried to stimulate their milk and weren’t able to ...
“A feminist culture will eventually end up being squashed, because the men have...”
– This tidbit of wisdom, courtesy of a blogger known as Fjordman, who is being pointed by several sources as the alleged Oslo mass murderer.
Swedish site Realisten.se claim that a year and a half ago, one of their writers had contact with Anders Breivik (the alleged killer), who told them that his...
i know all muslim/brown people have that 'oh hell...
weexist-weresist:
but tbqh its not like when we find out that it was some white guy or right wing maniac, things get any better. mainly because no one steps up to say, hey anyone can be a terrorist.
in austin a few years ago, this guy was mad about having to pay taxes on his plane so he flew his plane into a building.
did you get that?
he flew the plane into a building.
and media outlets...
Petition: Cobb County GA: Release Grieving Mother... →
radicallyhottoff:
here’s a link to the change.org petition for that mother who is facing three years in prison because a drunk driver hit her child as they crossed the street. reblog/sign it if you can!
“The mainstream media’s slobbery obsession with the Casey Anthony trial...”
– Bad Bitches, True Women: The New Cult of True Womanhood (via themetropoliskid)
kiriamaya:
Mark Potok at SPLC: Washington Post Says DHS Backed Off Domestic Terrorism Analysis
meloukhia:
As the Post noted, DHS “effectively eviscerated” Johnson’s team, cut the number of analysts studying such matters, and effectively stopped issuing reports meant for law enforcement agencies after the leak of an April 2009 DHS report on “rightwing extremism.” That report, which was meant...
Anil Dash » If your website's full of assholes,... →
wildunicornherd:
Anil Dash lays down some common-sense guidelines for moderating online communities. No news for most of us, but a cogent argument for why cesspits like (I’ll name names) Youtube, every newspaper ever’s comment section, Kotaku, etc., are not inevitable.
“But the poor person does not exist as an inescapable fact of destiny. His or her...”
– Gustavo Gutierrez (via thirdw0rld)
“Hence the poverty of the poor is not a call to generous relief action, but a demand that we go and build a different social order.” I get this.
(via courageuse)
I don’t have anything relevant to add—just that it’s 2:30 a. m. and I am worried for my...
“Imagine not being allowed to go outside, have a shower or drink cold water for...”
– For Chinese Moms, Birth Means 30 Days In Pajamas : NPR
this whole article strikes me as supremely ethnocentric—look at those cuuuhRAZY chinese folks! locking their women inside for an entire month and feeding them eel soup! teaching them how to sing songs!
american women, can I get a hell...
A Note About Cissexism...
manybothans:
I had a really great pride this year, but I was also troubled by comments I heard over the last week from a lot of people in both the mainstream and radical queer communities. I want to say a few things about cissexism, specifically towards trans women and other MTF spectrum folks.
1) Gay sex does not require genital symmetry.
Most people in the community realize that not all...
vikkiage:
Can we talk about how fucking dangerous it is to get pregnant in certain places now? I mean, like, to have a planned pregnancy, a wanted fetus? Because if the fetus gets sick, or if it’s making you sick, under many circumstances there is nothing you are legally allowed to do about it. And there are people who are legitimately fighting to make it so that even if the fetus is killing you...
comic con pervs - caught! →
creatrixtiara:
gothiccharmschool:
Comicconpervs has started posting photos of jerks trying to take upskirt photos of female attendees. GOOD. Please repost, and help shame the asshats who think this behavior is okay.
zomg imagine if there was something like this for sydney mardi gras, you’d get a zillion pics
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