February 2012
Richard Fausset at Los Angeles Times: Food stamp... →
One key objection raised by the coalition — an objection the USDA echoed in its denial of New York’s demonstration project — is the possibility that further restrictions might lead to further stigma. Feeling ashamed or uncomfortable about being on public assistance, advocates believe, may deter people from signing up for food aid. Alleviating such discomfort is one reason SNAP recipients now use...
“Maybe many women don’t feel comfortable with a home birth for whatever reason...”
– Balancing Jane: Home Births vs. Hospital Births: Who Gets Lost in Dichotomizing Rhetoric (via naomieve)
January 2012
Reverse Racism is a myth created by racist white...
ethiopienne:
brazenbitch:
Who believe that sporadic, interpersonal acts of hostility from people of color is equivalent or relevant to the struggle of people of color from oppression.
Even if a person of color is hateful against white people, it has nothing to do with the thought of whites being inferior to people of color, but rather backlash from the harm whiteness has caused non whites,...
REPRESENTATION OF THE “PRIMITIVE” AMERICAN INDIAN →
adailyriot:
lakalenyu:
blackma:
We owe many iconic images of American Indians to photographer Edward S. Curtis. Growing up in Wisconsin and Minnesota, Curtis began photographing Indians in 1895 and, in 1906, was offered $75,000 by JP Morgan to continue documenting their lives. The 1,500 resulting photographs inevitably impacted the image of Indians in the American imagination.Later it...
I hope we never have to hear anything bad about...
rhymeswithnothing:
since he’s pretty much the best person in existence
oh god don’t tell me you gize.
Seriously. I have already been failed by so many dudes that I thought were awesome in the last two years…
lucypaw:
numol:
URGENT: Yanelli is scheduled to be deported on Tuesday, January 31st. She is struggling to hold it together after two suicide attempts. She needs to be home with her family getting help not facing deportation away from everything she knows!
numol:
if at all possible, please call/sign/pass this around.
Maybe we weren’t able to help Joaquin Luna, but we can certainly help...
this is super important tw: cissexism,... →
lucypaw:
inflateablefilth:
fracturedrefuge:
kyriarchy:
http://www.change.org/petitions/berlin-youth-welfare-office-stop-the-institutionalization-of-a-11-year-old-transexual
http://www.iglyo.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=256&Itemid=42
Because institutionalization is always, always better for a child than being raised by her loving mother.
Guys, please read...
pencilscrap:
Ms. Blaspheming Bitch: What oppression looks like:
agirlcalledhome:
For the oppressed:
you are expected to be familiar with and abide by the rules and customs of your oppressors, regardless of how this harms you or your culture
crimes committed against your community go unnoticed by the mainstream culture; crimes committed by members of your community are punished abnormally...
Nona Willis Aronowitz at Good: Rick Santorum Says... →
Let’s get one thing straight: Rick Santorum is about as educated as you can possibly get, and not from insular religious institutions, either. He got himself a bachelor’s degree from Penn State. Then a M.B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh. Then he went back to Penn State to get his law degree. Would he be a millionaire running for president if he hadn’t gotten those degrees?
Woooooow
shiyiya:
notemily:
bookling-stormborn:
Obama proposing that all states require that all students stay in high school until they graduate or turn 18?
That is HUGE.
aaand also would have kept me from going to college.
It is entirely possible/probable that I would be dead right now if I had not been able to drop out of high school.
“But the trouble with wilderness is that it quietly expresses and reproduces the...”
– William Cronon,Trouble with Wilderness
“There were other ironies as well, The movement to set aside national parks and...”
– William Cronon, Trouble with Wilderness.
amydentata:
every-inch-but-one:
lavenderpanda:
Quinn Valentine;: Quinn Valentine’s response to Amber Hazard
catamite:
feral-femme:
peterpansexual:
quinnvalentinexxx:
Dearest friends, colleagues, fans, and the rest;
I’m sure many of you have been shocked and perhaps outraged by Amber Hazard’s recent accusations of my ostensive transmysogyny and transphobia. This is my response.
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IMPORTANT: ACTA is NOT official and has NOT been...
sirmuarjo:
lordmeowrail:
( I’d like to ask that anyone who reads this to PLEASE reblog this so there isn’t a widespread panic and violent protests. Tumblr needs to stop posting partial information. It is counterproductive and we need to know the truth so we don’t give up and think the fight is over. )
There wasn’t a vote. It was a signing and the voting isn’t going to happen for a while.
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White people, I'mma need y'all to stop this...
whatwhiteswillneverknow:
You guys just have a penchant for sniffing out anti-racist blogs for people of color, and flooding them with anon hate that consists of incomplete sentences and racial slurs. I mean, this isn’t an isolated incident habit, this is an actual thing. Like, a real, legit thing that y’all just do for funsies. I know that blogs like this bother you, but it took me a long time...
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I swear I'll be done talking about this some day
One thing that really chaps my ass is how she uses her own refusal to share all the information about situations as proof that I’m somehow totally fucking unreliable. And then has the nerve to demand total transparency on my part whenever I might need her help, heavily implying that I’m, at best, incompetent or at worst running a scam.
I think I might need to find some way of...
“To define racism only through extreme groups and their extreme acts is akin to...”
– Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer in What is Racial Domination? (via kidonacloud)
YAAAAAAAAAAAS
(via dumbthingswhitepplsay)
This is really beginning to piss me off
My father is marching on to my facebook and pulling the “you seem to be angry…” on everything I post that might even vaguely apply to my mother. Its really irritating me that he’s engaging in such blatant derailing, double standards and general dismissal. It bothers me even further that those actions are almost designed to make me angry, as if to prove that the content of...
Adam Dachis at Lifehacker: Being the Better Person... →
whamola:
“We’re taught to turn the other cheek—that being kind in the face of hostility is the better way to respond to conflict so love can overcome hate. According to psychologist Clifford N. Lazarus, writing for Psychology Today, that sort of reaction just teaches abusive people that their behavior is effective. Here’s why.
It all comes down to something called the “Law of Effect”, which ...
The Adventures of Flask Gordon: Oven 'Fried'...
flaskgordon:
Ingredients
10 oz whole baby bella mushrooms, cleaned
approximately 1 cup cornmeal
salt, to taste
black pepper, to taste
1/2 tsp dried Italian seasoning
1/2 tsp dried oregano
1 tbsp garlic powder (less if desired)
1 tsp onion powder
1 small bowl, half filled with room temperature water
enough olive oil to lightly cover a baking sheet or shallow baking dish
Instructions:
...
Black Mesa/ Big Mountain livestock impoundments... →
guerrillamamamedicine:
from ash:
hey friends, consider making a phone call and spreading word to other interested partiesl about this if you have the time. This is beyond terrible, govt officials are confiscating livestock that belong to traditional dine elders, who need their livestock to live through the winter:
Updated Information: RED ALERT! Black Mesa/Big Mountain livestock...
Something -worse- than ACTA? Yes, it is: TTP. →
irish-hugz:whitepool:dalmonite:kat-a-line:cirrusdark:superandyguy:misteradventure:supersheps:golgothas-horrorterror:enderbat:digiportplz:cartoonfanatic:niklauz:stormofthunder:
“From what I can tell it’s...
Greg Hanscom at Grist: This old house: Why fixing... →
A study released Tuesday finds that in almost every instance, remodeling an old building is greener than building a new one. Beyond that, it shows that reusing old buildings provides immediate results in the fight against climate change, while a relatively energy efficient new building won’t pay climate dividends for decades.
Taken to the scale of the city, the study has some fascinating...
Things you should quit saying:
digatisdi:
delacroix:
“I don’t even see color. It doesn’t matter to me whether you’re white, black, brown, red, yellow, or purple.”
“You’re thinking way too hard about it. It’s just a joke/word/costume/movie/etc!”
“You’re the one talking about race. That makes you the racist one.”
“I refuse to feel guilty for what my ancestors did!”
“I’m not racist; I have a [insert ethnicity]...
