March 2012
curiouslycool:
stfuconfederates:
maccyp submitted:
Though this might interest you. These are quotes from the 1910 Encyclopaedia Britannica; as an encyclopaedia you would expect it’s content to be truthful and based on fact, preferably scientific rather than theoretical fact.
The quotes are from the entry for “Negro” (a bad start if there ever was one):
“the negro would appear to stand on a...
“shame is not a catalyst for change; it is a paralytic. Anyone who has ever...”
– What’s wrong with fat-shaming?
(via thechocolatebrigade)
A Word Does Not a Mandate Make
amaditalks:
As an uproar was sounded across the nation over “transvaginal” and ultrasounds performed in that fashion, we are now getting reports that mandated transvaginal ultrasounds are no longer a part of mandatory ultrasound before abortion bills in Alabama and potentially Virginia.
Be wary.
So long as the bills still mandate either: - a detailed description of the anatomy of the...
I should not read excerpts from Malcolm X's...
douglass-forgot-the-chitterlings:
because it does nothing but irritate the hell out of me. Not his speeches, mind you, but the way history has set him up against MLK as if they were two men working for different ends.
I hate what history has done to MLK, taking the fire out of him, reducing him to a single speech, a single sappy story of a man who never grew angry (false), never lost his...
February 2012
ATTENTION - 2/29/2012
kemetically-ankhtified:
lati-negros:
Please note:
Black history acknowledgement, awareness, appreciation, and respect DOES NOT end tomorrow.
Wake Up, Management
word.
with one foot in the world: Cultural... →
smirkingbenevolence:
rafiki-town:
selchieproductions:
neetainari:
Johan, want to take this Celtic prince for a ride? I can’t because I’m crying because I’m laughing so hard.
Pagan cultures.
Wah, fuckin, wah.
Oh. My. Sweet. Mother. of. Jesus.
rafiki-town:
You wanna talk cultural appropriation? Look at…
My original point was not about the Irish appropriating from the Scots or vice...
jhameia:
13 Year Old Jada Williams Persecuted by the Rochester City School District Over her essay on Frederick Douglass.
thecurvature:
racismschool:
beautifulbrwn:
“On Saturday, February 18, 2012, the Frederick Douglass Foundation of New York presented the first Spirit of Freedom award to Jada Williams, a 13-year old city of Rochester student. Miss Williams wrote an essay on her...
MOAR ANGER
redlightpolitics:
Well not really anger but a couple more thoughts around my musings on radical anger, feminism, etc. In my quest for a framework that includes ethics and praxis in feminist politics, I also started to scrutinize how the discourse surrounding reproductive justice is articulated in mainstream media. I am more interested in how the “pro choice” side comes across (because really, at...
These Foolish Things: Eccentric Black Girls →
karnythia:
daniellemertina:
uneducated-intelligence:
daniellemertina:
thegoddamazon:
itsanjell-bitch:
Have it the worst. We’re not the mammies, the jezebels, or the hoodrats. Our minds broke from the slave mindset along time ago…probably when we were born.
This whole light skin dark skin debate is fucking hilarious to me. It…
Maybe you should focus less on your skin colour and...
“Drawing a line between yourself and them bigots over there is not the path to...”
– sex, art, and politics:
Seriously though. This is, like, generally good life advice. If the first thing out of your mouth when confronted with the bigotry of a group to which you belong is ‘well but I don’t do that’ or ‘well a real member of Group X wouldn’t behave that way,’ I’m done listening.
...
My brother knows racism before he's even 16. Fuck...
queerhairyvag:
Welp! That’s great! Gonna rant now! AS USUAL WHAT ELSE IS NEW
Before he was 8, things were fine and dandy and he’s a happy adorable snotrag!
He isin’t treated any differently and if he is, he’s too young to notice at the time.
He’s 10. He’s talented at creating animation and draws like a pro.
Early primary school; things are fine but he feels a little confused that he’s one...
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Fund for Troy Davis's family →
thecurvature:
numol:
thecurvature:
numol:
thecurvature:
nigeriajones:
quebradiza:
numol
[via Dread Times (link to post)]
AFAICT the new deadline is the 28th [of February]. they’re only at 69% of their goal as of now, please pass this around and donate if possible.
The Davis family has had to bury three warriors for justice in the past seven months. Virginia Davis, the...
Pain of 'Trail of Tears' shared by Blacks as well...
jalwhite:
blackndns:
CNN | Tiya Miles | 2/27/12
African American history, as it is often told, includes two monumental migration stories: the forced exodus of Africans to the Americas during the brutal Middle Passage of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, and the voluntary migration of Black residents who moved from southern farms and towns to northern cities in the early 1900s in search of...
Okay, so one more thing...
sanaa-tamir:
“Gender secure”? Really now? This is a thing?? Trans folks are, what, gender insecure? Wtf does that even mean… *rubs head* I swear, tumblr foolery is responsible for the off and on headache I’ve had for the past few days now. e_e
I just… this crap has reached levels of ridiculous that I can’t even articulate anymore. Though I really suspect that at least some of these fools...
No Invite Over a Nickname
triangularisthepie:
jalwhite:
AP | 2/27/12
The University of Iowa decided not to invite the University of North Dakota to a track meet in April because of the university’s Fighting Sioux nickname, The Iowa City Press-Citizen reported. Iowa policy prohibits the athletic department from scheduling competitions with universities or attending tournaments hosted by universities using Native...
Deaf student may not be able to graduate with... →
iamateenagefeminist:
iamateenagefeminist:
iamateenagefeminist:
This is taking place at my school and I am furious. Under the American with Disabilities Act any school district (with the exception of a deaf school) that hires her will have to provide an interpreter. It’s ridiculous that the school is not allowing her to have an interpreter in the classroom when she will have one while she is...
this ain't livin': Cultural Framings of... →
But both framings firmly stress that unemployment is a personal issue, not a social or public one. Whether you think people don’t have work because they’re useless or because they’re just down on their luck, the primary focus is still on what is happening to the individual, rather than examining the system in which it occurs. To step back and take a larger look at the system is to see a somewhat...
rhymeswithnothing:
withrevolutionarycries:
rhymeswithnothing:
withrevolutionarycries replied to your post: Chandelure is the single most useful fire type
lol when i read the title i thought you were going to be talking about rock-a-doodle (but his name is chanteclair actually not that i think of it.)
Lolol oh my god not Rockadoodle! You know no one remembers that!
hey i watched that...
“This is not just about dishonoring the Koran, it is about disrespecting our dead...”
– Maruf Hotak, commenting about the recent protests in Afghanistan in reaction to its largest U.S. base burning Qur’ans and referring to an episode in Helmand Province when American Marines urinated on the dead bodies of men they described as insurgents and to a recent erroneous airstrike on...
Minorities Are More Generous Than Whites, Study... →
darling80m:
This isn’t news, and especially not to those from communities of color, but it’s good to share:
W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF) released a new report, “Cultures of Giving: Energizing and Expanding Philanthropy by and for Communities of Color”.
… Recent trends show that communities of color are giving at increasing rates and levels. For instance, 63 percent of Latino households...
if fair was fair....
baddominicana:
being whites are only 40% of the U.S. population right now,
everyone all over the media and running orgs and government would be 60% POC.
thats right, everywhere you look, there should be 6/10 POC. always.
meanwhile, absolutely everything continues to be white-washed and white-centered and when we complain they add some token,
and when we make our own media they claim...
“We wanted to be human beings.”
– Sylvia Rivera (via darlingtonia-californica)
lux-obscura:
I passed my NCLEX yesterday and I am officially an RN.
Three and a half years of hard work and I finally, finally have those two little letters after my name. I am so happy and proud right now, guise. You don’t even know.
I played the long game and I succeeded. This shit doesn’t happen to me often (I’m more of an instant gratification sort of girl) so I’m kind of in...
Sherlock, as done by a small and precocious Asian...
jhameia:
hardmodeofsex:
Once upon a time in MODERN DAY LONDON, there was a “consulting detective” by the name of Shin’ichi Honda (30). (Okay, her name was actually Shigeko, but who the hell wants to be a “nourishing child” when you can be the ONE TRUTH.)
She was looking for a new flatmate to move in with her on 221B Baker Street and she was badass as hell.
Lucky for Shin’ichi, Junanita...
“White women “stars” like Madonna, Sandra Bernhard, and many others publicly name...”
– Madonna: Plantation Mistress or Soul Sister? bell hooks From ‘Black Looks: Race and Representation’
(via howtobeterrell) …and there you have it. i will love “like a prayer” forever and ever and ever, but i will never call myself a madonna fan.
(via ethiopienne)
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Feminist X
thecurvature:
Totally down for the cause like MALCOLM X
Except even more radical, because AUDRE LORDE
But also visionary and wiser than all of you like PROFESSOR X
Except even more willing to sacrifice members of oppressed groups to protect the oppressor, because *F*EMINISM