April 2012
Done deal
telegantmess:
I had a baby! Baby Squishy was born at 9:59 this morning after a night of pitocin induced painful laboring. Zie’s 5lbs, 12oz, and 4 weeks premature. Zie’s fine though, and so am I. A few stitches but nothing serious.
Happy birthday, my dearest baby.
I adore you!
torayot:
chauvinistsushi:
Prison Industries: “Don’t Let Society Improve or We Lose Business.”
amydentata:
There are two very large and influential prison companies in the United States who are manipulating the system to make sure they have plenty of business: The GEO Group (formerly Wackenhut) and Corrections Corporation of America (CCA). In the first part of this two-part series, I will...
Awesome. Cathy (bug) Brennan has decided to start...
widdershinsgirl:
polerin:
After saying using the wrong name is as bad as misgendering.
This might be.. “fun”. I’m curious what else she wants to drag up.
I’m betting she’s going to try to drag up other pre-transition info.
This is what happens when you stand up to a transphobe. This is what happens when you stand up for another trans woman.
Fuck her.
I’m trans. I’m proud. I know who...
If you ever find yourself demanding that someone...
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
polerin:
Shut your mouth, stop typing, take a step way the fuck back, and then look at yourself.
to the haters
'...as you look at the economic devastation in... →
The Detroit News - 180 Detroit High School... →
pieceinthepuzzlehumanity:
How incredibly ironic is it that the country that initiated the “War on Terror” is also the only country found guilty of sponsoring terrorism?
George Zimmerman forgot to tell his lawyer about...
baddominicana:
shortformblog:
$150,000 the amount George Zimmerman’s bond was set at when he was released last week after a contentious bond hearing
$200,000 the amount George Zimmerman had in PayPal donations sitting around at the time of that hearing; it wasn’t mentioned at all source
» Trayvon’s lawyer wants his bond revoked: A few weeks back, when George Zimmerman was having lawyer...
If trans* women truly reap the benefits of male...
ad-mirandam:
freedominwickedness:
southcarolinaboy:
ellierantsforever:
queernonymoose:
Then how come they don’t:
Get access to healthcare or hospitals, and have actually been denied access to hospital care.
Get access to insurances.
Oh yeah insurances don’t cover hormones unless you’re cis and “in need” due to a drop in hormone levels.
A trans* girl in Germany was locked up in a...
Trans Woman Murdered in Oakland, Emergency Demo... →
fivelettered:
queernonymoose:
murdermetonymy:
unobject:
negationparty:
from Oakland Occupy Patriarchy:
“Brandi, a transwoman, was murdered last night, shot at 12th and Franklin in Downtown Oakland after an altercation with a man who became enraged and shot her when he realized she was trans. An amazing #oo comrade tried to keep her alive with training learned from the People’s Community...
the revenge of doctor ragnarok: Guys My Boyfriend... →
mad-e-b:
Fuller “Junior” Jones
Las Vegas, Nevada 89128
height: 6’7
Eyes: Brown
Mexican/African American.
That first picture is what he should be wearing now. Green Celtics Jersey, Jeans, Oakland cap. Has a green and black checkboard skateboard.
10am yesterday…
To my followers
genderbitch:
so-treu:
ceepolk:
liquornspice:
If you EVER need me to take a post down of yours for ANY reason, just say the word.
Even if it’s months later.
Even if you told me, “PLEASE POST THIS YAYYYY!”
If shit changes and you need it removed, consider it done.
And if you ever feel unsafe and need to go on a tumblr-wide hunt to delete pictures of yourself, I will gladly pull up my...
::exhales::
The pressure has been building for a while, but I finally told the roommates that we needed to move forward. I needed them to know that i really can’t live like this anymore, its too many people and we don’t mesh well enough to be this enclosed. I can’t use my first floor, and its treated like its just me being silly.
Why do I feel like such an asshole then?
I've said it before
nuestrahermana:
And I feel that I should say it again.
I have an ISP tracker. This is not used for malicious purposes whatsoever BUT it is in fact used to protect me from stalkers, people plagiarizing, finding the source of death/rape threats.
Honestly, I have anon open now because I get it, some people DON’T have tumblr and that’s okay.
But please, do not think that I don’t have an idea who...
“Social media is how SlutWalk satellites across the world have organised...”
– Feminist advocacy and social media (or how we achieved critical mass)
i….i’m confused by this sentence.
(via marshmallowmegamama)
Things I learned from this article:
1. The hashtag is mightier than the sword.
2. Komen and Limbaugh are but a taste of our ability to translate awareness into...
karnythia:
sourcedumal:
deluxvivens:
vagabondaesthetics:
howtobeterrell:
Ianthe’s Inferno: okay so one more thing
idieattheend:
howtobeterrell:
do white people confuse slavery with like taking somones toys without returning it?
then i could understand the whole get over it movement (cant excuse it but can understand it)
its one thing to steal something and never return it
but...
sanaa-tamir:
NLG Queer Caucus, TUPOCC, Anti-Racism and Anti-Sexism committees demand Hennepin County Attorney drop charges against CeCe McDonald
transfeminism:
On June 5, 2011, CeCe McDonald, an African American transgender woman, was assaulted by Dean Schmitz, a white heterosexual man, and his friends in a violent, racist, and transphobic attack. In the face of extreme violence causing...
i-hear-other-words-behind:
ismashpatriarchyonthefirstdate:
when people say “some people dont deserve food stamps” what they mean is “you’re not good enough to even have basic necessities such as food and water and deserve to die.”
BINGO.
And they are culturally encouraged to not follow the thought of “deserving” far enough to acknowledge the truth of this.
I work for a Rape Crisis Center in Florida, and I...
abaldwin360:
mindbabies:
bluntlyblue:
dirtywhrrrl:
…which are pro-life, Christian based organizations masquerading as medical facilities and use their money and time to push a pro-life, anti-abortion agenda, regardless of the health or desires of the pregnant person.
My head executive director just got this news, and the whole building is fucking livid.
Let me reiterate that for you.
...
The Arpaio case: when to come down? →
I’m sympathetic with the idea that Joe Arpaio should have been indicted years ago. Now that Arpaio’s prosecutor sidekick has been disbarred for what the a panel of the Arizona court system found to be “evidence … beyond a reasonable doubt” of “a criminal conspiracy,” the odds that there is enough to convict Shurf Joe have shortened enormously. [ Text of Arizona disbarment findings.] That makes...
The New Jim Crow
sonofbaldwin:
The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution officially outlaws slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
In the event you did not believe that the prison industrial complex and the criminal justice system that supports it are both inherently racist systems that seek to imprison people of color primarily, but also poor whites, as a source...
Why this shit burns my ASS
angrybrownbaby:
In undergrad, I made myself a first person source for my life below the US border. I was told I was plagiarizing. PLAGIARIZING WHAT? So they’re like, “Okay no, you’re not plagiarizing but you’re not qualified to be a first source.” I asked why and they didn’t say anything other than a jumble of words in short telling me that people with the specific type of education can dictate...
I have an odd mental block
I can’t focus on writing when its one of the “canonical” western theorists.
If its a dead white guy, I just can’t stay interested long enough to care.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that far...
zorascreation:
A Black person straightening their hair via a permanent relaxer or some other method is not “cultural appropriation”. There is no culture to appropriate in the slightest because White People have not suffered ANY cultural destruction as a group in the History of Ever. This world has no “Black Beauty Norms” because the destruction of Black bodies is one of the largest aspects of...
karnythia:
I really want to know why it is black people cannot speak of our history & our current reality in public without with someone A) insisting we’re living in the past, B) acting like we exist to educate them, or C) getting angry that we’re not putting their feelings first. What the hell is wrong with you that you think every conversation ever is happening for you?
Tribal group gets ancestral land in Mendocino →
emeraldtriangleprincess:
While I’m always beyond thrilled to hear of indigenous lands returned, it’s important to note who is giving this land and why:
San Francisco-based Save the Redwoods League announced this week that it had donated 160 acres in northwestern Mendocino County to the InterTribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council. The donation was made in exchange for a conservation easement that...
Be You: Transgender attacks on the rise in Mission... →
transqueery:
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — There’s been a disturbing increase in the number of attacks on transgender people in San Francisco, especially in the Mission District.
“We are developing a trend here that we have not seen before,” San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon said. “About a third of all…
“A 911 operator who worked for Vancouver Police when sex workers were...”
– Missing aboriginal women were ‘just hookers’ to police, says 911 operator
canada disgusts me
(via biyuti)
On dialogue
zuky:
lovewashername:
residueatlas:
Peace is the end goal, not the process. “Dialogue” politics assumes that the sides are equal and functioning from the same power dynamics. To engage in “dialogue” you have no choice but to adopt the hegemonic language and tools of the oppressor, and as such forfeit to that. For true dialogue, processes need to be put in place to ensure an equity of...
alexandraerinr: magneticsoul: alexandraerin:... →
magneticsoul:
alexandraerin:
magneticsoul:
alexandraerin:
Cis women are killed for being women, and therefore, as a result of being CIS.
afunnyfeminist:
magneticsoul:
It’s not ironic. It’s not cute. It is a threat.
How many people are murdered because…
I don’t know why you’re bothering with magneticsoul. She called me a capitalist pig for wanting to be...
westofawhitehouse:
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Oh my lord.
You have been saying this all freaking day.
White trans* people, women AND men, regularly quote the statistics of violence against trans* women as a rhetorical point without mentioning that the vast majority of those women are black, Latina and...