July 2012
Watchwitchsistah:
thelittlekneesofbees:
sam-musubi:
Just… too cute for words omg
That baby play NO games…they were not having it.
That baby like, “I onno why you doin’ all that squirmin’. We in dis bitch for the night.”
I’m dying. That was too funny.
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June 2012
aripinthefabricofreality:
Asserting your indigenous rights is a life-threatening act.
apihtawikosisan:
“I was with two fishermen on 19 June in a meeting at Peoples´Summit discussing the impacts of big projects (basically oil, mining and steel) in Rio de Janeiro State. Three days later they disappeared when went to work. They have just been found dead. The media is considering this case...
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“The funny thing about arguing that same-sex couples will damage the lives of the...”
– an incredible point which i have been trying to put into words for years
via TheLWire
(via bilvum)
Okay, I’ve been seeing these sentiments before, and it’s erasing as hell. So I’m going to take a minute to remind you that transgender people exist, and have partners with different parts than they...
Doing an experiment. Reblog if you believe in true...
vizzz:
j-elizabethrites:
somethingnextton0rmal:
That it’s not just some cover up for some gays, but that it is an actual sexual identity.
I support that shit.
i’m sure some people are going to get very mad at me for saying this, but wouldn’t believing in bisexuality entail believing in a gender binary? you know, hence the “bi”, meaning “two”?
does bisexuality mean only liking cis people...
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“September 2000 — Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Police officers in Saskatoon took a...”
– Andrea Smith, Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide (via thecurvature)
cops.
(via nezua)
Khalil Mohammed Historian Interview
bankuei:
Anyone who says, “My ancestors didn’t benefit from slavery!” should also seriously read the part about the progressive assistance (AFFIRMATIVE ACTION) granted to white immigrants that was denied Black people.
Transcript of his interview with Bill Moyers
BILL MOYERS: So I’m sitting there in the front row of your lecture at Indiana University, where you were teaching before you came...
golden-zephyr:
digatisdi:
Pro tip: if you’re writing a dissertation involving my people and we’re telling you over and over again that you’re doing it WRONG, it is unethical to ignore our criticisms on the use of ethnic slurs and play the victim claiming we’re “putting words in your mouth”.
And people wonder why we don’t trust gaďe academics.
^^^
THIS
(najis tuke for adding your voice...
Lol. these white feminists just be workin' hard to...
starvedforjustice:
Apparently you can still be a feminist if you support Dan Savage’s rape apologism, racism, and general bigotry because:
you’re white and straight and it doesn’t affect you
you’re white and gay and it doesn’t affect you
you’re not trans* so it doesn’t affect you
you’re not PoC so it doesn’t affect you
you’re not a decent human being, so it doesn’t affect you
you’re not a...
tal9000:
Action Alert: Hearing Person Exploiting ASL for Profit
teaandtheatre:
arfism:
Some of you may have heard of Dirty Signs with Kristin. A youtube channel where a hearing person (who seems to have never studied ASL) is showing how to sign dirty phrases in ASL. However, it’s not even grammatically correct, some of the vocabulary is wrong, and some of the phrases are completely sexist...
Kinsey Hope Can't Focus For Shit: It is also a... →
knitmeapony:
telegantmess:
queernonymoose:
Because as you know, patriarchal institutions put a lot of stock in the term “attorney” and “lawyer”.
So when you email a school, and endanger the life of a 15 year old, yes, it is a conflict of interest.
Again, ethics breach. From the American Bar…
Just a quick note — the ABA is a voluntary organization that you can join. She may not even be a...
Any fucking pro lifer who wants to equate the...
sourcedumal:
How dare you disregard history with that bullshit.
How dare you even fucking THINK to bring that shit up.
How DARE you compare Black people being FORCED TO BREED BECAUSE THEY HAD NO FUCKING BODILY AUTONOMY BECAUSE WHITE MEN HAD THEM RAPED ON A REGULAR FUCKING BASIS to the the RIGHT TO CHOOSE NOT TO BE PREGNANT.
I suggest you fucking read up on Margaret Garner.
She was a black...
Soy is Not the Answer
utnereader:
“Rural eastern Paraguay was once flush with jungles, small farms, schools, and wildlife. Now it is a sea of soybeans. The families, trees, and birds are gone. The schools are empty. The air is filled with the toxic stench of pesticides.”
by April Howard and Benjamin Dangl, In These Times Utne Reader July / August 2007 Issue
It is also a conflict of interest to use the fact...
queernonymoose:
Because as you know, patriarchal institutions put a lot of stock in the term “attorney” and “lawyer”.
So when you email a school, and endanger the life of a 15 year old, yes, it is a conflict of interest.
Again, ethics breach. From the American Bar Association website:
(b) commit a criminal act that reflects adversely on the lawyer’s honesty, trustworthiness or fitness...
It's also a conflict of interest to threaten...
And it’s a breach of professional ethics.
mainly with regards to maintaining the integrity of the profession.
in this case, specifically Rule 8.4(b), and I quote from the link:
commit a criminal act that reflects adversely on the lawyer’s honesty, trustworthiness or fitness as a lawyer in other respects
It can be argued that threats of harassment can be considered criminal, and...
“This is about my someday daughter, already stung stained with insecurity...”
–
Katie Makkai (via losefatgainfit)
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Is faptivism a word?
apihtawikosisan:
Self-congratulatory fake activism that just makes the faptivist feel so good?
Faptivists buy lots of Toms and have KONY2012 posters up and maybe even donated some money to that elderly monitor lady who got harassed on the bus.
But they think it’s okay to say the n-word and dress up in war paint for “native american theme parties” and make sandwich jokes. Their faptivism acts...
tal9000:
genderbitch:
lucypaw:
tal9000:
yousillyqueer:
bayleef:
yousillyqueer:
academicsilence:
pinkspotlight:
ira gray rapes a person, but successfully villainizes them because they accidentally misgendered him when voicing their nonconsent
cathy brennan is cornered by a huge group of people screaming in her face, but is successfully villanized for accidentally misgendering her...
I just did a lot of math.
tranqualizer:
dionthesocialist:
In America, we spend 3.6 billion dollars a year in border control.
Still, there are 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States.
The cost of naturalizing one person is $655.
Now, let’s say there are 2,750,000 families worth of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. (based on taking the 11 million people and dividing it by four).
It would cost...
widdershinsgirl:
I know a lot of gay men who are really wonderful, and a lot of straight men who are, too, but ANY man who feels entitled to use conflicts over trans women having access to women’s spaces to get in a few cheap elbows against feminists or Dianic Wicca needs to GROW UP. I just saw a podcast linked where a gay man threw horrible abuse at Selena Fox and Ruth Barrett over what...
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Why come radscum forget that Trans* women of color...
throwing-shade-at-radscum:
Like they were at Stonewall.
They were the ones fighting against anti-queer hate.
They are the founders.
But radscum wanna stay on this cis “lesbian” hate kick when talking about trans* women.
Yet they don’t give a damn about the TWOC that are killed and assaulted. Ok.
Ungrateful asses.
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kiriamaya:
This is your reminder that private insurance companies often refuse trans* people not only medically necessary transition care (which is seen by the insurance companies as “cosmetic” even though the medical community agrees it’s medically necessary), but also care which even the insurance companies consider medically necessary, on the grounds that transition is causing whatever the...
Annie-Rose Strasser at Pennsylvania Republican:... →
kiriamaya:
ladyatheist:
Remember the saying “if voting changed anything they’d make it illegal?” Well guess what, they’re making it illegal but only for some of us.
Direct quote from Mike Turzai: “Pro-Second Amendment? The Castle Doctrine, it’s done. First pro-life legislation – abortion facility regulations – in 22 years, done. Voter ID, which is gonna allow Governor Romney to win the state...
Donate to Mary Kristene Chapa's medical fund →
ssitara:
She was part of the young lesbian couple who were shot outside Corpus Christi, TX. Mollie Olgin is dead and Kristene Chapa is in serious but stable condition. Her family has no health insurance.
on being a lazy-ass femme
queerandpheasantstranger:
okay seriously u guise it is truth time
i call myself a femme
and i fucking adore tumblr femmes and all the fucking gorgeous hair/makeup/clothes/shoes/vintagey crap
like you folks are fucking fierce as shit and i love you
but for fucks sake people i am so lazy
you’re lucky if i brush my teeth
so i confess that my femme is a grungy femme
in the like...
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“In a study commissioned in 1960, Planned Parenthood concluded that poor people...”
– Andrea Smith, Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide
I did not know these things either about UNFPA — which I always see abbreviated, and since the abbreviation inexplicably is FP instead of PF, I assumed it stood for “family planning” — or about Planned Parenthood’s affiliation...
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“We cannot count on using the Internet in the coming years the way we have used...”
– MF/PL to Coordinate Network Gathering/Peoples Movement Assembly at Allied Media Conference: June 28, in Detroit | May First/People Link
Where I’m at right now.
There is a live stream feed at the link!
(via theaboveground)
Radscum Receipts
freedominwickedness:
Since various and sundry defenders of radical feminism have taken it upon themselves to claim that trans* people are being “hysterical” and “delusional” when we say that radical feminists call for the outright eradication of trans women, let us examine actual firsthand quotations from prominent radical feminist leaders:
The insane desire for power, the madness of boundary...
apihtawikosisan:
Each time my mother had a child, all of us by C-section (which at one point was pretty much the most common way to give birth), the doctor offered to give her a hysterectomy. The doctor made this offer while her children was being born, when she was under the influence of local anaesthesia and perhaps thinking that never having to have another child might be a good idea.
I can...
“[I]n 1976, the General Accounting Office (GAO) released a report studying 4 of...”
– Andrea Smith, Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide (via thecurvature)
- these are the kinds of things settlers need to learn, so they can stop denying that colonisation and cultural genocide stopped in the distant past.
(via apihtawikosisan)
sterilization is one of the things...
queernonymoose:
freedominwickedness:
Gardener Sues Tulsa for Cutting Down Her Edible Garden
littleojibwe:
humanformat:
KOTV reports that Denise Morrison grows an edible and medicinal garden of over 100 plant varieties in her front and back yard. Last August, she received a letter from the city reporting a complaint about her yard.
She took photographs of her gardens and went to meet...
Another Signal Boost....and whatnot.
kyssthis16:
SIGNAL BOOST: I Have A Favor To Ask
Hey, y’all. So, my mother is competing for the chance to win a small business grant and she has enlisted my help to aid in her quest, ya dig. So, basically, she needs approximately 250 votes on this website to even qualify. I was wondering if y’all could be so kind as to vote for her. Now, this requires you have a Facebook, so if you don’t have...
attn: fellow white queer ppl
ashleyfullstop:
b-baka-its-not-like-i:
comparing the legalization of interracial marriage and the legalization of gay marriage is actually super fucking offensive considering 20-30 percent of republicans still think it should be outlawed in some places
so stop with the graphics of ppl opposing equal marriage with captions like ‘which side of history will you be on’
this shit is not history,...
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Hashtag #StopCathyBrennan on Twitter! REBLOG...
queernonymoose:
[image description: tweet from Daniel Waters @danny_waters, @Tumblr please help #StopCathyBrennan , she has hurt the lives of users, gotten minors homeless . http://tinyurl.com/6sgmynu 800+ sigs]
Who is Cathy Brennan?
She is a Maryland lawyer and lesbian activist who uses racist and trans* exclusive means. She outs trans* women on her wordpress blog called Pretendbian and is...
The Clean Hands of Hate & other passive aggressive...
so-treu:
bankuei:
Time to point something out, again.
Here’s something that the extremists do. Someone decides to be a mouthpiece- they say the hateful, inflammatory shit. They point to targets and why they’re evil. They often will even start trying to reveal personal information about the person - make sure their photos are up, where they work, and, if they want to get bold, phone...
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So here's another obligatory post, explaining why...
queernonymoose:
So, to start this post off, I am going to give a small history lesson. I will disclaimer that I am talking as a Native American individual, and I cannot speak for Black/African Diasporic people or of people from other continents outside of North and South America. However, while what I am saying is clearly not universal, but there are threads of similarity in regards to trans*
...
Until you've had to do a cost benefit analysis to...
freedominwickedness:
downdowntogoblintown:
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
alexandraerin:
fuckyeahsexeducation:
missgingerlee:
Even when I’m AT the ER/doctor I sit there & pick & choose my tests by figuring out which ones will help the most while costing the least amount of money. When I do go to the doctor, we try to decide what meds to use. Not by what may be the most helpful, but by...
This 'women want to have it all!' bullshit pisses...
inflateablefilth:
Primarily because the women that go on about how hard it is having a job and kids and the feminist doctrine that getting women into CEO positions and making sure they have access to any au pair of their choosing seriously ignore the fact that poor women have been doing this ‘working mom’ thing since forever. And they don’t get to call themselves ‘working moms’ any more than...
In celebration of National AIDS Testing Day
vizzz:
no-i-in-threesome:
I’m going to tell you why Republicans are bad for American health. Actually, the health of all humans—but let’s talk about America.
Doctors working in clinics in San Francisco knew about AIDS when it was only affecting a few people. They begged for funding, and the CDC tried to help but could only do so much with limited finances and budget cuts and lay offs. Then a...
Rape Victim Can Sue for Denied Contraception |... →
freedominwickedness:
A Tampa rape victim can sue the Hillsborough County Sheriff for allowing a jail guard to refuse to give her a prescribed emergency contraception pill because it was against the guard’s religious beliefs, a federal judge ruled. R.W., whose full name is not disclosed in court records, says she was raped on Jan. 27, 2007. After an examination at Tampa’s Rape Crisis...
Someone called me a nigger and poured alcohol on... →
agirlincollege:
On January 27, 2011 at a bar in Statesboro, GA I was called a nigger and had alcohol poured on my head. A complete stranger said, “Oh look, there goes another nigger.” and then minutes later there was alcohol on my head, down my shirt, my back. I did the right thing: I walked away. I refused to become who and what that stranger wanted me to be. When I turned around, I didn’t see...
“We thank you, dearest white savior, for neglecting to address the ‘war on women’...”
– Colonialism Feminism. An excerpt from the famous and most excellent letter to Mona Eltahawy. It’s not recent but it always remain relevant.
Go on. Save us.
(via mehreenkasana)
SALTED.
(via darkjez)
ladyatheist:
If you
invade someone’s inbox after they’ve made it known they do not want to talk to you
reblog someone’s posts after they’ve blocked you so you can continue to talk about them and/or insult them
make your own posts about someone where you insult them and purposely tag them in it
reblog personal posts where the person expressly said they did not want anyone to reblog it because...
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