March 2012
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team-artemis asked: I feel like now is a good time to stop and say: "Caucasian" is a misused and inappropriate term for "white."
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dysfunctionaldraught asked: Curious question. I'm white. Technically, Caucasian. I fail to see why you would have a problem with me, when you've never met me. Why are you openly racist against white people, though you say you reject racism? Feel free to answer privately, I don't mean to call you out or anything like that. I just... I have to ask.
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I need a white person to come get their fucking... →
jhameia:
gingerslice:
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telegantmess:
jhameia:
Some amazing tidbits, and by amazing I mean unreal:
The anti-white language that transfuses the piece ignores the full scope of the white hegemonic capitalist patriarchy that bell hooks writes about. It also ignores the fact that oppression isn’t a feature limited european modernity, and can be carried independently of any...
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Abuse survivors' responsibilities
cruelyouth:
Stuff abuse survivors need to do:
Survive and do whatever they need to do to survive
Keep themselves safe and physically, emotionally, and mentally healthy in any way they need to
Live their own life and follow their own standards of living (something survivors didn’t have much of a chance doing while they were being abused)
Stuff abuse survivors do NOT need to do:
Please other...
FACT: People who claim to be ex-gay really just...
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What is cultural appropriation « The Long Way Home →
jhameia:
ardhra:
O hai! I finally finished writing this! After starting it more than two years ago {facepalm}. There is more to come that I’ve worked on & researched. Hopefully responses to this won’t be so faily that I’m unmotivated to finish the rest.
Excerpt:
There are a number of issues around cultural appropriation which I see continuously bog down discussion. I think they revolve...
February 2012
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PSA About Trigger Warnings
If you only trigger warn by using the tagging system, please know that not everyone has Tumblr Savior. If at all possible, please, please put a trigger warning at the beginning of your post as well.
If you are reblogging potentially triggering images, please reblog it as a text post and insert the images using the “Insert/edit image” button (the one that is the little picture of the...
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McDonnell: TSA Pat Downs Are ‘Invasive,’ But... →
prolongedeyecontact:
In November of 2010, Gov. Bob McDonnell (R-VA) joined the public outcry against the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) security precautions in airports by describing body scans and mandatory pat downs as crossing “the line” in regard “to people’s concerns about privacy” and “beneath the dignity” of air travelers. But just two months later, the anti-abortion...
“Southwest Border Violence Drug cartel Violence Gang Drug Narcotics Cocaine...”
– The Department of Homeland Security Is Searching Your Facebook and Twitter for These Words — ANIMAL
Interesting. In a Side Eye sorta way.
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“Every time I read an article about conservatives being “pro- life” I am reminded...”
– The ‘Safe, Legal, Rare’ Illusion - NYTimes.com
YES.
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I may have reblogged this before.
I do not care.
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ScienceNOW: Findings suggest that privilege... →
sanaa-tamir:
wontoo3fore:
To see whether dishonesty varies with social class, psychologist Paul Piff of the University of California, Berkeley, and colleagues devised a series of tests, working with groups of 100 to 200 Berkeley undergraduates or adults recruited online. Subjects completed a standard gauge of their social status, placing an X on one of 10 rungs of a ladder representing their...
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this broke my heart:
justavegainandhirbike:
fitfor2012:
beehealthy:
While shopping in a popular department store today, I saw something that made me want to cry. Now maybe I’m too sensitive about this, or maybe society really is going too far, but either way, I think this is awful.
I wandered into the young girls section, and saw something I’ve never seen before. Something called “Girls Plus”. It was a section...
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URGENT: support needed for Sac counter Nazi... →
punkpedagogy:
SIGNAL BOOST
Information on 3 of the arrestees from Mondays action against Nazis at the capitol in Sacramento.They are still locked up and their first court date is tomorrow, Wednesday Feb 29 at 1:30 pm, try to come out and show support for these folks. We are still trying to get info on the girl who was arrested earlier and supposedly taken to Juvenile Hall. We will try to...
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If you can't name & don't recognize abuse that has...
poemsofthedead:
I know recognizing and naming what has happened to us is a process and happens differently for different people. And it’s not an easy or painless process.
But if you feel the need to attack abuse survivors for talking about their abuse because you had similar experiences and don’t think it was abusive,
chances are that you are imparting abuse upon others because you haven’t...
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[TRIGGER WARNING: Police Brutality] Chicago police... →
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anticapitalist:
Chicago Police snuck onto innocent man’s property and into his garage where they shot him without warning. Once they realized their mistake, they work on getting story straight instead of calling an ambulance, which they do only after they catch victim talking on phone.
A federal civil rights lawsuit has been filed against the city and a group of 25th district...
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Extreme poverty in US has more than doubled since... →
amydentata:
anticapitalist:
A policy brief recently issued by the National Poverty Center (NPC) reveals that the number of households in the US living on less than $2 a day per person has increased by 130 percent since 1996, from 636,000 to some 1.46 million today.
This means that some 4 million people in “the richest country on earth” (according to US capitalism’s apologists) are surviving...
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TW: Photos of self-injury (cutting) after the...
WHY? WHY, TUMBLR?
THIS WAS ORIGINALLY BLOGGED AS A PHOTOSET. THAT MEANS I - A RECOVERING CUTTER - WAS SLAMMED IN THE FACE WITH PICTURES OF SELF INJURY WITHOUT SO MUCH AS A WORD OF WARNING. THIS HAS BEEN REBLOGGED OVER 31,000 TIMES. HOW MANY OTHER PEOPLE HAVE YOU TRIGGERED? HOW FUCKING MANY?
WHY WOULD YOU POST THIS SHIT WITHOUT AT LEAST A TRIGGER WARNING.
YOU KNOW, I WOULD LOVE TO BE THERE...
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Help needed...for the last time.
I know I have come to you a lot in the past few months in search of financial help, and for that I am sorry. Nothing is working out the way I thought it would. As a matter of fact, things are worse than I ever imagined they would be. So I come to you one more time, asking for help.
I am on some pretty heavy psychiatric meds to help balance out my various, er, “eccentricities”. I...
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Tumblr Staff: A New Policy Against Self-Harm Blogs →
mcgoats:
nevernotbroken:
epochryphal:
Trigger Warnings: self-harm, eating disorders, suicide, hospitalization
staff:
One of the great things about Tumblr […]
Except what about risk-reduction strategies? Far too often the sort of websites that would be outsourced to, that are hosted elsewhere, are “abstinence-only” and “this is horrible and must be ceased immediately.” There is no...
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Because I am a Woman: Green Your Period: DivaCup... →
becauseiamawoman:
I finally did it! I used my DivaCup, and let me tell you- there is no going back. For those of you who aren’t familiar with what it is, a DivaCup is a menstrual cup that you insert when you have your period. It catches all your menstrual blood, and when it is full you simply dump it in…
Don’t like the cissexism, but I want one so badly…
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Transethnic FTW
brandx:
Oh, for fuck’s sake.
Apparently a clutch of privileged, delusional bigots have hijacked the term “transethnic,” ensuring that us Class Bastard adoptees and foster kids encounter even MORE dismissal and confusion in public discourse.
“Transethnic,” for those who don’t know, occurs in the context of adoption. For example, a white Jewish child is adopted by non Jews. Or a Saami kid by...
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Trans-bashing in feminism – as constructive as... →
cctcd:
Robbie Vane makes some great points about the problems with cissexism/transphobia in the feminist community. Excerpted from their article:
You cannot shout about how you are smashing the patriarchy and demanding respect for your gender whilst kicking down at somebody fighting for their own gender to be validated and respected. That is not equality, it is hypocrisy. If you truly do not...
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You don't actually think a fetus is a human being,...
like-an-echo:
When you hear that a woman gets an abortion, you go nuts about the fetus having rights. You feel sorry for the poor baby. You feel angry because the baby was done injustice. It’s about the baby.
Taking the trigger word here (abortion) out of the equation, it becomes a little more clear what you should think logically.
When you hear that a woman has a miscarriage, you feel sorry...
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Watch“What Child is This?”, Andrea Bocelli and Mary J. Blige
This is just gorgeous. I know it’s not Christmas, but fuck it. Art knows no season.
(Also, as a side note, the technology needed for this just makes me geek out. This was filmed live in Los Angeles for a Christmas special. As you saw from the monitor, Mary J. Blige was in New York. The technology needed to make sure...
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Re: "Die Cis Scum"
TW: Cissexism, mentions rape, murder, suicide
3dela:
Anonymous asked:
“Die Cis Scum” doesn’t mean “Murder all cis people.” It’s directed at scummy cis people (people who commit acts of violence against trans people, perpetuate bigotry, etc.). Maybe it’s not *~nice~* to use such a violent word, but cis scumbags don’t do nice things to/for trans people. Personally, I don’t think any cis people...
Here's what I found on circumcision and HIV from... →
3dela:
feministescapades:
It does seem to halve the risk of HIV infection, however, it’s not a stand alone prevention method.
And here is an article from NY Times.
My conclusion is, and I am no medical professional, that circumcision has positives and negatives, and I still think it’s a personal choice for the person to make when they are older, rather than at birth.
With all the facts, I...
“Trans people are told by the law, state agencies, private discriminators, and...”
– Dean Spade, Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law, p 41
I mean, basically, yeah.
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Read this three times through for maximum benefit.
(via cctcd)
That last statement is pretty much my goal in life. Help dismantle violent systems...
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Suit Says Obama Can’t Run In Alaska Because He’s...
abaldwin360:
Alaska-(ENEWSPF)- A man from Juneau, Alaska, has filed suit with the state’s Division of Elections to bar President Obama from appearing on that state’s ballot on the basis that the President is a “Mulatto”, and “the race of ‘Negro’ or ‘Mulatto’ had no standing to be citizens of the United States under the United States Constitution.”
Gordon Warren Epperly, who lists his address...
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