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claydols:

i really dont like this whole “you cant have an opinion on tumblr” attitude because really its “you cant have a hateful/offensive/ignorant opinion on tumblr because youll get called out and corrected”
and thats
a good and appropriate consequence

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strugglingtobeheard:

The Struggle to Be Heard is Real: whats annoying about saldana

miaadamswhat:

native-detroiter:

strugglingtobeheard:

is she has said she identifies as a black woman. and yet now poc don’t exist and race isn’t a thing. then why do you identify as black? i don’t get it. and to be playing a role of a woman who wrote songs like young gifted and black and spoke…

That’s who you are but you don’t have to let your color define you.

I never said you have to let your color define you. but nina simone knew her color made up a huge part of her experience. being black makes up a huge part of many black people’s experience. and racism is still very much alive and it is quantitatively and qualitatively proven time and time and time again, even in 2013. it’s disrespectful to say racism isn’t a thing or that there is no such thing as people  of color when that term was forged out of solidarity against white supremacy. so no your color doesn’t define you but if you’re going to play a role of a woman who did believe in the relevancy of race in one’s life and then say some shit like she said, it’s just not right.

Somebody needs to tweet this link to poor Zoe:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=82vl34mi4Iw

tasteherforbiddenfruits replied to your post: Pinkwashing in a nutshell

Was that a hidden Charming reference?

I wouldn’t call it hidden.

COUNTRY 1: *commits horrible human rights abuses, discrimination, war crimes, all sorts of fucked up corrupt shit*

OTHER [WESTERN] COUNTRIES: Oh Em Gee! How terrible! How could you DO that? This offends our humanistic traditions (which we don’t abide by ourselves) to the core! Something must be done about this!

COUNTRY 1: Um … We love our gays! See our pride parades? See our marriage equality stuff? We love the gays!

OTHER [WESTERN] COUNTRIES: Well, then, you guys are alright.

FOLKS PAYING ATTENTION: Um, what about all those fucked up laws and dead bodies?

COUNTRY 1: We have no idea what you’re talking about.

Yes, yes, I’m glad that people can enjoy themselves there, and I hope to go to Israel at least once before I die, but considering all the fucked up shit that the Israeli government (and, by proxy, the US) is doing right now, I can’t force myself to be happy about wealthy American tourists going there.

And this is coming from me as a person who believes that the land of Israel is a holy place and for whom the injustices committed in the name of Israel feel like blasphemy.

faemonster:

eshusplayground:

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Dear followers,

I just read Encanta, written by eshusplayground. All I can say is that, like most of Eshu’s posts, it’s like having a bucket of water thrown in your face and then realizing how much you needed that. This play is more than brillant, it’s important, it’s a bowl of fresh air. I urge you all to clik the link and let it in.

I can also not stress enough how important it is to support independant artists.

*slowly slips writer-crack between my lips and savors the taste*

meanie-face:

eshusplayground said: Not to mention “Twilight” is racist as fuck with that “savage Indian lusting after virginal white woman” shit.

And the fact that the PoC in the story are not just depicted as savage, but are regulated to the half animal supernatural creatures. And the werewolves are much like a fictional (white ppl) concept of tribal culture.

There is so much more fucked up with Twilight, and many before me have outlined them, but what I think we see more often than not from mainstream culture is it being ridiculed for the few things it did right, like representing the (straight) female gaze.

Meh, the pushback against Twilight’s popularity for being “girly stuff” is gross and misogynistic. However, we should not make Stephanie Meyer into some kind of pioneer in representations of women’s desire. Terry McMillan (“Waiting to Exhale” and “How Stella Got Her Groove Back”) did that long before Stephanie Meyer got her ass a book deal (and trust, her being white has a lot to do with the fact that we’re even talking about Twilight).

That straight female gaze you bring is racialized in particular ways that are really fucking disgusting. Let’s not pretend that because she’s some kind of zeitgeist that she’s more progressive or more representative than she is.

eshusplayground:

Every time somebody comes outta their mouth about oppression, privilege, etc. with some ignorant shit, I could just say, ”Osuwari!” (or even “Sit!).

Then BAM! Ignorant face meets keyboard.

“Not all [blank] are like that!”

(source)

“Maybe you’re just overthinking—”

(source)

“You’d be nicer to allies like me if you care about your cause.”

(source)

“Misandry. Reverse racism. Heterophobia.”

(source)

*snicker*

Always relevant.

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treelet:

pbsthisdayinhistory:

May 17, 1954: The Supreme Court Rules on Brown v. Board of Education

On this day in 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that racial segregation in public schools violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which says that no state may deny equal protection of the laws to any person within its jurisdiction.

Although the decision did not succeed in fully desegregating public education in the United States, it put the Constitution on the side of racial equality and galvanized the nascent civil rights movement into a full revolution.

Can you name all the key players behind Brown v. Board of Education? Revisit the landmark case with PBS’ The Supreme Court site.

You can also learn more about Brown v. Board of Education with “The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow” and explore more events of the Civil Rights Movement with PBS Black Culture Connection.

School integration, Barnard School, Washington, D.C., 1955 (Library of Congress).

Although the Brown v. Board decision occurred in 1954, the following year the Supreme Court weakened this decision by instructing the lower federal courts to “enter such orders and decrees consistent with this opinion as are necessary and proper to admit to public schools on a racially nondiscriminatory basis with all deliberate speed the parties to these cases.”  What this meant, in a nutshell, is that most action on desegregation of public schools didn’t happen until the Civil Rights Act of 1964, because that effectively meant the federal government could withhold funding from any school district who excluded students based on race.  That was not the case with Brown v. Board alone.

It was only after government enforced desegregation that change came, especially in Southern states.  In 1968, 78% of Black students in the South were enrolled in schools with a population of over 90% students of color.  By 1972, only 25% of Black students in the South attended such segregated schools.

However, with the advent of the Nixon administration in 1968 and the appointment of four conservative justices to the Supreme Court, desegregation saw the beginning of a tremendous change in enforcement.  In a recorded conversation with attorney general John Mitchell, Nixon discussed his criteria for for selective a new Supreme Court justice:

“I’d say our first requirement is to have a southerner.  The second requirement, he must be a conservative southerner…. I don’t care if he’s a Democrat or a Republican.  Third, within the definition of a conservative, he must be against busing, and against forced housing integration.  Beyond that, he can do what he pleases.”

This led to the 1974 Millikin v. Bradley decision which initiated a series of events which dissolved the government’s efforts to desegregate schools and eventually lead to the observable phenomenon of “White flight”.  According to Peter Iron’s book, Jim Crow’s Children, in 1970 Boston public schools enrolled 96,000 students, 59,000 of whom were White.  By 2000, only 9,300 White students remain in public schools.

With the outcome of the “neighborhood school” case in 1989, the Board of Education of Oklahomah City v. Dowell, judicial oversight of desegregation was phased out of most cities.  Students were limited to schools within their neighborhoods — leading to an increase in segregation due to a reflection of segregated housing and concentrated areas of poverty which make up POC-majority neighborhoods.  Those neighborhoods of which of course, are affected by not only the systemic racism inherent in our job market, but also our housing market (via geographic steering and discrimination against black and brown homebuyers and renters.)  Because we have segregated cities, our schools reflect that segregation.

And so our schools are becoming increasingly resegregated.  School integration has become a myth.  And increasingly the neoliberal dialogue surrounding resegregation is framed around the lack of interaction, insight, and exposure White middle-class students will have to POC and how this will affect their growth as human beings — but not primarily around the inequities of resources for black and brown youth; not about the school-to-prison or school-to-military pipelines which seek to almost maliciously ensure the academic failure of youth of color; not about the nature of White privilege in the education system with our majority White teachers, administrators, or decision makers (and teacher curriculum); nor about the fact that Black students in Black-run schools pre-Brown v. Board actually performed better than after desegregation began.

The issue isn’t that White students and students of color must integrate for the cultural or social benefit of White students, or that students of color must derive cultural and social benefits from interaction with Whites, but that the fundamental inequities which make White Supremacy possible and the ubiquity of White privilege a reality must be destroyed.  The system is an attack on children of color and must be destroyed.  So today is not a day to remember Jim Crow as just a memory, but to understand its reflection today in every school across the country for the pervasive monster that it is.

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#tywin is such an ass #but he’s an equal opportunity ass who makes no bones about the fact that he’s an ass #and watching him barely restrain himself from slapping joffrey across the face is such a glorious thing to behold #tywin lannister #joffrey baratheon #game of thrones #fanart recs

Inorite?

Tywin is a straight-up hater and he likes nobody.

I love him for it.

Him and Cora need to get together and take over Westeros.

I’d never want to live there if that happened (even less than I would now), but I’d be interested to see how that story would play out.

(Source: strangehighs, via the-silence-in-between)

meanie-face:

bbc-booknerd12888:

• I do not watch Sherlock just to see Benedict Cumberbatch
• I am not going to see Star Trek Into Darkness for the same reason
• I do not watch Doctor Who just to see David Tennant
• I do not The Avengers movies just to see Tom Hiddleston
• I do not watch the Iron Man movies just to see RDJ
• I do not watch anything just for hot guys

This post is like a nexus of so many different fandom issues that need to be addressed.

On the one hand, this post is possibly addressing the misconception many men in fandom have of straight/bi/other women in fandom, that we participate in fandom only because we find certain men attractive. In that case, kudos to you for calling attention to this.

On the other hand, this post could be directed from one woman to other women, women who the OP thinks do in fact only watch these shows “for the hot guys”, and that’s where this gets problematic.

There seems to be this huge thing in fandom where fangirls pit themselves against other fangirls, in order to be perceived as the more worthy fan. Usually, we do this by being very very sure to disavow strong attraction to male characters, and/or to loudly shame other fangirls for being too strong on their fangirling of these men. We then loudly proclaim that we enjoy so much more about our fandoms than the men, not like those other girls, implying that those “other girls” don’t.

For example, let’s take the quote “I do not watch The Avengers movies just to see Tom Hiddleston”. There is a massive Loki fanbase, myself included. Sometimes I scroll through a related tag and see someone complaining loudly about the amount of Loki fangirling that goes on. What this usually translates to is “I’m not like those other girls who are crazy for Tom Hiddleston. I’m calm and collected and a better fan than those girls.” And when I see those posts, there’s always a split second where I feel ashamed for my attraction to a male character and my interest and participation in his fandom. Oh look, I’m acting like a girl again!

What doe this sound like to you? It sounds like that same-old same-old game we women play when we want to be a part of the “boys club”. “I’m not like those girls who are into girly things like romance and boys. I’m more into boyish things, like action movies and fighting! I have more guy friends because I just don’t connect with most girls!”

We need to stop that shit. There is no shame in finding men attractive, there is no shame in liking romance, and there is no shame in participating in fandom in a way that is fun to you.

Now, there is another issue that this brings up, and that is the glorification of white male actors/characters that is also buying into patriarchal bullshit. (The major amount of pretty white boy slash fic written by straight women is kind of a byproduct of this.) That is another issue that sort of bleeds into the previous one. On the one hand, it’s wrong to shame women for their attraction and interests, but on the other, it’s gross the way we glorify men  who we know nothing about other than the fact that we find them pretty to look at. How do we measure this issue? How do we remain critical of this problem, while at the same time respecting the way many women participate in fandom?

Just something to think about.

Also, when I looked at it, the important part of the post seemed to be the “contrary to popular belief” part.

For instance, the idea that the only reason why a woman would be a fan of those things is primarily for the pretty white dudes and not because she actually enjoys those things.

Sort of like the Fake Geek Girl phenomenon that is more misogyny than fact.

did-you-kno:

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