May 2013
News flash: Touching/knowing/being within 50 feet...
slay-z:
white people mostly talk shit to me on the internet and then avoid eye contact with me and pull their belongings closer on the street.
*jay-z voice* but you allllready know
“There is no single jurisdiction in the U.S. where a minimum wage worker can...”
– National Low Income Housing Coalition (via presidentjonesco)
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Three mass graves with 1,000 corpses found in Iraq →
deafmuslimpunx:
fuckyeahmarxismleninism:
Iraqi officials have found three mass graves containing the bodies of about 1,000 people thought to have been executed by US soldiers during their occupation of the country.
The graves were uncovered in Iraq’s western province of al-Anbar. The remains are believed to be from victims killed by US forces during 2004 and 2005 in the city of Fallujah,...
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“Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts...”
– Malcolm X (via mis-hermanas)
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“When I haven’t attacked anyone personally, when I have only criticized the...”
– (via athenagray)
“People only say I’m angry because I’m black and I’m a woman. But all sorts of...”
– Jamaica Kincaid in a “A Conversation with Jamaica Kincaid” by Alyssa Loh. (via obvsobsessed)
Problem solving in OUAT
tickledbynichols:
So I’m almost done with season 2 and I’ve noticed the following pattern of problem solving:
Can’t blame it on Gold? Must’ve been Regina
Can’t blame it on Regina? Must’ve been Gold
Can’t solve Problem with Gold’s help? Ask Regina
Can’t solve Problem with Regina’s help? Ask Gold
Someone needs to do a flowchart.
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“No1 curr.”
– Cersei Lannister to Ser Loras Tyrell
I'm going try to keep the number of Tumblrs I...
Time for some spring cleaning. If I unfollow you,...
It’s mostly about being able to keep up with everything and doing things for my own peace of mind. It’s just one of those pragmatic and self-care things I have to do.
“White feminists defending The Onion sound an awful lot like male comedians who...”
– T.F. Charlton
These 3 quotes are from her essay The Other Double Standard: On Humor and Racism in Feminism.
(I wrote about the same topic myself last week: The Predictable Cycle of White Liberal “Humor” At Black Women’s Expense)
Interesting how when one is in a position of POWER and not the butt...
“In one 1962 survey roughly 90 percent of White people believed Black children...”
– (Unpacking the Snowflake - Kevin M. Hemer)
In 1962— before Civil Rights legislation, when Black people were literally having their houses bombed for moving into white neighborhoods, and Black neighborhoods were being bombed in entirety for having nice houses, white people were literally releasing...
“I’m faced daily with choosing
violence
or a demeanor that saves
every...”
– Essex Hemphill, “Cordon Negro” (via thegentlemanjigger)
“The story of progress up from slavery is a lie, the longest lie. The story of...”
– Perfecting Slavery by Anthony Paul Farley
lines like this be killing me. do you know how much depth there is in those 4 sentences. like really…????? ugh. (via strugglingtobeheard)
“If you are reading this in the United States or Canada, whose land are you on,...”
– Qwo-Li Driskill (Cherokee), “Doubleweaving Two-Spirit Critiques: Building Alliances between Native and Queer Studies” (via nepantlastrategies)
socialistexan:
Cis* is not correct Trans*gender isn’t correct either. Same with trans*woman trans*man (because they’re specific identities).
I see cis allies fuck this up at least 3-4 times a day. Stop it, you’re making yourself look bad with the people you claim to care about (not questioning your ability to care or calling you a liar, but I am saying that the effort isn’t matching the words),...
I blame "Twilight" and "50 Shades of Grey" for...
fluctuatingidentities:
eshusplayground:
What do I mean by “this shit”?
That thing where ignoring people’s physical and psychological boundaries is an act of love.
Hell. No.
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I don’t blame Twilight and Fifty Shades of Grey. While their popularity is certainly troubling, they are just part of a long history of the dominant narrative that says in a heterosexual relationship the man...
I blame "Twilight" and "50 Shades of Grey" for...
poonraider:
eshusplayground:
What do I mean by “this shit”?
That thing where ignoring people’s physical and psychological boundaries is an act of love.
Hell. No.
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lol you blame two books for an entire discourse that has existed long before the authors were born.
plausible theory.
it’s just a manner of saying something, you know.
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I blame "Twilight" and "50 Shades of Grey" for...
reginaliveshappilyeverafter:
eshusplayground:
What do I mean by “this shit”?
That thing where ignoring people’s physical and psychological boundaries is an act of love.
Hell. No.
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If anything I write on here or as Once Upon a Femmeslash on ff.net ever makes you uncomfortable or is problematic in any way please let me know and I will fix it or at least put a disclaimer about abuse...
I'm reading a fic now, and... (DO NOT TAG THIS!)
sheerlust:
witchpieceoftoast:
eshusplayground:
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I’ve been abused mentally, emotionally and physically. You are not wrong or biased because of it. It’s what makes you right about this. Fics like that terrify me and I hate when they don’t have warnings. Because if I’m not prepared, it’s bad.
What’s worse is, they actually have the abuser say & do things real life...
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I blame "Twilight" and "50 Shades of Grey" for...
What do I mean by “this shit”?
That thing where ignoring people’s physical and psychological boundaries is an act of love.
Hell. No.
[[MORE]]Aside from the fact that it’s so prevalent in fanfic genres I enjoy (hello, hurt/comfort), there’s also the matter of how they frame this. A lot of times, it’s portrayed as necessary in some way, as though simply asking...
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Pro Tip: Women Don't Owe It To You To Be Empowered...
lyannaofmormont:
So this bullshit came across my dash. Now I think categorizing women as most empowered and least empowered is problematic in it of itself (to quote from the article: On the flip side, we’ve identified 10 of their Least Empowered counterparts, women who allow the men in their lives and society as a whole to define their goals and values, and too often wind up playing the role of...
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I'm reading a SQ fic now, and... (DO NOT TAG...
witchpieceoftoast:
eshusplayground:
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Part of me does wonder if they even know that what they are depicting is abuse or rape.
And it gets really creepy because domestic violence in LGBTQ partnerships is something that definitely happens but rarely gets talked about.
I'm reading a SQ fic now, and... (DO NOT TAG...
witchpieceoftoast:
eshusplayground:
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I’m gonna blame “Twilight” for this because I can.
I wanna talk more about it, but maybe through fanmail or ask.
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I'm reading a fic now, and... (DO NOT TAG THIS!)
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I don’t want to name the fic* or the author* or give away the plot (and if you reblog, please do likewise), but it is a hurt/comfort Swan Queen fic.
In the course of this story, Regina says something to Emma that makes her lose her temper and attack her. But the way the story frames it is as though Regina made Emma do this and that it is Regina who is responsible for Emma trying...
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big-booty-itches:
when your parents ask you to help them with technology