February 2012
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ScienceNOW: Findings suggest that privilege... →
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 income,...
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LGBTQ Scholarships - College Resource Network →
clatterandclank:
gqid:
http://www.collegeresourcenetwork.com/scholarships/types/lgbt
I recently received the above link as a submission from the co-founder of this network, Carla Abraham - definitely check it out!
We are a free scholarship search engine and college planning website specializing in Minority Scholarships with a focus on LGBTQ Scholarships. Currently, we have 82 LGBTQ...
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“I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been presented with the argument that...”
– “There’s More to Life Than Platinum: Challenging the Tyranny of Sweatshop-Produced Rainbow Flags and Participatory Patriarchy” in That’s Revolting: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation, edited by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (via kittiesinqueerland)
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“So when the Irish, when Germans, when Italians were coming, and they didn’t...”
– Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Race-The Power of an Illusion (via volviomarilia)
“I most recently noticed the impact that the openness of artists like Nicki Minaj...”
– Sabia McCoy-Torres does a fascinating analysis on Nicki Minaj’s images on New York City’s queer youth of color on the R today. (via racialicious)
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Attn strangers of the world
Protips for getting my attention: I don’t respond to the phrase “Big Man”, or any variation thereof that refers to me as a body rather than a person. Kindly fuck off.
learnyouracbs:
Rilo Kiley - Give a Little...
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vincentwilde:
“Waterfalls” by TLC.
The Bechdel Test and Race in Popular Fiction
crystalsavestheday:
1. It has to have two POC in it.
2. Who talk to each other.
3. About something other than a white person.
No Joss Whedon show passes, neither does Supernatural, or Being Human.
Veronica Mars passes, but doesn’t pass the original Bechdel Test.
Check out a few more here.
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I suppose my first mistake was walking into class...
As much as I appreciate my professor’s knack for playing devil’s advocate and generally opting for class discussion over taking any definitive position, I did not appreciate his response to my saying the white person in question shouldn’t appropriate Rastafarian culture because it’s so deep-rooted in anti-Westernism and anti-Colonialism, which they benefit so much from,...
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“If vaginas disgust you then you hate women. If vaginas don’t actually disgust...”
– Misogyny in the Gay Community (via satifice)
whats even more disturbing is “straight” men who also hate vaginas. they wanna fuck them, but swear theyre gross: you sirs, are fucking misogynist as fuck.
(via baddominicana)
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“Teenagers read millions of books every year. They read for entertainment and for...”
– Sherman Alexie (via booksandnerds)
Anonymous asked: "Where are you from?" is white...
yoisthisracist:
Yo, that shit is never really that coded.
Kickass Openly Gay Native American Woman Elected... →
cassket:
Nine Native Americans have served in the Minnesota state legislature since the state’s founding, and all of them have been men. But on Tuesday, The Land of 10,000 Lakes chose via special election its first ever Native American woman to serve on its state legislature, and the first Native American lesbian to ever serve in any state legislature anywhere.
Susan Allen (not to be confused...
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"No Acting Oscar in the Last Decade Has Gone to... →
of-praxis:
The truth, however, is this: At other stages of the criminal justice process, the Court has indicated that overt racial bias necessarily triggers strict scrutiny—a concession that has not been costly, as very few law enforcement offi cials today are foolish enough to admit bias openly. But the Supreme Court has indicated that in policing, race can be used as a factor in discretionary...
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“Sandy” had a common experience: She is a 35 year-old transgender woman from...”
– Human Trafficking of Immigrant Transgender Women: Hidden in the Shadows (via thetart)
White House Helped Pay For NYPD Surveillance Of... →
fuckyeahmarxismleninism:
The AP confirmed the use of White House money through secret police documents and interviews with current and former city and federal officials. The AP also obtained electronic documents with digital signatures indicating they were created and saved on HIDTA computers. The HIDTA grant program is overseen by the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.
The...
Race and incarceration in the USA: the effect on...
zeezeescorner:
Philip N. Cohen posted this chart comparing the rates of incarceration across racial groups in the USA (via Sociological Images). Cohen writes:
to understand the disparate impact of this change on Black men in young adulthood primarily — and secondarily, Latino men — here are the rates of incarceration for men by age and race/ethnicity (Blacks here exclude Latinos; Asians and...
for a future love →
queergiftedblack:
for a future love who will love my body whole understand its complexities as a politicized entity who will not bind it to slavery or colonized ideas of conquest and pillaged spoils because there has already been a war waged across my flesh for a future love who i can trust will know the parts to stroke the parts to rip open the places to suture and the wisdom to bow to the...
“Budapestian Dianics argue that transwomen were not raised as female from birth...”
– Ryiah Nevo, from “Twenty Years in the Dianic Traditions,” in the anthology Gender and Transgender in Modern Paganism.
All women have unique experiences because we are not solely women.
(via phillypagan)
Supreme Court to decide if corporations can be... →
sarahlee310:
The Supreme Court will weigh next week whether corporations can be sued in the United States for suspected complicity in human rights abuses abroad, in a case being closely watched by businesses concerned about long and costly litigation.
The high court on Tuesday will consider the reach of a 1789 U.S. law that had been largely dormant until 1980, when human rights lawyers ...