April 2012
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Melissa Harris-Perry: “How White People Can Talk About Trayvon Martin
“Women of Color in america have grown up within a symphony of anger, at being...”
– Audre Lorde, “The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism” (via so-treu)
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March 2012
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And the truth is, I live in a country where human... →
ethiopienne:
The problem is that Black and brown bodies ain’t ever been seen as human…
Invisibility of Lesbians within the Black...
daughterofzami:
“Lesbian love is delegitimized because it does not actively serve patriarchy; and therefore its erasure is not only a slight on black women, but on all women that identify as lesbian. Queer culture is very much a part of the black community, but when sexuality is controlled by outside forces instead of individually, certain identities become invisible if it is deemed that their...
“The fact is that transgender people—in particular, transgender people of...”
– Mandy Carter, Still No Freedom Rainbow for Transgender People of Color (COLORLINES)
If you haven’t already, I recommend taking a look at that report. The race statistics are sobering, and too important to ignore.
(via kiriamaya)
If you ever doubted that racial issues are trans issues, here’s...
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Things I can't believe we're still talking about
jigglytuffy:
quelola:
queerandpresentdanger:
why die cis scum isn’t offensive
why this picture sucks on like, 45 different levels
why homophobia is NOT “the fear of men being treated the way women are”
what is wrong with you Tumblr look at your life look at your choices
Seriously!
…why does that picture suck on “45 different levels”? Besides the amateur drawing, of course…
The short...
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jigglytuffy:
queerandpresentdanger a reblogué votre billet : Things I can’t believe we’re still talking about
The short answer is gets its point across through policing gender expression, as well as utilizing classism and sizeism….
Man, it’s just some dude smoking pot and a “parent” (I thought it was a man) calling them out on it. Not to be a pain or hindrance to the “movement”, but sometimes,...
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bearvivant replied to your post: Things I can’t believe we’re still talking about
how isn’t “die cis scum offensive”?
It’s a pretty understandable reaction to a lifetime of oppression, and as cis people especially it’s not our job to evaluate the way trans* folk express their rage. If people get their feelings hurt it’s a better idea to evaluate why they wanna make...
Things I can't believe we're still talking about
why die cis scum isn’t offensive
why this picture sucks on like, 45 different levels
why homophobia is NOT “the fear of men being treated the way women are”
what is wrong with you Tumblr look at your life look at your choices
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If You Didn't Already Know →
tierracita:
stfuandlistenwhitepeople:
Background: More than 100 studies now link racism to worse health. Many people of color experience a wide range of serious health issues at higher rates than do whites, including breast cancer, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, hypertension, respiratory illness and pain-related problems. On average, African Americans, Native Americans, Pacific Islanders...
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I'm kind of tired of seeing androgynous white...
“[Recently] Department of Homeland Security officially discontinued its Special...”
– 11 Out of 85,000 Muslims Registered by Homeland Security Had Terrorism Ties via The Atlantic.
Clearly ineffective at increasing security, the program did more for catching undocumented immigrants, “leading to a significant wave of deportations” that continue to be carried out even after the...
“And in 45 years of me being on this earth, that was the very first time that I...”
– Kenneth Chamberlain Jr. speaking to Democracy Now on Thursday. His father, Kenneth Chamberlain, Sr., a 68-year-old African-American Marine veteran, was fatally shot in November by White Plains, NY police who responded to a false alarm from his medical alert pendant. The officers broke down...
Update: 11 year old trans girl lost appeal →
transawareness:
The above article is an update. Her mother went to appeal to keep her out of the psychiatric ward and lost. She will be institutionalized because of her expression of her gender. She will be held until she conforms to male gender and then released to foster care, not her mother who was supporting her.
Please, if you haven’t signed the petition, sign it, reblog it, ask your...
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As a wheelchair user, there are a few things I'd... →
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brightorangerain:
The wheel perspective
Stella Young Ramp Up 27 Mar 2012
It doesn’t matter how we got like this. Really. Are you asking because you want to know or because you need to? If you’re just sitting next to one of us on the train, or taking our order at a cafe, you don’t actually need to know. If we’ve actually met and had a conversation beyond “Do you want honey with...
10 Ways To Be a Body Positivity Advocate →
jaggedflow:
1. Be yourself. Whatever size, color, religion, gender, race, or sexual orientation. Don’t make apologies for yourself. Believe in the righteousness of your cause. Believe that hate helps nobody.
2. Understand that you’re beautiful. Understand that people who criticize your body or my body or Kelly Clarkson’s body can’t take that away from you. Understand that a lot of people are...
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“I like art, and by art I mean music, poetry, sex, paintings, the human body,...”
– Hunter Reveur (via thosehearts)
“Black children exist with a scant few years of innocence, and the belief that...”
– Yet Another Reminder on Why the Po Po is no Friend to People of Colour (via satifice)
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What if the #fat and #chubby tags weren't full of...
what if
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Sometimes I’ll see some really basic ~ethereal~ photo of the body of some skinny white dude in his American Apparel briefs or, you know, something similar, you all know what I mean, and there’s really nothing all that interesting about the picture except it’s of a body that is constantly validated in every single sector of society in every single way and I wonder if it would have...
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vondell-swain:
as much as I’d have no particular trouble believing that Rick Santorum did in fact accidentally call President Obama the n-word, the clip just doesn’t convince me. It doesn’t make any sense in context for that to have been a place where the word would’ve made any sense.
“the anti-war, government nigger”? what? it doesn’t make any sense in the sentence.
I...
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