February 2012
52 posts
Tai's Psychology Blog: He’s no rat, he’s my... →
xxzulaxx:
Calling someone a rat should no longer be considered an insult. The often maligned rodents go out of their way to liberate a trapped friend, a gregarious display that’s driven by empathy, researchers conclude in the Dec. 9 Science. “As humans, we tend sometimes to have this feeling that there’s something special about our morals,” says neuroscientist Christian Keysers at the...
“Angela Davis, Assata Shakur, and Elaine Brown, each at different points in their...”
– Why Misogynists Make Great Informants: How Gender Violence on the Left Enables State Violence in Radical Movements « INCITE! Blog (via shoulders)
(via sophiologist)
observe how the men involved in the civil rights movement cared ALL about their racial oppression, but dished out their own...
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“After all, you can’t truly be happy if you’ve never known pain. You can’t truly...”
– Kelly Cutrone (via ventriloquistic)
Currently learning to be happy, feel joy, and being fulfilled. Too bad it doesn’t fit into my school schedule.
Dis blahg neva tlkz 'bout race: I do get really... →
of-praxis:
unknowablewoman:
lindentea:
indigofer:
missvoltairine:
and especially of depression, because it’s like, depression is, I feel, my BIGGEST OBSTACLE to productivity and creative self-expression.
Like, if I had to write a song while in a depressive episode, it would go:
I’m not getting up
I’m not getting up
fuck you
I’m not getting up
that’s my song.
And certainly, mental...
Merf. Thinking is Hard.: teclita: When I was at a... →
teclita:
When I was at a mental hospital (long story, but this isn’t about me, not really) I shared a room with three other girls. One of them had had an abortion. She slept next to me and we often talked until the nurse came to “wake us up.” We were separated by a wooden panel, but it was so thin we kept waking each other up. She screamed, sometimes. She’s the only person I’ve ever met who...
“If I had the choice between wearing a burka and a playboy bunny symbol, I would...”
– Ariel Levy (writer of female chauvinist pigs) I’m listening her talk live at my school and she definitely just inferred that wearing a burka is just as oppressive and objectifying an associating with playboy (and of course that all playboy bunnies are oppressed)
The Hungry Ghost: Yearning for Fulfillment →
The Hungry Ghost, a concept based in Buddhist and Taoist beliefs, is a lost spirit that roams burdened by unmet needs. Driven by insatiable greed and intense desires, the Hungry Ghost wanders, searches and feeds. In Chinese folk religion, families prepare food offerings for deceased relatives to keep hungry ghosts at bay. Hungry Ghost: Yearning for Fulfillment asks you to interpret and...
“It reminds me of the “bike to work” movement. That is also portrayed as white,...”
– comment left on the Racialious blog post “Sustainable Food & Priviledge: Why is Green always White (and Male and Upper-Class)” (via ouiominy)
“improve the image of biking” by not photographing any Black, Latin@, or Asian people.
How more blatant coud she be? :/
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my mom grows...
Emotional justice is about working with this... →
ancestryinprogress:
Amazing article on emotional justice and activist organizations, written by Yolo Aikili
“Who taught you to hate the texture of your hair? Who taught you to hate the...”
– -Malcom X
R.I.P.
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I’m gonna need self-hating Dominicans to read some Malcolm.
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“It reminds me of the “bike to work” movement. That is also portrayed as white,...”
– comment left on the Racialious blog post “Sustainable Food & Priviledge: Why is Green always White (and Male and Upper-Class)” (via ouiominy)
“The Porto Ricans (sic) are the dirtiest, laziest, most degenerate and thievish...”
– Dr. Cornelius P. Rhoads
This is an actual quote from a personal letter.
Dr. Rhodes deliberately injected cancer cells into unknowing patients, which resulted in the deaths of at least 13 people. For his achievements Dr. Rhoads was featured on the cover of Time Magazine June 27, 1949.
(via...
Change.org Petition: Drop Charges Against CeCe →
curiouslycool:
jhameia:
Other ways to show support for CeCe MacDonald:
- Write her a letter in jail
- Donate to her support fund
- Contact the Hennpin County Attorney’s office
I’m going to sit down right now and write this woman a letter and I’m reblogging this because I’m hoping you guys will do.
And if you’re unable to,
Please sign the petition for her release.
Literally every...
Reblog if you struggle with depression, or an...
“I’d like to raise both of my middle fingers to him and anyone who thinks...”
– M.I.A. (via janejacqueline)
WHERE IS THIS FROM
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Merf. Thinking is Hard.: On Jessica Hyun (warning:... →
jhameia:
spicyobsession:
So I only just heard about Hyun’s racist tweets today and decided to look her up because I had no idea who she was. Therefore, the first impression I had of Hyun is reading her twitter that calls for the genocide of black people. Great.
I’m not surprised at all that this happened. It’s no secret that East Asians (my family included) are among the POC groups that...
clutter: Jenny Hyun need to take ALL the damn... →
miswritten:
nerdphobia:
sourcedumal:
Now, the wording of Floyd Mayweather is indeed problematic.
But there is something to be said about how, when someone who ain’t black excels in something that white supremacy has labeled a “black” thing, whiteness will elevate that person to God status. See Elvis, Adele, and Eminem.
It happened when various Asian groups dominated America’s Best Dance...
“My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of...”
– Maya Angelou (via xxxi-i-mcmxcii)
ETERNALLY CO-SIGNED. I’ve known brilliant insightful people who never finished college, never finished high school, and even some that can’t read/write beyond signing their name. I’ve also known people with PhDs and ivy league degrees who are airheads that are...
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studying makes me feel hopeless...
is that normal?
CyberFiber: Signs someone needs help →
2thirty3am:
Wanting to harm self or others. Bizarre thoughts or behavior. Excessive crying, withdrawing from other people. Change in sleeping and eating patterns. Losing interest in hobbies and pleasurable activities including sex. Overwhelming sense of apathy (indifferent to life). Trouble concentrating or following through with plans. Very low energy, feeling worthless and/or helpless....
“[The young black males are] shuttled into prisons, branded as criminals and...”
– In her book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, legal scholar Michelle Alexander writes that many of the gains of the civil rights movement have been undermined by the mass incarceration of black Americans in the war on drugs. (via nprfreshair)
liberal activism
of-praxis:
how can i do things to help people worse off than me without compromising the convenience afforded to me by their oppression
Merf. Thinking is Hard.: "Cultural Appropriation." →
bossymarmalade:
butwithawhimper:
I hate when people talk about “Cultural Appropriation.” Like freaking out on hipster white chicks for wearing a “native american” headdress. If you’re going to pull that, then don’t you dare wear clothes that were made in a textile factory, because those originated in England, and if you’re not from there, then you should get bitched at every time you wear a...
“Persons who are racially and sexually marked within the dominant culture—who are...”
– Jacqueline M. Martinez, “La Conciencia De La Mestiza: Intra-And Intersubjective Transformations of Racist and Homophobic Culture” in Phenomenology of Chicana Experience & Identity: Communication and Transformation in Praxis, (2000), (p. 81)
“The belief that female sexual expression is uniquely dehumanizing is a double...”
– Amanda Marcotte (via feminismduh)
can someone please explain to me what is immoral about sex? Other than the fact that back in the day not being sexually pure usually meant you were of a lower class/race?
Like I really want to know
(via newwavefeminism)
