December 2011
121 posts
“when a white woman decides to kill her kids, does she say a gay man did it? Do...”
– Jukebox Jones (via zorascreation)
YES!!!!!
And it’s mostly white LGBT individuals who do this shit. “Gay is the New Black?” And Dan Savage with his racist bullshit attacking the black community after Prop 8 passed, trying to make it seem that the black community is more homophobic than anyone...
“Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our...”
– Audre Lorde (via sisteroutsider)
audre lorde is always so brilliant.
(via no-longer-solo)
One of my favourite Audre Lourde quotes.
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we are told to educate others on our personal experiences, then are told that our knowledge is based on too many emotions and that we need to...
“why motherfucker is a word
and fatherfucker isn’t
is all I know of woman’s...”
– The Angel in The Dream of Our Hangover: Aphorisms, Mark Leidner (via golehyas)
epiphany in the middle of the night: enjoy and...
I think i found a reason(s?) to renew my spark for activism. This came to me after i was pondering about the first essay in The Myth of Sisyphus (sparknoted, of course, because for the love of me i just want to get to the point already. don’t give a fuck if ya’ll judge but life is too absurd to care). This is a mix of Camus and whatever i been pondering before, so i don’t which...
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A special Merry Christmas to all celebrating under...
zikrayat:
Especially our brothers and sisters in Palestine, who are living in the birthplace of Jesus. Merry Christmas.
“Would you like to save the world from the degradation and destruction it seems...”
– Lao Tzu (via thewestostlicherdivan)
THE REVOLUTION STARTS AT HOME
(via vladislava)
break through.: Rape culture →
liquornspice:
an article from Indian Country Today:
Ties That Bind is the story of the Shoe Boots family, a Cherokee family and their descendants (mixed Cherokee and African ancestry). Captain Shoe Boots was a legendary, full blood Cherokee warrior who was among the first in the Cherokee Nation to acquire African slaves. His first slave, bought or captured from a European/American slaveholder...
Occupy and Women's Rights →
WOMEN ARE a majority of the 99 percent.
We are still paid, on average, only 77 cents to a man’s dollar (that number drops to 68 cents for African American women and 58 cents for Latinas). When one takes into account the impact of childbearing and the fact the women still bear the brunt of unpaid labor in the home, this figure slides further downwards. One study measuring the cumulative impact...
“So long as I confine my activities to social service and the blind, [the media]...”
– Helen Keller, 1924 (via socialismartnature)
20 Things People With A Positive Body Image Know →
fuckyeahselfcare:
kimosabe:
WE SHOULD REMEMBER THIS MORE OFTEN:
approachingsignificance:
That it’s important to take good care of your body.
That our body does a lot for us, even though we’ve bashed it over and over and over.
That exercise is meant to be enjoyed, so you only practice the physical activities that are fun and truly make you feel good.
That you’ll still have days where...
One teachers approach to preventing gender... →
togetherforjacksoncountykids:
“It’s Okay to be Neither,” By Melissa Bollow Tempel
Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got in line for art, and I noticed that she still had not removed her hood. When we arrived at the art room, I said:...
Americans will be transferred to foreign prisons... →
cultureofresistance:
rtamerica:
If you’re upset that congressional approval of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 can send you away to military prisons and be tortured in America, don’t worry — it could be worse.
If you’re upset that congressional approval of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 can send you away to military prisons and be...
Merf. Thinking is Hard.: What does "Transformative... →
notyourkinddear:
jalwhite:
notyourkinddear:
How have you seen the term used and was it what you expected?
I ask because… I’m seeing/reading about some things in action and I think I must have a “wrong” definition or something. Because clearly I have expectations that are completely different than how things are really playing out by people who claim to be all about transformative justice…
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Merf. Thinking is Hard.: Food Stamp Etiquette:... →
tangledupinlace:
by DRESDEN on NOVEMBER 9, 2011
This is now officially the first month in two years that my family has not been depending on food stamps to feed ourselves. The moment that I realized that I no longer qualified for these benefits was incredibly triumphant for me. Within the same moment of celebrating I also felt so incredibly thankful. I have no idea how my family would have...
Hunger In America, By The Numbers | ThinkProgress →
17.2 million: The number of households that were food insecure in 2010, the highest number on record. They make up 14.5 percent of households, or approximately one in seven.
48.8 million: People who lived in food insecure households last year.
3.9 million: The number of households with children that were food insecure last year. In 1 percent of households with children, “one or more of the...
“Look how your children grow up. Taught from their earliest infancy to curb their...”
– Voltairine de Cleyre (via cultureofresistance)
Popular Dutch Magazine Calls Black Girls Like... →
so-treu:
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
dreams-from-my-father:
howtobenoladarling:
Eva Kroes, editor of Jackie Magazine which boasts thousands of readers in its circulation and has been around for at least 3 years, decided to use the term “N*ggab*tch” as an article title in the most recent issue in relation to Rihanna and other black women. And had the audacity to use it as though it was a term...
Merf. Thinking is Hard.: jemimaaslana:... →
jemimaaslana:
moxielicious:
Men Often Misread Women’s Sexual Cues
Are you laughing yet? A short study was done with US undergrads, here are the “conclusions”
Men who wanted a short-term sexual encounter were more likely to overestimate a woman’s desire for them.
Men who believed…
“Some activists are interested in Community Accountability processes primarily as...”
– Connie Burke, Think. Re-think: Accountable Communities. From The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence within Activist Communities (2011), ed. by Ching-In Chen, Jai Dulani, and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha.
*APPLAUSE*
*MORE APPLAUSE*
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The Return Of Debtor’s Prisons: Thousands Of... →
Take, for example, what happened to Robin Sanders in Illinois. She was driving home when an officer pulled her over for having a loud muffler. But instead of sending her off with a warning, the officer arrested Sanders, and she was taken right to jail. “That’s when I found out [that] I had a warrant for failure to appear in Macoupin County. And I didn’t know what it was about.” Sanders owed $730...
“Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to...”
– Deepak Chopra (via nirvikalpa)
hmmm…silence. Are they talking about thinking or meditating? Or inner peace? Funny, because I’ve recently read an Audre Lorde’s piece on silence. Then again, i’m sure they’re talking about different things, with silence meaning...
“The whole essence of Zen consists in walking along the razor’s edge of Now - to...”
– Eckhart Tolle (via sun-hawk)
BrainBarf: December 17th: We remember the man who... →
stay-human:
R.I.P. Mohamed Bouazizi ♥
Mohamed Bouazizi was a street vendor in Tunisia. Growing up in a country with an astounding 30% unemployment rate was not kind, he sold fruit and vegetables on the streets of Tunisia. A friend of Bouazizi’s said that he used to give free fruit and vegetables to poor families.
The Tunisian police confiscated this man’s produce because he did not have a...