December 2011
2 posts
Sweatshop-Produced Rainbow Flags and... →
lipsbetweenthehips:
adailyriot:
bookishbutch:
Mattilda, a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore
The Assimilation Success Story
As legends go, San Francisco is the place for sexual debauchery, gender transgression and political deviance (not to mention sexual deviance, gender debauchery and political transgression). The reality is that while San Francisco still shelters outsider queer cultures...
November 2011
5 posts
“Ever notice how the women in Cosmopolitan magazine so often look like they’re a...”
– Madonna, Lady Gaga, and Breaking the Male Gaze | Fatshionista (via knospen, curvesahead) (via hatari) (via somerset) (via loveyourchaos) (via rememo) (via princessketchup) (via queerandpresentdanger) (via ireensarrows)
To put it another way: to be a woman is to be seen. You want to be a woman? You...
October 2011
16 posts
“Let me tell you some things.
I used to investigate child abuse and neglect. I...”
– STFU, Conservatives: When I say I’m pro-life… (via lavender-labia)
This. Wow.
(via edman)
Wow
new wave feminism: The Coon Effect →
thehuskybro:
randomberlinchick replied to your post: The Greatest Threat To Today’s Black Hollywood Has Arrived…
This reminds me of going to see Eve’s Bayou, directed by Kasi Lemmons. I saw it in the same cineplex where Booty Call was showing. I was the only black person in…
Breaking news: protestors in new york who went to...
lesbiancrimesquad:
ceasesilence:
bohemianarthouse:
This is courtesy of the Occupy Cleveland Facebook page
No words right now. Just shock.
Being arrested for closing your bank account. OKAY.
“You know you’re in love with somebody when you wake up next to them, comfortable...”
– Seven Types of Ambiguity by Elliot Perlman (via thechocolatebrigade)
“I asked a young White woman why she was studying social anthropology. She...”
– African feminist Ifi Amadiume
“Many White reproductive activists cannot relate to the experiences of Black...”
– A Forced Eugenics Survivor Speaks Her Truth (via thetart)
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Dear White folks: we get it →
sunshinebutterflies:
eshusplayground:
Dear White People: When a person of color critiques a problematic statement by a White person, the thing NOT to do is respond by explaining its literal meaning or historical source, particularly if nobody asked. When you do this, you are not adding a necessary perspective. You are insulting people’s intelligence. Responding to a critique that exposes the...
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“Thank you, SlutWalk, for posting the piece I wrote for Crunk Feminist Collective...”
– CLICK HERE TO READ CFC PIECE
CLICK HERE TO READ THE SLUTWALK THREAD (on Facebook)
Great response.
Trigger warning on the page because it’s actually making me feel physically sick. I can’t believe how racist people are. It’s fucked up.
(via genderfuked)
September 2011
12 posts
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“One of the most recent books to appear in the name of feminism is bell hooks’...”
– Cheryl Clarke “The Failure to Transform: Homophobia in the Black Community” (1983)
I am not expecting that most people will appreciate this quote, as I know many people respect bell hooks—as do I. But this was requested, so I posted it. Also, the time that Clarke published this it was necessary...
“Stop worrying about your identity and concern yourself with the people you care...”
– Zadie Smith, On Beauty (via colporteur)
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“Ableism must be included in our analysis of oppression and in our conversations...”
– Mia Mingus, Moving Toward the Ugly: A Politic Beyond Desirability (via classycoochie)
This is one of my fav quotes from her speech.
(via liquornspice)
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“Most books and articles about alcohol abuse by queer people frame alcoholism as...”
– My Edge is Anything But Straight by Nick Riotfag (via combat—wombat)
I LOVE THIS. so very true.
(via morestitches)
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“The most important way in which King was exploited in his death was through the...”
– Robert Blauner “On Racial Oppression” - 1972
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“None of the African Americans crowding the churches today would be there had we...”
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Wrath James White, “The Invisibility of the Black Atheist”, http://wordsofwrath.blogspot.com/2008/05/invisibility-of-black-atheist.html
(via cocknbull)
“When I first discovered the idea of fat acceptance, one of the most powerful...”
– Fat blogger, Lesley Kinzel (via curvesappreciationsociety)
“The thing about life is that you must survive. Life is going to be difficult,...”
– Katharine Hepburn (via venebelle)
“Cultures do not evolve in a vacuum; diffusion of ideas is perhaps the most...”
– p 45 in Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen. (via tranquality)
August 2011
13 posts
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“I am convinced that the deepest desire within each of us is to be liberated from...”
– Caroline Myss (via nirvikalpa)
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“I wanna know what you see when you look in the mirror on a day you’re feeling...”
– Andrea Gibson (via brennando)
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“We respect the stellar performances of the African American actresses in this...”
– The Association of Black Women Historians in “an open letter to fans of The Help”
well said. the rest of the statement is worth the read
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July 2011
25 posts
