December 2011
This is What a Theocracy Would Look Like: Kentucky... →
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: holy men are a fucking cancer.
(exhibit a via Steven D @ dailykos)
I have been married to a wonderful woman whose parents came over to the United States from Japan in the mid-1950’s. I met her in law school, we fell in love (my story) or “he just wouldn’t go away” (her story) and we ultimately married in 1986. We...
November 2011
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Nice masala film
sarcasan:
When I saw inception, the first thing that came to my mind was “Poda. This and all one movie eh”. I mean, a dream within a dream within a dream. Stupidly frivolous stuff. This was when I decided to write my own script for DiCaprio. So here we go.
The first thing that the audience gets to see on screen is Dacaprio’s name coming out of the water, in all watery font and stuff alright....
The Tambrahm Chart of Progessive Food Tolerance
tambrahmrage:
Inspired by a conversation with @anantha, @techrsr and @sarcasan
Siri Maami
tambrahmrage:
Based on ideas from @sarcasan
People of Color Organize: Occupy Your Education: A... →
peopleofcolor:
The current Occupy Movement has captured people’s imagination and refocused the national discussion on issues of economic injustice, social stratification, and corruptions of American democracy. Contrary to what some people might think, the Occupy Movement is not composed solely of…
An Iranian gay student at the Seneca Collage, York... →
hoaxzine:
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intoxicatedspirit:
IRQR: An Iranian gay student at the Seneca Collage, York University has been assaulted by a 21-year old student. Officials have confirmed.
He was beaten up on the basis of his sexual orientation, racism and discrimination. The police have a 21-year-old man in custody after the Iranian student suffered a cut to his throat at Seneca...
“Never pass a bathroom. Never trust a fart.”
– source: grandpa
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/11/29/1040704/-L... →
[Trigger Warning: Anti-Trans* Hate Crime] Murder... →
DETROIT- Her mother called her Treasure, but her killers treated her body like trash - chopping and burning it up before dumping it on the side of the road. The burnt torso of Michelle Moore, also known to friends as Shelly Revlon, 19, was discovered Oct. 23, the morning after she went missing, near 1-94 on the east side. But it was only last week, after stories appeared in the mainstream...
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Public Employees Go on Strike in Chile →
fuckyeahmarxismleninism:
Santiago de Chile, November 29 (Prensa Latina) - Chilean public workers will begin a 48-hour strike on Tuesday to demand job security and reject the wage adjustment presented by the government. The protesters are members of the National Association of Fiscal Employees (ANEF), the Teachers Association and the National Federation of University Professionals in the Health...
Why I Love Outdated: Why Dating Is Ruining Your... →
cocothinkshefancy:
Mukhopadhyay reminds the reader throughout her book that these books consistently erase those who are not cisgender and heterosexual and able-bodied and middle-class. She also says that the dating industrial complex is also rather unkind to cisgender men–all of this because they’re trafficking in narrow stereotypes based on gender binaries. And if we believe in some sort of...
Audit finds race discrimination in housing based... →
A telephone audit conducted earlier this year in Solano County, California of 40 rental housing properties in which nearly 5,500 people reside, found at least some negative differential treatment toward African-Americans in 65% of the cases and no case in which African-Americans were treated more favorably. The most prevalent type of differential treatment uncovered (found in nearly 50...
Driven By Drug War Incentives, Cops Target Pot... →
pixelcycle:
rosalarian:
Perhaps more tellingly, the city’s clearance rate — the percentage of homicides solved by police — was 70 percent in 1991. It dropped to under 40 percent in 2008 and 2009. According to a report (PDF) from the criminal justice reform advocacy group The Sentencing Project, drug offenses made up 4.8 percent of Chicago PD arrests in 1980. In 2003, they made up 28.2...
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“It’s hard not to notice that once the right number of white folks are affected,...”
– elon james white, Dear OWS: Welcome to Our World (via squintyoureyes)
“I’m tired of you my fellow feminists because of your Islamophobia. Your bigotry...”
– An Exotic Veiled Woman (via kawlture)
TMI Tuesday
ask your questions
“When your only female character exists to be bartered and abused, that is lazy...”
– Monica Byrne.
Zing.
(via mehreenkasana)
Hey, DC comics, check it out.
(via shearsandsnares)
Yes! (via purplepigfeathers)
“Here’s my take: when you teach adults and children sex-negative messages, sex...”
– Sex Positive Activism: “Sex-Negative Education and the Spectre of Rape” (via trenchantashell)
Yes, yes and yes. We also need to teach people about asexuality and that asexuality isn’t “wrong” either. Love this quote!
(via thesexuneducated)
I can’t help but reblog this every time it comes up on...
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princechiot asked: I'm researching for a paper on transphobia in queer/feminist circles and I was wondering if you had any good articles I could refer to?
Three Myths of the "I Don't See Race" World
ashesforjustice:
by Bruce Reyes-Chow
(who, is becoming one of my favorites.)
So I continue this conversation on race that I started a few weeks ago here. Would love to talk on twitter or you can venture over to the cross posting on SF Gate where the conversation gets even more feisty.
TV comedian Stephen Colbert has a great shtick about race when he says, “I don’t see race. People tell me...
10 things you should know about International... →
inthegripofwinter:
kross-fyre:
1. One in three women die or are seriously injured as a result of gender-based violence. Violence against women results in more deaths among women ages 15 to 44 than the total number of women who die because of war, malaria, and cancer.
2. An estimated four million women and girls are bought and sold worldwide each year, either into marriage, prostitution or...
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“Now to “Reverse Racism.” It’s crucial to maintain the distinction between the...”
– Daily Kos: Why there’s no such thing as “Reverse Racism”
Just one answer of many on the subject of why I call BS on “reverse racism.”
(via esprit-follet)
Dear world, it's about time you realize the shit...
esmeweatherwax:
use-ur-illusi0n:
esmeweatherwax:
use-ur-illusi0n:
esprit-follet:
Dear PoC, next time a white person complains about how “everything is about race and gender” tell them to stfu unless they want to discuss how they can change their views and deconstruct their privilege.
Because it is relevant and they have never experienced the same kind of discrimination, no, not in the...
"You don't speak spanish? You're not really...
hhermanito:
You don’t speak the language, we automatically reject you because of our preconceived notion that you have rejected us because of your “white washed” status.
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These augmented contact lenses could give you a...
killscreendaily:
Researchers are readying augmented contact lenses that project images before your eyes—Adam Jensen style. While potentially not as cool looking as the Deus Ex hero’s Oakley-esque implants, at least people won’t wonder why you are wearing sunglasses indoors.
The technology could allow wearers to read floating texts and emails or augment their sight with computer-generated...