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Deoliver47: Dying to give birth
(via Deoliver47 @ DailyKos)
Pregnancy can kill you - especially if you are a black woman in the US.
The PBS Newshour covered a recently released report which gives the details. Report: African-American Women at Higher Risk for Maternal Death in Calif.
In California, African-American women are dying of pregnancy related-causes at rates seen in some developing countries, and at four times the...
Call For Papers: Transgender Feminism →
(h/t bird of paradox)
MP an online feminist jourmal
llhinkle@academinist.org
MP: Transgendered (Fall issue) – Deadline August 31, 2011
Can there be a multi-gendered…
White House to host first-ever meeting with trans... →
cassket:
Tomorrow, the Office of Public Engagement at the White House is hosting a meeting with a number of transgender activists and leaders working on federal policy around trans issues — for the first time in American history. Via the Washington Blade:
[White House spokesperson] Inouye said the meeting will be the first ever for the Office of Public Engagement where transgender issues...
I know I can fight rape culture by ….
menneriello:
I know I can fight rape culture by ….
* speaking up when I see it
* asserting myself vocally and confidently when I feel uncomfortable or violated
* watching what is happening around me even when I have no idea who or what I am seeing
* practicing enthusiastic consent with all my partners in an effort to spread the love, and always expecting more/better from humanity in...
For Birthers, Obama's Not Black Enough →
handingoutstars:
By Melissa Harris-Perry
Remember when the media regularly asked if Barack Obama was “black enough” to get the support of African-Americans? In 2007 pundits wondered if a black-identified but technically biracial candidate who came of age in the post–civil rights era, was raised far from traditional African-American communities, was educated in the Ivy League and boasted a...
Oliver Willis: Rush Limbaugh Is Racist, Here Are... →
solemnhypnotik:
(via Oliver Willis)
Conservatives have claimed for a long time that Rush Limbaugh isn’t a racist, that this image of the conservative thought leader is an invention of the so-called “liberal media.” This list exposes that for the lie that it is. It is a selection of Limbaugh comments, largely from the last 5-6 years (Limbaugh has been on the air for decades, but only has...
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“Well, what are Aboriginals doing to preserve their culture? They shouldn’t be...”
– Response of white university student in a 3rd Year Sociology of Minority Groups course, after asking several ignorant comments, the professor responded that she should read the textbook to understand. (via microaggressions)
What was that again about lines? About who can use what things? About...
“Now, there’s one thing you might have noticed I don’t complain about:...”
– George Carlin: Once a great comedian, always a speaker of the truth. (via winstonwolfe)
Article: Clearly the worst thing about SB 1070 is...
badparsiqueer:
I have to take this apart, guys, so I don’t puke.
SB 1070 HAS BEEN A COSTLY FAILURE
A year later, SB 1070 looks like a big, expensive con. It brought us boycotts, lost business, a sullied reputation, another court battle and a betrayal of Arizona’s heritage.
Oh yes, that is CLEARLY the worst that SB1070 did! It made people boycott us! I can’t even imagine a worse result,...
Jha Is Awesome. Part 2 Of Infinity.
jaded16india:
Jha: when i hear the “When is it cultural appropriation? Where is THE LINE?”
i think i’ve come up with the reason why it’s the WRONG QUESTION
Me: YES?
Jha: okay so
the next time someone asks me that question i’m going to say, ”this is what this question makes me think of”.
i see a paper doll application
and the paperdoll is prolly a white person
and all the things...
Meet me at WisCon #35 →
I wll be attending WisCon #35 this May 26-30. I will be there with my family, enjoying the con. I would love to meet any readers, bloggers, lurkers, writers and other Internet-folk at…
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The Uneasy Intersection Between Sex, Morality,...
(via cabaretic @ DailyKos)
In an essay submitted for a college class, a young woman recently wrote about her sexual relationship and resulting pregnancy with her high school band director. Though she changed some of the details and names in her paper, enough autobiography was left intact that statutory rape charges against the man have been filed. Various news agencies, websites, and blogs...
Dealing with Dysphoria and Hopelessness
transpride:
Dysphoria and hopelessness are easy to come by when you’re trans*. You wish your clothes fit a certain way, that your face was more angular, that your butt didn’t stick out so much and you also worry that maybe you’ll never be accepted as male, that you’ll never lead a successful life, or that you’ll never find someone to love you. We’ve all found ourselves there at one point or...
Is it possible for a woman to rape someone?
bubonickitten:
[TRIGGER WARNING for discussion of sexual assault]
stfurapeculture:
saturdaysummers:
Because a part of the man would have to want it so technically it wouldn’t be rape…?
I would not have thought this was a question I would ever see someone actually asking. But I’m going to make the rare choice of assuming you are legitimately asking and not trolling.
Yes, women can rape...
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Meet me at WisCon #35
I wll be attending WisCon #35 this May 26-30. I will be there with my family, enjoying the con. I would love to meet any readers, bloggers, lurkers, writers and other Internet-folk at the show.
Please contact me via twitter or email if you would like to grab a coffee or socialize.
- arvan
Contextualise This
jhameia:
jaded16india:
JADED
A few weeks ago I met a blog reader — not something I do very often but I know said person via e-mail and they were in Mumbai for three days so I went to see them. It was a weird mix of nervousness — from my part solely! — and pleasant banter and then they said, “You are much better in person than in text” and the words have stuck around still*. I asked them later...
A Comment Most Awesome.
jhameia:
This is a comment made by the amazing Mia (ephemere on DW if you’re interested) on my thread on steampunk postcoloniality. Just to say, she is one of my greatest inspirations for writing the stuff I do. I’m not going to link to the thread because I know some of you will just hop on over and witness the fail and I don’t really feel like distressing more people than necessary, but you...
Announcing the Riot 2011 National Conversation... →
2011 National Conversation Series: Who’s in Charge?
May 3, 2011 June 7, 2011 July 12, 2011
Each 90-minute discussion begins Tuesdays at 2:00 pm Eastern
The Riot’s 2011 National…
Gangster Culture
zuky:
[ I wrote this piece in 2007 in response to one of those regular waves of white condemnation of “gangster culture” in Black music. Reposting here with some tweaks and updates. It was originally published on my old blog on April 13, 2007. ]
In order to talk about gangster culture at all, we have to begin by talking about how we, in US society, live in a culture which celebrates the...
jhameia:
What to say, and not say, to an autistic adult
DON’T SAY: “I never would have known. You must be very high functioning.” SAY: “I obviously don’t know anything about autism.”
DON’T SAY: “Are you sure?” SAY: “I obviously really don’t know anything about autism.”
DON’T SAY: “Isn’t that, you know, a kid thing?” SAY: “Damn, the media works hard to erase you. That sucks.”
DON’T SAY:...
so-fresh-and-so-bean asked: The trans UK conference has been cancelled http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2011/04/19/london-transgender-conference-cancelled-after-trans-complaints/
“Attention Internet sex creeps: When someone hides their email address /...”
“do not take the lord’s name in vain” does not refer to saying...”
“money is not the root of all evil.
greedy men using war and religion to...”