June 2011
May 2011
“All oppression creates a state of war.”
– Simone de Beauvoir (via petitefeministe)
90th anniversary of Tulsa 'race riot' / massacre... →
fuckyeahmarxismleninism:
By Shaka Barak, president of The Marcus Garvey Institute
Exactly 90 years ago on May 31, 1921, the 11,000 African residents of the Greenwood District of the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, were bombed after preparing to celebrate Memorial Day. Previously, several generations had settled in this community, with some having arrived to escape terrorism in the southern states....
“Gang rape was seen [by commenters defending wartime rape] as essential in the...”
– Joanna Bourke, Rape: Sex, Violence, History
It’s not like this mentality is news to me. It’s not. The idea that it would be is kind of a joke. I’ve been reading and writing about rape for much too long to be surprised.
But I remain profoundly disturbed and distressed. I can’t read these sentence...
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Grappling past hesitation to speech on queer...
(via dirkster42 @ DailyKos)
There’s an essay by the late, great gay historian Allan Berube called “How Gay Stays White and What Kind of White It Stays” in The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness, a collection of essays about white privilege.
There’s a point in the essay where he says:
A few years ago, in San Francisco, a friend invited me to be part of a new political...
themadperiodwoman-deactivated20 asked: Wanted you to know...I love the pegging pics you've been reblogging!!! So HOT! N loves it when I peg him. He's a big fan of your pictures too.
deadlegsonwheels-deactivated201 asked: Hi,I see you have reblogged my GSM or LGBT post thanks.Details on the post are incorrect.Intersex is not a gender or a sexuality. http://nimself.tumblr.com/post/6007016228 I am at fault for not noticing that could you please delete the post and if you want to replace it here is the correct one http://deadlegsonwheels.tumblr.com/post/5996058950/gsm-or-lgbt thanks for your time naomi.
The reality of illegalising abortion.
inherhipstheresrevolutions:
The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that each year nearly 42 million women faced with unintended pregnancies have abortions, of which 20 million are unsafe, mostly in countries where abortion is illegal.
According to WHO and Guttmacher, approximately 68,000 women die annually as a result of complications of unsafe abortion; and between two million and seven...
Partners in Sex Education Unconference in Boston,... →
mrsexsmith:
Partners in Sex Education is holding a one day free Unconference. The conference will be on June 25th , 9-10 meet & greet, 10-4 conference. An Unconference is a meeting where attendees provide the content. Anyone interested in doing a 20 minute presentation can sign up to do this on the day of the conference, and pick a time slot. Otherwise, you’re free to come and learn. Please...
PatientC: Crip Rage Internet Adventures →
PSA for Fools: Some disabilities are “invisible.” No, no one has to justify their parking tag to you.
this and this, forever this
Guatemala pays high price for failures of global... →
socialisimo:
Domingo Tamupsis works on a Guatemalan sugar plantation for a company that exports bioethanol to fill the fuel tanks of US cars. He has a job as a harvester, six days a week, 10 to 12 hours a day, in a country that is a major producer of food for global markets. His settlement in the fertile Pacific coastal area is surrounded by industrial farms, but he earns so little that his...
a woman, taking up space
invertebrateparty:
When I was in fourth grade, I was sitting with my cello, waiting for my orchestra concert to begin. The cello was on the floor, but I was seated in my section in a long dress with my knees spread wide, and my elbows on my thighs. My mom - in the audience - gestured to me for five minutes to sit “properly,” and when I didn’t follow her instructions, she came up and reprimanded...
TMI Tuesday
Ask away…
In 1882, the US congress passed the nation's first... →
“A century ago, the Chinese came here in search of a better life. But they faced harsh conditions, particularly in the halls of Congress. Congress passed numerous discriminatory exclusion laws that barred the Chinese from accessing basic rights given to other immigrants. These laws engendered hatred, bigotry and prejudice in the minds of Americans towards Chinese. Many were brutally murdered,...
Republican States Push Revisions to Voting Laws →
Less than 18 months before the next presidential election, Republican-controlled statehouses around the country are rewriting voting laws to require photo identification at the polls, reduce the number of days of early voting or tighten registration rules.
Republican legislators say the new rules, which have advanced in 13 states in the past two months, offer a practical way to weed out...
My new feminist credo
redlightpolitics:
I am completely doing away with “waves”. No more “First/ Second/Third Wave Feminism” for me.
Because I am a “Tsunami Feminist” now. The wave that ends all waves!
(Did I just hear The Kyriarchy laugh right there in the back? I don’t care! You just wait and see!).
“To listen to poor people, to talk about poverty, is to admit that there is...”
– s.e. smith (via thirdw0rld)
“I’m fat positive because your weight doesn’t have any necessary relationship to...”
– From a fantastic post “Why I’m Fat Positive” by You’re Welcome (via heyfatchick)
it means loud: Native American Cultural... →
adailyriot:
kahsennanoron:
Cultural appropriation is something that I have discussed before on tumblr. I think that it would be best to now specify what people cannot use from our culture/traditions. I am half Mohawk and half Mi’kmaq. I grew up on a Mohawk reserve most of my life and have been taught (and practiced) my traditions and language.
So first off let’s start with some basics...
I struggle sometimes with whether I am considered...
rawkabilly:
I do have a disability that’s mostly mental, and a few minor physical quirks that make certain things hard but not impossible- but sometimes I am not by any stretch of the imagination “healthy” enough to do normal activities. But because it is temporary (when my severe anxiety/depression is activated and raging, which doesn’t happen that often but when it does it lingers and fucks me...
“From the start, European settlers in North America established structures...”
– Possessive Investment in Whiteness
Let’s see what we can pull from this.
Lipsitz is arguing that from the beginning, the idea of whiteness was concerned with a system of material investments. We know that the idea of race arose when early colonial experiments were being conducted and slaves became...
GSM or LGBT?
deadlegsonwheels:
GSM stands for Gender & Sexuality Minority
I prefer it to LGBT because GSM is more inclusive
Basically any gender or sexuality that isn’t considered heteronormative could go under GSM.As well as LGBT the following genders/sexualities could go under GSM.
This is not a limit just all i can think of so far. Any others let me know.
Genderqueer
Genderfuck
Genderless
...
Liberal Hypocrisy, "Vanilla Privilege"
tchy:
Trigger warning: explicit discussion of BDSM practices, rough sex—possible trigger for rape or sexual assault.
notforallthewealthofcaesar:
cosmocumsmoothie:
communismkills:
Apparently, someone who is “vanilla privileged” is someone who does not enjoy abusive sex. By abusive, I meant all of the harmful kinks—spanking, choking, etc. You name something self-deprecating, and there is a...
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Photography Without Povertyporn! Le gasp!
jaded16india:
(Note: I am discussing only a single photograph from the Faces Of Rajasthan series)
I’m used to seeing dusty brown bodies looking sad, fat, poor, frumpy yet existential for the White Eye* behind the camera.
I’m used to female-presenting people looking sad and destitute. Usually crying, looking at the camera.
Snake charmers and painted faces “performing Indian dances”.
So...
More thoughts about 'Breast-Giver'.
jaded16india:
Note: I’m tying this up with the outsourcing of dusty reproductive labour. Devi’s story Stanadayini is available online here.
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I know I spend a lot of time critiquing Victorian texts — though I simultaneously also love them a lot. Don’t even try to decipher that — today I’m having a good day and I want to talk about texts that inspire me to do better and think more.
Devi’s...
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“When a family is struck with tragedy — like the family of Joplin … let’s say if...”
– Eric Cantor explaining why Republicans won’t help natural disaster/Joplin victims without more budget cuts.
Also strangely, he’s describing a situation that argues for Health Care Reform since people don’t have unlimited funds they deserve to die when they run out.
-Joe
(via stfuconservatives)
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Ala. town hit by tornadoes bans FEMA trailers →
miseryxchord:
readnfight:
Capitalism:
CORDOVA, Ala. – James Ruston’s house was knocked off its foundation by tornadoes that barreled through town last month and is still uninhabitable. He thought help had finally arrived when a truck pulled up to his property with a mobile home from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Then he got the call: Single-wide mobile homes, like the FEMA one,...