January 2012
A white man is called "Cracker" by a black man.
dingraha:
The word hits him like a saltine underhand-tossed into a lake of whole milk. He feels nothing inside. He does not suddenly call to mind the centuries of injustice and cruelty people like him have suffered, because people like him have not suffered centuries of injustice and cruelty. He does not feel threatened, or like violence will be perpetrated upon him (anymore than he usually does...
Just saying.
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
foxtalbotnegatives:
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
foxtalbotnegatives:
Just to start: discrimination resulting from experience =/= discrimination resulting from prejudice. That Malcom X quote about reverse-racism sums it up. If anyone following me hasn’t learned to make that distinction, now’s the time. I’m about to do some talking, but DTWPS’ thoughts about this are...
When Cylons Dream: Trans Socialization →
amydentata:
life-in-neon:
whencylonsdream:
Gonna be another one of my rants~ so we’ll see where this goes. Also note that this is all my personal experience, and if it’s similar to yours that’s great, but if not then that’s okay too.
Basically I’ve noticed how a bunch of people want to say CAMAB trans people have experienced male…
Whenever I talk about my early life, I talk about how my...
“The 70,000 women who die annually as a result of unsafe abortion didn’t just die...”
– The complacency over unsafe abortions must end (via guardiancomment)
Or because “they deserved it” for daring to enact control over their own bodies and livelihoods.
(via stfuconservatives)
“Society has a problem with female nudity when it is not … ”—Badu pauses to get...”
– Erykah Badu: June/July Cover Story [Pg 1] | VIBE (via feminishblog)