June 2012
"If you aren't paying for a service, you are the...
theaboveground:
said by one of the May First panelists that I’m at right now.
This idea has come up a lot in my life the past few weeks. And I think it’s interesting that even though I’m a steady internet user and consider myself sophisticated although not a techie, I’m not really all that sure what the implications of this sentence even means.
*How* am I a product? What does that mean? Are my...
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kaash:
woh-battameez:
Best possible bit of being an intern in publishing:
You can say THIS IS A COPY-EDITING EMERGENCY, ALL THE COMMAS ARE OUT OF PLACE and people solemnly nod and give you time to fix it.
If I’d ever want to be a super hero I’d be the girl who KEEPS THE COMMAS IN CHECK.
OF COURSE THAT IS AN EMERGENCY. DO NOT SCARE ME. WHERE IS YOUR CHICAGO MANUAL. AND YOUR COFFEE.
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thesavagesalad:
i’m reading that post about desis and how so many of us are forced to shorten or westernise our names and it got me thinking
for the longest time i always felt like the name i was given was a burden because it was an old school Bengali name where it was wrong and i always felt like i was forced or expected to shorten just so it could convenience others
then one day (when i hit...
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I Hate Turning On The TV And Seeing Little To No...
nuestrahermana:
Let alone women of color.
I hate that you have to go to throwback re-runs for shows that are slightly more fitting of these normal expectations.
It is not irrational to ask for positive representation without tropes & stereotypes of the one sole person of color on the screen.
What messages are our youth of color getting when they don’t regularly or positively see...
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thinkspeakstress:
Can we just recap this?
I write a letter to David Karp addressing racism, sexism, anti-queer bullshit, and his support of it by consistently trying to silence us.
This white dude writes a passive aggressive post about how ~I’m not reblogging because there’s not any proof, and blah blah if she wants more reblogs, she should’ve written it this way…
He comes to my inbox and...
Addressing Health Disparities Among LGBTQ Youth →
fuckyeahfeminists:
STATEMENT FROM ABBE LAND OF THE TREVOR PROJECT
In a resolution passed yesterday by the American Medical Association’s House of Delegates, the premier governing body for medical practitioners in the United States resolved to, “urge social networking platforms to adopt Terms of Service that define and prohibit electronic aggression, which may include any type of harassment or...
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