May 2012
36 posts
Half-conscious crabby Jew whine (don't' read this...
hobbit-hero:
arielnietzsche:
machistado:
Trying to improve relations between Muslims and Jews is one of the most frustrating jobs known to man, particularly since the Palestinian issue isn’t fundamentally about religion at all.
Mizrahi (Middle Eastern) Jews really got fucked and I mean hard. The hatred I receive from Ashkenazi (European) Jews daily is pretty astounding and not just because...
Why I perform abortions: A Christian obstetrician... →
bebinn:
tresfuegos:
Willie J. Parker, an obstetrician based in Washington, D.C., didn’t always perform abortions. He’s a Christian from Birmingham, Ala., who initially refused to even consider the procedure.
But about halfway into his 20-year career, he changed his mind. Now, he’s one of those rare doctors who is willing to push the limits and provide abortions at 24 weeks of pregnancy. That...
WikiLeaks: U.S. troops Handcuffed Children and... →
mehreenkasana:
verbalresistance:
anticapitalist:
According to a diplomatic cable published by WikiLeaks, U.S. troops willfully massacred an Iraqi family in the town of Ishaqi in 2006, handcuffing and then shooting 11 people in the head including a woman in her 70′s and five children ages five and under.
McClatchy is reporting that the soldiers then called in an air strike on the house to...
“If we shared more than bought, there’d be a lot less profit to go around — but...”
– What Pinterest Taught Me About Marriage as a Capitalist Prison | Slacktory | This seems legit. (via sociolab)
Great article.
Six Years of D.C. Murders, Mapped →
latinegrasexologist:
what this map wont tell you is the number of trans women of Color who are murdered in dc. our nation’s capital is not safe for trans women of Color (much like most of the US and world)
Disturbing, yet deeply unsurprising.
Why "Love Your Body" Is A Problematic Dictate
therotund:
Marianne, I follow a lot of your stuff and I’ve read your book, but I don’t think I understand why the “love your body” rhetoric is problematic. If you have the time and inclination, could you please elaborate?
aenaithia
I definitely can!
There’s a lot of good intention behind the “love your body” rhetoric. It’s very much coming from a place where people want to feel good about...
My father just smashed my laptop. I need to get...
anedumacation:
the-linja:
Backstory: a few weeks ago, I accepted an internship with the DC Center for LGBT Resources. My father found out, threatened to kick me out if I did it, and basically raged on and on for a while. My flight to DC is on May 24th, and I’m pretty sure my father was going to keep me from catching it.
Just now, he came into my room and yelled at my brother for playing...
Ms. Jamie Keiles: Contribute to my New Queer... →
catladysoul:
So there are several feminist publications out there right now — I even contribute to some of them! But none of them are very specifically queer and feminist and talk about fashion, specifically, and not in that ‘groundbreaking’ way that discusses how fashion can be feminist….
“Do your skinny jeans fit? Is your skin glowing? Are you retaining water? I...”
– Fallen Princess: Please Stop Talking About Your Diet
Yes. Yes YES. and a Million TIMES YES.
Please read the entire thing. She nails it.
NOTE: For me, this is not about what people write on their own blogs about what is important to them and personal, because I’m fine with that, I don’t have to...
“I am an unapologetic marriage abolitionist, which means that I believe that the...”
– Alexis Pauline Gumbs (via feministquotes)
All of this. Omg every single bit.
(via genderbitch)
preach.
(via sssupercovennn)
Word. It’s like, I think it’s fucking ridiculous that same-sex marriage is not allowed in massive chunks of the US, but I don’t like the institution of marriage as it...
“I find myself searching the eyes of each person I meet and asking the following...”
– For Femmes of Colour Who Rose Too Early & Set Too Soon - Kim Crosby
Kim Crosby hails from Trinidad & Tobago, but is made of the fabric and texture of the many places she has worked. Kim is a published creative writer, and as a spoken word artist was invited to the stage as part of the...
starvedforjustice:
Petition to Stop the ISPs From Spying on our Download Content
anedumacation:
queernonymoose:
ORIGINALLY FROM MANGACAT201 ON LIVEJOURNAL. PLEASE REBLOG AND SIGN THE PETITION:
“All U.S. Internet Providers will be policing downloads by July 12, 2012
Seriously. WHAT THE FLYING FUCK WORLD. “File-sharers, beware: By July 12, major US Internet service providers (ISPs) will...
“Way back in the mid-1990s — when Wired announced that we’re living in an...”
– Douglas Rushkoff, Media theorist/ author (via rethinkcapitalism)
Interesting.
“I don’t owe the world a thin body in exchange for their acknowledgement and...”
–
Laci Green.
(via yourlittlespells)
<333
from How I Lost 35 Lbs. (for good)
This video is a giant pile of weird contradictions, that makes me simultaneously love Laci Green, and be annoyed by Laci Green. I care a lot about my health. But I don’t owe the world a healthy body, any...
Truths for Fat People
femmesandfamily:
written by a fat person.
You are beautiful. Not always and not to everyone, but we are all beautiful and deserving of love.
You do not have justify your body to anyone. Not to your family, your friends, your doctor, your partners. It is your body. No one else’s.
You are allowed to take up space. Use the world around you to your advantage. Be present in the world in as...
grrrlsaredudestoo:
rusty—shackleford:
einsteinonacid:
connectthedots:
einsteinonacid:
ineedtogetpaid:
i thought LGBT was a sandwich
Lettuce, Glitter, Bacon, Tomato?
I always order an LGBT but I only ever get Lettuce Glitter and Bacon.
Yeah me too, actually… Plus it’s only ever on white bread?
oh sweet jesus the bolded
I can’t even deal
Step 190: Go to grad school for the right reasons
adulting:
Y’ALL! It is time for a Very Special Guest Entry, so circle up.
Sometimes, you read someone’s blog, and then realize that there is no point in your continuing to blog, since this person has so obviously shut the blogging game down.
That’s about how I feel about Yes and Yes, the project of one Ms. Sarah Von Bargen. This blog has just about everything one could...
“Some have a difficult time with feminism. “Why not a human liberation movement?”...”
– Loraine Hutchins and Lani Kaahumanu, Bi Any Other Name. (via valjeans)
Reblogging in part for the quote, but also because this book, which I read in high school, was incredibly formative for me. I have two copies — one with my notes and annotations, and an autographed one a former partner...
i'll give you wut4: Happy May Day! →
wut4:
Into the streets May First! Into the roaring Square! Shake the midtown towers! Shatter the downtown air! Come with a storm of banners, Come with an earthquake tread, Bells, hurl out of your belfries, Red flag, leap out your red! Out of the shops and factories, Up with the sickle and…
“Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our...”
– Howard Zinn (via mynameskatetoday)
Words to live by. Apathy and inaction are the greatest sins. R.I.P. Zinn.
(via runslikefatbear)
April 2012
72 posts
shit i apparently say now
me: i don't like him. he has a really reductive understanding of identity politics.
ihaveabsolutelynoidea:
legitimate criticisms of feminism:
-transmisogyny and the lack of inclusion of transwomen
-the racist history behind it and the lack of inclusion of woc
-ignoring and invalidating women with disabilities
-pretty much anything that falls under lack of intersectionality
-internalized misogyny and girl hate
-promotion of political lesbianism
-radscum
illegitimate...
“But at the same time, it was awful to worship at the altar of self-loathing, of...”
– Jenny Zhang, “Other Girls,” Rookie magazine (via amillionparachutes)
“So if you – the oppressed – hurt someone’s feelings, you’re just like the...”
– » The Revolution Will Not Be Polite: The Issue of Nice versus Good Social Justice League (via lookoutsideyourself)
TRANS COUCHSURFING NETWORK - PLEASE SIGNAL BOOST... →
zedweiller:
transcouchnetwork:
Hi! I just started a tumblr, the Transgender Couchsurfing Network. After seeing dozens of posts come across my dash about displaced or homeless trans people needing places to crash, I decided that there had to be a way to organize these posts somehow, and to put those in need in contact with those willing to lend a hand. If you’re trans and need a place to...
“The reality is that fat people are often supported in hating their bodies, in...”
– Lesley Kinzel (via curvesahead)
I will always reblog this because it is so so important.
(via infinitetransit)
I finished reading Lesley’s new book, if anyone local would like to borrow it? It’s sort of a cross between FA things and memoir.
“Equality is not a concept. It’s not something we should be striving for. It’s a...”
– Joss Whedon (via antisocial-socialist)
“Most of the time our autobiographical memories and beliefs match up - we...”
– BPS Research Digest: Psychologists create non-believed memories in the laboratory (via wildcat2030)
Yup. I have a very strong memory of seeing my baby brother in the hospital — what I saw, the room, my brother, what I thought, everything. Even disregarding the fact that I was two and two...
“We want to construct a new world with you, where peace and truth will reign, we...”
– La Voix Des Femmes, socialist feminist paper, March 1848 (via nowletsmoveon)
b-k-o-b:
“Slut” is just the weirdest insult ever.
How does it even work?
“You do the thing that is responsible for not only both of our lives but collectively our entire species and many of the species of life I can think of right now. Not only that, but you do this act often. And you like it.”
Did you…..did you win?