April 2012
“If you put people in a cage, don’t be upset that they won’t let you in.”
— A.J. Perna, concerning in-groups, subcultures, privilege, and colonialism. (via jellyfish-dance)
wouldnt it be nice if animal crossing was our reality
all we’d have to do is live in a cute town filled with animals and do things like digging and fishing and shaking trees all day
and we could go visit our friends towns and out and maybe chop all their trees down
finally unfollowed feminishblog
can’t deal with her shit anymore
oh my gawd
So I just want to let you know that everything you say about feminism and racism finally clicked today with me. Up until now, I hadn't felt oppressed as a woman, or quite understood derailing by those who are privileged, but I had a conversation with my boyfriend today where he completely disregarded my personal feelings that only I could have as a woman to point out his own. As un-fun as the situation was, we're okay now, and I learned a serious life lesson. I just thought you'd appreciate this
Oh man! It sucks that you had to deal with a situation like that, but it is great that it helped you sort of realize something important about the situation of women in our culture! I hope this sparks more learning about gender equality and oppression in general - if you ever have any questions, my askbox is always open! Thanks for this message. <3
SIGN AND REBLOG: EPA: Don't Sacrifice Navajo Water for Uranium Mining →
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The Colorado Plateau of New Mexico still bears the unhealed sores of the Uranium Boom of the last century – radioactive waste piles, contaminated water and hundreds of mines on Navajo land abandoned by companies looking to make a quick profit. Despite the massive contamination, companies want to start a new era of mining in this region.
I know this because I am Diné (Navajo) and live in Church Rock, New Mexico - only yards away from a proposed new uranium mine. As a resident and former miner, I have experienced the effects of uranium exploitation first-hand. Many of my relatives and neighbors, including myself, have suffered health problems due to working at or living near the mines. In fact, one study has found that cancer rates among Navajo living near mine tailings are 17 times higher than the national average.
Knowing the inherent risks of this industry, I am concerned about the long-term effects and threats to the safety and health of our people, our water, and local plants and animals. An elementary school sits near the proposed uranium processing plant and I am concerned about the safety of my community.
Stop Whitewashing: They Whitewashed a Black Pilot. Really? →
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Stop Whitewashing: This is an email my mama sent me earlier today. I apologize for not knowing where this originally came from. If any of you have information on where this originated, please let us know.
DID YOU KNOW?
Subject: FW: Sins of Omission
BLACK PILOT ON 9/11!!!! NOT IN THE NEWS!!
How many knew about the black pilot who crashed his plane in Shanksville, PA Sept 11, 2011?
Maybe not his name or history, but just knew that the pilot was an educated black man who was married and a father. The short bio below will bring us all up to date as to who he was. We should all know and care!
LeRoy Homer, Jr.
In September, America marked the 10th Anniversary of 9/11. A tragedy that seems as if it only happened a short while ago. One thing that some people might observe and question is what the impact of 9/11 was on African Americans who bravely gave their lives for our country. The majority of 9/11 media focus has been on white families and white children.
Leroy Wilton Homer Jr. was an African-American first officer operating the flight that tragically fell in an act of terrorism in Shanksville, PA on Sept. 11, 2001. Pilot Homer’s plane was the 4th attacked that day.
The Long Island, New York native dreamed of flying as a child. He was only 15 years old when he started flight instruction in a Cessna 152. By the time he was 18, Homer had obtained his private pilot’s license. That same year, he joined the Air Force and became a second lieutenant. He served in Operations Desert Storm and Desert Shield and later supported efforts in Somalia . During his tenure, Homer was named the 21st Air Force Air Crew Instructor of the Year. Homer achieved the rank of captain before his honorable discharge from active duty in 1995.
For his actions on board Flight 93, Homer received many posthumous awards and citations, including honorary membership in the historic Tuskegee Airmen, the Congress Of Racial Equality’s (CORE) Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Award, the SCLCDrum Major for Justice Award and the Westchester County Trailblazer Award.
Ironically, Homer was depicted by a white actor in the film, United 93, the drama that told the story of the passengers and crew, their families on the ground and the flight controllers on the day of the attacks.
Homer is survived by his wife, Melodie, and daughter, Laurel.
Time magazine last week published Beyond 9/11: Portraits of Resilience, a photo-rich commemorative edition dedicated to 9/11’s 10th anniversary. No identifiable African Americans are pictured in its 64 pages.
America just does not get it. There are two kinds of sins: sins of omission and sins of permission. Let’s acknowledge and honor LeRoy Homer, Jr. for outstanding accomplishments and heroic deeds. Let’s not permit society to ignore this fallen hero. Please share this message with your family and friends.
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OMG YOU GUYS
I found out today that I’m like 36% European! Like, I don’t know what group or whatever for sure, but my mom thinks we are probablyGerman! She thinks that because her like great-great-great grandmother always made really good chocolate cake. (YOU KNOW, GERMANS ARE FAMOUS FOR THEIR GERMAN CHOCOLATE CAKE!!)
I think we might even be part of an ancient royal line. HOW COOL IS THAT???
I can even speak some phrases from my European language:
“Je suis tres jolie”
LOLLOLOLOL IT MEANS IM PRETTY
I’m just SO German.
Let me make one thing abundantly clear.
I’m cis, but I’m a rape survivor. And let me make one thing abundantly clear.
You fuck with trans* women survivors, you are fucking with my sisters. And nobody fucks with my family on my watch.
If you are a cis woman that believes cis women are incapable of rape and abuse, and believes that trans* women don’t experience rape and abuse at our hands, take a fucking seat and look in a goddamn mirror (if you can even see your own reflection). Because that rape culture you’re always decrying?
You are part and parcel of it. You create it and you perpetuate it with every hateful and sociopathic attack on trans* women and dismissal of their pain. You can not purport to love and support women yet abuse trans* women. This is abuse, what’s going on. It is abuse of the deepest and most heinous magnitude. You are re-victimizing these women every time you do this.
And I do not have the words to express my contempt for you. I rebuke you with everything I have. You are soulless and you do not have a place in this world.
“This is a pretty common perception of White Identity that should definitely be talked about more. Nobody wants to be left out of shit, but the fact that Whites literally cannot handle it (while other races put up with it day-in/day-out) and feel personally attacked when excluded from Non-White safe-spots tells you 1. how rarely White people experience someone excluding them based on skin color and 2. how completely White culture has failed to provide tools for sharing space, instead teaching Whites that all space is White space (“because all space is space for everyone”, a perception Whites share with no one).”
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WELP!
(via sourcedumal)
- male character: i made a mistake
- fandom: oh you poor misunderstood soul
- female character: i made a mistake
- fandom: WANTON MISTRESS OF THE NIGHT, RETURN TO THE SHADOWS FROM WHENCE YOU CAME, THIS IS NO PLACE FOR YOUR SELFISHNESS PLEASE GO BACK TO YOUR HOME ON WHORE ISLAND
What grades determine:
- Your ability to memorize mostly useless things
- Your ability to regurgitate information in the way others want you to
- Your ability to understand what adults want from you and give it to them
- Your tolerance for working on tasks you don’t find useful because others want you to do them or believe them to be helpful/socially acceptable
What grades do NOT determine:
- Your intelligence
- Your creativity
- Your emotional capabilities
- Your likeliness to succeed
- Whether you’re a good person
Things that don’t make you a bad person:
- Drinking alcohol responsibly
- Doing drugs recreationally
- Eating Meat
- Abstaining from drinking alcohol, doing drugs or eating meat
Things that make you a bad person:
- Condemning someone for their life choices
I like that this includes everything :) particularly eating meat!
Add “having sex, casual or otherwise” to that top list, too
im outside
whats it like
can you send me a link
make some gifs
Just a question. On your blog, you do some talking about how the objectification of women is a bad thing. But at the same time, you post pictures of women in ways that seem, to me at least, to objectify their subjects (of course, one might wonder if photography is a medium that inherently objectifies its subject). I was wondering if that's something you've thought about. On a completely unrelated note, the phrase anti-pro-ana is just fun to say.
Hey there! Okay, that is a totally valid question, and it’s something that confused me a lot when I first got into gender equality stuff.
There’s a difference between objectification and sexualization. A woman presenting herself in a sexual way is different than a woman being objectified. Objectification mainly occurs in the media, when photoshoots, etc. are usually coordinated by men and created with the intent of commodifying and presenting women in a way that is appealing to the male gaze.
Non-commercial photographs of women presenting themselves sexually (i.e. the kinds of pictures people post on Tumblr and the kinds of pictures I reblog) are a whole different ball game! For a girl to take a picture of herself and post it on the internet is a sex-positive, self-loving thing! There is an entirely different modus operandi behind an ad campaign featuring women in bikinis to sell Budweiser, and a girl taking a picture of herself in panties and thigh-highs because she thinks she looks pretty and sexy.
George Zimmerman forgot to tell his lawyer about his PayPal donations
- $150,000 the amount George Zimmerman’s bond was set at when he was released last week after a contentious bond hearing
- $200,000 the amount George Zimmerman had in PayPal donations sitting around at the time of that hearing; it wasn’t mentioned at all source
» Trayvon’s lawyer wants his bond revoked: A few weeks back, when George Zimmerman was having lawyer trouble, he put up a Web site asking publicly for donations, complete with a PayPal link. People donated in the hundreds of dollars to Zimmerman’s legal fund. According to his lawyer, Mark O’Mara, Zimmerman didn’t inform him of the donations until this week, and they’re now under his authority. That said, Zimmerman will most assuredly need the funds — O’Mara’s normal rate is $400 per hour, and he’s already worked 100 hours on the case. Do the math on that one, guys. This morning, the judge in the case asked to learn more information on how this happened, while the lawyers for Trayvon’s family say that during the bond hearing, Zimmerman and his lawyer acted as though “that they did not have any money.” Lots of drama here.
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wow.
murderers of black children get $200k in support.
as perfectly decent people starve.
that bounty,
when youre black, you cant claim it for another black body. we dont get rewards for killing each other. but everyone else does for killing us. anti-blackness is so profitable.
ANTI-BLACKNESS IS PROFITABLE.
THIS IS NOT THE ONLY TIME PEOPLE HAVE BEEN PAID TO HATE, HURT, AND EXCLUDE BLACK PEOPLE.
