December 2011
182 posts
“The spiritual life is not about belief or unbelief — it’s all about letting go...”
– Marilyn Sewell (via dewdropsoflove)
Undercover police cleared 'to have sex with... →
notyourkinddear:
tahlalaliaaa:
thesexualintellectual:
anarchyagogo:
Sex was a tool to help officers blend in, the officer claimed, and was widely used as a technique to glean intelligence. His comments contradict claims last week from the Association of Chief Police Officers that operatives were absolutely forbidden to sleep with activists.
The claims follow the unmasking of undercover PC...
I'm not exactly surprised that Hugo Schwyzer is a...
thefremen:
eshusplayground:
But, to Mr. Wise’s credit (and I do have serious issues with his position in anti-racism), he has not tried to murder any Black people.
Or if he did he’s had the good sense to not turn that into a story about how much better he is now that he hasn’t tried to kill any Black people lately.
House on fire.
alexandraerin:
There’s a thing I don’t get about the people who want to ignore racism to focus on classism, claiming that racism is just a tool being used to further class divisions and protect the economic inequalities that the upper classes rely upon…
Imagine your house is on fire. You’re not sure you can get out of it. Your possessions are being destroyed. Your family is in danger. You call...
“Well, I’ve changed the course of music five or six times. What have you done...”
– Miles Davis to Nancy Reagan at a White House dinner in 1987 after she’d inquired as to what he’d done with his life to merit an invitation. source (via marxisforbros)
Eh this is completely wrong. He was actually quite fond of the Reagans. It was at a White House dinner however. Here is what...
“You don’t fight fire with fire. You fight fire with water. We’re gonna fight...”
– Fred Hampton, later murdered by the Chicago PD. (via loveandzombies)
“Employee rights are said to be valid when employers pressure employees into...”
– Ron Paul, Freedom Under Siege: The U.S. Constitution After 200-Plus Years (1987), pg. 16
Are you getting sexually harassed at work? That’s your problem. Quit.
Is Ron Paul done yet?
(via mohandasgandhi)
Add this to the list of reasons why Ron Paul deserves no one’s support.
(via ladyatheist)
“Disdain for “political correctness” is often positioned as a concern that some...”
– by Tami at whattamisaid.com
i am so tired of people saying they’re not pc like it makes them cool and edgy.
(via komboloi)
i. fucking. hate. the. term. politically correct.
like, okay, you not being an oppressive asshole is NOT a political thing. IT IS A NOT-AN-ASS THING.
(via sexxxisbeautiful)
“Visionary feminism is a wise and loving politics. It is rooted in the love of...”
– Bell Hooks (via wearethedescendantsofstars)
“Modern schools and universities push students into habits of depersonalized...”
– Arthur Evans (via stellablu)
Milkee Mountain Mama: jhameia: popularmechanic:... →
milkeemountainmama:
jhameia:
jhameia:
popularmechanic:
jhameia:
““That connection to real-world Asian cultures and Asian history has been there from the very beginning of the series,” Yang said. In the original television show, the Japanese fire nation was defeated; the graphic novel will pick up where the…
OK here is the master post of leaked pages from The Promise!!!!
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jhameia:
milkeemountainmama:
soliloquize:
jhameia:
popularmechanic:
jhameia:
popularmechanic:
jhameia:
““That connection to real-world Asian cultures and Asian history has been there from the very beginning of the series,” Yang said. In the original television show, the Japanese fire nation was defeated; the graphic novel will pick up where the series ended, exploring how the four...
“[Child sexual abuse, trauma, eating problems.]
Sexual violation can alter a...”
– Becky Thompson, A Hunger So Wide and So Deep: A Multiracial View of Women’s Eating Problems, p.47. (via quixotess)
milkeemountainmama:
the-bitterist:
midwestmountainmama:
ok, ONE LAST THING I SWEAR SWEAR TRIPLE SWEAR. AND THEN THAT’S IT.
i’m saying it here instead of feministe, because it will never be heard there.
i just hope that people don’t depoliticize WHY mr wound himself up a prominent member of the online feminist community. it wasn’t simply that people didn’t know about him and one day he...
milkeemountainmama:
ok, so the thing i want to make visible. remember how angry the *F*eminists were about anybody who defended julian asange? to the point there was a big fight on democracy now! between naomi wolf and jaclyn friedman over how stupid naomi was to be defending a rapist?
ok, but here we sit now, with many of those same *F*eminists who went on the rampage against asange now...
dialecticsofnature:
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White Supremacy + Autism
liquornspice:
Here’s an excerpt from a NYTimes piece (Navigating Love and Autism) about a young man with Asperger’s Syndrome:
A chemistry whiz, he had spent much of his adolescence teaching himself to make explosives and setting them off in the woods in experiments that he hoped would earn him a patent but that instead led the state police and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and...
liquornspice:
Somebody is going to reblog that post and say, “This is outrageous! Cops need more training to know how to respond to people with autism and other disabilities.” To which I will respond, “SHUT THE FUCK UP” because that is the opposite of the point. To say cops just need better training is missing the point and racist and wrong and MORE WRONG ON TOP OF THAT.
Cops do not need more...
Nearly as bad as "non-otherkin privilege"
the-bitterist:
freibiergesicht:
TW for discussion of abuse
galesofnovember:
lilacturtl:
The concept of “ableism” being trotted out to condemn women for calling a self-described narcissist sociopath a narcissistic sociopath. In all seriousness, if we cannot differentiate between mental illness (ie schizophrenia, PTSD) and CHARACTER/personality disorder (sociopathy, narcissism) then why...
ethiopienne:
are we still on this bootstrap shit?
talldarkbishoujo:
Regarding this financial aid wank going around my dash:
I’ve worked in FA off and on for like, the last 5 or so years (most recently as an FA counselor at a for-profit, at least until I moved back east and became funemployed) and quite honestly the average person has no fucking clue how higher ed financing works in the...
Well...a tiny bit on Clarisse and Hugo
midwestmountainmama:
notyourkinddear:
fresafresca:
I read this defense of Hugo Schwyzer by Clarisse Thorne over at Role/Reboot, and what strikes me most, is her general indignation that people don’t trust him. The post struck me as scoldy and high-handed and it’s unfortunate because I don’t think she is making a distinction between people that may have threatened violence towards her or...
“Real women have curves” was a marketing slogan thought up to sell people...”
– Job Number One; Destroying the Paradigm, Not Shifting It. (via wallofbooks, feministslut)
Actually, Real Women Have Curves is the title of a play written by a Latina addressing the racism against Mexican/Mexican American/Chicana women and girls and how it plays out in every aspect of their lives,...
blackamazon:
“@evajackie I hope u can read english, because your magazine is a poor representation of the evolution of human rights! I find you disrespectful, and rather desperate!! You ran out of legit, civilized information to print! There are 1000’s of Dutch girls who would love to be recognized for their contributions to your country, you could have given them an article. Instead, u paid to...
come on up to the house: Feminist blogging and... →
quixotess:
blackamazon:
redlightpolitics:
Yesterday I raised my ethical concerns about a White woman writing an academic paper involving the struggles of Women of Color in the feminist blogosphere. I asked:
Would it be ethical if a White woman bases an academic dissertation on the struggles of feminist Women…
Oh my god
SERIOUSLY AGAIN?!?!
A FUCKING GAIN
Oh Christ, here we go. Adding...
quixotess:
Oh, Feministe. Or, we like Hugo Schwyzer more than we like you - even if he tried to murder his ex-girlfriend.
notyourkinddear:
quixotess:
isabelthespy:
missvoltairine:
galesofnovember:
icewomancometh:
Feministe hosted an interview with a male “feminist” and former sexual predator who’s publicly admitted to making an attempt on his ex-lover’s life (for her own good,...
“It was not gender discrimination or sexist oppression that kept privileged women...”
– bell hooks - Where We Stand: Class Matters (via fivedollarradio)
bam!!!!!! which brings me to white, elitist latinamerican feminism. pushing novelas about highly-skilled, uber-educated white latinas wanting to have equal standing and power with their fellow elite white men. still the focus is “but...
so, reformed abusers
desliz:
I was going to post a personal account, but realized I am not ready to do that. So here’s some bullet points:
1. Many modern feminists are terrified of being classed as man-hating, prudish dykes, so there is a tendency to fawn over “reformed” men and “male feminists”. It is not surprising that many of the men who insert themselves into these spaces tend to be excellent manipulators and...
midwestmountainmama:
Oh, Feministe. Or, we like Hugo Schwyzer more than we like you - even if he tried to murder his ex-girlfriend.
notyourkinddear:
quixotess:
isabelthespy:
missvoltairine:
galesofnovember:
icewomancometh:
Feministe hosted an interview with a male “feminist” and former sexual predator who’s publicly admitted to making an attempt on his ex-lover’s life (for her own...
jhameia:
An Indian Inventor Disrupts The Period Industry
When Arunachalam Muruganantham decided he was going to do something about the fact that women in India can’t afford sanitary napkins, he went the extra mile: He wore his own for a week to figure out the best design.
…
Analyzing branded napkins at laboratories led to Muruganantham’s first breakthrough. “I found out that...
sourcedumal:
thedailywhat:
International Incident of the Day: The Editor-in-Chief of the Dutch fashion magazine Jackie was forced to learn the hard way that it’s not a good idea to approve an article that calls Rihanna the N-word.
In a piece entitled “De Niggabitch,” one of Jackie’s staff writers attempted to offer Dutch women tips on how to look like Rihanna — “the ultimate niggabitch.”
In...
quixotess:
midwestmountainmama:
blackamazon:
So.
Remember when someone went really hard at me an a loved one about ” their hard work ” at feministe/ing and how they shouldn’t be erased and how HARD their position was and how they HOPED we “lost” social justice cause they were being denied their something or other ?
So now we have a book on dating and a site that is SO OUT OF TOUCH...
“White anthropologists claim that Indians have “primitive” and therefore...”
– gloria anzaldua (via papercupmixmaster)