February 2012
432 posts
baddominicana:
thatmuchlove:
13 Year Old Jada Williams Persecuted by the Rochester City School District Over her essay on Frederick Douglass.
ai-yo:
jumpstart-therevolution:
theafrosistuh:
beautifulbrwn:
“On Saturday, February 18, 2012, the Frederick Douglass Foundation of New York presented the first Spirit of Freedom award to Jada Williams, a 13-year old city of Rochester...
daniellemertina:
Minorities Are More Generous Than Whites, Study Finds
vampirefinch:
unaguerrasinfondo:
baddominicana:
note-a-bear:
baddominicana:
darling80m:
This isn’t news, and especially not to those from communities of color, but it’s good to share:
W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF) released a new report, “Cultures of Giving: Energizing and Expanding Philanthropy by and for...
Deaf student may not be able to graduate with... →
iamateenagefeminist:
iamateenagefeminist:
iamateenagefeminist:
This is taking place at my school and I am furious. Under the American with Disabilities Act any school district (with the exception of a deaf school) that hires her will have to provide an interpreter. It’s ridiculous that the school is not allowing her to have an interpreter in the classroom when she will have one while she is...
The Bechdel Test and Race in Popular Fiction
poemsofthedead:
grrspit:
poemsofthedead:
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
ai-yo:
crystalsavestheday:
1. It has to have two POC in it.
2. Who talk to each other.
3. About something other than a white person.
No Joss Whedon show passes, neither does Supernatural, or Being Human.
Veronica Mars passes, but doesn’t pass the original Bechdel Test.
Check out a few more here.
Neither does...
“In my house this year we are celebrating the feast of Kwanza, the...”
– Audre Lorde ([1977] 1980) ‘The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action.’ in The Cancer Journals. Aunt Lute Books, p. 22.
Feministx quoted six words from this essay in their open-letter(?)/manifesta(?)/thing. This selection shows just how thoroughly appropriators of Audre Lorde have to...
finished reading book 2 of the hunger games
searchingforknowledge:
milkeemountainmama:
verdict: again, very good—again lots of nit pick irritations w/plot line—but over all a good book.
HAVING SAID THAT. I really liked katniss as a character for the first book and about half of the second book.
THEN—when she’s going on and on and on and on with *just not getting that there is something deeper than her* happening at the quell...
“When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds...”
– bell hooks (via ohmenver)
And that’s horrible. Commitment is not widely understood anymore.
(via daniellemertina)
The more you know...
liquornspice:
alexandraerin:
daniellemertina:
liquornspice:
Somebody informed me that Billy Crystal has BEEN doing blackface impersonations practically his whole career. Did em all the time on SNL.
So, just fyi…minstrelsy never went away. People build their careers off of it. Networks have built institutions off of it.
Denigrating Black people never stopped being profitable and popular....
daniellemertina:
baddominicana:
lotus-eyes:
are you tired of whiny misogynistic racist white men complaining about their pathetic lonely lives and then being called the greatest poets and writers and what not
me too
for real. i know why no one likes you!
hehe this sums up the widely accepted canon of American literature.
reblog if i'm allowed to go to your ask box and be...
My brother knows racism before he's even 16. Fuck...
sourcedumal:
thegoddamazon:
queerhairyvag:
Welp! That’s great! Gonna rant now! AS USUAL WHAT ELSE IS NEW
Before he was 8, things were fine and dandy and he’s a happy adorable snotrag!
He isin’t treated any differently and if he is, he’s too young to notice at the time.
He’s 10. He’s talented at creating animation and draws like a pro.
Early primary school; things are fine but he feels...
“Have you ever wondered to yourself why it is that all people like me seem to...”
– Jamaica Kinkaid - A Small Place
Currently reading.
(via abudai)
asthma attacks are NO JOKE
never happened to me before this weekend and DAMN. i thought i had a ranking of symptoms i hated when sick (GI/ vomiting ones being high up there) but not being able to breathe???? takes the cake.
Feminist X: We are a group of established feminist... →
afrodiaspores:
feministx:
We are a group of established feminist activists, educators, writers, bloggers and lecturers. We are speaking out as the result of the behaviour and posts coming from some of the online feminist community, which we view as unhealthy for the movement. After some thoughtful consideration, we can…
The unconscionable appropriation of Audre Lorde has already been noted...
“We need to look @ the history of the Oscars more closely. My mother was the...”
– Chicana Feliz (via lenxo) (via nezua) (via erespielmorena) (via eggplantavenger) (via isabelthespy) (via jhameia)
“Angela Davis, Assata Shakur, and Elaine Brown, each at different points in their...”
– Why Misogynists Make Great Informants: How Gender Violence on the Left Enables State Violence in Radical Movements « INCITE! Blog (via shoulders)
(via sophiologist)
observe how the men involved in the civil rights movement cared ALL about their racial oppression, but dished out their own...
Women's rally in Karachi declared to be "the... →
suzy-x:
This past Sunday, February 19, 2012, something new happened at Bagh-e-Jinnah. Women, hundreds of thousands (by some estimates close to a million) of them, poured into the park. They came from all the nooks and crannies of Karachi, from the fetid slums where sewage gushes between tiny hovels, from cramped apartments in teeming suburbs, from stately mansions by the sea. They came in...
poemsofthedead:
dingane1:
most white people with dreadlocks do so to be counter culture/hippie not realizing that counter culture significance dreadlocks (that white folk appropriated from black folk) is about black folk rebelling against the white supremacist culture.
its ours.
it pisses me off as a black person from the us off not immigrant stock we have so much of what was ours destroyed...
Cultural Appropriation: Dreadlocks
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
curiouslycool:
racismschool:
Are Dreadlocks really cultural appropriation?
YES
Here’s why:
Dreadlocks originated first with Jamaican Rastafarians and then in Indian Sages and Yogis. Specifically it was started by holy men. These men renounced all of their worldly belongings (Including combs) and as a result their hair started (and remained) to turn into dreadlocks....
woh-battameez:
anedumacation:
woh-battameez:
I know I talk a tough game against Gandhi, and usually have a list ready on why was he such a ridiculous person, can tell you exactly why his shit is so problematic.
But, when I’m back home, and nani, mum or my sister are talking about Gandhi — I just can’t talk.
While reading my grandmum’s journals that detail her life as a young swadeshi...
Ugh.
thesavagesalad:
woh-battameez:
thesavagesalad:
bantamblarg:
juthikaforpresident:
Gandhi is not India.
Gandhi was not a perfect man. He tried to freed India, but he wasn’t the only one.
The Indian uprising was filled with tons of bloody revolts, outright massacres (Jallanwalia Bagh, anyone?), and it was not only non-violence that got freedom from India. Gandhi succeeded where others...
Searching for Knowledge: [trigger warning:... →
fromonesurvivortoanother:
indigofer:
missvoltairine:
golden-zephyr:
In a February 12 interview on Canal Plus TV, François Hollande, Socialist Party candidate for president in the upcoming elections, proposed as a “solution” to the presence in France of Roma European Union…
Why I won't be reblogging Janet Hubert's letter to...
sourcedumal:
poemsofthedead:
I read it, and I agree with it all in theory because I know that it comes from a place of love and that what it is saying is good advice we should all try to live by.
But this is a letter from a Black woman to a Black woman about an intra-Black issue (i.e. how some Black women talk about other Black women, how some Black women build a career by intentionally...
"Grow your Scallions back on your Windowsill" →
msmsmedley:
daniellemertina:
stfuconfederates:
Oh for fuck’s sake, if people don’t stop using the word ‘Caucasian’ when referring to white people I’m going to rename my blog Caucasiandoesnotfuckingmeanwhite.
‘Caucasian’ is a (racist) term incorrectly applied to white people when white people found actual Caucasian skulls (in, you know, Caucasia) which were perfectly shaped and assumed that they belonged...
karnythia:
So like a lot of my followers I read this post & laughed at the wonderful take down of some incredibly racist and stupid questions. But it made me wonder (and not for the first time) about the people who read the blogs of marginalized people. I often wonder, if when we blog about political issues & interests whether or not all the people reading are aware that our...
“And do not think you shouldn’t be standing on that chair, shouting ‘I AM A...”
– Caitlin Moran (via alysinw0nderland)
no, what will happen is I will kick him in the bits because I’ve yet to meet one ‘male feminist’ who wasn’t a manipulative misogynist wanker. this quote rly upsets me, because it’s bullshit; leaving aside whether men can call themselves feminists (they could if...
milkeemountainmama:
note-a-bear:
Qinhara Nalinay: trans* identities and kyriarchy
leonineantiheroine:
qinhara:
also, yeah, i was angry at you and other people for being so oppressive about transabled and transethnic identities. i am angry at a lot of people, at the general ~consensus~ as it seems to be, to have this instant reaction of oppressive revulsion and anger. i don’t think it’s...
“Dream Hampton explained to me about how this is a time when women are fighting...”
– Rapper Too $hort being accountable to the backlash surrounding his “fatherly advice” in XXL Magazine.
#Babysteps
(via unapproachableblackchicks)
Woooooow. Is this really where the average dude is at in terms of awareness? This is scary. But I guess it’s good folks are learning?
(via...
