February 2012
23 posts
“The word neko, of course, means “cat,” although it can also revealingly mean...”
– When Cats Reigned Like Kings: On the Trail of the Sacred Cats, by Georgie Anne Geyer (via kuroneko893)
List of Books Banned in AZ
urbanafrofuturism:
adailyriot:
Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years (1998) by B. Bigelow and B. Peterson The Latino Condition: A Critical Reader (1998) by R. Delgado and J. Stefancic Critical Race Theo…ry: An Introduction (2001) by R. Delgado and J. Stefancic Pedagogy of the Oppressed (2000) by P. Freire United States Government : Democracy in Action (2007) by R. C. Remy ...
golden-zephyr:
sallyjessyrofl:
nilecrocodile:
really what is the deal with people appropriating gypsy and Native American culture
you can be a white person and run around barefoot wearing scarves and bangles and live in a tent and make jewelry and be in tune with mother nature or whatever it’s called being a hippie
you’re not a gypsy
you’re not a native american
you’re a hippie
get over...
What were you raised by wolves?
A beautiful little comix i stumbled upon earlier today, simple, straightforward, excellent.
By Vera Brosgol (site).
“One of the fables we live by is that some day the killing will stop. If only we...”
– Derrick Jensen, The Culture of Make Believe (via thenewwomensmovement)
This reminds me of the Slogans of Newspeak: “War is Peace,” “Freedom is Slavery,” and “Ignorance is Strength.”
(via cctcd)
throwingmolotovsforemmett:
My cousin has been missing fot three days. She’s only thirteen. And she has autism.
It would be on the news if she was white. There would be some effort made if she was white. The public would care if she was white.
It’s sick to abduct a white girl. A national tragedy.
but ain nobody worryin about no black child ain nobody trying to comfort no grieving black...
A public service announcement
golden-zephyr:
sofriel:
If anyone who is following me thinks that it is acceptable to use the word “Gypsy” to refer to ~~bohemian chic~~ things or fortune telling or psychics or wandering souls, or to call Walking People / Romani people that word, or that Walking People are dirty or thieves or otherwise subhuman, please go find the unfollow button.
I am not Romani, but my RH is and she is the...
a short while ago
a short while ago, working on my sewing, almost done for the night. music in the background, a song comes on, a lament for a love lost, gone without closure. i think of my lost love, suddenly i’m crying, sobbing, tears streaming down my cheeks, tears blinding me so i can’t see the needle or my work…
…i still love her, i still love her despite everything, even though...
The Artifice of Femininity →
cctcd:
Natalie Reed is rapidly becoming one of my favorite bloggers. She hits the nail on the head again. Excerpted from her blog:
Trans women were of course, as soon as we’d emerged in public consciousness, used as a sort of ultimate weapon in the fight to cast femininity and womanhood as merely a construct rather than an honest expression of self. We were exactly what the struggle to...
“You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to...”
– Aaron Freeman “You Want A Physicist To Speak at your Funeral”
(source: npr)
"To My Old Master" →
liquornspice:
sourcedumal:
This letter is one of THE BEST THINGS I HAVE EVER READ!
This is the response letter to a white man asking his former slave to return and work for him….
Dayton, Ohio, August 7, 1865 To My Old Master, Colonel P.H. Anderson, Big Spring, Tennessee Sir: I got your letter, and was glad to find that you had not forgotten Jourdon, and that you wanted me to come back...
The Sami National Day
fornsed:
Or more correctly sámi álbmotbeaivi (aprox: The day of the Sami peoples).
Celebrated in Sweden,Norway and Finland on Febr 6, marking the first Sami Congress in Trondheim, Norway 1917.
The day has been celebrated since 1992 after a decision by the Congress in Helsinki, Finland.
Sapmi (the lands of the Sami) encompasses areas in northern Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia.
The Samer...
its not long enough to be a manifesto, but it...
navigatethestream:
To me, the whole notion of Malcolm X being a coward for not coming out when he was alive and well points to a larger problem, come out culture in general.
I’m not talking about coming out as a personal process, but a larger LGBT culture which perpetuates multiple falsehoods about the motivations and realities for coming out of the closet.
A larger culture which has...
So...
golden-zephyr:
sallyjessyrofl:
According to this article, and others the reason for the complaints on the “Gypsy Blood” documentary was due to scenes of animal cruelty. OK, this is obviously shit and gross and I can understand this. But why exactly does this make up the core of the complaints? Aren’t we missing the bigger picture?
Also worryingly, My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding was Ch4’s most...
January 2012
47 posts
Why Men Should Not be Pastors & Priests →
sexismandthecity:
10. A man’s place is in the army.
9. For men who have children, their duties might distract them from the responsibilities of being a parent.
8. Their physical build indicates that men are more suited to tasks such as chopping down trees and wrestling mountain lions. It would be “unnatural” for them to do other forms of work.
7. Man was created before woman. It is...
Transgender People are Completely Banned From... →
zoedelaluna:
stfuhypocrisy:
The shit hit the fan in the trans blogosphere last night, when it came to light that there is a disturbing new section in the Identity Screening Regulations used in airports throughout Canada. Simply put, Transgender People are Completely Banned From Boarding Airplanes in Canada.
The offending section of the regulations reads:
5.2 (1) An air carrier shall not...
The problem with Google's new privacy policy
“In addition, we may replace past names associated with your Google Account so that you are represented consistently across all our services. If other users already have your email, or other information that identifies you, we may show them your publicly visible Google Profile information, such as your name and photo.”
How to instantly out uncountable numbers of people against...
The Mizrahi Rejection of Zionism
mohandasgandhi:
roxygen:
arabstateofmind:
At the center of the radical, post-Zionist Mizrahi critique is a deep feeling of victimization. The post-Zionist Mizrahi writers continue to live their parents’ insults and humiliations at the hands of the European Ashkenazi Jewish establishment that absorbed them in Israel after immigration. Discriminatory policies created a continuing social ...
Talkin’ ‘Bout My S-S-S-Socialization →
cctcd:
Excerpted from Natalie Reed’s blog:
Growing up amidst male socialization when one’s gender identity is not consistent with it is a horrifying and traumatic experience. Nothing about it is in any way a privilege, and one does not internalize or adapt to it in a manner at all similar to how a cis man does. Rather than it being a means through which one develops confidence and a sense of...
I am not going to shut up about this. If we don't... →
cassket:
velocicrafter:
nessuno:
pr0fessah:
please sign
It’s at just over 71,000, and we need 75,000.
Come on. I know we can do this!!
It’s at 74,461 & now they’re saying the goal is 100,000.
whatever, sign it.
please sign it
“From a very young age we’re basically taught to think of racism and “anything...”
– feministdisney (via stay-in-skull)
I’m reblogging this quote of myself because I’m tickled that I am able to find so many random references to my blog I never saw before through googling it. Haha
(via feministdisney)
I'll make this simple:
golden-zephyr:
golden-zephyr:
Would you get that tattooed on you?
NO?
Then don’t get this:
Both are equally as racist as each other.
Period.
Now, go the fuck home.
REBLOGGING BECAUSE ALL YOU PEOPLE ACCUSING US OF RACISM CAN GTFO.
Anime and the Social Construction of Race
zeezeescorner:
A common misconception about anime cartoons amongst uninitiated audiences in majority-English-speaking countries is that anime characters are drawn to look ‘White’ rather than ‘Asian’. First of all, neither of terms are factual fixed categories - they are social constructions. That is, the meaning attached to race, whether ‘White’, ‘Black’, ‘Asian’ and so on, and the groups...
White people lack empathy for brown people, brain... →
The participants – all white – watched simple videos in which men of different races picked up a glass and took a sip of water. They watched white, black, South Asian and East Asian men perform the task.
Typically, when people observe others perform a simple task, their motor cortex region fires similarly to when they are performing the task themselves. However, the UofT research team, led by...
Trans Socialization
sanaa-tamir:
whencylonsdream:
Gonna be another one of my rants~ so we’ll see where this goes. Also note that this is all my personal experience, and if it’s similar to yours that’s great, but if not then that’s okay too.
Basically I’ve noticed how a bunch of people want to say CAMAB trans people have experienced male socialization and CAFAB trans people have experienced female socialization.
...
“The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain...”
– Aldous Huxley (via lunaraeron)