February 2012
56 posts
“[S]hame is not a catalyst for change; it is a paralytic. Anyone who has ever...”
– What’s Wrong With Fat-Shaming? | xoJane (via gingerrqueer)
guerrillamamamedicine:
What is cultural appropriation « The Long Way Home
jhameia:
ardhra:
O hai! I finally finished writing this! After starting it more than two years ago {facepalm}. There is more to come that I’ve worked on & researched. Hopefully responses to this won’t be so faily that I’m unmotivated to finish the rest.
Excerpt:
There are a number of issues around cultural...
“Life is purposeless. Don’t be shocked. The whole idea of purpose is wrong — it...”
– Osho (via nirvikalpa)
Osho, always so soothing for the soul.
(via dreams-from-my-father)
wow
(via theafrosistuh)
Crime of the Gaje.
golden-zephyr:
diaryofadocumentaryfilmmaker:
Every crime I have witnessed was committed by gaje, the majority of all the crimes I have watched on the television or read about in the news were committed by gaje. Yet do I believe that every gaje is a criminal? That every gaje should be bullied and discriminated against; ‘Arrested’ for having been born?
No I do not. Every human being is an...
Wayfaring Stranger - Gypsies in America
golden-zephyr:
There have been Gypsies in America since 1640 when entire families of English Gypsies called Romanichals were, for the crime of being Gypsy, enslaved or “indentured for life” alongside Africans on the Virginia plantations. German Gypsies arrived under similar duress. German Gypsies, who had “inhabited the Palatinate or Rhine County, for many centuries, wandering the entire...
French Socialist Party presidential candidate...
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 (EU) citizens “the creation of camps … to accommodate them”.
The association of a “solution” in relation to specific racial groups with special camps can only bring to mind the...
this is a post about tone policing.
youarenotyou:
I’ve been seeing an awful lot of tone policing on my dash lately. It seems a lot of people don’t really understand why someone would respond aggressively or angrily, or otherwise emotionally, to having something really fucked up/hurtful/oppressive said to them. Or, they think it’s counterproductive to respond in that way.
First off, the reason that people may respond in a “harsh”...
golden-zephyr replied to your post: Today i filled out the form on the hospital…
I am so happy and proud and everything. I keep tearing up thinking about it. this is such a long time coming, lovely sister.
*hugs you happily* i’m totally sitting here grinning stupidly with tears in my eyes too!
Today i filled out the form on the hospital website asking them to call me to set up an appointment concerning sexual reassignment surgery. They ought to call in the next three days. This is really happening now!
Alright, let's do this.
kiriamaya:
My living expenses are taken care of for a good while — which means it’s time for me to refocus on saving up for surgery. My RLT will be complete in August, and the sooner I can get surgery after that, the better.
To that end, I would like to kick off a Help-Kiri-Get-Surgery fundraising drive!
My goal is to raise $15,000 — enough to cover surgery fees, travel expenses to Thailand,...
mymilkspilt:
Bean is pretty interested in both genitals and babies and so we’ve been talking about them a fair bit.
She recently heard that her friend’s mum is pregnant with a girl. She said, ‘how do they know the baby in her tummy is a girl baby?’ I said, ‘well, I guess they saw a vulva on an ultrasound; that’s a kind of picture they take of inside your tummy.’ She was quiet for a while, and...
If you live in the United States and don't have... →
fattiesinlove:
repede:
cakemeister:
Today in Useful Fucking Things That No One Tells You About: the Prescription Assistance Program (PAP) offers a discount drug card to uninsured Americans. The card is accepted at over 56,000 pharmacies nationwide, including CVS, RiteAid, Walgreens, and Safeway, and offers a discount of up to 75%.
I was fired a few years ago and was afraid I would have to...
To all Whovians, I'm interested. Reblog this and...
golden-zephyr:
lisipuska:
flowersforsherlock:
ibelieveinjam:
slinkyhair:
astoldbygingrr:
dudewheresmytardis:
gallifreyan-hufflepuff:
olliethecello:
gallifreyantimelady:
tardisingallifrey:
davidtennat:
merlinsfirstlove:
obsessive-monomaniac:
spacemanandsweetie:
hushnowspoilers:
Rose
Let’s Kill Hitler
Well, actually it was Forest of the Dead, but LKH is the one I...
I've Been Gypped
golden-zephyr:
… I’m not supposed to use that word, right?
Well, as a so-called “gypsy”, I feel that I can choose to level the word at myself if I want. After all, the word is a stereotype against me.
I was browsing the gypsy tag on here and on flickr before and it suddenly hit me:
There are only four stereotypes out there about ‘gypsies’:
The hypersexualized stereotype (portrayed here by...
How driving happens with me:
golden-zephyr:
digatisdi:
Walk up to the car.
Think for a minute.
Get in the passenger seat.
“Wait, no… Where am I? America. Goddammit! Every single time!”
Get into driver seat.
Re-acclimate myself to a North American vehicle.
Start the engine.
Accidentally turn on the wipers instead of the headlamps.
“Goddammit! Every single time!”
Drive the car.
It’s funny because I’m actually a...
“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...
