April 2012
57 posts
“Blacks, though native born, were arriving as the poorest people from the poorest...”
– Isabel Wikerson, “The Warmth of Other Suns”, pg 419 (via zoratonimaya)
reasons why my russian grandparents and italian grandparents were able to have parents with a humble income and still go on to live a very upper middle class lifestyle. reasons my black side has not gained generational wealth...
“I know I’ve told this story before, but my abusive ex refused to let me take...”
– Curious Georgiana (via sexistmorons)
Wow. Just wow.
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You Know What I Love?
Getting messages from people on Plenty of Fish who see my pic but don’t read my profile, and when I ask them to read my profile, they disappear or send me an abrupt goodbye.
Gee, I wonder what in my profile turned them off?
autumn-and-eve:
» Feminists spend weeks flipping shits over Hugo Schwyzer » Other feminists explicitly say they want all trans women dead, call us rapists, etc. » Feminists who hated Hugo Schwyzer must not have noticed
lucypaw:
prolongedeyecontact:
Trans* Repro Justice: Submission: My two cents that didn’t fit in the ask.
smashesthep:
prolongedeyecontact:
fuckyeahchoice:
Submission:
I’d be wary about labelling people bigots solely because they say “women” instead of “people” in abortion debates. Fact remains that anti-choice activism is rooted in misogyny. By leaping at people’s throats because of a...
“Recent feminist critics of science have done much to question such narrow...”
– Does Science Persecute Women? The Case of the 16th-17th Century Witch-Hunts (JSTOR, sorry)
What a stupid question, and it leads to a stupid answer. Science, as in the “scientific method”, persecutes no one. What’s missing is a review process that questions assumptions. But...
guerrillamamamedicine:
do you remember those days after the revolution, when the train stations’ names changed to the scrawled signatures of martyrs rising from the steam off the tracks and we ran behind the cars in the streets with beer bottles and gold-lame hope in our hands. remember the acrid smell of tear gas and the color of water washing the streets to a dirty black. remember the way...
Trans Romance Novel Recommendations?
Does anyone know of good romance novels featuring trans protagonists that are not full of cis fail? I’m looking specifically for lesbian ones with at least one trans woman, but I’d like to put together a resource for all trans people.
Please don’t reply or reblog just to mock or attack romance novels. That’s shitty.
If you have ever taken a razor blade to that...
petrichoriousparalian:
goldenheartedrose:
sanityscraps:
bacon-beer-and-boobs:
threesheetssmut:
I haven’t, but I love you all.
All of the things.
This has way too many notes. *hugs everyone*
It makes me both happy and sad that this has so many notes. Happy that I’m not alone, but sad that so many of you are in the same boat. *sigh*
My life for six years. I’m really, really...
Cisnormativity: [TW: murder/misogyny.] An actual... →
radfemscorpion:
[NOTE: Any quotations or sentiments represent radscum’s words and sentiments, not those of operators of this blog.
Image description: Background is 6 piece pie style color split with black and yellow alternating. Foreground is a picture of a blue mutant scorpion. Top…
amaevis: Feminism will be intersectional, or it... →
bugbrennan:
“It also falsely posits MAAB trans women as primary perpetrators of violence, sexual or otherwise, when the numbers don’t bear that out.”
I HAVE NEVER SAID THIS. I ALSO HAVE NEVER SAID I WOULD EXCLUDE TRANS PEOPLE FROM SEX SEGREGATED ACCOMMODATIONS, WHAT I HAVE SAID IS I DON’T SUPPORT THE DEFINITION OF GENDER IDENTITY PUT FORTH BY NGLTF.
PLEASE READ
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amaevis: Feminism will be intersectional, or it... →
bugbrennan:
NOW, YOUR QUESTION ASSUMES THAT I HAVE TO SHARE YOUR PRIORITIES. WHY WOULD THAT BE SO? AS A FEMALE, I CAN SET MY OWN PRIORITIES.
MY MAIN PRIORITY IS HIGHLIGHTING HOW THE CURRENT DEFINITION OF GENDER IDENTITY IN THE LAW PUT FORTH BY GLBT ADVOCATES IS HARMFUL TO FEMALES. YOU CAN READ ABOUT THAT HERE:
...
amaevis: Feminism will be intersectional, or it... →
bugbrennan:
A MARXIST FEMINIST IS NOT A RADICAL FEMINIST.
TRY THIS: http://radicalhub.com/2011/09/07/solidarity-of-identity-solidarity-of-interest/
I DO NOT FAVOR IDENTITY POLITICS. AT ALL. FEMALE IS NOT AN IDENTITY.
BTW, WOMEN OF COLOR AND DISABLED WOMEN ARE FEMALE. I PUT THEM AT THE CENTER OF MY UNIVERSE BECAUSE THEY ARE FEMALE.
bugbrennan:
Feminism that’s intersectional drifts far away...
Feminism will be intersectional, or it will be...
bugbrennan:
Feminism that’s intersectional drifts far away from what feminism does, which is put females at the center of the analysis. But, that is what trans need to do to put themselves at the center of the analysis. Nice appropriation!
Guest Post by Dragon Dyke.
The latest slogan of the trans activists is ‘my feminism will be intersectional or it will be bull shit’. The current trans...
More Little Known History: The Case of Wong Kim...
freedominwickedness:
One of the most important civil rights victories in all United States history was the 1924 Supreme Court ruling in United States v. Wong Kim Ark.
Wong Kim Ark was an American citizen born to Chinese immigrant parents, but the Port of San Francisco denied him re-entry to his own country after a trip abroad and the United States Department of Justice subsequently...
A Brief Lesson In Anti-Asian History
freedominwickedness:
In response to dozens of labor union initiated anti-Asian race riots which claimed hundreds of innocent lives in the 1880s, President Grover Cleveland decided that he had no choice but to keep the peace by catering to racism: he sent federal troops to the Western territories to protect existing Chinese residents, but at the same time initiated diplomatic negotiations...
Watchpenandscript:
spicypeppers:
robohaven:
agronaholic:
d-angelo:
Two people from Tumblr that liked each other finally met in person.
Cutest shit
Filed under: Things we could have.
I sorta want this to happen with all of you.
;~;
This is so beautiful…their kiss…my heart is aching aww
Aw… I want that.
"Love is an action, never simply a feeling."- bell...
notaskingforpermission:
I deeply feel this is worth believing.
from Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life.
YES!!!
“Depression is humiliating. It turns intelligent, kind people into zombies who...”
– EVERYONE NEEDS TO READ THIS.
Depression is not a synonym for being sad or having a bad day/bad week.
It’s not a PHASE. It’s not a CHOICE. It’s not LAZINESS.
spread the word guys.
(via general-grievous)
“It reminds me of the “bike to work” movement. That is also portrayed as white,...”
– comment left on the Racialious blog post “Sustainable Food & Priviledge: Why is Green always White (and Male and Upper-Class)” (via ouiominy)
Holy fucking shit.
snowmanne:
alexandraerin:
snowmanne:
Oh boy, just what I was looking for: a simplified example of the general strawman argument here.
By definition a trans* is someone who’s gender doesn’t “match” his sex.
You’re still wrong on important and technical facts, like the definition of being trans* and whether it ends with surgery (spoiler warning: it doesn’t).
Ignoring the fact that you...
What Marx said: Between capitalist and communist society there lies the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into the other. Corresponding to this is also a political transition period in which the state can be nothing but the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat.
What Stalin read: Blah blah blah blah state blah blah blah blah dictatorship blah blah.
What libertarians concluded: COMMUNISM IS FASCISM!!!!
“Many white women have said to me, ‘We wanted black women and non-white women to...”
– bell hooks, “Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center” (via loveyourchaos)
Boom goes the dynamite.
On radscums and cis people's ear shattering...
genderbitch:
Here is what blows my fucking mind. So often the vile shit that radfems say in order to try to morally mandate us out of existence isn’t just brutal cisfuckery. It’s also godawful racist, classist, ableist, eurocentric and a host of other shit. Fuck even straight up misogynist.
AND YET so many cis “allies” (I SEE YOU) are still silent as fuck despite having tons of reasons based on...
Reblog if you really don't find yourself...
How trans* people use "die cis scum"
Cis people: You're disgusting worthless freak of nature.
Cis people: You don't deserve to be alive.
Cis people: Nobody will ever want to touch you.
Cis people: I hope you kill yourself.
Cis people: You don't deserve any medical care.
Cis people: You're a man in a dress.
Cis people: You're just a girl playing dress-up.
Cis people: Your existence is rape.
Cis people: I want to morally mandate you out of existence.
Cis people: I hope you get raped and die.
Cis people: You deserve nothing.
Cis "allies": silence
Trans* person: Die cis scum!
Cis "allies": I WOULD THINK OF YOU AS A HUMAN BEING BUT YOU'RE OUT OF YOUR PLACE
Cis people: YOU'RE BEING MEEEAAAAN TO ME
Cis people: WE'RE ALL HUMAN YOU KNOW
Cis people: VIOLENCE IS UNCALLED FOR!
Cis people: YOU CATCH MORE FLIES WITH HONEY!
Cis people: NOT ALL OF US ARE LIKE THAT!
“What do plants eat? They eat dead animals; that’s the problem. For me that was a...”
– Lierre Keith, on gardening as a vegan; October 8, 2009 on Underground Wellness Radio (via weeta)
LIERRE KEITH IS A BIGOTED TRANSMISOGYNISTIC FUCK WHY ON EARTH WOULD ANYONE QUOTE THEM ABOUT ANYTHING
(via cuntsparrow)
What? I had no idea. I’ll delete their shit.
(via thefullmetalbitch)
...
when i say it, i mean it
cisnormativity:
inchoaterica:
i want us all to be strong and free.
no cis policing of our identities
no trans/genderqueer-on-trans/genderqueer policing of our identities
no more minimizing other trans/genderqueer people for being different from you
my body, my rules, my life.
This goes right up there with No Less Valid, but I think this one’s better. Spoken with grace. Agency. Love....
I want to make an Ask Me About My Pronouns shirt...
petrichoriousparalian:
so non-binary friends PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE BUY A SHIRT LIKE THAT AND WEAR IT FOR ME X3
It’s not appropriative. Cis people should have their pronouns questioned too. The whole point is that no one assumes gender ID about anyone. It’s actually really problematic if people only asked about pronouns for people they consider “alternative”.
kiriamaya:
Seriously, how in the world can you think that watching a drag show gives you any kind of insight into my life? I just… I will never understand cis people as long as I live. Never.
“Let me get this straight. Millions of outraged Americans are just credulous...”
– Jesse Curtis (via azspot) I’m just gonna let that last line sink in: “There is a significant segment of white opinion that continues to find efforts to combat racism more objectionable than the racism itself.” (via ethiopienne)
“What’s most shocking for me is how well these people know themselves. How can...”
– Chloe Sevigny - Page - Interview Magazine
If you ever need an example of how “insane” can be dismissive and ableist, regardless of intent, here you go.
Chloe Sevigny is playing a trans woman assassin for some show. Trans women can’t even get jobs playing themselves.
(via sexartandpolitics)
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there's our catastrophe: Al Jazeera is your only... →
sharquaouia:
Ever since a member of the Qatari royal family took charge of the network, coverage was getting a bit weird. Don’t get me wrong, Al Jazeera can do some fantastic coverage on various matters in the region, such as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They also did an amazing job…
Follow these!
Oh, the hu-manatee!: The thing about the human... →
a-bayani:
muxercita:
femmerun:
is that it’s such a beautiful thing. Whether you’re big and built, small and curvy, skinny, or somewhere in the middle, our bodies run on the same principle: balance. We are constantly doing little things to keep our bodies afloat. If you get…
Fuck yeah commentary.
static-nonsense:
Shower of Sparks: Native Culture believes ‘Hipsters’ to be Racist? ihavethisblog:
apihtawikosisan:
amandamped:
I have never been considered a hipster and if you knew me in person I’m sure you’d all agree.
I have a purely innocent obsession with Native American life, culture, and style; to the point at which I believe I was a Native in my past life. I...
Bitch, please.: **Trigger warning for sizism, fat... →
ladymarla:
flapjackstate:
ladymarla:
flapjackstate:
ladymarlareblogged your photo:[image: a fat white woman at a desk]. …
Okay, have fun with your new world order and I hope you enjoy diabetes and other health complications along with it.
Oh…
Not that fat is actually correlated with health (conditions correlated with skinniness are erased as “human” and only those...
“In 1951, the Georgia state welfare director, making an argument for denying Aid...”
– Rickie Solinger, Wake Up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race Before Roe v. Wade (emphasis mine)
HOLY SHIT. I have never seen this broken down so simply and concisely before. I can’t believe I never saw it.
This is it!
This is why this argument about “babies for welfare checks” is still... 