January 2012
92 posts
“Yes, imagine - a country that takes hundreds of thousands of its young men and...”
– Mark LeVine - How do you judge a State of the Union speech that begins with a lie? (via therecipe)
come on up to the house: racism & feelings →
eshusplayground:
daniellemertina:
An anonymous person called me a nigger cunt yesterday and told me to kill myself. In all caps. I stared at it for a few seconds and then deleted it. What else is there to do? There were a couple more. I’m sure by the same person. I deleted those too.
It’s amazing how much a black woman’s anger and perceptible disillusionment (in other words, my feelings) can...
“I’m pro-choice because the personhood of a embryo/fetus is irrelevant: no person...”
– — excerpted from Raising My Boychick, a blog on parenting
(via oceanevolution)
“Marginalized races shouldn’t have to make room for the odd non-racist white...”
– Chelsea on the absurdity of claims of “BUT NOT ALL WHITE PEOPLE ARE LIKE THAT!!” (via brazenbitch)
Wow this has an unexpected number of notes!
(via dailymurf)
Tennessee Tea Party Demands Slavery and Other... →
ilyasafrika:
dontbearuiner:
“so as not to besmirch the reputation and standing of the Founding Fathers.”
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK.
I have no words…I can’t even articulate my thoughts properly right now I’m so mad.
“I’m so fucking sick of people being all offended at fatness. I am sick of people...”
– 2012: The Year of Living Fatly « Fat Heffalump (via feministsbakecupcakestoo)
“Like the fantasy of being thin, the desire to be pretty is backed by a...”
– Spilt Milk - Panic Over Pretty (via redefiningbodyimage)
“You have to question a cinematic culture which preaches artistic expression, and...”
– Ryan Gosling, in a letter protesting the NC-17 rating of ‘Blue Valentine’. The rating was based on one consensual sex scene, in which he goes down on Michelle Williams. (via creatingaquietmind)
SOPA EMERGENCY LIST. →
dirtyredsdirtymind:
SOPA Emergency IP list: So if these ass-fucks in DC decide to ruin the internet, here’s how to access your favorite sites
in the event of a DNS takedown tumblr.com 174.121.194.34 wikipedia.org 208.80.152.201 # News bbc.co.uk 212.58.241.131 aljazeera.com 198.78.201.252 # Social media reddit.com 72.247.244.88 ...
“In December 1992 the feminist direct-action Barbie Liberation Organization...”
– Bad Science, by Ben Goldacre
Awesome & well played.
(via rainbowkittenvomit)
You cannot have a conversation about feminism and...
new-distractions:
Because then you’re not having a conversation about feminism, you’re having a conversation about white people. And we already have plenty of conversations about white people.
15 of the Deadliest Corporations →
stay-human:
These corporations, if they were individual human beings, would be locked up for life. Instead, they continue raking in the big bucks. Human rights abuses, murder, war, eco disasters, and animal exploitation keep these evil companies raking in the green. Prepare to be disgusted.
I don’t think the list is in any particular order. Even if you don’t agree with all of them (eg. the...
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“I’m dubious that men have even the slightest idea what they’re talking about...”
– On Men Who Don’t Like Women in Makeup | xoJane (via ceedling)
“If the anti-abortion movement took a tenth of the energy they put into noisy...”
– Michael J. Tucker (via princesssimon
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There is something strangely inconsistent about a...
“Let’s not sanitize, sterilize and deordorize the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther...”
– Dr. Cornel West (via newwavefeminism)
“I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from a Birmingham City Jail, 1963 (via carton-rouge) Boom. Indifferent, “colorblind,” privileged white liberals roasted. (via voicesofearth)
madame thursday: Words honestly cannot describe... →
lebanesepoppyseed:
MLK Jr. didn’t ask for rights, he wasn’t pandering or sweet to the forces that oppressed him. He was a threat to whiteness through and through.
MLK Jr. wasn’t violent not because he wanted to gain some brownie points from whitedom but because he KNEW, FIRSTHAND, what…
“”One day we must ask the question, ‘Why are there forty million poor people in...”
– And this is what really got Dr. MLK killed. (via black-culture)
