February 2012
68 posts
13 Year Old Jada Williams Persecuted by the... →
racismschool:
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 student. Miss Williams wrote an essay on her impressions of Frederick Douglass’ first autobiography the Narrative of the Life. This was part of an essay contest, but her essay was never...
“If you can look at the reproductive rights movement in America and come to the...”
– Something I said yesterday. (via garlandgrey)
Yeah, speaking of hate following. Do you ever quote anyone? It was something that transphobic radfems used to do a whole lot—blog posts, essays, and entire websites against trans people that didn’t include a single direct quote from a...
fuckyeahlatinamericanhistory:
uncdan:
“So when the Irish, when Germans, when Italians were coming, and they didn’t speak the language and they didn’t know the culture, the idea was they will assimilate into Americanhood; they will become American, which in the American tradition has meant white American. But that melting pot never included people of color. Blacks, Chinese, Puerto Ricans,...
Ytineres: excentricyoruba:... →
excentricyoruba:
fumblingtowardshappiness:
They go into a developing country to “help people”. They take their cameras. Why? Because it’s important that other people in their lives in the US, UK, Whatever know that they did this. Otherwise, the mosquito bites, the ant bites, the hard…
huerca zafada: bb-goose: freibiergesicht:... →
bb-goose:
freibiergesicht:
lilacturtl:
nikosnature:
wardarose:
It seems so obvious, yet so many miss what is blatantly there.
From secularprolife.blogspot.com
These analogies only work if you avoid those pesky “difficult concepts” from science: concepts like…
You know one of the other ways a chicken egg is not like a human egg? Fertilized or not, the hen lays the fucking...
“In the center of the crowd stood Hank and Tonia’s sister, Reba, her red hair...”
– Andrea Barrett, secret harmonies. I mean i’ve read and loved three of barrett’s books so I didn’t need to get excited about this one. but this is such a lovely expression. (via isabelthespy)
I love these books! I love all of these books! Did you read the one about the old monk? Nobody ever reads...
allimmaturityandallcaps:
strontiumcapybara:
crouchtouchpause replied to your post: I wish I was as confident of not talking bullshit…
I wish I had the brain power to truly appreciate what you are on about half the time :)
I’m sure you do, half of having brainpower is trusting yourself to have brainpower.
Actually that’s another feminist issue I kept trying to put on the agenda back then,...
unknowable woman: galesofnovember: dykosaur:... →
galesofnovember:
dykosaur: stfuconfederates: Deaf Aspie: Challenge to Vegans:deaf-aspie:…
pastimperfection:
Well, a lot of people would choose meat and potatoes over peanut butter and homemade bread. Me, for one.
I don’t think this challenge was meant to valorize…
You know, something that’s also really interesting about these discussions—not so much the exercise...
unknowablewoman:
galesofnovember:
dykosaur: stfuconfederates: Deaf Aspie: Challenge to Vegans:deaf-aspie:…
pastimperfection:
Well, a lot of people would choose meat and potatoes over peanut butter and homemade bread. Me, for one.
I don’t think this challenge was meant to valorize a cheap meat, cheap oil, and potatoes diet as healthy or delicious. I think it was meant to point...
ghaweyriao:
absolutelydefinitely:
the school newspaper published opinions on Planned Parenthood
the “con” one quoted a pregnant girl saying you can get everything they offer at PP from the school nurse except for abortion services and birth control
lol when did the school start offering STI & HIV testing, HPV treatment, pap tests, HPV vaccinations, breast exams, cancer screenings, and...
desliz:
When safe words are ignored
coldbitterness:
thepunishmentdontfitthecrime:
coldbitterness:
(TW for discussion of rape)
BDSM has long been a target of criticism from outsiders, but these two are devoted members of the scene. Stryker argued in her essay, “I Never Called It Rape,” that the community is so “focused on saying how BDSM isn’t a cover for abuse that we willingly blind...
dykosaur: stfuconfederates: Deaf Aspie: Challenge... →
stfuconfederates:
Deaf Aspie: Challenge to Vegans:
deaf-aspie:
violetbelle:
deaf-aspie:
violetbelle:
deaf-aspie:
Make me a vegan diet plan for 2 weeks. And if I like it, I’ll actually try it.
But it’s not so simple. See, I’m poor. And by poor, I mean, your…
Well, a lot of people would choose meat and potatoes over peanut butter and homemade bread. Me, for one.
I...
“At childhood’s end, the houses petered out
into playing fields, the factory,...”
– “Little Red Cap” by Carol Ann Duffy (via birdr)
omg. omg. omg YOU GUYS.
saltmarshhag:
freibiergesicht:
pastimperfection:
Apologies. I hoped to cite some well regarded works by lesbian authors so as to provide some insight… But I don’t think my examples really show what I thought they showed anyway. On further consideration those characters’ relationships are more nuanced. Also I was a bit drunk when I wrote that, though I still am.
I have nothing...
omg. omg. omg YOU GUYS.
freibiergesicht:
pastimperfection:
Apologies. I hoped to cite some well regarded works by lesbian authors so as to provide some insight… But I don’t think my examples really show what I thought they showed anyway. On further consideration those characters’ relationships are more nuanced. Also I was a bit drunk when I wrote that, though I still am.
I have nothing constructive to add.
...
omg. omg. omg YOU GUYS.
Apologies. I hoped to cite some well regarded works by lesbian authors so as to provide some insight… But I don’t think my examples really show what I thought they showed anyway. On further consideration those characters’ relationships are more nuanced. Also I was a bit drunk when I wrote that, though I still am.
I have nothing constructive to add.
“Gov. Romney’s greatest attribute is ‘Well I’ve got the most money and the best...”
– Rick Santorum
via Marbury
via this-is-ryan)
the trick being that whoever eventually gets the nom will, in the fall, have //all// the republican money, romney or not. if he can outlast perry then he’ll get perry’s supporters after perry drops out.
(via ultralaser)
But they might not try to...
GET THE FUCK OUT: icewomancometh: One of the most... →
icewomancometh:
One of the most informative and useful posts I’ve read about Hugo Schwyzer
Are Women Human? explores the implications and problems of defenses used to guard Hugo Schwyzer’s position in feminist circles. She also places emphasis on his present actions, demonstrating that…
Blackamazon is too much: karnythia: It’s funny in... →
karnythia:
It’s funny in a very unfunny way how little consideration is given to life after an abusive relationship for the survivor. Lots of discourse on treatment for the abuser, and lots of debate about what survivors should have done, could have done, or whatever. But no one really talks…
I just have to stop clicking over.
The prison rape thread on Feministe is already upsetting. …And somebody already brought up Oz.
galesofnovember:
(via desliz)
I think what I’m taking from this is “I think you need to appreciate all the hard work my penis does.” Which is awesome, because now I am picturing a grim line of little phalluses, with their hard hat foreskins and their lunch-boxes, marching into the coal mines bodily orifices every day to the tune of some depressing Bruce Springsteen anthem (something off The...
“I’ve talked with quite a few men about what they’ve learned from pegging and...”
– Charlie Glickman (How Pegging Can Help Save The World)
I love pegging but this is ridiculously hyperbolic.
(via unknowablewoman)
10 bucks says this dude tries to pressure his partners into trying shit they’re not sure of with vague platitudes about “improving understanding”.
(via desliz)
I...
“Every time I read an article about conservatives being “pro- life” I am reminded...”
– The ‘Safe, Legal, Rare’ Illusion - NYTimes.com (via tsotchke)
This attack on birth control is also an attack on fledgling public healthcare, and conservatives are also trying to cut public healthcare programs for people with disabilities and chronic health problems to the bone.
Ross is using...
Past Imperfect: "Why Can't I Write Evil Characters... →
nezua:
nezua:
(This was the thrust of a question posed by a person who was reblogged to my dash. They also queried how to fit in the reasons for the villains’ evil quality to the story.
I wrote a comment on it because I love story, writing, and have spent a few decades engaging these kinds of…
Yes. That was exactly the edit I meant when I posted again later that day to say I could amend the...
"Why Can't I Write Evil Characters Who Are Just...
nezua:
(This was the thrust of a question posed by a person who was reblogged to my dash. They also queried how to fit in the reasons for the villains’ evil quality to the story.
I wrote a comment on it because I love story, writing, and have spent a few decades engaging these kinds of questions through storytelling. I typed out the lengthy response Hunt ‘n Peck style (I’m on an iPad) and then...
Cop spends weeks to trick an 18-year-old into... →
nezua:
jcoleknowsbest:
ladyalexandria:
More fun from the self-loathing society: This American Life had a show about how young female undercover cops infiltrated a high school and flirted with boys to entrap them into selling pot, so they could charge them with felonies and destroy their lives at an early age.
Last year in three high schools in Florida, several undercover police officers...
Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean: A sea change in... →
nezua:
isabelthespy:
There may not have been a Silverstein on the high seas in the 17th century, but there were swashbuckling buccaneers called Balthazar and Moses Cohen Henriques and – would you believe? – Rabbi Samuel Pallache. They pillaged and plundered Spanish navy vessels. Payback, if you will, for the murder and expulsion of many Jews from Spain at the end of the 15th century due...
Freibiergesicht: Okay. →
missvoltairine:
pastimperfection:
garlandgrey:
golden-notebook:
I think it is possible that Garland overstepped when he described the anti-demis as “fuckbaskets”. I think he has mischaracterized arguments of the women who have posted anti-demi commentary.
But I am not…
(I’m not reblogging this one as text. You’re welcome, anyone who is still following me. I...
heart of my own: Okay. →
pastimperfection:
garlandgrey:
golden-notebook:
I think it is possible that Garland overstepped when he described the anti-demis as “fuckbaskets”. I think he has mischaracterized arguments of the women who have posted anti-demi commentary.
But I am not queer. Garland is queer….
Hon, no, he didn’t call us sociopaths. That was my word. He thinks that sociopath is a slur, and...
Okay.
garlandgrey:
golden-notebook:
I think it is possible that Garland overstepped when he described the anti-demis as “fuckbaskets”. I think he has mischaracterized arguments of the women who have posted anti-demi commentary.
But I am not queer. Garland is queer. Garland is talking about queer spaces and queer identities. Because he is queer.
He has the right to express his opinions about the...
Okay.
golden-notebook:
I think it is possible that Garland overstepped when he described the anti-demis as “fuckbaskets”. I think he has mischaracterized arguments of the women who have posted anti-demi commentary.
But I am not queer. Garland is queer. Garland is talking about queer spaces and queer identities. Because he is queer.
He has the right to express his opinions about the shape and the...
On Garland Grey
golden-notebook:
Some of the reblogs are suggesting that I am “excusing” Garland Grey’s behavior as a feminist ally because of his statements about demisexuals.
Look.
I am straight.
Garland Grey is not straight.
Ergo, on issues of the queer community and the LGBT community, it is
1) Not up to me to “speak for” demisexuals. Have my own opinion, yes, weigh in like my opinion is somehow...
And this, from garland--
saltmarshhag:
freibiergesicht:
pastimperfection:
Thank you! I’m really thankful to all the people who gave me support, fan mail and asks alike (even though I didn’t publish some of your asks for fear of making you a secondary target) and I feel really happy with the work I did defending people who, really and truly, were afraid. Afraid that the abuse and the jokes would never stop. I realize...
And this, from garland--
Thank you! I’m really thankful to all the people who gave me support, fan mail and asks alike (even though I didn’t publish some of your asks for fear of making you a secondary target) and I feel really happy with the work I did defending people who, really and truly, were afraid. Afraid that the abuse and the jokes would never stop. I realize there are some intelligent criticisms of the concepts...