February 2012
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Fund for Troy Davis's family →
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AFAICT the new deadline is the 28th [of February]. they’re only at 69% of their goal as of now, please pass this around and donate if possible.
The Davis family has had to bury three warriors for justice in the past seven months. Virginia Davis, the...
Exercises for Knitters - Ways to help your... →
“I am sure there are liberal American women in belly dancing who are critical of...”
– Belly Dancing: Arab-Face, Orientalist Feminism, and U.S. Empire, Sunaina Maira
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"No Acting Oscar in the Last Decade Has Gone to... →
liquornspice:
All the crap Jal has been getting in her inbox is reminding me how mad I still am at Borderlands/La Frontera.
I don’t understand how she could just leave out the whole part where Spaniards brought THOUSANDS OF ENSLAVED BLACK PEOPLE TO MEXICO. How does your creation myth go from Cortes y Malintzín to the present-day without ever touching on slavery or maroon communities or lobos...
In 1619 at Jamestown VA, approximately 20 captive...
daniellemertina:
*Lincoln only freed the slaves in the rebellion states. Since he didn’t like black people… he actually hated us like almost every other white person.
The Emancipation Proclamation was purely for strategical reasons.
I just can't even with that Rick Santorum quote.
Other things Rick Santorum said:
High concentrations of salt is deadly to life? Tell that to halophiles.
Cat poop is gross? Tell that to my dog.
Blackface is racist? Tell that to Billy Crystal.
“CO2 is a pollutant? Tell that to the plants.”
– Rick Santorum, this weekend in Davison, Michigan.
Yet another example of willfully ignorant being brought to it’s absolute apex.
We’re currently pumping about 90 million tons of carbon emissions into the air every day. This creates the conditions that lead to global warming, and the seriousness...
Note to self:
Do not take parenting tips from your emotionally abusive, passive-ass-aggressive mother.
The Bechdel Test and Race in Popular Fiction
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1. It has to have two POC in it.
2. Who talk to each other.
3. About something other than a white person.
No Joss Whedon show passes, neither does Supernatural, or Being Human.
Veronica Mars passes, but doesn’t pass the original Bechdel Test.
Check out a few more here.
Neither does...
The Bechdel Test and Race in Popular Fiction
poemsofthedead:
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
ai-yo:
crystalsavestheday:
1. It has to have two POC in it.
2. Who talk to each other.
3. About something other than a white person.
No Joss Whedon show passes, neither does Supernatural, or Being Human.
Veronica Mars passes, but doesn’t pass the original Bechdel Test.
Check out a few more here.
Neither does True Blood Lafayette and...
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poemsofthedead asked: Ah ha! You're online! So, something bugging me all day: all the "controversy" around Viola Davis' hair last night. But then I see Chris Rock in his fab speech with more hair than I've ever seen on his head, lookin' good imho, but... for real, can we talk publicly about *why* Davis going natural is a huge deal but no one says boo about a man doing the exact same thing?...
Unpopular Opinion
I bought a Monster High doll (Frankie Stein, if you’re wondering) for my daughter’s birthday last year. It was an affordable-ish 20 bucks.
Since then they have skyrocketed in price due to the popularity amongst grownups with cash to spend on themselves, and I can’t afford the one she wants as its like 60 bucks!
It seems like at some point in the past 20 years people stopped...
My favorite part of watching the Oscars Red Carpet...
Watching the celebrities shuffle along like fools in the background, not sure of where they’re supposed to go or who they’re supposed to look at.
WatchMy daughter the diva.
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on a "trying to be more productive" note--
guerrillamamamedicine:
milkeemountainmama:
had an interesting thought—there’s always SO much “feminine” energy wrapped up in alternative healing methods (like: reiki, acupuncture, etc). i don’t know how that energy *got* there—like, if the original manifestations of the reiki conciously presented itself in a feminine power—or if it became heavily “femininized” within the hippy mother earth...
the one word all brown people hate
almondskeyes:
exotic
Never say that word in reference to anything about me. Unless you’re talking about how much I hate it.
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pattyjeres asked: Are you always so supportive? May I thank you?
How many people came to the defense of that white girl who was confronted with the (albeit angry) truth in the street after asking a stupid question, then burst into crybaby tears?
How many people are going to come to the defense of the brown girl who got physically hit and tackled after confronting people with the (albeit angry) truth?
White people are literally coddled.
Brown and black people...
Daily reminder: TEXAS - RIGHT NOW - HAS MANDATORY...
poemsofthedead:
As does Michigan.
Not sure if New Mexico requires it, but I had one before getting an abortion.
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karnythia:
So when Amanda Marcotte says the exact same thing about Rihanna that WOC bloggers have been saying for months, & suddenly it’s a good idea not to judge her? Farreal, that’s when white feminists can hear that being a survivor is more complicated than doing what makes other people feel good? Mmm..okay. I see I need to spend...
Ether?
blackamazon:
When I started blogging it was ” just the internet”
many folks told these women , that in terms of technology their need to be a focus on community connections and resource generation out side of their careers. This was where the web was going.
They ignored us , tried to say this wasn’t their only work
Then Facebook blew up and feministing ” found” a community ( mores a way to...
wow. so Jill let another racist, cissexizt,...
blackamazon:
so-treu:
over on that cracker jack website of hers.
Jill don’t give a shit about women, she really doesn’t.
So can we boycott them till they get their shit together or is that too mean
I have been feministe-free for YEARS and not regretting it. And I guest-blogged there TWICE back in the day.
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“When you have 40 percent of kids being born out of wedlock, and among certain...”
– Mitt Romney, at Wednesday’s CNN debate in Arizona.
Hey, you know what prevents unwanted pregnancy? This.
Love the insinuation that poverty IS child abuse. And the racism. That throwaway remark is quite possibly one of the worst things to come out of last night’s debate.
I could say more, but...
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“That’s exactly what made America so different, we don’t have that colonial...”
– David Barton
HAHHAHAHAHAHAAA!
What? Really?
I swear, some people will say anything.
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Also from the article: ” One of the things we often see with other militaries is they rule by intimidation, by threats, by terrorism really, they want to scare the dickens out of...
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Deaf Aspie: Challenge to Vegans:
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violetbelle:
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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 meal plan can’t cost me more than $30 for 2 weeks (and I mean not a cent more).
And I live in the northeast by the great...
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“You killed my son and now you are giving me a tree?”
– An Iraqi farmer to Peter Van Buren of the US State Department after his team tried to give away fruit tree seedlings to replant ruined orchards. (via lifeisliterallylimited)
US Foreign Policy in a sentence. This tore me up.
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