May 2013
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“In the past few days, there have been at least 162 Islamophobic hate attacks in...”
– In these Sour Times: Islamophobia and the Woolwich aftermath (via foucaultthehaters)
Whatever ‘terrorism’ is, it’s up to the state to define. It’s up to the government to define whose brutality is tolerable, and it’s up to the press to define whose ‘extremism’ is a threat to national identity, “an...
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“Why Society Still Needs Feminism
Because to men, a key is a device to open...”
– Caitlin O’Donnell, Drake University. (via on-another-note)
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The Problem with 'Boys Will Be Boys' →
tw for rape, abuse stories through links
For months, every morning when my daughter was in preschool, I watched her construct an elaborate castle out of blocks, colorful plastic discs, bits of rope, ribbons and feathers, only to have the same little boy gleefully destroy it within seconds of its completion.
No matter how many times he did it, his parents never swooped in BEFORE the morning’s...
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manalsmusings:
As immigrant children we’ve seen our parents struggle to plant their feet firmly on this foreign ground. They travelled to a land where they knew not a soul, where the language felt awkward in their mouths, where even the weather became their torturers. As immigrant children we’ve continuously faced each day the conflict of identification. When half of our bodies melts into this...
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“I tell myself
I’m strong.
I don’t need to show
my painful past
no one needs...”
– Daul Kim (via rabbrakha)
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“The bulk of the president’s speech was devoted to justifying drone strikes. I...”
– Medea Benjamin, Why I Spoke Out at Obama’s Foreign Policy Speech
(via jayaprada)
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jungjoo:
1. Everything is impure. Everything is violent. All moments are being invaded excessively, aggressively. Flesh and speech and the two inches between you and me.
2. Militarized states thrive on the politics of fear. I need to love you before I lose my mind.
3. English is filth and barbed wire on my tongue constricting all honest verbal expression. When I tell you I am afraid of...
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“Leave a lover with his thoughts for twenty-four hours and this is what will...”
– Stendhal, via the excellent blog, The Muse Daily [http://www.lit-hum.org] (via indigenousdialogues)
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Determining Your Skin Type & How to Work With It,...
drugstoreprincess:
Knowing your skin type is VERY important, and knowing how to deal with your skin’s characteristics is even more important to staying healthy and looking your best for as long as possible! If you have problems with your skin that are making you self conscious or physically uncomfortable, changing the way you care for the largest organ in your body may make your life better in...
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75-year-old Pakistani man killed by a white man... →
doyayoda:
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thirstrani:
Detectives appeal for witnesses after Mohammed Saleem, 75, was stabbed to death as he returned home from local mosque
But no one is going to talk about this, are they
Disgusting…
may the poor man rest in peace.
Inna lilahi wa inna ilayhi rajioon
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“There is no intimacy like that between two women who have chosen to be sisters.”
– Warsan Shire
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Bad habits
dyemelikeasunset:
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She always rubs her mouth, like there’s a secret she can’t say out loud.
Tracing her own lips to prevent a smile, a frown, or a tear. Sometimes her real smile peeks through, but you can only see it in her squinted almond eyes; dark amber, and soft, just like that bashful grin. Sometimes a frown shows when no one is looking, followed by a wistful sigh and a simple wipe of...
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outofstardust replied to your post: I wonder if theres even people anymore who follow…
I like his dog
I feel sorry his dog has such a horrible owner
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I wonder if there’s even people anymore who follow me who like Obama in the remotest way.
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mehreenkasana:
The politics of etiquette and niceties by liberal Americans - let’s not even touch the conservatives.. A little boy in Pakistan lost his legs in a drone strike but let’s not interrupt the President, please. “There’s a time and place for everything,” we’re aggressively informed. We can let another 3000 Pakistanis die in drone strikes because right now we’re terribly in love with...
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“If the democratic reforms recently undertaken by Myanmar, a once dysfunctional...”
– Nile Bowie, Washington’s love affair with Myanmar
Myanmar is pristine and extremely underdeveloped, and it holds abundant natural resources, from gold, gas, and oil, to uranium, precious gems, zinc, and copper.
It would be funny if it wasn’t just sad.
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“And after all these years, the trans community is still at the back of the bus....”
– Sylvia Rivera in Genderqueer: Voices from Beyond the Binary (via queeraztlan)
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Revealed: British Citizens Stripped of Status Then... →
The British government has secretly been stripping citizenship status from British nationals it suspects of terrorism, some of whom were later targeted and killed by drone attacks abroad.
According to an report by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and published in the UK’s Independent on Thursday, the investigation “has established that since 2010, the Home Secretary, Theresa May, has...
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I’m gonna start calling boys by the wrong name on purpose to remind them how unimportant they are
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sempiterna:
BLACK AND BROWN PEOPLE IN LONDON (partic visibly muslim people South London/Woolwich area)
Please stay safe. If you live in Woolwich, please avoid going out if you can. The English Defence League are calling their members in all parts of the country to take to the streets and they are throwing missiles at police around the Woolwich area.
Please keep updated via Twitter or the EDL...
craplos:
ladies. be careful when u wear spaghetti straps. it might distract the boys. they’ll start thinking of spaghetti. they will get hungry. they will stop at nothing to get their spaghetti.
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“Globalization is not a natural, evolutionary, or inevitable phenomenon, as is...”
– Vandana Shiva. “Ecological Balance in an Era of Globalization.” (2000). The Globalization Reader, Fourth Edition. 2012.(via thedarksideoflight89)
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“Elizabeth Martínez, a legendary civil rights and Chicano movement activist, has...”
– This is an excerpt from Chapter 10 of Angela Davis’ 2008 book: “The Meaning of Freedom and Other Difficult Dialogues”. You can read the full chapter here. The chapter is called: ‘Recognizing Racism in the Era of Neoliberalism’ (via thepeoplesrecord)
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“I have never really understood exactly what a ‘liberal’ is, since I have heard...”
– Assata Shakur (via basednkrumah)
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“#1: You frequently find yourself advocating that the United States send troops,...”
– (a few of the) Top 10 Signs of ‘Liberal Imperialism’ by Stephen M. Walt
(via globalwarmist)
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the-lone-pamphleteer:
“I know a hunger-striking prisoner who hasn’t eaten solid food in more than five years. He is being force-fed by the medical staff where he’s incarcerated. Starving himself, he told me during one of our biweekly phone calls last year, is the only way he has to exercise his first amendment rights and to protest his conviction. Not eating is his only available free speech...
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“I never consciously tried to hurt anyone, yet good intentions notwithstanding,...”
– Haruki Murakami (via erraticintrovert)
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“I was going to die, sooner or later, whether or not I had even spoken myself. My...”
– Audre Lorde (via thepeoplesrecord)
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“It is a problem when religious symbols become widespread and therefore lose...”
– Jaya Bedi, Beyond Bindis: Why Cultural Appropriation Matters, May 10, 2013 (via androphilia)
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“I think healthcare providers should treat the patient in front of them for the...”
– Healthcare, Fault, and Fat People - Dances with Fat (via redefiningbodyimage)
I like the one about demanding studies to back up their bullshit. Watch them go all guppy-mouthed on you while their brain skids on ice trying to figure out what to say.
(via jadelyn)
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adelenedawner reblogged your post: indigocrayon replied to your post: Sleepy Zilvia…
Possibly Im nightblogging, here, but Brain is saying that the best way to approach this is to look at mainstream forms…
Hm. I’m not sure in the context in which academia is often out it can be analysed that way
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inseptica:
shout out to girls with harsh voices and boys with fat thighs and to people who dont like a tv show but will still watch it with a good attitude if their friend wants to watch it and shout out to people who only rarely talk to their pets in baby voices and also to people who laugh at their own jokes and people who draw angry eyebrows on billboards i love you all
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indigocrayon replied to your post: Sleepy Zilvia ramblings: we talk a lot about how…
I think its bc people are usually speaking abt US academia? Im not cut out for academia but there are some wonderful women n poc I know who are working in academia. Idk lol. I get what yr saying tho (I think)
reinsurreccion replied to your post: Sleepy Zilvia ramblings: we talk a lot about...
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Sleepy Zilvia ramblings: we talk a lot about how much academia is horrible because it is infused wit whiteness and standards of white supremacy. What about our academia, our scholars, our inventors and artists and scientists? We had academics too. It’s not inherently a bad thing. And I think I need to find my way there properly, sit down and root myself there, in an academic place that...
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mllanders:
“Decolonization … continues to be an act of confrontation with a hegemonic system of thought; it is hence a process of considerable historical and cultural liberation. As such, decolonization becomes the contestation of all dominant forms and structures, whether they be linguistic, discursive, or ideological. Moreover, decolonization comes to be understood as an act of exorcism for...
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Why aren't more people freaking out about the new...
dancepunksnotdead:
You know, the one that gives housewives/full-time mothers a pension— wages for housework?
It’s ONLY A HUGE VICTORY FOR FEMINISM, SOCIALISM, AND WOMEN OF COLOR. Not a big deal or anything. Tumblr is mysteriously silent about this.
http://rabble.ca/columnists/2013/05/venezuelas-new-labour-law-best-mothers-day-gift
