August 2012
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“When you spend that long on the outer reaches of empire, you understand the...”
– Chris Hedges (via letterstomycountry)
I feel like this is true when I go back to the Middle East and you see, first hand, how the US foreign policy effects the region and the everyday lives of the citizens. You begin to understand their anger and frustration. It does push you out of the comfort...
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Billionaire Mayor Bloomberg Sues to Keep New...
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The world’s 20th richest man declared recently that a living wage bill passed (over his veto) by New York’s city council was the next best thing to Communist central planning. Michael Bloomberg, who’s also made news recently trying to ban large sodas, today took the next step in proving how serious he is about keeping wages low—I mean, keeping New York City a...
“White men from prosperous families grow up with the expectation that our voices...”
– Why most mass killers are privileged white men - http://www.rolereboot.org/culture-and-politics/details/2012-07-why-most-mass-murderers-are-privileged-white-men (via riselikethetide)
“only those who’ve marinated in privilege can conclude that their private pain is the entire world’s problem with...
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Just a PSA
sourcedumal:
If:
You just “can’t see a person of color doing” anything that doesn’t involve them being a slave/being a stereotype,
You white wash established characters of color in any sort of artwork you create,
You defend whitewashing in Hollywood
You whinge about how a story is ‘ruined’ because a character whose race isn’t specified turns out to be a POC in the adaptation.
You demand the...
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July 2012
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“Adults train kids to become sexually mature in a manner they approve of. We clap...”
– Glee Season 2 Episode 6: Never Been Kissed | Tom & Lorenzo (via sociolab)
“You are not alone and wondering who will be convicted of the crime of insisting...”
– Andrea Gibson, “The Nutritionist” (via christies27)
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Ruth Frankenburg's 8-point definition of Whiteness
ghostarewe:
1- Whiteness is a location of structural advantage in societies structured in racial dominance.
2-Whiteness is a ‘standpoint,’ a location from which to see selves, others, and national and global orders.
3- Whiteness is a site of elaboration of a range of cultural practices and identities, often unmarked and unnamed, or named as national, or ‘normative’ rather than specifically...
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“Coming out is dangerous. There’s a reason a large production is made out of it,...”
– Is It Safe To Come Out Yet?
This Ain’t Livin’
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bankuei:
afrokidcosmos:
I can’t be a Black hipster or a blipster. The first “hipsters” were Black. “Hip” the word is Wolof in origin. I’m just being me, Black.
— Yeshi (@YESHICAN) November 19, 2011
The english word ‘hip’ comes from the Wolof ‘hipi,’ (or “hippi’, or xippi’ depending on the source, transliteration varies of course) and apparently can be roughly translated as “to be aware/in...
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“It’s the 21st century, shouldn’t war just be a fucking embarrassment at this...”
– Adam Kokesh (via whitewingedalbatross)
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“The institutional structure of society supplies the typology for our actions....”
– Peter Berger, Sociological Perspective—Man In Society (via itsnevertoolatte)
“I’ve always believed human sexuality was more complex than any of us give it...”
– Son of Baldwin (via sonofbaldwin)
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“I now believe that people aren’t ‘abled’ or ‘disabled’ - they only have...”
– Uncommon Fathers: Reflections on Raising A Child with A Disability, Life Goes On by Frank Burle (via aow)
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“Sexuality is both fixed and fluid; genetic and environmental; ordered and...”
– Son of Baldwin (via sonofbaldwin)
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Things parents forget to tell their children:
menageriedefolie:
Things parents forget to tell their children:
Bodies are hairy. No matter the gender, your face will have hair and that is more than okay.
Your butthole is going to have some hair too. And maybe your nipples. And your tummy. And where ever else.
Stretch marks. Those are a thing. Everyone gets ‘em. If you don’t, you probably don’t have skin.
Vaginas smell. Every vagina has...
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“One of the privileges of being white is that you do not have to think of your...”
– Sleep Walking Through Racism: My Life as a Recovering Feminazi (via sociolab)
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eastafrodite:
White privilege is being able to throw around buzzwords like “scholarly” and “accredited” when demanding PoC show sources when discussing the oppression in their communities (historically and presently) but having no problem bantering on about affirmative action, without having any actual idea of how it works or who it benefits.
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“In the United States, color preferences are typically measured against putative...”
– Cedric Herring
I don’t like the way it’s phrased at some parts (relationships - implying that it was somehow consensual?) but otherwise, yes. (via wretchedoftheearth)
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“Racism and white supremacy are so pervasive, that we don’t even have to be...”
– “Intersectionality” is a Big Fancy Word for My Life (2010)
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“In the prison industrial complex, men and women become homosexual by...”
– Son of Baldwin (via sonofbaldwin)
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“Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the...”
– Abraham Flexner, American educator in “The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge”, Harper’s 1939
More on of the importance of making time for abstract, creative thought in today’s efficiency-obsessed education system at Brain Pickings.
(via jtotheizzoe)
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“The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the...”
– Malcolm X (via theeducatedfieldnegro)
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“In research on apologies, in this world of seconds, minutes, hours, that the...”
– Frank Partnoy, speaking on procrastination/delay management for RSA (via theoriginalfoxmccloud)
“Everyone likes black stuff when it’s not on a black person. Ask Elvis. Ask Led...”
– Danielle Belton, “Celebrating the Black Beauty on White Women” (via lavenderlabia)
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“When gays get so angry about a chicken sandwich, it is because Chick-fil-A has...”
– Conor Gaughan, We Are Not Arguing Over Chicke (via humanformat)
“But the country has a 200-year history of treating black lives as property....”
– Critical Race Theory-The Cutting Edge 2nd edition (via constantlyalex)
“I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully...”
– Anne Lamott (via humanformat) 