March 2012
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[trigger warning: racism, child sexual abuse,...
I’m grading student bibliographies tonight, and someone’s research topic is, “is nonviolence more effective than violence in protest?”
As I get older and as I learn more about my experiences with child sexual abuse and rape, I find myself becoming more and more suspicious of any nonviolent discourse.
I mean, in the context of my experience, nonviolence is what I did for...
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ihopericksantorum:
I hope Rick Santorum goes to the zoo specifically to see the penguins and the penguin exhibit is closed.
oh my god this blog
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“when people get mad at other people saying that something they did was...”
– tooth&nail: (via wewantrevolutiongirlstylenow)
February 2012
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Asian American problems: when half of the things...
Globalization problems too.
hospitalwristbands asked: I saw a post of yours on my dash and my reaction was "omg CHUNGYEN I LOVE YOUUU"
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My mom won an iPad in a raffle...
She said she’s probably giving it to me. First thing I thought of: now I can browse tumblr in bed in fullscreen.
you know that thing where tumblr loads really...
that is THE WORST.
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Hikikomori - Wikipedia entry →
Hikikomori (ひきこもり or 引き籠もり Hikikomori, literally “pulling inward, being confined”, i.e., “acute social withdrawal”) is a Japanese term to refer to the phenomenon of reclusive adolescents or young adults who have chosen to withdraw from social life, often seeking extreme degrees of isolation and confinement because of various personal and social factors in their lives. The...
“Your job is not to educate others, (…) it is, first, to survive.”
– Speaker Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, a Professor of Sociology at Duke University. (via razycrandomgirl)
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white dance music is terrible
saw a post about the IDMAs on the Kaskade facebook page.
went to the site to look at the voting options.
there are no non-western artists at all.
WHAT ARE YOU DOING, WHITE PEOPLE. I could show you tons of awesome Asian dance music that is way better than Tiesto
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Angela Davis on violence
when she was in the California State Prison - 1972 [trigger warning for descriptions of violence against people of color]
Interviewer: A year ago the black panthers were much more active. We heard much more about that type of struggle. Is the time of the black panthers past?
Angela Davis: The black panthers still exist, and the black panthers are still extremely active in the Oakland community and communities all over the country. I’m not sure whether or not you are aware of what is now happening in the black panther party and the kinds of things that the members of that party are doing now.
Interviewer: No but tell me.
Angela Davis: First of all, if you’re gonna talk about a revolutionary situation, you have to have people who are physically able to wage revolution, who are physically able to organize and physically able to do all that is done.
Interviewer: But the question is more, how do you get there? Do you get there by confrontation, violence?
Angela Davis: Oh, is that the question you were asking? Yeah see, that’s another thing. When you talk about a revolution, most people think violence, without realizing that the real content of any revolutionary thrust lies in the principles and the goals that you’re striving for, not in the way you reach them. On the other hand, because of the way this society’s organized, because of the violence that exists on the surface everywhere, you have to expect that there are going to be such explosions. You have to expect things like that as reactions. If you are a black person and live in the black community all your life and walk out on the street everyday seeing white policemen surrounding you… When I was living in Los Angeles, for instance, long before the situation in L.A ever occurred, I was constantly stopped. No, the police didn’t know who I was. But I was a black women and I had a natural and they, I suppose thought I might be “militant.” And when you live under a situation like that constantly, and then you ask me, you know, whether I approve of violence. I mean, that just doesn’t make any sense at all. Whether I approve of guns. I grew up in Birmingham, Alabama. Some very, very good friends of mine were killed by bombs, bombs that were planted by racists. I remember, from the time I was very small, I remember the sounds of bombs exploding across the street. Our house shaking. I remember my father having to have guns at his disposal at all times, because of the fact that, at any moment, we might expect to be attacked. The man who was, at that time, in complete control of the city government, his name was Bull Connor, would often get on the radio and make statements like, “niggers have moved into a white neighborhood. We better expect some bloodshed tonight.” And sure enough, there would be bloodshed. After the four young girls who lived, one of them lived next door to me…I was very good friends with the sister of another one. My sister was very good friends with all three of them. My mother taught one of them in her class. My mother—in fact, when the bombing occurred, one of the mothers of one of the young girls called my mother and said, “Can you take me down to the church to pick up Carol? We heard about the bombing and I don’t have my car.” And they went down and what did they find? They found limbs and heads strewn all over the place. And then, after that, in my neighborhood, all the men organized themselves into an armed patrol. They had to take their guns and patrol our community every night because they did not want that to happen again. That’s why, when someone asks me about violence, I just, I just find it incredible. Because what it means is that the person who’s asking that question has absolutely no idea what black people have gone through, what black people have experienced in this country since the time the first black person was kidnapped from the shores of Africa.
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one day, i'm going to write something that gets...
and then i will turn around and say “fuck you, you guys are killing literature” and pull my work.
i’m going to troll people as a writer, yes
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uncleanravens asked: Dunno if you've heard already or not, but Hasbro released an official apology about "The Last Roundup" episode and even changed the voice and dialogue in the problematic scene. Soo... at least that probably explains the new rash of jerkoff bronies in your ask box? (Unsurprisingly, bronies are throwing a fit over Hasbro's decision.)
i kind of miss ponies, and i kind of don't.
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social-determinants answered your question: [tw: incest] do any other survivors find the supernatural fandom really triggering?
Weird I have been watching that show a bit, it is triggering in more ways than just the incest. It’s amazing how much the writers hate women.
i noticed that too. it was years ago when i watched the first three seasons, but i remember feeling uncomfortable for reasons i...
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baddominicana:
when people get shot, do you kneel down and ask “what are you doing so your kids wont get shot?” instead of going after the shooters (or maybe even trying to help heal them)?
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[tw: incest]
yourserenehighness answered your question: [tw: incest] do any other survivors find the supernatural fandom really triggering?
Oh god thisssss. Sometimes people tag it as “incest is best” and I’m like lol no
wtf that is the worst tag ever.
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[tw: incest] do any other survivors find the...
with all of the incest/gay pairing stuff i mean.
like i know there is consensual incest, and it’s even implied a lot in the show. but seeing it pop up on my dash is kind of fucked up sometimes.
dear tumblr friends
let’s get together and make an ironic, poor, queer person of color hipster rock band.
we can call it Audre Lorde’s Toes. or Zora Neale Thirstin’
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so this small press i like is publishing a book by...
it’s called “Evidence that we are descended from chairs”.
I know, read that over and tell me that isn’t the worst title in the world. It’s like the name of a bad hipster post-rock neo mathrock band.
I’ve read parts of his book and it is fucking terrible. Like I know a ton of writers who make better stuff than this dude. I know kids half his age who can write...
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Why the US Owes Haiti Billions by Bill Quigley... →
kemetically-ankhtified:
The reparation money that Haiti was forced to pay France after the revolution to gain its independence ($1 billion then, $22 billion today) destabilized the Haitian economy during the 19th century. During this time, Haiti had political and economic control of the island. This opened an opportunity for Dominicans to fight Haiti for their independence.
When it comes down...
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tell me about your life
mine is kind of icky lately and i am procrastinating. please?
Monkey With A Dildo: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy... →
monkeywithadildo:
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
BY ROBERT FROST
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods…
i completely misread this as “stopping by woods on a snowy dildo”. it...
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mattachinereview replied to your post: catchyoneliner replied to your post: jezebel is…
whoa, I had heard about all those but #5. can you expand?
i’ve only seen it mentioned in passing— unfortunately i don’t have a list of posts or anything compiled, since i generally avoid Jezebel anyway. but the next time i see it on my dash i’ll reblog it for you.
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staminafruit-deactivated2012043 asked: is jezebel a tumblr or?
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catchyoneliner replied to your post: jezebel is terrible
I would love to know what makes you say that. Not that I disagree, I am just interested in your rational
they are regularly racist and middle class.
they don’t care about trigger warnings.
they posted images of someone being raped without permission.
they support hugo schwyzer and his rape apologism.
they regularly repost content...
also,
it is really ironic that a site named after a black woman stereotype rarely ever cares for women of color unless it is a way to get more profits.
anyway, jezebel is butts, and it is a big mess and not feminist at all and no one should ever give them pageviews or attention.
jezebel is terrible
that is all
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indigofer replied to your post: Ugh I am not asking you to go back and rewrite history (where did I say that?) I was pointing out that the way you wrote it is showing your privilege NOW…
is…this person basically saying that trans women have male privilege? o.O
I’m not going to say that all trans women do, but I think I certainly do since I’m still living as a cis male most of...
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flowerfistandbestialwail asked: Ugh I am not asking you to go back and rewrite history (where did I say that?) I was pointing out that the way you wrote it is showing your privilege NOW. All I am doing is pointing out where the narrative is problematic and where isn't quite problematic enough that I can pinpoint why but explaining that as a woman it makes me uncomfortable nonetheless. Just because you are writing about a...
AMANDA ROSE: [trigger warning: body shaming,... →
flowerfistandbestialwails:
This narrative makes me really uncomfortable because it reads as though you are appropriating the inherent sexism and misogyny folks with vaginas face and attempting to paint yourself a victim instead of/in addition to because you had trouble finding images of the labia you found most appealing.
What’s more, I find a lot of your rhetoric narrow minded. The ...
if you're using a userstyle script for tumblr and...
just block the new default images with adblock
then the userstyles ones should show up by themselves
edit: okay here’s a quick tutorial
install adblock
turn off your userstyles first
right click on any of the post icons on your dash and select the bottom entry: “adblock plus: block image”
select the bottom option with the custom “post icons” url
refresh your page, and the post images...
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i'm still here
life is complicated and busy
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AMANDA ROSE: [trigger warning: body shaming,... →
This narrative makes me really uncomfortable because it reads as though you are appropriating the inherent sexism and misogyny folks with vaginas face and attempting to paint yourself a victim instead of/in addition to because you had trouble finding images of the labia you found most appealing.
What’s more, I find a lot of your rhetoric narrow minded. The overarching insinuation that no...
Lavender-Labia: Transethnic FTW →
brandx:
Oh, for fuck’s sake.
Apparently a clutch of privileged, delusional bigots have hijacked the term “transethnic,” ensuring that us Class Bastard adoptees and foster kids encounter even MORE dismissal and confusion in public discourse.
“Transethnic,” for those who don’t know, occurs…
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“….because when a grown-assed adult claims the “texture” of something normal like...”
– lilacturtle here.
Yes, they just said you can’t have sensorineural texture issues because of autism. No, they’re not joking.
(via teaandtheatre)
What the hell. Yes, lilacturtle — we like making our lives more difficult. Fuck you.
(via goldenheartedrose)
Did it occur to her that grown-assed...
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stuavg replied to your post: mistressofmuses replied to your post: i think the…
I LOVED parasite eve! I remember playing it as a kid but i haven’t been able to play it since. :/
Parasite Eve has a special place in my video gaming heart. Playing through it was one of the first times I felt like a woman. I don’t know why exactly, it just made me feel that way.
I also think it’s...
wow. so Jill let another racist, cissexizt,...
modernistwitch:
so-treu:
over on that cracker jack website of hers.
Jill don’t give a shit about women, she really doesn’t.
How do you not do basic research into the bloggers you hire, Jill? I don’t buy it.
i like how they didn’t remove the content or even the links to her site, they just added a cute disclaimer like that makes it okay.
your site has web clout and linking to it...
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mistressofmuses replied to your post: i think the imagery from the silent hill games is absolutely beautiful
One of many reasons I love Silent Hill. Especially the older games… 2 and 3 especially. I love horror, but I love horror that has some kind of beauty and commentary to it the most.
yessss. i feel the same way about parasite eve 1 and 2. blunt force “lol here’s some blood and...
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[trigger warning: antiziganism] French Socialist...
indigofer:
missvoltairine:
golden-zephyr:
In a February 12 interview on Canal Plus TV, François Hollande, Socialist Party candidate for president in the upcoming elections, proposed as a “solution” to the presence in France of Roma European Union (EU) citizens “the creation of camps … to accommodate them”.
The association of a “solution” in relation to specific racial groups with special...
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“There is no such thing as a pacifist labor strike. There has never been one in...”
– Boots Riley (via fuckyeahmarxismleninism)
Source rambles about rap/hip hop music and white...
baddominicana:
blackamazon:
karnythia:
izythequeergirl:
sourcedumal:
I was just discussing today how mainstream white media always likes to push out rap and hip hop as the most misogynistic and homophobic music to ever exist on the planet. White feminists have also joined in on this racist ass bandwagon, completely ignoring how many rap songs are indeed philosophical and have a deeper...
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i think the imagery from the silent hill games is...
but i rarely play the games because they always scare the shit out of me.
i also really like what they do with christian themes, and how they explore misogyny and fear of women.