January 2012
45 posts
“We’ve known about labor abuses in some factories for four years, and they’re...”
– A “former Apple executive” speaking to the New York Times about working conditions at suppliers’ plants in China. (via officialssay)
“I love it when people are like, “Oh my god, your nitpicks about race, gender,...”
– euclase:
You are wonderful.
And I am going to keep quoting you forever.
(via farriswheels)
True Story
sooolondon:
vagabondaesthetics:
Your argument is not any more valid than any other person’s because you choose to be “objective” in your analysis. Someone “getting emotional” does not make your position stronger. Divorcing yourself from the humanity of a discussion and the topics discussed/argued that have relevancy to people’s day-to-day lives is not an applaud worthy position.
“A white college student from a private college goes into a poor neighborhood and...”
– Dr. Patricia Hill Collins quoting Public Allies CEO Paul Schmitz in her talk Answering the Call to Community Service. (via sexartandpolitics)
A microcosm of one of the fundamental issues with the non-profit industrial complex.
(via myflagisblackandred)
Ah, activist tourism… Whether it’s in the...
“From a very young age we’re basically taught to think of racism and “anything...”
– feministdisney (via stay-in-skull
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soydulcedeleche:
You dont get to tell other people how to feel or act on their hurt. ‘specially not when youre sitting in comfort and privilege. Thats not intellectual! You sound like an ass. Its boastful, selfish, victimblaming asshattery to point fingers at the agreded for not doing more w their state of victimization while the aggressors sit pretty and you chalk it up to life. Leave it to...
“Some problems we share as women, some we do not. You [white women] fear your...”
– Audre Lorde, “Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference” (via arewomenhuman)
“A man who assisted in autopsies in a big urban hospital, starting in the...”
– Sunday was the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade (via motherjones)
“I Don’t Care if You are Black, White, Blue or...
racismschool:
What is this statement?
When I’ve heard it before, it’s pissed me off so much that I would force myself to make a joke so that I wouldn’t curse out the person who said it. I would laugh and say “You don’t care if someone is blue? If I turn blue I am dying. You should call someone.”
It’s far from funny though.
I’ve never heard a non-racist person say this. Not once. Not ever. I’m...
“Purple flowers grow, the color blood looks in the veins. They’ll sprout out of...”
– Francesca Lia Block, Wasteland (via floralnymph, angelique-faith) (via tigersmilk)
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Elms by Louise Glück
earlyfrost:
All day I tried to distinguish
need from desire. Now, in the dark,
I feel only bitter sadness for us,
the builders, the planers of wood,
because I have been looking
steadily at these elms
and seen the process that creates
the writhing, stationary tree
is torment, and have understood
it will make no forms but twisted forms.
My Grandmother was a Racist
racismschool:
My Grandmother (my Mother’s Mother) was a racist. Not a regular racist. The kind of racist that other racist people point to as “Racist.”
My Great Grandparents were racist too. Extreme racist. Hard core. Hated all things not white. My Grandmother treated me like I was gold. She was racist and she treated her half black grandchild like a perfect human being. Never once was my skin...
“In the instances when POC say shit like ‘Oh I can’t stand white folk’ or ‘Damn...”
– Briana (via absinthedisco)
Reblogging every time I see it.
(via dr—grumbles)
sexgenderbody:
“Wow. I really feel like people are taught to embrace their privilege, everyone wants to keep saying in bold over and over, “your privilege isn’t bad, it’s not something to feel bad about”, and on and on so as not to hurt feelings and trample over people’s natural guilt/anger reaction. Let us never forget, though, that your privilege did indeed come about by bad things, bad rules,...
Things straight white Christian men like:
sixtyforty:
• playing the “we’re oppressed and persecuted too” game
• using meaningless phrases like “reverse racism”
• saying they’re “not ashamed to admit they’re a Christian” without even realizing that they probably should be
• ignoring godwin’s law by dismissing feminists as “nazis” which is weird because straight white Christian men are probably the only people with whom actual nazis...
wildunicornherd:
liquornspice:
Now that “Red Tails” is coming out, a part of my family history
eshusplayground:
Only a couple of years ago, my mom told me that my grandfather was one of the Black GIs who liberated a concentration camp. I don’t recall when he shared this information with her, whether as a child or later as an adult, but I vividly remember how she said that he described the...
“Look how your children grow up. Taught from their earliest infancy to curb their...”
– Voltairine de Cleyre (via petitefeministe)
The best part of this essay is when she advocates for children to be brought up with no gender-role stereotyping, and gets in some not-so-subtle digs at heterocentricism and heterosexism in the process.
Did I mention this was written over a hundred years...
So I really don't get the whole James Deen fetish....
nicotinecoughdrop:
pompadoursandpincurls:
chubbycartwheels:
juicyjacqulyn:
buriedamor:
sageoflogic:
lettersintheampersand:
These cute kitty keychains are not toys, but are in fact a very serious defense weapon
D: It’s really fucking sad that this is necessary.
Where can I order one of these?
ssoooooo where do i get this? I will be living alone in toronto…. I would like this...
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“Have you seen most of the plus-size sections out there? It’s horrifying....”
– Tim Gunn
(via Fashionista)
His nomination for sainthood is long overdue.
(via ultraprism)
soydulcedeleche:
i am weeping at the loss of @jaded16india’s tumblr. weeping.
she is the reason i started mine. the reason i gave a fuck bout tumblr in the first place.
so i weep.
WEEP.
for the loss of the tumblr blog one of the greatest women to ever grace the internets.
Other people need to know this happened.
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December 2011
50 posts
