March 2012
so I thought SJ tumblr was past using ableist...
hahahaha nope.
a-bayani:
lemuffinmistress:
ruvy:
I think that people forget that condoms protect you from more than just pregnancy.
And there is no morning after pill for HIV.
ACTUALLY THERE IS.
It’s called post exposure prophylaxis.
http://www.who.int/hiv/topics/prophylaxis/en/
If you’ve had unprotected sex and are afraid of possibly being at risk for HIV, please go to the emergency room and ask...
Public service announcement:
sinidentidades:
afternoonsnoozebutton:
Group work is literally the worst thing ever.
Chill.: For those who think blacks in America are... →
hupsoonheng:
comradekonrad:
feedmerevolution:
Fact: Black youths arrested for drug possession are 48 times more likely to wind up in prison than white youths arrested for the same crime under the same circumstances.
Source: “Young White Offenders get lighter treatment,” 2000. The Tennessean. April 26: 8A.
Fact:…
not to sound racist but a lot of this has to do with they way people act
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February 2012
robowolves:
hupsoonheng:
theanimalnamesofplants:
the bad dominicana: thatmuchlove: 13 Year Old Jada Williams Persecuted by the Rochester…
the principal of this school? and the teachers? major white-supremacist oppressive assholes. if you are anti oppression situations like this are manifestations of kyriarchy that cannot go unchallenged. this girl deserves all the radical support she can...
White people: I wear Native American war bonnets and face paint because I have a deep appreciation of Native American culture.
Native Americans: Hey, could you stop doing that? It's harmful to us.
White people: Nah, I respect your culture too much to listen to what you have to say about it.
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I think daryl is my favorite character on Walking...
because he’s fucking USEFUL and talented and also he saves like, everybody all the time
also he’s definitely the hottest
This is me. Yukon Girl.: Sherman Alexie's ... →
yukongirl:
“On the Amtrak from Boston to NYC”
The white woman across the aisle from me says ‘Look, look at all the history, that house on the hill there is over two hundred years old, ‘ as she points out the window past me into what she has been taught. I have learned little more about American history during my few days back East than what I expected and far less of what we should all...
racialicious:
“Angela Davis, former Black Panther, is the go-to commentator on any protest or political uprising these days. (And, apparently, the go-to stencil for “street artists” designing nostalgic protest fliers.) So why hasn’t anyone asked her how she feels about the DREAM Act — the national push to grant undocumented students and soldiers their citizenship, and one of the greatest...
Angela Davis on violence
when she was in the California State Prison - 1972
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.
“I think people sometimes get the wrong impression when they’re like, ‘Oh, well,...”
– Lucy Liu to Jane Magazine in 2003 (via itsinthetrees)
bowing (via oogishkamaanisee)
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“I most recently noticed the impact that the openness of artists like Nicki Minaj...”
– Sabia McCoy-Torres does a fascinating analysis on Nicki Minaj’s images on New York City’s queer youth of color on the R today. (via racialicious)
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Ojibwe tribes in the Wisconsin ceded territory... →
freecouch:
In response to the Wisconsin legislature’s proposal to establish a wolf hunting and trapping season, GLIFWC Executive Administrator James Zorn made clear that Ojibwe tribes in the Wisconsin ceded territory oppose the public harvest of the animal known as ma’iingan. Wolves are a significant species in traditional Ojibwe teachings, considered educators and brothers to the...
a little confrontation is healthy - even...
This cloud looks like a camel: Sherlock, as done... →
thestoutorialist:
hardmodeofsex:
Once upon a time in MODERN DAY LONDON, there was a “consulting detective” by the name of Shin’ichi Honda (30). (Okay, her name was actually Shigeko, but who the hell wants to be a “nourishing child” when you can be the ONE TRUTH.)
She was looking…
Austin talking in all caps: A few stories.. →
romanticdevices:
Well this is related to Austin’s post about his co-worker and his experience at the gun show.
Anyway, last year at our cities annual Fourth of July fair, and there was a booth with Tea Party members passing out information. They passed it out to almost every single person…
