December 2011
sickwithjustice:
mikroblogolas:
[If you’re not interested in cissexist bullshit denying the reality of gender or in the ramblings of academia, scroll right past.]
madgastronomer:
mikroblogolas:
“If one more person tells me that ‘all gender is performance’ I think I am going to strangle them. What’s most annoying about that sound-bite is how it is often recited in a somewhat snooty...
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On making molehills into mountains
mikroblogolas:
do-fish-have-fingers:
zincfingers:
(this post is shorter and it is basically a reprise of something I wrote a long time ago back in august. I can’t find the original, but here is another place where I allude to it.)
Being marginalized (literally, not being centered) is not the same as being oppressed.
Marginalization near-inevitably accompanies oppression, but that...
White Privilege and the OWS Student Occupation →
suzy-x:
More truth bombs dropped in this excellent post by a friend. Hilariously enough, those of us talking about privilege in the space yesterday had a hard time with some of the folks the writer describes. Some dude said we (as in marginalized people) were silencing and imposing our authority on him by doing this teach-in, another got angry because “white people are working class too,” and...
eateroftrees:
goldenheartedrose:
stogu:
Keep calm and support Neurodiversity: Newsflash
stogu:
goldenheartedrose:
It is entirely possible to be disabled and still be ableist.
It is possible to be a member of a community and be prejudiced against a subgroup within that community.
If someone is hurt by something you have said or done, a good way of handling that is to apologize, move...
“Imagine if all the millions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of volunteer...”
– Peter Gelderloos (via nowarbutcatwar)
eateroftrees:
codeman38:
allies-person:
I’m with you there. It seems as though the ratio of crap : positive/neutral stuff is trending in the wrong direction.
Also, I’m kind of grossed out about how everything an autistic person—oh, excuse me, “person with autism” (eyeroll)—does ends up on that tag. To me that kind of nonsense makes it very clear who is reducing people to their...
November 2011
[TRAUMA WARNING: police brutality, racist&ableist...
karnythia:
Police ‘killed deaf cyclist with stun gun after he failed to obey instructions to stop’
darkpuck:
peak-society:
“A police officer killed an elderly, deaf and mentally disabled man riding his bicycle by shooting him with a Taser stun gun after he failed to obey instructions to stop.
Roger Anthony, 61, was killed as he made his way home in Scotland Neck, South Carolina, after...
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thenameoftheworms asked: Er, just in case you missed it, Derrick Jensen basically advocates the genocide of disabled people
“We all know the function of the media has never been to eliminate the evils of...”
– Waking Life (via wakingsparks)
my gender isn't on a line.
sickwithjustice:
transdyke:
my-little-eunuch:
maskedfangirl:
iamgreaterthanhate:
brennando:
Some people think of gender as a spectrum — male on one side, female on the other, and an in between area.
I tend to think of it as a bouncy ball pit, with all different genders and identities being tossed around in a space of wonderfulness.
I mean, who would want a little line to encompass...
“Modern schools and universities push students into habits of depersonalized...”
– Arthur Evans (via cultureofresistance)
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Anonymous asked: Do you think there's some kind of resentment towards nonbinary faab folks? We hardly ever hear people talking about maab nonbinary folks, and even trans men are getting more attention than trans women. I don't mean to cause friction or anything but it just bothers me how maab trans people are invisible, and so many issues with misogyny among faab trans people.
Feminist texts written by women of color
mylifeasafeminista:
This list is stil a work in progress, but I really wanted to get it posted. I have either read parts of/all of the texts below or they have been recommended to me. Please reblog and add your own suggestions to the list. Each time someone adds something new, I’ll go back to this original post and make sure to include them. Thanks and enjoy!
Books
Women, Race, and Class by...
[content notes: binary privilege-denying,... →
catamite:
i think “binary privilege” is pretty much crap as well. it reflects tumblr’s obsession with identity over life conditions. and in any case, for a lot of us, our non-binariness is embedded within identities like “dyke” and “fag” and we are just negotiating with the same conflicts differently. not in a better way, not in a worse way, just differently. is there a material difference...
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When trolls are like, "Don't you have more...
amydentata:
robot-heart-politics:
And you’re like, “Seriously? Your last 50 posts have been animated gifs from cartoons and jokes about anal sex. You really want to start a discussion about who is devoting their valuable thinking time to worthy causes?”
FLAWLESS VICTORY.
“Privilege means i have the option to make you non-existent when I’m...”
– (via freedomoverfear)
[trigger warning: violence, police brutality]...
lightspeedsound:
wilwheaton:
Charles J. Kelly, a former Baltimore Police Department lieutenant who wrote the department’s use of force guidelines, said pepper spray is a “compliance tool” that can be used on subjects who do not resist, and is preferable to simply lifting protesters.
“When you start picking up human bodies, you risk hurting them,” Kelly said. “Bodies don’t have handles on...
[TRIGGER WARNING: contempt towards ace-spectrum...
kinsey-x:
assholedansavage:
[Image Description: Background is several triangles in a circle like a pie alternating from red, orange, yellow, green, light blue, blue, violet, and pink. A picture of Dan Savage. Top Text: YOU’RE ASEXUAL? THAT’S COOL. Bottom Text: JUST DON’T INFLICT YOURSELF ON NORMAL PEOPLE]
Source
“With all the minimally sexuals out there making normally sexuals miserable,...
Don't believe media censorship or manipulation is...
occupyonline:
ltsahardknocklife:
So a guy walks into a bar...
cursethecosmos:
And he sees this girl who catches his eye. He walks up to her, flirts and asks if he could buy her a drink. She declines. It seems she wants to hang out with her friends and doesn’t want to be bothered. So the man calmly and with a non sarcastic tone says: “Okay. Well, you have a good evening then”. He walks away and continues to enjoy his evening because life moves on and she...
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Makeup
sickwithjustice:
pogromnacht:
I had nice dark eyes at work today. Some random guy stops me to ask me a question, then breaks off, looking at my face, rather concerned.
“Hey, you all right? What happened?”
I stare at him. A moment passes. Then:
“Oh, it’s makeup.”
I grin and reply, “Yeah, but you should see the other guy.”
He looks profoundly puzzled, and I walk away.
this rules
nebrasska:
jayandsilentboob:
“i just prefer thin women. everyone has their preferences!”
“i just prefer white men over black men. you can’t hate on me for what i happen to like!”
OH YEAH I’M SURE SOCIETY DIDN’T HELP YOU COME TO THOSE CONCLUSIONS OR ANYTHING.
forreal.
If you've experienced something traumatic and...
slaterwashere:
dionthesocialist:
you are perfectly within your rights to do so and don’t let anyone tell you differently.
but if you are joking about something you and someone else have experienced in their presence and they’re triggered by yr jokes then you’re not.
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“Simply put, the great ‘PC’ cliché, as commonly deployed in mainstream discourse,...”
– zuky (via kiriamaya)
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[content notes: mention of genocide, denial] "How...
takealookaroundus:
“Although it’s well known to anyone who wants to know, let me summarize the argument against Thanksgiving: European invaders exterminated nearly the entire indigenous population to create the United States. Without that holocaust, the United States as we know it would not exist. The United States celebrates a Thanksgiving Day holiday dominated not by atonement for that...
Native Threads (store) →
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Our designs are contemporary, yet the messages are very traditional,...
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about thanksgiving
youarenotyou:
i don’t really get people who are like well thanksgiving is important because of its emphasis on family, stop focusing on the negative blah blah blah
it’s not like it’s impossible to make a new holiday, one that doesn’t have such a fucked up and loaded history. the fact that this country refuses to do so is significant.
it just reminds me of people who try to pretend christmas...
[trigger warning: colonialism, imperialism,...
innerfatgirl:
I was recently reminded of something I wrote for Canadian Thanksgiving called: Happy Thanksgiving White Supremacy! With U.S. thanksgiving rolling around, I was thinking about how I think it is really important to acknowledge that many of us are settlers living on stolen native land. Instead of praying before dinner (since I make house with lots of gaylords and perverts and we...
[trigger warning: imperialism, colonialism,...
miraclesaremadeofluckandtime:
God, white people on my dash taking criticisms of genocide as a personal attack on them *rolls eyes*. Thanksgiving is not a holiday rooted in anything positive or good in history; actually it’s rooted in death and betrayal and just, horror. Really. Not going to take it away from you, but at least show us respect for the past its rooted in and mourning that. Just be...
Direct Action Resource for Trans* Protestors →
amydentata:
Direct actions, protests, and acts of civil disobedience are powerful tools for change. Participating in these actions may also put you at risk of arrest and/or mistreatment by police and in jail. When participating in direct actions, transgender people should understand their rights and take necessary precautions before accepting the risk of arrest. If you are planning on attending...
amydentata:
kiriamaya:
sanaatamir replied to your post: It is just the nature of men to…
I just cannot even with the circular logic inherent in patriarchal BS. It’s like Ouroboros, except it makes even less sense. x_x; The only reason femininity “threatens” masculinity is because of small, fragile egos and scapegoating BS.
Yeah, really. If masculinity is so damn powerful, why’s it so...
kiriamaya:
sanaatamir replied to your post: It is just the nature of men to…
I just cannot even with the circular logic inherent in patriarchal BS. It’s like Ouroboros, except it makes even less sense. x_x; The only reason femininity “threatens” masculinity is because of small, fragile egos and scapegoating BS.
Yeah, really. If masculinity is so damn powerful, why’s it so threatened by...
[trigger warning: violence, assault, rape, police... →
airellia:
peecharrific:
cephalopods4peace:
peecharrific:
I’m sort of sick of this nonsense, this idea supporters of OWS have (and won’t let go of to save their lives) that it really is an inclusive movement and women and people of color should just work a little harder to get in line with it.
Why should we have to work to be included? Why should we…
Disclaimer: Before you read my...
“I probably wouldn’t have as much of a problem educating cis people if they paid...”
– amydentata (via kiriamaya)
or even just attention….
(via iamwhoiamandidontgiveadamn)
DING DING DING! YOU WIN the comments round! Your prize is ONE INTERNETS, to be paid in full!
(via amydentata)
Yeah, shit, it really rubs salt in the wound when, after they demand I educate them, I spend hours...
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Re: [So and so] was born a man but identifies as a... →
amydentata:
dddelaneymeadeee:
amydentata:
Really? Was she now? Born a man? She sprouted out of the womb a grown-ass man? Full height, body hair, and everything? If so, THAT’S your news story right there, folks. Not being trans.
“Born a man.” Give me a fucking break. She was born a baby, like everyone else.
Seriously?
Oh, here we go again.
I’m all for equality and for people being...
“Dorothy Allison says “Femme girls dance on razors every day of our lives, and...”
– Queer, Gifted & Black: In Praise Of The Vulnerable Femme: The Redux (via delineatingkaj)
ooo, this is lovely! I’ve only recently and with trepidation started to let my femmeness shine on occasion. It’s terribly frightening, to me.
a reminder:
kiriamaya:
raccooncat:
not everyone is actually physically capable of standing outside with little protection against the weather for hours upon end without repercussions in the form of medical problems
keep that in mind next time you try to guilt someone into protesting ok
#read: DON’T TRY TO GUILT SOMEONE INTO PROTESTING ok
“I probably wouldn’t have as much of a problem educating cis people if they paid...”
– amydentata (via kiriamaya)
This is fabulous. Yes yes yes.
So over it [TRIGGER WARNING: abuse, rape,violence,...
jaded16india:
The following post is by Numa and I as a response to Eve Ensler’s post Over It. There are some things you don’t get to be over, Eve Ensler. But if we’re going to play this game, here are some of ours.
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We are over cis white feminists claiming to speak for the rest of us and then shutting us up when we try to fit a word in edgewise. We are over being told that we are...
Actually though
eateroftrees:
Warning for abuse
The “sitting in front of a screen for five hours might be dangerous you should be safe!” shit is really not okay.
Because like.
My parents would go use that shit to justify, you know, stealing my computer. Or other such “YOU NEED TO DO HEALTHY THINGS” which. Funnily enough. Made me depressed and shit.
Which isn’t healthy.
So like.
Yeah.
How the fuck are...
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eateroftrees:
jemimaaslana:
Anonymous asked:
How recently was the term “allistic” introduced, and who coined it? I am curious about it after you gave that etymology, since (unless I am mistaken) the group that it describes is generally not considered “Other”. I’ve seen the term quite a lot from following you, but I just did a search and found that it doesn’t even have a Wikipedia...
“I hate how the phrase ‘have some self respect’ is used to shame women who are...”
– Unknown (via suburbanangst)
