February 2012
178 posts
“The following day, I attended a workshop about preventing gender violence,...”
– Why I Am A Male Feminist (via meggannn)
Feminism: important to everyone.
(via kaydeefalls)
I had an experience like this at a workshop, although in my case the guys did generate one or two ideas, mostly to do with passing as straight when they felt unsafe outside of queer spaces. It was still a...
autumn-and-eve:
undercoverterrorist:
lol there’s a part in the riot grrrl manifesto about thinism.
thinism.
riot grrrls are embarrassing
My brother knows racism before he's even 16. Fuck...
queerhairyvag:
Welp! That’s great! Gonna rant now! AS USUAL WHAT ELSE IS NEW
Before he was 8, things were fine and dandy and he’s a happy adorable snotrag!
He isin’t treated any differently and if he is, he’s too young to notice at the time.
He’s 10. He’s talented at creating animation and draws like a pro.
Early primary school; things are fine but he feels a little confused that he’s one...
newsflash
isithomophobic:
You don’t have to be a terrible person to be racist.
That is, racism isn’t reserved for people who are obviously monsters.
Racism is like Baskin-Robbins ice cream. It comes in 31+ flavors.
Really nice people can be racist.
People you love dearly can be racist.
People you tirelessly defend because they do other good things can be racist.
And being a really nice person...
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World: 6.7 Billion Whites:1.2 Billion =17% Blacks:1 Billion=15% Asians: 2.1 Billion=31% Middle Easterners/Indians: 1.675 Billion= 25% Native Americans/Mestizos: 250 Million= 4% Others: 536 million= 8%
Things non PoC have taught me since I became more...
kharispaxton:
1. Speaking about the Holocaust in any context other than educational is downright immoral, 9/11 needs a trigger announcement and a disclaimer if you discuss it in public but the murder of over 30 million Africans is OLD NEWS that I need to just drop and get over.
2. In History class, no one complained that the exercises of reenacting the proletariat & bourgeoisie were...
Watchfearandhope:
Black on Black Racism
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“And if a woman should say she doesn’t want to have children at all, the world is...”
– Caitlin Moran, How to Be a Woman (via littlekitsch)
Being racist is not being crazy, people.
iamabutchsolo:
In class today we were talking about all of these cases of race-infused violence in the south during the Civil Rights Movement, and Emmett Till came up. And of course we talked about how brutal his murder was - he was beaten, shot in the head, drowned, one of his eyes was gouged out. There was a quiet in the room as we all took in the sheer amount of superfluous physical violence...
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pradaempress:
Walking through the cosmetics section in department stores and recognizing the models like they’re your friends
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Wikipedia: List of Transgender People →
neutrois:
There’s more of us than you might think.
Dear White Women,
zorascreation:
Many Women of Color have called you out on your whitewashing of their issues in relation to racial injustice and how it affects things central to women’s experiences across the planet. Many of you have learned from these experiences about how to navigate your White Privilege while still being a disenfranchised gender-group. However, I don’t think much attention has been payed...
Becoming a better activist and a better person....
anotherlgbttumblr:
The hardest part about becoming a better person is admitting that you have done the things you hate. You have discriminated, you have excluded, you have used words that you shouldn’t use. It may be out of ignorance but you did those things.
That’s a painful thing to know, but it’s a bridge we must all cross if we want to be better people. We even have to accept that no...
“Our running shoes are really erasers. Every step erases a memory of a past...”
– John Bingham
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