January 2012
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New Football Vocabulary, Redux
Remember my co-worker who, in her pride over learning some new football vocabulary, said “overbound” instead of “out of bounds”?
Everybody…she. printed. out. the. wiki. on. football. plays.
So, she’s going to her Superbowl party, with drink and printout in hand, hollering about some, “That play was not on Wikipedia!”
I’ve gone to Jesus,...
“‘Slut’ is how we vilify a woman for exercising her right to say ‘yes’....”
– angels-and-angles
this is an amazing quote
(via livelaughawesome)
Not just women, i.e. nonbinary people etc., but yeah. Basically. (via avatarsnowy)
^^ true.
(via theoceanandthesky)
::waves church hanky::
soydulcedeleche:
It makes my heart full to see black women declare theyre beautiful. Coz when errbodys writing articles errweek bout why youre the ugliest and scummiest and nobody wants your ass along w the rest of the world. To still have selfesteem left even before personal trials and tribulations, is a feat. Takes an iron mental strength and will to be a functional black woman, one that can...
An Open Letter From A Black Woman
karnythia:
I hurt myself today. I was on Twitter talking about rape culture & this triggering victim blaming post at VSB. And it triggered the hell out of me so I’m just going to say up front that this is coming from that place. See, I said the things I needed to say, but now I have to say something else & it is too long for twitter. And although I am directing this specifically to black...
New Football Vocabulary
Okay, so…my co-worker, with a big grin on her face, asked me if I watched the football game yesterday. I said no because I’m not into football. She said she did, and she learned a couple of vocabulary words.
“Like ‘over bounds,’” she said proudly.
I couldn’t even hide my face. “You mean, ‘out of bounds’?”
And she couldn’t...
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“On Thursday, the Center for American Progress (CAP) launched the Fighting...”
– Jorge Rivas, Why Black Gay and Transgender Americans Need More Than Marriage Equality, at Colorlines. You can download the free report here.
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“because race is important and specific to how we are socialized in this fucked...”
– Jean Grae/ Talib Kweli - Black GIrl Pain - YouTube
so normally i avoid reading the comments in youtube…because well..you know…but i thought that this was so succinct and well said on the ‘why is race important’? question that keeps popping up in my life lately…that i wanted to post it…
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“Our recognition beckons new strategies, even as we confront the terrible...”
– —Crunktastic, Disrespectability Politics: On Jay-Z’s Bitch, Beyonce’s ‘Fly’ Ass, and Black Girl Blue, Crunk Feminist Collective.
Instead of offering “advice” to a Black child whose Black parents didn’t even ask her to look around at their child—let alone say something...
so-treu:
in expected news, white f*eminists still chose whiteness over women.
This is animated gif why I stay fucking with so-treu.
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"but the CELTS wore dreadlocks/tattoos/body...
so-treu:
first off, note-a-bear has a great post on how those dreadlocks that the Celts were supposedly wearing actually weren’t dreadlocks as we define them today. that’s when shit like historical context and knowing of what the fuck you speak come into play.
but here’s the thing. the Celts were a really long fucking time ago. and it was one ethnic group amongst MANY of ancient Europe. now, i...
so-treu:
s.e. smith at this ain’t livin’: Beyond the Binary: But What Does It All Mean? I Don’t Get It!
kiriamaya:
Is gender something people need to get? Is it something that can be quantified and assigned values and easily described? Cis people struggle to grasp what it means to be trans—not just nonbinary, but trans in general—and I’m not sure they really need to. The...
Sticks and stones can break my bones but words can...
#askafeminist........y'all ever gone get this shit...
so-treu:
i don’t know the person who left this comment, but it was in response to Jill Filipovic’s endorsement of Jaclyn Friedman’s white lady bullshit. and i think it sums up #askafeminist perfectly. like at this point? it’s 2012, why the fuck are y’all still *pulling* this shit??
When I was young I used to babysit my friend’s son. She instructed me to, when he acted up, put him in the...
karnythia:
House Kills SOPA
In a surprise move today, Representative Eric Cantor(R-VA) announced that he will stop all action on SOPA, effectively killing the bill. This move was most likely due to several things. One of those things is that SOPA and PIPA met huge online protest against the bills. Another reason would be that the White House threatened to veto the bill if it had passed....
Do you remember that fool?
blackamazon:
redlightpolitics:
Professor at London School of Economics who wrote some awful drivel about Black women being ugly?
I now have to wonder if they put something in the water at LSE or if people with certain inclinations naturally gravitate towards the institution, as news of students engaging in Antisemitic drinking game emerge. From the article:
LSE students are facing...
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