February 2012
28 posts
For Saying Yes: Becoming a better activist and a... →
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…
yes yes yes. this is exactly what i was trying to say to someone recently.
(TW: Ableist slur) Being racist is not being...
vincentwilde:
a-bayani:
littlemissmutant:
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...
Update: Culutral Appropriation Do's and Don'ts
adailyriot:
Given that the old cultural appropriation resource learning list is being passed around more frequently now, and that some of the links on it no longer work, I thought it was high time to release an updated list. These links pertain primarily to the appropriation of Native American/First Nations cultures, spiritualities, and items. However, it’s important to note that cultural...
a. bayani: [trigger warning: ableism] I've started... →
fromonesurvivortoanother:
…and possibly classist, and usually racist and/or sexist. “Intelligence” as a concept has been determined by privileged, nondisabled upper class hetero white men. The entire canon of psychology and mental illness literature is 99% people like that.
When a person…
“Colonialism began with conquest and is today maintained by a settler...”
– Haunani-Kay Trask, from “The Color of Violence” (via hypocrite-lecteur)
militarism isn’t the dominating ideology per se tho, because us hegemony is also achieved through soft power in many areas. it’s still a system of domination, however. good quote despite that small part
(via lionza)
“People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly...”
– Raoul Vaneigem (via servile-masses-arise)
(via bradicalmang)
Reverse Racism is a myth created by racist white...
steveisskinny:
brazenbitch:
Who believe that sporadic, interpersonal acts of hostility from people of color is equivalent or relevant to the struggle of people of color from oppression.
Even if a person of color is hateful against white people, it has nothing to do with the thought of whites being inferior to people of color, but rather backlash from the harm whiteness has caused non whites,...
“They’ve taught us that good queers don’t get mad. They’ve taught us so well that...”
– - Text of a manifesto originally passed out by people marching with the ACT UP contingent in the New York Gay Pride Day parade, 1990. (via vincentwilde)
“[The young black males are] shuttled into prisons, branded as criminals and...”
– In her book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, legal scholar Michelle Alexander writes that many of the gains of the civil rights movement have been undermined by the mass incarceration of black Americans in the war on drugs. (via nprfreshair)
“Can the hungry go on a hunger strike? Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You...”
– arundhati roy from the guardian (via counterworlds)
miseengarde:
white girls who want my culture’s bindis and saris and henna
take my skin colour too
and my dark brown lips
take my self-hatred because i don’t fit into the euro-centric ideals of beauty
take the oppression too
take the history of colonization that has devastated my country
and the drones that currently devastate my country
take all the bad stuff too
not just the pretty,...
“What counts as activism? Why didn’t the kind of emotional self-care me and my...”
– Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, “A Time to Hole Up And a Time to Kick Ass” in We Don’t Need Another Wave (via kru-pa)
January 2012
18 posts
“For most black people, oppression is the default, so when you, as a white...”
– My friend Jason, again. I love this white man. I really do. xD (via thegoddamazon)
I can't remember what I've forgotten: Overheard at... →
catamite:
flirtingwithparadox:
TW RAPE AND VIOLENCE
tahlalaliaaa:
tumblinfeminist:
“I just wanted to say to him: If its ok for you to rape me because I was dressed like a ‘slut/skank/ho/whore’; then is it ok for me to shoot/stab/maim/kill you because you are a male who looks threatening? Aren’t you asking for it?”
Seriously you guys walking round in big drunken groups, wearing ...
“Hooking up in radical communities, I have found, is still run through with...”
– Radical Faggot’s new blog post, “How Liberated Are We?” BOOM. Oh my god, THIS. (via oxxenfree)
…in bed.
(via ultramaricon)
i don’t know why sex is ever posited as inherently radical
also i don’t think i know what “radical” means?
(via besttumblr)
i’m with you.
(via leonineantiheroine)
“The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence...”
– bell hooks (via femfreq)
“11. Bring consent out of the bedroom. I think part of the reason we have trouble...”
– Holly over at The Pervocracy with an excellent 101 post on Consent Culture. Read the whole thing.
I used to want people to chide me into doing things because in some twisted way it meant that they really did want me around (because otherwise they were just being polite). I’ve started to get past...
“From a very young age we’re basically taught to think of racism and “anything...”
– feministdisney (via stay-in-skull)
I’m reblogging this quote of myself because I’m tickled that I am able to find so many random references to my blog I never saw before through googling it. Haha
(via feministdisney)
Yes, yes yes yes x 10^infinity. I think I love this quote as much as I love...
A Letter To A Gender Rebel
notyrcisterpress:
To everyone still learning to live and struggle with being a gender rebel in this society: I write you this letter with little knowledge of the specific complexities of your life. How could I? There is no one way in which to experience the overwhelming pain of society’s obsession over keeping you hostage in the tiny gender boxes we nervously check on every form we’ve...
Flapjack State: how to decode a person with an... →
things we are trying to do all the time:
be safe
things we can’t help but do all the time:
second-guess ourselves
behave impulsively and reactively
take everything personally
worry
worry
worry
have difficulty accepting compliments
have difficulty reciprocating friendly gestures
have difficulty finding the courage to respond
have difficulty not being suspicious of others’ intentions
...
“Queer people do not need to offer excuses or defend their own existence. If one...”
– » Fauxgress Watch: “Born This Way” Social Justice League (via a-bayani)
Yeah!
(via queerbear)
December 2011
12 posts
ANARCHIST MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT
loveandrent:
“Despite the efforts of many, mental illness remains somewhat of a taboo subject in wider society, and, sadly, even in our supposedly more open minded anarchist community. Many of us suffer from mental illnesses such as clinical depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, ADHD, schizophrenia and others. This is rarely talked about in our community however, and nothing exists to help...