February 2012
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“What settler colonialism does is that it sets a ceiling on what the future can...”
– Andrea Smith plenary talk at Critical Ethnic Studies and the Future of Genocide, Thursday, March 10, 2011 (via zombifuntime)
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“Sexism from a brown face is still sexism. Male privilege with a unique cadence...”
– Oh SNAP! Friend of the R Tami Winfrey Harris goes in on Dr. Cornel West’s publicly attacking Dr. Melissa Harris-Perry on the R today. (via racialicious)
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“Without community there is no liberation, only the most vulnerable and temporary...”
– Audre Lorde (via avantgardism-s)
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“And don’t give me that, “Oh we reached out to communities of color but they...”
– From “…On Taking Up Space” by witchymorgan on the Bklyn Boihood blog
I also love the paragraph after this one but it’s a short article and I’ve included links. This could be a good resource to send people if they don’t get why POC often don’t fell comfortable in many queer/trans* spaces.
(via...
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“We do not do trigger warnings. Ever. As a rule. I don’t believe in them, period.”
– Jessica Coen, Editor in Chief of Jezebel.
Trigger warnings are icky! Unlike photos of women being raped, of course. Those are totally OK and can actually drive your entire “feminist light” business model.
I might have to re-write my motto: My feminism will be rape culture friendly! And you know,...
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How Not To Write About Female Musicians: A Handy... →
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GOP senators: Domestic violence against... →
motherjones:
A very important NY Times editorial.
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Ways Gender-Privileged Men Can Challenge Sexism
meeca:
(This list will be forever in-progress. Please add on as you see fit).
Challenge sexist jokes, such as dumb blonde jokes or jokes about rape.
Avoid using words such as “bitch”, “ho”, “slut.”
Recognize when you “zone out” when women are speaking, when you value a man’s opinion more than a woman’s, or when you ask a man for information or advice rather than a woman.
Recognize times when...
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“I’m not gonna sit around and waste my precious divine energy trying to explain...”
– Esperanza Spalding (via beautiful-ambition)
oh, this is perfect.
(via ethiopienne)
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“The outrage is tiresome and deeply hypocritical, in all the tiresome ways you’ve...”
– M.I.A. Shouldn’t Have Apologized - The New Yorker
(via stopdroptroll)
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January 2012
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“The task of an activist is not to navigate systems of oppressive power with as...”
– Deep Green Resistance (via cultureofresistance)
It isn’t about making people who do wrong things or display ignorance still feel sort of kind of good about themselves, it’s telling the truth in a way that conveys the full oppressive state of the situation.
(via daniellemertina)
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“‘Queer’, a derogatory term leveled at the non-hetero-seeming, was reappropriated...”
– New Queer Cinema: An Introduction by Michele Aaron.
ALL OF THIS. except the n word part…these words are not parallel in their re-appropriation
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“The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence...”
– bell hooks (via cultureofresistance)
Word…we do this to all little boys…”quit crying toughen up you are a boy”
(via slumbeauty)
patriarchy hurts everyone.
(via dopegirlfresh)
Although I’ve never been male, I have been on the receiving end of this treatment. It really is horrifying, and it...
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“Cross-racial struggle made clear the work that white women needed to do in order...”
– Becky Thompson, “Multiracial Feminism: Recasting the Chronology of Second Wave Feminism,” in Nancy Hewitt, ed., No Permanent Waves: Recasting Histories of U.S. Feminisms (via ohgeeznora)
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You cannot have a conversation about feminism and...
new-distractions:
Because then you’re not having a conversation about feminism, you’re having a conversation about white people. And we already have plenty of conversations about white people.
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its not long enough to be a manifesto, but it...
navigatethestream:
To me, the whole notion of Malcolm X being a coward for not coming out when he was alive and well points to a larger problem, come out culture in general.
I’m not talking about coming out as a personal process, but a larger LGBT culture which perpetuates multiple falsehoods about the motivations and realities for coming out of the closet.
A larger culture which has...
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“As a female legislator, I often speak to groups of women — from Girl Scouts and...”
– Michigan State Senator Gretchen Whitmer says sexism is rampant at the State Capitol | Michigan Radio (via mimitakestheleftturn) This is the internal battle I feel when talking to prospective Dartmouth students who are black—or, God forbid, black and female. (via ethiopienne)
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“Some problems we share as women, some we do not. You [white women] fear your...”
– Audre Lorde, “Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference” (via arewomenhuman)
Exactly.
(via readnfight)
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“Before AIDS became part of the medical and then popular lexicon, newspapers...”
– Nancy Ordover - American Eugenics: Race, Queer Anatomy, and the Science of Nationalism (via effusionofbiopower)
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Trust Women to Make Their Own Decisions Regarding...
reproductivejusticenow:
Join Trust Women Week.
From January 20 to 27, join the first-ever “Trust Women Week,” an online mass mobilization for women’s lives and rights. The Trust Women/Silver Ribbon Campaign is the coordinating partner in this unique collaborative campaign, working with MoveOn.org and more than 50 organizations nationwide, to let legislators know that reproductive health,...
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“African American women’s internal life experiences are part of the American...”
– Melissa Harris-Perry (via sociolab)
Damn straight.
(via jenikamcontheonesandtwos)
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“The thing is, I’m not looking for people to mindlessly force themselves to call...”
– Dean Spade on pronouns in “once more… with feeling.” (via accumulatedephemera)
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If you want me to be open and willing to educate... →
flashoflife:
DO NOT-
Ask what’s in my pants. It doesn’t matter, and it won’t affect you in any way.
Ask what my birthname is. Again, it just doesn’t matter.
Try to tell me what my “sex” is. I’m very well aware.
Tell me that I still look like my assigned sex. Again, I’m well aware It…
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If you want me to be open and willing to educate... →
flashoflife:
DO NOT-
Ask what’s in my pants. It doesn’t matter, and it won’t affect you in any way.
Ask what my birthname is. Again, it just doesn’t matter.
Try to tell me what my “sex” is. I’m very well aware.
Tell me that I still look like my assigned sex. Again, I’m well aware It…
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“In order to understand why transphobia and...
guerrillamamamedicine:
“In order to understand why transphobia and cissexism persist and are continually perpetuated throughout feminist communities, particularly the vegetarian-ecofeminist community, it is important to consider the origins of anti-trans advocacy as a conscious project of prominent, elite White feminists in the 1970s. In the late sixties and early seventies, trans people were...
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Racialicious: There Is No Hierarchy of Oppressions... →
File this under: “My feminism will be intersectional or it will be bullshit”
yourhue:
From “There Is No Hierarchy of Oppressions” by Audre Lorde
I was born Black, and a woman. I am trying to become the strongest person I can become to live the life I have been given and to help effect change toward a liveable future for this earth and for my children. As a Black,…