February 2012
75 posts
“You Don’t Have to Be Pretty. You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your...”
– I stole this from my best friend’s facebook page. :-)
“And the hippies are jingling, jangling, blowing smoke all over Haight Ashbury,...”
– Adam Fortunate Eagle (Red Lake Chippewa), on white privilege and the hippie movement in the Bay (via countrygramma)
"Don't worry, it's just a jinn bothering you."
beautifulqalb:
My mom used to say that when I had nightmares all the time, “Don’t worry it’s just a jinn bothering you, say Ayatul Kursi and go to sleep.”
You just told me there is a jinn in my room bothering me and you expect me to go to sleep?
Other little kids have to worry about imaginary monsters under the bed and their parents just tell them they aren’t real.
My parents were like, “Yeah...
“So when the Irish, when Germans, when Italians were coming, and they didn’t...”
– Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Race-The Power of an Illusion (via volviomarilia)
Me reading internships
quaffalyre:
tithenai:
quaffalyre:
‘35 hours a week at $10 an hour? So that’s what, $1500 a month? That’s quite a lot of money…’
‘/Google: New York Living Costs’
‘Hahahahahahahahahahahaha’
It really depends on where in NY you are, I think, and how many people you’re willing to share space with. My best friend living there is finding it much cheaper, on the whole, than living in Bethnal...
Me reading internships
quaffalyre:
‘35 hours a week at $10 an hour? So that’s what, $1500 a month? That’s quite a lot of money…’
‘/Google: New York Living Costs’
‘Hahahahahahahahahahahaha’
It really depends on where in NY you are, I think, and how many people you’re willing to share space with. My best friend living there is finding it much cheaper, on the whole, than living in Bethnal Green was in 2006.
Oh wow I was just thinking...
spiralfish:
genderbitch:
whencylonsdream:
I fucking hope to god that this transethnic, transfat, transabled, appropriative shit doesn’t really take off.
I’ll be so fucking pissed if I am talking about trans issues and feel like I have to clarify that I mean transgender.
Me: “yeah yeah trans stuff..”
Somebody: “trans… gender, ethnic, fat??”
Me: DESTROY FUCKING EVERYTHING DADFSJAFKAFHADF
...
Heterosexual couples swap clothes and poses. →
matociquala:
Kind of totally awesome in a deconstructive sort of way.
It’s so interesting to me that I look at these photos and, in almost all the swaps except the first, see women dressed normally but men dressed in drag. Interesting and frustrating, really, to be made aware of that — that, for me, to see a woman in drag means to see her in a tailored 3-piece suit, or military...
“(TRIGGER WARNING)
The simple fact: sexual-violence perpetrators and their...”
– Andrea (AJ) Plaid (that’s me!) on Too $hort, Very Smart Brothas, and why some Black folks still don’t quite talk about intraracial sexual violence—and why that dialogue is so vital—on the R today. (via racialicious)
Should I wash Jasmine rice?
jhameia:
inkstone:
crossedwires:
poemsofthedead:
According to this, yes.
(I have never in my life rinsed rice of any kind.)
you’re supposed to wash rice? i was probably told to do this, but I don’t think i ever did. also, i can’t cook rice without a rice cooker and i prefer rice on the mushy side, so my turn to make rice never came up that often.
Haha, I was taught to wash rice. Not...
Watchjhameia:
excentricyoruba:
mysticalclockworkangel:
careese-poi:
bl4nk-canvas:
roachpatrol:
taylorthegay:
rainb0w-crash:
skettismyname:
iamlingy:
twyll:
masterassassino:
everything-counts:
theannonymus:
oceansidedreamer:
THAT IS THE COOLEST FUCKING AD I HAVE SEEN IN A WHILE!
you sir are boss
Achievement Unlocked: Be the coolest person alive.
I thought this was...
Getting Birth Control in the UK vs the US: A...
jhameia:
tithenai:
quaffalyre:
UK
Go to your GP and express an interest in starting hormonal birth control. Request the pill, patch, shot etc. They will perhaps ask some brief questions about your sex life, advising you to still use condoms if sleeping with various people, and then will take your height, weight and blood pressure. They may check a family or personal history of illness. You...
Getting Birth Control in the UK vs the US: A...
quaffalyre:
UK
Go to your GP and express an interest in starting hormonal birth control. Request the pill, patch, shot etc. They will perhaps ask some brief questions about your sex life, advising you to still use condoms if sleeping with various people, and then will take your height, weight and blood pressure. They may check a family or personal history of illness. You can express preference...
All I Have to Say About Jenny Hyun
This woman published a sequence of tweets calling for the genocide of black people.
In Canada, advocating genocide is considered hate speech, which is indictable under our criminal code, and invites prison terms of two to fourteen years.
So far as I’m concerned Jenny Hyun is a criminal.
If you don’t think advocating genocide is a criminal act, the word “monster” is too...
Why don't you put the arrogance on ice, moron?:... →
moniquill:
letthemlive:
Did you know….
That by WEEK 4 AFTER CONCEPTION a baby has developed all the necessary organs to live and only needs time to grow everything else.
Did you also know….
That 88-92% of woman having abortions have them in the late 1st trimester( before the 13th week)………
Also worth noting? It’s estimated that -as the normal course of events for a person with a normally...
The history of the "Two Wolves/Two Dogs" story.
digatisdi:
alunasa:
I have been receiving many messages questioning my statement that the “Two Wolves” story is not Cherokee, nor is it Native American/First Nations in origin. In response to my credibility being questioned, I have done some fairly extensive research that will conclusively prove that this story does not originate from any Native American legend.
This story seems to have...
Rock vs. Hip Hop [warning for slurs in guns n...
karnythia:
The Beatles: I’ve got somethin’ to say that might cause you pain. If I catch you talkin’ to that boy again. I’m gonna let you down. And leave you flat. Because I told you before. Oh, you can’t do that. Led Zeppelin: Squeeze me baby, ‘til the juice runs down my leg. Squeeze me baby, ‘til the juice runs down my leg. The way you squeeze my lemon,...
"You've confused a 'war on your religion' with...
— JON STEWART, The Daily Show.
“People will still send him asks telling him what a great “male feminist” he is,...”
– Miss Voltairine (via anoldladyonfire)
Waitwait Sady Doyle did WHAT?
[Content Warning: Talk of cissexism] I just want...
theraptorwhomurderedlove:
Saying that you love your period is not inherently cissexist.
Saying that you love your uterus is not inherently cissexist.
Saying that you love your vulva and vagina is not inherently cissexist.
Saying these things in a way that implies (or flat out states) that any of these things are what “makes someone a woman”, that not loving these things makes someone...
Lynne M. Thomas: "On being pirated for the first... →
Lynne M. Thomas responds to someone on Tumblr reproducing an entire essay from Chicks Dig Time Lords without the author’s consent.
I’ve got an essay coming out in Mad Norwegian Press’ Chicks Unravel Time, so I figure I should be signing my name beneath this right now.
Canadian History Superquiz, 1
beatonna:
1. Which sounds more correct to you, “The Harper Government,” or:
- We The People
- L’etat C’est Moi
- The Government of Canada
- One Ring To Rule Them All
2. Memorize these figures:
- 49th parallel
- 51st state
- 19th birthday
- 18 in Quebec and Alberta
3. Which speech put the most voters to sleep:
- “Let me reiterate at length what I just repeated” - Meighen
- “You’ll...
indigofer:
indigofer:
fussyfangs:
keepyourcorsetstight:
fussyfangs:
tumblr i am glad that we can all agree that chris brown’s actions were inexcusable
now if you could start applying the same critical spirit to your favorite white dudes that would be great
Um. I don’t think this is a race issue.
Tell me one white dude who is as famous as Chris Brown that beat his girl friend. I...
“Now to “Reverse Racism.” It’s crucial to maintain the distinction between the...”
– Daily Kos: Why there’s no such thing as “Reverse Racism” (via loveyourchaos) 