May 2013
316 posts
“And after all these years, the trans community is still at the back of the bus....”
– Sylvia Rivera in Genderqueer: Voices from Beyond the Binary (via queeraztlan)
radiatethisfrequency:
it might be too hot to wear all black but that isn’t going to stop me
you know what it is
“I do believe you have a wound too. I do believe it is both specific to you and...”
– Charlie Kaufman (via awritersruminations)
“I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.”
– Susanna Kaysen (via ckgarden)
“Today is a day of mourning for the children of Chicago. Their education has been...”
– Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis commenting on today’s news that the Board of Education has voted to close 50 Chicago public schools.
While only around 40 percent of children in Chicago are black are Latino, 90 percent of children whose schools will be shuttered are black or Latino.
...
Uppity Negress: wolfchildwaterchild: jackaldope:... →
wolfchildwaterchild:
jackaldope:
here are some cool facts for you
it has been proven time and again in study after study that there is no correlation between mental illness and violent behavior, except in that mentally ill people are more likely to have substance abuse problems and there is a correlation between substance abuse and violence. mental illness itself is not a risk factor for...
“When women scream you wonder what’s wrong with them. When men yell you get...”
– A girl in my creative writing class said this in response to a story we read about witnessing intimate partner violence and it really fucked with my head because I’ve never, ever, ever, thought of it that way. (via youngbadmanbrown)
whoa.
(via weaklungz)
“Kanye West is white America’s worst nightmare. Because as much as one may...”
– Meaghan Garvey, Who Will Survive In America? (via machistado)
dude, i will always love kanye west for what he said about bush. always. and that thing he did to that random white chick on stage was just funny…i didnt know who the fuck she was…but she was just the epitome of white chickness that it...
pockytardis:
my favorite thing is when someone’s in the shower and you just hear a distant BANG BANG BANG CRASH and you can tell they knocked over like all of the shampoo bottles
defyingthelabyrinth:
i would just like to remind everyone that only about 1/3 of eating disordered people are underweight. you can die from an eating disorder even if you are at a normal weight or overweight. you deserve help and recovery no matter what you weigh.
this.
Reblog if you've formed a meaningful relationship...
“Government assistance in America is invisible until black people receive it....”
– Melissa Harris-Perry and Karen Finney (paraphrased), commenting on a recent New York Times editorial wherein black farmers were all but vilified as ‘lazy takers’ who gamed the system —for winning an historic discrimination lawsuit against the USDA: Pigford v. Glickman (via odinsblog)
biyuti:
i’m serious
that bit of ‘advice’
from someone who doesn’t even live in the city
boggles my fucking mind.
40 or so years later
haven’t they proved that they can’t be reasoned with?
has any oppressor ever been ‘reasoned with’?
no, so why do I still try? because there are other folks watching. even if you were an asshole to me, hopefully someone else saw that and thought about...
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People are such assholes.
I don’t get why it’s so hard to say you’re wrong? I do it all the fucking time, and I’m fine. Really.
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“Forget that Chicago Mayor and former White House Chief of Staff under Obama,...”
– The Nation: The First Couple’s Post-Racial Bootstraps Myth (via notime4yourshit)
“When I was a kid, you know I immigrated to the States in 1978, and I’m six years...”
– John Cho (x)
The only Asians I remember seeing on mainstream TV when I was a kid were Sulu on Star Trek, nameless Asians loading trucks in the background or dying on MASH (which was all about funny lovable white US Americans waging war on Asians), and the “ancient Chinese secret” Calgon laundry...
What will stop the next Bangladesh factory... →
angryasiangirlsunited:
angryasiangirlsunited:
Posted: 20 May 2013
We have 24 hours left until GAP’s Annual Shareholders Meeting begins — it’s our best chance to shame CEO Glenn Murphy into signing the Bangladesh Fire and Safety Agreement. Let’s bombard GAP HQ with calls , flood Glenn Murphy with messages that shame him to personally feel public pressure to sign, and create a ‘social...
“Shortly thereafter, in the 1920s, fashion-designer Coco Chanel accidentally got...”
– I wanted to look up where the origins of tanning for beauty come from
and, surprise, it’s stems from idolizing a Nazi sympathizer and fetishsizing a black woman.
(via satanic2chainz)
Coco Chanel is a nazi sympathizer?
(via cocojigglypuff)
I knew that already but never knew about Josephine...
gossipgandhi:
i came into this world covered in someone else blood and screaming and lemme tell you i’m not afraid to leave it the same way
why does everyone reblog this? just cause it’s a cool sentence? i enjoy the parallelism but i’m fucking terrified of going down like that. i want to die when i’m in my 80s in my bed and feel no pain, i thought that was what everyone...
masteradept:
ankaheebatein:
One cannot simply eat mangos in a civilized manner and enjoy it.
so true. If you’re enjoying it, you either look like you have no manners or you are performing oral sex on it.
accurate
