June 2012
White privilege
ethiopianbutamerican:
Forty-six million white adults today can trace the origins of their family wealth to the Homestead Act of 1862. This bill gave away valuable acres of land for free to white families, but expressly precluded participation by Blacks.
May 2012
Dear every manufacturer of women's clothing, ever:
thearcanetheory:
cosmicastrogazer:
spastasmagoria:
gothiccharmschool:
Faux pockets are an abomination. If you’re going to bother putting pocket flaps on something, add the G-d damn pockets.
No love,
Jilli
SO MUCH THIS. ABSOLUTELY. I envy men their pockets. WTF MAN. FAKE POCKETS ARE SHIT. Meanwhile it is nearly impossible to find dress trousers that actually HAVE pockets. Then men...
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Detroit
jhameia:
My ride, Wilma, and I were stopped at Port Huron, where I was told, at last, that no, I need a new visa, and this is why my post-grad work permit application was rejected. Of course no one bothered to tell me this when I kept on inquiring: the Canadian High Commission in Malaysia told me that I didn’t need a new visa, and anyway they couldn’t issue me one without a new permit of some...
8 year old girl of color gets a humiliating award... →
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
republiccitysanctuary:
seriouslyamerica:
ladyatheist:
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
This is how children of color are treated in schools, people, especially brown children. How will this child trust teachers actually care about her again? Huh? Tell me that.
The teacher tried to brush this shit off and say it was “just a joke.” Yeah… because humiliating a child in a...
Don't get scared, get angry.:... →
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
ohsoneon:
the-lonely-astronaut:
the-lonely-astronaut:
8 year old girl of color gets a humiliating award from her teacher.
taraincognita:
mister-dinosaur:
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
This is how children of color are treated in schools, people, especially brown children. How will this child trust…
Hahahaha, it’s a joke though, is the thing. I got humiliated on...
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razycrandomcunt:
masteradept:
sourcedumal:
leidis:
sourcedumal:
nerdyhbic:
Scenes like this one is why I side-eye anyone who thinks RTD handled race in Doctor Who appropriately.
For reals. 900 years old, this man has dealt with humans and humanity for centuries, and you mean to tell me in all of his time on the planet he doesn’t even have a goddamn BASIC NOTION OF RACISM...
Theft is ok when you're a white guy in Silicon... →
shwetanarayan:
bankuei:
“He’d been living there for two months, hiding out at night on couches, eating the company’s food, and exercising and showering in its gym.”
Basically, this dude moves into the AOL work campus, lives on the couches, eats the food, showers, uses the gym, does laundry there - for two months straight to work on HIS startup stuff for his own profit.
Compare this to Tanya...
So this 50 Shades of Gray thing I'm suddenly...
…basically Nine and a Half Weeks meets Mr. Benson meets Twilight?
List of non-ableist words
hellomorningsun:
I want to compile a list of words folks can use instead of ableist slang, I grabbed a few from this page to start this off, please add to the list as this circulates. And reblog!
flimsy
inadequate
insufficient
unconvincing
unsatisfactory
undesireable
inept
pathetic
deficient
hollow
meager
perfunctory
absurd
ridiculous
lousy
fucked up
rubbish
irrational
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On Pronouns and Colonialism: Tumblr Social Justice...
digatisdi:
TW: Racism, Suicide
A lot of people like me who grew up speaking primarily North American indigenous languages have told me they experience a sort of “Pronoun Confusion” where everything in the third person is “it”. The tree is “it” and its leaves are “they”. The grass is “it” and the blades of grass are “they”. The Governor of Texas is “it” and its campaign managers are “they”.
...
“We are actually in a classic depression. A depression is when nobody wants to...”
– Paul Krugman (via ericmortensen)
Blackamazon is too much: Diane Tran and the... →
blackamazon:
So yeah this happened ( i got this from holzamantweed and deliciouskaek and lost the links SORRY guys) but let me count the ways this girl got failed.
Actually lets just sit with this a sec please.
A 17 year old is up porting a siblings college education and a younger sibling and staying with…
“When, as happened recently in France, an attempt is made to coerce women out of...”
– Arundhati Roy (via jahanzebjz)
A Degenerate Elite: The ignorance in this thread... →
deluxvivens:
icecreamsocialistslut:
    Blog of a Genius: Feminist Bottoms
blogofagenius:
sometimescoherent:
blogofagenius:
cypheroftyr:
blogofagenius:
cypheroftyr:
Can you be a bottom and be a feminist?
Your thoughts? More after this panel.
Nope….
So wait, it’s 1985 again?
For some people, it’s September 1985 forever.
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The ignorance in this thread is truly...
icecreamsocialistslut:
    Blog of a Genius: Feminist Bottoms
blogofagenius:
sometimescoherent:
blogofagenius:
cypheroftyr:
blogofagenius:
cypheroftyr:
Can you be a bottom and be a feminist?
Your thoughts? More after this panel.
Nope. No real feminist is a bottom. Enjoying sexual subjugation to a male without claiming a position that puts you in...
Honour student who works two jobs to support her... →
mamitah:
nom-chompsky:
paach:
Diane Tran, 17, thrown in jail for one night because of repeated absences from school
Honours student has been working two jobs to keep family afloat since parents’ divorce
Has been taking advanced placement and college courses in addition to jobs and missed school due to exhaustion
Spent the night in jail for truancy
Petition for the decision to be...
Forewarned is Forearmed: Veggies Owned by Monsanto →
marispai:
Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc. is now owned by Monsanto. Any money you spend with Seminis now goes into the pockets of one of the most evil corporations on the planet. Please circulate this list and choose other varietals.
I am not the oppressor.
thearcanetheory:
moniquill:
airinmylungs:
My white skin does not make me the oppressor. I wasn’t the one who colonized Africa. I never bought and sold African-Americans in slavery. I never opposed integration, or worked against the civil rights movement. Oh, but other people of my skin color did, and so suddenly it’s on me?
No.
I suppose that because the 9-11 attacks were carried out my...
