February 2012
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“I remember someone throwing a Molotov cocktail. I don’t know who the person was,...”
– Sylvia Rivera, trans Latina Stonewall Veteran (via kararikue)
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REMEMBER: THE ONLY RIGHT WAY TO ORGASM IS THE WAY...
thesexuneducated:
Don’t ever let someone tell you otherwise. The way you experience pleasure is the right way and if someone takes issue with this, then they are the one with the problem. Don’t allow the hegemonic narrative of masculinity/femininity and the dynamics that “should” occur between these two ideologies twist you up in knots about your sexual experiences. If your sex is consenting,...
Angela Davis on violence
when she was in the California State Prison - 1972
Interviewer: a year ago the black panthers were much more active. We heard much more about that type of struggle. Is the time of the black panthers past?
Angela davis: the black panthers still exist, and the black panthers are still extremely active in the Oakland community and communities all over the country. I’m not sure whether or not you are aware of what is now happening in the black panther party and the kinds of things that the members of that party are doing now.
Interviewer: no but tell me.
Angela davis: first of all, if you’re gonna talk about a revolutionary situation, you have to have people who are physically able to wage revolution, who are physically able to organize and physically able to do all that is done.
Interviewer: but the question is more, how do you get there? Do you get there by confrontation, violence?
Angela davis: oh, is that the question you were asking? yeah see, that’s another thing. When you talk about a revolution, most people think violence, without realizing that the real content of any revolutionary thrust lies in the principles and the goals that you’re striving for, not in the way you reach them. On the other hand, because of the way this society’s organized, because of the violence that exists on the surface everywhere, you have to expect that there are going to be such explosions. You have to expect things like that as reactions. If you are a black person and live in the black community all your life and walk out on the street everyday seeing white policemen surrounding you… when I was living in Los Angeles, for instance, long before the situation in L.A ever occurred, I was constantly stopped. No, the police didn’t know who I was. But I was a black women and I had a natural and they, I suppose thought I might be “militant.” And when you live under a situation like that constantly, and then you ask me, you know, whether I approve of violence. I mean, that just doesn’t make any sense at all. Whether I approve of guns. I grew up in Birmingham, Alabama. Some very, very good friends of mine were killed by bombs, bombs that were planted by racists. I remember, form the time I was very small, I remember the sounds of bombs exploding across the street. Our house shaking. I remember my father having to have guns at his disposal at all times, because of the fact that, at any moment, we might expect to be attacked. The man who was, at that time, in complete control of the city government, his name was Bull Connor, would often get on the radio and make statements like, “niggers have moved into a white neighborhood. We better expect some bloodshed tonight.” And sure enough, there would be bloodshed. After the four young girls who lived, one of them lived next door to me…I was very good friends with the sister of another one. My sister was very good friends with all three of them. My mother taught one of them in her class. My mother—in fact, when the bombing occurred, one of the mothers of one of the young girls called my mother and said, “can you take me down to the church to pick up Carol? We heard about the bombing and I don’t have my car.” And they went down and what did they find? They found limbs and heads strewn all over the place. And then, after that, in my neighborhood, all the men organized themselves into an armed patrol. They had to take their guns and patrol our community every night because they did not want that to happen again. That’s why, when someone asks me about violence, I just, I just find it incredible. Because what it means is that the person who’s asking that question has absolutely no idea what black people have gone through, what black people have experienced in this country since the time the first black person was kidnapped from the shores of Africa.
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Golpiza y muerte a pareja gay en Nicaragua
Frente a su casa fue asesinado de varios garrotazos el joven Eddy Napoleón Ramírez Novoa, de 27 años. Los presuntos implicados en el crimen son los hermanos Milton Rafael (36), alias “Payo”; José Ramón (32) y Oscar García López (25).
De igual manera Julio César Largaespada, quien era pareja de la víctima, resultó golpeado y fue trasladado al Hospital Escuela Oscar Danilo Rosales Argüello...
“Can the hungry go on a hunger strike? Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You...”
– arundhati roy from the guardian (via counterworlds)
Think Mexican: Mexican NGOs Meet With UN Over... →
thinkmexican:
The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, CERD, heard from Mexican NGOs yesterday as part of a periodic review of Mexico’s human rights record.
Two of the country’s leading human rights NGOs Centro PRODH and Tlachinollan issued statements to CERD…
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WatchHipsters vs. Immigrants: NYC’s Newest Culture War
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has crossed the great Atlantic to investigate a pressing culture war of our time: New York City’s “hipster” community moving into the areas previously inhabited by immigrants.
In the above video, Miesko Kalita, an immigrant from Poland describes how his neighborhood of...
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“When I’m on the train, I read my favorite gay magazine. I can’t remember having...”
– The Bearable Whiteness of Being Gay - CNN Opinion (via thenoobyorker)
What’s shocking is when I read on Grindr or something else “Aryan for same”.
It’s like, “W… what?”
One time I actually read “übermensch” in a Grindr profile.
(via cuntymint)
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(via oppressionisyucky) This is why I...
Do any of ya'll know of doctors for top surgery...
tofuboots:
Just found that my insurance will cover 80% of a mastectomy, so I would just need top surgery to be medically coded and billed as such.
Don’t care who/where it is as long as it’s in the U.S. I’m totally willing to travel since most of the costs of surgery will be covered. And any result pics would be greatly appreciated as well.
Anonymous asked: Do you believe in (a) God?
marfmellow:
I believe there’s a drag queen in the sky tellin’ me to werk.
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[tw: transphobia, assault, cissexism, police... →
A trans woman says that when she was arrested for a minor subway violation, NYPD officers belittled her, called her names, asked about her genitals — and kept her chained to a fence for 28 hours. Now she’s suing. And it turns out she’s far from alone.
In her lawsuit, Temmie Breslauer says she was arrested on January 12 in a subway station for illegally using her dad’s discount...
tofuboots: For anyone who thinks I'm not treating... →
tofuboots:
I think I’m doing a pretty good job of not blowing up at someone I barely know.
I think I’m doing a pretty good job of addressing all my issues with him and PTHC.
I will not become someones personal tutor for social justice issues.
Why, you ask?
Aside from working a wage-job where I cater to…
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Latinas Organizing for Leadership and Advocacy... →
Our e-LOLA is an initiative at the NLIRH designed to accommodate to the lives of busy young women by allowing them access to the materials presented at the traditional, rigorous two and a half day LOLA trainings.
Our next e-LOLA training will take place online on February 27th, 29th and March 5th, via hour-long webinar sessions. This webinar training will provide Latina activists, ages 18-25,...
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“Dayton, Ohio,
August 7, 1865
To My Old Master, Colonel P.H. Anderson, Big...”
– The Freedmen’s Book
In August of 1865, a Colonel P.H. Anderson of Big Spring, Tennessee, wrote to his former slave, Jourdan Anderson, and requested that he come back to work on his farm. Jourdan — who, since being emancipated, had moved to Ohio, found paid work, and was now supporting his...
January 2012
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“When we consider the myriad school shootings that have occurred between ...”
– Michael Kimmel: Men, Masculinity, and the Rape Culture (via mollay)
“Yet the obvious fact that these school killers were all middle-class white boys seems to have escaped the media’s notice, in part because race, class, and gender are only visible when speaking of those who are not privileged...
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For Many Latinos, Racial Identity Is More Culture... →
“And a more recent study by University of Southern California researchers found that more than two million people, or 6 percent of those who claimed any type of Latin American ancestry on census surveys, did not ultimately identify as Latino or Hispanic.”
“On the other side of the spectrum are black Latinos, who say they feel the sting of racism much the same as other...
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Colombia reconoce herencia de pensión para parejas...
La Corte Constitucional ordenó al Instituto de Seguros Sociales reconocer la pensión de sustitución a un hombre que llevaba 30 años viviendo en unión libre con su pareja del mismo sexo, luego de que ésta muriera, sin importar que la muerte se haya producido antes de 2007.
El caso comenzó en 2005, cuando la pareja permanente de un hombre homosexual falleció por una enfermedad. Cuando su pareja...
Watchaubreysoda:
paul-bernardo:
OH MY GOD
i cant breathe
oh my fucking god
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La Primer Estacion LGBT Latin@ en Linea de Chicago →
“Nace de la idea de educar a las personas de la comunidad GLBT (Gay, Lesbiana, Bisexual y Transgénero) y Heterosexual de todas la edades y clases sociales. Otras de las razones por la cual nació esta idea es para crear conciencia en las personas, evitando discriminar por tu condición de preferencia sexual y todos ser tratados de la misma manera. Les garantizamos que por medio les...
I've only been able to recently call people out on...
Me: Well, I'm transgender.
Coworker: So, wait. What?
Me: Everyone is gendered at birth if they're born in a hospital. I was gendered female.
Coworker: So do you.. -
Me: You mean what's in my pants?
Coworker: Well, I was going to put it more nicely, but yeah basically.
Me: You're asking me something really personal and private in front of other people that you would never ask anyone else because I'm transgender. Do you realize that?
Coworker: When you put it like that, it makes me sound like a jerk.
Me: Is that not what's happening?
Coworker: ...
People Of Color Organize Seeks Writers on Race,... →
peopleofcolor:
This is a special appeal for Tumblr writers, bloggers and opinionistas!
Since March 2010, People Of Color Organize has emerged as one of the most popular websites to read about intersections of politics, race, gender, class and movements. From international debates to Occupy Wall Street, study guides to arts and culture, POCO has featured original writing as well as the...
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