February 2012
The Arkh Project - Yes, I Have an Opinion
poemsofthedead:
You may or may not know of the interactions I’ve had with Riley, aka dumbthingswhitepplsay, the creator of The Arkh Project. To put it simply, we don’t really get on and I don’t follow them anymore. But I’ve been watching The Arkh Project from a distance from the beginning and I have some things to say.
Now let me preface this by saying I’m not a gamer and I don’t know much (it...
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
alexandraerin:
Let’s talk about Arkh a little.
For some reason a number of people seem to be changing their minds about it in a hurry. I’m not sure why, when nothing’s really changed. It’s still an early effort. The fundraising that’s going on now is being done to pay for the services of professionals who, along with the volunteers, will bring the game to fruition. None...
“I don’t think it’s a virtue or an accomplishment to hide or deny your pain so...”
– #186: The lie of “strength.” « CaptainAwkward.com (via notemily)
Which is why “strong black woman” has never been a goddamn compliment. It is code for “Thank you for being a mule.”
(via crankyskirt)
READ THIS NOW! →
lubiddu:
poemsofthedead:
Also, depending on where they live, she can catch a case for this, while no charges at all will be brought against him and court will repeatedly refer to HIM as the “victim”. Been there…
Exhibit A on why I didn’t call the police after my ex tried to kill me. I did try to call when he first broke in to my apartment, because I thought I was going to end up dead and I...
cruelyouth:
karnythia:
So as someone who has probably gotten at Riley on LJ in the past & been on the oreo train & done crowdfunded creative things & been a hot fucking mess I’m going to say this about Arkh & Riley…shit happens. No really, I am so far from flawless & my history is checkered (to say the least), and there are people who rightfully hate the shit out of me....
Things to notice
Black girls will have epic thesis like analysis to remain loyal and responsible to black men
OVER A TV SHOW
damn near 400 reflags and likes will occur on a video of a black woman fighting for her safety in the street for
ANYBODY says boo about it that’s not insulting her or devaluing her for the quality of the camera…….
Someone come tell me again about my need of loyalty...
Jus Sayin
Pictures of people dying and women being beaten in war are also triggering .
Pictures of people using your culture that GETS you raped are triggering
So when we spend mother flipping centuries telling you that
And you only manage to find “collective rage” when you have prepped your content providers with the perception it DOESN’T matter on brown bodies
When it shifts to...
Sorry bout the yelling
but really deuces I quit.
They Win
We aren’t even talking about the same things
I officially digress in pretending we are
SOMEONE COME OUT THE MOUTH AND DEFEND JEZEBEL...
Posting and supporting psuedo rapists dopesn’t lead to other things HUH
HUH?!?!?!?
LEMME FIND THOSE FOLKS AGAIN ?
I'm gonna write about Glee
Cause anything else right now is lighting my LIGHT EVERYONE ON FIRE
and damn teh rest buttons.
I want to know how mine is teh first WHAT TEH FUCK COMMENT?
I wanna knwo why ONLY other WOC have brought up the fact that she would probably go to jail too
AND SHE KNEW THIS
AND STILL CALLED
but I KNOW why
I KNOW
I know why this is funny
I know why this is gonna go silent
I KNOW I KNOW I...
grrspit:
And in fact, I know a few people who aren’t even of that size or color or culture who have successfully defended themselves against men and have been labelled the aggressor. But you know, they weren’t the “perfect” victims so it wasn’t right for them to fight back.
See also, much of the rhetoric involving the Eminem/Rihanna video where the lower-class white couple illustrate a...
and i just need to understand
deliciouskaek:
milkeemountainmama:
why if we see a man of color in a state of “danger” we recognize it immediately—think: everybody was scared to fucking death for obama when he was giving speeches post election—because RIGHTFULLY—we understood that he had broken a “rule” of white supremacy and was in fucking danger.
I need to understand why we see a black woman defending herself from male...
Have a heart and save a family. Guys, please. This... →
Glee thought....
al my other thoughts have to be outline but , in terms of romantic overtures that have resulted in altercations
Sam is remarkably lucky.
Finn punched Jesse St James for less
and it wasn’t seen as a problem
and I am okay with what goes on between him and Mercedes as she has been sending mixed signals and he has never been coercive
to her
but how is it that Finn who kicks things ,...
So a glee post is coming cause I has both race, and theatre feelings
I has lots
Yes!!!!! →
I ship this ship because black girls are going HARD in the critical race theory analytical comp lit pop culture paint!!!!
Hallelu hallelu hallelujah
Dumb Things White People Say: everyone go send... →
thewayistare:
stfuconservatives:
racismschool:
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
seriously it’s ridiculous how racist these motherfuckers are
Nothing fun about this but can we all send some love? Curiouslycool
This would be a GREAT example of how to stand up for someone instead…
Anonymously describe me in three words.
thecelestialchild:
or not.
liquornspice:
theoceanandthesky:
can i ask why it is so hard for some White people to believe that children do wonder why no one looks like them in the media? why is that so hard for you to believe?
Because we cannot possibly have more awareness than them. They don’t notice color as adults. No way us lowly browns are thinking this deep about reality before we get our permanent teeth.
you know something?
dopegirlfresh:
i just had this conversation w/ my birthday twin and we agreed that if we can’t have a down-to-the-bone kind of intimacy with someone (it’s emotional, it’s spiritual, physical doesn’t even cover it), we don’t wanna be bothered.
down-to-the-bone intimacy doesn’t include letting someone stomp all over you because you love them. it doesn’t mean you have no boundaries. it does,...
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
Blackamazon is too much: This shit is no joke.
maggiemunkee:
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
My mom is a fairly attractive Caribbean woman, who works in a position of leadership that she was voted into by her peers.
She’s married to my dad, and happily so since 1984.
One of the white men from her job developed a crush on her. Obviously she rejected him,…
Ugh I can’t even....
This shit is no joke.
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
My mom is a fairly attractive Caribbean woman, who works in a position of leadership that she was voted into by her peers.
She’s married to my dad, and happily so since 1984.
One of the white men from her job developed a crush on her. Obviously she rejected him, being married for like 20 years at that point.
He didn’t like that.
At all.
He began harassing her.
...
taggingracists asked: Racist.
So someone decided to make a new tumblr called...
Like I said earlier…
I’ll wait.
But keep pulling for the pretend people not experiencing actual racism.
I am also going to need to know who opened the gates of simple bitch hell today?
you win the web.
So someone decided to make a new tumblr called...
masteradept:
velocicrafter:
baddominicana:
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
siddharthasmama:
darkjez:
From the looks of it, the central goal of the blog seems to be “tagging” (i.e. contaminating folks’ askholes) uppity People of Color who dare to critically examine racism, white privilege, white supremacy, and whiteness. Ollie Ollie Oxen Free, Fucker.
Anyone else had the honor of being...
poemsofthedead:
“i am amused that so many people saw me shipping with themselves. clearly this means i follow the hottest people in the entire world.”
—
Milkee Mountain Mama
or that we all think you’re the hottest person in the world.
tis true
witchsistah:
deliciousKaek: baddominicana: when youre supposed to do the least amount of…
baddominicana:
when youre supposed to do the least amount of speaking
you are silenced w the most fervor.
and its not just “trolls”
its average whites and poc alike,
both online and IRL
who routinely swoop in to save white people from having to deal w any consequences for their...
witchsistah:
baddominicana:
so no one finds it odd the people who are attacked by trolls the most are the woc (q and otherwise) on tumblr?
no?
ok.
:|
IRL’s abusive patterns dont suddenly go away because its the internets.
we’re the most targeted here too.
And we need to talk about racism like we talk about abuse because it is abuse. It even uses the same tools and mechanisms individual...
“The term Weblining describes the practice of denying people opportunities based...”
– Facebook Is Using You - NYTimes.com (via sociolab
)
@afrolicious This is relevant also because the ways in which bodies are marked by race, class and gender as well, both on and offline. Is our search data and other data being used against us?
(via newmodelminority)
“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)
help my friend k raise money for their medical... →
dopegirlfresh:
support K’s teeth. the funds will be used for dental surgery costs + related expenses. thank you for any support you can provide!
Since 2007, K. Barrett has faced a chain of oral surgeries— impacted wisdom teeth that resulted in painful allodynia on the chin and jaw, decay into 3 root canals, and last year, 2 longstanding abscesses that weren’t receptive to anti-biotics only to...
Processes
So after cursing my fool head off for a moment
I wanna love all up on MMM about the foolishness I perceive about who we address isms and change
It’s resources as MMM puts it
but it’s
also processes
and it’s the kid on a sugar inability to want to talk about PROCESSES and resources
Kormen’s VP resigned?
Awesome ..
but what was the PROCESS in which she got that...
3 tags
DETAILS ARE NOT F*@)**)@& IMPORTANT
BUT IF YOUR PROCESS SUCKS > IF IT REPRODUCES OPPRESSION UNSAFE CIRCUMSTANCES AND ABUSE
I GIVES NOT ONE F*@**@ TWO F)*)U*) RED F&)* OR BLUE F &@)**
ABOUT YOUR INTENTIONS OR YOUR DETAILS
IF YOU HAVE TO EXPLAIN TO ME IT FIFTY ELEEVEN TIMES AFTER EVERY NEW F&(**&() CLUSTER F(*&@(&#
OF HORRIBLE
YOUR “PROCESS” SUCKS PLASTICENE ERA TAR NUTS
AND IF YOU FOLLOW...
what is this "willow smith is too grown" business?
so-treu:
deliciouskaek:
so-treu:
cause god forbid a black girl should be confident. and not just confident but actually loving and enjoying who she is an expressing her full subjectivity in public. i honestly think ppl would be less unnerved if she got pregnant and a crack addiction.
And what kills me is that she’s not singing about boys or sex or “grown” things at all - at least not that...
Elbow Deep
Elbow deep in writing about a creative exploration of my feelings around black womanhood leads to many things
bouncy happiness at black opera singers
a deep DEEP respect for a good twerk
a need to femme it up like no one has ever remmed before( can one do HIGH hard casual natural afro future femme when one does not like bright colors all that much must investigate)
a deep desire to study...
“I find it slightly ethnocentric that whenever Japanese appropriate some aspect...”
– Beauty Up: Exploring Contemporary Japanese Body Aesthetics (via homoarigato
)
AND THE WIN
email i just got from a student
harrietsdaughter:
latinosexuality:
Hello professor Question, Are you taking points off for any grammar mistake? As you noticed in the past classes, English is my second language and it has been tough for me to learn the language and be able to express myself. However, I believe that I am doing ok. My concern is that I do have very personal experiences written in the paper that I don;t want...
when museums take shit that's not theirs
latinosexuality:
and exhibit it. yeah, no. and to argue against that and “just let it be” type shit.
do you know how long it took the government and people of South African to get the remains and body back of Saartjie Baartman? She died in 1816 and was “displayed” until 1985. didnt return until 2002. you do the math. people dont just “give shit back” if that’s how it worked wouldn’t we see more...
novazembla:
But this:
You do not have to be spoken for, if you speak.
which to be fair may well be a throwaway line she came up with just as she was slamming her head against the keyboard and willing the goddamn piece to come to some sort of meaningful conclusion already, is bullshit.
Make your own media! Be your own model of femininity! Your voice can totally be louder than a sitcom, a million...
Rent Party
liquornspice:
liquornspice:
Thank you very much to the people who have donated. It overwhelms me that you all are so supportive and kind. But I still don’t have enough to pay my rent. So if you could reblog this I would very much appreciate it.
Thank you so much!
Here is the link to donate.
Please signal boost. I’ve been denied aid for this semester even though I qualified for need-based...
Colored Girls Hustle: Women Making Moves!:... →
coloredgirlshustle:
check out my interview on Nicole Clark’s blog for her Women Making Moves Series
nicole-clark:
Women Making Moves! is a monthly series that highlights women and girls of color making a name for themselves (and impacting others) in the areas of sexual/reproductive health,…
Das my Taja
Rent Party
liquornspice:
Thank you very much to the people who have donated. It overwhelms me that you all are so supportive and kind. But I still don’t have enough to pay my rent. So if you could reblog this I would very much appreciate it.
Thank you so much!
Here is the link to donate.
liberal activism
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
of-praxis:
how can i do things to help people worse off than me without compromising the convenience afforded to me by their oppression
that…yeah. basically that.
and good night tumblr internet done for night
milkeemountainmama:
note-a-bear:
milkeemountainmama:
note-a-bear:
sexartandpolitics:
minou replied to your post:Obama needs to license that Chrysler ad.
What bullshit Detroit exploitation ad is it this year?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PE5V4Uzobc
But seriously, halftime = end of first term and the GOP hates the auto bailouts.
Also Clint Eastwood and a lot of white people should...
Folks is right we should leave the ageism to the...
It’s about the ability. Madonna just could not not do half the stuff she set out to do ….
so she had the other folks throw her around
as a Leo does.
but um this maybe blasphemy ……
she never really ever HAS been able to do the acrobatic stuff ….
Ever
She’s in awesome shape always has been but a good crux of her more acrobatic routines were
” look...