March 2012
"My sister lost her baby... and my state requires... →
grrspit:
silentlydrawn:
stfuconservatives:
leeleeleelee submitted: “This is the reality of Texas’ ultrasound for abortion bill. A 30 year old Texas woman’s fetus’ heart stopped beating after 12 weeks. The options given were to wait until miscarriage, give birth to it, or to abort it (the preferred, safest option). She has to look at an ultrasound of her already dead fetus and if she looks...
Sondheim Discloses He's Working on a New Show | NY... →
The Tony-winning composer Stephen Sondheim is collaborating with playwright David Ives on a new musical.
searchingforbadassmagic asked: It seems like being a woman of color is a major burden for you. Is there ever a point when you see something that is offensive and just say "Fuck it. I don't care"? Not that you should or have to, but I'm just curious to know.
Sexy And We Know It
And that’s why my teeth always fuzz over at the discussion of sexy and sexual attractive and sexually viable
Because what’s ” sexy” and what is sexually attractive and PUBLICLY REIFIED are so very different
It’s often much more a discussion about will you get POINTS for dominance if this is your sexual behavior.
And can you excise those points SAFELY
SO yeah...
and
I KNOW i KNOW .
Viola was on the end of interesting .. and I mean INTERESTING comments from dudes there with ” the hottest women in the world” on their arms
Here's why viola Davis' Wigs irk me now
Looking at pictures of her natural , you realize Viola Davis has a very very young face AND a very high forehead which accentuate the slant of her eyes an those CHEEK! BONES! and nary a wrinkle
Like she could play a 20-something with little flack caught is we didn’t know
The wigs AGE HER.
They don’t make her look bad , but they AGE HER .
Which means :
the wig game needs...
allimmaturityandallcaps:
Also pursuant to this post, posted separately for similar reasons:
My parents were raised a little differently from each other. My mom’s middle-upper class white and my dad’s low-low-rent white; noticeably different values. But they both grew up in the era in which it was perfectly okay to tell a kid, “Children should be seen and not heard.” My mother got more of this...
very filled with dreams: white people are... →
isabelthespy:
pursuant to this post but posted separately because the answer to “what could possibly be better than a white person chipping in their fascinating insights into whiteness in the middle of a conversation among POC” is “everything. literally everything is better than that.”
something i’ve learned…
Dis is good. Very good
February 2012
Daniellemertina is my young shero that is all
“It doesn’t necessarily need to be a great singer to play the role,” the insider...”
– Whitney Houston Biopic Won’t Necessarily Cast An African-American Actress To Portray Legend - Huffington Post (via notime4yourshit)
I just…are we really about to try to white face a woman that just passed. Really? Somebody come get your cousins & beat them until they’re less stupid. (via...
milkeemountainmama:
America’s Top Magazines: Still Not Hiring Women
think-progress:
Do we really have to educate editors that women can bring new perspectives on major stories, and not just to stories about living as a single woman or going through a divorce?
- ThinkProgress culture blogger Alyssa Rosenberg
well, since this article should really be “still not hiring *white*...
“If I see myself on screen, then I know that I exist.”
– Gabourey Sidibe (via thatgirlsan-alien)
baddominicana:
karnythia:
queennubian:
baddominicana:
karnythia:
Now I’m curious about home training & how much of it some people get that they cannot stand to think even for a second that a conversation that has nothing to do with & that they know nothing about does not need their voice. Like, how does that work? I hear & see people having conversations all the time that...
Yep
I had to delete that phot even though I love it because of the original blogger. Which is sad cause i love it and should have notice but
I do not and can not put any connection to people who keep silent while I’m threatened with violence and say nothing about how black woman are when they AREN’t in photo ops
which is sad
cause that senator ( and the blog I reflagged it from )
ARE...
Evolution Of A Queen: daniellemertina: These... →
karnythia:
uneducated-intelligence:
daniellemertina:
These Foolish Things: Eccentric Black Girls
uneducated-intelligence:
daniellemertina:
thegoddamazon:
itsanjell-bitch:
Have it the worst. We’re not the mammies, the jezebels, or the hoodrats. Our minds broke from the slave mindset along time…
Seriously? I’m white so I can’t have an opinion? Isn’t that the EXACT same type of...
13 Year Old Jada Williams Persecuted by the... →
racismschool:
beautifulbrwn:
“On Saturday, February 18, 2012, the Frederick Douglass Foundation of New York presented the first Spirit of Freedom award to Jada Williams, a 13-year old city of Rochester student. Miss Williams wrote an essay on her impressions of Frederick Douglass’ first autobiography the Narrative of the Life. This was part of an essay contest, but her essay was never...
Reblog this if you want someone to put a fictional...
Y'all, curiouslycool is getting the racist...
On This.
I put up a post on a very SPECIFIC condition of traumatic bullying experienced by black high acheivers in scholastic situations .
That got 125 notes in AN HOUR . On a sunday in the middle of the damn day
Who are these folks that assume kids are protected and WHY DO THE THINK THAT?!?!
“There’s a grotesque irony in declaring that what is portrayed in Bully should be...”
– Linda Holmes, writing about the R rating given to the documentary ‘Bully’.
There’s a second paragraph I wanted to quote as well, but I’m adding it down here as a separate thing due to the change in voice:
The entire point of this film is that kids do not live with the protection we often believe...
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Pretty is political
I have discomfort in being called pretty.
I have discomfort in a lot of attention being paid to me .
I like theatre and art and playing dressup. God has a sense of humor
And as we know I’m doing my w orkout/ritalin thing ( and it’s going well)
but can we talka bout teh politics of pretty for a second.
Like even minor adjustments into someone’s attractive Radar .
Make them...
Watch
Newly-elected Minnesota State Representative Susan Allen knows what it is like to be the first. She is the first Indigenous woman elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives - ever. She is also the first “out, lesbian, American Indian” to serve in elected office - at any level, anywhere in our country. The daughter of the Rev. Philip Allen, Rep. Allen describes how her experiences as...
“We wanted to be human beings.”
– Sylvia Rivera (via darlingtonia-californica)
What I thought
So what tickles me vermillion about all of this is the essential lack of vision these new feminist dust ups are showing in comparison to the meat of discussions going on between women.
People are writing about fear etc and that’s well and good but very early , not just the politics but the networking, the analysis became based on a superiority / snark complex. Which one person famously...
notime4yourshit:
How is it the same people who understand that Africa is a continent can’t understand that a Haitian isn’t a Dominican isn’t a Cuban isn’t a Puerto Rican isn’t a Jamican?
“Dominican feminists’ alliance with the Trujillato was completed in the 1940s not...”
– Why Dominican Feminism Moved to the Right: Class, Colour and Women’s Activism in the Dominican Republic, 1880s–1940s
black women- erased from history and stripped of all our merits since…… (via baddominicana)
In which one black (female) artist with simple...
Bon Iver: And I told you to be patient, and I told you to be fine. I told you to be balanced, and I told you to be kind, but now all your love is wasted. And then who the hell was I?
Death Cab: So one last touch and then you'll go and we'll pretend that it meant something so much more. But it was vile, and it was cheap and you are beautiful but you don't mean a thing to me. Yeah, you are beautiful but you don't mean a thing to me
Radiohead: But I can't help the feeling I could blow through the ceiling if I just turn and run. And it wears me out... It wears me out. If I could be who you wanted, if I could be who you wanted all the time... all the time.
Brand New: You are calm and reposed, let your beauty unfold. Pale white like the skin stretched over your bones, spring keeps you ever close. You are secondhand smoke, you are so fragile and thin standing trial for your sins. Holding onto yourself the best you can. You are the smell before rain, you are the blood in my veins.
Nicki Minaj: You a stupid hoe, you a you a stupid hoe. You a stupid hoe, you a you a stupid hoe. You a stupid hoe, you a you a stupid hoe. You a stupid hoe, you a you a stupid hoe. You a stupid hoe, yeah you a you a stupid hoe.You a stupid hoe you a you a stupid hoe. You stupid stupid, you a stupid hoe
afrodiaspores:
Feminist X: We are a group of established feminist activists, educators, writers,…
feministx:
We are a group of established feminist activists, educators, writers, bloggers and lecturers. We are speaking out as the result of the behaviour and posts coming from some of the online feminist community, which we view as unhealthy for the movement. After some thoughtful...
punctual
milkeemountainmama:
james-bliss:
I think it’s worth pointing out that, while it took about 8 days for feministx to wend its way to, you know, the women of color it is directed against, some medieval historian from pasadena was hip to it well before everyone else.
oh, yes, he was right up on that shit—when his last blog post was A MONTH AGO. it makes a LOT OF SENSE THAT HE INSTANTANEOUSLY...
to recap:
milkeemountainmama:
their power is not real. it never has been. they try to scare us with “we’re anonymous because we’re scared” they try to threaten us with “you’re ruining the movement” they try to immobilize us by turning us into the ugliest dog in creation—
and they’re still who they always were—red lipstick surrounded by a pool of radiating invisibility whose only power is to hurt your...
milkeemountainmama:
come on up to the house: in summary
muckrakingiswomenswork:
thetart:
We the not signed at all except when we get a little clumsy with the reblogs would like you all to know that we are very important and established and words and buzzwords. Our mommies told us that we were very special, and every time you disagree there are rifts and call-outs and…
this is beautiful
...
i mean, the *audacity*
karnythia:
so-treu:
who the fuck do you think you’re talking to?
where the fuck do you think you are?
what fucking *year* do you think it is?
here’s a hint: IT’S NOT 1842, PALEFACE.
you are NOT the colonial overlords and we are NOT the restless natives. you don’t get to disrespect, misquote, outright slander, bully, lie, ignore, ie SHIT all over not just our work but our lives and our...
i mean, the *audacity* #askafeminist
so-treu:
who the fuck do you think you’re talking to?
where the fuck do you think you are?
what fucking *year* do you think it is?
here’s a hint: IT’S NOT 1842, PALEFACE.
you are NOT the colonial overlords and we are NOT the restless natives. you don’t get to disrespect, misquote, outright slander, bully, lie, ignore, ie SHIT all over not just our work but our lives and our SAFETY, literally...
in summary
thetart:
We the not signed at all except when we get a little clumsy with the reblogs would like you all to know that we are very important and established and words and buzzwords. Our mommies told us that we were very special, and every time you disagree there are rifts and call-outs and mean and y’all
rifts again because they’re really bad! I mean I said WE said that really was crappy that...
ok, ok, ok,--hows this sound (clears throat) " IF...
milkeemountainmama:
Dumb Things White People Say: Everyone chooses... →
baddominicana:
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
mcrandcrapshitc0ffee:
I’m not anyone’s first choice. I’m not anyone’s favorite. People may tell me I mean a lot to them and that I’m special to them but I know there’s someone they will always choose over me.
…holy fuck this is my entire life.
It’s why I’m so tired of “I like you, but”…
in the month of december i had 3 diff men say im the “girl of...
feministx
james-bliss:
because why read Audre Lorde when you can quote her?