July 2011
2 posts
How to Post Images on Tumblr With Better...
harpermd:
Tumblr’s Photo upload tool is inherently unfriendly to screen readers. Even if you include an image description, Tumblr is set up in such a way that it will read ALL the caption text TWICE. This is particularly bad when images come with long text posts beneath them. Additionally these descriptions are easily lost after several reblogs, rendering them useless and adding confusion.
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“Things like rape jokes or comments that sexualize and objectify women are both...”
– You Can’t Fight Sexism With Sexism by Alex at Border House
June 2011
3 posts
zuky:
Why does the LSE academic Satoshi Kanazawa seem to hate women and black people?
blackamazon:
“The Hawaiian sailors are all black and ugly like devils.” This was an entry in the diary of Morita Kiyoyuki, one of the 170 samurai envoys who travelled from Japan as part of the first Japanese embassy mission to America in 1860 during the late Tokugawa Shogunate. The envoys meticulously...
Asian Women, American GIs and Modern Rape Culture
mizjenkins:
“This is my rifle, this is my gun. One is for killing, the other’s for fun.” - a U.S. military training cadence popular since WWII
[Image from Time/Life Magazine c. 1951]
The hyper-misogynistic sexual exploitation of Asian women in American culture is one of the racist paradigms that can perhaps most easily be traced back to recent history. For this reason I am always...
May 2011
7 posts
Kai's Bar-Banter Canada Election Rundown
zuky:
Massive gains for the NDP are more than a “protest vote” but suggest the possibility of a generational realignment toward a more assertive progressive vision, perhaps roughly in line with socialist and social democratic movements in Europe and South America.
Four years of Conservative majority is the price that must be paid for such a dramatic realignment. It will be painful for many...
Responding to the mainstream feminist blogosphere... →
possibleriotsandescape:
I’ve been reflecting a lot lately on how we are so busy telling other people not to be oppressive to our communities that we have little energy left to deal with what’s going on inside of our own communities. I’m finished with doing the educating on how feminism needs to change – it’s been done. And it’s no longer going to come at the physical, mental, and spiritual...
“When feminists ‘call-out’ other feminists for their racism, transphobia,...”
– Shaunga Tagore, a contributor to Feminism for Real, a REALLY FUCKING IMPORTANT BOOK for all feminists, allies, PEOPLE interested in social justice and changing the world.
More on this written in a DOPE article by Jessica Yee over at Racialicious.
(via androgynius)
Gangster Culture
zuky:
[ I wrote this piece in 2007 in response to one of those regular waves of white condemnation of “gangster culture” in Black music. Reposting here with some tweaks and updates. It was originally published on my old blog on April 13, 2007. ]
In order to talk about gangster culture at all, we have to begin by talking about how we, in US society, live in a culture which celebrates the...
Gender for kids: the discussion so far!
jaded16india:
deadgeraniums:
sententiola:
I’m not quite sure what you mean by saying that those pronouns ‘might do’. If this means they might be usable as gender-neutral pronouns in English, er… Well, personally I’d hesitate to do that. That’s partly because it would seem appropriative (for me at least, since I’m not remotely Chinese and don’t speak any Chinese languages) and partly...
“Socializing is as exhausting as giving blood. People assume we loners are...”
– Anneli Rufus (via airplanes)
IT MEANS HAVING TO PERFORM. this is what people don’t get sometimes.
(via redrosehips)
I’m a very social person, and like being around people a large amount of the time, but as an introvert I definitely identify with this as well: it means having to perform. And that...
April 2011
88 posts
so-treu:
tabularasae:
Safe spaces give minorities a much-needed escape from white and hetero-normativity, which is epitomized by non-minorities’ undue exercise of privilege in minority conversations. Take the following example: In the midst of a conversation about the racialization of poverty, a white person asserts that white people are poor, too. While the statement in and of itself is...
“Sex work in itself is not inherently anti-feminist. What is sexist about strip...”
– Strip clubs are not sexist, shaming women for expressing their sexuality is | mndaily.com - Serving the University of Minnesota Community Since 1900 (via sexisnottheenemy)
I also used these images for the business cards
tinyfist:
akitron:
that;s cute right?
Not sloppy or whatever?
i’m too lazy to find the 4th one
I love how cheerful and FIERCE they are! I want to read the stories of them allllllllllllllllll. ♥______♥
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“I had a very tame and mild love scene with Jon Hamm. It was like heavy breathing...”
– Emily Browning, on Sucker Punch censoring (via mutations)
seriously, this is the world. women enjoying their sexuality is not okay, women being forced into it is what gets you a lower acceptable rating. see also: blue valentine.
(via closetospring)
this is ex-fucking-actly what i mean about rape...
d2fang:
Looting Does Exist in Japan
janedoe225:
After reading the various articles about looting and the so-called “exemplary” behavior of the Japanese who were directly affected by the recent earthquakes and tsunami (as discussed by my fellow colleague, Mike), I immediately thought, “Bullshit.” I was convinced that looting and other types of lawless behavior were being played down by...
microaggressions:
At Sundance, someone criticized Justin Lin for his portrayal of Asians in “Better Luck Tomorrow,” implying that it didn’t fit the stereotype of Asians as hardworking, obedient students.
Response: Roger Ebert got on a chair and “… went on to say that Asian-Americans should be free to take on any types of roles they choose without fear of misrepresenting the entire community.”
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locomotives:
Callout for an Anti-authoritarian People of Colour and Indigenous Peoples Caucus
sheresists:
(***please spread widely***)
We invite self-identified people of colour and indigenous people to join us at the Toronto Anarchist bookfair for a day of talks, workshops, and social events that will be presented by, facilitated by, and attended by self-identified Anti-Authoritarian...
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“I came away from the movie remembering various rural communes and...”
– DaisyDeadhead
Being disabled in so-called radical spaces can be...
wildunicornherd:
starblanketriverchild:
I can’t tell you how many times a day the question, “How can I make peace with my belief in sustainability, anarchy, and anti-capitalism when I am a disabled person who relies on petroleum-based products and the medical industry simply to survive?”. I realize that’s it’s only through class and national privilege that I’m even alive at the moment....
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WatchAretha Franklin with Lauryn Hill - A Rose Is Still A Rose
When I was young, I didn’t get this song, but when I was older, I thought the song’s message was a play on the word “deflowering”, i.e., a woman losing her virginity. To me, it’s saying that a man cannot “take” away a woman’s virtue by pretending to love her but using her for sex. A rose is...
