February 2012
681 posts
y’know it’s midnight but I’m still down for TMI Tuesday questions.
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so Jessie, you should start texting me immediately
yo what the hell happened to Tumblr
Dear White Women,
zorascreation:
Many Women of Color have called you out on your whitewashing of their issues in relation to racial injustice and how it affects things central to women’s experiences across the planet. Many of you have learned from these experiences about how to navigate your White Privilege while still being a disenfranchised gender-group. However, I don’t think much attention has been payed...
Transethnic FTW
brandx:
Oh, for fuck’s sake.
Apparently a clutch of privileged, delusional bigots have hijacked the term “transethnic,” ensuring that us Class Bastard adoptees and foster kids encounter even MORE dismissal and confusion in public discourse.
“Transethnic,” for those who don’t know, occurs in the context of adoption. For example, a white Jewish child is adopted by non Jews. Or a Saami kid by...
(tw: racism) I wish I was Asian.
fuckyeahethnicwomen:
stfuandlistenwhitepeople:
spicyobsession:
gondoleia:
spicyobsession:
lesbiancrimesquad:
stephotosynthesis:
dirrtywater:
tortugathegreat:
Seriously. I do. They’re so cute.
please don’t label asians as ‘cute’. we’re not an object.
Are Asians puppies now? I understand it’s supposed to be a compliment to some degree, but still. Do you think every Asian is...
The Bechdel Test and Race in Popular Fiction
twelvefootmountaintroll:
marcinhates:
crystalsavestheday:
ladofthewildeknight:
wildguess:
crystalsavestheday:
1. It has to have two POC in it.
2. Who talk to each other.
3. About something other than a white person.
No Joss Whedon show passes, neither does Supernatural, or Being Human.
Veronica Mars passes, but doesn’t pass the original Bechdel Test.
Check out a few...
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Trans Sexuality - A Safe Sex Zine →
amydentata:
tobitastic:
Safe sex information is almost universally designed for non-trans (and straight) folks, and then that information is given to us when and where it applies. However, there is a lot of information that is unique to trans people and trans bodies that never gets included. This zine answers the question, what would sex ed look like if it was designed specifically for trans...
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SIN · SAI: Couple Remarries After Husband’s Sex... →
marcinhates:
incrediblefeatures:
In 2002, Anne and Barry Watson tied the knot as husband and wife. Six years into the marriage, however, Barry confessed to Anne that he wanted to have a sex change. Now, the couple has decided to renew their vows–only this time, as wife and wife!
Barry, who is now known as Jayne, never felt comfortable as a man. As a child, he would often put on his mother’s...
“Start out perfect and don’t change a thing. Always accentuate your best features...”
– Miss Piggy (via pussybow)
Mantra
(via femmesandfamily)
“She had stayed a virgin so she wouldn’t be called a tramp or a slut; had married...”
– Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (via anuraglahiri)
Why Isn’t There A White History Month? →
theoceanandthesky:
grapefruitatlarge:
Why Isn’t There A White History Month?
Posted by: Keir on: February 2, 2012
Comment!
Filipino American History Month
German American Heritage Month
Italian American Heritage Month: Italian Heritage and Culture Month
Polish American Heritage Month
Jewish American Heritage Month
Irish-American Heritage Month
National Hispanic Heritage Month
...
“You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to...”
– Aaron Freeman “You Want A Physicist To Speak at your Funeral”
(source: npr)
I can’t stop crying.
(via agirlbuzzlightyear)
Even with Chopin playing in the background, I’ve got that Bach Invention stuck in my head as I lie in bed. Omg someone help me
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making ringtones in lieu of making music.
oh my.
That terrible craving to kiss someone.
redhothoshi:
peayeahknow:
it’s 11pm but I want to play piano
well, Dad’s keyboard, but still
It’s 11pm and I want to play my guitar all loudly and energetic and junk. I feel your pain.
well technically it’s not a matter of the keyboard being loud because of volume control/headphones
but I’d have to drag a chair from the dining room down to the freezing cold basement and wear...
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it’s 11pm but I want to play piano
well, Dad’s keyboard, but still
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how does one even draw a piano x harpsichord couple with a baby clavichord?
idk, but after my conversation with Tyler today I really, really wanna figure that out.
Call for submissions from trans women of color →
xyrophile:
autumn-and-eve:
If you don’t already know, Raven and I are in the process of coming up with a zine/pamphlet-type situation all about transmisogyny. Since transmisogyny intersects a lot with race in a way we haven’t experienced, we’d really like to include trans women of color’s views on the matter. The pamphlet is going to phrased as theory and an explanation of transmisogyny...
“In the world according to the majority of Western media, Pakistan might well be...”
– Meet Pakistan’s DIY Generation
I love this because I love the genre(s) it features but even more so because it does a lovely, lovely roundup on indie/ambient music in Pakistan by Talha, Daniel from orangenoisepk, Asfandyar Khan, Mole, “Dalt Wisney”, Basheer and the Pied Pipers among other equally...
“shame is not a catalyst for change; it is a paralytic. Anyone who has ever...”
– http://www.xojane.com/issues/whats-wrong-fat-shaming (via thechocolatebrigade)
“Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames”
– Rumi (via jerzee55)
FACT: When a person puts glitter on any part of...
wewantrevolutiongirlstylenow:
Yeah, that’s how we get ya.
“So when the Irish, when Germans, when Italians were coming, and they didn’t...”
– Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Race-The Power of an Illusion (via volviomarilia)
“if the lights are on or off, if we’re in the kitchen
or the bedroom, half-naked...”
– Alison Daniel, And I Really Don’t Care (via grammatolatry)
reaill:
Maybe someday
I’ll meet that special someone
who I won’t be afraid to show my blog to and we’ll be able to fart in one another’s presence without repercussions of “It wasn’t me” but “It was me and I don’t care”
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Nauseous because cis het black dude seems to think his oppression means he can’t oppress others
twelvefootmountaintroll:
The way to solve body policing is not, in fact, to continue to police bodies but with different standards. The solution to body policing is to stop policing bodies. Jfc, it’s not that difficult. (And for the record, that includes not telling people they have to feel any certain way about their bodies and/or that changing their bodies is wrong.)
Anonymous asked: I thought I would bring to your...
justjasper:
Fuck you and the horse you rode in on. You must be new.
There is no such thing as “real beauty”.
Someone having an eating disorder doesn’t mean they can’t be beautiful.
“Lucky genetics”, whatever that shit means, is no reason to disregard someone.
Lumping conventional attractiveness and eating disorders together as if they are pack-and-parcel together is gross.
The blog title is...
