January 2010
93 posts
“Let’s talk about how many times a woman gets called “intimidating” just for...”
– Tiger Beatdown › Girl Culture and the Race to the Bottom: About that Rant About Women (via bthny) (via halvgal) (via tiredofbeingignored) (via katoleary) (via clingtomymouth)
“Ignorance and racism combine in this potent form of messianism to sanction...”
– The Veil, Again « P U L S E (via clingtomymouth) (via tiredofbeingignored) (via ihatethismess)
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Americans arrested taking children out of Haiti |... →
abbyjean:
Haitian police have arrested 10 U.S. citizens caught trying to take 33 children out of the earthquake-stricken country in a suspected illicit adoption scheme, authorities said on Saturday. The five men and five women were in custody in the capital, Port-au-Prince after their arrests on Friday night.
Authorities said the Americans had no documents to prove they had cleared the adoption...
MANSPLAINING
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chanceler:
Mansplaining isn’t just the act of explaining while male, of course; many men manage to explain things every day without in the least insulting their listeners. Mansplaining is when a dude tells you, a woman, how to do something you already know how to do, or how you are wrong about something you are actually right about, or miscellaneous and inaccurate “facts”...
“However, I strongly believe people cannot receive messages until they are ready...”
– Latoya (via amandaw) (via abbyjean)
“The lesson of that history is that you must not despair, that if you are right,...”
– Howard Zinn (via sometimesagreatnotion) (via marthaq)
“[T]here is nothing mystical in Haiti’s pain, no inescapable curse that haunts...”
– from “To Heal Haiti, Look to History, Not Nature” by Mark Danner at the NYTimes (via marthaq)
The Unnecesarean: Yes, It's True: Med Students... →
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thecurvature:isabelthespy:katoleary:meloukhia:
This upsets me so much every time it comes up, because I’ve had a number of surgeries (2 in Australia, 2 here) during which I’ve been unconscious for a rather extended period … and I just don’t want to know. I really don’t. Especially with my other history. I can’t really handle the possibility that it might have been done to...
“At the same time as anal penetration is held up in hetero male culture as the...”
– Feminist Critique of Hetero Male Culture Causes Mass MRA Hysteria (via sexisnottheenemy) (via ignoranceisthenewish) (via tobia) (via exiledsoul) (via clingtomymouth) (via glitterbombing) (via ihatethismess)
Pelvic Examinations performed on unconscious women... →
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plainoljane:
In Canadian hospitals. Today. Every day. This is shocking and disgusting and disturbing and awful.
2010 CCC/Americorps Backcountry Trails Program →
“The Backcountry Trails program of the California Conservation Corps will be fielding seven crews of young men & women (18 to 26 years old), to spend 5½ months building and maintaining trails in Wilderness areas throughout California’s State & National Parks and National Forests.
Job duties include trails maintenance of drainage systems and tread, clearance of brush, fallen...
You know what's hard? Putting racism/privilege...
ihatethismess:
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ihatethismess:
Seriously how are you suppose to do it?
If you get a good answer to this, please pass it on to me. Also, how is one supposed to do the same for someone who looks completely white, despite their heritage?
like white Hispanics? i think it should be the same. because i know plenty of white hispanics who...
“The tone of Google’s chief legal consultant disgusts me. If you withdraw for...”
– some translated excerpts from Baidu.com’s chief product designer, Sun Yunfeng, reposted on The New Yorker. (via Maloy)
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“Google Inc. is a year into its ground-shifting strategy to change the way people...”
– The Globe and Mail: Patriot Act haunts Google service
So, if the US does this, it’s because they are WARRING ON TERROR and FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM! But if China does this, it’s because we are DIRTY YELLOW COMMIES! (via Maloy)
clingtomymouth:
When the court’s opinion in the case involving Blackwater was issued on December 31, 2009, Judge Ricardo Urbina (the presiding judge in that case) premised his dismissal upon the following ‘facts’: 1) that the prosecution’s case was built upon sworn statements that had been given under a promise of immunity, and 2) that this action violated the guards’ constitutional rights....
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marthaq:
Many, many people have already spoken up about the representation of Indigenous people in Avatar. So I’ll just say this.
As soon as the first band of Na’vi men arrived on screen war-whooping and looking like Mohawk Indians from some John Wayne movie, I crossed my arms firmly across my chest to protect myself from the sinking feeling in my heart.
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Usually I just laugh at the idiots who call into...
ihatethismess:
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amberlrhea: thepoliticalpartygirl:
“I see people on food stamps buying steaks!” First of all, no you don’t. How do you know they’re on food stamps? Those debit cards are also used for social security and unemployment benefits. I get the feeling these people see minorities buying steaks and assume they are doing it with food stamps. And if the person...
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Don’t tell me why it would “never happen to you”. ...
sexismandthecity:
I hope it doesn’t, but statistics from UNIFEM say that one in five women will become a victim of rape or attempted rape in her lifetime.
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“Agreed that people should not berate rape victims. This doesn’t mean that women...”
– awindofsuchviolence
Kids, let me be clear. I’m all about safety first. But if a girl walks down a dark alley by herself, wears a short skirt, or goes upstairs with a guy after she’s had a few drinks at a party…it doesn’t matter if she put herself in a situation where she could be raped. She could...
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“People always ask me, ‘You have so much confidence. Where did that come from?’...”
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Gabourey Sidibe in Harper’s Bazaar
She’s my new hero.
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“The National Penitentiary held 4,000 prisoners. We know that 60 to 80 percent of...”
– Dr. Evan Lyon, “Earthquake Frees Haitian Prisoners from Port-Au-Prince Jail, 80% Never Charged With A Crime” (via meloukhia)
wait, so when anderson cooper implied that the correct thing for those people to do when the prison was destroyed in the earthquake was to sit tight and wait for the justice...
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“Robots do make war much easier – for the aggressor. You are taking much less...”
– Johann Hari (via azspot)
We’ve made war as easy as possible already. We kill brown people mainly and do it with the most economically desperate members of our society who also sustain nearly all of our casualties. None of that intrudes into my bubble of entitlement and hallucinatory security. But...
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“The thing that we always forget about the abortion debate is that this is an...”
– kay steiger on blog for choice day. (via abbyjean)
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Blog of Rights: Official Blog of the American... →
abbyjean:
Daija is a 13-year-old girl from the Bronx who dreams of one day being a veterinarian and has always enjoyed school. This changed on the morning of October 7, 2009, when Daija’s mother dropped her and a friend off at school. Daija and her friend were confronted by two strangers who were being rambunctious, yelling, and acting threateningly toward them. Scared and panicked, Daija texted...
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“I thought I was going to die when the earth shook. I was at Pacot, the Doctors...”
– Dr. Cabeza, medical coordinator of Doctors Without Borders in Haiti. Read the full account. (via doctorswithoutborders)
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genderacrossborders:
Clearly, harassment and assault on public transportation is a serious problem. So why do some people still see it as a joke? Last week, Tumblr’s official Tuesday update, posted by an apparently male staff member, began with a story about a dream in which real life was Tumblrized, complete with like and reblog buttons. It was funny, and cute, right up until reality hit:
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“I personally have nothing against the man who believes in god- no matter what...”
– A.S. Neill (via vegankitsch) (via letstalkequality) (via tiredofbeingignored)
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Fugitivus: A woman walks into a rape, uh, bar →
tiredofbeingignored:
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This blog post needs to be read by every single person on Tumblr, everyone you know.
But, let’s boil this down to its common denominator: laughing at torture that has historically been directed at one class of people who were not allowed access to societal protection or defense is a very...
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“So 48 years ago — 48 years ago in this country we could make fun of Arabs. … We...”
– Bill O’Reilly, via Tapped.
i dunno, bill, maybe we’re becoming less oppressive and discriminatory? perhaps this is a change that should be embraced and encouraged, rather than mourned? unless you view it as having lost some of the white privilege that should rightfully be yours by no merit other...
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Dying in Haiti: Humanitarian Crisis Enters Second... →
abbyjean:
bonesarecoralmade:
As the unprecedented humanitarian relief effort in Haiti struggles through logistical chaos, triaging shipments of food, medicine, and personnel, making sure help is distributed efficiently, one entity seems to consistently dominate the hierarchy of needs: the military.
And so thousands of troops continue to descend on Haiti in droves, while reports of...
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"Looting"
ihatethismess:
ericrobertsswagger:
squashed:
If a natural disaster strikes and somebody decides this is an opportune moment to break into a Best Buy and steal themselves a flat-screen TV, feel free to call them a looter.
But when somebody breaks into a supply depot looking for food or medical supplies because their only other is watching somebody they love starve, they’re not “looting.”...
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“We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the...”
– MLK, jr. (via letstalkequality) (via tiredofbeingignored)
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Luxury liners are still docking at private beaches... →
(via Maloy at House of Whoreship)
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ihatethismess:
bthny:
clingtomymouth:
I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux...
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“As we pause to honor King’s legacy, it’s tempting to sanitize his radical call...”
– Honoring King: Economic Justice for All - John Gehring - God’s Politics Blog (via apatosaurus) (via breadandwhine) (via tiredofbeingignored) (via glitterbombing) (via ihatethismess)
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Healing the Wounds of War Through Yoga →
sexismandthecity:
Since its launch in 2007, thousands of women who were raped during the genocide in 1994, many of whom were consequently infected by HIV/AIDS, have been reached with yoga classes given by Project Air. In partnership with local gynaecologic health centres that perform fistula operations for survivors of rape, the organisation is now planning to expand into the eastern provinces...
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