September 2011
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Watchmedusalaughs:
As a queer transperson who lives in an urban, low income environment, it is difficult to fully express my identity and do as I please without opening myself up to danger. My friend has used me as a subject for her Visual Anthropology class. Here is the finished product.
July 2011
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While I appreciate the It Gets Better campaign, I...
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Even his campaign is problematic if you ask me. I’m more fond of the “MAKE it better” campaign created in response to it…
I’m really out of the loop here. What has he done to earn disrespect, and what is the problem with the campaign? I’ve only seen a couple of videos, but I thought they were quite moving, and with a positive message.
I dislike him largely because...
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My Moment? Whaaa...
I’m all for telling off the ~haters~ when they deserve it, but Rebecca Black’s new video about how big and famous she is such a joke. The lyrics might as well be “I’m a privileged little white girl who can get anything she wants, so all of you low-lives can suck it.”
Newsflash: You’re not better than everyone else just because people know your name. They know...
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Casey Anthony deserved her verdict of 'not guilty'
Unlike many others, I’m not distraught over the Casey Anthony verdict. I’m sick of how the media sensationalizes stories about “bad” mothers, and on the off chance that the defense’s story was true, I’m glad she’s not facing the death penalty based on the world’s gut feeling about a case with very little evidence beyond hair fibers and an unknown...
The #fatpeoplenightmares tag on twitter (TW for...
theinbetweenie:
It’s not even creative. How hard do you have to think to regurgitate the standards?
Fat people are scared of food running out.
Fat people are scared of having to eat “healthful” foods.
Fat people are scared of exercise.
Fat people are scared of getting stuck places.
repeat ad nauseum.
I’m curious if any of these people have ever tried critical thinking. Are they even...
While I appreciate the It Gets Better campaign, I...
Even his campaign is problematic if you ask me. I’m more fond of the “MAKE it better” campaign created in response to it…
June 2011
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Bearly Literate: hello its PINKY! →
delbeans:
hi everie one! this is pinky with a heart. del is not updating 2day because he was beeing a BAD BEAR and lauren and ralph put him in time out!! i told delly bear that he shuld stop using bad words. maybe then he will get out of time out and we can play.
so since del is in time out me and maxi…
Yes, even my stuffed animals are blogging about So You Think You Can Dance....
Beyond Marriage →
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Heck Yeah Tumblr Challenges!: 5 things that sum... →
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5 things that sum you up as a person.
Things you are grateful for.
How you do your makeup/hair.
How you lost your virginity/ your current feelings on still being a virgin.
Your fears.
A sentimental possession and the story behind it.
A habit you can’t stop.
The story behind your URL,…
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unholy demon rhythms: i take huge offense at the... →
comicbooksandallthatjazz:
i take huge offense at the term ‘sex positive feminist’. So, what, are women who dont agree with certain types of degrading and aggressive porn sex negative? what about women who feel that the sex industry as a whole is damaging and degrading? they dont enjoy sex? they’re not like the other…
I’m a sex positive feminist who doesn’t like degrading...
May 2011
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My queer feminist thoughts on children...
So, I made a vow when I was about 7 that I will never become pregnant, and I plan to keep that promise to myself forever.* Even after I die, in case science one day allows for dead women to give birth. If I DO end up having kids, which of these options should I choose: adoption, impregnating a woman with my imaginary semen, asking a friend to incubate my eggs, stealing one (from a Republican...
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The voice that won't be silenced: What is an ID... →
illsayitonemoretime:
Sometimes I am asked where I would want to go, I would have a different answer depending on my mood. However no matter what mood I am in, the one place I long to enter, is the 1948 areas of Palestine, or what is now known as Zionist Israel. However because of me being a carried or the West Bank,…
This says it all:
“To them I am a security threat, a 17 year old...
100% foolproof tips to prevent rape and sexual...
lipstick-feminists:
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The voice that won't be silenced: Call me peace,... →
illsayitonemoretime:
At the March 15th protest, a young woman came up to me and actually told me, that as long as I’m living in Palestine, and want to call myself Palestinian I should speak Arabic. My Arabic isn’t great, which is why I tend to speak English most of the time, to that woman I dedicate this.
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Peace not Apartheid
(Cross-posted on my main blog.)
Today I’ve seen a number of statuses pop up on Facebook regarding Yom Hazikaron, Israel’s official Memorial Day. The wording of a lot of these status confused me, and left me wondering: why do we celebrate holidays in which we thank people for dying, rather than mourning their loss? Yom Hazikaron is a day that, like patriotic holidays in the US, teach us to...
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Never again?
First they came for the communists, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a communist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me.
Today is Yom Hashoah, and I...
April 2011
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“[Today], every girl is expected to have: Caucasian blue eyes, full Spanish lips,...”
– Tina Fey, Bossypants. (via owlssayhooot)
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March 2011
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[Trigger warning for mention of rape] Gang Rape... →
moreapologies:
Follow-up to this blog post: [Trigger warning for mention of rape] Tell the New York Times to Apologize for Blaming a Child for Her Gang Rape (petition)
The NYTimes blog has attempted an “apology” for its coverage of the gang-rape story in Texas. The original story was littered with victim-blaming and sympathy for the perpetrators. Here is a link to the petition for an...
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Of Another Fashion: These three Japanese American... →
ofanotherfashion:
These three Japanese American women are just arriving to Lone Pine, California (May 1942, photographer unknown). They’re walking to a bus that will take them to Manzanar internment camp. There is so much to love about this photograph: the saddle shoes and socks combination, the headscarf, the…
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February 2011
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the quiet things.: What Planned Parenthood... →
feministblackboard:
Conservatives are fond of willfully ignorant statements like: Our tax dollars shouldn’t go to abortion, so Planned Parenthood should have its funding stripped. We all know this is a lie. The information to debunk this claim is widely and readily available. Aside from…
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Gays in Egypt join anti-gov’t protests →
projectqueer:
A large number of LGBT Egyptians have joined the massive street protests in Cairo and other cities and are in full solidarity with calls for the ouster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and the creation of a new democratic government in Egypt, according to a gay human rights activist.
Scott Long, former LGBT coordinator for Human Rights Watch, an international human rights...
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Leslie Feinberg: freedom to write novel--not to... →
leslie-feinberg:
[please reblog]
Catherine Ryan Hyde—one of three estranged biological relatives—has written a new young adult novel that is “transgender” themed.
Her young adult novel is not my issue.
Since the book is about a transman, I leave it up to those fierce individuals whose oppressions she writes…