3 Jun, 2012
Reblogged from ponprincess
3 Jun, 2012
Reblogged from sheer-powder
Calling something exotic emphasizes its distance from the reader. We don’t refer to things as exotic if we think of them as ordinary. We call something exotic if it’s so different that we see no way to emulate it or understand how it came to be. We call someone exotic if we aren’t especially interested in viewing them as people — just as objects representing their culture.
- Fantasy author N. K. Jemisin on The Unexotic Exotic (via thebooksmugglers)
3 Jun, 2012
Reblogged from mannysfamousbluethong
3 Jun, 2012
Reblogged from fidelcatro
IL FAUT ÊTRE TOUJOURS IVRE: faineemae: Apparently there’s been a recent trend of putting Hindus...
Apparently there’s been a recent trend of putting Hindus Gods on clothing, Shirleen has been so upset about because those are her Gods. As a Muslim, if you don’t understand the significance of this, it’s pretty much if someone had a shirt with verses from the Qur’an on it. One of…
2 Jun, 2012
Reblogged from sheer-powder
And even if the person in question is well-meaning and open-minded, if they really want to learn why it’s not OK for white people to say some of the things POCs say, if they really want to know more about our cultures, or why what they said was offensive, they will DO THEIR HOMEWORK (read a book, search the internet) instead of enlisting the people of color in their lives as personal, unpaid, anti-oppression tutors.
- Angry Black-White Girl (The Role of Allies/How to be Called Out (Without Throwing a Tantrum))
(Source: noseriouslyfuckyou)
1 Jun, 2012
Reblogged from pink-slip
Free speech as a legal concept only guarantees you the right to speak. It doesn’t guarantee you the right to be heard, it doesn’t guarantee you the right to be agreed with, it certainly doesn’t guarantee you the right for your speech to not be challenged by someone else’s speech, and most importantly of all, it doesn’t mean you can’t suffer consequences if and when your free speech is used to cause harm to someone. Which is exactly what sexual harassment, racial slurs, and verbal bigotry are. That’s not censorship. That’s fairness.
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“Not Okay”: MovieBob on Sexism and Harassment in Nerd Culture. (via jerrymuffinbutt)
always relevant
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30 May, 2012
Reblogged from gangstamuslimah
And if a woman should say she doesn’t want to have children at all, the world is apt to go decidedly peculiar: ‘Ooooh, don’t speak too soon,’ it will say — as if knowing whether or not you’re the kind of person who desires to make a whole other human being in your guts, out of sex and food, then have the rest of your life revolve around its welfare, is a breezy, ‘Hey - whevs’ decision. Like electing to have a picnic on an unexpectedly sunny day or changing the background picture on your desktop. ‘When you meet the right man, you’ll change your mind, dear,’ the world will say, with an odd, aggressive smugness.
30 May, 2012
Reblogged from thedesignatedclapper
Amy Poehler is the best and Seventeen magazine is the worst and the only thing I would add to that answer would be a solid “Fuck you” after the end.
30 May, 2012
Reblogged from fidelcatro
IL FAUT ÊTRE TOUJOURS IVRE: Rapists Who Don’t Think They’re Rapists
[TW: RAPE CULTURE]
You know the guy who “accidentally” rapes women? The acquaintance who “misreads” the situation and “goes too far”? The longtime friend who genuinely thought you had consented, and is shocked when you tell him…
29 May, 2012
Reblogged from mehreenkasana
In the instances when POC say shit like ‘Oh I can’t stand white folk’ or ‘Damn white people’, they aren’t saying ‘Oh I think they are inferior, I want to humiliate them, abuse them, enslave them and wipe out their people!’, they’re saying ‘Damn, after a couple hundred years of white people thinking I’m inferior, humiliating me, abusing me, enslaving me, and trying to wipe out my people, I don’t wanna deal with them.’ The context is completely different.
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Briana (via absinthedisco)
Reblogging every time I see it.
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Thank you.
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