May 2013
57 posts
Anxious times.: Then again...(TW violence, racism,... →
apihtawikosisan:
I come from the Prairies, where looking obviously Native means:
- crossing over the White side of the bar in many small towns means you’re either deliberately starting a brawl, or you fucked up and you’re about to be hospitalised;
- having people assume you’re a gass-huffing prostitute, even when you’re walking with your husband and children;
- having the city police drop...
“Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.”
– Clementine Paddleford (via givemeajobplease)
p.s. now that’s a tumblr name i can get behind.
(via tornbread)
“‘They create an environment where rape is funny, where you can be boastful about...”
– “Facebook’s hate speech problem” Mary Elizabeth Williams at Salon (via facebooksexism)
bakerstreetmarauder:
If someone tells you a racist, sexist or homophobic joke, don’t get mad at them. Just tell them you don’t get it. Keep telling them you don’t get it until they are forced to explain why women/minorities/homosexuals are stupid/etc.
Then just walk away.
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Cosmic 404: I Am: An original poem about my... →
phoenix-falls:
I AM the American Dream—
No, that’s not right. They call it a dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.
I am…I am…
I am a puff of tobacco smoke twisting its tendrils earnestly towards the sky, illuminated like a blue ghost of reverence by the rising sun-filled with the prayers of my…
“While every disabled person will have their own take on this for themselves, i...”
– Building Radical Accessible Communities Everywhere, dis/diss/differently/abled by Sprinkles McGillicuddy (via fabianromero)
“The first immigrants to Europe arrived thousands of years ago from central Asia....”
– Indigenous History: “What if people told European history like they told Native American history?” (via stfuconservatives)
Sine Qua Non: Call For Submissions! →
humboldtoctober:
I am currently working on a zine surrounding the topic of childhood sexual assault/abuse/trauma survivorship.
If you have anything to say as a survivor, via art, word, design, etc. that you would be interested in seeing shared with other survivors I would really appreciate the support and to get…
“I am not the first person you loved.
You are not the first person I looked at...”
– Clementine von Radics, Mouthful of Forevers (via rabbrakha)
a real friend is the one who says, "you probably...
art-books-and-everything:
true friendship is still being friends despite being in different hogwarts houses
First Nations plan Day of Action to reclaim... →
idlenomore:
First Nations plan Day of Action to reclaim original name of Mount Douglas: PKOLS
Victoria, BC and Coast Salish Territory, BC — WEC’KINEM (Eric Pelkey), a hereditary chief of the Tsawout First Nation, with support from the Songhees and local WSÁNEĆ nations, are calling on all peoples in the Victoria area to participate in a day of action to Reclaim PKOLS, the original name of Mount...
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“Simply put, not everything has to be about you. Yes, sometimes men’s involvement...”
– Indigo Trigg-Hauger - An Open Letter To Men’s Rights Activists (via misandry-mermaid)
Okay, sure. But what about the men???
(via ineedmasculism)
“No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them.”
– Assata Shakur (via imadeva)
Call for Submissions- Disabled Writers →
deafmuslimpunx:
We are happy to announce we are now accepting submissions for an upcoming anthology of disabled writers! This exciting book project will feature diverse, cross-disability authors committed to illum…
calling all fellow deaf writers!!! you should submit and get our voices “heard” !!!
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Ya'll, what is this shit? →
little boi blue: Even if you are a POCEven if your... →
bookishboi:
Even if you are a POC Even if your mother bled her brown skin into the land until the sun rose again Even if you have heard slurs against your people more often than you have heard your own name If you have white privilege, acknowledge it If you benefit from colorism, acknowledge it Know that…
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Americana Indian: Thinking twice about images that... →
this-is-not-native:
Talking back to negative appropriations on TED
General trigger warnings for mentions of rape culture, rape, and sexual violence.
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A dude brah on OkCupid just asked me "You fancy...
And I told him that I’m just an Ewah lounging around my house in human skin like a Snuggy.
“We’re not all like that”
– all of them (via handaxe) 