May 2010
82 posts
this ain't livin': Don’t Infringe On Me →
meloukhia:
When you reprint my work without permission? It’s not a compliment. It’s not flattery. It is directly hurting me. I lose every time you do that and yes I am talking to you.
Infringement also takes work out of context and in that sense, it is a form of social control. Infringement of work by queer folks, nonwhite people, people with disabilities, and other people in marginalised...
“As an Indigenous organization, we recognize that indigenous peoples from Latin...”
– First Nations United (via zuky) (via thingsimreading) (via dorianisms)
“While the power of the Europeans has continued, I see the other part of the...”
– Chief Billy Redwing Tayac, Piscataway Nation, First Nations United (via zuky) (via nezua)
love. love. love.
(via guerrillamamamedicine)
(via champagnecandy)
(via ekswitaj)
They are ancestors of the original inhabitants of these lands.
singing and dancing rodents really creep me out
(via healingsakina)
This reminded me of something…
There was a point in my life where it seemed like we were moving to a new state every other month, during that time we lived in Minnesota in an apartment complex. One morning, I was having coffee on our little deck, and saw these cute little “chipmunks” pop up out of the ground, there were two of them, their holes were about 40...
this ain't livin' » Blog Archive » Sarah Palin and... →
blackamazon:
THIS IS THE PIECE MWAHAHAH
DAAAYYYYYYYUUUUUUMMMMMMMM! That’s hella good writing!
An Act of State is an Act of War: I Hate Race →
modulations:
I don’t know or care if any of these gaps will be closed - because what’s the difference between an income gap between blacks and whites and an income gap between group A of white people and group B of white people? Some superficial ticks! I don’t spend nights sweating bullets over the income gaps “within races”, why should one spend any more mind on income gaps between races? The...
“This is how moral drift occurs—we gradually come to accept that it is okay for...”
– Susan Brooks (via azspot) (via soofriends)
Whoa. I am really surprised WaPo published this.
(via quixotess)
I thought it was interesting how much it mirrors your post that I reblogged too. This whole thing about ignoring what is happening to the poor, the working class, the lower middle class,...
Currently relevant →
so-treu:
thingsimreading:
quixotess:
“I’m cranky because I just cannot bring myself to care very much about the disparity in wages when the smallest salary on that table is $87,000 a year! Every woman listed is being paid a living wage. The larger, more urgent gap is clearly that of class. And it says right in the article that women leaders in those organizations are a minisculey tiny number...
“This is how moral drift occurs—we gradually come to accept that it is okay for...”
– Susan Brooks (via azspot)
Response to question I asked Nezua
If you could go back in time…
“…We don’t always know what is best for us. Yes, I feel it is important to thrive, to try and shape your own destiny through conscious thought and action. But it’s a balance. Grip too tight to try and control your fate and you are bound to twist it out of shape in the process. I do my best not to dwell too long in tiny rooms within my mind that...
golden →
(via guerrillamamamedicine)
so-treu:
clingtomymouth:
The only problem with this, as the razor-sharp blog Questioning Transphobia pointed out yesterday, is that Tiwonge Chimbalanga identifies as female. Both the mainstream press and gay rights groups have consistently erased this fact from their statements. Several newspapers have quoted Tiwonge as saying, “I’d rather remain in prison than to be released into a world...
More Than Just an Oil Spill →
so-treu:
tobia:
“The fact that 11 human beings were killed in the Deepwater Horizon explosion (their bodies never found) has become, at best, an afterthought. BP counts its profits in the billions, and, therefore, it’s important. The 11 men working on the rig were no more important in the current American scheme of things than the oystermen losing their livelihoods along the gulf, or the...
Style of habit: cow persons, or native americans? →
mycultureisnotatrend:
It’s not even politically correct to play cowboys and indians anymore. Do you realize how racist youre being, playing that simplistic childrens game? you disgust me. Go back to your racist life. I’m sure you hate women too. and ThE SARCASM IS INDICATED.
ITS A FUCKING GAME. SERIOUSLY.
Anyway, I…
Oh My God. I’ve sat here for the past ten minutes, dumbstruck. I can’t even...
tangerine trees and marmalade skies: My brother... →
It was a really, really crappy lollipop, too. The kind where the stick gets all soggy and bent and the sucker itself tastes like ass, etc. I think it was even a shitty flavor like lime.
Hmmph! I’ll have you know that lime is delicious, so delicious ANY normal kid would cry with happiness for having a lime lollipop, kool-aid, or jello. You were the weird one, not your brother….
“Whiteness is more than a racial identification; it’s a racial inheritance of a...”
– from a great new post on Threadbared about native appropriation and heritage capitalism on PBS’s Antiques Roadshow, read the whole thing here. (via lookuplookup) (via shakepaper)
I’ve watched the show for years, and in every episode I wait for the imperialist loot (especially Chinese stuff with...
Random Geekery: Google Makes Pac-Man Tribute... →
abagond:
theessentialsofcool:
On May 21st Google decided to celebrate Pac-Man’s 30th Anniversary by turning their trademark logo into an actual Pac-Man game.
If you’d like to give the game a try you can still…
ARGH! I love the original pac-man, but I am so terrible with the arrow keys. I want a joystick!!! In fact, I want an old Atari game system with pac-man, frogger, donkey kong, dig...
Names →
blackamazon:
dorianisms:
ouyangdan:
challyzatb:
amandaw:
[I’m snipping out the quote because I don’t want to republish it, but click on through to amandaw if you want to read, or the post itself if you want to read the post in full, of course - Chally]
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Against the Name Change: A Polemic (via notemily)
Yeah, this is bullshit. Up and down bullshit.
A name becomes mine when I accept...
Eight Things I Don't Need to Hear From Straight... →
thingsimreading:
shadowofthebridge:
meloukhia:
Let’s all get along … Me calling out injustice is NOT more offensive than the injustice itself. I see this a lot around racism. Somehow “racist” is a bad word and describing something as racist is worse than the act itself. Don’t settle for that. Don’t tell me I’m too angry, or I should be patient, or I’m causing controversy, or my demands would...
I got nothing.: The onus shouldn’t be placed on a... →
The onus shouldn’t be placed on a woman who is a mother to prove her worthiness to a job market. Is she educated? Is she skilled? Is she capable of completing the job at hand/required? Her hometime doesn’t negate those characteristics.
The onus should be on a society that places no value on a…
I wrote a post earlier today! Did you see it? Why... →
herzundseele:
telegantmess:
dorianisms:
The title is sarcastic, duh.
“Dictionaries did not spring fully-formed from the ether. They are written by people. And people, believe it or not, are bound by their cultural context and, furthermore, are people. They’re human! They get things wrong! So sometimes when you look at the dictionary, the definition you see there is not going to reflect...
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Lizzy the Lezzy
OCCUPATION OF BORDER PATROL HEADQUARTERS →
brownfemipower:
OCCUPATION OF BORDER PATROL HEADQUATERS DAVIS-MONTHAN AIRFORCE BASE, TUCSON, AZ by no borders Friday, May. 21, 2010 at 3:19 PM
OCCUPATION OF BORDER PATROL HEADQUATERS DAVIS-MONTHAN AIRFORCE BASE, TUCSON, AZ 1st NATION AND MIGRANTS OPPOSE SB1070 DEMAND DIGNITY, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND END TO BORDER MILITARIZATION
For Immediate Release Media Contacts: Friday, May 21, 2010 Leilani...
“Eleanor Roosevelt, a U.S. delegate to the United Nations Commission on Human...”
– me [this is an excerpt from my Thesis]
on former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt’s response to a 1951 petition entitled “We Charge Genocide: The Historic Petition to the United Nations for Relief from a Crime of the United States Government against the Negro People.” The petition proposed...
Five Dollar Friday - 21 May 2010 →
guerrillamamamedicine:
ilykadamen:
Starting today, every Friday I’m going to give five dollars to someone who’s produced something funny/interesting/worthwhile and is giving it away on the internet(s).
Obviously the internet is the greatest distribution technology ever created for music and writing and video and journalism. But it’s also obvious it generally makes it more difficult for...
Oddly Specific Music Rec Question
dorianisms:
Does anyone know good albums starting with ‘Q’ or ‘Z’? Those are the only letters I’m missing to have at least one album starting with every letter of the alphabet.
I thought of and found a bunch more to choose from.
Queens of Noise - The Runaways (Joan Jett and Lita Ford)
Queen of Soul - Aretha Franklin
Question of Balance - Moody Blues
Quiet Please - Nick Lowe
Quiet Fire -...
Oddly Specific Music Rec Question
ouyangdan:
soofriends:
dorianisms:
Does anyone know good albums starting with ‘Q’ or ‘Z’? Those are the only letters I’m missing to have at least one album starting with every letter of the alphabet.
Quadrophenia - The Who
Zooropa - U2
I knew The Who had a Q but I couldn’t remember what it was! FTW!
There is also “[A] Quick One” by the Who. I’m not sure if dorianisms...
Oddly Specific Music Rec Question
dorianisms:
Does anyone know good albums starting with ‘Q’ or ‘Z’? Those are the only letters I’m missing to have at least one album starting with every letter of the alphabet.
Quadrophenia - The Who
Zooropa - U2
