February 2012
Occupied with class: the middle class in the... →
ideasandopinions:
A excellent piece on the ‘middle class’ and the Occupy movement, and how this identity and experience has shaped what the movement has looked like. This article appears in LBC Books new collection of essays on the Occupy Movement, “Occupy Everything: Anarchists in the Occupy Movement 2009-2011”.
By any measure – unemployment, foreclosures, the rise in food stamp dependency,...
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Ideas, Opinions, Rants, and Cool Shit.: Listen, →
sinidentidades:
I’m queer, too. Ryking’s constant promotion of misandry and his attacks on feminism are way off base. Misandry requires an actual systematic oppression of men. Such a thing doesn’t exist. Sorry. You can call me a homophobe for coming up with Ryking’s Banana Republic, but…
As a person from a marginalized group, you should be sensitive and willing to empathize with other...
lajoielafoi:
My mom bought me some sleeping pills. I haven’t slept in four days. The combination of waiting for her to contact me, which I doubt she ever will, even to curse me out, and having to be up for work at 3 in the morning and back and forth to the doctors, and school, I look like the moment after Christ died. I am stretching myself pass my limits. Maybe, I’ll kill over.
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Chris O'Shea: Whiteout →
page-seven:
I’m obviously white. There simply aren’t that many minorities with my name (shout out to Ice Cube, though). And being white, myself and my pale brethren get an insane amount of privilege. Including, it seems, having our mistakes easily forgiven and forgotten.
Forbes has a list of the top…
Pariah Personals
blackfeminismlives:
mobilehomecoming:
Salon.com partnered with New America Media to run a series of coming out stories by LGBT youth of Color and LGBT immigrant youth titled “Pariah Personals,” the series is inspired by Pariah the Movie.
Read the Pariah Personals .
When her hair be done, she fahn. Like double take on a crowded subway fahn.
Ohhh. That moment when you see internet shit...
Watchpbsthisdayinhistory:
TODAY’S BLACK HISTORY ICON: DAISY BATES
A feminist before the term was invented, Daisy Bates refused to accept her assigned place in society.
Independent Lens’ “Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock” tells the story of her life and public support of nine black students who registered to attend an all-white high school in Little Rock, Arkansas, which culminated in a crisis...
“Today, unelected judges cast aside the will of the people of California who...”
– Willard Mitt Romney
(via paxamericana)
There needs to be a tumblr for visual representations of politicians slimy contradictions. Especially in an election year. (Contradictions are not bad in and of themselves, however when you are denying seeing folks as human beings, I am calling spades).
new wave feminism: thefemme-menace:... →
thefemme-menace:
thatprettyoddfeminist:
ha, surprise surprise that M.I.A.’s middle finger is somehow the most controversial thing to come out of the super bowl. y’all really can’t stop ridiculing or even speculating on women of color’s choices, can you? it started with janet, and now…
Girl don’t get me started about the alleged rapist on Pittsburg’s team. Football is like...
I CAN GET MARRIED IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
ancestryinprogress:
IF I GOOD GOT DAMN WELL WANT TO MOTHERF****ERS!
And I don’t even wanna be fucking married.
I just thought I should put that out there.
okay,
good day.
“Although most boys figure out how to bring themselves to orgasm by age thirteen,...”
– Dorian Solot, I Love Female Orgasm: An Extraordinary Orgasm Guide. (via feministhistorian)
OH MY GOD LADIES JUST RUB ONE IN AND CALL IT A DAY, GAWD. XD
(via wingsofashandeyesoffire)
Is the White Working Class Coming Apart? →
To understand what Murray does in Coming Apart, imagine this analogy:
A social scientist visits a Gulf Coast town. He notices that the houses near the water have all been smashed and shattered. The former occupants now live in tents and FEMA trailers. The social scientist writes a report:
The evidence strongly shows that living in houses is better for children and families than living in tents...
“The term Weblining describes the practice of denying people opportunities based...”
– Facebook Is Using You - NYTimes.com (via sociolab
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@afrolicious This is relevant also because the ways in which bodies are marked by race, class and gender as well, both on and offline. Is our search data and other data being used against us?
today 3 of the four black girls stayed after to...
…they wanted affirmation re their first paper.
I wonder what this means…
finding and pambana: and i’m tired of how it is... →
pambana:
and i’m tired of how it is conveniently ignored that when the europeans came to the continents of now-called latin america, africa, asia, polynesia, wherever there were Black and Brown folk, they cried out that our ways of living, building, eating, dancing, were primitive, backwards and to…
#GreenImperialism gina….
“Facebook wants to build an Internet where watching films, listening to music,...”
– Evgeny Morozov, “The Death of the Cyberflâneur” (via rethinkcapitalism
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@afrolicious In someways they have commodified our human social relationships to the extent that they are represented, nested and archived online.
Latino Sexuality: email i just got from a student →
Hello professor Question, Are you taking points off for any grammar mistake? As you noticed in the past classes, English is my second language and it has been tough for me to learn the language and be able to express myself. However, I believe that I am doing ok. My concern is that I do…
You just read my fucking reading my soul right now. I am in tears. Thank you for saying this...
[Trigger Warning: Murder of Black Trans Woman]... →
amydentata:
izythequeergirl:
The transgender woman who was stabbed at a Washington, D.C., bus stop Thursday night has died, and activists have identified her as Deoni Jones, 22. She was stabbed in the head about 8:15 p.m. at a bus stop at East Capitol Street N.E. and Sycamore Road and taken to a hospital in grave condition. She died early Friday morning, Metro Weekly reports. The paper...
apartment hunting in dc is causing me anxiety.
manifestfreedom:
i cannot afford to move in my neighborhood.
Girl…I hear that. I’m going to Baltimore…
valentine reservations done.
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The Future of the Book Is the Stream - The... →
courtenaybird:
“What if you could re-define books’ value proposition? What if book-buying became less about one-off salesmanship, and more about ongoing membership? What if you didn’t buy books so much as join them?”
My hesitation with ebooks is the price. For what they cost, I want something physical in return. This subscription model would be an appealing compromise.
@afrolicious Some food...
Sex doesn't sell.
sinidentidades:
Breasts and vaginas sell because in this society they’re a commodity ready to be bought and sold.
#BoomGina.
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Why Black Women Film Directors? (via New Model...
NY Times article on Black Film in the early 1990’s titled “They’ve Gotta Have Us” by Karen Grigsby Bates
Note: There will be a few blog posts on Pariah and Black women’s directors over the next few weeks as I move like a squirrel with a flashlight trying to finish this paper. I cannot have boss bear calling me trifling.
The trouble with being erased for so long...
PBS’ ‘Slavery by Another Name’ | EURweb →
mauricecherry:
thehuskybro:
*Imagine this…
You do some research into your family tree and discover that your uncle, who was born nearly 30 years after slavery, was one of thousands of black men pulled back into a forced labor system in which they were arrested – largely on trumped up charges – and compelled to work without pay as prisoners.
“Slavery by Another Name,” narrated by Laurence...
that moment when...
negrosunshine:
a girl walks past you on the train and you glance at her as she walks by, then suddenly realize the boy across from you was watching her too and is now staring at you in a kind of bonding moment (male gaze at the female body). and all you can think is: oh no sir, i was checking out her boots, while you were staring at her booty.
#saweet.
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You Make Money Doing What?: Musing on the $1B...
via Huff Post article “Majoring in Debt“
I know that the US graduates more law students than there are lawyer jobs, and I would imagine that there are more undergraduate students graduated than their are entry-level jobs. The fact that there are more trained people than their are jobs allows for employers to pick the employee who is willing to accept the lowest pay. How is this humane?
Inside...
PUSSIES & ANKHS: NO BLACK PEOPLE NEED APPLY →
zorascreation:
Black workers in the restaurant industry are routinely kept from the highest-paying jobs in the highest-paying restaurants.1 They’re told their appearance isn’t the right fit. They’re relegated to fast food while their White peers climb the ranks to earn upwards of $50,000…
@sweet_epiphany
Brown Grrlz Project: Reverse Racism? I Don’t Think... →
thebrownggrrlzproject:
In September of 2008, I took my first Women and Gender studies course; for better or for worse, I learned a lot. Before that, I was just an angry Black woman, not knowing where my anger stemmed from. I was mad at the fact that I only felt pretty when my hair was relaxed. Mad at the fact that I…
Awesome example of feminist autobiographical writing that theorizes race,...
