May 2013
10 posts
Storylined Dreams: I keep on getting nightmares... →
myasphyxiatedmind:
genderbitch:
IT HAS BEEN HOW MANY YEARS SINCE I WAS DONE WITH SCHOOL
WHAT THE FUCK BRAIN
I don’t think I’ll ever stop having those nightmares. If they need proof of how stressful school is for kids, maybe they should look into the fact that a lot of people still…
I was *just* talking about how my school related nightmares have returned! I had one about failing a...
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Condescending ass customer service reps who give rote responses to your complex issue assuming you don’t know basic shit need to DIAF.
Chile Bye: On The Human Torch, Race In Comics, And... →
comicscrux:
According to The Wrap, actor Michael B. Jordan (Chronicle) is in strong consideration for the role of Johnny Storm in Fox’s upcoming Fantastic Four reboot. The announcement came shortly after Allison Williams (Girls) was suggested to be a frontrunner for the…
#TeamWallace!!
Chile Bye: Do your little shitty ass Cracker... →
notesonascandal:
But don’t tell Black folks to shut up & get over it & have a sense of humor when we speak up and out about seeing you shit on our culture FOR FUN.
FUCK YOUR FUN.
Yes, we realize that most of these clam-chowder faced bitches making these videos didn’t know the Harlem Shake…
"Female 'Purity' Is Bullshit" by Lindy West →
sonofbaldwin:
Girls and women, if no one has ever told you this before, or if you just have trouble believing it: you are good, you are whole, you are yours. You do not exist to please men, and your value as a human being is not contingent upon your sexual capital. “Purity” is a lie. Do not even worry about any of this garbage, because it’s about as real as a fucking unicorn. And like my Nana...
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Assata
Today Assata Shakur was added to the FBI’s most wanted terrorist list. Making her the first woman to be placed on said list. And I hope she is somewhere in Cuba laughing.
I found it odd in 2005 when the FBI added the first $1,000,000 bounty on her head arbitrarily 32 years after the incident that resulted in the death of the NJ state trooper. And it still seems odd 40 years later that...
The effects of unchecked criminalization: Teen... →
aka14kgold:
onebigpear:
fuckyeahfeminists:
This is what the school-to-prison pipeline looks like. This is how black youth criminalized.
She was doing a science experiment
She’s being charged as an ADULT
She’s being charged with a FELONY
If this all goes the way the prosecution wants, this young woman will be LEGALLY discriminated against for the rest of her life. No voting, housing...
April 2013
35 posts
Jason Collins Is Not the First Out Gay Pro Athlete →
sonofbaldwin:
iwannajamitwithyou:
thepoliticalfreakshow:
There have been a number of out, professional women athletes before him.
Although his coming out in Sports Illustrated is big news, NBA star Jason Collins is not the “first openly gay athlete in professional North American team sports,” as some have claimed. Claiming as much implies that either women’s sports don’t matter as much (or...
Transgender woman arrested for wearing sheer top,... →
stfusexists:
admirableasian:
daggerpen:
Ashley Del Valle is a transgender woman from New York who was arrested in Georgia for indecent exposure after she allegedly showed her breasts, but then was housed in an all-male jail.
I just.
You arrest her because her top is too sheer and shows her nipples, something that is only a crime for women.
And then you jail her as a man.
Fucking fuck.
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“Don’t forget Salt n Pepper, Eve, and Missy Elliot paved the way for Queen...”
– white proverbs
I can’t stop laughing.
I really….
I’m mad this is still a debate from last night
I’m mad these children can’t learn to read a fucking google page before opening their mouths.
I’m mad that FUCKING QUEEN LATIFAH’S PIONEER STATUS IS IN QUESTION BY SOME ASSHOLES WHO THINK EVE CAME...
“I think it’s odd that you can’t joke about rape, when people joke about murder...”
– Donald Glover
All right, I’m returning to this (with statistics!) because I’m so fucking pissed.
Donald Glover,
One in six American women will experience attempted rape or rape in their lifetime. One in thirty-three American men will. Recently, you did a sold-out show on my campus, in an...
MY DOCUMENTARY , "Black Girls Code", HAS BEEN...
theblackdripsgold:
Just a weight off of my shoulders. I feel really blessed. I know it’s nothing big, but I’m hoping to make moves - and that this will lead to bigger and better things.
Watch an excerpt from the new version here.
Watch the 3 minute version here.
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Tracking the #youtriedit tag is one of the best decisions I’ve ever made in my life.
On a related note, I love Black people.
Partners
dearebonyandjon:
My favorite memory of Roger Ebert has nothing to do with a film review.
Years ago I was watching the NAACP Image Awards and he was in attendance with his wife, Chaz. Steve Harvey was the host. He was going around the audience to various attendees in what must have been some need to stretch time. Upon finding Roger without Gene Siskel, he asked him “where’s your partner?”...
“One American critic was so angry she chased me to the exit to inform me, ‘This...”
– Roger Ebert on Do The Right Thing. (via jsmooth995)
Racism 101: Are you a Racist?: Black Face vs White... →
racismschool:
Black face:
Started at a time when Black people were considered “Less than human”
Shows Black people have no and deserve no dignity
Used as a “Set up” to the joke (I’s gon sing you’s perty white folks a song tu-day)
Used to de-humanize, belittle and make fun of those that are “Less…
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Tyler Perry’s Rape Problem
Trigger warnings: rape, sexual assault, acquaintance rape, Tyler Perry
Carolyn Edgar may be my new favorite person.
Of course, Perry also is out to punish Judith for turning her back on the Lord. Judith’s downfall is foreshadowed when she starts dressing like Kim Kardashian and drinking alcohol. In this sense, it may not matter to the film’s overall morality message whether Harley rapes or...
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The Walking Dead is racist and sexist as hell....
Long and spoilertastic and you still need to read it:
Where before, I argued that in this new world, women were to be protected while men of color occupied a liminal space, it now appears that the white men have closed ranks and cemented their power.
And race? Race has become a mess — an offensive mess — where African-American men have become interchangeable, replaceable parts and where...
March 2013
25 posts
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BlackGirlLongHair was reading my mind
I think we can safely say that “celebrities showing pictures of natural hair under weave” is officially a trend. Angela Simmons’ stylist Nikk Nelsontook to Instagram a few days ago to show a picture of her client’s natural hair straightened and hitting waist length…
The bigger question (for us, anyway) is if Angela Simmons, and the many celebrities who are flaunting their real hair these...
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You should do less...
What I need to see less of is cis, straight, white people telling queer folks what they should and shouldn’t be valuing in their own struggle.
Why would anyone ever think it’s a compelling argument to be like “no, no, no, no. I know you’re being killed for just existing, but estate tax is totes important.”
And by less I mean I need to see none of that shit.
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Black culture
Gradient Lair’s post on cultural appropriation got me thinking about how so many American Black people have been taught to believe that we don’t have a culture. And I think cultural appropriation is another layer that perpetuates that belief.
All of this perpetuates this toxic mixture where we end up being further marginalized while someone else profits off of our culture.
We were...
