February 2011
128 posts
January 2011
150 posts
somewhere between turning 16 and 19
MY FACE CHANGED.
Rugrats is about feminist families
Mrs. Pickles is the educated breadwinner, Stu often chasing his less profitable dreams
Phil & Lil’s mom, obvs (short hair, female symbol sweatshirt, clear second waver
Charlotte, ballbusting CEO who wants Angelica to have an edge in a male-privileged world
Suzie’s family, upper-middle class black family with a really accomplished mom
Chaz, sensitive single dad who childrears and has...
feeling so fortunate no one has ever asked my... →
microaggressions:
Doctor: When did you adopt? My blonde Caucasian Mum: I’m sorry? Doctor: (nods at me) Mum: Oh, she’s mine. Doctor: (sighs) How old was she when you adopted her? Mum: (impatiently) Her father’s Japanese. Doctor: I can see that, but WHEN did you adopt her? Mum: Are you that daft? Doctor: What? Mum: Look, give me your pen and paper. I’ll draw you a...
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“Shaina: Is this jersey shore?
Amanda: no
Andrew: it’s jersey shore meets...”
– (via barayas)
LOL. THIS IS SO TRUE.
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“While not quite a fully cohesive group, the black creative class does share some...”
– Robert Bland. Ideas like this make me cringe. They really do. There’s a reason why DuBois abandoned the idea of The Talented Tenth but it feels like there is a palpable shift in energy looking to revive it or create a faux Our Kind of People visage. Can people have the freedom to be creative...
The Internet is a Double-Edged Sword for... →
As the pundits were busy celebrating the contribution of Twitter and Facebook to protests in Tunisia and Egypt, most of them ignored the terrifying news from Iran, where on Monday two activists were hanged for distributing video footage on the Internet from the country’s 2009 “Twitter Revolution.”
Microaggressions →
microaggressions:
While I was at work a woman asked me if my hair is real. I told her that it was and she gave me a compliment and I thanked her. Just after I turned around to walk away, she pulled on it really hard to confirm that it was real. Unfortunately, this isn’t the first time something like this has happened and I know it isn’t going to be the last.
I am a 26 year-old mixed race...
New Model Minority: New Post "Why You Pay for Shit... →
newmodelminority:
There is a lot of money being made off of people who live in the hood and this is why if you live in the hood you pay for shit twice, and the endless need for profit/growth plays a huge role.
Last fall, my professor said that a unit of profit requires exploitation. What she meant by this is that in order for someone to profit, someone else has to take a short.
Look at it...
i'm tired of being weary of men
Someone I know was robbed while walking home at 2 o’clock in the afternoon by a guy who followed her from the bus stop. He waited until they were in a more secluded/quiet area. Then on the news they say a young woman was raped by a taxi cab driver. I’ve always thought that my fear of taking taxis by myself was kinda irrational, especially at night, but now I have a legitimate...
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The Social Network & My Generation →
landlessness:
Joseph Gordon-Levitt writes a compelling statement regarding the benefits of the Internet Generation in response to Peter Travers’ claim that the film The Social Network defines that generation. Required reading for anyone who has ever used the Internet - I suspect that might include some of you.
HE’S ON TUMBLR? WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN.
“I think it’s about time we think about what we mean by “racism” if a black...”
– Mother Jailed For Sending Her Children to the “Wrong” School — The Curvature (via notemily)
If the “we” in this passage refers to “white mainstream society” (longtime readers may know I have a standing beef with vague usage of first person plural), then I unconditionally agree: you don’t understand...
microaggressions:
I’m new to the Australia. Woman who’s training me for new job out of nowhere starts telling me about where I can get ribs and greens - you know, the foods my people like. I’m black, she’s white. I’m vegeterian. I tell my white boyfriend and he says, “She was just trying to be helpful!”
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Black Mother Jailed for Sending Kids to White...
sheresists:
dandamon:
the gongoozler who loved me: Black Mother Jailed for Sending Kids to White School District
sheresists:
firesandwords:
Black Mother Jailed For Sending Kids to White School District
An Ohio mother of two was sentenced to 10 days in jail and placed on three years probation after sending her kids to a school district in which they did not live. Kelly Williams-Bolar...
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Making "fetch" happen
sheresists:
rosalarian:
I hear a lot of grammatically-inclined people constantly bemoaning the use of singular “they”. Though there are many grammar scholars who say that singular “they” is a legitimate use of the word, and has been used in such a way throughout the history of the language and by many respected writers, most of the people debating grammar on the internet aren’t grammar...