December 2011
73 posts
shit i need to do before dec. 30th
Renew healthcard
Book appt for eye doctor & get new glasses
Contact profs and start applications for school
Design and send new years card
Clean room / Organize photos
Finish Leo’s scarf
Ugh. Tempted to just cancel meeting with friends and stay at home and organize my life. I’m already stressed out thinking about all the work waiting for me when I get back to work. The...
‘Yes we know it’s Christmas’ say African musicians...
derica:
Yes We Know It’s Christmas say African musicians as they record a response to Band Aid
Speaking at the launch of the single, whose proceeds will go towards teaching discipline, literacy and contraception at British schools, composer and singer Boomtown Gundane said that for years he had been irked by Geldof’s assumption that hungry Africans were also stupid.
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Ranting and Raving
pluralisms:
baileythebookworm:
TW for comments re: ableism, suicide and general sexist ass-hattery.
Some of the consequences of speaking out on Lego have been amazing. A beautiful Change.org petition, a (slightly inaccurate) news article, hundreds or thousands of comments on Lego’s Facebook wall supporting gender-neutral advertising and products, and great writing and support from the SPARK...
“If white American feminist theory need not deal with the differences between us,...”
– -Audre Lorde (via soydulcedeleche)
I don’t understand these attacks on feminist theory. There’s tons of women of color fighting for women’s rights. And it’s a little bigoted to think that all white feminists are rich hire help and have time off work to attend conventions.
Some of us ARE just like...
black boy: abolitionista: Was just looking into... →
abolitionista:
Was just looking into taking a trip to Greece and found special travel warnings for “Black Travelers”!!!!! Long story short an article on weather.com basically stated (of course without stating) that Greece is anti-Black so do not go there and say you weren’t forewarned. It’s…
what part of europe isn’t anti-black?
“There’s one other aspect to the adulation of Hitchens that’s quite revealing....”
– Greenwald (and, the more interesting thinker, Bady) is spot on about this. (via michelledean)
ayup. the whole thing is really worth a read but i especially appreciated the acknowledgment that certain of his worst views were “not ancillary to his writings but central to them.”
(via isabelthespy)
come on up to the house: Feminist blogging and... →
redlightpolitics:
Yesterday I raised my ethical concerns about a White woman writing an academic paper involving the struggles of Women of Color in the feminist blogosphere. I asked:
Would it be ethical if a White woman bases an academic dissertation on the struggles of feminist Women…
you guys are on a roll today, tumblr peeps i...
i’m pretty sure this is not how i should be spending my last week of work before the holiday.
“Women were dumb about money, dumb about driving, dumb about anything that...”
– Cartoonist Betty Swords talking in 1995 about her feminist awakening in the late 1960s, deriving from her analysis of gag cartoons at the time. (via ladiesmakingcomics
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invoice sent and done
can now officially claim to do ~*freelance*~
creating my first freelance job invoice!
feeling like a pro.
But the problem is, whenever we figure out a way...
Derrick Jensen: There’s this absolutely extraordinary book called The Nazi Doctors by Robert Jay Lifton, and in this book he describes how it was that men — people, but men in this case — who had taken the Hippocratic Oath could work in Nazi death camps. And what he found was that many of the doctors who worked in the death camps actually cared very deeply for the health of the inmates. And, you know, Mengele was, you know, horrible. But a lot of the sort of straight-line doctors were just — they would do whatever they could. They would give them an extra scrap of potato to eat or - the inmates. Or they would hide them from the selection officers who were going to kill them. Or they would -
Amy Goodman: To keep their experiments going?
Derrick Jensen: No, no, no. They would hide them from the selection officers who were going to kill them. They would do this to protect the inmate for that day. They would put them to bed, you know. They would actually do everything — if they were in pain, they would give them aspirin to lick. They would do what they could to help, except for the most important thing of all, which is they wouldn’t question the existence of the entire death camp itself. So they would find themselves working within the rules, however they could, to try to improve conditions marginally. And in retrospect, of course, that’s just not sufficient. And as a longtime activist, I see myself and other activists doing the same thing, that what we do is we do everything that is allowed by those in power to attempt to stop their destruction. But the problem is, whenever we figure out a way to use their rules to actually stop them, they change the rules.
Watchfyeahafrica:
THE RAPE OF THE SAMBURU WOMEN For more than fifty years, England has maintained military training facilities in the Samburu region of its former colony, Kenya.
During this period, women in the area have faced an epidemic of rape. Women from the Samburu, Massai, Rendile and Turkana indigenous communities have filed more than 600 official rape claims against British soldiers.
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Can someone tell me why we gotta have the same...
karnythia:
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
note-a-bear:
Like…I just…
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Listen, we all hate it when white people try and pull that shit, yeah? Right? We hate when that supposedly well-meaning wannabe ally begs for cookies and says “But think of all the good white people!” like that changes the fact that the world is still geared to support, privilege, and otherwise be at the beck and call of white...
GUISE, GUISE I REALLY wanna go to this TALK but I...
howtobenoladarling:
Book discussion with Simon Gikandi: Slavery and the Culture of Taste Date: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm Room: Knox Hall 208 Panelists include: Simon Gikandi (Princeton University) Carroll Smith-Rosenberg (University of Michigan) Saidiya Hartman (Columbia University) Madeleine Dobie (Columbia Univeristy) Moderated by Mamadou Diouf (Columbia...
tw:rape,murder,child abuse
soydulcedeleche:
quelola:
[TW: rape, child abuse, assult]
soydulcedeleche:
wheres all the national outrage and clamoring for justice for this lil 7 year old puerto rican girl i see on univision who was raped, killed and stuffed in a dumpster by a southern white man in georgia?
where?
oh yeah. brown children dont fuckin matter. ‘specially not when its a guilty white man.
white men are...
Being blasian= hair that makes no sense
howtobenoladarling:
I’m not even blasian but I feel u!
(African American=Black African, Native American, Irish+English ancestry) equal hair that is kinky (but not kinky enuf) str8 (but not str8 enuf) oh and I cannot get waves to save my life. 0.0
yep.
Dear #occupymumbai
rebelrebelbatcat:
jaded16india:
I know that you are preoccupied (no pun intended) with ‘saving’ slum dwellers, with ‘saving’ poor third world women workers — yes that’s who they are in your eyes, nothing more, nothing less — and with the new fad of “occupying” things, you just want to #occupy mumbaislums; let’s just pause to think how bad an idea this is. I was at the meeting when people of...