February 2012
Google, don't sponsor white supremacy conferences →
jonathan-cunningham:
Google is sponsoring a conference this week that features white supremacists, anti-gay activists, and one group classified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a “White Nationalist hate group.”
One panel at this week’s Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, DC is called “The Failure of Multiculturalism,” and it features the founder of a website that’s...
Iran Worried U.S. Might Be Building 8,500th... →
Browncoat Space Monkey: KILL ACTA →
dreadelion:
quillusquillus:
February 11th is the date set for a massive online and real-world protest against ACTA. If you don’t know, ACTA is a restrictive trade agreement that has the potential to entirely change the way media is available on the web. In a negative way.
Please,…
“In the neo-evangelical world of cheap prosperity and cheap family values, the...”
– And Then There Were None (via azspot
)
“A year ago this month, Jordan Miles, an 18-year-old music student at...”
– A Beating In Pittsburgh (1/24/2011)
You want a verdict? Fuck this whole goddamned system.
(via humanformat)
“The creation of greater inequality, the shredding of the social safety net, and...”
– Family Values? Conservative Economics Have Shredded Marriage Rates (via azspot
)
“I don’t care what you’re doing or how old you are or who it’s with, if a girl...”
– My mom, to my younger brother. (via rose-colored-sunglasses)
This is DEFINITELY something that should be included in the sex talk and in sex education.
(via fuckyeahsexeducation)
Same with if a boy says no!
But really, my kids are going to get the most comprehensive sex talk ever.
(via...
Economy toughest on young adults, study finds
occupyonline:
Difficulties are shaping their decisions about careers, schooling, marriage and parenthood.
The analysis by the Pew Research Center, released Thursday, examines the effects of the recession on the lives and attitudes of young Americans ages 18 to 34. Nearly half say that in recent years they’ve taken a job they didn’t really want, to pay the bills. More than a third have gone...
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Ways Gender-Privileged Men Can Challenge Sexism
meeca:
(This list will be forever in-progress. Please add on as you see fit).
Challenge sexist jokes, such as dumb blonde jokes or jokes about rape.
Avoid using words such as “bitch”, “hoe”, “slut.”
Recognize when you “zone out” when women are speaking, when you value a man’s opinion more than a woman’s, or when you ask a man for information or advice rather than a woman.
Recognize times...
“What my point is: society sucks. It’s a damned if you do, damned if you don’t...”
– Lexi Harder- The Perfect Girl (via overlyydedicated
)
Have a heart and save a family. Guys, please. This... →
Surely They Jest →
Here’s a Top Ten list of what’s strange but true in the campaign so far:
(10) — Newt Gingrich’s proposal to have school kids work as janitors, starting at age 9. He would fire the “unionized janitors” and replace them with low-paid students, working under a “master” janitor. It’s hard to imagine a plan that sweepingly offends more people — educators, students, parents and janitors, to name a...
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Here's the thing
newwavefeminism:
The point isn’t that differences exist. It’s not about who is different and why, whether these differences are socially constructed or biologically inherent, whether the difference falls within or fits into a forced dichotomy.
It’s the fact that we live in a society that privileges differences associated with a certain class and group over all else. We allow our systems and...
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“One Planned Parenthood clinic does more in a day to prevent abortions than the...”
– Helen Philpot
. :: feminishblog :: .
Avaaz is smuggling medical equipment and...
occupyallstreets:
Activist from Avaaz are risking their lives to bring medical equipment, computers and journalist into Syria and bring information and images out.
The internet in Syria is censored, the media is state owned and most Syrians aren’t aware of it. They are brainwashed into thinking gangs are causing the violence and murders. Gangs with tanks and militant guns made by the Syrian...
: toriathegadjeslayer: Tumblr Emergency Center:... →
toriathegadjeslayer:
Tumblr Emergency Center: PLEASE READ! VERY MUCH IMPORTANT!
kitten-rage:
fivepips:
Hey everyone, Gemma here (fivepips), and I’m an admin here at theEmergency Blog. I’m going to explain what this is all about.
So basically, this is a blog for…
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“One of the things I will talk about, that no president has talked about before,...”
– Rick Santorum
From Tressugar’s “11 Quotes from Rick Santorum that are Worrisome for Women”
(via elledeau)
This makes me physically ill.
(via someauthorgirl)
Do tell, Rick Santorum, how are things supposed to be? I could use a good laugh.
(via shewalkslikethunder)
P in V, missionary...
24 Hours Left for my Planned Parenthood promotion →
stfusexists:
bitchesguidetoetiquette:
devils-and-daffodils:
20% of all sales through tomorrow will be going to Planned Parenthood!
I’m in the process of listing a few new items right now :)
Get gorgeous jewelry while supporting a great cause
Signal boost! It is really gorgeous stuff, too.
It's starting. →
stfusexists:
The anti-choice chuckleheads in the do-nothing House of Representatives have begun attacking the HHS mandate on birth control. This means that before employers and insurance companies are even required to comply 100% with the requirements (full coverage of all FDA approved methods of birth control, no deductibles, no co-pays — none of these kick in until August), anti-choice...
“I find it slightly ethnocentric that whenever Japanese appropriate some aspect...”
– Beauty Up: Exploring Contemporary Japanese Body Aesthetics (via homoarigato
)
deliciouskaek:
URGENT: SIGN THE PETITION SUPPORTING OBAMA’S DECISION ON CONTRACEPTION WITH NO CO-PAYS
prolongedeyecontact:
From an email from NARAL:
The new policy that will cover women’s birth-control coverage is under attack from all sides.
Anti-choice groups have collected more than 20,000 signatures on a petition calling on the White House to rescind the policy.
The Obama...
“Mitt Romney is a welfare queen. Without the tax-breaks given to interest...”
– Mitt Romney, ‘welfare queen’ (via theamericanbear
)
Arizona Students Organize Their Own Ethnic Studies... →
solitaryforager:
In opposition to a city-wide ban on the teaching of Mexican-American Studies courses in high schools, a group of Tucson, AZ Chicano students have organized their own weekly ethnic studies courses.
According to Colorlines, 60 percent of students in the Tucson school district are Latino, yet courses focusing specifically on the history of Mexican Americans are prohibited.
From...
"Microaggressions hold their power because they...
esprit-follet:
Microassaults: Conscious and intentional actions or slurs, such as using racial epithets, displaying swastikas or deliberately serving a white person before a person of color in a restaurant. Microinsults: Verbal and nonverbal communications that subtly convey rudeness and insensitivity and demean a person’s racial heritage or identity. An example is an employee who asks a...
Browncoat Space Monkey: the reason why most... →
neetainari:
(this post is a follow-up to the “you don’t know me” clause)
I think it is because they automatically assume the individualist point of view. They assume it is about them as individuals, they think it is the caller’s individual problem and cannot entertain the thought that…
Report: Global Land Grab Efforts Will Lead to... →
solitaryforager:
A report out today from the Rights and Resources Initiative states that global land grab efforts will lead to “widespread civil unrest” unless the rights of people who have loved on those lands are taken into consideration.
Conflicts have already occurred over land grabs and the current disregard to community members’ rights creates situations for more conflict, the...
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“From a certain perspective, there’s really only one point worth making about all...”
– ACLU sues Obama administration over assassination secrecy | Glenn Greenwald (via rockyanderson2012)
How to Listen: Respecting Marginalized Individuals
msamberhazard:
If you don’t know how to properly listen there’s a good chance that you’re not helping at all. In fact, you are probably perpetuating the conditions of domination and abuse. When a marginalized individual tells you that you are oppressing them and they need you to listen:
Shut the fuck up.
ACTUALLY listen! Don’t write them off and don’t wait for your turn to speak; your opinion...
Watch Out: Widespread #Protests Against #ACTA... →
anonymissexpress:
As we’ve noted multiple times, it appears the entertainment industry still does not recognize what kind of beast it awoke with its efforts to shove through SOPA and PIPA. While it still believes it was the “tech community” that caused those bills to be shelved, it’s been ignoring that a very large segment of internet users have been activated on these issues… and they’re angry...
Flapjack State: Funny things →
baileythebookworm:
You know, “nice guys” are amusing. When “nice guys” wonder aloud why they’re single and feel so sad about their lives because they’re so fucking nice and ladies only want to date assholes, I sit there and giggle and chuckle and laugh until I can’t breathe. Because fuck…
“If people are genuinely interested in honoring Indians, try getting your...”
– Glenn T. Morris, Colorado AIM, 1992 (via adailyriot)
“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and...”
– Sylvia Plath (via azelie)
Wikileaks revealed US espionage of Indigenous... →
existentialistmumbojumbo:
In the Censored News pick for the Best of the Best in 2011, Wikileaks claims first prize. Wikileaks exposed the US corporate schemes, espionage, promotion of mining and efforts globally to halt passage of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Wikileaks revealed extensive espionage of Indigenous Peoples, including the Mapuche and Mohawks, and Venezuelan...
milkeemountainmama:
call me a conspiracy theorist—but i don’t think that everything that is fucked up with with the korman institution stems from one violently hateful woman.
they didn’t all agree to have her on the board and just sort of figure out on accident OH, whoops, you are really a violently hateful woman! the fact that ari fletcher had a lot to do with hiring her is a HUUUUUUGE red...
Romney's plan would shred safety net for poor →
In short, Romney’s plan would incinerate the very safety net that he claims to be his excuse for expressing no interest in addressing the needs of the “very poor.” Oh, and how poor are the poorest 5% or 10% of Americans he seemed to be referring to, exactly? Even the census, which tracks household income for all Americans, doesn’t say with precision, although it does note that households with...