February 2012
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Goddammit, I'm so down now.
I can usually watch and read things without getting triggered, but the film just tugged at my strings a little too hard. I watched it on PBS last night, but after I watched it again on Netflix, I realized the PBS version was edited. Essentially, they cut out the heroin-addicted prostitute and newborn baby. It just hurt a lot, you know?
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cafeballad replied to your photo: I am a first-generation young woman on the edge of…
reconstruction era and post-reconstruction america will intrigue the fuck outta me until the end of time.
The lengths that white men and women will go to uphold white supremacy, especially in that time period, and the hypocrisies that they shamelessly care to admit never ceases to amaze me. The letters...
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“Happy Survival” Eddie Okwedy...
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Before someone asks me about this Cornel...
lowendtheory:
Two thoughts, in the slenderest form I can muster.
First: I can only pray that someday, the stakes of public beefs between card-carrying members of the Negroscenti will have less to do with the struggle of who gets to land the television contracts, speaking gigs, etc., in which she or he can position her or himself expertly as The Highly Celebrated Explainer of Black People to...
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ethiopienne:
thefoxxypoet:
I don’t trust any man of color who openly says they don’t like, are not attractive, or wouldn’t date a woman of color. It doesn’t bother me as much when white men admit to something like that, only because it’s sort of expected sadly. Of course I can never assume all white men feel this way. Now I don’t care if men of color want to date white women, that’s fine…but...
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“I don’t think it’s a virtue or an accomplishment to hide or deny your pain so...”
– #186: The lie of “strength.” « CaptainAwkward.com (via notemily)
Which is why “strong black woman” has never been a goddamn compliment. It is code for “Thank you for being a mule.”
(via crankyskirt)
Personally, I don’t see it that way. I see it more as “you’re strong because you survived”....
Feminist Jokes
Knock knock
Who's there?
Jezebel.com
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“We do not do trigger warnings. Ever. As a rule. I don’t believe in them, period.”
– Jessica Coen, Editor in Chief of Jezebel.
Trigger warnings are icky! Unlike photos of women being raped, of course. Those are totally OK and can actually drive your entire “feminist light” business model.
I might have to re-write my motto: My feminism will be rape culture friendly! And you know,...
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“I have a love for the sister, but she is a liar, and I hate lying … she’s become...”
– In a recent interview with Diverse Issues in Higher Education magazine, [Cornel] West said of [Melissa Harris-] Perry.
The audacity of this dude to say some slick shit about MHP. Y’all keep fucking with homie. I’ve been done since he started his damn ‘Poverty Tour’ and decided to ride for Tavis...
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isabelthespy replied to your post: I feel like reading Rookie is just like eating McDonald’s.
that’s kind of how i feel about the awl most times (though every now and then they have something great WHICH MAKES IT SO HARD TO QUIT THEM)
AND SOME DAYS MCDONALD’S REALLY DOES TASTE GOOD. So it’s hard to leave ):
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I feel like reading Rookie is just like eating...
Beforehand, you’re kind of excited that you’re going to be consuming it, and then later being dissatifised and saying “What did I waste my money/life for?,” but you always come back with hope that next time it will be better, and rarely ever is.
Where Are The White Women?
of-praxis:
zorascreation:
Lying amidst the hundreds of broken, bleeding bodies of friends, families and people they’ve never met, people crying out in languages they’ve never heard, sitting and sleeping in their own faeces and piss and vomit and menstrual fluid, jumping overboard into the Atlantic or being cast in there purposely because “the ship will buckle from too many Niggers being...
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Does Wes Anderson have issues with his dad?
Because it seems like a recurring theme in his work.
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“Here we have like the only woman of color with origins in the Eastern third...”
– Commenter on “The Non Music Fan’s Guide to M.I.A.” (via arboretics
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my vibrator ran out of battery! some1 save me oh...
run to the gas station for batteries?
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tissie:
okay can i just say, for better or worse, i just downloaded lana del rey’s born to die and it is the perfect, perfect music to fuck yourself to when you’re dressed like a middle schooler about to lose her virginity and are asked to say things like, “put it in my little pussy” with an expression of pain. so it’s perfect work music.
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things i wish i'd learned in high school
lovebelikeawhirlwind:
everything in your history books, with few exceptions, is filtered through the lens of white Eurocentric eliminationst thought. you will only learn what a board of educators, working with a biased, racist agenda, decide is fit for you to know unless you go out and educate yourself. unless you sit down, shut up, and listen to other voices
history is not something you absorb...
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Oh hey guys.
Changed! Formerly roesheen, presently (possibly forever) bowfolk, the most darling name in the world.
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