February 2012
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“It doesn’t necessarily need to be a great singer to play the role,” the insider...”
– Whitney Houston Biopic Won’t Necessarily Cast An African-American Actress To Portray Legend - Huffington Post (via notime4yourshit)
I just…are we really about to try to white face a woman that just passed. Really? Somebody come get your cousins & beat them until they’re less stupid.
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Love and solidarity for femmes who don't apologize...
tangledupinlace:
I see you with your 5 o’clock shadows, your outfits held together with safety pins and strategically placed belts, your leather and your florals and the snarl on your faces and I can’t keep my heart from bursting.
Femininity FOREVER
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On the Amtrak from Boston to NYC, by Sherman...
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yukongirl:
The white woman across the aisle from me says ‘Look, look at all the history, that house on the hill there is over two hundred years old, ‘ as she points out the window past me into what she has been taught. I have learned little more about American history during my few days back East than what I expected and far less of what we should all know of the tribal...
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talldarkbishoujo:
My entire school career literally from 5 years old to college was one long exercise in how The System is shit to marginalized people, even “respectable” black folk who are gifted.
Which is why I have an inherent distrust of people who are overly concerned with academia and its associated pissing contests. It is not anti-intellectualism at all.
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Dear white dude with Adam Duritz gringo-dreads who...
I really don’t give a fuck. Not in the least.
To be real, I’m super, super-suspicious of white men I don’t know offering “compliments” out of the blue. And before people jump down my throat with some “you should be flattered,” go watch the opening scene of that movie about Hottentot Venus and then ask me again why I’m especially weirded the fuck out...
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humanformat:
13 Year Old Jada Williams Persecuted by the Rochester City School District Over her essay on Frederick Douglass.
beautifulbrwn:
“On Saturday, February 18, 2012, the Frederick Douglass Foundation of New York presented the first Spirit of Freedom award to Jada Williams, a 13-year old city of Rochester student. Miss Williams wrote an essay on her impressions of Frederick Douglass’...
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“The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to...”
– James Baldwin (via mattachinereview)
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That's What She Said
Nothing to add, just highlighting my fave comment on the original article.
delicatetbone:
prettyqueer:
Sometimes I wonder whether trans men writing about transmisogyny and trans-man-douchebaggery and how much is sucks is the new spoken word poetry. Every time I’ve written anything about how trans dude culture can get pretty gross in the way it appropriates the experiences and oppression of...
poemsofthedead:
Have you noticed that when one persecuted group tries to disappear the facts around how other people were persecuted along with them, and make a huge culture-defining story of their own persecution, it’s the groups they ignored/hid/threw under the bus that remain decades/centuries later far more marginalized than they are?
Relevant to: Cherokee Trail of Tears disappearing that...
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Colleges Are Urged to Try New Approaches to... →
Bolding mine.
One of my “when I grow up/have more money” goals in life is to help fund/donate to a study-abroad program offered at a minority-serving institution, specifically because of the stuff mentioned below.
(Personally, I think the fundamental models/perceptions of study abroad need to be reworked, for a bunch of reasons. I’d write more about it, but it’d get very...
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tofuboots:
Also, how comfortable I am in a relationship is top priority, not educating my partner about race. Why the fuck would I want to go home and educate them about that when I deal with racist, classist pricks all day?
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notime4yourshit:
How is it the same people who understand that Africa is a continent can’t understand that a Haitian isn’t a Dominican isn’t a Cuban isn’t a Puerto Rican isn’t a Jamaican?
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“I love animation because in the world of animation, you can be anything you...”
– CHRIS ROCK, introducing the Best Animated Film Oscar. (via inothernews)
#the act of throwing shade
(via carlsaganisgayporn)
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Stray thought about (eventual) parenthood
The thought of raising FutureKid in the States terrifies me. The older I get, the more clearly I understand why my mom wanted me raised in Jamaica, and why the folks of her generation joke so darkly about coming to this country and raising their children here.
I’ve always understood myself as a product of both countries, one whose allegiance is necessarily fractured. It’s a part of...
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navigatethestream asked: can i just say that i ship your two posts on a different world. i totally go home and watch that show during my winter/spring breaks on TV one. and i agree that they did kim mad bogus with her outfits and hair styles at times. although i totally think her and russell make an adorable med school couple in a last minute addition kind of way, but not as strong as kim and dwayne.
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And speaking of A Different World
As far as I’m concerned, they’re the show’s OTP.
I still have a hard time buying that Kim and Dwayne didn’t end up together, considering that a) Kim’s finer than Whitley (yes, Whitley’s cute, but despite the bad wigs and sometimes-unfortunate wardrobe Kim’s character was given, Charnele Brown is fucking gorgeous), b) Kim’s smarter (and more...
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Renowned Physicist Stephen Hawking Frequents Sex... →
This article is on some “how bizarre!” shit, like because Stephen Hawking’s a renowned physicist, or a 70-year-old dude, or in a wheelchair, it’s weird that he goes to sex clubs.
My reaction: I would totally go to a swingers club with Stephen Hawking. Not because I’d want to go to a swingers club otherwise (I’m a little too not-straight for the general...
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WITH YOUR TONGUE DOWN MY THROAT, by Hanif...
I remember this story! One of my favorite selections from Granta, and one of their coolest covers.
deafmuslimpunx:
(note: this is a book review, and I hope to do a series of book reviews. This is my 2nd book review so far)
As I am sure some of you may remember, I posted some screenshots of With Your Tongue Down My Throat and posted an entry some months ago telling people (especially Taqx punx...
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“Dance, when you’re broken open. Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off. Dance in...”
– Rumi (via lucifelle)