February 2012
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timemakesfoolsofusall:
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HEY CAROLINA! if i don’t have paypal can i just give you physical dollars?
“So, I would say that a feminist ally, or a feminist man or a man with feminist...”
– This, for instance, which I also included in my statements about “jizz in the face” was left out from the piece at The Atlantic.
I won’t bore all of you with the string of statements I made but I wish this one had been included. Because yeah, this is where I stand on the topic.
(via...
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Anonymous asked: What do you do when straight, cis, white teenage boys say racist/heterosexist/cissexiest things?
“Of course, this is one of the profound ways in which oppression works—to mire us...”
– Eli Clare, “Stolen Bodies, Reclaimed Bodies” (via thenewwomensmovement)
hurrrrg:
so, i have february 24th circled multiple times in my agenda, but there is no explanation next to it
does anyone have any idea why i did such a thing
it’s whitney’s birthday!
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“All the features we today identify with freedom and liberal democracy (trade...”
– Slavoj Zizek, First As Tragedy, Then As Farce (via aidsnegligee)
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Private Prison Corporation Offers Cash In Exchange... →
theartfulbasterd:
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domesticterrorism:
As state governments wrestle with massive budget shortfalls, a Wall Street giant is offering a solution: cash in exchange for state property. Prisons, to be exact.
Corrections Corporation of America, the nation’s largest operator of for-profit prisons, has sent letters recently to 48 states offering to buy up their prisons as a remedy...
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literarysasquatch:
As long as any group defines liberation as gaining social equality with ruling-class white men, they have a vested interest in the continued exploitation and oppression of others.
- from ‘Feminist Theory’ by bell hooks [1984], I would like to quote this entire book.
i picked this up today with a bookstore giftcard and i just wanna dig into it immediately but now i have to...
Amanda Hiscock (canadian anti-G20 organizer)...
martintensions:
[Today, Mandy was sentenced to 16 months in prison. During the sentencing hearing, she made this statement to the court, which was interrupted 8 times, by both the judge and the prosecutor. In the end, they spoke more during the time alloted to Mandy than Mandy spoke herself. A version which includes all of those comments will be posted separately.]
It’s not every day you...
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heronqueenblues:
sigh ok let’s say this in the simplest way possible
you don’t have to be ashamed that you were born into a place of privilege.
the fact that you are white or cisgender or straight or male or able-bodied or rich or WHATEVER is not something to be ashamed of
when you use that privilege to hurt other people, then you have something to be ashamed of, but then still the shame...
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“1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via mutualaddiction)
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“The less you think about your oppression, the...
– Assata Shakur
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January 2012
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How Gay’ Has ‘Stay[ed] White’ for Over a Decade →
thegang:
“We must learn that ignoring or separating any type of oppression from another is a result of privileged ignorance, and it will remain so as long as gay stays white.”
(via tofuboots : fuckyeahqueerpeopleofcolor)
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“Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original...”
– The Autobiography of Malcolm X
If you don’t believe America hasn’t been a terrorist state from the beginning, you’d better do some research. And stop watching TV.
(via theghostofronaldreagan)
I skimmed my US History textbook from college this weekend and found that only the first chapter - a...
Remembering MLK the “Terrorist” →
cultureofresistance:
You’d be hard pressed, it seems, to find anyone who would publicly associate MLK with “terrorism.” But under a new law passed by Congress called the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, King’s actions, and the tactics he advocated, are exactly that.
The law is ostensibly meant to go after underground groups like the Animal Liberation Front who commit sabotage in the name of...
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“”One day we must ask the question, ‘Why are there forty million poor people in...”
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And this is what really got Dr. MLK killed. (via black-culture)
This is the kind of thing that we get taught a lot in progressive circles. We hear that Dr. King was assassinated not because of his liberal-pacifist-[sic] views on racial equality [sic], but because of his truly threatening...
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“Every revolution in history has been accomplished by actions although words are...”
– Assata Shakur (via noemipaz)
“The only way to live on this planet with any human dignity at the moment is to...”
– Assata Shakur, Black activist, FBI target, political fugitive, and a symbol of resistance for her role as a member of the Black Panther Party, the Black Liberation Army, and the Republik of New Africa. (via cultureofresistance)
I’m really struggling writing my paper on Assata...
“Westerners are fond of the saying ‘Life isn’t fair.’ Then, they end in snide...”
– Barbara Alice Mann, Iroquois woman (via cultureofresistance)