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Life Returned: An Open Letter to Eve Ensler

Mon, 06 May 2013 09:25:51 -0400

Life Returned: An Open Letter to Eve Ensler:

Dear Eve Ensler,

I want to start off by saying thank you. I appreciate the time you took to reach out to me, because I know you’re incredibly busy. I know there are much more important people in this world than myself, so I appreciate you engaging in dialogue with me and my colleague Kelleigh…

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Tue, 26 Mar 2013 10:01:55 -0400

filthyphil: Street art in Norway by Skurtur

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 09:28:16 -0400

filthyphil:

Street art in Norway by Skurtur

setfabulazerstomaximumcaptain: esamarimacha: queeradical: ……no...

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 09:25:16 -0400

setfabulazerstomaximumcaptain:

esamarimacha:

queeradical:

……not a corporation-sponsored street closing where people buy Absolut and impose Doryphoros-like standards of muscularity on everyone.

and the riot was started by gender-transgressing poor folks of color (many were sex workers too).. not rich white boys appropriating the language/bodies of femmes of color while spending half their day on their smartphones (checking Grindr)

THAT MOTHERFUCKING BOLDED

Hacker Tourism: Democracy is hard.

Mon, 31 Dec 2012 00:26:32 -0500

Hacker Tourism: Democracy is hard.:

peteforde:

I’m currently sitting on a train in Ottawa on my way home to Toronto.

Literally sitting; the train hasn’t moved in four hours. There’s a blockade of the tracks which is part of a much larger solidarity protest across Canada. Native Canadians are demanding action in the form of access to the basic…

newsweek: Nevin Yildirim is sitting in a Turkish jail for...

Fri, 07 Sep 2012 23:56:53 -0400

newsweek:

Nevin Yildirim is sitting in a Turkish jail for shooting her rapist in the penis, beheading him, and leaving his head in the town square.

“I chased him,” she explained. “He fell on the ground. He started cussing. I shot his sexual organ this time. He became quiet. I knew he was dead. I then cut his head off.”

iemai: Hidden Beach on Marieta Islands, off the coast of Puerto...

Fri, 07 Sep 2012 23:54:17 -0400

iemai:

Hidden Beach on Marieta Islands, off the coast of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

Deep Teal & Python

Fri, 07 Sep 2012 09:23:34 -0400

girlwithcurves:

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pterodactylfemme: We were discussing gay marriage in class and some girl was like ‘God created Adam...

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 08:02:37 -0400

pterodactylfemme:

We were discussing gay marriage in class and some girl was like ‘God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve’ and another girl was like ‘God ain’t create that cheap-ass lace front on your head either. That shit is Lucifer-made.’

durianseeds: Two Door Cinema Club - Sleep Alone He sleeps...

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 06:40:46 -0400

durianseeds:

Two Door Cinema Club - Sleep Alone

He sleeps alone. He needs no army where he’s headed ‘cause he knows that they’re just ghosts; that they can’t hurt him if he can’t see them, ooo0o.

"Often black people, especially non-gay folk, become enraged when they hear a white person who is gay..."

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 05:12:30 -0400

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Often black people, especially non-gay folk, become enraged when they hear a white person who is gay suggest homosexuality is synonymous with the suffering people experience as a consequence of racial exploitation and oppression. The need to make gay experience and black experience of oppression synonymous seems to be one that surfaces much more in the minds of white people. Too often it is a way of minimizing or diminishing the particular problems people of color face in a white supremacist society, especially the problems ones encounter because they do not have white skin. Many of us have been in discussions where a non-white person – a black person – struggles to explain to white folks that while we can acknowledge that gay people of all colors are harassed and suffer exploitation and domination, we also recognize that there is a significant difference that arises because of the visibility of dark skin. Often homophobic attacks on gay people of all occur in situations where knowledge of sexual preference is established – outside of gay bars, for example. While it in no way lessens the severity of such suffering for gay people, or the fear that it causes, it does mean that in a given situation the apparatus of protection and survival may be simply not identifying as gay.

In contrast, most people of color have no choice. No one can hide, change or mask dark skin color. White people, gay and straight, could show greater understanding of the impact of racial oppression on people of color by not attempting to make these oppressions synonymous, but rather by showing the ways they are linked and yet differ. Concurrently, the attempt by white people to make synonymous experience of homophobic aggression with racial oppression deflects attention away from the particular dual dilemma that non-white gay people face, as individuals who confront both racism and homophobia.

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- bell hooks, Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black

Why “Gay is the new Black” doesn’t work

(via eastafrodite)

thedailywhat: This Happy Hour brought to you by the GOP. Know...

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 03:56:33 -0400

thedailywhat:

This Happy Hour brought to you by the GOP.

Know This:

The Dems unleashed some dubious claimsTuesday night, according to fact checkers.

Fox’s Megyn Kelly rightly trashes Jason Biggsfor his tweets about Romney’s and Ryan’s wives.

Rush Limbaugh says that if Obama were white,this election would be over.

Ellen got her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Playing in the NFL triples men’s risk of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.

Read This:

From Deadspin: Why grown men walk around wearing football jerseys.

From New York: How the Paul Ryan pick puts the spotlight on Joe Biden.

From Dead Homer Society: How The Simpsons became the broadcasting undead.

Watch This:

What if Obama had called a real stoner instead of Harold and Kumar?

Sandra Bernhard takes on Jerry Seinfeld with Comedians Walking & Getting Mani-Pedis.

Why the Republicans have no heart (and the Democrats have no balls).

Look At This:

The 20 best closing scenes in TV.

Amazing balloon animal muppets are freakin’ amazing.

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Happy Hour Hashtag: #areyoubetteroff

Happy Hour Tumblr: Awkward Stock Video

Happy Hour List: The 20 Most WTF Moments In Disney History

kingbitchandmoan: prochoicetruth: Romney looking a gay war...

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 02:42:23 -0400

kingbitchandmoan:

prochoicetruth:

Romney looking a gay war veteran square in the eye and telling him he doesn’t think his spouse should be awarded burial benefits because it’s not a real marriage. I have so much admiration for the vet in this video…

and people expect me to take this man seriously as president material? fuck him and fuck anyone else who feels otherwise

dinglehopperxoxo: palmtree19: PLEASE TELL YOUR ANIMALS YOU...

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 01:14:22 -0400

dinglehopperxoxo:

palmtree19:

PLEASE TELL YOUR ANIMALS YOU LOVE THEM

why would pigs be in charge of a hole farm?!?

"Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is..."

Wed, 05 Sep 2012 22:42:06 -0400

“Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is happening…Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed.”

- Alice Walker

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where i’m at right now…

(via kameelahwrites)

bohemea: Hedwig and the Angry Inch - The Origin of Love

Wed, 05 Sep 2012 21:55:54 -0400

bohemea:

Hedwig and the Angry Inch - The Origin of Love

"This speech was not only a bad speech, it was one of the most remarkable acts of political..."

Tue, 28 Aug 2012 23:08:16 -0400

“This speech was not only a bad speech, it was one of the most remarkable acts of political selfishness I have ever seen on a stage this big. This was a 2600-word speech in which he used nearly 1800 before he said Mitt Romney and as soon as he said Mitt, he went back to talking about himself for hundreds more words. This was Chris Christie accepting the nomination of Republican Party of 2016…. I found it completely shocking.”

- Rachel Maddow

❝And then, you ask me whether I approve of violence. I mean,...

Sat, 25 Aug 2012 14:43:19 -0400

❝And then, you ask me whether I approve of violence. I mean, that just doesn’t make any sense at all… whether I approve of guns.
I grew up in Birmingham, Alabama!

Some very, very good friends of mine were killed by bombs! Bombs that were planted by racists. I remember from the time - I was very small - I remember the sound of bombs exploding across the street, our house shaking! I remember my father having to have guns at his disposal at all times because of that fact that any moment - someone - we might expect to be attacked.

The man who was in that time, in complete control of the city government, his name was Bill Connor. He would often get on the radio and make statements like - “Niggers have moved into an all white neighborhood, we better expect some bloodshed tonight,” and sure enough there would be blood shed.

After the four girls - one of them lived next door to me - I was very good friends of a sister of another one… My sister was very good friends with all three of them. My mother taught one of them in her class.

In fact, when the bombing occurred, one of the mothers of the young girl called my mother and said - “Can you take me down to the church and pick up Carol? We heard about the bombing and I don’t have my car.”

And they went down and what did they find? They found limbs and heads strewn all over the place.

And then after that, in my neighborhood, all the men organized themselves into an armed patrol. They had to take their guns and patrol our community every night because they did not want that to happen again. ❞ Angela Davis on Violence [x]

How I feel about settlers

Sat, 28 Jul 2012 09:18:57 -0400

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cwnerd12: thefrisky: “This Is My Body”: The Video...

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:24:38 -0400

cwnerd12:

thefrisky:

“This Is My Body”: The Video Anti-Abortion Activists Need To See

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