January 2012
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I think finishing s4 of Friday Night Lights is a...
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PSA
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
onlytowardschaos:
I realize some people may not know this, but using the word gypped (sometimes spelled “gipped”) to refer to being cheated is a racial slur. It recalls centuries of prejudice and abuse against Gypsies, which is what the word comes from. It’s on the level of “Indian giver” (also offensive, in case you didn’t know). Romani and other Gypsy peoples have been...
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milkeemountainmama:
here’s the other thing. do you see the difference between:
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah, oh, and btw, you should be checking out what woc have to say cuz they said it first—
AND—
this is what angela davis says, and then this is what alexis pauline gumbs says, but then this is Leah Lakshimi Piepzna-Samarasinha says—and then this what INCITE! says, but then i was...
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“If I could take all my parts with me when I go somewhere, and not have to say to...”
– Pat Parker, from “Movement in Black” via this amazing coming out story of Jean Melesaine (via queerfatfemme)
(via nerdpoet)
“I don’t expect gay people to prove to me, a straight person, that there’s...”
– WORD (via notevenbovvered)
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Like any woman of color, I can’t simply give in... →
mehreenkasana:
Like any woman of color, I can’t simply give in to feminism completely. It is a Western ideology that does not mesh well with mine. It has its roots embedded in a history that not only had White men oppressing their own women but their women were equally involved in oppressing my indigenous people - men and women together. I refuse to obediently follow every postulate stated by...