June 2012
251 posts
grrlyman:
thundergoddess:
if u ever feel down
just remember that samuel l jackson did an impression of nicki minaj
This is going to save so many lives.
Watchjdgreensoul:
I love Lucille Clifton. I’ve used her poems to convert suspicious undergraduates to the possibilities of poetry in our everyday lives. Once we got to that “i wish them cramps” in “wishes for sons,” hoooooneeeey, them kids didn’t know what hit ‘em!
I never got to meet Lucille Clifton, but I’ve always felt kinda connected to her—I’m a six-fingered, poem scribbling, mama-loving June...
Please Hire Me to DJ Your Wedding
In the last two weeks, I’ve put in 70+ hours @ my accounting job, provided sound and DJing for my friends’ wedding, and played four shows between my three bands. Getting more than six hours of sleep a night is a minor miracle for me, but @ least I’m (mostly) doing things that I like to do.
The wedding was fun and beautiful. The planner didn’t allow me to sound check...
“As I have walked among the desperate, rejected, and angry young men, I have told...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr. (via socialuprooting)
A passage from one of his greatest speeches, delivered at the Riverside Church in Harlem in 1967, exactly one year before he was killed. This is the Dr. King white folks want buried and forgotten, the Dr. King who did not condemn violent resistance, in...
It just boggles my mind that so many people find...
kiriamaya:
thecurvature:
Really? That’s the MOST NOTABLE thing about that man to you?
You would NOT find Stevie Wonder impressive if he could see?
There is so much ableism and ~*inspiration narrative*~ in how so many people talk about Stevie Wonder. Which is this whole fucked up thing that the accomplishments of people with disabilities are only notable because they weren’t accomplished by...
Donate to Mary Kristene Chapa's medical fund →
ssitara:
She was part of the young lesbian couple who were shot outside Corpus Christi, TX. Mollie Olgin is dead and Kristene Chapa is in serious but stable condition. Her family has no health insurance.
notesonascandal:
savagemike:
thetart:
cgdageek:
I mean, really… did people really think a POTUS who was a former Constitutional Law Professor would create a law that was wholly Unconstitutional??!?
Yes, because as far as your average Tea Partier is concerned, he stumbled out of a mosque in Mombasa with a blanket tied around his waist and marched directly to the nearest Communist Party...
“Most people on food stamps work full time. They work full time but they don’t...”
– Sister Simone Campbell [x]
I like how she articulates the simple financial impossibility of religious organizations being able to replace government aid. I’d like to add that, of course, there are so many people who have trouble receiving aid from religious institutions because they’re LGBT and/or...
But seriously
strugglingtobeheard:
readnfight:
feral-femme:
suzy-x:
I’m bored of white DIY punks
I’m bored of your art and your long-winded Crimethinc musings about stars and shit
I’m bored of the photos you take of yourselves with your cats and plants
I’m bored of the green hair you can pull off because it doesn’t clash with your skin
I’m angry that I bleached my hair and skin as a teen to look...
Gardener Sues Tulsa for Cutting Down Her Edible... →
harrietsdaughter:
blackamazon:
humanformat:
KOTV reports that Denise Morrison grows an edible and medicinal garden of over 100 plant varieties in her front and back yard. Last August, she received a letter from the city reporting a complaint about her yard.
She took photographs of her gardens and went to meet with city inspectors who told her “Everything, everything need to go” when she...
Eternity Exists
sonofbaldwin:
http://www.clutchmagonline.com/2012/06/kenyan-model-ajuma-nasenyana-fights-skin-lightening-and-european-standards-of-beauty/
Kenyan Model Ajuma Nasenyana Fights Skin Lightening and European Standards of Beauty
Like many other parts of the world, Africa is no stranger to European standards of beauty. The practice of skin lightening is becoming rampant in many African countries as...
“If you have to stop people voting to win elections, your ideas suck.”
– RE: Voter ID laws (via think-progress)
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bad-dominicana:
blackraincloud:
I have feelings about people using the term “Juan Crow.”
They are mostly side-eye feelings.
i concur that shit is KILLING ME
fucking stop drawing paralells
its still NOT the same thing and it wont ever be on that level
and its not a funny fucking slogan! that shit was dead black mutilated bodies hanging from trees!
STOOPPPPP
stop
stop
STTOOOPPPPP
...
I have NO idea who these characters are that I see...
notesonascandal:
But I absolutely enjoy seeing the pictures, especially of the Black and Brown folks all dressed up and having fun in their costumes.
I like seeing PoCs being and doing stuff that most folks think aren’t for us. We do all kinds of cool stuff for all kinds of reasons.
I’ll probably never get into those characters, but I will always like to see folks enjoying themselves for...
The 15-year old trans*person who needs a safe...
missvoltairine:
strangeasanjles:
has informed me that they live in Hartford, CT.
If there is anyone in the area who would be willing to help, please contact me and I will get you in touch with them.
I’m not exactly sure about the legal specifics of hosting a minor in CT. Please check that out if you wish to help.
They do not feel safe and obviously have nowhere else to go.
Friends, please...
“Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you...”
– Alan Cohen (via saras-vati)
WHEN SOMEONE TELLS YOU THEY FOUND A GREAT CHINESE...
wheninatx:
Finally, someone admits it.
Cis male hetero environments have always made me...
so-treu:
jcoleknowsbest:
I dreaded going to the barbershop(the shit that’s said…. Face palm)
I HATED GYM CLASS…
Iono…. I always end up thinking men are stupid so I shut down completely in those environments… It’s a form of protection… Been hurt too many times to count in those environments…
i do not do well with these spaces. at all. i shut down hard.
This is one of the reasons why I...
Mitt Romney called Ann Coulter a "moderate".
str8nochaser:
That really sums up all you need to know about what kind of President he would be.
I just woke up to a message
so-treu:
strangeasanjles:
from a young trans* person who seems to be very young…might even be a minor.
They told me that they just found out that Cathy Brennan has outed them to their parents and they may not have a place to stay for very long.
This is what Cathy Brennan’s feminism looks like. Outting and endangering already marginalized youth.
She is a monster and a careless coward.
When...
Watchlovewashername:
daughtersofdilla:
James Baldwin ‘Take This Hammer’ documentary:
‘Either we will correct what’s wrong or it will be corrected for us’
‘The only way to get through life is to know the worst things about it’
KQED’s mobile film unit follows author and activist James Baldwin in the spring of 1963, as he’s driven around San Francisco to meet with members of the local...
The Cocker Spaniels Are Playing Skinny's Ballroom...
I apologize for the short notice, but I haven’t had much time this week to adequately announce and promote this show.
The Cocker Spaniels (the real, full band) will perform @ Skinny’s Ballroom in Austin, TX today FOR FREE!
The show starts @ 5 PM, and we’re playing second, so please plan accordingly.
For more info and to RSVP on Facebook, click here!
Will I see ANY of you...
“Dear World:
May the ending of deporting students without papers be the...”
– Mark Gonzalez, poet and activist. Via his facebook. (via bornthisbrown)
YES, YES THAT SHIT IS FRIGHTENING
hamburgerjack:
I cannot tell you how it fucking feels to do that shit, to try and put a stop on somebody being a fucking asshole
It never goes away
It never turns into some justified, shiny glowing feeling
It is a TERROR
every fucking time
Especially when I know some fool could follow me in their car and put a stop on me FOR GOOD
But I’m trying to be about my shit.
I’m trying to be about...
I wonder if the reason why so many people fear confrontation is that they associate the word SOLELY with rage, aggression, and/or violence.
To these people, confrontation must mean nothing short of yelling, cursing, and Hulk-smashing everything and everyone in sight.
Maybe that’s why so many people engage in tone policing, or otherwise focus more on the person’s style of...
Also, remember what I wrote before about people making nonsensical rules that they KNOW others will break, just to have an excuse to punish them? WTF IS A QUIET CAR? I mean, I know what it is and why it exists, and I understand… …but does that logic REALLY justify calling another person foul names? Especially over an honest mistake? I guess it does if said person happens to be a Black...
I feel that too many discussions about music piracy ignore the role that corporate greed plays in perpetuating it.
For far too long, the recording industry was focused more on maximizing profit than on maximizing value. It tried to force consumers to buy full albums in order to obtain the mere handful of songs that piqued their interest. It also failed to make the investments necessary to...
The Korean language, and why it's fascinating
crankyskirt:
[Disclaimer: I’m not a linguist or a scholar of East Asian studies. I didn’t major in linguistics or East Asian studies. I just have a thing for languages, particularly those spoken by people of color around the world, whether the languages have always been culturally associated with their region of origin (like Twi and Khmer) or are colonial languages modified by the formerly (or...
