February 2010
YES! GREEN DAY WON BEST ROCK ALBUM!
(via fyeahgreenday)
So well deserved and thanks to youtube ninjapirates I got to see the performance too and well, yes, I love them, incredible! And they picked my favorite cast member to start it off: Rebecca Naomi Jones. So wish I could see the show again.
49ers QB Eric Green Accused of Raping... →
A transgender New Yorker has filed a $10 million sex assault suit against an NFL player - and in a separate action is also suing the city, saying she was abused and humiliated by cops.
Matthew Yglesias » Bill Gates, Coca-Cola, and... →
abbyjean:
One of the Gates Foundation’s newest investments is $7.5 million to link 50,000 poor fruit farmers in Uganda and Kenya to Coca-Cola’s supply chain. The goal is to double the farmers’ income by 2014. What always leaves me scratching my head about uber-rich philanthropists is why so many of their activities are so depoliticized. The state plays an enormous role in the economy and in...
Pelvic Examinations performed on unconscious women... →
genderacrossborders:
plainoljane:
In Canadian hospitals. Today. Every day. This is shocking and disgusting and disturbing and awful.
January 2010
“Anarcha was an African American slave woman. She was one of the seventy-five...”
– Anarcha The Mother of Gynocology (via guerrillamamamedicine)
Civilian Rape Victims on Military Bases Deserve... →
ouyangdan:
For the astounding number of women in uniform raped or sexually assaulted in the military, a unique option known as “restricted reporting” provides a way for a victim to get the help she needs while protecting her privacy. However, this same option is denied to the many civilian women attached to military bases.
Waiting In Line Shouldn't Be Inhumane | Poverty in... →
ekswitaj:
abbyjean:
Some of the most harmful results of the recession are budget cuts that tend to target services for poor people first. The problem is particularly acute in high-poverty urban areas like Washington, D.C., where poor residents are forced to camp out for days in front of understaffed aid centers in hopes of applying for food stamps, rent assistance and emergency cash.
...
“I want a world where, excuse my language, asshole and feminist are never...”
– Want Ad For Feminist Revolution Pt. I (via amandaw)
I really wish that cats could speak human...
thecurvature:
Mink won’t eat. It’s not that she’s sick and has lost her appetite. No, quite to the contrary, she’s very hungry, and being very active about letting me know just how hungry she is, following me around, meowing an awful lot, and running over to her food bowl whenever I make any motion to even head in that general direction.
But there is food in her bowl. And she won’t eat.
We’ve...
GREEN DAY AND BROADWAY CAST TO PERFORM AT GRAMMYS →
So..... J.D. Salinger Died
Which I’m sure isn’t news to most of my list. But there you go.
I read Catcher in the Rye in high school and enjoyed it. Not one of my favorite books or anything but a good read. And I actually own “Nine Stories” because I saw it for like a dollar and was like, oh, hey, J.D. Salinger, let’s see if he’s written anything else that’s good. But I...
And demanding that everything be traditionally...
sadydoyle:
I think I can say that.
Really. bell MOTHERFUCKING hooks. Was I the only person who read that lady? I DON’T THINK SO, but maybe I am way off the mark.
Word.
“I would encourage people to look around them in their community and find an...”
– Howard Zinn (via marthaq) (via letstalkequality) (via ekswitaj)
“Why should we accept that the “talent” of someone who writes jingles for an...”
– Howard Zinn (via fyeahsocialism)
or, for instance, the “talent” of somebody who works as an investment banker and tanks the economy but somehow still requires a multimillion-dollar bonus?
Howard Zinn makes such sense that if more people heard him or read him this country would be a different...
Ruth P. Smith, Abortion-Rights Pioneer, Dies at... →
genderacrossborders:
loveandzombies:
“In 1969, Mrs. Smith and 11 others formed the first steering committee of the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws, as the organization was then known. (In 1973, after the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade made abortion legal nationwide, the group’s name was changed to the National Abortion Rights Action League; it adopted its present...
Fetch me my axe: Objectification, continued... →
Evans is clear that this sort of transaction happens between adults as well as between adult and child. However, it’s also pretty clear that someone who’s grown up around very unconscious, controlling people is more likely to carry on the tradition him or herself as an adult, from both directions. (After all, the child has no other frame of reference, and the prospect of losing his/her...
So someone mentioned wonky stuff going on when reblogging?
Well, I don’t know about anyone else but quite often I will have a reblog of mine pop up in my RSS feed, someone I follow will pick up on something, and really rather often when I come to my dashboard and those aren’t appearing as notes. Wtf?
“Someone responded to a tweet VivirLatino posted saying that stereotypes are the...”
– Haiti : Race, Colonialism, and Univision | VivirLatino
“We value certain things in Western Society, and one of those things is How...”
– The Cult of Busy: Introductory Thoughts (via guerrillamamamedicine)
Autistic Woman Raped In Broad Daylight; No One... →
(via ekswitaj)
“Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is the numbers of people all over...”
– Howard Zinn, “The Problem is Civil Disobedience” speech at Johns Hopkins University, November 1970 reprinted in Voices of a People’s History of the United States
The spine of my copy of Voices is broken at this page (484), because this passage informs everything I do, everything I teach,...
“Here’s a thing about mansplaining and why I care a lot about it: it is annoying,...”
– fillyjonk (via amandaw)
This term is new to me and so as I do some research I am passing the information on…
Manoucheka Celeste: Disturbing media images of... →
amandaw:
abbyjean:
barthel:
My colleague and fellow media scholar Manoucheka has an op-ed in the Seattle Times today that is well worth your attention. (Especially if you are abbyjean or bonesarecoralmade.)
agreed! i quite enjoyed it:
Media scholars have long connected media coverage with public opinion, cultivating our attitudes and creating and reinforcing stereotypes. It is...
Climate Change: Losing the Ineffable →
guerrillamamamedicine:
If we understand what the problem truly is, only then can we find solutions. Copenhagen failed, most especially it failed the people in this article. What now? How is climate change a spiritual problem and what can we do? Derrick Jensen offers two crucial differences between indigenous cultures that survived for thousands of years and Western culture: “If we want to stop...
“But why stop at drug testing? Let’s make people prove they haven’t disobeyed any...”
– “drug testing as a means of preventing abuse of goverment funds” @ my private casbah (via oscillating) (via ihatethismess) (via apsies)
YES YES YES FUCK YES and I get angry for the same reason when people try to pull this shit with “illegals” too. Everybody who drives speeds, does that mean we... 