September 2010
Genderbitch Lite: Now With More Rambling!: I... →
genderbitch:
The reason why I pick at wounds, slivers, splinters, cuts, scabs, zits, bumps and ingrown hairs (among other things) until they bleed and get infected or I cover them with a bandaid isn’t appearance.
It’s texture.
They’re disrupting the texture of my skin. Changing it from what it feels like…
Sort of.
The skin on my arms gets little bumps from being too dry. If I...
A Daily Riot.: Someone* Has Begun Sabotaging... →
adailyriot:
Looks like someone has begun to sabotage people whom are close to both Joe and Stephanie (who’s house was raided by the FBI for 12 hours). They fucked with Doug ‘s (aka itisrighttorebel) car.
“It’s good to be back in Chicago, despite a little problem when I left Minneapolis: my car…
Thought Experiment: Acceptance of Fallibility.
genderbitch:
Humans fuck up. Quite often. As activists, many of us like to believe that we do better than most people. But we should all realize that’s often bullshit. And all of us (yes, even you) have gotten an inflated sense of infallibility due to social justice work.
This is bad. This sense makes it tougher to own our mistakes and makes it tougher for us to respond positively to criticism...
“AFRICA! Yay! A whole continent dedicated to helping white people understand what...”
– I Studied Abroad in Africa!
This tumblr is so on point…
(via carried-away)
oh you have to love the fact that most folks (not even just white folks, which is sad) think of africa as a monolith instead of a medley of cultures and ethnicities. smh
(via divinebydesign)
I am in love with this blog,...
Watchchampagnecandy:
Stephen Colbert—I think I officially love you 1000 times more than Jon Stewart.
Transcription:
“I like talking about people who don’t have any power, and this seems like, one of the least powerful people in the United States are migrant workers who come and do our work but don’t have any rights as a result. And yet we still invite them to come here and at the same time ask...
San Antonio Woman Assaulted; Police and Media... →
KENS5 states that according to police, the unnamed assailant didn’t decide to beat his victim. He didn’t make a choice to enact transphobic violence, let alone a hate crime (more on that later). He just “snapped.” Snapping is something that anybody can do. Snapping is something over which we have limited control, which suggests that we are not acting like our usual selves. Snapping is...
Sady Doyle: 30 Rock Rape Joke: OVERANALYSIS +... →
rjriotnrrd:
sadydoyle:
I think 30 Rock is like that deeply fucked-up friend you have who keeps openly acknowledging that he or she is fucked-up. Which is the weirdest thing, because the fact that they acknowledge how flawed they are makes you think they’re somehow… not-flawed? Like, there’s Steve the Fuck-Up and Steve the Cool and Level-Headed Observer of How Fucked Up Steve Is? And you...
A few days ago one of the people I follow on twitter said “some days you’re the Vogon, some days you’re the earth”. I like that a lot. It hit me on a bunch of levels.
And today it’s hitting me on even more.
I hate being the bad guy. And I hate even more when I know from someone else’s perspective I am the bad guy, but from mine I’m not. And I hate...
“And as you learn the magic, learn to believe it
Don’t be...”
– “Revolutionary Letter #46” - Diane di Prima
Being studied in the class I’m graduate assisting in. First introduction to her work for me, really interesting. Liked this one especially.
Sady Doyle: I Don't Have An Interest In Hearing... →
telegantmess:
sadydoyle:
Being a heterosexual woman who writes fetishizing porn about gay dudes (bonus if they’re TV characters) (double bonus if they’re TV actors) (triple bonus if there’s some variety of incest or non-consensual terror) (and you defend it on grounds of “feminism” or “queer-positivity”) (WHAT).
…
I’m about to make myself slightly unpopular on teh internetz, but I would...
How Segregated Is Your City? →
Recently, cartographer Bill Rankin produced an astounding map of Chicago, which managed to show the city’s areas of racial integration.
Eric Fischer saw those maps, and took it upon himself to create similar ones for the top 40 cities in the United States.
“There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that concern for...”
– Joseph Heller—Catch 22 (via iammyownmonster)
I don’t understand this, probably because I haven’t read it. If it’s proof of craziness to want to do missions, why didn’t they just ground him if he said, “I want to do more missions”?
(via tadface)
I LOVED THIS PART.
I never finished the book but... 