May 2013
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Laying Some History On You: The Murder of Vincent... →
An altercation starts inside inside a bar, spilling over to the outside when the participants are thrown out. ‘It’s because of you motherfuckers that we’re out of work,’ Ronald Ebens says, referencing the commonly-repeated myth that manufacturing jobs are being outsourced to Japan, and apparently unable to tell the difference between a Chinese man and a Japanese one1. Ebens’ stepson Michael Nitz...
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The Huffington Post:The Right to Fight AIDS →
marginalutilite:
…Since the APLO’s [anti prostitution loyalty oath’s] inception, the public health community has been critical of possible ramifications it could have on HIV prevention interventions. After all, the policy didn’t emerge as a public health response to HIV. It arose when some legislators saw an opportunity to enforce ideological purity about sex work when PEPFAR first...
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winneganfake:
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detrea:
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a-little-insane:
the best part about being the little spoon while cuddling is being able to rub your butt against the person’s junk
The best part about being the big spoon while cuddling is getting to rub your junk against the person’s butt
The best part about the big spoon is that it lets me get bigger portions of ice cream as I...
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“Criticisms about representations of gender (or race and other diversity) are...”
– Laura Hudson writes about the shotage of women characters in Star Wars fore Wired.com in her article “Leia is not enough: Star Wars and the woman problem in Hollywood.”
“Science fiction in particular has always offered a vision of the world not myopically limited by the world as it exists, but...
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http://news.yahoo.com/couple-sues-over-adopted-sons... →
sailoralecs:
A sad, sobering reminder that this still happens. I’m slightly heartened to know that the adoptive parents are suing though.
Romanticizing cultural differences in the most...
anotherlgbttumblr:
Hey, want to make a post on Tumblr that fetishizes and romantizes cultural differences without taking the culture involved seriously? Just try these easy steps:
1. Don’t tell us what and who you are talking about. “There’s a culture in Africa where…” is a perfectly fine introduction. It doesn’t matter that Africa is a massive and diverse continent. We don’t need to know how...
U.S. Military ‘Power Grab’ Goes Into Effect →
anukkinearthwalker:
Pentagon Unilaterally Grants Itself Authority Over ‘Civil Disturbances’
martial law is now basically official, on a whenever they wanna do it basis.
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4 Inhumane Realities About The Guantanamo Hunger... →
thepoliticalfreakshow:
Latest reports say at least 102 of 166 prisoners are participating in the action.
Friday marks 100 days since the beginning of the hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay that has recaptured international attention on the offshore prison President Obama promised to close when seeking office five years ago.
As of Thursday, military officials say that 102 out of 166 detainees are...
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“Labor groups urged massive clothing retailers including Gap and Wal-Mart to sign...”
– Your Favorite Stores Aren’t Signing the Bangladesh Safety Act (via robot-heart-politics)
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“Nobody really even knows with whom the US is at war, or where. Everyone just...”
– Washington gets explicit: its ‘war on terror’ is permanent | Glenn Greenwald | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Heh. I read a book like that once.
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“That the Obama administration is now repeatedly declaring that the ‘war on...”
– Washington gets explicit: its ‘war on terror’ is permanent | Glenn Greenwald (via theamericanbear)
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Sallie Mae blowing up my voicemail talking about,...
jakigriot:
Option 1. Pay me. Option 2. Or else.
So glad we had this conversation.
I just talked to one of my student loan holders and updated my contact information. She read me off this big long spiel about whether I agreed for them to call me on my phone number and I’m all like “No. Nope. No. Uh uh. Nope,” all the way through it and she’s all like...
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On The Political Nature of Sissification
purrversatility:
I got a request to make this repostable- here is a minirant about sissifcation, femmephobia, and politics that was in response to an image that came across my dashboard. “I think that if you genuinely want to be sex positive it’s very fucking important to critique *even sometimes* the fact that trans women deal with a shitton of violence and hellish prejudice, and that women...
“Indigenization often involved a rethinking of a Western idea. In India, for...”
– Mina Roces and Louise Edwards, Women’s Movements in Asia: Feminisms and Transnational Activism
The great feminist divide over the issue of whether prostitution is ‘sex work’ or ‘violence against women’ (VAW) has its Asian variant with activists lined up on both sides of these two camps. But here...
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“Whether you’re the woman who dared to stick out a thumb for a ride, tits for the...”
– Women By The Wayside | Maggie Mayhem Speaks
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Navajo actors audition for the first major... →
sinidentidades:
Members of the Navajo tribe in the southwestern United States are hoping the force will be with them as they dub “Star Wars” into their native Dine language.
Two days of auditions began Friday at the Navajo Nation Museum in Window Rock, Arizona for Navajo wishing to lend their voices to Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader, Princess Leia, Han Solo, C-3PO, Obi Wan Kenobi and Grand Moff...
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fly high across the sky: “Millennials Are Poor... →
thetangential:
I have read all the articles and I have these requests:
• Stop talking about how my generation is pathetic because some of us live at home after college. The economy crashed because generations before us were greedy and irresponsible with money, not because we spent too much time as teenagers watching Internet porn. (Also, some millennials live at home after college because...
Fairy tales are NOT all straight white heroes and...
seananmcguire:
I re-blogged a picture of a little girl, dressed as Tiana, hugging the face actress who plays Tiana at one of the Disney Parks, and noted that everyone should have their princess. And a few people have now contacted me basically going “no, only straight white people can have princesses if you stick with the classics.”
Um.
No.
I am a folklorist, and it’s time for some Fun With...
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ladies-andtramps:
ive noticed that tumblr has this white women vs. black women thing going on and i mean
cant we all just be women without a skin color attached to our identities…?
I’ve noticed this too.
I’ve noticed that when black women try to talk amongst themselves about experiences unique to them, there’s always one of us white women who just HAS to jump in on it and...
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