February 2012
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If black people were as culturally deficient as...
howtobeterrell:
How come our language (African American language)has 5 present tenses?
Where they do that at?
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Black feminism, black militarism, black genders
readnfight:
There are a lot of questions I’ve been asking myself lately about black feminism and anger, about militarism and where black nationalism comes from, how black masculinity and black feminism can be understood through related frameworks. The reading list I’m assigning myself for the next little while is:
The Sea Birds are Still Alive, Toni Cade Bambara
Tales of the Out & the...
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karnythia:
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
poemsofthedead:
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liquornspice:
What I learned from tumblr/Native American studies classes: the only “invisible” Indians who matter are white ones. This anon msg was sent to Jal.
I like your blog but you always go to far with Black stuff. The statistics about Native women being abused do you think that includes you? Would you be...
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To people who think they are "transethnic":
mry:
golden-zephyr:
atoraya:
readnfight:
If you exist outside of the internet, please come take a stroll through my hood and tell people about it. Double dog dare ya.
The latest in Shit You Can Get Away With When All Your Friends Are White.
Transethnic is a term I learned yesterday. I was completely confused and not just a little horrified. Yes take a little a walk through the...
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popca:
baddominicana:
some of these messages i get from black people,
i dunno if i should laugh or cry lol
“what is black music?”
“twerking doesnt resemble anything african”
the kicker is,
youre not even joking.
:|
do some ugly laughing/crying. but nah really. it looks and feels so obvious to me that twerking is totally rooted in african dances. i don’t know the history, the type of...
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To people who think they are "transethnic":
If you exist outside of the internet, please come take a stroll through my hood and tell people about it. Double dog dare ya.
The latest in Shit You Can Get Away With When All Your Friends Are White.
youarenotyou:
theoceanandthesky:
here’s a hint.
if someone cannot speak for themselves your job is not to swoop in and speak for them. your job is to help them find a way to speak and be heard.
THISSSSSS X10000000000000000000000000000000
I want to think about how this relates to why people go into animal rights/animal liberation work, especially when the same people have been poor allies...
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Black feminism, black militarism, black genders
There are a lot of questions I’ve been asking myself lately about black feminism and anger, about militarism and where black nationalism comes from, how black masculinity and black feminism can be understood through related frameworks. The reading list I’m assigning myself for the next little while is:
The Sea Birds are Still Alive, Toni Cade Bambara
Tales of the Out & the Gone,...
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usesforroots replied to your post: Black gender & black feminism
Patricia Hill Collins is my new go-to woman! It means so much (to me and so many other WOC) that you are adding to the growing womanist of color canon. Also, your blog title has become a mantra for me. “Read ‘n’ Fight! Read ‘n’ Fight!” Thanks.
Yay, thank you! Yeah, I love Patricia Hill Collins, part just because I don’t...
Bats vs. cops
A bat got into our living room somehow and swooped around over our heads. I opened the door to the stairwell and it flew out, so now it’s trapped in the stairs. I texted our landlord downstairs to warn her, but our other downstairs neighbors are missionaries and don’t have an easy way for me to tell them without having to go into the stairwell, like they aren’t allowed to use the...
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On Non-Blacks being Black Feminists
leonineantiheroine:
excentricyoruba:
leonineantiheroine:
femmenoire:
leonineantiheroine:
liquornspice:
poemsofthedead:
pssincerelyadventure:
See here…..
My mostly white women and gender studies class, after reading the Combahee River Collective, wanted to know if they could be Black Feminists because they cared about all those issues and wanted to end oppression and liberate women...
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navigatethestream replied to your post: Black gender & black feminism
*snaps* i think you and i went to the same panel about perceptions of masculinity and femininity in the black community? maybe? maybe maybe? if so then i definitely know what you are talking about and that talk was a mild shit show in so many words
Yup! My kiddos didn’t want to go to a panel with...
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Black gender & black feminism
This past weekend, Black Students at Yale held their annual Black Solidarity Conference. A coworker of mine (the other young black woman on staff) got funding from the school for us to take a few students. The day we spent at the conference was exciting and disappointing—the shallowness of a lot of analysis around me was disappointing, as was the immense middle-classness imposed on everyone there...
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7 worst international aid ideas →
obruniradio:
lysscglobal:
Maybe their hearts were in the right place. Maybe not. Either way, these are solid contenders for the title of “worst attempts at helping others since colonialism.”
1. One million t-shirts for Africa
2. TOMS Buy-One-Give-One
…dumping shoes in places where people might otherwise be employed to make them.
3. Machine gun preacher
Problems with Sam Childers, the...
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Dolphins are 'people' say scientists →
vegtablez:
therhapsodyincidents:
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therhapsodyincidents:
vegtablez:
thegoddamazon:
ethiopienne:
Dolphins deserve to be treated as non-human “persons” whose rights to life and liberty should be respected, scientists meeting in Canada have been told.
A small group of experts in philosophy, conservation and dolphin behaviour were canvassing support for a “Declaration of...
troubledsigh replied to your link: Gael García-Bernal Feminista
oh yah, this blog is great but doesn’t update often enough.
Just knowing that it exists means that it’s now updating constantly IN MY MIND.
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Anonymous asked: What do you have against Natalie Portman?
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Gael García-Bernal Feminista →
So, this exists. firesandwords just told me. No hetero, but this shit is dreamy. (I’ve never given a fuck about some Ryan Gosling.)
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Jorge Rivas at Colorlines: L.A. County: Sorry for... →
nezua:
On Tuesday, the L.A. County Board of Supervisors formally apologized for deporting “tens of thousands of Mexicans and Mexican Americans living in L.A. County” during the Depression because they were supposedly taking jobs from white U.S. born citizens.
MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) was recognized in Tuesday’s agenda for “their efforts to pursue a formal...
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Max Roach — “The Drum Also Waltzes”
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colored queer waters: the headscarf will fool you:... →
navigatethestream:
usually not being coded as a queer person doesn’t phase me. i present as a femme heterosexual muslim woman, before that a natural hair femme, and im perfectly aware how in a lot of peoples minds that knocks me out the running for being gayest from the block. yet i’ve never been coded as not-queer…
I had similar experiences at the same conference which I am still...
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Stupidest thing I've whined about in a while
I’m about to go out to get a cup of coffee and something to eat. I wanna keep my money in the hood, but I also want wi-fi. There is almost no overlap.
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janedoe225:
NY DAILY NEWS: “A lawmaker has sent a letter to fellow Republican members of the Indiana House saying he will not support a resolution celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Girl Scouts because he believes it is a ‘radicalized organization’ that supports abortion and promotes homosexuality. In a letter obtained by The Journal-Gazette of Fort Wayne on Monday, Rep....
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navigatethestream asked: i definitely dream up foods and then think of ways to bring them to life…but usually its pizza.but since its cold as hell outside i’ve been dreaming of soups and things loaded with vegetables, non-dairy creamer, and other yummy thingsi think this is a sign that i need to come visit you bearing vegan goodies!
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and since we're on the subject of white brits...
so-treu:
unaguerrasinfondo:
so-treu:
when i was at the Stax Museum they had footage of Otis Redding performing in England, and i was looking at his energy, which was just, even beyonce will all her million dollar lights can’t touch this potent shit, and i don’t know that much about the development of punk music in the UK BUT i have a hard time believing that something like punk would have...
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How the FBI Invents Terrorists Like the U.S.... →
shortformblog:
Even the authorities admit the alleged suicide bomber apprehended near the U.S. Capitol posed no threat. Mansfield Frazier on how the feds create ‘terrorists’ so they can arrest them:
If federal authorities thought Amine El Khalifi was a clear and present danger to America, they could have easily solved the problem by deporting the 29-year-old Moroccan, who had been living as...
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“My political obligations? I am a Black woman … in world that defines human as...”
– Audre Lorde (via restoried)
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navigatethestream asked: when we have both regrouped and gotten ourselves back to normal, we should debrief about our conference experiences!!
fuck ptsd
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Dear White Women,
zorascreation:
Many Women of Color have called you out on your whitewashing of their issues in relation to racial injustice and how it affects things central to women’s experiences across the planet. Many of you have learned from these experiences about how to navigate your White Privilege while still being a disenfranchised gender-group. However, I don’t think much attention has been payed...
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School Occupation!
wonderfab:
Occupation of Piccolo School! They need more people there ASAP! 1040 N keeler chicago!
Who’s in Chicago? Pass it on! A little background here.
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ohdeargodwhy asked: i feel like whatever i say will be used against me but i am interested in having this discussion with you so here goes. you reblogged my feminist posters and thought i was saying “well, there are no black feminists who are famous/relevant to everyone so, what can ya do?!”’ - i am not saying that. i know very well there are many celebrity black feminists and that is why...
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Yet another awesome thing my students have shown...
The Rich Person Face. That’s the face you make when you’re around snobby white people and you want to be overly polite to them as a joke, and then smile back at them with the same crinkly snobby phony smile that they’re giving you. That’s the best I can describe it. There’s a chuckle that goes along with it.
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afrolez:
“ONE NIGHT ONLY!!! February 24, 2012: Black Women’s BluePrint Presents: Mother Tongue Narratives: Monologues for Black Girls and Stolen Women Reclaiming Our Bodies, Our Selves, Our Lives. http://bit.ly/zQqhJF Featuring Special Presentation: Chrisette Michele Original narratives and performances by Aishah Shahidah Simmons, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Benita Rivera, Claudia Walters, Dominic...
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navigatethestream asked: Omg you're going to be at the black solidarity conference too!!! we should look out for each other!!
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sakj asked: i was wondering how did you make a mind map on the computer? the mind map was a brainstorm for a new zine or something. did you use a specific program?
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en serio
so-treu:
baddominicana:
unaguerrasinfondo:
douglasmartini:
unaguerrasinfondo:
white punks kids wanna live in black and brown neighborhoods for the cheap rent and then they get on facebook and complain about black folks wearing leather jackets with a patch on it - because ‘they are stealing our culture’. aint that some shit?
…from reading this shit you’d almost think that someone...
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unaguerrasinfondo:
back in the early 1900s american scholars said that the inclination of Puerto Ricans to socialize outdoors was proof of their cultural backwardness.
I’M SERIOUS.
Right around when I moved out to Connecticut, the city of Danbury CT passed an ordinance against backyard volleyball games, because there were Ecuadorian immigrants getting together on weekends to play really big...
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Deciding not to watch Chris Brown on the Grammys...
A boycott is a coordinated, mass campaign. There is generally some sacrifice involved, and generally an effort to make up for what it being sacrificed.
THIS is a boycott:
On the night of December 5, 1955, elated at the day’s success in emptying the buses, boycotters assemble at the Holt Street Baptist Church and vote to keep the protest going. A main speaker is a new minister in town,...
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Annoying white feminists.
undercoverterrorist:
There’s a really biased, one sided article floating around Facebook about a bunch of white feminists who are “uncomfortable” with Chris Brown performing at the Grammys, and the comments are full of other white feminists patting each other on the back.
You know, Taylor Swift and Katy Perry will also be at the Grammys and they write blatantly misogynistic music. Eminem has...
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blacuadorian replied to your post: Today I launched a tutoring project at school that…
oo wanna share more about this tutoring project?
Sure! (I don’t know why I was so sparse with the details before, sometimes I get paranoid about saying too much about my students but I don’t think talking about our tutoring project is identifying information, really.)
I was asked to start a...