February 2012
17 posts
10 Ways to Love Others →
terramantra:
Some guidelines for loving:
1. Tell them about their brilliance. They likely can’t see it and they don’t know its immensity, but you can see it, and you can illuminate it for them.
2. Be authentic, and give others the gift of the real you and a real relationship. Ask your real questions. Share your real beliefs. Go for your real dreams. Tell your truth.
3. Don’t confuse...
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Trans Sexuality - A Safe Sex Zine →
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tobitastic:
Safe sex information is almost universally designed for non-trans (and straight) folks, and then that information is given to us when and where it applies. However, there is a lot of information that is unique to trans people and trans bodies that never gets included. This zine answers the question, what would sex ed look like if it was designed specifically for trans...
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Black people serve 60% longer sentences than... →
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leftcollection:
“A new study by M. Marit Rehavi of the University of British Columbia and Sonja B. Starr of the University of Michigan Law School shows that Black Americans receive almost 60% long prison sentences than white Americans who committed the same crime.
The study covered 58,000 federal criminal cases and found that there was a significant difference between the...
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Rabble: Why women have second trimester abortions →
fuckyeahfeminists:
Breaking stereotypes re: abortion and showing why it is important to protect this reproductive health right.
Despite those thumb-sucking fetuses you see waved around protests, nearly 90 percent of abortions occur in the first 12 weeks of a pregnancy. It’s easy for even nominally pro-choice people to judge or shudder at the smaller number of abortions that happen beyond that...
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“The force that allows white feminist authors to make no reference to racial...”
– bell hooks, Ain’t I A Woman, pg 138 (via butcheredmentality)
another quote that I needed to find to put in my essay - tumblr has the shittiest search feature known to existence. just saying.
(via newwavefeminism)
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January 2012
1 post
“People cry at weddings for the same reason they cry at happy endings: because...”
– Margaret Atwood (via thenovelapproach)
December 2011
2 posts
“Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am — a reluctant enthusiast… a part-time...”
– Edward Abbey
American environmentalist, anarchist, writer. (via cultureofresistance)
November 2011
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Heather Ann Thompson, “Why Mass Incarceration... →
By the close of the twentieth century the United States had incarcerated more people than any other country in the world, and the nation’s social, economic, and political institutions had become inexorably intertwined with the practice of punishment. Historians, however, have not yet considered what impact the rise of a massive carceral state might have had on the evolution of the later postwar...
Private Prison Charges Inmates $5 A Minute For... →
fearandwar:
Last year the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation’s largest private prison company, received $74 million of taxpayers’ money to run immigration detention centers. Their largest facility in Lumpkin, Georgia, receives $200 a night for each of the 2,000 detainees it holds, and rakes in yearly profits between $35 million and $50 million.
Prisoners held in this remote...
“The real damage is done by those millions who want to ‘survive.’ The honest men...”
– Sophie Scholl (1921-1943). Anti-nazi activist, and one of the members of Die Weisse Rose (The White Rose).
(via landofwrongness)
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“To return to love, to get the love we always wanted but never had, to have the...”
– bell hooks in all about love (via restoried)
i’m reading this book and it’s taking a long time because it keeps making my heart and head explode. i picked it up thinking it was about incorporating love in to political action; it’s more of a reflection on how we live in...
ultramaricon:
Today I said something like “racism is a structure in which we all live, and we can either acknowledge it and grapple honestly with its machinations, or we can be racist,” and then I dismissed the class.
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You know what? Sometimes, consent is NOT sexy....
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The Sex Diaries of John Maynard Keynes →
Keynes was never a closeted homosexual, although his colleagues at Bretton Woods in 1945 didn’t always realise it, perhaps because at those conferences he was accompanied by the Russian ballerina Lydia Lopokova, his wife of twenty years. By then he was the eminent economist and statesman, and possibly no longer on the prowl.
In earlier days, though, from 1901 to 1915 when he was mostly a...
Martha's Vineyard Sign Language - Wikipedia, the... →
Martha’s Vineyard Sign Language (MVSL) is a sign language once widely used on the island of Martha’s Vineyard off the coast of Massachusetts, U.S., from the early 18th century to the year 1952. It was remarkable for its use by both deaf and hearing people in the community; consequently, deafness did not become a barrier to participation in public life. Martha’s Vineyard Sign Language is also...
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2 police turn in their badges yesterday after...
occupyallstreets:
#occupydenver confirmed report: one police officer with tears in eyes said “I can’t do this anymore” and walked away from line standoff.
Love and compassion for these folks. And love and compassion for the cops who haven’t waked away, too. The fucked up thing about cops is what they’re ordered to do and that we ask them to do it.
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“The most well-funded organizations in the gay and lesbian movement do not...”
– Dean Spade: Compliance is Gendered (via delisubthefemmecub)
October 2011
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