February 2012
90 posts
on physically punishing your children →
crustyriotqueer:
tw: domestic violence
nezua:
being hit as a child teaches you many things, i’d guess. mostly, it teaches you that might makes right. and as a child, you will have no argument against that. and so it is likely that you will learn it well.
being hit as a child may teach other things. but below and beyond intellect and language, it teaches you rage. because as a child, in...
African-American Boys Receive Less Attention,... →
socialworky:
“A recent study by the Yale University Child Study Center shows that Black children — especially boys — no matter their family income, receive less attention, harsher punishment and lower marks in school than their White counterparts from kindergarten all the way through college. A subsequent article published in “The Washington Post” reported that Black children in the...
“Ramarley Graham, 18, was shot and killed by a NYPD officer in the Bronx on...”
– NYPD Officers Shoot and Kill Three Black Men in One Week
(via burritofriend)
crepusculars:
harkavy replied to your post: harkavy replied to your photo: aaaand here is a…
ugh i wish
i bought this book for myself
Watchcalloutqueen:
likeninepins:
calloutqueen:
I really like that one fight on Jersey Shore like season 1 when Sammy is crying and taking her hair extensions out while Ronnie is naked in a towel
YES, PERFECT. there’s something so ridiculously interesting to me about how the very specific brand of gender performance on jersey shore interacts with their loose cannon lifestyle. like, they always...
In The Family: The Queer Rolodex →
tothedirigible:
etiquette-etc:
About a month ago, one of my closest friends had a pretty major health scare. Being the good West Coast queer I am, one of the first things I did was call a friend and ask her to whip up a batch of her herbal Trauma Tea to tamper the side effects of his medication and make him laugh at how woo I’d become. She literally lives across the street but I rarely see...
“It is the height of irony that women are valued for our looks, encouraged to...”
– Greta Christina (via feminishblog)
“If you’re trapped in the dream of the other, you’re fucked.”
– - Gilles Deleuze (via tasnuva)
is this real.
Watchgimmetinnitus:
here’s the @bandcamp album stream of the pay-what-you-want comp The Epoch Is Now; find out more about The Epoch @ http://theepochisnow.com/ + cover art by Richard Gin; there’s more Richard Gin @ http://www.richardgin.org + http://www.flickr.com/photos/richardgin/
yaaaaay!
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a lil sumthin'
Facing East, or Facing Inside? A Critique of Reconstructionist Historiography
Daniel K. Richter opens his book, Facing East from Indian Country, with the following quotation: “‘History,’ said Beard’s contemporary Carl Becker, ‘is an imaginative creation.’”[1] It is upon this premise that Richter launches the reader into a narrative that combines primary sources and historical fact with keenly...
feelin so salty
when you realize that part of your attraction to humans is informed by normative models of masculinity :(
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The Epoch Is Now!
Dear Everyone,
Please go check out The Epoch immediately. You will not regret it and I will be grateful forever. Why? Because the epoch is an art collective made up of my friends in new york and chicago! we just released our first compilation and it is so so rad! please listen and read! ♥
Zine to be coming shortly….
Love love love
s.
Ghetto Hikes →
newwavefeminism:
@deepinsweetwater just sent me a message telling me about this blog, with a twitter account that has over 300,000 followers. Whats the blog about? here’s a description
I’m 28. I have a full time job leading urban kids on nature hikes. I simply write down shit they say.
I feel the same way about this blog as I did about that “texts from bennett” nonsense. America gets its...
In case you thought I was cool or something
kalemason:
This is what I have been doing with a good chunk of my Friday night
writin’ cover letters
Since when is ovulating the worst part of owning a uterus? Fuck y’all eggs
leafwrit:
benefits of tracking #edith piaf
ancestryinprogress:
Why capitalism needs racism
The capitalist social pyramid is black at the base and white at the top. In South Africa, until apartheid was formally abolished in 1994, this pyramid was legally sanctioned. Elsewhere, while slavery and segregation have been outlawed, the richest people are still the whitest and the poorest are the blackest.
Racism suits capitalism because it’s...
“I think I’ve all but given up on trying to organize around something so annoying...”
– CALLOUTQUEEN (via mmmajestic)
“Proposition 8 serves no purpose, and has no effect, other than to lessen the...”
– Judge Stephen Reinhardt, in a federal appellate court’s majority opinion overturning the notorious California anti-gay marriage law. (via motherjones)
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
miseengarde:
white girls who want my culture’s bindis and saris and henna
take my skin colour too
and my dark brown lips
take my self-hatred because i don’t fit into the euro-centric ideals of beauty
take the oppression too
take the history of colonization that has devastated my country
and the drones that currently devastate my country
take all the bad stuff too
not just the pretty,...
calloutqueen:
Aren’t simple desires dead yet? Are we still so obsessed with the hegemonic body? Why do scenes from 20 years ago or even 40 years ago playout just like scenes from 20 minutes ago? Why are we all so stuck talking about fagsex and leather and bodyhair and sweat like it’s a revolution? Why are things like pleasure and bodyfluid still so predominant in discussions about ecstasy and...
“Westerners are fond of the saying ‘Life isn’t fair.’ Then, they end in snide...”
– Barbara Alice Mann, Iroquois woman (via cultureofresistance)
How many fucking times did I/we hear this as a child?
(via shannonnagig)
