January 2012
100 posts
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2011: A Year in Crunkness →
It’s that time of year again. Another year has come to a close, so it must be time for our second annual Crunk List! CFs offer up the books, blogs, films, etc. that get us crunk…
December 2011
87 posts
Prosecutors push to use forced statement in... →
Minneapolis, MN - Chrishaun “CeCe” McDonald appeared in court, Dec. 5, for the first evidentiary hearing for the charges she is facing after being the target of a racist attack in June of this year. Prosecutors argued that a statement police extracted from McDonald under adverse conditions after her arrest should be admitted at trial, while McDonald’s attorney argued that the police denied...
No, I'm Not Your Kind, Dear: North Carolina!! AN... →
blackamazon:
She needs “a bedroom for me and my stuff and my cat, some pain meds, and a line on a job.” She’s getting kicked out of her place by the first of the month, but she’s a real established organizer, a genius trans woman of color former graphic designer and in need of community…
No, I'm Not Your Kind, Dear: North Carolina!! AN... →
blackamazon:
She needs “a bedroom for me and my stuff and my cat, some pain meds, and a line on a job.” She’s getting kicked out of her place by the first of the month, but she’s a real established organizer, a genius trans woman of color former graphic designer and in need of community…
REBLOG:... i saw Pariah. →
heysoapie:
tionam:
Reblogging this from when i had the chance to see Pariah at the New Director/New Films fest at the Lincoln Center earlier this year in March. please support this film if it happens to be playing in your city or a city near you!!!
TAKE ACTION!
Here’s what YOU can do:
1) BUY movie tickets opening week! Bring your friends & family to watch PARIAH or buy tickets for...
Ableism in Glee: “I will try to fix you” is not...
queerdanceparty:
Trigger Warning: ableism, abuse, rape culture.
I wrote this article because a recent episode of Glee included terrible messages about how people with mental health conditions exist within their relationships, especially romantic relationships. This is a topic that’s really close to my persynal experience, so I felt I needed to write about it to prevent my head from exploding.
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Can everyone just repeat after me? →
theraptorwhomurderedlove:
I do not have the right to put my hands on other people without their permission. I do not have the right to turn into an angry jackass with those people when they tell me that they are uncomfortable with me touching them. I do not have the right to continue touching them after they have told me that they are uncomfortable with it.
And can we all just keep repeating...
Umoja means Unity! →
Today is the first day of Kwanzaa and I am having a few friends and family over to celebrate Umoja, which means UNITY. I was first introduced to Kwanzaa as a child when my mother volunteered me…
leonine antiheroine: The Kyle and Jackie "oh fuck... →
januarydaze:
Sign the petition pressuring companies to withdraw their advertising revenue from the Kyle and Jackie O show! http://www.change.org/petitions/2day-and-fox-fm-sponsors-cancel-advertising-until-kyle-sandilands-is-dumped-from-radio-vilekyle Their show featured a segment…
“Science is not “neutral,” nor is it purely beholden to positivism. People do...”
– More Race Science: They Lock Up Those “Crazy” Negro Agitators and Call Them “Schizophrenic,” regarding Jonathan Metzl’s The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease (via thetart)
this is my father’s story
(via guerrillamamamedicine)
STUDY: More Than Half Of Black Girls Are Sexually... →
so-treu:
Sixty percent of black girls have experienced sexual abuse at the hands of black men before reaching the age of 18, according to an ongoing study conducted by Black Women’s Blueprint.
More than 300 black women nationwide participated in the study and 700 more are being sought to take in the survey by March 2012.
Farah Tanis, Co-Founder of the New York-based organization and ...
Let's Go OUT to the Movies...& see Pariah!
The film Pariah is a queer coming of age story with a Black girl protagonist. nuff said.
If you need to know more, its beautifully shot and it’s got some of the best performances I’ve seen in a film in a long time! I’d love to help organize a nationwide OUT at the Movies to make sure the film does well on it’s opening weekend! If you live in LA/NYC/SF the film comes out 12/28! Those of you...
Occupy Big Food: How the Food Movement is... →
"Queers of Color Manifesto" →
queerisaverb:
“Clearly the roots of racism and heterosexism are not independent, but rather intimately connected.” -Queers of Color Manifesto, posted by Challie
20 Things People With A Positive Body Image Know →
kimosabe:
WE SHOULD REMEMBER THIS MORE OFTEN:
approachingsignificance:
That it’s important to take good care of your body.
That our body does a lot for us, even though we’ve bashed it over and over and over.
That exercise is meant to be enjoyed, so you only practice the physical activities that are fun and truly make you feel good.
That you’ll still have days where you probably hate your...
sanfo asked: The Sophia Stewart Matrix Lawsuit story isn't quite correct- google that term plus Snopes. She won the ability to proceed with her case, though she hasn't done anything yet.
Teaching White Boys to Dance and Other Solutions... →
This morning, while reading Kate Weigand’s 2001 book Red Feminism in preparation for a book I’m writing, I ran across a fascinating story in her chapter on Black women’s participation in the…
Meet the Real Author of the Matrix! →
stfusexists:
goandgetyours:
an named Sophia Stewart, Black Author wins The Matrix Copyright Infringement Case. A story that restores faith. More power to Sophia!
This little known story has met a just conclusion, as Sophia Stewart, African American author of The Matrix will finally receive her just due from the copyright infringement of her original work!!!
A six-year dispute has ended...
Your Weekend Lover: My research paper is better... →
jmthesoftshock:
For my Feminist Theory and Contemporary Theater class I was originally going to write about how a woman with agency is portrayed in the media and on stage.
Borrrr-ing.
I asked my professor if I could change it. So guess who’s writing about Awkward Black Girl and the absence of relatable black…
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To hell with this, I'm shipping J and CeCe
brandos:
“The mainstream media is ripe with oversexualized images of women of color, and...”
– Samhita Mukhopadhyay’s Outdated: Why Dating Is Ruining Your Love Life (via Racialicious)
Why the ‘Native’ Fashion Trend Is Pissing Off Real... →
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Is It Ever Okay to Tell a Sister to Go Kick... →
This week I met a Black girl who doesn’t want to be my friend. Well, let me take that back. We didn’t meet this week. We met a couple of months ago, both of us newcomers to the…
no worries: Congratulations America, We're Fucked →
hollow-gram:
This bill, passed late last night in a 93-7 vote, declares the entire USA to be a ”battleground” upon which U.S. military forces can operate with impunity, overriding Posse Comitatus and granting the military the unchecked power to arrest, detain, interrogate and even…
assumptions, assumptions... →
brennando:
If someone tells you that they’re trans*, all you know about them at that point is that they are trans*. You cannot assume or magically ‘know’ how they feel about their body, whether or not they want surgeries and/or hormones, or anything else.
Every trans* person’s journey and experiences are very unique — the trans* community is very diverse (just as any other community is)....
