January 2012
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feminist historian: Why we do not need a white... →
feministhistorian:
White folks shut the fuck up and listen. We don’t have a white history month because our history is fucking glorified in society. Flip open a US history text books and you will find a white person to glorify. There is a really good fucking chance that white person will also be a white man. Which…
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the life and times of jannat m.: daniellemertina:... →
daniellemertina:
FYI,
not wanting to emphasize race, wanting to be color blind, not wanting to focus on racism in movements (like OWS and feminism for example), saying we all bleed red, or nobody’s life is perfect and we’re all oppressed, and etc.
is racism. It is trying to circumvent dealing with racism. It is trying to deny that racism impacts people’s lives in real ways. It is racist.
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STFU, Conservatives: When I didn't cry. Re Jane... →
eshusplayground:
nudiemuse:
I’m not including the video find it yourself.
I’m only going to say this once to every single person trying to focus on the weeping White children and whatnot.
Fuck you and fuck your tears.
I do not give a tin shit if someone watches that, or…
“In a development typical of Arizona, the students who walked out on Thursday,...”
– Roberto Cintli Rodriguez, Arizona’s ‘banned’ Mexican American books
This is what racism looks like.
(via mohandasgandhi)
new reedie followers!
bloodyguttedpoetry:
changedaround:
lady-pilot:
It’s weird when real life people follow me without me knowing who you are. Introduce yourselves!
ditto! especially if yours is sneakly anonymous! (well, i’m not that weirded out (lulz, it’s the internet, that’s the risk i take)…but i am infinitely curious!)
Yes to all of these things. & you know, I’d probably be super stoked to meet...
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in fifteen minutes
i’ll be sitting in my first class of the last semester of college. hahaha what the actual fuck?
#askafeminist So I'm wondering, will a black woman... →
blackamazon:
karnythia:
sourcedumal:
eshusplayground:
sourcedumal:
Because I’ve had plenty of scenarios happen to me where I wanted to cry, and nobody batted a fucking eye.
Like freshman year when I was the only black person on my floor, and somebody wrote NIGGER on…
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riddle me this, reed college
“After being subjected to this for awhile, we realize that there is no freedom in Foucault’s world, because his language forms a seamless web, a cage far more airtight than anything Weber ever dreamed of, into which no life can break. The mystery is why so many of today’s intellectuals seem to want to choke in there with him.”-Marshall Berman
“It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache...”
– Oriah Mountain Dreamer (via troubled) 