February 2012
16 posts
Just A Quick Note to Atheists (From an Atheist)
humainsvolants:
youneedacat:
Sometimes you gamble and lose: Just A Quick Note to Atheists (From an Atheist)
alexandraerin:
moniquill:
thefullmetalbitch:
Being an atheist does not erase privilege. This includes white privilege.
This also includes cis privilege, CNDP privilege, and het privilege.
Seriously, being an atheist does not erase your white privilege.
Criticizing...
“In building his case, Singer makes many assertions that he does not support,...”
– Fact Sheet on Peter Singer (via disabilityrightsstuff)
Thank you for writing this! (cpmatters)
Thought of the day: when does bigotry occur? →
Part of a much longer post from skeptifem: skeptifem goes to LDS church(emphasis added)
If you ask someone if they are racist, sexist, or homophobic, they aren’t going to say that they are. No one likes to think they are doing something shitty. If we use the intentions and feelings of privileged people to determine when bigotry occurs, you will find that no one is bigoted by that...
IF YOU ARE A WOMAN, the LGBT COMMUNITES OR NATIVE... →
On February 15th, 2012 BiUK - in collaboration... →
Found on G+. My comments there:
Good report, but The Bisexual Index site is an excellent resource in general, from what I have seen. Glad they also looked at some intersectional concerns, including race/ethnicity, gender, and disability. Very, very, very relevant, yes. I identify as multi (not bi) these days, but am also glad they are being less binary all around with their own working...
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QOTD: Empathy and projection « Urocyon's... →
January 2012
33 posts
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Pain, PTSD, looking “crazy”, and human rights «... →
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BBC News - PM accuses Argentina of 'colonialism'... →
*boggle*
President Christina Fernandez de Kirchner has demanded renewed talks about the future of the islands - which Argentina calls Las Malvinas.
But Mr Cameron told MPs they would stay British for as long as the islanders wanted, and Argentina’s demands for that to change were “like colonialism”.
And our local MP just had to chime in:
During prime minister’s...
milkeemountainmama:
and you know…the reason I bleat on and on and on about love being more powerful than hate and loving ourselves enough to make change and love love love love—it’s not because i’m some sort of starry eyed dreamer (weeeell, i am sorta)—but because FUCK—how radical is the act of self-love *when the world wants you dead*? when the world sees no value in your existence? when you...
josh sisk photo: Schools Not Jails protest -... →
tranqualizer:
joshsisk:
Yesterday I went out to take photos at the Schools Not Jails protest. A large group of people rallied at Central Booking, where several speakers…
Save our youth? More like destroy the system that criminalizes them from the day they enter the education system. But word.
Here in NC (and I’m sure it is the case in many other states), the number of jail...
Please sign this petition, this is really fucked...
stfuconfederates:
appletumbling:
When Sandra Baker was called to pick up her 9-year-old autistic son, Chris, from his Mercer County, Kentucky school, she was stunned by what she found: She says that Chris’s teacher had stuffed him in a bag and left him in the hallway as punishment.
“When I walked in,” Sandra told CBS News, “I went down his hallway, and I saw this big green bag laying in the...
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URGENT UPDATE re: Al Okere [under threat of...
numol:
from an email from dreamactivist.org.
NOTE: the link below does not work for me, but i think it might be a shortened link to the petition [so this would be the link to pass around]: http://www.change.org/petitions/ice-dreamer-al-okere-will-be-killed-if-deported-to-nigeria
Thank you for your support, tomorrow Al will need to deliver his travel documents to ICE. His deportation could...
US Army Stop-Loss Policy is Unlawful Imprisonment... →
I hadn’t seen this one yet. Lovely. :-|
He then wrote a rap tune protesting the policy. Lo, all hell breaks loose. Seems the US Army — finely tuned killing machine that it is — was reduced to a quivering jelly by lyrics such as:
I got a … magazine with 30 rounds/on a three-round burst ready to fire down/Still against the wall, I grab my M-4spray and watch all the bodies hit the floor/I...
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How to set up your Wordpress.com website to... →
Edit: Since I wrote this, WordPress.com has added a setting to everyone’s Dashboard that’ll let us do all this automatically. Skip to the last section of this article for details. I’ll be using the official WordPress method, but people can still use this page’s instructions if they want to customize anything in the ribbon or the blackout page.
Considering the “IndiVisible” History of African... →
I wouldn’t mind seeing this, if it were going to be anywhere close. (Though what I’d really like is to make a couple of my older relatives go. The whole divide and conquer thing has worked a little too well, perhaps especially among people who do not want to think about the history of intermarriage in their own families.)
African Americans and American Indians can both tell tales...
Tiger Beatdown › In Defense of the Sacred Fetus:... →
Meanwhile, pharmacists can refuse to dispense medications because doing so would violate their beliefs, claiming a “conscience clause.” Care providers can refuse to participate in abortion services (including treatment for miscarriages) under the same “conscience clause” protection. But people who feel subjecting a patient to an invasive and cruel proceeding can’t refuse because it violates...
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Sometimes I do get really, really frustrated trying to communicate. Even in writing.
That is all.
Singular They Reading List
ivancoyote:
The singular “they:” Selected readings
Canberra Society of Editors (2000). A singular use of they. Retrieved from http://www.editorscanberra.org/a-singular-use-of-they/
Department of Justice Canada (2011). Singular “they.” Retrieved from http://www.justice.gc.ca/fra/min-dept/pub/legis/n41.html
GLAAD (2010). GLAAD’s media reference guide: Transgender glossary of terms. Retrieved from...
We are not "NDN'S"
digatisdi:
moniquill:
rebeccaherondale:
This literally makes me angry. The fact that Christopher Columbus’s misnomer “indian” has stayed with us all these years is irritating enough, but to call yourself an NDN? That’s ridiculous. It’s already an inaccurate nickname, but calling yourself a three letter abbreviation just seems all the more degrading to me.
Come on people. I am NATIVE...
The Help-Kiri-Pay-Her-Bills Fund →
kiriamaya:
kiriamaya:
I am broke. You can help me not be broke, if you wish. My deepest gratitude to all who do. <3
I’m expecting both my tax refund and my financial aid sometime around the beginning of next month. In the meantime, though… yeah. :/
s.e. smith at this ain't livin': Beyond the... →
kiriamaya:
Is gender something people need to get? Is it something that can be quantified and assigned values and easily described? Cis people struggle to grasp what it means to be trans—not just nonbinary, but trans in general—and I’m not sure they really need to. The question for me isn’t whether people ‘understand’ gender, but whether they can be respectful about it, whether they can...
We'll be short on food money for a while - Leila's... →
onlytowardschaos:
bebinn:
My son is 11 months old with a serious birth defect. He’s been in and out of intensive care for his whole life and has three or four doctor’s appointments every month. After he was born, I had to drop out of college and I lost my job because of all the appointments. My son’s medical care is covered by Medicaid, but it won’t cover my abortion.
How can I...
Transplantation and [Intellectual Disability]:... →
disabilityrightsstuff:
This seems to be a good counter to the anti-transplant arguments that have cropped up in reblogs of my previous post. (I mean, beyond the fact that relatives have offered to donate. Which indicates that people are not even reading the full article, but reacting in a knee-jerk fashion to oppose the girls’ kidney transplant. That says a lot, in my opinion.)
PDF format. The...
These hoes made me mad though.
yellow-eyeballs:
[TW: racism, classism, and ableism in comment screencaps.]
wholeandfree:
So I’m on twitter (like I am everyday), when I see someone tweet about this massive brawl, downtown in Rochester (where I’m from). According to police statements, the fight included upwards of 200 people - mostly students.
My interest is piqued, so I log on to the local newspaper website to read more....
Hey all. My friend Jose is going to be deported...
scar-lip:
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
peoplearesexy:
cuntymint:
He was rounded up by those nazi fucks yesterday at a train stop going to Los Angeles on Amtrak.
Could you all please please please sign and reblog this?
If you get five or more people to sign it, I’ll give you head.
Thanks y’all.
don’t skim over this, this is important.
HELP PLEASE FUCKING HELP
I can’t figure out how to...
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Beyond Scared Straight.
thecurvature:
liquornspice:
tabbythegreat:
I watch this show on A&E.
I hate how on EVERY episode they use the threat of sexual violence as a way to keep these kids out of jail.
Be it a boy or girl…they tell them how they will be somebody’s “bitch” in prison.
I understand they want the kids to get their lives together…
I just think about how sexual violence is such a reality for...
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Awesome post explaining why anti-autistic rights... →
codeman38:
[Seriously, go read it. It’s excellent, and touches on so many myths about autism that have been irritating me. —codeman38]
December 2011
24 posts
