February 2012
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anthrodynia
dictionaryofobscuresorrows: n. a state of exhaustion with how shitty people can be to each other, typically causing a countervailing sense of affection for all things that are sincere but not judgmental, are unabashedly joyful, or just are. GPOY
Feb 25th
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To people who think they are "transethnic":
readnfight: mry: golden-zephyr: atoraya: readnfight: If you exist outside of the internet, please come take a stroll through my hood and tell people about it. Double dog dare ya. The latest in Shit You Can Get Away With When All Your Friends Are White. Transethnic is a term I learned yesterday. I was completely confused and not just a little horrified. Yes take a little a walk through...
Feb 25th
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WatchWatch
bryankonietzko: Coming soon! REALLY! korranation: Sneak peek at the first on-air trailer for The Last Airbender: Legend of Korra! 2/24/2012 I AM SO EXCITED I CANNOT WAIT MAKE GO NOW PLS BRYAN
Feb 25th
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Feb 25th
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What is cultural appropriation « The Long Way Home →
O hai! I finally finished writing this! After starting it more than two years ago {facepalm}. There is more to come that I’ve worked on & researched. Hopefully responses to this won’t be so faily that I’m unmotivated to finish the rest. Excerpt: There are a number of issues around cultural appropriation which I see continuously bog down discussion. I think they revolve...
Feb 25th
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Feb 25th
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Cultural Appropriation: Dreadlocks
racismschool: ardhra: “Dreadlocks originated first with Jamaican Rastafarians and then in Indian Sages and Yogis.” This is why white people should stop talking. Three seconds on Google, and you’re a fucking expert. EDIT: Okay, I think I previously saw that racismschool is white on their blog, and didn’t see the FAQ where they explain their b/g. So, my apologies. That opening sentence is...
Feb 25th
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Cultural Appropriation: Dreadlocks
dumbthingswhitepplsay: curiouslycool: racismschool: Are Dreadlocks really cultural appropriation? YES Here’s why: Dreadlocks originated first with Jamaican Rastafarians and then in Indian Sages and Yogis. Specifically it was started by holy men. These men renounced all of their worldly belongings (Including combs) and as a result their hair started (and remained) to turn into dreadlocks....
Feb 24th
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“Why is it accepted that some people who eat a ton of food can stay thin, but not...”
– Some Things I Don’t Understand « Dances With Fat (via jerseyjezebel)
Feb 22nd
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Feb 22nd
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Feb 22nd
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“TRANSNATIONAL DESI PRIDE “There is an unexploded land mine heart in us under...”
– Tassja: http://irresistable-revolution.blogspot.com/2011/08/desi-pride.html (via anuraglahiri) I want to read this loud and clear in front of everyone. (via mehreenkasana) I think I’m too bitter to really appreciate this. I don’t get this from Desis anywhere.
Feb 22nd
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Things I Hate, part one of infinity
everythingbutharleyquinn: Non-sex workers talking about sex work. (The exception being ardhra) Aw, thanks for the vote of confidence, but I try not to talk about sex work, actually! Unless it’s in a context where I know what I’m saying is well-substantiated.
Feb 22nd
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Trans Sexuality - A Safe Sex Zine →
boybitch: 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...
Feb 22nd
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RLLY IMPORTANT PLS READ
everythingbutharleyquinn: anotherhookerblog: pregnant-teen-mom: new blogging goal never to re-blog/post a picture of a normatively attractive thin white fashionable girl again (not because I have anything against them but because there are enough people re-circulating those images on the internet already and they don’t need my help) A couple of months back I said something along the line...
Feb 22nd
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Smash the White Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchy:... →
vincentwilde: mytongueisforked: vincentwilde: Can we discuss this? I’ve been thinking a lot about this. I think it’s fine if people do yoga for their health and teach others for free or for trade. I’m not into white folks who learn yoga from white folks, attempt to market “Eastern spirituality” (however they interpret it), make a ton of money off of it and basically steal and repackage it...
Feb 22nd
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Feb 21st
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benihimeo2: Indian High Court Rules That the Decision to Abort a Pregnancy Rests with the Wife, Not the Husband somepolitics: In a significant decision, the Punjab and Haryana High Court last week ruled that the right to abort a pregnancy in a marriage rests with the wife and not husband. “A woman is not a machine in which raw material is put and a finished product comes out. She should be...
Feb 21st
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Feb 21st
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Feb 21st
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Some Like It Hot →
LOL, this is my mother too.
Feb 21st
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Something I've notice since being in college....
lavienoire: And you know what? Not even a big discovery. They are the typical people affected by the Dunning–Kruger effect. So used to having their asses kissed. Story of my life.
Feb 20th
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Feb 20th
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Feb 20th
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codyjhlsmith asked: you say it so good all the time. <3
Feb 20th
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Feb 19th
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Wutang Name Genrator
guerrillamamamedicine: theafrosistuh: justshy: purpbanga: oshittles: Wutang Generator  from this day on, I shall be known as…Temporary Spastic whatever that means  if its good enough for Donald to come up with Childish Gambino its good enough for me…so mark my works from this day forth i am now Gorky`s Zygotic Glove Puppet POW BITCHES!!!! mines is Gratuitous F-REEK lol **edit ...
Feb 19th
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“This video is definitely beautiful, but all that glitters is not gold. What at...”
– -Global/globe-trotting DJ/Arabic music expert/G Filastine on MIA’s new vid, which I too have complex feelings about tho they are not as informed as this. Obviously it looks fucking awesome, and I love MIA, and this song, I cannot stop bumping it. BUT, HERE ARE SOME THINGS TO THINK ABOUT....
Feb 19th
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To some of the Aussies clogging up up the...
thesavagesalad: thesavagesalad: TW: talks on genocide, racism, privilege denial, Australians who don’t know history Namely those who are quite upset by the PM losing her shoe and have now resorted to engaging in hateful rhetoric directed at the Australian Indigenous communities. I’ve noticed a few trends going on in the racist, ignorant and possibly written-in-an-inebriated-state, rage...
Feb 19th
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milkeemountainmama: and one last thing—that’s my number one pure venom spitting hatred for all scifi/fantasy books in the world—the idea that white folks are survivors and resourceful enough to survive in the face of the apocolypse or some other world shattering event— and people of color either don’t exist or exist in this weird other sphere that rarely if ever crosses with the white survivors....
Feb 19th
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Feb 19th
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The other thing that hurts about this Jenny Hyun...
jhameia: I know I was gonna go all STOMP THE BITCH and UGH EAST ASIANS WHY U SO RACIST LIDDAT and RARR DIAF but the other Big Thing about this is that there is already so much tension between black and East Asian communities, and black and Asian communities in the first place. I’m thinking anti-black bullshit like the horrid racist against Lou Jing in 2009 and other personal things I’ve seen...
Feb 18th
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Feb 18th
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cosmicyoruba asked: 3, 8, 11, 15
Feb 15th
jhameia asked: 3. Do you have a crush? AND 23. What are some of your favorite physical characteristics for your crush to have?
Feb 15th
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Feb 14th
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The Tall Man
str-crssd: One Morning Indigenous man Cameron Doomadgee swore at a police officer and 45 minutes later he was found dead in a police cell. Watch this documentary here. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that this film contains images and voices of deceased people.
Feb 14th
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ITS THE DAY AFTER VALENTINES DAY SO ASK ME AWKWARD...
1. Who was your first kiss and what was it like?
2. Are you in a relationship? If so, are you happy?
3. Do you have a crush?
4. Who is your crush?
5. Are you a virgin?
6. What do you think of Valentine's Day?
7. Who is your Valentine?
8. Have you ever asked anyone out?
9. Who is your celebrity crush?
10. Has anyone ever asked you out and you turned them down?
11. Do you think anyone has a crush on you right now?
12. What is your favorite thing to do on Valentine's Day?
13. What's the best Valentine's Day that you've had so far?
14. What's your idea of a perfect date?
15. How do you know when you're in love?
16. Have you ever loved someone on a romantic level?
17. Do you prefer more or less clingy relationships?
18. Do you feel like you're loved on an everyday basis?
19. Are you usually the first person to make a move.
20. Have you ever asked someone out and they turned you down?
21. Do you feel like you're the dumpee or dumper most of the time?
22. What's your "type"?
23. What are some of your favorite physical characteristics for your crush to have?
24. Are you a hopeless romantic?
25. Do you think that you're a good kisser?
26. What's the farthest that you've ever gone?
27. Have you ever had a secret admirer?
28. Have you ever been someone's secret admirer?
29. Do you have romantic fantasies? If so, what are they like and who is in them?
30. What's something that always turns you on?
Feb 14th
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Feb 6th
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sharquaouia: M.I.A’s “Bad Girls”: Social commentary, I think? Most of us have seen it. I accidentally came across it during my daily Morocco news search. The desert landscape, Arabic writing on walls, men in thobes and shemaghs, veiled women in gold–I thought, this is either orientalism on steroids or a legit social commentary. As someone who’s listened to M.I.A. for several years,...
Feb 5th
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Feb 5th
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Ligne Claire: fashionthefinalfrontier: Well, tbh,... →
jhameia: valeriane: jhameia: valeriane: fashionthefinalfrontier: Well, tbh, you don’t need to put in Victorian elements to make it Steampunk- that’s the brilliance of the multicultural steampunk challenge: you think how that particular culture would have evolved with just steam for power and they didn’t necessarily have… Now, this is an interesting point. What would look steampunk if...
Feb 3rd
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Feb 3rd
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Feb 3rd
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eshusplayground asked: Have you been to Europe? It’s soooo amazing! The wildlife is fantastic, and the natives are really friendly. svnoyi: I hear they are really uncivilized…always starting world-wide wars and endlessly trying to invade each other. I think someone would have to be out of their mind to go there! I heard a story just last week of this nice brown couple that went missing over...
Feb 2nd
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Anonymous asked: how exactly does one become a...
glamaphonic: Though that would clearly be the greatest of all girl scout badges, NO, it is not. To be a Cunnilingus Avenger, one need only believe in the Mission. Said mission being to promote and support drastically increased frequency of the depiction of cunnilingus in all fiction everywhere. Blowjobs are on network tv at 8PM, but people act like vaginas getting licked is unspeakable. ...
Feb 2nd
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Beethoven Was Black →
meganphntmgrl: A pretty shocking overview of how Beethoven’s racial heritage has been pretty much totally erased from history in favor of a whitewashed popular image.
Feb 1st
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Feb 1st
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Yo, white queers, saying sorry after you fuck up...
theplaceyoushallnotbe: clownyprincess: ardhra: Just thought you should know, since you seem to have trouble with things like “empathy” and “logic”. Yep. The sorry is important… But what changes after? Isn’t using ‘queers’ in this context counterproductive? I may just be following too many blogs of people who don’t fall under the heterosexual category and thus uber sensitive to phrases...
Feb 1st
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January 2012
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Yo, white queers, saying sorry after you fuck up...
Just thought you should know, since you seem to have trouble with things like “empathy” and “logic”.
Jan 31st
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