Black vs. Gay
ATTN: Tumblr SJWs who shut down others who complain about their oppression because they do not think the party is quite oppressed enough.
So powerful.
Powerful doesn’t begin to explain this and chills doesn’t get near what it gave me. Give up four minutes to watch this and you won’t regret it.
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The Sociological Cinema (via trimichaelceratops) (Source: queerintersectional) |
Only recently did I learn of the longstanding feud between Spike Lee and Quentin Tarantino. This was a result of internet research I did after seeing a preview for Tarantino’s new movie Django Unchained, and after a dear friend sent me a link to Lee’s refusal to see the movie because it…
By INGRID ROJAS & ROMINA PUGA
The Obama’s are definitely the cutest first family. If their body language isn’t a dead giveaway for how close they are, then this clip should. Daddy Obama is about to accept his re-election when Sasha tugs at his jacket and says, “Turn around. Turn around.”
omgomgomg “wave to the people behind you too, dad.”
this video legitimately turned my otherwise kind of shitty day RIGHT around.
For some reason this moment really stuck out for me when I was watching live - running through my head: “I wonder what Sasha just told him….eh, it will probably come out in the news soon.”
So in love with it.
On October 3, 2012 (in my timezone, which would be early October 2 for most of you), I and millions of internet users in the Philippines have officially become criminals, liable to be jailed for up to 12 years.
I will understand if you don’t care. After all, the Philippines seems…
read this, it’s rly important and awful.
(Source: whatnowrin)
Dorothy Cooper, age 96 and a retired domestic worker living in Chattanooga, never had any trouble voting even in the Jim Crow era and missed only one election in her entire adult life. But when she went for one of the state’s new free photo IDs last month so she could keep voting, they turned her away. Why? Her maiden name, Dorothy Alexander, is on her birth certificate, and she didn’t have her marriage license.
Due to Tennessee’s new voting law, she has to have a state photo ID to vote and now, even with her current voter registration card, she can’t get one.
Links to the Times Free Press and Nashville Scene articles.
She is older than Voting Rights Act.
Like let’s get this really real yall
Mama has voted without bureaucratic bullshit in JIM DAMN CROW
but the new millenium is trying to keep her out cause her birth certificate ( which is older than the current incarnations of both parties) has her maiden name
from back when the probably write that shit in fountain pen…
I quit all of you
EVERY SINGLE ONE
doing math : She has been eligible to vote since 1937
……
SHE HAD LESS TROUBLE VOTING AROUND FDR vs. LANDON than OBAMA vs.ROMNEY
Chris Brown LP synopsis: “Unprotected sex is super fun and partying is cool”.
‘No stars ever’ for Chris Brown
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| — | Margaret Talbot, in her essay Is it dangerous to talk about the middle class? at The New Yorker |
The above article is an update. Her mother went to appeal to keep her out of the psychiatric ward and lost. She will be institutionalized because of her expression of her gender. She will be held until she conforms to male gender and then released to foster care, not her mother who was supporting her.
Please, if you haven’t signed the petition, sign it, reblog it, ask your friends to sign it. We’ve managed to get 40K signatures for a pageant model, we’ve only gotten 11K for a little girl about to have her life ruined. Lets get on the ball and spread the word.
I literally just repeated the f-word until I ran out of breath.
Let me catch my breath. I may go on a cursing spree again as soon as I get it back.
Seriously people…
WHY THE FUCK AREN’T PEOPLE REBLOGGING THIS??
Please, please, please sign this.
sign it, but can we also not minimize the experiences of other trans women in an effort to emphasize how serious this is? They don’t need to be played against each other.
TRUTH. BOOM.
The best campaign counter-attack video I HAVE EVER SEEN. Obama 2012
”So we’re going to call their BS when we see it and we need your help to call them on it too and set the record straight. So share this, tweet it, facebook it, I keep hearing about tumblr and whatever that is…please use that too. Thank you.”
-Stephanie Cutter / Deputy Campaign Manager at Obama for America.
And a Tumblr shout-out.
omg. the truth team. this is my new favorite thing.
Important.
in 5 hours over 700 people reblogged my post about CeCe choosing a plea deal. wow! to me that communicates that we’re outraged by interpersonal & systemic transphobia, racism, ableism, sexism and classism that we know all to well happens every day. it communicates that we’re going to keep fighting…
Worth a read regarding teen pregnancy, body- and sex-shaming, capitalism, etc.
Chanel Dubofsky and I have been galavanting around the city talking abortion, 16 and Pregnant, nail polish, and critiques of capitalism. She recently attended the CLPP conference and went to a panel discussion called “Teen Families Take the Lead.” Upon her return to the city and after…
With the formal end of DADT less than a month away, GQ’s Chris Heath spent six months assembling an oral-history-of-sorts about what it was like to be a gay man serving in the U.S. military. The resulting piece, which appears in our Sept 2011 issue and runs a bit longer at GQ.com, is funny, sad, horrifying and, above all, surprising. Life under DADT is both everything—and nothing—like one might expect. A brief sample below, from a heartbreaking section of the piece titled “Invisible Partners”:
Air Force #4 (senior airman, four years): “Right now our relationships don’t exist.”
Air Force #3: “I’ve had three deployments [while] with the same person. Every time it’s been ‘All right, see you later.’ All the spouses get together, do stuff. He’s just there by himself, fending for himself.”
Marines #2: “The relationship lasted for about four years, but I always felt like I was disrespecting him, to have to pretend he didn’t exist when I went to work. When I got deployed, he was there with my family when I left. It kind of sucked—to shake his hand and a little pat on the back and ‘I’ll see you when I see you’ kind of thing. And when you’re getting ready to come back, the spouses were getting classes—here’s how you welcome your Marine back into the family—and my boyfriend didn’t get any of that. I had a really hard time adjusting to being home. We tried to make it work for a year but he was getting more and more paranoid about people finding out about us. It killed me that he felt that way because of me. I don’t think we ever really had a chance, ultimately.”
Air Force #3: “When I was deployed, every Sunday we would sit down on opposite sides of the world and we would each order a pizza and we would watch a movie together over Skype. We weren’t doing anything bad except trying to spend some time together. But there was no ‘I love you.’ Certainly nothing sexual, or anything like what some straight guys do over Skype.”
Navy #2 (captain, twenty years): “Personally, I haven’t had a lot of struggles. The hardest thing that I faced was about eight years ago. I was dating somebody for about two years who had gotten out of the army. He was HIV positive, and I didn’t know that, and he ended up dying—it just happened very quickly. I am not positive, luckily. So I had a lot of difficulties grasping with that personally, dealing with his death, and I had to take time off work, but still not tell them. I couldn’t go to the doctor or the psychologist. There wasn’t really anybody to talk to.”
A Report from the White House
Marines #1: ”Since I’m a single officer in the Marine barracks and I’ve got the highest security clearance you can get, I also serve at the White House in close quarters with President Bush and President Obama at social events. Very seldom was the president ever alone, but one time the president had said, ‘Go and get the vice president,’ and all the straphangers went, and the president went in the Blue Room and was just standing there waiting for Biden. And there was no Secret Service around or anything, and I went, ‘Fuck it, I’m going to go and talk to the president about “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” ’ He was looking out south—there’s an incredible view down past the Washington Monument to the Jefferson. And I just stepped in and said, ‘Sir?’ and he turned around and walks to me and I just started: ‘You know, sir, I want to let you know that there are a number of us that work very close to you who appreciate very much what you’re doing on “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”—more than you probably realize.’ And he was shaking my hand, he looks up and it’s like…he got it. I said, ‘I want to thank you for this.’ And he goes, ‘No, I want to thank you. Thank you for your service, and thank you for your courage.’”That last one was pretty legit.
A very interesting read. Even if I do make it a habit not to read most of what comes from GQ.
Badass motherfucker of the century.
My hero
I think it’s the morally correct thing to do, given the circumstances. Also, I think it’s awesome that kids think these books are cool because they’re banned :) I love teenagers so hard sometimes.
Loooove. I hope this kid grows up to be a librarian. This is amazing and I want to write papers about it.
A radical militant librarian after my own heart, says this former president of a club that read only banned books
