May 2012
109 posts
White, Hispanic, and Black Incarceration Rates.
walkingthenarrowway:
1 in every 106 white males 18 or older are incarcerated
1 in every 36 hispanic males 18 or older are incarcerated
1 in every 15 black males 18 or older are incarcerated
http://www.aclu.org/combating-mass-incarceration-facts-0
sonofbaldwin:
“The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.” ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
Watchyoucansleepwhileidrive:
shantih:
jesus how is that thats so THATS COOL
Soooooooo awesome!
: I’m really going to need people to stop saying... →
dank-potion:
I’m really going to need people to stop saying “that makes you just as bad” to any marginalized group, whether they be PoC, women, the LGBQT community, etc. who hold anger, mistrust or resentment. If you’re just going to completely ignore context, power structures and social hierarchies that make…
rubywhiterabbit:
My little brother got into outer space and stuff so my step-mom bought him a place mat with all the planets on it. When I first saw it, I was upset, because it was newer and so Pluto wasn’t labeled. I was about to say something when I noticed something…
Pluto is there.
The artist remembered Pluto.
Guys…
The artist drew Pluto crying.
“Figure out who you are separate from your family, and the man or woman you’re in...”
– Angelina Jolie (via her0inchic)
“You cannot enslave a mind that knows itself. That values itself. That...”
– Wangari Maathai (via africansunset)
Oh, the hu-manatee!: We can talk about reverse... →
bankuei:
…
…you do the following homework and tell me when this happened to white people:
- Families and communities would gather to kill innocent people for fun, so common that it ranged in the thousands.
- That laws against rape did not apply to them as a selected people by those in power.
- People were used in medical experiments without their consent, knowledge, detrimental to their...
dagSeoul: Writing about Whiteness, White... →
dagseoul:
In June last year, I began working on how I write about whiteness, white power, capitalism, and anti-capitalism mainly to develop concepts that are central to a manuscript I’m working on. Immediately, I was engaged by two groups of tumblr bloggers: libertarians and social justice bloggers. Neither appreciate my representations of free market capitalism and white social justice...
“The simplistic formula that claims “you’re either pro-marriage or against...”
– no to state regulation of families!
CLICK THIS LINK FOR LOTS OF RESOURCES ON WHY “MARRIAGE EQUALITY” IS THE WRONG GOAL
(re: people freakin about Obama)
we should think about this issue from all sides. who is being erased in the national marriage equality discourse?
(via newwavefeminism)
“Poverty is not simply having no money — it is isolation, vulnerability,...”
– Megan Lee (via sociolab)
Son of Baldwin: Briefly: Marvel's THE AVENGERS →
sonofbaldwin:
I finally saw Marvel’s THE AVENGERS last night. It’s probably the best action film I’ve ever seen. It was as light as it was dark; humorous as it was serious. The Hulk steals the movie EASILY and the Black Widow is FIERCE. The weakest link is, by far, Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury. His…
“There’s something very freeing about losing the anchors that have always defined...”
– Deborah Smith (via internal-acceptance-movement)
Black Girl Dangerous: Resistance Is the Secret of... →
blackgirldangerous:
by Mia McKenzie
I’ve said it before: it’s hard being a black woman in the world. It’s hard being any kind of black person. Any kind of brown person. Any kind of woman. Add queerness to the mix, and life becomes an amazing kind of struggle, one filled with enormous losses and small triumphs.
The…
“I long for the day when the Mitt Romneys of the world will argue for a move in...”
– Post-Whiteness by Darnell L. Moore at Huffington Post
“Advice for young feminists? Do something else besides feminism. I’m serious. The...”
– Latoya Peterson (Source) (via andcouldheplayblog)
this is the quote I mentioned in my earlier work-thoughts dump. at least i think it is.
(via nom-chompsky)
apply your feminism in a different space
rinse & repeat
(via brazenbitch)
They think of us as less than animals. Animals, at... →
The Space Inbetween Reality and A Dream.: Personal... →
fywomensandgenderstudies:
A friend questioned why I was studying Women’s and Gender Studies the other day. He was saying that gender inequality in no longer existent, it’s a thing of the past and that women have won. We are now superior than men. It was kind of like he was mocking my studies…
“I point to racism as a society wide version of an abusive family. You have the...”
– bankuei
fucking amazing analogy. we live in an abuse culture—its how whiteness operates. so its exactly like an abusive family where everyones used to blows and defends the cycles and abusers to the deaths. (via bad-dominicana)
Southside Remittances: bad-dominicana: i feel like... →
bad-dominicana:
i feel like acknowledging you have it better than some people is KEY to fixing the imbalance we live in. you cant say “we all suffer” and pretend you dont have a hand in dealing some of that suffering, even when you dont want to.
i recognize i have privilege as someone who…
“This is probably going to get quoted in every publication just because I said...”
– Robert Downey Jr. (via meggannn)
