March 2012
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lascocks:
Female Asian Watson: *leaves Sherlock a note* I need milk and panty liners.
Sherlock: 9_6
Holmes, use your deductive reasoning: Female East Asian Watson probably wouldn’t want milk. Milk tea, maybe. It’s a coded warning!!
… mmmmm, milk tea.
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February 2012
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Angela Davis on violence
when she was in the California State Prison - 1972 [trigger warning for descriptions of violence against people of color]
Interviewer: A year ago the black panthers were much more active. We heard much more about that type of struggle. Is the time of the black panthers past?
Angela Davis: The black panthers still exist, and the black panthers are still extremely active in the Oakland community and communities all over the country. I’m not sure whether or not you are aware of what is now happening in the black panther party and the kinds of things that the members of that party are doing now.
Interviewer: No but tell me.
Angela Davis: First of all, if you’re gonna talk about a revolutionary situation, you have to have people who are physically able to wage revolution, who are physically able to organize and physically able to do all that is done.
Interviewer: But the question is more, how do you get there? Do you get there by confrontation, violence?
Angela Davis: Oh, is that the question you were asking? Yeah see, that’s another thing. When you talk about a revolution, most people think violence, without realizing that the real content of any revolutionary thrust lies in the principles and the goals that you’re striving for, not in the way you reach them. On the other hand, because of the way this society’s organized, because of the violence that exists on the surface everywhere, you have to expect that there are going to be such explosions. You have to expect things like that as reactions. If you are a black person and live in the black community all your life and walk out on the street everyday seeing white policemen surrounding you… When I was living in Los Angeles, for instance, long before the situation in L.A ever occurred, I was constantly stopped. No, the police didn’t know who I was. But I was a black women and I had a natural and they, I suppose thought I might be “militant.” And when you live under a situation like that constantly, and then you ask me, you know, whether I approve of violence. I mean, that just doesn’t make any sense at all. Whether I approve of guns. I grew up in Birmingham, Alabama. Some very, very good friends of mine were killed by bombs, bombs that were planted by racists. I remember, from the time I was very small, I remember the sounds of bombs exploding across the street. Our house shaking. I remember my father having to have guns at his disposal at all times, because of the fact that, at any moment, we might expect to be attacked. The man who was, at that time, in complete control of the city government, his name was Bull Connor, would often get on the radio and make statements like, “niggers have moved into a white neighborhood. We better expect some bloodshed tonight.” And sure enough, there would be bloodshed. After the four young girls who lived, one of them lived next door to me…I was very good friends with the sister of another one. My sister was very good friends with all three of them. My mother taught one of them in her class. My mother—in fact, when the bombing occurred, one of the mothers of one of the young girls called my mother and said, “Can you take me down to the church to pick up Carol? We heard about the bombing and I don’t have my car.” And they went down and what did they find? They found limbs and heads strewn all over the place. And then, after that, in my neighborhood, all the men organized themselves into an armed patrol. They had to take their guns and patrol our community every night because they did not want that to happen again. That’s why, when someone asks me about violence, I just, I just find it incredible. Because what it means is that the person who’s asking that question has absolutely no idea what black people have gone through, what black people have experienced in this country since the time the first black person was kidnapped from the shores of Africa.
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imbobswaget asked: Are the people who aren't down with the new Sherlock adaptation aware that they don't have to watch it?
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*falls into a brown study*
I am so against this whole Lucy Liu as Watson thing y’all
I want my Holmes depictions to stay the way they’ve been up till now
Two upper-class educated imperialist white dudes
Who don’t much care for women, Blacks, Jews, Indians, Egyptians, or Chinese
(I’m cool with dumb Nigel Bruce Watson and yellow peril in BBC Sherlock and Holmes partnering up with Batman and RDJ...
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lovewashername asked: whyyyyyyy am i not following you already??????????? goodness, i go hunting for canadian POC and i found one (with a quality blog)! yay!!!!! how you doin???
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This is an excellent post.
lovewashername:
i’ve been thinking,
and for once this is a good thing, ha.
i struggle to find a black culture like the one in the usa. we have different histories but we are connected in part through how we came here and became established. i watched the documentary about priceville this morning and it got me thinking -
what is it that has us rolling, holding our...
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“Just as there are racial identities of colour in Canada, there is also a white...”
– James Crawford, Media, Stereotypes and the Perpetuation of Racism in Canada
(via imbobswaget)
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“I have a daughter who’s 10 and we walked past a billboard the other day...”
– Monica Ali (via petitefeministe)
I dunno, like. I see and appreciate the point, but this story has two things that bother me:
1) Why respond with “Yes, it’s a shame a young woman would want to be portrayed in that way” ? Why phrase it like that? A young woman WANTED to be portrayed in that...
on physically punishing your children
sanaa-tamir:
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nezua:
being hit as a child teaches you many things, i’d guess. mostly, it teaches you that might makes right. and as a child, you will have no argument against that. and so it is likely that you will learn it well.
being hit as a child may teach other things. but below and beyond intellect and language, it teaches you rage. because as a child, in...
on physically punishing your children
sanaa-tamir:
nezua:
being hit as a child teaches you many things, i’d guess. mostly, it teaches you that might makes right. and as a child, you will have no argument against that. and so it is likely that you will learn it well.
being hit as a child may teach other things. but below and beyond intellect and language, it teaches you rage. because as a child, in the context of physical...
the one word all brown people hate
glockgal:
baddominicana:
almondskeyes:
exotic
i used to like it. it made me feel special. before i realized that it actually means you are deviant from “normal”. and that the unspoken “norm” you are set up against happens to be a white one…
YES. I HATE IT SO MUCH. I….SPIT ON IT.
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nezua:
i’ll generally turn in the direction of a fight. i’ll steer into it, like when the car slips on ice. i was not always that way. it began long ago, though, deep within my clenched belly. where one day, there was no more room for fury. i’m not against fighting. fighting is necessary to life and to continued existence and to progress. but these days i like to check, before flying in, what it...
on physically punishing your children
nezua:
being hit as a child teaches you many things, i’d guess. mostly, it teaches you that might makes right. and as a child, you will have no argument against that. and so it is likely that you will learn it well.
being hit as a child may teach other things. but below and beyond intellect and language, it teaches you rage. because as a child, in the context of physical autonomy, your sense of...
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Yo, my siblings and I BOND over our discipline...
thegoddamazon:
Literally, that’s how some of my family’s funniest convos are. My mom would tell me stories about when she’d cut up and her parents would kick her ass. I always make her tell the story about the time she tried to start her own church (our entire family is Muslim) because she was jealous that in Islam we don’t sing in the mosque.
So my mom and her siblings used to pass by the...
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luchtherder replied to your post: Say, anybody know where a girl can get her virtual…
roxanneritchi.tumblr.co… ENJOY! :D
THANK YOUUUUUUUU!
Say, anybody know where a girl can get her virtual hands on copies of the new Young Justice comics? The ones based on the cartoon?
Thank you!!
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thesavagesalad:
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gdragonn:
“You would never see a country artist blatantly taking a stab at ANY religion.”
looool when ppl try to act like country isn’t bigoted as fuck
wasn’t lady fucking antebellum at the grammys tonight?
HELLO
what did lady antebellum do?
Named their band Lady Antebellum.
OMG
And isn’t the ENTIRE CULTURAL...
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foodiewin:
cephalopodqueen:
”Ethnic Fashion” Obscures Cultural Identity - By, Sunita Puri
cassket:
I live a hyphenated existence. South Asian-American. Indian-American. Punjabi-American. Physically, I am also a patchwork of different cultures: I wear jeans and t-shirts, I braid my hair in Punjabi kudiya style, have a nose ring, and wear a bindi, a small colored dot worn in between the...
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(Not So) Random Thought: My Immediate Thoughts on...
searchingforknowledge:
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withrevolutionarycries:
I’m totally posting some shit i wrote in a reblog b/c i don’t want it to get lost in people ignoring the ish that I reblogged.
bolded fof realness and truth. i am personally a huge nicki fan. i’m going to go to sleep, wake up, and rewatch the performance. collect all my thoughts about it. i love it already on...
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it would take an eternity to break us
lickypickystickyfree:
No matter what they take from me, they can’t take away my dignity
Okay, so. When I was in the upper Standards in Catholic school as a girl, we were allowed to have a Christmas party in our class. And girls would “audition” to sing something at the party, and this girl Karen Charles auditioned once. There are two things I remember about Karen, a tall,...
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Canada
Newfoundland and Labrador: HEEY B'Y HOW'S SHE GOIN' B'Y I'S THE B'Y WHO BUILDS THE BOAT AND I'S THE B'Y WHO SAILS HER
Nova Scotia: Let's sing sea shanties while we go fishing and get drunk
Prince Edward Island: POTATOES
New Brunswick: FUCK YEAH WE HAVE CONCERTS
Quebec: Je ne sais pas goddamn flat tire de tabernacle we want to be our own goddamn country poutine
Ontario: Nothing above Southern Ontario exists, eh?
Manitoba: Holy shit it's cold
Saskatchewan:
Alberta: YEEEEE HAW IT'S LIKE WE'RE THE SOUTHERN STATES PART OF CANADA
British Columbia: I'm sorry I can't hear you at this altitude
Yukon: Look at me I'm next to Alaska
Northwest Territories: William and Kate were here heeeeeey
Nunavut: LOOK HOW FUCKING BIG I AM LOL GOOD LUCK COLOURING ME IN BY THE END OF CLASS
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moniquill:
Why Yuor Bairn Can Raed Tihs
Embarrassingly, my first reaction was to wonder why Scottish people were being told that their babies could read this.
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miseengarde:
white girls who want my culture’s bindis and saris and henna
take my skin colour too
and my dark brown lips
take my self-hatred because i don’t fit into the euro-centric ideals of beauty
take the oppression too
take the history of colonization that has devastated my country
and the drones that currently devastate my country
take all the bad stuff too
not just the pretty,...
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derbrandtaucher asked: Listen, it’s not a question...
butwithawhimper:
Nonononono, The point i meant to get across was that I don’t like when people are wearing something, even if they don’t know anything about it, and get freaked out on because of it. If someone were to get asked nicely to take something off and letting the person know its offensive, then that’s respectable. And I am trying to listen, but I’m getting a lot of mail from people just...
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