Wanderings

"You see, “Black/Brown/other ethnic women wake up in the morning, look in the mirror, and see..."

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:54:02 -0400

““You see, “Black/Brown/other ethnic women wake up in the morning, look in the mirror, and see Black,/Brown/ethnic women.White women wake up in the morning, look in the mirror, and see women. White men wake up in the morning, look in the mirror, and see human beings“. This is how privilege works.””

- Taken from this article
http://riseresistandrevolt.wordpress.com/2013/05/25/understanding-white-privilege-and-our-mental-colonisation-british-fascism-revived-in-woolwich/ (via gtsmltb)

Yup.

(via glossylalia)

Damn.

sexist facebook dudes.: annehka: Octo has a lot of thoughts: Horrible realization about men...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 17:38:56 -0400

sexist facebook dudes.: annehka: Octo has a lot of thoughts: Horrible realization about men...:

annehka:

Octo has a lot of thoughts: Horrible realization about men creepshots gave me that actually has me in tears

theroguefeminist:

It’s not about sex - they have porn, they have as much fucking porn as they could possibly ask for

they have billboards and ads and primetime tv…

"Old-growth forests, polycropping, and agriculture with open-pollinated landraces may not be as..."

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 17:26:30 -0400

“Old-growth forests, polycropping, and agriculture with open-pollinated landraces may not be as productive, in the short run, as single species forests and fields or identical hybrids. But they are demonstrably more stable, more self-sufficient, and less vulnerable to epidemics and environmental stress…Every time we replace ‘natural capital’ (such as wild fish stocks or old-growth forests) with what might be termed ‘cultivated natural capital’ (such as fish farms or tree plantations), we gain ease of appropriation and in immediate productivity, but at the cost of more maintenance expenses and less ‘redundancy, resiliency, and stability’…Other things being equal…the less diverse the cultivated natural capital, the more vulnerable and nonsustainable it becomes. The problem is that in most economic systems, the external costs (in water or air pollution, for example, or the exhaustion of non-renewable resources, including a reduction in biodiversity) accumulate long before the activity becomes unprofitable in a narrow profit-and-loss sense.”

- James Scott, Seeing like a State (via perscientiamlibertas)

Trying to decide whether or not to start including any personal content on this blog…...

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 23:36:46 -0400

Trying to decide whether or not to start including any personal content on this blog… indecision is a great talent of mine.

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Tue, 11 Jun 2013 12:04:44 -0400

"In one recent study, more than 100 university psychologists were asked to rate the CVs of Dr. Karen..."

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 11:57:53 -0400

““In one recent study, more than 100 university psychologists were asked to rate the CVs of Dr. Karen Miller or Dr. Brian Miller, fictitious applicants for an academic tenure-track job. The CVs were identical, apart from the name. Yet strangely, the male Dr. Miller was perceived (by both male and female reviewers) to have better research, teaching, and service experience than the luckless female Dr. Miller. Overall, about three-quarters of the psychologists thought that Dr. Brian was hirable, while only just under half had the same confidence in Dr. Karen. The same researchers also sent out applications for the position of tenured professor, again identical but for the male and female name at the top. This time, the application was so strong that most of the raters thought that tenure was deserved, regardless of sex. However, the endorsement of Karen’s application was four times more likely to be accompanied by cautionary caveats scrawled in the margins of the questionnaire: such as, ‘I would need to see evidence that she had gotten these grants and publications on her own’ and ‘We would have to see her job talk.’””

- Cordelia Fine, Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference (via cockchomp)

fuckyeahstellapeach: kwamezulushabazz: “The bloody US conquest...

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 23:59:35 -0400

fuckyeahstellapeach:

kwamezulushabazz:

“The bloody US conquest of Hawaii: days that will live in infamy.”

gukkies-n-cream:

zuky:

blog-andeol:

… ‘Hawaii Before Statehood, 1959’ image series from Life magazine

The bloody US conquest of Hawaii: days that will live in infamy.

After the overthrow of Queen Liliʻuokalani and the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1893, US President Grover Cleveland commissioned the Blount Report to investigate the US role in those events. The report concluded that the US had illegally supported the toppling of a sovereign nation, including the deployment of US Marines, against the wishes of the majority of the Hawaiian population. Nevertheless, Hawaii was annexed as a US territory in 1898, essentially becoming a plantation colony and a military base for US power projection across the Pacific into Asia, then turned into a US state in 1959.

this is why we dont like America at fucking all we dont even consider ourselves a damn state

Very timely post. I was just talking about this yesterday.

Much of the intense pressure to attack and colonize Hawaii was put on the US government by the Dole Company, who wanted to capitalize on Hawaii’s pineapples. Which they did, obviously, very successfully. Capitalism at work!

Why does this story have to happen over and over?

fuckyeahsexeducation: girljanitor: angrybrownbaby: I may be a mother but I am not a woman. I’m...

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 11:03:03 -0400

fuckyeahsexeducation:

girljanitor:

angrybrownbaby:

I may be a mother but I am not a woman. I’m also not female. Intersex people can be capable of pregnancy.

intersex people are much more common than a lot of people think. in fact, for different types of intersex gender(s), we’re talking 1 in 100 people, and for others, about 1 in 66.

one more reason why framing the reproductive rights discussion with the term “woman” is not correct and is exclusive.

"Radical simply means grasping things at the root."

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 02:58:13 -0400

“Radical simply means grasping things at the root.”

- Angela Davis (via tranqualizer)

fuckinadi: sadie—talks: infinitylooper: Something to think...

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 02:42:18 -0400

fuckinadi:

sadie—talks:

infinitylooper:

Something to think about:

The Earth is 4.6 billion years old. Let’s scale that to 46 years.
We have been here for 4 hours. Our industrial revolution began 1 minute ago.
In that time, we have destroyed more than 50% of the world’s forests.

This isn’t sustainable.

Always reblog.

"Most people in the United States think of feminism or the most commonly used term “women’s lib” as a..."

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 02:39:57 -0400

“Most people in the United States think of feminism or the most commonly used term “women’s lib” as a movement that aims to make women the social equals of men. This broad definition, popularized by the media and mainstream segments of the movement, raises problematic questions. Since men are not equals in white supremacist, capitalist, patriarchal class structure, which men do women want to be equal to? Do women share a common vision of what equality means? Implicit in this simplistic definition of women’s liberation is a dismissal of race and class as factors that, in conjunction with sexism, determine the extent to which an individual will be discriminated against, exploited, or oppressed.”

-
bell hooks, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center

(via sadbrownprincess)

"When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a..."

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 02:23:28 -0400

“When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions carved in it. “This is often considered to be man’s first attempt at a calendar,” she explained. She paused as we dutifully wrote this down. “My question to you is this – what man needs to mark 28 days? I would suggest to you that this is woman’s first attempt at a calendar.”
It was a moment that changed my life. In that second I stopped to question almost everything I had been taught about the past. How often had I overlooked women’s contributions? How often had I sped past them as I learned of male achievement and men’s place in the history books? Then I read Rosalind Miles’s book “The Women’s History of the World” (recently republished as “Who Cooked the Last Supper?”) and I knew I needed to look again. History is full of fabulous females who have been systematically ignored, forgotten or simply written out of the records. They’re not all saints, they’re not all geniuses, but they do deserve remembering.”

- Sandi Toksvig, ‘Top 10 unsung heroines’ (via ninestories)

(via melancholia-macabre)

condoningcondon: davidlynching: fun fact: iraq, pakistan, afghanistan and saudi arabia have a...

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 02:22:06 -0400

condoningcondon:

davidlynching:

fun fact: iraq, pakistan, afghanistan and saudi arabia have a higher percentage of women in the government than the us & the uk

another fun fact: white people tend to get very angry when you point this out to them

people who need to see this: everyone

moniquill: No. This shit is not cute. When you tell someone...

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 00:30:46 -0400

moniquill:

No. This shit is not cute. When you tell someone ‘smile’, you’re basically saying ‘please alter your appearance and demenor to be more pleasing to me, regardless of your current emotional state/thoughts/agenda’. It’s telling someone that their need to school their face into pleasant cheerfullness overrides is tantamount to anything else.

Know how often I’ve heard the following in public (almost always directed at women, btw)?

“Smile, Honey, it can’t be that bad!”

“Give us a smile.”

“You look awful, smile.”

“Don’t be such a bitch, smile.”

“You should smile more.”

“You’re so much prettier when you smile.”

“Show us a smile, love.”

“Cheer up, smile!”

http://witheology.wordpress.com/2011/06/09/smile-ladies-or-not/

http://redactedblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/1001-things-i-hate.html

http://beautyisinside.com/2011/05/sara-smile-i-said-smile-dammit/

Telling someone to smile is ALWAYS asshole behavior. You want someone to smile? Do something kind. Do something funny. Do something that elicits a smile.

Want to know why someone’s not smiling? Ask ‘What’s wrong?’ or ‘What are you thinking about?’ (BE WILLING TO LISTEN TO THE ANSWER).

nezua: hardcoregurlz: Slave gravesite in New York...

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 23:50:44 -0400

nezua:

hardcoregurlz:

Slave gravesite in New York City

“SOMETHING YOUR TOUR GUIDE MIGHT NOT TELL YOU:

The heart of NYC’s Financial District is built on a huge 18th century African Burial Ground. Some 419 Africans were discovered in 1991, a large portion women and children.

The burial ground extends from Broadway Southward under City Hall, and almost to the site of the former World Trade Center. It is believed that there are as many as 20,000 slavery-era Africans in graves under the buildings in Lower Manhattan.

Abolish historical amnesia and ponder for a moment the fact that this financial epicenter of the world is built on slavery, oppression, and death.”

Literally, and daily.

brodingershat: pimperious-condescension: I’m a grade 12 in...

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 23:49:56 -0400

brodingershat:

pimperious-condescension:

I’m a grade 12 in high school who just happens to wear a K-cup bra. I live a fairly normal high school existence, except for the fact that my bust size often gets me in trouble with teachers, especially female teachers.

Now, my school has a uniform that involves a blouse. Being a busty person, I need to undo three buttons in order to have it fit right without it being undone to below my breasts. Even then, it’s a bit of a stretch. There is literally no way to disguise my breasts. Even when I’ve bound them for crossplay, they still look like really large pectoral muscles. I’m also really confident with my body, so I don’t see why I should have to hide what my body looks like at school.

So you can imagine how angry it makes me when a teacher pulls me aside and whispers “you need to do your top up,” as if my life depended on it.

“You know what? You need to mind your own business,” is what I want to say.

Most of my bras don’t push my breasts together that much, anyway, so most of the time, you’ll see my sternum before any cleavage. If you’re so offended by a bone that protects the heart or a whopping whole inch of two bags of fat on either side of it, then I suggest you get a life.

The way the neckline of my blouse is cut also covers the centre of my bra (most of the time), and I have to either spread it apart (like in the picture), sit or kneel below someone, or lean forward for anyone to actually see it.

Now, notice the little white bow right at the top of the bra’s centre in the picture. Most bras have some little ornamentation there, like a bow or a crystal.

I think that’s there in case the bra accidentally peeks out from a shirt or dress; to make it look pretty as opposed to something with a purely industrial purpose. It almost glorifies the sternum and the rest of the bra, which is how I think every inch of someone’s body should be treated.

Bras don’t see anything offensive about a bone that shields the heart.

Bras are smarter than people.

One of my cousins hit puberty in the second grade.

She had an hourglass figure by the time she entered middle school.

Her first boyfriend thought she was just a bigger girl until the first time they went swimming together, because she’d gotten into the habit of wearing huge sweaters- even in the middle of summer, which can get hot enough to warrant heatstroke warnings- to try to disguise her chest.

This is because everywhere she turned, she was painted as a deviant, sexually promiscuous and attention-seeking youth. She started babysitting for a family friend when she was twelve, and grown women stared in open disapproval when she took the little boy out in his stroller for some fresh air. Men started catcalling at her and approaching her on the street when she was barely thirteen. Teachers looked down on her despite her uniformly excellent grades. Parents of friends immediately pointed to her as a bad influence when things went wrong, despite her immaculate record of just generally being a sensible sort of girl. She had very few female friends, and most of her high school peers assumed that she was sexually involved with most, if not all, of her many male friends. She never was.

This needs to stop.

This isn’t a fanservice video game where you get to choose cup size and bounciness before you start a round. This is real life. Unless she resorts to surgery, the amount of tissue a girl carries on her chest is completely outside of her control, and has nothing to do with her personality, abilities, or achievements.

Stop demonizing breasts. They’re just breasts.

From the barest bump to the cup that runneth over, a breast is a breast, and it should never be an object of shame.

She who carries the chest in question wasn’t doing anything shameful.

But if you feel the need to shame her, you were.

locsgirl: vivianvivisection: fa-subito: bijunn: so-treu: san...

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 03:35:28 -0400

locsgirl:

vivianvivisection:

fa-subito:

bijunn:

so-treu:

sans-nuage:

thefemaletyrant:

nok-ind:

Builders bulldoze one of largest Mayan pyramids in Belize

One of the oldest and most famous Mayan pyramids has been destroyed by a construction company in Belize, while digging for crushed rock for a road they were building.

They actually did.

I just read about this bullshit.

sickening.

The story of capitalism and imperialism right here.

Destroying. Fucking. Everything.

I want to cry

Centuries of colonialism have led up to this.

Centuries of racism have made this possible.

Centuries of capitalism have made this profitable.

Stonehenge stands safe & sound, despite the massive need for land historically in the foul kingdom of Britain; castles, untouched out of respect dot the hills of Europe.

But temples of brown people, globally, are torn down, demolished, stripped for parts, burnt, and the land sold for the benefit of the ruling class & the bourgeoisie.

The fact that brown people do the dismantling is done to hide the racism & oppression inherent in the system, and often times these brown people do it on the orders of the descendants and profiteers of colonizers.

FAIL!!! FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL!!!!!!

New Study Shows Anti-Choice Policies Leading to Widespread Arrests of and Forced Interventions on Pregnant Women

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 03:34:06 -0400

New Study Shows Anti-Choice Policies Leading to Widespread Arrests of and Forced Interventions on Pregnant Women:

witchlingfumbles:

lipsredasroses:

stfuprolifers:

bebinn:

stfuprolifers:

•A woman in Utah gave birth to twins. When one was stillborn, she was arrested and charged with criminal homicide based on the claim that her decision to delay cesarean surgery was the cause of the stillbirth.

•After a hearing that lasted less than a day, a court issued an order requiring a critically-ill pregnant woman in Washington, D.C. to undergo cesarean surgery over her objections. Neither she nor her baby survived.

•A judge in Ohio kept a woman imprisoned to prevent her from having an abortion.

•A woman in Oregon who did not comply with a doctor’s recommendation to have additional testing for gestational diabetes was subjected to involuntary civil commitment. During her detention, the additional testing was never performed.

•A Louisiana woman was charged with murder and spent approximately a year in jail before her counsel was able to show that what was deemed a murder of a fetus or newborn was actually a miscarriage that resulted from medication given to her by a health care provider.

•In Texas, a pregnant woman who sometimes smoked marijuana to ease nausea and boost her appetite gave birth to healthy twins. She was arrested for delivery of a controlled substance to a minor.

•A doctor in Wisconsin had concerns about a woman’s plans to have her birth attended by a midwife. As a result, a civil court order of protective custody for the woman’s fetus was obtained. The order authorized the sheriff’s department to take the woman into custody, transport her to a hospital, and subject her to involuntary testing and medical treatment.

Who could have seen this coming?

Reblogging as a reminder.

Things like this happen because politicians don’t give 2 fucks about women. We are nothing more than incubators to them. You would think the Handmaids Tale is their Bible.

Oh right. This is why I believed the world of Unwind.

"Rather than fighting for every woman’s right to feel beautiful, I would like to see the return of a..."

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 22:59:33 -0400

“Rather than fighting for every woman’s right to feel beautiful, I would like to see the return of a kind of feminism that tells women and girls everywhere that maybe it’s all right not to be pretty and perfectly well behaved. That maybe women who are plain, or large, or old, or differently abled, or who simply don’t give a damn what they look like because they’re too busy saving the world or rearranging their sock drawer, have as much right to take up space as anyone else.

I think if we want to take care of the next generation of girls we should reassure them that power, strength and character are more important than beauty and always will be, and that even if they aren’t thin and pretty, they are still worthy of respect. That feeling is the birthright of men everywhere. It’s about time we claimed it for ourselves.”

- I don’t want to be told I’m pretty as I am - I want to live in a world where that’s irrelevant

YES. I’m sick of the “all bodies are beautiful” rhetoric that permeates much of mainstream feminism and body positivity (whilst simultaneously representing white, cis, and visibly able bodied women)
On one hand, I understand the revolutionary and liberating concept of the rejection of “modern western beauty ideals” and reclaiming the idea of beauty and how beauty can look, but these ideals are often disseminated only to a point in modern feminism; just enough to allow for fat white cis women.

The idea that the concept of beauty is somehow integral to revolution is not right and I think, symptomatic of the shallow faux-feminism propagated Dove beauty ads and similar.

I think it’s a disservice to those of us who either aren’t beautiful, don’t want to be beautiful or have internalised so much shit that we know we won’t ever feel beautiful. And guess what? None of those things make us less than.
(via quantumfemme)

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Fri, 07 Jun 2013 01:33:15 -0400

Wanderings

"You see, “Black/Brown/other ethnic women wake up in the morning, look in the mirror, and see..."

sexist facebook dudes.: annehka: Octo has a lot of thoughts: Horrible realization about men...

"Old-growth forests, polycropping, and agriculture with open-pollinated landraces may not be as..."

Trying to decide whether or not to start including any personal content on this blog…...

Photo

"In one recent study, more than 100 university psychologists were asked to rate the CVs of Dr. Karen..."

fuckyeahstellapeach: kwamezulushabazz: “The bloody US conquest...

fuckyeahsexeducation: girljanitor: angrybrownbaby: I may be a mother but I am not a woman. I’m...

"Radical simply means grasping things at the root."

fuckinadi: sadie—talks: infinitylooper: Something to think...

The Earth is 4.6 billion years old. Let’s scale that to 46 years. We have been here for 4 hours. Our industrial revolution began 1 minute ago. In that time, we have destroyed more than 50% of the world’s forests.

"Most people in the United States think of feminism or the most commonly used term “women’s lib” as a..."

"When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a..."

condoningcondon: davidlynching: fun fact: iraq, pakistan, afghanistan and saudi arabia have a...

moniquill: No. This shit is not cute. When you tell someone...

nezua: hardcoregurlz: Slave gravesite in New York...

brodingershat: pimperious-condescension: I’m a grade 12 in...

locsgirl: vivianvivisection: fa-subito: bijunn: so-treu: san...

New Study Shows Anti-Choice Policies Leading to Widespread Arrests of and Forced Interventions on Pregnant Women

"Rather than fighting for every woman’s right to feel beautiful, I would like to see the return of a..."

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The Earth is 4.6 billion years old. Let’s scale that to 46 years.
We have been here for 4 hours. Our industrial revolution began 1 minute ago.
In that time, we have destroyed more than 50% of the world’s forests.