February 2012
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“It doesn’t necessarily need to be a great singer to play the role,” the insider...”
– Whitney Houston Biopic Won’t Necessarily Cast An African-American Actress To Portray Legend - Huffington Post (via notime4yourshit)
I just…are we really about to try to white face a woman that just passed. Really? Somebody come get your cousins & beat them until they’re less stupid.
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Anonymous asked: Was it racist for George Lucas to...
yoisthisracist:
Hold up, since when do studios not pick up films because they’re objectively terrible?
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this is a Mari Jyvasjarvi appreciation post
ave—satana:
one of the few professors at this school who has consistently treated me like a real human being with a life and personality and emotions, and not just an intellectual idea machine/brain on a stick.
also, a total badass gender scholar and amazing at distilling the most complicated ideas in the most sensible terms.
i love her so much.
I don’t actually know this prof but THE...
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“I want to call attention to the fact that, while critics claim that higher...”
– Alfie Kohn, Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishment to Love and Reason
I’m not a parent (yet), but this is really interesting stuff with some pretty broad implications.
“A jealous girlfriend/boyfriend is a faithful...
Or because she’s secure in your relationship and respects you as your own full person.
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If you think the primary difference between you and people on welfare is that you are better than them… I don’t want to know you.
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baddominicana:
some of us did everything “wrong”.
some us couldnt do it “right”.
some of us did it “right” and it still went wrong.
starting your adulthood during the onset of the 2nd great depression generally fuckin blows.
I wish there were hypothetical.
alexandraerin:
A person who is afraid to speak up in defense of whiteness for fear of being “lynched” for it is a great illustration of the difference between bias and institutional racism.
If you are a victim of bias, you might be afraid of being “lynched”, i.e., roundly disagreed with.
If you are a victim of racism, you might be afraid of being “lynched”, i.e., lynched.
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beautifullabia: Very long, sexy, natural labia.... →
(Link is to a rather lovely photo of a vulva with dangly labia minora.) WHY DID I LOOK AT THE NOTES ON THIS brb hating humanity
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[trigger warning: ableism] I've started to realize...
fromonesurvivortoanother:
…and possibly classist, and usually racist and/or sexist. “Intelligence” as a concept has been determined by privileged, nondisabled upper class hetero white men. The entire canon of psychology and mental illness literature is 99% people like that.
When a person uses words that judge intelligence like idiot, stupid, dumb, etc., it is about a very specific type of...
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Did Socrates have aspergers?
fugue-stasis:
skiptripfall:
Proposition, as discussing in Hum Conf. He can’t take social cues and people have to literally run away from him to get him to stop talking. He also has a keen sense of observation that he can only apply to the world intellectually, assuming that everyone will operate under the same type of thought processes that he does.
How many philosophers also fit into this...
Breaking: NYPD fatally shoots 18 year old in the...
baddominicana:
occupyallstreets:
Deputy Police Commissioner Paul Browne said the shooting happened following a struggle with the suspect. He said an officer from the Special Narcotics Unit fired one time, striking 18-year-old Rahmarley Graham in the chest.
The shooting happened around 3 p.m. Thursday afternoon in the bathroom of the apartment house where Graham lived with his mother and...
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“What counts as activism? Why didn’t the kind of emotional self-care me and my...”
– Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, “A Time to Hole Up And a Time to Kick Ass” in We Don’t Need Another Wave (via kru-pa)
I love this. We get so much push back to “stop talking about problems, go outside & do something” as though A) What we discuss online is the whole of our lives & B) as...