February 2012
Anonymous asked: I have so much respect for you, you seem like a genuinely amazing person, you always call people out respectfully (and I admire that you even call people out that you're close to - calling out friends/partners I find really terrifying). I just wanted to say thanks, I've learned so much through your blog (not just about privilege and the like but just about how to explain things and...
PTSD insight.
forgottenyear:
In over a week it will be one year since this nightmare was brought to the fore. I have basically done nothing to add to my life in this year, but instead I have tried to gather the pieces together and keep them in place – for what, I am not sure.
Today I exist and that is just about all I do. In the past few weeks I have been thinking about what I am doing or not doing with my...
punchingaunicorn asked: Perhaps it is both. Any symbol has a thousand and one connotations?
Doing this the proper way this time. I need a bit...
Edit: i’m not being sarcastic, I would genuinely like to know how it’s used positively and/or derogatively, though I am sifting through the internet trying to find out the latter point.
Anonymous asked: Thank you for that. I hear it enough from EVERYONE EVERYWHERE ALL THE TIME, so it's especially difficult to have my struggles be erased by someone who is educated in the dynamics of oppression. I realize that people in the non-hetero and non-cis communities (for example, as it's the most pervasive one, I think) need a word to identify their oppressors but that word shouldn't come at...
Anonymous asked: I just wanted to say that as someone who is neuro-divergent I find it really upsetting when people use "-phobic" as a suffix to indicate bigots' hate for the LGBT*QA community, for example, along with anything else where, through that usage, there is a liability to conflate bigotry with mental illness. Please consider this next time you feel like throwing the words around.
quaverserif:
inherhipstheresrevolutions:
dailymurf:
inherhipstheresrevolutions:
dailymurf:
inherhipstheresrevolutions replied to your post: Boo fucking hoo when a white person refuses to simply explain their understanding of a symbol that is easily appropriated because they think POC are being rude to them.
They’re not obliged to ask me that, i said that they could have asked instead...
inherhipstheresrevolutions:
dailymurf:
inherhipstheresrevolutions:
dailymurf:
inherhipstheresrevolutions replied to your post: Boo fucking hoo when a white person refuses to simply explain their understanding of a symbol that is easily appropriated because they think POC are being rude to them.
They’re not obliged to ask me that, i said that they could have asked instead of assume I...
Anonymous asked: Exactly what you just posted. Especially when that white person has criticised others in the past for doing exactly what they are now doing, just on a different topic.
inherhipstheresrevolutions:
dailymurf:
inherhipstheresrevolutions replied to your post: Boo fucking hoo when a white person refuses to simply explain their understanding of a symbol that is easily appropriated because they think POC are being rude to them.
They’re not obliged to ask me that, i said that they could have asked instead of assume I know nothing about the Om etc. I’ve had...
inherhipstheresrevolutions replied to your post: Boo fucking hoo when a white person refuses to simply explain their understanding of a symbol that is easily appropriated because they think POC are being rude to them.
They’re not obliged to ask me that, i said that they could have asked instead of assume I know nothing about the Om etc. I’ve had people message me flat out accusing me of...
Boo fucking hoo when a white person refuses to...
No fucking shit people are being rude, you’ve not given a simple statement of “this appropriative symbol represents this and the people it originally belonged to educated me on this and i’m respecting it in the way they instructed me to”. Fuck’s sake. POC/people who have been oppressed by white people using in it a shitty way are NOT obliged to ASK YOU IF YOU DO KNOW...
“Body cells replace themselves every month. Even at this very moment. Most...”
– Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase (via fleur-morte)
For those who want to know why I don't identify as...
emmathompson64:
inherhipstheresrevolutions:
Here’s pretty much why (my gf and I have this freaky thing going on where 1. we agree on 99% of everything ever, 2. she can always explain how I feel about things much better than I ever could dream of doing and 3. she knows exactly how to articulate my views).
So relieved! People look at me weird when i tell them that i am not a feminist when i...
its-life-and-life-only asked: Just curious, how come you don't choose to identify as an anarchist?
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
– Maya Angelou (via shandog)
WOAH what is with the "anyone who doesn't want to...
FINALLY a mainstream TV show with even the briefest asexual plotline and we have the typical misrepresentation and ableism shitting all over it. Ugh. Way to educate the masses on a valid sexual orientation.
“Intersectionality is not optional. It is not something you can take off and put...”
– Intersectionality Is Not Optional (via satifice)
sonicyouthofficial:
someone got a ‘chronic illnesses awareness club’ chartered at my school
what would this club even do? it’s not like there aren’t at least ten different community service-oriented clubs at my school already…
did someone really just make a post saying theres a chronic illness awareness club and tag it as bullshit?
……
oh dear.
I always chuckle to myself when I see a queer...
Papi? Chillin on a couch with Sam in True Blood? What happened to fucking ladies in the back of limos then moving on respectfully to their roommate later in the day?
wesmonster:
I need to get out of here. I need to live somewhere new and kiss someone strange. I need to not know where the hell I am. I need to be a little alone and a little scared and maybe a little lonely. I need to miss where I come from and be terrified of ever going back. I need air I haven’t breathed before and paths I’ve never walked. I need to move toward my future, or, in the very...
bearbearpdx:
Why the friendzone is bullshit and self-proclaimed “nice guys” are misogynists
angels-and-angles:
As defined by urban dictionary, the friendzone is…
“When you are expected to support a girl you really like while she searches for a smarter, richer, and more handsome boyfriend. There is little you can do without feeling like a dick. All in all, one of the meanest...
“”Sometimes,” said Pooh, “the smallest things take up the most room in your...”
– (via downbeatlove)
Hehe.
wesmonster:
I’ve had a very refreshing, candid discussion with Chels this evening. I am so glad to have someone like her around!
And now, rehearsal!
:D
“The way for the creative community (and indeed, the entire world) to address...”
– Why Tom and Lorenzo are through with Glee
(via captain-sonic)
This is so true. It’s important to remember that it doesn’t always “get better” if you’re not wealthy, white, cis, male, or able-bodied/neurotypical. It’s not just the victims, bullies, or society as a whole with the real power here....
“shame is not a catalyst for change; it is a paralytic. Anyone who has ever...”
– http://www.xojane.com/issues/whats-wrong-fat-shaming (via thechocolatebrigade)
“…and never have I felt so deeply and at one and the same time so detached from...”
– Albert Camus (via pointyteeth)
“True gender equality is actually perceived as inequality. A group that is made...”
– - Lucy, When Worlds Collide: Fandom and Male Privilege. (via seaofbadstories)
I might have reblogged this already but it’s so good I don’t care.
(via stfufauxminists)
Kyriarchy in action.
(via transstingray)
Also the study where they had women and men talking in a discussion and when women...
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Body positive stickers I found at the student...
“What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly...”
– Sylvia Plath (via wewantrevolutiongirlstylenow)
Digging out ye old Slutwalk banner for...
