March 2011
183 posts
hold on I just have one more smartass comment
What I really hate seeing is a divisive subject that makes people go oh, I like this person, and you pointed out something (or vice versa) and that mean I now hate you forever & always & will come up with all sorts of uncreative ways to silence you and/or engage in blatant apologism. Because believe me, that’s nothing I haven’t heard before. The misgendering, the name-calling,...
allaboutmary:
Ya Oum Allah (Oh Mother of God) by...
“The Singapore public sector doesn’t allow people with depression to work for...”
– a fool sees not the same tree |
… WTF. How is that even legal. Yeah OK it’s the public sector, it’s the people that make the rules. But surely there’s some law about patient privacy or discriminatory hiring or something. Some international treaty they’re a signatory to. SOMETHING. It seems so daft,...
creatrixtiara asked: The Singapore public sector doesn't allow people with depression to work for them? o_____________O
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Words that I don't think should be banned or...
stuffsickpeoplehavetoputupwith:
deaf (including figurative use)
Deaf
the deaf (including figurative use)
the Deaf
cripple (including figurative use)
crippled (including figurative use)
insane (including figurative use)
disabled (including figurative use)
disability
lame (including figurative use)
blind (including figurative use)
idiot (including figurative use)
stupid (including...
“When trans women who present femininely or assert a binary identity are blamed...”
– What Transmisogyny Looks Like
There’s so much more at the link, and I only included a few here.
(via blackenedbutterfly)
I would like to remind everyone that the Red Cross...
jaded16india:
ja-sei-namorar:
http://www.lauras-playground.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=16561
http://www.velvetparkmedia.com/blogs/how-help-haiti-after-70-earthquake#comment-45574
http://www.examiner.com/religion-social-issues-in-newark/homophobia-can-kill-heterosexuals-and-another-red-cross-scandal
Please donate to Doctors Without Borders instead. You won’t get a neat katakana Tumblr...
“It takes a massive, unbelievable amount of courage to stand up and say something...”
– an eden in the ocean (via neverthehurricane)
this, a thousand times over.
(via zurik)
relevant to my dashboard today.
(via megachiropteran)
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Another Language Question: Language and Academia
tiaramerchgirl:
I HATE ACADEMIC WRITING.
If I could make that statement any bigger I would. Fuckin’ HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATE it.
It seemed to be less about making ideas and arguments and knowledge accessible, than it was about sounding smart and intellectual. Especially when it came to arts and the creative industries, where a lot of foundational material for your work would have been things...
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"good faith"
Usually I don’t bother. I really don’t. I can’t be wasting spoons on shit like “Tone arguments are terrible! Here’s why I can still use them instead of you!”
Then this entire question of good faith/bad faith comes up.
Let me tell you something about “good faith”, my duckies.
if I didn’t check myself properly & screw up, the person I...
So Terry Jones finally burnt a Qur'an (TW apply) →
@poorlydisguisedbigot has an event: Burning the Qur’an at 5. (I’m attending/Maybe/No)
@christians: wtf
@muslims: wtfbbq
@God: WTFBBQ OCHNAE
@poorlydisguisedbigot has been pushed back to level 1 of anti-Muslim bigotry by @God. Are you sure you would like to exit the game?
Anonymous asked: I am a vegan and my view is that since I have the privilege of having enough money to be vegan, I ought to be. Is this troublesome in anyway to you?
Eating meat and ~ethical issues~
Because the vegvangelicals (hai that’s totally a word ok? ok) are seriously not getting that:
- their conception of vegetarian differs from others. theirs is a whitestream one packaged and marketed to them by companies; it’s co-opted. And since their concept differs from mine, and they have the class privilege, guess who is ~right~?
- everyone who eats meat != EVIL ANIMAL HATING...
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“The historical record clearly establishes that an external regime change...”
– The Drawbacks of Intervention in Libya - Al-Jazeera (via lahiri)
Veena Malik vs. a cleric
lahiri:
Veena Malik vs. a cleric
Transcript as follows (edited the translation in some places).
Host: There is an allegation against you, made by a segment of Pakistani society that you brought dishonour upon Pakistani culture by going to India. Your dresses and actions, as well as your interactions with people there, did not represent the ideological foundations of Pakistan, its culture or...
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“In the books, Katniss is described as being olive-skinned, dark-haired, possibly...”
– interview with the director, via racebending (‘ware one particular commenter)
HAIR COLOUR. Oh, yes, that’s the problem.
(via crossedwires)
Rue and Thresh are only black to be stereotyped: sidekick and Noble Savage. But the silly fans! Nice going, Collins. I can put you on my shit list with no...
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bunnehears:
“AKIRA” adaptation courts white actors « Racebending.com
wildunicornherd:
Deadline.com reports that the script for Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures’ American live-action adaptation of the manga Akira has been sent to a short list of actors. Although the characters will retain their original names — Kaneda and Tetsuo — from the Japanese graphic novels, the story will be...
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Veena Malik vs. a cleric →
Absolutely zero, zero, ability to transcribe, my deepest apologies. Would someone else mind helping?
creatrixtiara asked: I was wondering how your choice of pronoun would affect translatability and language accessibility. e.g. in Malaysia you'd just be "dia", because everyone is, but it's not indicative of your gender identity at all. In some languages "keoi" may mean something else altogether (like if you chose the English word "air" as your pronoun but in Malaysia people...
lahiri replied to your post: lahiri replied to your post…
Ah, okay. HAI back! I’m very excited to connect with people from third world ditches since my family escaped from third world ditch courtesy of Neocolonial Master. Trying to make my own ditch here but it’s all concrete whattodo :P
I am excited too! I am currently infiltrating white people western place as well but I hope to be...
lahiri replied to your post: badparsiqueer replied to your post
Which tongue is that, if you don’t mind me asking? Google translate led to fail.
It is my other tongue, Cantonese: 佢! but it means ditch/drainage/sewer in Mandarin which is appropriate considering I live in a third world ditch, no?
Updated original post to reflect that. Also, HAI!
badparsiqueer replied to your post: hi new followers!
is there an english pronoun you prefer, or would you rather not be pronouned in english at all?
I searched teh English far and wide, alas it has none I liked so here is pronoun from my other tongue. It is verynice, no?[1] Much prefer it, plzthnx.
[1] Spending far too much time with Jaded16.
hi new followers!
Hi, I am Thursday, I am a UP country bumpkin from Bhaiyyaland. I will ask you for paise a lot because I am constantly giving my do paise away, what to do? People are wrong on the internet. I have a nice reverse racist card that Madam gave me, and I am not sure what it says in the Engliss but it is a nice card ok?
My preferred pronoun is keoi. It is 佢 in Cantonese but means ditch in Mandarin so...
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Don't Be Like Che →
lahiri:
“Every time I see some privileged person protest touring, I think of Che. Every time I hear about some insurrectionists starting shit in other people’s neighborhoods, I think of Che. Every time some twenty-something white dudes audaciously roll into a room like they have all the answers – summarily dismissing the experience and knowledge of everyone else there – I think of Che....
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and a side note
On a serious note, I find the privileged gaze of white people wanting to have some connection to a disaster than happens to an ethnic minority (thereby erasing anyone else who may have been present), and by extension wanting to ~experience~ something that happens to an ethnic minority so much that they rehash and rehash these tropes endlessly in their writing; this to me is symbolic of something...
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Y U NO PAINT SHIPWRECKS RE
jaded16india:
So Western Feminist lady wrote disaster porn. Thurs and I couldn’t not comment, of coursely!
The earthquake happened while I was in Boston. By the time I came home, it was already huge news. The only thing that seemed to matter, that seemed at all meaningful, was footage of the catastrophes. When I had a spare moment, I’d watch it. Sometimes just the same video, on a loop, over...
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thenakedsamba:
Things We Already Knew: Yahweh had a wife who was edited out of holy books
thesixpennybook:
nextian:
porygon2:
Yahweh had a wife who was edited out of holy books
jonathan-cunningham:
“You might know him as Yahweh, Allah or God. But on this fact, Jews, Muslims and Christians, the people of the great Abrahamic religions, are agreed: There is only one of Him,” writes...
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Asherah
porygon2:
Yahweh had a wife who was edited out of holy books
jonathan-cunningham:
“You might know him as Yahweh, Allah or God. But on this fact, Jews, Muslims and Christians, the people of the great Abrahamic religions, are agreed: There is only one of Him,” writes Stavrakopoulou in a statement released to the British media. “He is a solitary figure, a single, universal creator, not one God...
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Thank You, Jessica Valenti
jaded16india:
whatfreshhellisthis:
Because it’s wrong.: Thank you, Jessica Valenti.
au-gust:
My first introduction to mainstream feminism was through Feministing. I learned a lot of valuable lessons there. How to prune undesirable elements- like those pesky trans folks!- from your movement (hint: make them feel unsafe and unwelcome!); how to silence and dismiss people who call you out...
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On another thought
jaded16india:
devendras-mistress:
jaded16india:
devendras-mistress:
jaded16india:
devendras-mistress:
jaded16india:
[EDITED BECAUSE MY OCD IS FREAKING OUT]
If I call a Nice Imperial Peeps [insert word here], that is the worst thing I can do to them. I cannot, say, deny them a bank loan or flatten their culture and market it to my brownbrown customers because there are so many...
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"You have got to stop calling each other sluts and...
aeraspais:
Tumblr. Tumblr. Tumblr. Can we please talk about how much we should actually hate this line? It is not inspirational or helpful or tbh remotely feminist. Yes, we should stop calling another sluts and whores because that shit ain’t cute, but this quote singlehandedly places the blame for patriarchy on women. Just saying.
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things the third world does not have, apparently.
jaded16india:
thesadnessofpencils:
jaded16india:
thesadnessofpencils:
(in response to whitepplprobs on tumblr. wtf seriously.)
Hospitals
Cars
Houses
Working plumbing
A sense of humour
Schools
Clothes
People who speak English
also God exists because all those dusty wimminz never talk about sex and yet we have massive population growth. So God is busy doing the Dusty Immaculate...
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things the third world does not have, apparently.
jaded16india:
thesadnessofpencils:
(in response to whitepplprobs on tumblr. wtf seriously.)
Hospitals
Cars
Houses
Working plumbing
A sense of humour
Schools
Clothes
People who speak English
also God exists because all those dusty wimminz never talk about sex and yet we have massive population growth. So God is busy doing the Dusty Immaculate Conception, okay? Okay.
add to this list...
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things the third world does not have, apparently.
(in response to whitepplprobs on tumblr. wtf seriously.)
Hospitals
Cars
Houses
Working plumbing
A sense of humour
Schools
Clothes
People who speak English
also God exists because all those dusty wimminz never talk about sex and yet we have massive population growth. So God is busy doing the Dusty Immaculate Conception, okay? Okay.
add to this list as necessary.
Re-Membering Ties; Re-Forming Bonds
jaded16india:
thefeministhub:
Last week, I read Houria Bouteldja’s essay on Decolonial Feminism And The Privilege Of Solidarity and came away with agreeing with most of it, though there are some big problematic themes hazed over — like the ‘question’ of Islam and feminism co-existing (hint: this shouldn’t take consideration) or even the notion of ‘decolonisation’ mentioned many times in the...
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kiriamaya:
Help For Delight
kiriamaya:
meloukhia:
Yes, I am going to continue promoting the Help For Delight auction until she gets the assistance she needs! Short story: Delight has significant expenses related to needing to get out of an unsafe housing situation while also supporting her mother through cancer treatment the insurance company will not pay for. We’re raising funds for her by...
“If you have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is to convince...”
– Maya Angelou, accomplished poet, writer, activist and teacher
(via mammacass)
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Sarcasm can be difficult for neuro-atypical people...
kiriamaya:
And yet, I see lots of social justice writers mocking people for that, and that makes me sad.
Please don’t mock people for having difficulties like that.
“The schools we go to are the reflections of the society that created them....”
– Assata Shakur (via afro-ninja)
I often think that tumblr has provided me with more education than University ever has.
(via sheresists)
I would like to add that this also goes for the school systems everywhere else. They are wise words and true across the board, I think.
(via jemimaaslana)
“White supremacist ideology is based first and foremost on the degradation of...”
– Cornel West (via originalxcopy)
does anyone out there identify as sexually fluid?
tiaramerchgirl:
xicanagrrrl:
i think it’s kindof a better fit for where i’m at, but like, isn’t all sexuality somewhat fluid?
so what would *identifying* that way really mean?
I would consider it as a recognition that for some of us, our sexuality ebbs and flows and changes throughout our lifetime, expresses itself differently in different places and times, and that simple labels - even...
