March 2012
52 posts
“Earl Scruggs, the bluegrass banjo player whose hard-driving picking style...”
– Earl Scruggs, Bluegrass Banjo Player, Dies at 88 - - NYTimes.co
(via mountainousmoundymarmalade)
omg I’m going to a “gender-free”/queer techno CONTRA in NYC omg
milkeemountainmama:
in an important meeting right now—talking about The South as a region of grassroots organizing and leftist mobilization. extremely important, extremely shifting in my perseptions—I mean, i had always sorta rebelled at the “omg, it’s the south, thus it’s hopeless” thing. but talking to activists from the south who are doing work—all while sitting under a quote from WEB de Bois...
And another cop shoots a black dude in NYC.
racismschool:
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
Claimed he had a gun because he was “adjusting his waistband”. Busted down the door to his house, shot him to death in his bathroom.
No, this never happened. According to every single comment section under every single story about Trayvon Martin, you ONLY hear about things when it is Black people that have been shot by a white person. Never the other way...
Watchgeneralbriefing:
fuckyeahfamousblackgirls:
Toni Morrison Takes White Supremacy To Task
Few intellectuals have waged a public battle against white supremacy and patriarchy like Toni Morrison. Morrison has both examined and challenged systems of domination throughout her intellectual life. With her novels, essays, and interviews she has taken critical looks at the interlocking systems of race...
milkeemountainmama:
i am emotionally very very sick right now, and i can’t handle tumblr at this moment. but before i sign off for good (or at least continue on with “all korra all the time” tumblring—
i have to say the most compassionate thing i can muster at the moment.
white folks—please. for the love of god, *please*—make it your duty, your activist social justice duty, to remember,...
Get to the Source: What do I need to do so they... →
karnythia:
daniellemertina:
highpriestessofjogan:
daniellemertina:
I am really trying to understand how different white people see me than how I see myself. I’ve been literally looking at Joshua, looking at my brother, looking at other black males and trying to understand why whites think they’re dangerous.
But I cannot see it.
I cannot…
We’re not all like that…you know that right? I...
Rekia Boyd, Black Woman Shot By Off-Duty Chicago...
talldarkbishoujo:
dank-potion:
pearlfectchassi:
Source: Ben Bradley / ABC7Chicago.com
CHICAGO - A woman shot by an off-duty Chicago police officer on Wednesday morning died Thursday. Family members say she was an innocent bystander and are calling for an investigation into her death.
“How could this be justified? They took my sister away from me,” said Martinez Sutton, the brother of...
Rekia Boyd
Rekia Boyd, a 22-year old woman, died in the hospital yesterday after she was shot by an (off-duty) Chicago police officer. She was UNARMED.
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=8591349
What does it mean when a story of racist violence (Trayvon Martin) goes “viral” and receives extensive national news media coverage? How do we honor Trayvon Martin’s life...
White Silence: A Follow-Up
owlsandelephants:
White Silence: A Follow-Up
blackgirldangerous:
There have been many, many views of my post on white silence, many re-blogs, and much discussion, and I just want to clarify a few things:
I am not calling for “commentary” from my white friends about issues of race. I am not calling for my white friends to tell me that they understand what it is like for folks of color in this...
"What’s the life expectancy for black guys? The...
readnfight:
I am getting really fucking stressed out for my students, most of whom are black and/or latino young men, compounded by the world + working 10 hours at school + a fucked up faculty meeting where I spoke up tho for the kids I work with because I was too tired at that point to give a shit about pissing off white teachers who say derisive things about hip-hop while asking “What does...
So you wanna wear black tomorrow for Trayvon... →
thewayistare:
Esoterica: So you wanna wear black tomorrow for Trayvon Martin?
mehreenkasana:
withrevolutionarycries:
librariesandlemonade:
But you’re white, and you wonder if doing so is insensitive? Well, in some ways, it totally is. One of those ways is that, as a…
“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)
always reblog because survival IS revolutionary.
(via sistahmamaqueen)
this quote has been in my head today for reasons.
(via theoceanandthesky)
An app for undocumented immigrants arrested in...
univisionnews:
An app in the works would help undocumented immigrants who are pulled over by police notify family and friends of their whereabouts. (Flickr: Steve Rhodes)
By JUAN GASTELUM Channel: Immigration
An Arizona-based immigrant rights group is aiming to develop a smartphone application that would help undocumented immigrants alert friends, family, and their attorney if they are...
The Precarious Politics of Desire →
mmmajestic:
I’ve been reading these recent conversations about “the privilege of being desired” bop around Tumblr these past few days. The conversation was a bit hard to follow because it was happening in all different directions (which is simultaneously really cool and hard to navigate)….
“I will know the difference when I start seeing these policemen shoot white boys...”
– Toni Morrison on when she will know that America has made racial progress (via howtobeterrell)
“I think part of the reason we have trouble drawing the line “it’s not okay to...”
– The Pervocracy: Consent culture. (via lookoutsideyourself)
I’m thinking about what it looks like to claim a...
to celebrate sex and value sexuality and bodies and queerness in our (radical, queer) communities at the same time that we question/challenge/de-center the primacy of sex in how we construct our notions of queerness. I want to challenge the idea that being sex positive means having lots of sex all the time, especially casual sex, especially non-monogamous sex, with lots of different partners,...
Moniquilliloquies.: About Cop Watch →
superdreaming:
apihtawikosisan:
ladyatheist:
i-am-septima:
baddominicana:
poemsofthedead:
note-a-bear:
So there are groups that do this, they stay in highly policed areas on shifts and bring cameras and such, and record to make sure police brutality doesn’t escalate, and when it happens there’s evidence against it.
But that’s not the only way it can happen.
Every single person is...
Fashion Queers →
crankyskirt:
inthethickofit:
I want to pause for a minute and talk about queerness and clothing.
I want to talk about how often when folks talk about gender neutral clothing they’re talking about clothing that is traditionally seen as male clothing.
I want to talk about how despite best efforts, masculinity and trans masculinity are still given great honor in queer spaces and that many...
“Could the veterans of the Stonewall and Compton’s Cafeteria uprising against...”
– Dean Spade, Normal Life, p. 89 (via funkyfest)
One day I’ll live in the South. One day I’ll live in Virginia. One day I’ll live in the mountains. And then maybe I won’t miss it all so much.
Why do I keep moving everywhere else? Why do I find it so hard to really engage, to truly invest in a community anywhere else?
blev: White Privilege: Now What & Other Such... →
racismschool:
Examples of what white privilege deniers THINK it means to be told to “Check Your Privilege.”
Apologize for being white
Believe white is bad or wrong
Be ashamed of being white
Feel guilty for being white
Examples of what people ACTUALLY mean when they say “Check Your…
