truly believing that the things you’re doing are solely impacting the economy or not negatively impacting anyone
guess what? at 8 am when some people need to get to their minimum wage jobs to support their families they can’t afford to be 2 hours late to work…neither…
While Korra is the Princess of Nicknames, Toph will always remain Queen.
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Since he’s to BUSY to answer an email or take requests about protecting honoring or respecting his ” tastes”
with much more than expletives.
I will happily take a moment to do the work of letting folks know how he gets down!
Cause really all of these upstanding righteous Negroes will draw the line at blatant pedophila?
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when I realized that all them shits are the same:
- Two men fighting for one woman and she wants em both
- Someone always gets thrown down the stairs
- There’s always a car chase (crash included)
- Errrrrbody looks the same except for the service providing folks
- Over the top…
‘Justice for Vern’ They Shouted for Miles
Rapid City, South Dakota — They gathered 1,500 strong in support of blind Lakota elder, Vernon Traversie, who claims he was a victim of a healthcare hate crime.
Native trills and drums could be heard from a mile away, and “justice for Vern” was shouted as the crowd took to the streets in protest of Rapid City Regional Hospital.
At least 300 of those made the protest march from the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center to RCRH — where Traversie explains in his YouTube video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxrYQ0mFFQs) how he came to have three Ks embedded in his flesh after surgery.
Traversie told Last Real Indians last month that was not the only mistreatment he endured. He said, “I had a male nurse come over and tell me to shut my f****** mouth, because I asked for pain medication after my surgery.”
He then related, “I felt scared and humiliated. I couldn’t even move my arms. I felt helpless.”
Among the 1,500 that gathered at Memorial Park, original members of the American Indian Movement rallied for an FBI investigation into Traversie’s claims.
Controversial AIM founder, Dennis Banks, rallied, “40 years ago we said we will not tolerate this abuse, discrimination, and killings. Why is it that racism is so active here in western South Dakota?” READ THE REST AT: http://www.lastrealindians.com/2012/05/23/justice-for-vern-they-shouted-for-miles/
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What if men were photographed the way women typically were? I love this!
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Lee Atwater, a head republican strategist, in an anonymous interview in 1981. He is admitting that republicans use coded-language to appeal to the racists in their base. Because, as he always said, “people vote their fears.”
Lee, who would eventually become the head of the Republican National Committee, helped Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush win their Presidential elections by teaching them to use overtly-racist tactics.
When the N-word became taboo, Republicans began referring to black people in less-direct ways, with terms like “welfare queens.” They learned how to say the N-word, without saying the N-word.
Sadly, this still continues today. As seen in Newt Gingrich’s claim that Obama is a “food stamp President” and Rick Santorum’s assertion that he doesn’t “want to make black people’s lives better by giving them someone else’s money.”
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Every time someone in my class uses the phrase “Illegal Alien”
365 films challenge | #087: Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
“You’re getting older, and you’ll see that life isn’t like your fairy tales. The world is a cruel place. And you’ll learn that, even if it hurts. Magic does not exist. Not for you, me, or anyone else.”
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*SCREAMS*
OKDMEFRGR
kill me nao
dsfasdfsdlkfjasd korrasami go
D’Angelo - Devil’s Pie
Love the vintage sound of this Grammy winning (Best R&B) record.
Main ingredients 2 this dish
Goes like this
Here’s the list
Materialistic, greed and lust, jealousy, envious
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This is a somewhat controversial stance, but to me queer means something completely different than “gay” or “lesbian” or “bisexual.” A queer person is usually someone who has come to a non-binary view of gender, who recognizes the validity of all trans identities, and who, given this understanding of infinite gender possibilities, finds it hard to define their sexuality any longer in a gender-based way. Queer people understand and support non-monogamy even if they do not engage in it themselves. They can grok being asexual or aromantic. (What does sex have to do with love, or love with sex, necessarily?) A queer can view promiscuous (protected) public bathhouse sex with strangers and complete abstinence as equally healthy.
Queers understand that people have different relationships to their bodies. We get what it means to be stone. We know what body dysphoria is about. We understand that not everyone likes to get touched the same way or to get touched at all. We realize that people with disabilities may have different sexual needs, and that people with survivor histories often have sexual triggers. We can negotiate safe and creative ways to be intimate with people with HIV/AIDs and other STIs.
Queers understand the range of power and sensation and the diversity of sexual dynamics. We are tops and bottoms, doms and subs, sadists and masochists and sadomasochists, versatiles and switches. We know what we like and don’t like in bed.
We embrace a wide range of relationship types. We can be partners, lovers, friends with benefits, platonic sweethearts, chosen family. We can have very different dynamics with different people, often all at once. We don’t expect one person to be able to fulfill all our diverse needs, fantasies and ideals indefinitely.
Because our views on relationships, sex, gender, love, bodies, and family are so unconventional, we are of necessity anti-assimilationist. Because under the kyriarchy we suffer, and watch the people we love suffering, we are political. Because we want to survive, we fight. We only want the freedom to be ourselves, love ourselves, love each other, and live together. Because we are routinely denied that, we are pissed.
Queer doesn’t mean “don’t label me,” it means “I am naming myself.” It means “ask me more questions if you’re curious” and in the same breath means “fuck off. — What Queerness Means To Me « Tranarchism (via docasaur)
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Tue, 15 May 2012 10:52:52 GMT
An award winning photographer who has devoted her working life to documenting the lives of black lesbians has had five years worth of her work stolen.
Zanele Muholi, described by the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa as “one of the country’s foremost artists”, had more than 20 external hard drives stolen from her flat in Vredehoek, Cape Town on April 20.
The hard drives contain stills and video footage, including photos from the funerals of victims of homophobic hate crimes. It is thought that the burglars were targeting Muholi’s work, as little else was taken from her flat, and back up hard drives were also taken.
Muholi’s partner Liesl Theron, with whom she shares the flat, said that her possessions were left untouched, except for a laptop which was stolen, further fuelling belief that Muholi was the intended target of the crime.
The work taken had been captured across South Africa, Zimbabwe, Uganda and Malawi, according to the Cape Times. Also stolen was work due to be shown at an exhibition in July, which Muholi believes she will now have to cancel.
Despite the volume of work stolen and the imminence of the planned exhibition, Muholi’s plight has been largely ignored by the media. It is believed that the lack of publicity is due to the nature of her work, which shows a different side to the black lesbian community than that usually represented in the mainstream media.
“I’m not myself. I can’t even sleep at night since I’ve heard about the burglary,” the devastated Muholi told DIVA. She has appealed for anyone who knows the whereabouts of the hard drives to return them.
Queer photographer Del LaGrace Volcano said of the theft; “Zanele’s work is, in my not so humble opinion, some of the most important work being produced, not just in Africa, but anywhere. I consider her a dear friend and mourn the loss of her archive as if it were my own.”
Zanele’s supporters are fundraising to help her replace the stolen equipment. Donations can be made online atIndieGoGo.
The investigation into the burglary is ongoing, according to a police spokesperson.
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