February 2012
Desperate to prove that he totally doesn't hate... →
stfusexists:
HA HAHA HAHAHAHA wut.
“Sadly the propaganda campaign launched in the 1960s has taken root. The radical...”
– Republican presidential candidate RICK SANTORUM, writing in his 2005 book It Takes A Family, essentially saying that women have no role in the workplace.
They’re just good for heterosexual sex, making babies and cleaning up the house, right, Rick?
Amazingly, about half of half of the country is...
Anyone who says "Oh, they wouldn't fire you for...
hermocrates:
thefremen:
sanaa-tamir:
poemsofthedead:
You must be white, cis, het, and Christian…
Things are only as illegal as the system enforces them to be.
Also, it’s legal to fire people for being gay or transgender in most states.
Scott Walker's New Defense: Recalling Me Hurts... →
motherjones:
On MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Monday morning, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker trotted out a new talking point as he defends himself from a well-organized recall campaign hoping to oust him from office. In a nutshell, Walker said: Think of the children! Think of the seniors!
How ironic. In his first budget, Walker slashed public education funding by $800 million to $900 million. Walker and...
a story of my life
me: okay time to write for real now
tumblr: lolnope
a story of my life
me: okay time to write for real now
tumblr: lolnope
Angela Davis on violence
when she was in the California State Prison - 1972
Interviewer: A year ago the black panthers were much more active. We heard much more about that type of struggle. Is the time of the black panthers past?
Angela Davis: The black panthers still exist, and the black panthers are still extremely active in the Oakland community and communities all over the country. I’m not sure whether or not you are aware of what is now happening in the black panther party and the kinds of things that the members of that party are doing now.
Interviewer: No but tell me.
Angela Davis: First of all, if you’re gonna talk about a revolutionary situation, you have to have people who are physically able to wage revolution, who are physically able to organize and physically able to do all that is done.
Interviewer: But the question is more, how do you get there? Do you get there by confrontation, violence?
Angela Davis: Oh, is that the question you were asking? Yeah see, that’s another thing. When you talk about a revolution, most people think violence, without realizing that the real content of any revolutionary thrust lies in the principles and the goals that you’re striving for, not in the way you reach them. On the other hand, because of the way this society’s organized, because of the violence that exists on the surface everywhere, you have to expect that there are going to be such explosions. You have to expect things like that as reactions. If you are a black person and live in the black community all your life and walk out on the street everyday seeing white policemen surrounding you… When I was living in Los Angeles, for instance, long before the situation in L.A ever occurred, I was constantly stopped. No, the police didn’t know who I was. But I was a black women and I had a natural and they, I suppose thought I might be “militant.” And when you live under a situation like that constantly, and then you ask me, you know, whether I approve of violence. I mean, that just doesn’t make any sense at all. Whether I approve of guns. I grew up in Birmingham, Alabama. Some very, very good friends of mine were killed by bombs, bombs that were planted by racists. I remember, from the time I was very small, I remember the sounds of bombs exploding across the street. Our house shaking. I remember my father having to have guns at his disposal at all times, because of the fact that, at any moment, we might expect to be attacked. The man who was, at that time, in complete control of the city government, his name was Bull Connor, would often get on the radio and make statements like, “niggers have moved into a white neighborhood. We better expect some bloodshed tonight.” And sure enough, there would be bloodshed. After the four young girls who lived, one of them lived next door to me…I was very good friends with the sister of another one. My sister was very good friends with all three of them. My mother taught one of them in her class. My mother—in fact, when the bombing occurred, one of the mothers of one of the young girls called my mother and said, “Can you take me down to the church to pick up Carol? We heard about the bombing and I don’t have my car.” And they went down and what did they find? They found limbs and heads strewn all over the place. And then, after that, in my neighborhood, all the men organized themselves into an armed patrol. They had to take their guns and patrol our community every night because they did not want that to happen again. That’s why, when someone asks me about violence, I just, I just find it incredible. Because what it means is that the person who’s asking that question has absolutely no idea what black people have gone through, what black people have experienced in this country since the time the first black person was kidnapped from the shores of Africa.
“Facebook is very confused. They seem to think breasts are only about sex, but...”
– Belinda Phipps (Sorry, Facebook – on breastfeeding you seem rather confused | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk)
Rape jokes earn an instant unfollow from me.
bookishbutch:
Thank you and good bye.
“This is like watching a Greek tragedy. It’s the negative campaigning and the...”
– Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), quoted by the Boston Herald, on the state of the Republican presidential race. (via liberalsarecool)
A Girl Like Me →
grrrlvirus:
I look at Rihanna and go, “Girl, c’mon, just let Chris Brown fall into a grave of his own design.” And yet, unfortunately, I totally get it.
“I never want kids, and that doesn’t mean I’m going to run off and join a...”
– stfusexists
THANK YOU.
(via thewerecunt)
I don’t even remember writing this. But it’s pretty awesome.
I should search myself more often, because I am apparently pretty neat-o.
(via stfusexists)
workingsex:
“Some feminists want to stop men from seeing all women as whores. Well, sex worker advocates want everyone to stop seeing whores as something other than women, other than human. These goals are not the same, and radical feminists are not helping prostitutes as long as they are casting us off as something other than fully human.”
Great article. It’s a must read.
Sponsor of Alabama ultrasound law has financial... →
stfuconservatives:
rodmanstreet:
ladonnapietra:
Now isn’t that interesting.
Ugh.
SURPRISE!
this fucking country is too much for me
“It is shocking that in 2012, Brown and his Republican colleagues would try to...”
– In the Boston Globe, Elizabeth Warren rightly notes that Scott Brown (R-MA) and his GOP colleagues are not men who trust women. (via unquietmindofamy)
Pennsylvania State-Sanctioned Rape Law is Most... →
stfuconservatives:
keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus:
Holy fucking christ.
At the link, there is a petition to sign and information about who in Pennsylvania to contact to voice your displeasure or rage.
Nobody fucking trusts pregnant people to know that they are in fact pregnant. These ultrasound laws are invasive, disgusting and demeaning. From the article:
“In addition to mandating the...
“When you took your oath of office, you placed your hand on the Bible and swore...”
– Jamie Raskin - who is now a senator in Maryland and served as floor manager of the recently passed bill allowing same sex marriage. (via abaldwin360)
BOOM.
(via tehblackbirdisincognito)
“**TRIGGER WARNING**
“Sandy” had a common experience: She is a 35 year-old...”
– Human Trafficking of Immigrant Transgender Women: Hidden in the Shadows (via thetart)
“Rape culture is a culture in which people who have survived a violent crime are...”
– (i wish i could put this on a business card and hand it out to people who make rape jokes. the flip side would say FUCK YOU)
