April 2012
The person I reblogged this from deserves to be happy.
guerilla love and kindness meditation!
yesssss. <3 <3 <3!
A CIRCLE OF GUERILLA LOVE AND KINDNESS MEDITATION OK FOR REAL LOGGING OUT.
The person I reblogged this from deserves to be happy.
guerilla love and kindness meditation!
“On Racialicious, Carmen Van Kerckhove dubbed hipster racism one of 2006’s top race and pop culture trends, which means that hipster or “ironic” racism has been a topic of conversation by writers of color and others in the social justice sphere for literally years. You won’t find any links or acknowledgments of these earlier discussions in West’s Jezebel post, but hey, at least a whole new audience of people will be that much closer to knowing how to talk about stuff like Lesley Arfin’s insensitive, “ironic” tweet last week.”
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Gawker Calls Out Hipster Racism, Is Called Out for Hipster Racism | Bitch Media
Should we now also have “hipster appropriation” for those times when the works of WoC are appropriated without reference?
(via redlightpolitics)
Trying very very hard not laugh ..
VERY VERY HARD
EXTREMELY HARD
(via blackamazon)
TRANS COUCHSURFING NETWORK - PLEASE BOOST THE HELL OUT OF THIS →
transcouchnetwork.tumblr.com
Hi! I just started a tumblr, the Transgender Couchsurfing Network. After seeing dozens of posts come across my dash about displaced or homeless trans people needing places to crash, I decided that there had to be a way to organize these posts somehow, and to put those in need in contact with those willing to lend a hand. If you’re trans and need a place to stay, or if you have a couch or floor or spare bedroom available for someone in need, I urge you to reblog this post, follow the blog, and get the word out. Everything is still under heavy construction, but the more people that see and hear about this blog, the more people will be able to benefit from it! I know that there are so many people here on tumblr who are in need of a place to stay for a night or two, and I also know how many amazing, wonderful people would be willing to host someone and help out a trans person in need. We all know what a huge problem unemployment and homelessness are for trans people (especially TPOC and trans women) — even a place to stay for a night can make the biggest difference! So PLEASE, even if you can’t offer up your couch, REBLOG AND SIGNAL BOOST. I really, really think that this is something that could help a lot of people, and I would LOVE to see this spammed all over my dash and the dashes of all of my lovely followers!!
This is excellent and I hope it helps someone.
(And of course there’s a lot of risk, but if you need this you are already at very high risk).
“What we didn’t hear about was a how an African-American women who in the course of protecting herself from an abusive husband who beat her while she was pregnant, shot a gun that she legally owns into the air. No one was hurt, but she is now looking at 25 years. Yes indeed, you read that right, facing 25 years.. Her name is Marissa Alexander, she lives in Florida, is a mother of 3 and everyone should know her name and her case.The person who prosecuted her case is Angela Corey, the prosecutor in the George Zimmerman case.”
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yo, can you just go read this post?
(via cupcakesnotbombs)
readin & fightin: It has finally dawned on me. We need the trans* equivalent of Womanism. →
readnfight.tumblr.com
Seriously.
Many of us TPoC have essentially washed our hands of the trans* community because of its glaring whiteness problem.
And I want something else to call us and name or identity that will allows us a short form of recognizing each other…
i sent your care package on friday!! you have to look out for it in the mail!
omg yay.
I bet it will take a week, but this is just so exciting.
Dating While Fat And Feminist, And The Nasty Things You Learn About People After You Lose Weight →
blackgirlsguidetoweightloss.com
Erika Nicole Kendall has written a response to Crunktastic’s Big Girls Need Love, Too: Dating While Fat (And Feminist) (which I linked about the other day) on her own blog. Responding to Crunktastic’s dilemma about weight loss, feminism, receiving affection and sexual attraction, Kendall writes:
Do I think the blogger, nicknamed “Crunktastic,” is right to make this decision? I don’t think it’s my place to determine right and wrong for someone else… because, just as I can judge based on what she’s written, I also have to remember that for every word written, there’s almost always five other words not being written. I think a few things will happen, though: I think, for starters, she’ll be pretty grossed out by how quickly men who have always been present in her life will start to approach her differently; secondly, I think she’ll be annoyed by the new-found “thin-privilege” she may experience depending upon how far down she chooses to rest her weight; and thirdly, I think she’ll be more skeptical of the men she does encounter in wondering if they would like her if she was heavier…and what that says about their character.
Click here for the full article.
I should be clear, when I’m linking conversations about fatness, attraction, dating etc: I never, ever ever endorse the idea of ‘weight loss’. Google ‘Health At Every Size’ for more on that.
"Did you know green tea might be good for those with glitter?" →
nlm.nih.gov
Friend Suzie (who knows of my HSV+ status) sent me this link last week, which touts the benefits of green tea for a number of ailments. You know I’m all about the home remedies and such.
The article doesn’t actually say anything about green tea + herpes, but my Glitter Sponsor has recommended it for its soothing properties on more than one occasion. For relief of discomfort during a herpes outbreak:
- Brew green tea
- Squeeze tea bag
- Apply tea bag to angry bits
????Profit- Feel better
I mean this makes sense. From the article:
The useful parts of green tea are the leaf bud, leaf, and stem. Green tea is not fermented and is produced by steaming fresh leaves at high temperatures. During this process, it is able to maintain important molecules called polyphenols, which seem to be responsible for many of the benefits of green tea.
Polyphenols might be able to prevent inflammation and swelling, protect cartilage between the bones, and lessen joint degeneration. They also seem to be able to fight human papilloma virus (HPV) infections and reduce the growth of abnormal cells in the cervix (cervical dysplasia). Research cannot yet explain how this works.Emphasis mine. Herpes outbreaks can cause inflammation and swelling, which is why the doctor will suggest ibuprofin. Green tea fights those symptoms naturally.
Did you catch that cool bit about HPV, though?
Likely effective for… Genital warts. A specific green tea extract ointment (Veregen, Bradley Pharmaceuticals) is FDA-approved for treating genital warts.
A little more specific:
Some women use green tea to fight human papilloma virus (HPV), which can cause genital warts, the growth of abnormal cells in the cervix (cervical dysplasia), and cervical cancer.
APPLIED TO THE SKIN:
- For human papillomavirus (HPV) infections of the cervix: green tea ointment alone or in combination with oral green tea extract, twice weekly for 8-12 weeks.
- For genital warts: a specific green tea extract ointment (Veregen, Bradley Pharmaceuticals) providing 15% kunecatechins applied three times daily to external warts for up to 16 weeks has been used.
If you have HPV, look into treatments rooted in green tea!
did you know kiwi~lemon Mad Dog 20/20 comes in teenie tiny bottlez?
DID YOU ALSO KNOW THE FLAVOR MATCHES MY EYES?
and my 20/20 vision was fifty percent off.
“Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.”
—Audre Lorde (via loveyourchaos)
its getting harder and harder for me to trust white people and maybe thats a good thing
- white people: if we put too many people of color on this jury than it'll be more favorable to the person of color on trial
- people of color: ...
- people of color: so by that logic, you're agreeing that if we have too many white people on the jury than it'll be more favorable to the white person on trial
- white people: NO NEVER WHY WOULD WE EVER SAY THAT WE ARE FAIR AND OBJECTIVE ALWAYS
- people of color: ...
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From birth we’re taught that we’re owed a beautiful girl. We all think of ourselves as the hero of our own story, and we all (whether we admit it or not) think we’re heroes for just getting through our day.
So it’s very frustrating, and I mean frustrating to the point of violence, when we don’t get what we’re owed. A contract has been broken. These women, by exercising their own choices, are denying it to us. It’s why every Nice Guy is shocked to find that buying gifts for a girl and doing her favors won’t win him sex. It’s why we go to “slut” and “whore” as our default insults — we’re not mad that women enjoy sex. We’re mad that women are distributing to other people the sex that they owed us.
Yes, the women in these stories are being portrayed as wonderful and beautiful and perfect. But remember, there are two ways to dehumanize someone: by dismissing them, and by idolizing them.
” —David Wong, 5 Ways Modern Men Are Trained to Hate Women (via chirart)
Unmasking racial micro aggressions, and Empowerment Lols Of The Day →
apa.org
Some good stuff on various types of microaggressions:
Microassaults: Conscious and intentional actions or slurs, such as using racial epithets, displaying swastikas or deliberately serving a white person before a person of color in a restaurant.
Microinsults: Verbal and nonverbal communications that subtly convey rudeness and insensitivity and demean a person’s racial heritage or identity. An example is an employee who asks a colleague of color how she got her job, implying she may have landed it through an affirmative action or quota system.
Microinvalidations: Communications that subtly exclude, negate or nullify the thoughts, feelings or experiential reality of a person of color. For instance, white people often ask Asian-Americans where they were born, conveying the message that they are perpetual foreigners in their own land.
Today’s “empowerment lol of the day” goes to the ominously titled “Kenneth Sole, PhD” for his suggestion in the shitty “Mountain or mole hill?” section to people targeted by microaggressions that they should:
frame the incidents so they feel empowered
(Ah well, at least he didn’t say “agency”.)
Huh. But that gives me an idea. Radtransfems, what do you think about starting an empowerment lol of the day? Better suggestions for naming it eagerly welcomed.
