February 2012
108 posts
2 tags
Banker Leaves 1% Tip On $133 Lunch Bill In...
fuckyeahfeminists:
I am fuming. As a former waitress, I know how fucking hurtful this is. Does this even cover the credit card fee that the server will have to pay? This is fucking ridiculous, vindictive and mean. Being a server IS a real job. And if everyone had “real jobs” who the fuck would serve asshats like you, jerk?
[Read the rest of HuffPo]
“Sandy” had a common experience: She is a 35 year-old transgender woman from...”
– Human Trafficking of Immigrant Transgender Women: Hidden in the Shadows (via thetart)
4 tags
“The dominant imagery of black masculinity in hiphop is the fact that somebody...”
– Chuck D
damn, son. #word
they got us hating each other instead of challenging those who oppress us. focus your anger on the white man and his system, not on your brother. (via thefeeloffree)
“Budapestian Dianics argue that transwomen were not raised as female from birth...”
– Ryiah Nevo, from “Twenty Years in the Dianic Traditions,” in the anthology Gender and Transgender in Modern Paganism.
All women have unique experiences because we are not solely women.
(via phillypagan)
Supreme Court to decide if corporations can be... →
sarahlee310:
The Supreme Court will weigh next week whether corporations can be sued in the United States for suspected complicity in human rights abuses abroad, in a case being closely watched by businesses concerned about long and costly litigation.
The high court on Tuesday will consider the reach of a 1789 U.S. law that had been largely dormant until 1980, when human rights lawyers ...
[TW: Police Brutality] Chicago police shoot... →
jadedfucker:
vanillaandlavender:
karnythia:
anticapitalist:
Chicago Police snuck onto innocent man’s property and into his garage where they shot him without warning. Once they realized their mistake, they work on getting story straight instead of calling an ambulance, which they do only after they catch victim talking on phone.
A federal civil rights lawsuit has been filed against the...
Sweden close to ending forced sterilization of... →
gaywrites:
Forced sterilization of transgender people in Sweden may soon come to an end, thanks to political changes facilitating a change in policy.
Seventeen countries in the European Union currently require sterilization in order for people to change genders on legal documents. Sweden is currently one of them, mainly because a coalition of conservative groups called the Christian Democrat...
LGBT Muslim Retreat Few Spaces Available →
naijaboi:
Dear friends, As of today there are only a few spaces remaining to attend the 2012 Retreat for LGBT Muslims, being held outside Philadelphia, PA from May 25-28, 2012 (Memorial Day weekend in the US). The following rooms & spaces are available: Onsite: Single - 1 single bed; 5 rooms…
Sasha Mallory: Moving on →
sashamallory:
From my seat in the sky I think and wonder why I let myself get to this place again for the second fucking time.
Questions that fill my head for answers that will never be read because I would rather be led to love instead of having to beg
Silly of me to believe you were the one for me when…
Sasha, this was absolutely beautiful! I felt myself in every line, in every...
“Intersectionality is not optional. It is not something you can take off and put...”
– Intersectionality Is Not Optional (via satifice)
Kickass Openly Gay Native American Woman Elected... →
cassket:
Nine Native Americans have served in the Minnesota state legislature since the state’s founding, and all of them have been men. But on Tuesday, The Land of 10,000 Lakes chose via special election its first ever Native American woman to serve on its state legislature, and the first Native American lesbian to ever serve in any state legislature anywhere.
Susan Allen (not to be confused...
5 tags
Watchpantslessprogressive:
ABC’s Jake Tapper to White House Press Secretary: “You want aggressive journalism abroad; you just don’t want it in the United States.”
TAPPER: The White House keeps praising these journalists who are — who’ve been killed –
CARNEY: I don’t know about “keep” — I think -
TAPPER: You’ve done it, Vice President Biden did it in a statement. How does that square with the fact...
5 tags
Watchpantslessprogressive:
ABC’s Jake Tapper to White House Press Secretary: “You want aggressive journalism abroad; you just don’t want it in the United States.”
TAPPER: The White House keeps praising these journalists who are — who’ve been killed –
CARNEY: I don’t know about “keep” — I think -
TAPPER: You’ve done it, Vice President Biden did it in a statement. How does that square with the fact...
Hey LGBT Activists, →
ethiopienne:
You do know that it’s possible to fight for LGBT rights without appropriating the Civil Rights movement, right? And that the Civil Rights movement is not yours to appropriate? And that dismantling homophobia can be done without perpetuating racism? And that—huge shocker here,…
“I don’t take hormones and I haven’t had surgery. I’m not less Trans than anyone...”
– Tristan Skye (via laughdancedream)
4 tags
“We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love...”
– Charles Bukowski (via thechocolatebrigade)
1 tag
BREAKING: Virginia Personhood Bill Officially Dead →
stfuconservatives:
fuckyeahfeminists:
“I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes...”
– Mary Shelley, Frankenstein. (via riverran)
Sounds like a Gemini to me.
1 tag
BREAKING: Bradley Manning is formally charged with... →
occupyonline:
The enemy being Truth?
3 tags
Catholic Nuns File Brief Supporting Affordable... →
fuckyeahfeminists:
As further proof that conservative efforts to paint President Obama as the enemy of religion are a red herring, nearly two dozen leading Catholic nuns filed a brief in the Supreme Court last week supporting the president’s signature legislative accomplishment. The Catholic sisters who joined the brief include the leaders of many prominent religious orders providing health...
3 tags
Oakland Police Shoot Oscar Grant’s Cousin →
jessicavalenti:
What the ever loving fuck.
4 tags
6 tags
#NYPD monitoring #Muslim students @ #Yale, #Penn,... →
afrolez:
“…Police trawled daily through student websites run by Muslim student groups at Yale, the University of Pennsylvania, Rutgers and 13 other colleges in the Northeast….” DISTURBING.
“Queer doesn’t mean “don’t label me,” it means “I am naming myself.” It means...”
– What Queerness Means to Me | Tranarchism (via doxian)
damn right
(via tranqualizer)
“It’s Not My Birthday, & I Don’t Want Cake”:On... →
Yolo, you are speaking to me greatly today.
Emotional justice is about working with this... →
ancestryinprogress:
Amazing article on emotional justice and activist organizations, written by Yolo Aikili
Supreme Court takes up affirmative action case |... →
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court today agreed to consider whether the University of Texas at Austin has the right to consider race and ethnicity in admissions decisions. Those bringing the case hope the Supreme Court will restrict or even eliminate the right of colleges to consider race in admissions – a prerogative last affirmed by the Supreme Court in 2003 in a case involving the...
Private Prison Corporation Offers Cash In Exchange... →
queernonymoose:
domesticterrorism:
As state governments wrestle with massive budget shortfalls, a Wall Street giant is offering a solution: cash in exchange for state property. Prisons, to be exact.
Corrections Corporation of America, the nation’s largest operator of for-profit prisons, has sent letters recently to 48 states offering to buy up their prisons as a remedy for “challenging...
“Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has...”
– H. JACKSON BROWN JR.
6 tags
“Why is it accepted that some people who eat a ton of food can stay thin, but not...”
– Some Things I Don’t Understand « Dances With Fat (via sixtyforty)
Hundreds of women take to VA State Capitol to... →
jessicavalenti:
Via Steph Herold.
img: Rihanna responding to a Tweet from Chris... →
love-resist:
thedailywhat:
[snipped bullshit from TDW]
“And I’ll never forgive you for forgiving him”
FUCK THAT SHIT.
This is bullshit. Oh, because you read about her experience, you now are the definitive expert on all things Rihanna should do in her life?!
So much rage at this.
I don’t understand how anyone has the gall to be angry at Rihanna for anything related to Chris Brown. My...
WTF? ESPN.com's "Contact Us" Gives Option To Hate...
fuckyeahfeminists:
[via Complex.com]
1 tag
“I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me...”
– Audre Lorde
(via sophisticatedboi)