April 2011
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things you should know about prince concerts
abbyjean:
going to a prince concert:
if you ever have the opportunity to go to one, you should go. cancel your plans, do whatever needs to be done, but be there.
it doesn’t matter if you have good seats or the seats in the farthest reaches of the balcony. the only criteria for evaluating seats for a prince show is “are they in the same room where prince will be performing.” if the answer is...
March 2011
11 posts
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Deeply Problematic | Stalking is Hilarious on... →
I hate to write this, because I love Andy…But I do not love the way that he treats Ann and her new boyfriend Mark after she dumps him, nor do I love the way that the show frames his actions as cute, affectionate, and distinctly nonthreatening. Andy’s continued harassment and monitoring of Ann is not violent, but a big man following someone around and refusing to leave a former...
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i am the inverse of socially awkward penguin
great with meeting/making/trusting/maintaining friends in meatspace
TERRIBLE at it on the internet. i have very little sense of “netiquette”. even though that’s where i spend WAY more time.
Hermione Granger and the Failures of Feminism →
-sitara:
quixotess:
ardhra:
fourloves:
Speaking out against her peers’ devaluation of house-elves is a brave move befitting the best parts of Hermione’s character…But in forming SPEW, she uses her oppression as license to act as an authority, as a leader for folks who experience oppression she did not. This is a grave mistake common to people of privilege in social justice movements: she...
disability services are not accessible
fourloves:
transcript here: http://adeepercountry.blogspot.com/2011/03/disability-services-are-not-accessible.html
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“Part of the mechanics of oppressing people is to pervert them to the extent that...”
– Kumasi, activist, in the 2008 documentary Crips and Bloods: Made in America.
INSIGHTS INTO THE MAKING OF RIOT NRRD COMICS
rjriotnrrd:
ANYWAY this is usually the point where I go to bed and try again in the morning
[Image is a triptych,* three photoshop panels featuring a concerned Wren from Riot Nrrd in purple outline looking to the right from the left side of the frame. In the top she is surrounded by stars squigglies and “OH NO”. Second has a cloud with Nih’s happy face looking left with BUH...
An open letter to Netflix
psychotropicpolitics:
I blame it all on you. I blame you for my lack of interest in book-learnin’ and my schoolwork. And my inability to sleep for more than 7 hours at a time. I hate you. “My So-Called Life” is new on InstantWatch? OF COURSE. GREAT. Now I will get nothing done before dinner tonight. Are you happy, Netflix? Is this what you wanted? INTERVENTION NEEDED. You’re no good for me.
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Deeply Problematic | Hermione Granger and the... →
Hermione’s exercise of oppression is not immediately apparent; she herself is the most major character who experiences the focal point of oppression in the books: she is Muggle-born, and is in constant danger because of her birth. She is also a woman, and though sexism seems to be a less-than-significant problem in the magic world, as a girl raised partially in the Muggle world she is...
ocd and blogging habits
trigger warning and all for, idk, description of ocd rituals. it would trigger me is what i’m saying.
reload reload reload
click click click
f5 f5 f5
i finally figured out a big part of why blogging makes me unhappy sometimes. why it’s so heavily associated with a rise in my trichotillomania
it’s not just my anxiety
this checking, over and over and over again, to make sure of something,...
Come on, seriously
eateroftrees:
If you use ‘____phobia’ to refer to systematic oppression you are conflating disability and systematic oppression, and THIS HURTS PEOPLE.
So come up with new terms, please.
EDIT: And I’m not exaggerating about the hurting people thing; this has happened to me. ._. And there’s the whole issue of it strips people with the ability to self-identify because the term is associated...
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talking-bird:
rtothemj:
talking-bird:
I just saw an article call Leslie Knope a slut-shamer, and I’m confused.
She didn’t berate Trish in the Beauty Pageant for being “slutty,” but for being uninformed and unintelligent.
She didn’t berate Jessica Wicks for being “slutty,” but for destroying historical landmarks.
She didn’t care that Shauna had sex, she was just upset that it was with...
talking-bird:
I just saw an article call Leslie Knope a slut-shamer, and I’m confused.
She didn’t berate Trish in the Beauty Pageant for being “slutty,” but for being uninformed and unintelligent.
She didn’t berate Jessica Wicks for being “slutty,” but for destroying historical landmarks.
She didn’t care that Shauna had sex, she was just upset that it was with Mark.
She has had sex. She...
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Deeply Problematic: Why I Expect More from Parks... →
Leslie Knope, and the rest of the characters on the show, are good people who despite their various privileges try their best not to hurt people, except for Jerry. They try, for the most part, to treat people with respect and care, except for Jerry. They make mistakes and need to apologize sometimes, even to Jerry. It’s a show I can watch where people won’t make lots of jokes about...
February 2011
60 posts
“People who are racist, ableist, misogynist, homophobic, transphobic, classist,...”
– Softie In one of the most elegant takedowns of a derailing hate-anon I have seen this week. Get it, Softie. (via lettersfromtheattic)
This is awesome! Also, because the sourcing is sometimes weird on tumblr, here’s a direct link to the piece this is from.
Dear western cis feminists,
genderbitch:
Try to remember that your cissupremacist culture is the one that denied us the use of terminology that works for us, that can adequately describe our pain, our self conceptualization and how we feel, the underlying and epic truth of our existence that you deny.
It is your culture that resulted in less effective means of describing what it is to be trans like “woman/man/nonbinary...
Oh my fuck
eateroftrees:
Okay, so generally I understand myself and my motives and everything, right?
Yeaaaaahhh I just noticed that’s complete bullshit. I have somehow managed to persuade myself that I completely understand myself when I in fact have ABSOLUTELY NO CLUE about large swaths of everything.
I don’t think I can trust my head >.>
“Don’t believe everything you think”...
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Here is a story about how I fixed my clogged...
My bathroom sink has been clogged for about a month. It’s not the thing that’s been broken the longest in my house, but it’s the one that intruded the most into my daily activity; washing my face in the kitchen, dumping the guh-ross water that built up out in the shower, et cetera.
None of the usual pipe cleaning gel-type solution worked. My landlord refused to fix it, and then...
Reblog if you love Fat Acceptance
atchka:
I want to follow you (even if your blog is not FA-related).
one thing i like about bangs
My hair is a perfect sun shield sometimes.
thanks, disordered deficit of attention.
I know that people hovering over me to make sure I’m doing my work does not work. I know this because I never, ever did homework in high school.
But now that no one hovers over me to make me do my work? I really wish they would. Because here is my life right now:
*diligently works for an hour*
*LA LA LA TUMBLR*
*LA LA LA BEJEWELED BLITZ*
*realizes shift is almost up, scrambles to finish...
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“I also think God is a giant cunt if he wanted someone to be raped and...”
– baconandvincent
(via this-bodys-fabric)
I’m just reblogging this again because GODDAMN I love my 16 year old, feminist dreamboat little brother.
(via this-bodys-fabric)
I’m sorry, but how is this awesome? “Cunt” as an insult is pretty deeply misogynistic, as well as cissexist...
Savor Thursday's 'Parks and Recreation' outing,... →
talking-bird:
I HATE EVERYTHING.
FOR SERIOUS
WHY
THIS IS ALREADY A SHORT FUCKING SEASON
I NEED A GIF TO EXPRESS THIS
definatalie's bits: On Glee. →
m1randa:
rtothemj:
I cannot stand the show. Not really for political reasons, but because of the constant fake-sounding-singing. I’ve watched clips and half of episodes, but my reaction has never been anything other than “ew, ugh, ignorant, AHH MY EARS.” I’m a great fan of pop music, of Autotuned…
you guys DO realize that most of the actors sing on broadway… right?
I’m not a guy.
I...
On Glee.
I cannot stand the show. Not really for political reasons, but because of the constant fake-sounding-singing. I’ve watched clips and half of episodes, but my reaction has never been anything other than “ew, ugh, ignorant, AHH MY EARS.” I’m a great fan of pop music, of Autotuned music even, but there is something just excessive about the voices of people on the show.
But...
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Taxes!
For those of you just joining us, I have really, really bad problems with filling out necessary forms on time.
When they are simple or easily laid out or necessary for me to do immediately, right now, or else I won’t get something I want (like a job, or medical care), I can do it. But things like taxes, which seem mandatory but can get way away from you? Can’t do it. If I don’t...
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Okay okay okay
eateroftrees:
So like, I had a thought. Which was, I don’t think there seems to be any good consolidated trans 101 resource. At least not that I’m aware of. A lot of different blogs tend to cover 101 topics while primarily addressing specific problematic things, but I haven’t seen anything specifically about educating people (either cis people or trans people who are trying to understand...
I am rewatching the last season of Lost on...
Or at least some of it. A lot of the episodes I just don’t even want to lay eyes upon again.
It is so bad, y’all.
It is both incredibly heavy handed in all of its imagery, structure, language, music (oh god the music). But at the same time, it’s so vague and confusing. Everything - the light, “special”-ness, the fucking alt wold - is underlined like eight times and...
To everyone who is writing and reblogging about...
There’s a lot of links, news and commentary on the Libyan protests going around Tumblr at the moment. I’m not writing about it or reblogging any because I’m not at all confident in my understanding of the facts and the factors at play - I don’t think my voice is particularly helpful in this context. Instead, I am reading Al Jazeera and my dashboard.
I want to thank the...
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Beta reader help?
Hey folks. I am editing a piece on Hermione and how she reflects the flaws of feminism. If you’re interested in beta reading it, I would be much obliged. You can e-mail me or answer this and I will find your email.
Thanks!
and the house, today
dopegirlfresh:
voted to bar planned parenthood from federal funding.
they aren’t perfect.
but they serve SO MANY PPL who can’t get healthcare otherwise. ugh.
thanks, elected officials, for saying ‘fuck your couch’ to millions of folks who really need services. i hope you all get herpes from partners who might have been treated for it if they’d been able to access care at planned...
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"Drink more water!"
I’ve started drinking a lot more water lately, and I’m struggling to understand how I didn’t before. Middle of last year, I was drinking five cups of coffee in the morning and five beers at night and nothing in between. I didn’t feel particularly shitty, because whatever, that’s how I did at the time. But both are dehydrating, and so I don’t really understood...
“I think with comedy you should have no prejudices. As soon as you have...”
– Ricky Gervais
(via Splitsider / purns)
Gervais is hilarious. I would love it if he would take his own advice and stop with the rape jokes.
A brief review of The Union: The Business Behind...
I happened to watch this documentary today on Netflix, so I thought I would give some brief thoughts. This documentary professes to track the legality of marijuana and hemp. However, and to its detriment, this 1.75 hour documentary goes all over the chart, making medical and fiscal arguments for marijuana, and giving several 101 type breakdowns of various pieces of cannabis culture and history,...
freedom!
guerrillamamamedicine:
we won! we won! we won!
the city is alive. everyone is on the streets. amazing. to witness. omg. people are literally dancing in the streets, skipping running yelling cheering chanting.
i cant describe what this is.
analysis later, but for now…
freedom
freedom
freedom
freedom
freedom
it is so loud outside. cars are honking. people are just running...
