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Sunday, June 7, 2020
Sunday, July 24, 2016
Sunday Snippets: Baby Shower
Headed to a baby shower today!
I did not realize how much I needed to love John Cena.
This is disgusting
This White Woman's Shocking Account of Police Brutality Has a Lesson About Race in America
Petition to create a federal law enforcement agency that supervises the behavior of all law enforcement agencies
#JoeyEnglish #NativeLivesMatter
Read This If You're Feeling Helpless After Last Week's Tragedies
Accurate political signs We are so fucked.
#WhitePrivilegeMeans
"Your the best lunch man we could ever have I wish you were alive. You have rainbows in your heart!" it reads.
Why highways have become the center of civil rights protest I actually didn't know this, but am glad to have found out.
#DeravisCaineRogers
Slow death: Is the trauma of police violence killing black women?
On Being a Good Ally
#SayHerName
Finally. Someone explains the deep feelings I have about stickers
Conditional Freedom
Birth of a Nation Excited to see this.
AllLivesDidntMatter
When you are rooting for Jack McCain and not sure how to feel about it
#CharlesKinsey
I did not realize how much I needed to love John Cena.
This is disgusting
This White Woman's Shocking Account of Police Brutality Has a Lesson About Race in America
Petition to create a federal law enforcement agency that supervises the behavior of all law enforcement agencies
#JoeyEnglish #NativeLivesMatter
Read This If You're Feeling Helpless After Last Week's Tragedies
Accurate political signs We are so fucked.
#WhitePrivilegeMeans
"Your the best lunch man we could ever have I wish you were alive. You have rainbows in your heart!" it reads.
Why highways have become the center of civil rights protest I actually didn't know this, but am glad to have found out.
#DeravisCaineRogers
Slow death: Is the trauma of police violence killing black women?
On Being a Good Ally
#SayHerName
Finally. Someone explains the deep feelings I have about stickers
Conditional Freedom
Birth of a Nation Excited to see this.
AllLivesDidntMatter
When you are rooting for Jack McCain and not sure how to feel about it
#CharlesKinsey
Sunday, October 4, 2015
Sunday Snippets: Hurricane?
It's been a little over three years since Hurricane Sandy. I'm hunkering down with the husband, cats and copious amounts of liquor to ride out this latest storm.
Truth
You have to understand, that no one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land.”
#RyanStokes
This is one of the instances where karma is going to fuck this dude up
For Halloween 2015, Just Say No To Blackface
File under duh
Awww, elephants
Whoop, there it is
I do believe another gent in history had a similar idea....
Why doesn't she get the same coverage?
Poor babies
Horrible
“They said it’s safe, but it’s brown water,” said Marshall, also a radiology coder, after the meeting.“Why do we have to drink brown water? No one else has to drink brown water.”
What happens when a young girl of color goes missing? Who searches for her? Who tries to bring her home safely? Not the police, as the short film Muted shows.
Truth
You have to understand, that no one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land.”
#RyanStokes
This is one of the instances where karma is going to fuck this dude up
For Halloween 2015, Just Say No To Blackface
File under duh
Awww, elephants
Whoop, there it is
I do believe another gent in history had a similar idea....
Why doesn't she get the same coverage?
Poor babies
Horrible
“They said it’s safe, but it’s brown water,” said Marshall, also a radiology coder, after the meeting.“Why do we have to drink brown water? No one else has to drink brown water.”
Sunday, July 12, 2015
Sunday Snippets: Cicadas
One of my favorite things in the world is to hear the sound of cicadas on a hot day. THAT feels like true summer to me.
Horrifying (TW for sexual assault) Victim blaming at its finest
Whoop, there it is
YES.
23 Emotions people feel, but can’t explain
When You Kill Ten Million Africans, You Aren't Called Hilter
Truth, from this classic film I will forever hold a torch for this movie, one of my all time favorites.
Awful and fucked up
In California of all places, prison doctors have sterilized over 150 women. Why? They don’t want to have to provide welfare funding for any children they may have in the future.
The sterilization procedures cost California taxpayers $147,460 between 1997 and 2010. The doctors at the prison argue it is money well-spent.
Dr. James Heinrich, an OB-GYN at Valley State Prison for Women, said, “Over a 10-year period, that isn’t a huge amount of money compared to what you save in welfare paying for these unwanted children – as they procreated more.”
Truth about people with anxiety
I think it’s because we haven’t addressed the deeper meaning of these “sorrys.” To me, they sound like tiny acts of revolt, expressions of frustration or anger at having to ask for what should be automatic. They are employed when a situation is so clearly not our fault that we think the apology will serve as a prompt for the person who should be apologizing.
It’s a Trojan horse for genuine annoyance, a tactic left over from centuries of having to couch basic demands in palatable packages in order to get what we want. All that exhausting maneuvering is the etiquette equivalent of a vestigial tail.
Horrifying (TW for sexual assault) Victim blaming at its finest
Whoop, there it is
YES.
23 Emotions people feel, but can’t explain
When You Kill Ten Million Africans, You Aren't Called Hilter
Truth, from this classic film I will forever hold a torch for this movie, one of my all time favorites.
Awful and fucked up
In California of all places, prison doctors have sterilized over 150 women. Why? They don’t want to have to provide welfare funding for any children they may have in the future.
The sterilization procedures cost California taxpayers $147,460 between 1997 and 2010. The doctors at the prison argue it is money well-spent.
Dr. James Heinrich, an OB-GYN at Valley State Prison for Women, said, “Over a 10-year period, that isn’t a huge amount of money compared to what you save in welfare paying for these unwanted children – as they procreated more.”
Truth about people with anxiety
It’s a Trojan horse for genuine annoyance, a tactic left over from centuries of having to couch basic demands in palatable packages in order to get what we want. All that exhausting maneuvering is the etiquette equivalent of a vestigial tail.
I hate it every time an unneeded apology slips out of my mouth. I know that my reasons go deeper than what is mentioned in the article; I apologize because of a learned habit growing up in an abusive home. If I apologized, I was less likely to be screamed at.
Yes!
We can end police brutality and racism. It is possible. To do so the Center for Popular Democracy and Policy Link partnered with protesters and street-level organizers to create a 15-point report, titled Building From the Ground Up: A Toolkit for Promoting Justice in Policing.
It includes all of the above steps as well as some other no brainers like obeying the 4th amendment and establishing a “use of force" standard.
Out in the Night Documentary
“In August of 2006, seven black lesbians from New Jersey were hanging out in the West Village of New York City when they were harassed and violently threatened by a man on the street. When they defended themselves, they were arrested and charged with attempted murder and gang assault. Four of the women — Renata Hill, Patreese Johnson, Terrain Dandrige and Venice Brown — plead not guilty, knowing they were acting in self-defense. They were convicted and given senteces ranging from 3 to 11 years. Their case became a focal point for activism supporting the women and their case, and protesting the violence, racism, misogyny and homophobia of the legal system that systematically prosecutes women for trying to save their own lives. They became known as the New Jersey Four.” - read more on Autostraddle
Yes!
We can end police brutality and racism. It is possible. To do so the Center for Popular Democracy and Policy Link partnered with protesters and street-level organizers to create a 15-point report, titled Building From the Ground Up: A Toolkit for Promoting Justice in Policing.
It includes all of the above steps as well as some other no brainers like obeying the 4th amendment and establishing a “use of force" standard.
Out in the Night Documentary
“In August of 2006, seven black lesbians from New Jersey were hanging out in the West Village of New York City when they were harassed and violently threatened by a man on the street. When they defended themselves, they were arrested and charged with attempted murder and gang assault. Four of the women — Renata Hill, Patreese Johnson, Terrain Dandrige and Venice Brown — plead not guilty, knowing they were acting in self-defense. They were convicted and given senteces ranging from 3 to 11 years. Their case became a focal point for activism supporting the women and their case, and protesting the violence, racism, misogyny and homophobia of the legal system that systematically prosecutes women for trying to save their own lives. They became known as the New Jersey Four.” - read more on Autostraddle
Sunday, June 7, 2015
Sunday Snippets: I'm tired
I'm tired of reading of another black person shot by police, another trans* person murdered, another woman ignored in death.
Fucking stop it, goddammit.
Fucked up
Why Protestors Turn Violent
When you saw "The Hunger Games," who did you root for? Katniss and her beleaguered community? Or people in the Capitol wearing pink eyelashes and obliviously eating until they vomited while the people in other districts starved? I'm going to assume the former because the movie makes it clear: The government is oppressing the people in District Twelve, and we are supposed to cheer for them as they attempt to overthrow a structure that is unfair to them.
Ok, next question: When you saw the protests in Baltimore, who did you feel for? Because if what you did was look down on the protestors for disturbing the peace, break out the rainbow wigs and sparkle mascara because you might be from the Capitol.
Huh, what a notion
School to prison pipeline facts
Cool shots over Lake Michigan
Horrifying (TW)
"Where’s all the anti-choice, I mean, “”pro-life”“ activists"
#SayHerName
“On May 20, 2015 the African American Policy Forum, the Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies at Columbia University and Andrea Ritchie, Soros Justice Fellow and expert on policing of women and LGBT people of color released #SayHerName: Resisting Police Brutality Against Black Women, a document highlighting stories of Black women who have been killed by police and shining a light on forms of police brutality often experienced by women such as sexual assault.” Please Read this Important Report: http://bit.ly/1cR27AO via AAPF
Fucking stop it, goddammit.
Fucked up
Why Protestors Turn Violent
When you saw "The Hunger Games," who did you root for? Katniss and her beleaguered community? Or people in the Capitol wearing pink eyelashes and obliviously eating until they vomited while the people in other districts starved? I'm going to assume the former because the movie makes it clear: The government is oppressing the people in District Twelve, and we are supposed to cheer for them as they attempt to overthrow a structure that is unfair to them.
Ok, next question: When you saw the protests in Baltimore, who did you feel for? Because if what you did was look down on the protestors for disturbing the peace, break out the rainbow wigs and sparkle mascara because you might be from the Capitol.
Huh, what a notion
School to prison pipeline facts
Cool shots over Lake Michigan
Horrifying (TW)
"Where’s all the anti-choice, I mean, “”pro-life”“ activists"
#SayHerName
“On May 20, 2015 the African American Policy Forum, the Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies at Columbia University and Andrea Ritchie, Soros Justice Fellow and expert on policing of women and LGBT people of color released #SayHerName: Resisting Police Brutality Against Black Women, a document highlighting stories of Black women who have been killed by police and shining a light on forms of police brutality often experienced by women such as sexual assault.” Please Read this Important Report: http://bit.ly/1cR27AO via AAPF
Sunday, May 17, 2015
Sunday Snippets: Three Day Weekend Cometh
And I'm very stoked for it.
I think about this all the time
And for the man in the back, fuck you too
According to Loeb, Vergara refuses to relinquish possession of the embryos. “These are issues that, unlike abortion, having nothing to do with the rights over one’s own body, and everything to do with a parent’s right to protect the life of his or her unborn child,” he wrote in an op-ed published by the New York Times.
#Dontrell Stephens
Exclusively-obtained dash-cam video shows Dontrell Stephens, 20, talking on a cellphone while riding his bike on a Friday morning in September 2013. He can be seen turning onto Norma Elaine Road near Haverhill Road and Okeechobee Boulevard as PBSO deputy Adams Lin trails him. Moments later, Stephens realizes he’s being followed. He pulls over, gets off his bike with a cellphone in his right hand. And then, right there, Officer Lin begins to unload his gun into Dontrell Stephens. With nowhere to go, he gets shot in the back over and over and over again. Immediately, Officer Lin lies and says that he told Dontrell to get on the ground multiple times, but nothing of the sort happened.
The Larger Problem in Baltimore
Imagine that, cops non-violently disarming a situation
What a wonderful thought
This happened right up the road from me
The few media reports on Hall's death have been tinged with transphobia, with a Washington Post article continuing to describe Hall and Fleming as "men dressed as women," a revelation which it referred to as a "shocking twist." The Post also described the street scene where Hall and Fleming worked as a "choreography of cliches," focusing on the high heels, short shorts, and heavy makeup of the women.
In contrast to the outrage that the deaths of black men like Mike Brown, Eric Garner, and Gray have prompted on social media, there has been very little attention given to Hall's death. As a black trans sex worker, she and Fleming have been written off as "troubled." On Tumblr and Reddit, platforms that are usually supportive of transgender victims of violence and black victims of police brutality, Mya Hall's name is notably absent.
Yup
Violence may be wrong, but the powerful are given permission to use it, and the powerless are condemned when they fight back.
In what could be an exciting linguistic turn for trans and gender-nonconforming folks, the Oxford English Dictionary is considering adding the gender-neutral honorific Mx. to future editions.
Pronounced “mix” or “mux,” the term has been gaining mainstream traction in the U.K. in the last several years. According toBritish newspaper The Sunday Times, government departments, the postal service, and some universities and banks all accept the term on official forms.
I think about this all the time
And for the man in the back, fuck you too
According to Loeb, Vergara refuses to relinquish possession of the embryos. “These are issues that, unlike abortion, having nothing to do with the rights over one’s own body, and everything to do with a parent’s right to protect the life of his or her unborn child,” he wrote in an op-ed published by the New York Times.
#Dontrell Stephens
Exclusively-obtained dash-cam video shows Dontrell Stephens, 20, talking on a cellphone while riding his bike on a Friday morning in September 2013. He can be seen turning onto Norma Elaine Road near Haverhill Road and Okeechobee Boulevard as PBSO deputy Adams Lin trails him. Moments later, Stephens realizes he’s being followed. He pulls over, gets off his bike with a cellphone in his right hand. And then, right there, Officer Lin begins to unload his gun into Dontrell Stephens. With nowhere to go, he gets shot in the back over and over and over again. Immediately, Officer Lin lies and says that he told Dontrell to get on the ground multiple times, but nothing of the sort happened.
The Larger Problem in Baltimore
Imagine that, cops non-violently disarming a situation
What a wonderful thought
This happened right up the road from me
The few media reports on Hall's death have been tinged with transphobia, with a Washington Post article continuing to describe Hall and Fleming as "men dressed as women," a revelation which it referred to as a "shocking twist." The Post also described the street scene where Hall and Fleming worked as a "choreography of cliches," focusing on the high heels, short shorts, and heavy makeup of the women.
In contrast to the outrage that the deaths of black men like Mike Brown, Eric Garner, and Gray have prompted on social media, there has been very little attention given to Hall's death. As a black trans sex worker, she and Fleming have been written off as "troubled." On Tumblr and Reddit, platforms that are usually supportive of transgender victims of violence and black victims of police brutality, Mya Hall's name is notably absent.
Yup
Violence may be wrong, but the powerful are given permission to use it, and the powerless are condemned when they fight back.
Pronounced “mix” or “mux,” the term has been gaining mainstream traction in the U.K. in the last several years. According toBritish newspaper The Sunday Times, government departments, the postal service, and some universities and banks all accept the term on official forms.
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
#Baltimore
My heart goes out to the protestors. They've been ignored and killed. And then when they try to speak out, the same damn thing that happened in Ferguson happened; people hijacking the protest, to riot and act like idiots.
I pray that each child finds their way home, unharmed
Exactly!
White people need to speak out against the shit that is going on
Yes, not everyone is trying to riot
The hypocrisy is stunning We don't condemn the entire white race when one of them shoots up a movie theater.
Goddamn white people
I pray that each child finds their way home, unharmed
Exactly!
White people need to speak out against the shit that is going on
Yes, not everyone is trying to riot
The hypocrisy is stunning We don't condemn the entire white race when one of them shoots up a movie theater.
Goddamn white people
Wednesday, November 26, 2014
#Ferguson #blacklivesmatter
There are 10,000 words to say and none to say at all at the same time. America, founded by racism and it still continues to this day.
I saw the video of Mike Brown's mother sobbing at the press conference, when she heard that no one was going to held accountable for shooting her son. I saw the live feed of police hurling tear gas at people. When the fuck is this going to end? Sean Bell, Oscar Grant and countless others, the victims of racist police brutality.
This, however, gives me a small measure of hope:
Here are some other links to check out:
SIGN OUR PETITION TO SECURE JUSTICE FOR MICHAEL BROWN
Monday Night
Slate-Pictures
Solidarity, on a global scale
YES. THIS We have NEVER confronted the blood this country was founded on. What is past is prologue.
Also, this
From Rebecca Woolf
Verdict Summation: Between the Lines
I saw the video of Mike Brown's mother sobbing at the press conference, when she heard that no one was going to held accountable for shooting her son. I saw the live feed of police hurling tear gas at people. When the fuck is this going to end? Sean Bell, Oscar Grant and countless others, the victims of racist police brutality.
This, however, gives me a small measure of hope:
Here are some other links to check out:
SIGN OUR PETITION TO SECURE JUSTICE FOR MICHAEL BROWN
Monday Night
Slate-Pictures
Solidarity, on a global scale
YES. THIS We have NEVER confronted the blood this country was founded on. What is past is prologue.
Also, this
From Rebecca Woolf
Verdict Summation: Between the Lines
Sunday, October 12, 2014
Sunday Snippets: Three Day Weekend
I have a three day weekend courtesy of "Columbus Day." I hate that we can't just call it Racist Fuck Who Murdered People Day. Same damn thing.
Beautiful fall pictures & more
Welp, now I want to go to Norway
OMG adorable
Um, welp. There it is.
THE FUCK
I first read about this three years ago, when the parents filed a class action suit. I couldn’t think about anything else for days. I couldn’t sleep. These scientists deliberately poisoned children. They lured families in with unusually low rents. They monitored the kids’ blood lead levels. And they didn’t do anything to help when those levels climbed and climbed.
YES!
Kinda awesome
Fuzzy things playing....yes
I love tiny fuzzy critters.
Aww, poor thing
ahahahaha, cute
This truth
Fucking people Really? That's the best use of your time?
Damn
Voter Registration Pics in #Ferguson
Very cool
Another murder in St. Louis
Remember Trayvon
The True Trayvon Martin: When he volunteered at a soup kitchen for. The first time, he was astounded by the US hunger crisis. #Trayvon
#VonDerrit Myers
Huge march in Ferguson this weekend & More
Beautiful fall pictures & more
Welp, now I want to go to Norway
OMG adorable
Um, welp. There it is.
THE FUCK
I first read about this three years ago, when the parents filed a class action suit. I couldn’t think about anything else for days. I couldn’t sleep. These scientists deliberately poisoned children. They lured families in with unusually low rents. They monitored the kids’ blood lead levels. And they didn’t do anything to help when those levels climbed and climbed.
YES!
Kinda awesome
Fuzzy things playing....yes
I love tiny fuzzy critters.
Aww, poor thing
ahahahaha, cute
This truth
Fucking people Really? That's the best use of your time?
Damn
Voter Registration Pics in #Ferguson
Very cool
Another murder in St. Louis
Remember Trayvon
The True Trayvon Martin: When he volunteered at a soup kitchen for. The first time, he was astounded by the US hunger crisis. #Trayvon
#VonDerrit Myers
Huge march in Ferguson this weekend & More
Sunday, September 14, 2014
Sunday Snippets: Mmm, fall.
So freaking true
Plus, and more prosaically, it is just much harder to concentrate when you read online. Email, IM, social media, and spiral-arms of infinite, alluring content are a click away. Once you pick a page, ads and hyperlinks beckon. In their 2014 paper, Hooper and Herath suggested that people’s comprehension suffered when they read the Internet because the barrage of extraneous stimuli interrupted the transfer of information from sensory to working memory, and from working to long-term memory. Experts have posited the extinction of the “deep reading brain” if we do not learn to tune out the Web’s distractions.
I remember sitting for hours reading and now my brain just won't focus.
#thefuck?? Really? Someone decided this was a good idea?
Awwww!!! So cute
Damn.
I'm 28 years old and I've been suffering with these things my entire life. I talk for hours with my roommate about not answering my mother's texts and just the sight of one spirals me into a madness of calling myself all sorts of vitriol for being a bad daughter. I'm a bossy bitch in the streets of New York but my crippling secret and silence about my abuse still brings me to tears more days than not.
Plus, and more prosaically, it is just much harder to concentrate when you read online. Email, IM, social media, and spiral-arms of infinite, alluring content are a click away. Once you pick a page, ads and hyperlinks beckon. In their 2014 paper, Hooper and Herath suggested that people’s comprehension suffered when they read the Internet because the barrage of extraneous stimuli interrupted the transfer of information from sensory to working memory, and from working to long-term memory. Experts have posited the extinction of the “deep reading brain” if we do not learn to tune out the Web’s distractions.
I remember sitting for hours reading and now my brain just won't focus.
#thefuck?? Really? Someone decided this was a good idea?
Awwww!!! So cute
Damn.
I'm 28 years old and I've been suffering with these things my entire life. I talk for hours with my roommate about not answering my mother's texts and just the sight of one spirals me into a madness of calling myself all sorts of vitriol for being a bad daughter. I'm a bossy bitch in the streets of New York but my crippling secret and silence about my abuse still brings me to tears more days than not.
I know that feeling. I used to have panic attacks driving near the exit where my father lives. I was guilted by strangers, for the estrangement between my father and I.
Heartbreaking I hope these families can get the closure or some peace soon.
Living simply...in a dumpster? An interesting read.
*facepalm* What the hell Vogue?
#Ferguson & More
& the other video about Michael Brown
When you put it that way....makes my stomach turn
#Ferguson Town Hall
9/11- Yup & Part of the reason I have an issue "remembering" 9/11 (Not to say it wasn't an awful awful day. But the Islamophobia that was ramped up is not okay.)
*facepalm* What the hell Vogue?
#Ferguson & More
& the other video about Michael Brown
When you put it that way....makes my stomach turn
#Ferguson Town Hall
9/11- Yup & Part of the reason I have an issue "remembering" 9/11 (Not to say it wasn't an awful awful day. But the Islamophobia that was ramped up is not okay.)
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