You know how it is, right, ladies? You know a guy for a while. You hang out with him. You do fun things with him—play video games, watch movies, go hiking, go to concerts. You invite him to your parties. You listen to his problems. You do all this because you think he wants to be your friend.
But then, then comes the fateful moment where you find out that all this time, he’s only seen you as a potential girlfriend. And then if you turn him down, he may never speak to you again.
#equality #feminism
Opalized wood. Petrified wood is basically fossilized wood that has had it’s organic matter replaced by a mineral such as agate, bit by bit, as it decomposes. The wood structure is maintained, but the wood fibers are slowly changed into stone. Sometimes a jasper, quartz, pyrite or even opal(shown above) can be found fossilized in wood.
petrified wood is the state gem of washington even though it’s technically a fossil
Petrified Wood is the name of the first single from my misandrist metal band, DWÖRKIN.
#misandry #umlauts #flawless
Florence Griffith-Joyner, a.k.a. Flo-Jo (a.k.a. The Fastest Woman in the World) was a 1980s American track athlete who dominated the 100m and 200m with heaps of personal style.
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#Flawless
I’m going to tell you a story about llamas. It will be like every other story you’ve ever heard about llamas: how they are covered in fine scales; how they eat their young if not raised properly; and how, at the end of their lives, they hurl themselves – lemming-like- over cliffs to drown in the surging sea. They are, at heart, sea creatures, birthed from the sea, married to it like the fishing people who make their livelihood there.
Every story you hear about llamas is the same. You see it in books: the poor doomed baby llama getting chomped up by its intemperate parent. On television: the massive tide of scaly llamas falling in a great, majestic herd into the sea below. In the movies: bad-ass llamas smoking cigars and painting their scales in jungle camouflage.
Because you’ve seen this story so many times, because you already know the nature and history of llamas, it sometimes shocks you, of course, to see a llama outside of these media spaces. The llamas you see don’t have scales. So you doubt what you see, and you joke with your friends about “those scaly llamas” and they laugh and say, “Yes, llamas sure are scaly!” and you forget your actual experience…
Excellent.
#feminism #equality
Kerry Washington being amazing as always.
Understand colorblinders out there. Please get it.
(via racialicious)
#diversity #race
Good to see the D.A. came to their senses. This young woman never deserved to be treated this way.
Good but not great:
Prosecutors announced Wednesday they won’t file criminal charges against a 16-year-old Bartow High School student who was arrested last month on allegations she ignited a chemical explosion at school, but she must complete a series of requirements outlined in a diversion program agree-ment.
If Kiera Wilmot doesn’t do that, the state may pursue criminal charges against her. Whether she will be expelled has not been determined.
#privilege #racism
Meet the Auburn Tigers, Australia’s first all Muslim Woman Football Team! Read their story on hijabican
(via girlsgetbusyzine)
Nancy Grace Augusta Wake AC GM served as a British agent during the later part of World War II. She became a leading figure in the maquis groups of the French Resistance and was one of the Allies’ most decorated servicewomen of the war.On the night of 29–30 April 1944, Wake was parachuted into…
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Identifying as a person of color in solidarity with other people of color says ‘hey, my people have been oppressed by White people, maybe in a different time and space than your people, but we can work in solidarity.’ The identification needs to carry some degree of humility, and a deeper commitment to allyship . The POC umbrella is not an excuse to disavow the ways we benefit from various racial structures and sit idly by as our communities reap advantages from racism towards other people of color.
Black-Asian solidarity in the US, for instance, is hard to find and it will continue to be difficult to build if we continue to use the uncritical ‘POC’ label. Rather, we can use ‘POC’ as a way of reflecting on our different racial histories and building coalitions in our struggles and their difference. POC is a term for building solidarity between movements, not a movement in itself. That distinction is important.
"Janani, Assistant Editor, Black Girl Dangerous. Read the whole thing here. (via filnana)
“How do we, as politicized people of color, acknowledge the very limits of the term ‘people of color’ and the way it can mask our actual racial situations? For example, why do we keep using the phrase ‘communities of color’ as targets of police and state violence when we primarily mean Black and Latino folks? What races are we trying to contain in the word ‘brown’? Why are we afraid to point to the specificities of racism? Do we think it will divide us? Do we think we are really not capable of understanding and working from the different ways we experience racism?” (via nepantlastrategies)
“…even if Black and Asian kids had a common experience of being racialized, we didn’t have a common racialized experience.”
This essentially captures my entire struggle with identifying as or being identified as a POC. Excellent read.
(via stfuconservatives)
#diversity
Remember how last week we talked about sexism in book covers? The Guardian put together a list of some of the most egregious ACTUAL covers that have been put on books written by women. All of the above are REAL COVERS a publisher thought was appropriate. (Yes, Sylvia Plath got chick lit’d.) And there are more.
#sexism #headdesk
