July 2010
“People hate her, they really do. Did you know that to Yoko someone is a verb in...”
– Courtney Love on Yoko Ono, 1993. (via aduelwillsettlethis) (via fuckyeahyokoono) (via thecurvature) (via inopia) (via kyn) (via jimstolz) (via classybroad)
Yoko Ono will always and forever be the truth.
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The key concept here is the "stealth Islamist,"... →
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Adam Serwer goes on to say (and he’s talking about a recent speech from Newt Gingrich): “This approach, if adopted, would do active harm to national security.”
Wait... What?: stfusexists: ... I agree that this... →
stfusexists:
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I agree that this is certainly sensationalist, and I do not agree with the article that continuing this war is the logical conclusion to reach after acknowledging this girl’s plight and the plight of thousands of women like her. In fact, I worry that the presence of the…
"Nonpossessive sexuality is natural, but we can... →
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lalunafemme:
Click on the link, and think..
“OK, but we have the power to choose how to live,” comes the reply. This is true. Just as we can choose to be vegans, we can decide to lead sexually monogamous lives. But newlyweds would be wise to remember that just because you’ve chosen to be vegan, it’s utterly natural to yearn for an occasional bacon cheeseburger.”
This is the part...
Arizona Helped Deport 26,000 without New Law →
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Without the benefit of their state’s strict new immigration law, officers from a single Arizona county helped deport more than 26,000 immigrants from the U.S. through a federal-local partnership program that has been roundly criticized as fraught with problems. Statistics obtained by The Associated Press show that the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office was responsible for...
“…my children don’t look Hispanic.”
– Republican Nevada gubernatorial candidate Brian Sandoval.
He would be the first Hispanic governor in the history of Nevada. He is in favor of Arizona’s new immigration law, and was responding to a hypothetical … re how he would feel if his children were stopped and asked for their papers. He has...
Immigrants Leaving Phoenix Before New Laws, Leave... →
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July 29th is the day Arizona’s new tough illegal immigration law goes into effect.
As immigrants flee the state in fear of being arrested, neighborhoods are emptying and small businesses are feeling the lack of customers.
Nick Riccardi reports: “No one has measured the effect of SB 1070 on businesses, or the number of immigrants it has prompted to leave Arizona. But...
from black amazon. a call for submissions. →
“Survival is testament of someone’s strength.
Healing is testament of the community surrounding her.” –LFB
Call For Submission
Dear Sister, edited by Lisa Factora-Borchers, is an anthology of letters and other works created for survivors of sexual violence from other survivors and…
“If I were really asked to define myself, I wouldn’t start with race; I wouldn’t...”
– bell hooks (via doubleque)
annoyed as FUCK.
i didn’t move to nyc to be a worker bee. i moved here to, you know… grind. work a little PT gig somewhere, domme, style folks, & have fun while doing 85% of it.
instead, i am at my desk. at 10 pm on a tuesday. my housemates made me dinner and it’s most undoubtedly gone cold by now. because i decided to try the day job thing again, to see if i really have authority...
“Sluthood isn’t just a choice we should let women make because women should be...”
– My Sluthood, Myself. — Feministe
Really, read the whole thing. Because whoa, I can relate.
A while back a friend and I were discussing starting up a Slut Blog all around the idea of sluttiness, the word (one which I hate, one that I have a visceral reaction to, and I don’t even have that bad a...
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L.A.'s "White Minority": Punk and the... →
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adailyriot:
Gonna be a white minority. All the rest’ll be the majority. We’re gonna feel inferiority. I’m gonna be a white minority. White pride. You’re an American. I’m gonna hide anywhere I can. - Black Flag, “White Minority”
Part of popular music’s allure is that it offers fans tools for identity construction. Lawrence Grossberg argues that musical choices open sites for people to...
“As recently as 1995, a judge overseeing a child-custody case in Texas told a...”
– So What if Nobody Speaks English Anymore? | Race in America | Change.org (via clingtomymouth) (via adailyriot) (via so-treu)
"Neither the Destruction of the Ninth Ward Nor the... →
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“Coming out of my ex’s mouth, “femme” sounded like a put-down....”
– “Femme Invisibility” by Laini Madhubuti, from Naked: Black Women Bare All About Their Skin, Hair, Hips, Lips, and Other Parts, edited by Ayana Byrd & Akiba Solomon
* my experience w/ queer ppl of color reflects this more often than i would like to admit, particularly in the...
Banana Boat Times: A Palestinian man has been... →
A court in Jerusalem has made international legal history by jailing Sabbar Kashur, a 30-year-old delivery man from East Jerusalem, for 18 months.
He was convicted of “rape by deception” following a criminal trial that has drawn criticism from across Israel.
he court heard accusations that Mr…
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“Irrespective of our sexual preference, we need to be with partners who are able...”
– bell hooks, “Moved by Passion: Eros and Responsibility” — chapter 8 of Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery 