July 2012
kiese laymon @ gawker (content warning: brutality,... →
Trans women's safe sex guide →
zoedelaluna:
Righteous.
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in which i post at feministe about black women in... →
by de beach, boyeeeeeee!
© dave chappelle, half baked
going to the beach w/ bianca + her homegirl.
i am very excite.
hot date w/ a pile of laundry
who has it better than I?
i have a confession to make:
i only come on this site during off hours now.
cuz generally y’all tire the fuck out of me.
call out culture, the ask box swarming, the indirect-but-so-clearly-about-one-person posts… the reblogs with so. much. vitriol. it’s too much for me.
i know this is where lots of us find and build community. that is not what i’m talking about. teacake called it (paraphrasing) people deeply hurt by...
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i see mo on my dash
life is good.
::goes back to lurking::
bisexual men of color in/ around NYC:
hip hop is for lovers wants to talk to you. email us (hiphopisforlovers @gmail.com) or leave a note in my ask box here with your contact info.
“Patriarchy is most disturbed by the effeminate male homosexual who operates as...”
– Son of Baldwin (via sonofbaldwin)
kiriamaya asked: ♥ ♥ ♥ Love. Keeping you in my thoughts. Be well. ♥
...Replaced...It's All Good w/ Revolutionary... →
teachlet:
Playing sports is a very gendered experience. After all, teams are often single-gender, and sometimes the game itself is modified depending on who’s playing. Softball, with its bigger ball and underhand throw, is culturally regulated to girls, even though it started as an…
Esoterica: Solidarity in Feminism Or How White... →
karnythia:
So I’m sure I’m being divisive now or something, but with all this talk of solidarity from white feminists where exactly are the marches & letter campaigns backing up women who are indigenous & facing higher rates of sexual assault? Where are the big well funded campaigns against abuses of…
ramblingsofanurbanjawn asked: i REALLY enjoyed your tweets today regarding the Sandunsky verdict. Just wanted to tell you that.
frequentlyfemme asked: Don't forget to b gentle and loving with yourself, especially when there's a lot on our plate.
i have so much on my plate right now.
y’all be easy. i don’t see myself posting a lot here for a while.
Yet Another Kiri Bloggish Thing: ...Holy shit. I... →
kiriamaya:
I used to think that people’s misapprehension of “freedom of speech” as freedom from criticism was a simple lack of understanding of US civics.
But no — it’s that, because of whiteness (and some other things like cissexism and ableism, but mostly whiteness), they honestly and truly believe that
kiri is a genius. really. brilliant.
i fucking give up on cooking
it is entirely too hot.
“There’s a stereotype that black people are lazy. I don’t know if that’s true,...”
– Lance Crouther (via rattlingbone)
Sometimes you read something and your whole perspective of a situation changes. This is one of those things.
(via interactivesleep)
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The gifs
(via sharvondaphotog)
“Most people on food stamps work full time. They work full time but they don’t...”
– Sister Simone Campbell [x]
I like how she articulates the simple financial impossibility of religious organizations being able to replace government aid. I’d like to add that, of course, there are so many people who have trouble receiving aid from religious institutions because they’re LGBT and/or...
god/dess bless us.
every one.
The weird thing about watching people debate over...
lightspeedsound:
See also: “Getting profiled as a terrorist makes sense if you’re Middle-Eastern looking, because that’s statistically more likely!”
and, “Well Mexicans are all illegals and stealing our jobs, anyways”
and, “He looked like a thug, duhhh.”
Get to the Source: Tumblr, I need your help. →
sourcedumal:
I’ve never had to do this before and I truly do feel horrible for asking for help from you, but a situation has come up that I can’t control.
I don’t have a home anymore.
I’m forced to live at my grandmother’s house because my cousin is taking over the house and I can’t live there anymore.
I literally just found this out TODAY.
And I hardly have any money whatsoever to get on my...
crush person
y u no call me?
oh and
valenti can lay down someplace and take an epic nap.
