February 2012
25 posts
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tori: WHY DID YOU DO THIS TO ME
tori: NOW I AM FULL OF ENNUIS
tori: SCREAMS
tori: uh
tori: just
tori: one ennui
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C: hey let's take a picture of you!!
me: .............why
C: so we can build up your tumblr popularity and then when you become tumblr famous I'll be tumblr famous too
| ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ white opinions
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I explain to C. about Han Chinese and ethnic minorities in China.
five minutes later
me: of course, I never did as well on the actual SAT as I did on my practice SATS -
C: #han girl problems
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I really hate the phrases "Well you have a right...
deliciouskaek:
todiedreaming:
Nah, nigga.
I have a right to complain when I go to Wendy’s and they get my order wrong.
I’m entitled to my opinion when people ask me whether or not I think Beyonce uses lace fronts or Malaysian weave.
I am not complaining or simply stating my opinion when talking the racism.
I am talking about my rights as a human to not be persecuted and exploited.
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what if kanye west was less ambitious
fireking
silver digger
just one light
you can tell me something
strong
lost in the park
jesus sits
touch the ceiling
dirt from sierra leone
pretty good life
the lights flashed
power outage
walk away
n——s in paris, texas
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career counselor tori
me: This has always made me wonder why I would want to be a part of a justice system that so often means the very opposite for people, who experience discrimination based on race, class, gender, or sexual identification from those who are meant to protect them against it. I do, however, believe very firmly in the integrity of
me: how do I finish this
tori: 'myself'
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Gentrification
quelowat:
Taking over, block by block,
chipping away at the heart and soul of our neighborhoods.
Keep your fucking pub and give me back my chimi spot.
Take your organic market to midtown and give me back my supermercado.
I don’t want a fancy haircut in your overly priced salon,
I want a five dollar shape up son.
Our hood was “hip” before you showed up to fuck shit up.
You ain’t doing us a...
“We do not do trigger warnings. Ever. As a rule. I don’t believe in them, period.”
– Jessica Coen, Editor in Chief of Jezebel.
Trigger warnings are icky! Unlike photos of women being raped, of course. Those are totally OK and can actually drive your entire “feminist light” business model.
I might have to re-write my motto: My feminism will be rape culture friendly! And you know,...
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“Because I mistrust my head & hands, because I know salt
tinctures my...”
– Yusef Komunyakaa, Canticle (via yesyes)
Will you be the Kanye West to my Kanye West?
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Anonymous asked: Im not trying to stirr up...
calloutqueen:
For what reason I need to give a shit about white people? Sometimes I don’t even say anything about white people, except that I don’t give a shit. I don’t have to pay attention to anybody I don’t feel like paying attention to.
Also, to say that white people can feel the effects of racism based on being white is a fallacy, within a white supremacist framework (which Western...
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January 2012
35 posts
miseengarde:
white girls who want my culture’s bindis and saris and henna
take my skin colour too
and my dark brown lips
take my self-hatred because i don’t fit into the euro-centric ideals of beauty
take the oppression too
take the history of colonization that has devastated my country
and the drones that currently devastate my country
take all the bad stuff too
not just the pretty,...
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“She did the Secretary of State job, she was a G, she held it down, she didn’t...”
– Ice-T, on why Hillary Clinton will be the first female president
The best part about this story is that the Huffington Post (via the AP) decided to explain to us what a “G” is. In case you didn’t know — it’s “the hip-hop term for gangster (a positive thing)”.
(via newsweek)
Watchfuckyeahchinesefashion:
fashionswarrior:
Ming Xi
someone should gif her eating chicken
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dont follow your dreams follow my blog
“Slut” is how we vilify a woman for exercising her right to say “yes”....”
– angels-and-angles (via wewantrevolutiongirlstylenow)
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“I know that some of you will say that I doth protest too much. I know you’ll say...”
– Michael Coard, The Oscars Are Racist
Oh, this is good. This whole article is very very VERY good.
Coard discusses the types of roles that The Academy (italicized for uppity sarcasm and not out of respect or propriety, I assure you) deems worthy of honoring with an award, and the list is pretty...
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"my 750-word essay on “why i write” has turned...
uglymandias:
redcaves replied to your post: my 750-word essay on “why i write” has turned into…
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PROS
· It feels good
· It helps me sleep at night
· It stimulates the imagination
· It calms my mind
· It passes the time
· It’s part of my routine, established at a young age
· No one else can do it exactly the way I like it
...
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Sex positivity and other lies on Tumblr
quaintrellle:
madamethursday:
I remember my first encounters with the sex positivity/sex positive movement, especially through the internet. I remember loving the basic principle of the thing: “Sex is awesome! No one should be ashamed of their sexuality or wanting sex! Let’s bring it out into the open so we can all enjoy a healthy, happy relationship with sex!”
I can get with that, really.
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quebradiza:
kingmeesha
where are all these purple people white folks love so much
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ATTN
CHRIS DOESN’T HAVE A RICE COOKER
REPEAT:
DOES NOT, NOT, HAVE A RICE COOKER
CAN ANYONE SAY
/D/E/A/L/B/R/E/A/K/E/R/
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“When I started making those weird voices, a lot of people told me how whack it...”
– Nicki Minaj (BlackBook Magazine)
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“The fact that I
am writing to you
in English
already falsifies what I
wanted...”
– Gustavo Perez Firmat, Bilingual Blues: Poems, 1981-1994 (x)
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南京 (2010)
This is a picture from around June 2010 of the small room in my grandparents’ apartment affectionately (sometimes, at least) dubbed the game room. My cousin (whose lovely back is depicted here) and I spent the majority of my time in China here in this room, she in that wooden chair she needed to cart from the dining room table to in front of her laptop at least three times a day and I on...
Vegan Privilege
threetwoonelove:
mylifeasafeminista:
Choosing to have a vegan diet is privileged for numerous reasons:
It is a privilege to have access to information about alternative diets; this includes knowing what recipes to use, what foods to purchase, and how to make things that taste good.
Depending on where you live, you may or may not have access to a wide range of vegan foods. Being able to...