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holdasmile: Ten Years ago; Buffy The Vampire Slayer Series...

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:59:45 +0200

holdasmile:

Ten Years ago; Buffy The Vampire Slayer Series Finale aired….Happy 10 Anniversary

the-box-ticker: Five Ways to Spot Somebody Suffering from...

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:57:56 +0200

the-box-ticker:

Five Ways to Spot Somebody Suffering from Transphobia

whenrobotsreproduce: Toys “R” Us Licensee Offers Gender-Neutral...

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:30:05 +0200

whenrobotsreproduce:

Toys “R” Us Licensee Offers Gender-Neutral Toy Catalog in Sweden

A saleswoman said she hasn’t seen much difference in store displays but noted employees now are trained to avoid stereotypes when talking to customers. “If someone asks for a present for a 5-year-old girl, we don’t automatically take them to the dolls section,” she said. “Instead, we ask them what her interests are.”

Imagine that.

theuppitynegras: veganrantss: White people get mad when you wear a band t shirt of a band you...

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:00:06 +0200

theuppitynegras:

veganrantss:

White people get mad when you wear a band t shirt of a band you don’t listen to, but they’re fine with wearing headdresses from cultures they know and care nothing about.

I love Margaery :’)

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:54:25 +0200

I love Margaery :’)

thequeenofscream: beeishappy: Stephen Colbert salutes UVA’s...

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:38:07 +0200

thequeenofscream:

beeishappy:

Stephen Colbert salutes UVA’s Class of 2013 Followed by this.

FUCKING THANK YOU.

blackinasia: blindjewwanderinginthedesert: (Image...

Mon, 20 May 2013 14:31:11 +0200

blackinasia:

blindjewwanderinginthedesert:

(Image Description: a blind black woman and a blind Klansman walking across a crosswalk. The original tumblr post’s author supplies the title of Love is Blind”.)

xomadamecupcake:

bankuei:

Let’s talk about The Kumbayah Myth.

In the Kumbayah Myth, racism will just stop if everyone just started acting nice to each other, and the only reason we still have racism is that people are silly.

Part of the Kumbayah Myth is the erasure of history, violence and power. In this falsehood, either no one is really at fault, or, actually, EVERYONE is at fault, so everyone is equally bad. This actually exists only to make white people feel better and never have to change their behaviors.

Go look at Without Sanctuary and maybe read up on The Reconstruction and come back and tell me it’s all equal and IF ONLY Black people were nicer shit would have been different.

Now, let’s talk about this picture I linked. It says, “Love is Blind” and has a blind black woman and a blind Klansman walking across the street holding hands….

Well, even the symbolism fails, because:

a) The black woman is basically minding her own business

b) The blind Klansman DRESSED UP AS A KLANSMAN- even blind he still HATES PEOPLE.

c) AND WE’VE JUST EQUATED A BLACK WOMAN, by nature of simply BEING A BLACK WOMAN as equivalent to a murderous terrorist.

Oh. Ok. If only those damn Black women would stop being so Black, the KKK wouldn’t HAVE to lynch, murder and burn them in self defense.

You know, tit for tat, right?

But let’s keep going- the only reason, at least, we’d see this picture working is because HE DOESN’T KNOW SHE’S BLACK. Otherwise, he’d push her into traffic and claim, “I’m blind! I didn’t know what was happening!”

What the world needs is not more hugs. It needs you white people to stop killing people of color. It needs for you to stop defending murderers. It needs for you to stop equating dark skin as violent threat, and therefore, justifiable homicide in self defense. It needs for you to recognize that YOU, collectively, pull this shit, and no, it is not “equal”, there is no “reverse racism”.

Love is not blind. Hate is blind- it refuses to see what it does, it demands no one speak of it or say a thing. And it kills and conveniently forgets a moment later.

Then demands hugs and holding hands and singing kumbayah, and wonders why everyone is so mean to it.

This argument is like, legit going on in my Facebook right now. ALL OF THIS. JUST ALL OF IT.

All of the above commentary, plus a little extra. In addition to everything said above, which I support the sentiment of entirely, this picture and the above commentary really bother me on a whole host of levels because of the way they use visual disability. The original poster (bankuei) states that the image depicts ““Love is Blind” and has a blind black woman and a blind Klansman walking across the street holding hands.”

Why does this bother me? Well, let’s start with four general reasons. These reason can also be read as a general commentary about ableist language and how incredibly damaging it really is even when it gets used by others in the battle against other ‘isms’. I would like to believe that there was no malicious, no ableist intent, on the part of the original tumblr post’s author (bankuei), but ableism is still ableism even without intent and it is just as damaging.

First complaint. This language is really ableist. LOVE is not BLIND. Seriously, an emotion does not have a physical disability. Please stop using my disability as a synonym for “lack of prejudice/discrimination”. The blind face a ton of prejudice and discrimination and guess what, just because you are blind does not mean you completely miss prejudice or racism or any other ‘ism’ when it occurs. Enough said. Please stop using ableist language. It’s not symbolism or an analogy It is ableist.

Second complaint. She doesn’t know he is a Klansman because she is blind? Both the author and the individual who made the image fall victim to this type of logic. If you think race (in the case of the woman) or a radical, oppressive political identity (in the case of the member of the KKK) are something a blind person misses because they are blind, you do not understand visual disability at all. Seriously, the ways these identities have been worked into language, the ways we interact with each other, the ways we navigate the world, etc. are incredibly nuanced and complicated. You do not need to be able to physically see them to know they exist. This complaint is especially true if you consider the original post’s comment about “love” and the implied relationship. Sight is not the only way a person would be able to understand someone else’s identity or proclivity to be an oppressive, violent scumbag and this is especially true as relationships form across time. Completely ignoring how blind individuals can and do navigate the world, the author takes their ableism in their analysis a step further; “The blind Klansman DRESSED UP AS A KLANSMAN- even blind he still HATES PEOPLE.” WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN!?!?!?! Please stop privileging sight as a key component of navigating identity, identification, and the world as a whole.

Third complaint. The creator of this image is ableist. The two figures are depicted on a crosswalk in front of a red car about to finish crossing the intersection (upper right of the image) and about to pass behind a gray car that has just finished crossing through the intersection and is now beyond the cross walk (bottom left of the image). Hmmm…so is that red car running a red light? Highly unlikely considering the gray car just made it through the intersection itself. Maybe they both ran the light. Or maybe the two caricatures just walked out into oncoming traffic without waiting for a red light. Yeah, hahahahaha. Super funny. Another really good one because hey, blind people cannot cross the street! Hahahaha, no wait, that’s messed up. Please stop depicting images of blind individuals not being able to carry out basic mobility tasks (and yes, this is another really common theme).

Fourth complaint. Not only is the language and the imagery itself ableist, but the author uses this ableism as a means to another end: addressing racism. The original post states that if the KKK member knew his companion was Black, ”he’d push her into traffic and claim, “I’m blind! I didn’t know what was happening!”” Yeah, because someone who is blind cannot possibly know there is traffic there unless they can see it clearly! I mean hey, they already just walked into oncoming traffic, right?. Ha, great joke; I am rolling on the floor laughing. In an attempt to address that this Klansman is a scumbag and is obviously racist, you just made another ‘blind joke’.But using ableism as a tool against racism doesn’t stop there. It gets taken a step further when the author claims that LOVE isn’t BLIND, HATE is BLIND. Really? That’s the conclusion? I am pretty confident that hate itself does not have a visual disability. In an attempt to address one ‘ism’, you just used another and threw another community under the bus (so to speak). Please do not use ableist language in an attempt to illustrate why this image is racist as all hell.

In conclusion:

Dear World,

Please do not use ableism in your social justice battles. I wholeheartedly support the sentiment in the original post. The author is right on in many ways. But horribly wrong in others. Let’s not push each other’s heads under water in our own attempts to not drown under oppression. Thank you for listening.

This additional commentary from blindjewwanderringinthedesert is so very important. We can not use and perpetuate another form of oppression (here- ableism) to address another (here- racism). Thanks so much for adding on and clarifying this, as it is so important and is a point that many people in the SJ community (myself included) can be so prone to miss.

"A woman from the audience asks: ‘Why were there so few women among the Beat writers?’ and [Gregory]..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 14:31:00 +0200

“A woman from the audience asks: ‘Why were there so few women among the Beat writers?’ and [Gregory] Corso, suddenly utterly serious, leans forward and says: “There were women, they were there, I knew them, their families put them in institutions, they were given electric shock. In the ’50s if you were male you could be a rebel, but if you were female your families had you locked up.”

-
Stephen Scobie, on the Naropa Institute’s 1994 tribute to Allen Ginsberg (via thisisendless)

FUCK

(via femmeboyant)

Absences of women in history don’t “just happen,” they are made.

confusedtree: In all seriousness Idris Elba as the 12th Doctor would be a great casting choice...

Mon, 20 May 2013 14:14:29 +0200

confusedtree:

In all seriousness Idris Elba as the 12th Doctor would be a great casting choice because he’d kill it and we’d get to find out just exactly how many anglophiles are also gigantic racists

Idris Elba for every role in everything

ileftmyheartintokyo: Untitled by Sandro Bisaro on Flickr.

Mon, 20 May 2013 03:03:17 +0200

ileftmyheartintokyo:

Untitled by Sandro Bisaro on Flickr.

Photo

Sun, 19 May 2013 23:35:05 +0200

austenmarieblog: sailorpizza: pretty-littlefox: dita von...

Sun, 19 May 2013 23:34:13 +0200

austenmarieblog:

sailorpizza:

pretty-littlefox:

dita von teese’s life

one day, one day

goals

Can we just talk about how amazing she is?

Photo

Sun, 19 May 2013 22:30:24 +0200

boobs-birds-botany: accck the stuff of nightmares

Sun, 19 May 2013 21:11:15 +0200

boobs-birds-botany:

accck

the stuff of nightmares

wilwheaton: I really hope Yahoo doesn’t fuck up Tumblr like it’s fucked up … well, every single...

Sun, 19 May 2013 19:16:31 +0200

wilwheaton:

I really hope Yahoo doesn’t fuck up Tumblr like it’s fucked up … well, every single thing it’s ever touched in the history of the universe.

50you50me: An adorable desert fox walking against the wind in...

Sun, 19 May 2013 16:15:44 +0200

50you50me:

An adorable desert fox walking against the wind in Morocco. This picture by Francisco Mingorance impressed me more than other amazing entries of the annual National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest. Again, just adorable!

(via In Focus)

Photo

Sun, 19 May 2013 16:11:23 +0200

"In a colorblind society, White people, who are unlikely to experience disadvantages due to race, can..."

Sun, 19 May 2013 13:14:40 +0200

“In a colorblind society, White people, who are unlikely to experience disadvantages due to race, can effectively ignore racism in American life, justify the current social order, and feel more comfortable with their relatively privileged standing in society (Fryberg, 2010).

Most minorities, however, who regularly encounter difficulties due to race, experience colorblind ideologies quite differently. Colorblindness creates a society that denies their negative racial experiences, rejects their cultural heritage, and invalidates their unique perspectives.

”

- Monica Williams, Ph.D for Psychology Today, “Colorblind Ideology is a Form of Racism (via willworkforwords)

u-kill-me-in-a-good-way: violettesilence: jesuislegrandefromage: montypythonandtheholyblog: hotda...

Sun, 19 May 2013 13:09:25 +0200

u-kill-me-in-a-good-way:

violettesilence:

jesuislegrandefromage:

montypythonandtheholyblog:

hotdamnope:

kangiku:

the 12 year olds on this website get really mad if you point out the fact that they’re 12

r u serious

NOT EVERY 12 OLD GETS REALLY ANGRY

jesues sometimes people are just so dumb ughh

this is almost as fun as playing spot the vegan.

Spot the vegan? Yeah…the vegan is the one who isn’t killing or harming animals just because “They taste good.”

Found the vegan.

iwillalwaysshipyou: in Europe we don’t say ‘I love you’ we say “12 points to…” which translates to...

Sat, 18 May 2013 23:27:01 +0200

iwillalwaysshipyou:

in Europe we don’t say ‘I love you’ we say “12 points to…” which translates to “you are close to me” and I think that’s beautiful