A little nonsense now and then...

"The study offers further depressing insights. Not only did the male pretend jurors prove..."

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:02:26 +0800

“The study offers further depressing insights. Not only did the male pretend jurors prove...

The Princess Who Saved Herself

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:01:59 +0800

femfreq: Jonathan Coulton’s song about a princess who doesn’t need saving by anyone is soon to be...

"I’m looking at you bro In the “Cool story babe, now make me a sandwich” t-shirt The commonly..."

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:00:51 +0800

“I’m looking at you bro In the “Cool story babe, now make me a sandwich” t-shirt The...

girljanitor: think-progress: Even 50 years after the Equal Pay...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 06:02:10 +0800

girljanitor:

think-progress:

Even 50 years after the Equal Pay Act.

white women are earning 77 cents for every dollar a white man earns. the actual breakdown goes a bit more like this:

white women make more than Black AND Hispanic men

Black and Hispanic women make less than all aforementioned categories

whoops your intersectionality here you dropped it

fuckyeahcracker: badass-bharat-deafmuslimpunkstar: spunkmate: ...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:01:42 +0800

fuckyeahcracker:

badass-bharat-deafmuslimpunkstar:

spunkmate:

kemetically-afrolatino:

Obama tells Africa not to blame colonialism for problems

“I think part of what’s hampered advancement in Africa is that for many years we’ve made excuses about corruption or poor governance, that this was somehow the consequence of neo-colonialism, or the West has been oppressive, or racism – I’m not a big – I’m not a believer in excuses.

“The West and the United States has not been responsible for what’s happened to Zimbabwe’s economy over the last 15 or 20 years.

oh yea cuz two decades erases 500+ years of Maafa African Holocaust colonialist, racist, white supremacist, capitalist slavery

YES WE CAN OPPRESS!

Let’s just talk about the IMF and World Bank for a minute, Mr. President…

wow Obama really needs to STFU his fucking ass. Let’s talk about Standard Adjustment Policies, too, shall we?

The “The West” comment isn’t even just hurtful, it’s literally wrong. Like that isn’t even true or correct, Obama. It isn’t true at all.. Why would he say something so stupid.

The first photo is spot-on…I was sexually assaulted by an...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:44:38 +0800

The first photo is spot-on…I was sexually assaulted by an ex-partner - he coerced me into sexual acts when I didn’t want to/was clearly uncomfortable with it…but I don’t think he has any idea that that was rape/assault, because he grew up with the “scary man jumps out of the bushes” being the only “real” rape narrative rather than the truth.

"If you are a white woman and you want to call yourself a feminist, you must acknowledge that your..."

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:00:48 +0800

“If you are a white woman and you want to call yourself a feminist, you must acknowledge that...

Walmart Accepted Clothing from Banned Bangladesh Factories

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:02:09 +0800

Walmart Accepted Clothing from Banned Bangladesh Factories: After the deadly building collapse in...

magdolenelives: somehowfurious: kissing-monsters: apiphile: s...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 18:01:45 +0800

magdolenelives:

somehowfurious:

kissing-monsters:

apiphile:

sexxxisbeautiful:

pizzagrrrl:

Peggielene Bartels, A.K.A. King Peggy, is currently the King of Otuam, Ghana. She was chosen to be one of only three female kings in Ghana, and when she discovered that male chauvinists wanted her to only be a figurehead, she said: “They were treating me like I am a second-class citizen because I am a woman. I said, ‘Hell no, you’re not going to do this to a woman!’” When she encountered corruption and the threat of embezzlement to the royal funds, she declared “I’m going to squeeze their balls so hard their eyes pop!”

King Peggy has maintained her work in Ghana’s embassy in Washington, D.C. while making education affordable in Otuam, installing borehead wells to produce clean drinking water, enforcing incarceration laws to deal with domestic violence, replenishing the royal coffers by taxing Otuam’s fishing industry to improve life in the village, and appointing three women to her council.

“Nobody should tell you, ‘You’re a woman, you can’t do it,’” she insists. “You can do it. Be ready to accept it when the calling comes.”

Quoted from the Spring/Summer 2012 issue of Ms. Magazine.

What a beautiful badass woman.

King Peggy has been on my blog before but this is my goddamn blog and I will have King Peggy on here twice if I want.

MORE FEMALE KINGS.

Always reblog King Peggy, who is on my dash far less than she should be. Did you know she has written a book about her life? It is great, and you should all get right on that if you haven’t already.

My squee when she was on The Daily Show, it was scary. ADORE this woman!

"Most Whites find it easy to ignore residential segregation. I experienced a good example of this..."

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 12:01:12 +0800

“Most Whites find it easy to ignore residential segregation. I experienced a good example of...

letfreedomlulz: wildflowers420: theatlanticcities: “‘There’s...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 06:02:12 +0800

letfreedomlulz:

wildflowers420:

theatlanticcities:

“‘There’s always that joke that there’s a Starbucks on every corner,’ says Justin Grimes, a statistician with the Institute of Museum and Library Services in Washington. ‘But when you really think about it, there’s a public library wherever you go, whether it’s in New York City or some place in rural Montana. Very few communities are not touched by a public library.’

In fact, libraries serve 96.4 percent of the U.S. population, a reach any fast-food franchise can only dream of.”

There are more public libraries (about 17,000) in America than there are McDonalds (about 14,000) or Starbucks (about 11,000).

Read: Every Library and Museum in America Mapped

[Click here for the original map]

this makes me really happy

America: Not entirely a lost cause just yet …

sourcedumal: deliciouskaek: #LongLiveStunting they both...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 06:02:28 +0800

sourcedumal:

deliciouskaek:

#LongLiveStunting

they both inspire me so much. they’re the role models i wanted as a child.

Black women supporting each other.

#Womanism

Moral issue still remains

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:02:03 +0800

Moral issue still remains: thepoliticalfreakshow: By Charles A. Gallagher Two events that took...

seriouslyamerica: ltstarbuck: lizziegoneastray: baxtavius: me...

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 12:00:48 +0800

seriouslyamerica:

ltstarbuck:

lizziegoneastray:

baxtavius:

megaman2:

“there’s nothing wrong with the video game community”

what is an obamaphone

there’s a government program where unemployed people can get cheap phones from the government to help them get jobs, and idiots call them obamaphones

never mind the phone thing was thought up in bush the second’s regime iirc (feel free to correct me)

It was Reagan, which makes it EVEN MORE RIDICULOUS, because the same racist assholes who complain about “Obamaphones” fucking venerate Reagan like he was the second coming.

According to a recent study, women make up 45% of gamers, with men at 55%. Source here http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/gaming/2013/06/12/women-50-percent-gaming-audience/2411529/ So women are almost half. And from personal experience - I have met about an equal number of men and women who are gamers. But according to some dudebros on twitter, there are not enough female gamers to justify making more female protagonists etc….?

fuckyeahfeminists: rhrealitycheck: On June 7, 1965,...

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 10:27:45 +0800

fuckyeahfeminists:

rhrealitycheck:

On June 7, 1965, in Griswold v. Connecticut, the Supreme Court legalized contraception (for married people, at least) and held that women and men have the right to privacy in making decisions about their sexual health. The case recognized, in law, the principle that women and men—not government—should decide when and how to plan their families, and paved the way for programs and policies that help women make health-care decisions that affect their educational opportunities, their professional work, and their families.

Forty-eight years and counting! How mindblowing is it that it’s been less than 50 years since it’s been legal for MARRIED COUPLES (single people were allowed 7 years later) to have contraception?

And we’re STILL FIGHTING ABOUT IT. OY.

"The courts have long held that parents cannot be compelled to take actions to benefit their..."

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 12:00:48 +0800

“The courts have long held that parents cannot be compelled to take actions to benefit their...

jethroq: kemetically-afrolatino: China denounces America’s...

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 06:01:55 +0800

jethroq:

kemetically-afrolatino:

China denounces America’s treatment of Afro-descendants

“In conclusion, The People’s Republic of China demands that America stop using their cry of human rights violations against other sovereign nations in order to declare war on them to steal their resources when America flagrantly violates the human rights of Afro-descendants and other minorities within its own country.”

this article just drops stat. after stat. on the racial inequalities in the U.S. good read.

When China calls out your shit about human rights. And has the numbers to back it up. Then you know you’ve fucked up.

"Not every white person is a racist, but the genius of racism is that you don’t have to participate..."

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 18:01:30 +0800

“Not every white person is a racist, but the genius of racism is that you don’t have to...

andrewandthegarfields: neil-gaiman: actegratuit: Protesters...

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 12:00:51 +0800

andrewandthegarfields:

neil-gaiman:

actegratuit:

Protesters #OccupyGezi to save Istanbul park

Activists defy bulldozers to block demolition of city’s ‘last public green space’.

Unconfirmed reports suggest more than 10,000 people are currently gathered in Taksim’s Gezi Park.

pics from http://occupygezipics.tumblr.com/

please share and support these brave people!

Wishing them luck and safety and that they win…

•this is a nation •we are a nation getting attacked by our own police forces while we didn’t do anything •people just sat and read books there•guarding the trees •so please •CARE ABOUT THIS •just care

theneighbourhoodsuperhero: The anguish is clear on the face of...

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 06:02:29 +0800

theneighbourhoodsuperhero:

The anguish is clear on the face of Moazzam Begg, a former Guantanamo Bay detainee, who takes long pauses in an attempt to steady his tearful voice, as he recounts to the interviewer about how American interrogators repeatedly raped and tortured, or pretended to rape and torture, a woman in the cell next to him in an attempt to force him to falsely confess.

Begg’s eyes cloud over and he stares off into the distance as he relates how they manipulated his biggest fear, that his wife and children who were with him at the time of his arrest, were also imprisoned and in danger:

“I heard the cries of a woman (in the cell next to me) and an American voice shouting, ‘Spread your legs!’ and the woman is screaming and crying (as if she is being raped). Before I used to (always) ask the Americans about what happened to my wife and children since my arrest. They said ‘We don’t know,’ but at this time I didn’t ask because I was afraid of the answer. I thought my wife was in the cell.”

Begg was tortured and assaulted physically, mentally, psychologically, emotionally, and sexually as the American interrogators tried “breaking him down” in order to make him sign false confessions. Begg was released after three years spent in US custody without any charges held against him.

It is still not clear to this day whether the woman in the cell next to him was a fellow inmate also unjustly prisoned or an interrogator posing as a woman in distress.

It is known but hardly ever reported that the United States detains (Muslim) women who they “suspect” of being terrorists for no apparent reason, an example being Dr. Aafia Siddiqui (shown below in a picture of her taken while in US custody) who was abducted with her children by US intelligence.

After severe mistreatment in custody, during which she sustained a gunshot wound, Siddiqui was sentenced to 84 years in prison. Her young children who were with her when she was kidnapped and subsequently detained and interrogated have only recently been relocated. Siddiqui’s youngest son, who hadn’t even started walking yet, has disappeared since her kidnapping with no hint whatsoever of his whereabouts. Her older son has claimed that “the bloody body of his baby brother” was tossed to the side of the road by US soldiers when Siddiqui and her children were arrested. During her trial, Siddiqui was repeatedly removed from the court room for interrupting proceedings to scream out that her children had been tortured in front of her.

Four men who were imprisoned with Dr. Siddiqui in Bagram and who managed to escape reported in an interview:

“When they torture you, they threaten to sodomise you, they threaten to bring your wife and rape her in front of you and do other things to her. My words can never fully explain to you what happened during those interrogations.”

“Those American criminals think that they are the lords of human rights and that they are the callers for the freedom of the woman and her rescuers from oppression. There is a woman from Pakistan. She was put in solitary confinement for two full years in Bagram prison among more than 500 male prisoners and guards. She was treated the same way as the men were. This woman stayed there until she lost her mind, until she became insane, hitting the door and screaming day and night.”