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how many cats is too many cats

there is no too many cats.

(because i refuse to see “political correctness” as weak and because i care deeply about the safety and happiness of my amazing trans friends)

just because you participate in lgbtq activism as a cis queer alongside transgender people does not entitle you to reclaim slurs used against trans...

fuckyeahprisoninmates

Larry White, in his 70’s, has spent 32 years of his life behind bars. He discusses how difficult it was for him to transition back into society after being in prison for so long. While he was incarcerated, he had organized a small social network within prison to advocate for better treatment of inmates. Once released, he decided to continue his advocacy, especially for older inmates living behind bars: “My whole life now is geared to go back in and help those I left behind.”

Al Jazeera English hosts an award-winning documentary series, Fault Lines, and this episode examines life sentences and the elderly within the prison population in the United States. [x]

knowledgeequalsblackpower

and fyi, Blacks received longer sentences than White inmates for the same crimes.

#prison abolition #prison industrial complex #race #perspectives of formerly incarcerated people

definitelydope

(by Michellisphoto)

#photography #landscape

creatowdqwdqqdqown

In the U.S., where ninety-six percent of the reported perpetrators of rape are white, eighty percent of the men in prison for rape are black.

Joseph Weinberg & Michael Biernbaum, Conversations of Consent: Sexual Intimacy without Sexual Assault (via cocknbull)

oops

(via crackerhell)

96%…wow just wow.

(via clairebearology) Not shocking being white men brought rape to the new world and still do it worldwide. (via bad-dominicana)

but someone please tell me how jim crow is over. please. and why the hell we don’t talk about this as an aspect of rape culture.

(via so-treu)

Let’s remember our herstories and histories: Rape only became a criminal act when white slave masters became afraid of relationships between black male slaves and white female masters. They needed a law that would make it so that a relationship between a black male and a white female could NEVER be adult and consensual even when it was. This, of course, only worked in the white woman’s favor. When the black male was being raped by the white female masters, ONLY the black male slave could be blamed (sound familiar?). Before AND after that, though, whites continued to rape blacks, female AND male, with reckless abandon. And it was never considered a crime. At worst, it was considered an investment. Go do some research and see how many white men have raped black women or men. And then research how many of those white rapists were brought to trial and convicted. You won’t be astonished by what you find. And that’s a damn shame. In the main, rape is a crime when it’s perpetrated AGAINST the white body—especially if perpetrated BY a non-white body. America is, down to its damned mitochondria, a rape culture.

(via sonofbaldwin)

#tx rape #rape culture #america #racism #gender #prison industrial complex

rubyetc

couple of gifs from a little story I’m working on!

rubyetc

you can now read the full story here! please share :-)

eatsleepdraw

#art #illustration #painting #blue girls #ice cream

humortrain

mkhunterz

Cas.

We Talked about this.

Personal space.

khaleesiofthegreatdairystate

KITTIEEEEEEEEEEEES! KITTIES! OH MY GOD! KITTIES!

childofzami

I consider white lesbians who do actual organizing to dismantle institutionalized racism in the society as a whole to be allies. Having a ‘safe space’ within the lesbian community where concerned white lesbians might treat me as if I were human is all well and good, but it won’t help at all when I am in my car and get pulled over by a cop who decides to crack my head open because I am Black. What would help would be for white lesbians to organize against police brutality, which is occurring in epidemic proportions against different groups of people of color all over country.

Barbara Smith, “The Tip of the Iceberg” (1994), from The Truth That Never Hurts, 100

(italics added for emphasis)

#whiteness #queers #barbara smith #institutionalized racism #police brutality

libertysquad

Three NYPD Officers Have Drunkenly Shot at People in the Last Week

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/05/three-drunk-nypd-officers-shoot-at-people.html

queencitysavior-blog

Or what CMPD calls “light afternoon.”

note-a-bear

"it’s almost like this job drives a person to get wasted" Or maybe that Blue Wall of Silence gives a bunch of (mostly) men with bully complexes a false sense of invincibility so they decide to exercise the lack of oversight/care/discretion at every opportunity. stg, we have stories like this every couple of years and they never do shit. I remember when I was a kid and there was a whole blow up of this one guy who was a career beat cop who was literally working drunk and just taking hours long breaks in his day to shack up with mistresses and shit. It’s not caused BY the badge. It’s only facilitated.

#police brutality #police #nypd

swinku

New comic about NAMES! I’ve mentioned name stuff before in a previous “do and don’t” comic, but I fleshed the idea out a little further because its a pet peeve of mine. But a bigger problem that affects a lot more people in different more scaring ways

areyouabadwitchtoo

all of this. my favorite is when people tell me thats its so cute that i have a boys name and im a girl.

#naming #gender #genderidentity #queers #dumb shit cis people say

problematicselfie-deactivated20

Will men ever be able to give a shit about sexual assault against women without referring to us as their sisters and daughters?? Stay tuned to find out if men are capable of empathy that doesn’t prioritize themselves!