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sometimes while reading fanfiction it becomes obvious that the author has forgotten that 2012 is almost ten years ago and that technology was actually very different then. then I have a crisis about 2012 being long enough ago that some fanfic authors need to do research to have historical accuracy.

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Today in thingsvthat make me feel geriatric.

I suppose that if anything were to bring me back to Tumblr after [checks post history] EIGHT years, it would be the madcap adventures of fandom's favorite #gaypirates.

Here I present my delightfully not great Stray Toasters x Our Flag Means Death homage to my ancient alt.gothic sign off.

#our flag means death #ofmd #stray toasters #alt.gothic

I remember keenly the first time I really, deeply, felt the full force of the privilege that US culture grants me due to the color of my skin. It was 2008. For a few years previously I had been reinvesting with feminism and intersectionality and was active with fellow #socialjusticewarriors on Twitter. For the first time in my life I was beginning to make peace with the fact that as a white person I benefit from implicit racism and white privilege every single day. {read more at the link}

The never ending cycle of white privilage.

(Originally posted on LiveJournal in March 2009. But it seems, sadly, continually relevant.) Hi. My name is Em… and I am racist. I say that without a sense of irony and with some small sense of shame. It is primarily passive racism at this point, but I benefit from the color of my skin in innumerable ways every day. And if you are reading this, and you are white, so do you. And you have been trained by our society not to see it and to embrace it and to benefit – every day – from the fact that you are not a person of color. I am racist. I don’t like it. I hate it. But every fucking day I struggle with myself. I fail at being an anti-racist ally every fucking day. But I keep trying. And I learn. I’m not saying this because I want someone to give me a cookie and a pat on the back for trying not to be an asshole. I’m saying it because we can all learn together if we want to, but first we have to see our prejudice for what it really is. We have to own it. We have to admit to ourselves the way that we react to people of different races and not try to explain it away as something other than an instantaneous value judgement based primarily on the color of someone’s skin. There has been a ton of fail around these here internets lately – RaceFail, if you will. It is bleeding over – as it should – into other venues I frequent (and if you frequent them too, then a lot of this might look a little familiar, but it needs to be said). It makes people uncomfortable. Fact is, it’s not nice to be confronted with our own privilege. It’s not nice to think that we as white people might be racist. It’s a lot easier to talk about racial prejudice, and privilege. It’s lot easier to not push ourselves out of our comfort zone. It’s uncomfortable, and it sucks, and it burns and if we are even the slightest bit concerned with social justice, it can make our entire selfhood squirm to call our race based prejudice by its actual name. RACISM. But here’s the thing. It’s not about us. It’s not about the white people. It’s not about how our feelings get hurt when people call us out for saying stupid shit. It’s not about how an innocent comment (or chapter or essay or statement) was misconstrued. It’s not about how hard it is to be sensitive to other people’s cultural sensitivities. It’s not about how it stings and burns and makes us want to rage when someone suggests that we are, in fact, racist. It’s not about us white folks. At its root it’s about systematic racism and how generations of racial oppression have created a system in which what a white person says is valued more highly than what a person of color says. It’s about how generations of passive lack of resistance have benefited white people at the expense of people of color. It’s about using the language of oppression to cast white people we don’t like into the role of racial other when there is no other target, or to make the case that we’re not racist, we’re classist. It’s about white being the default and non-white being “special interest.” It’s about not having to bear scrutiny for our entire race when we fuck up. It is not about how uncomfortable we feel. If it hurts to be called a racist, too damn bad. If it hurts that much, do what you can to help create a world that is less racist. It’s our fault as a race, not peoples of color. We can listen. We can speak up. We can see to it that we learn and that we don’t leave anti-racist work to people of color. We can call out our friends. We can own up to our own racism.

The View From Here

Out the screen door is sunlight and blue sky mottled with clouds and the pollen of a dozen trees and flowers making a cocktail for our "enjoyment" Through the window I hear the shrill cries and thuds of children playing games in the street just like we used to when we were kids back in the day somewhere else with different trees and patterns of sky It has been years since I have seen the flat expanse a horizon made of corn and nothing but since seasons were defined by the crops in the fields down the street which have been devoured by pavement and homes made from cookie cutter blueprints a dozen or more spins of the earth since I've been "Normal" Now there are jobs and gardens and PTA fundraisers And different people tucked in at night songs sung precious fluffy pets cradled under arms covered by blankets made by a different grandmother But exactly where I want to be. (c) 2014

Because it is poetry month.

To Home By Emily Sexton

I tried to wait a moment

Just a quiet breath of time

When the air rushes in with a two-step of life

I tried to wander aimlessly

An exploration of the heart that beats out the rhythm of blood

of lust

I tried to close my eyes with a sigh of meditation

To let the whispers of a wavering thought find purchase

I tried but then I found a circle the path leading always back to you

#poetry

la-belle-laide

“Little boys like to be heroes,” Mr. Moffat said. “You get to wear the coat and swagger about, and girls think he’s sexy. There’s a lot of things that playing Stephen Hawking can do, but that’s probably not one of them.”

Can Steven Moffat ever NOT come across as a huge jerk? Ever? At all?

emandink

OMG, I cannot even. Getting closer and closer to not watching Doctor Who until this jerk is removed from the helm. The fact that I think 11 is an egotistical twit (Marty Stu, anyone?) isn't helping.

burritosong-old

emandink

Come join us and be silly and geeky and cheeky. You know you want to!

betterbooktitles

brassparker

All astoundingly accurate.

hugsfromhedwig

emandink

Ha!

And tea. Don't forget the tea.

microaggressions

Stop acting like a princess! You’re acting like a princess!! Ooh… little princess… boo hoo.

Parents talking to their crying, four-year-old son. (via microaggressions)

We need to start calling out this kind of behavior as the emotional abuse it is. And talking about how this kind of abuse both oppresses men and teaches them to have utter contempt for women at the same time - this little boy is learning about how he’s supposed to behave, learning to associate undesirable behavior with women, and learning to be afraid and contemptuous of gender nonconforming people.

(via arewomenhuman)

This makes me sick to my stomach. And meanwhile, these same people are probably telling their daughter that she is their "little princess" and enforcing the notion that for people who present as girls, that's the best there is.

cognitivedissonance

Could you imagine what the Tea Party would be saying right now if there was a law on the books that allowed immigrants to indefinitely avoid taxes on income sent back to family members in the old country, in Mexico and Venezuela and India? Imagine the uproar if Barack Obama, in the middle of this historic revenue crunch and “We’re so broke the world is going to end tomorrow!” debt-ceiling hystgeria, decided to declare a second “one-time tax holiday” for, say, unwed single mothers, or recipients of public assistance? Middle America would be running through the streets, firing shotguns out its truck window, waving chainsaws in mall lobbies, etc. As it is, leading members of the Senate are seriously considering giving the most profitable companies in the world a total tax holiday as a reward for their last seven years of systematic tax avoidance. Hundreds of billions of potential tax dollars would disappear from the Treasury. And there isn’t a peep from anyone, anywhere, on this issue. We’re seriously talking about defaulting on our debt, and cutting Medicare and Social Security, so that Google can keep paying its current 2.4 percent effective tax rate and GE, a company that received a $140 billion bailout en route to worldwide 2010 profits of $14 billion, can not only keep paying no taxes at all, but receive a $3.2 billion tax credit from the federal government. And nobody appears to give a shit. What the hell is wrong with people? Have we all lost our minds?

Matt Taibbi, “Corporate Tax Holiday in Debt Ceiling Deal: Where’s the Uproar?”

Yeah, I just can’t anymore…

(via cognitivedissonance)

I know it’s not Your Local Professional Sports Team Winning/Losing The Championship but this deserves a street-riot, guise.

(via youlikemealready)

Someday people will stop letting corporations feast on their bones. Maybe.

(via karnythia)

karnythia

emandink

A couple of weeks ago someone on twitter asked me how to be a good ally. With 140 characters at my disposal, I said, essentially, Shut up and listen. Karnythia says it better:

karnythia:

1. Don’t derail a discussion. Even if it makes you personally uncomfortable to discuss X issue…it’s really not about you or your comfort. It’s about X issue, and you are absolutely free to not engage rather than try to keep other people from continuing their conversation.

2. Do read...

caraobrien-deactivated20191215

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telegantmess:

cnt-:

A homeless woman from Bridgeport has been arrested for enrolling her 6-year-old son at a Norwalk elementary school.

Tonya McDowell, 33, is accused of stealing $15,000 — the cost of her son’s public education — from the Norwalk School District, according to the Stamford Advocate. She was arrested Thursday.

McDowell, whose last known address was Priscilla Street in Bridgeport, is facing first-degree larceny and conspiracy to commit larceny charges, the paper reported.

Police began an investigation in January, after the Norwalk Housing Authority filed a complaint that McDowell had registered her son at Brookside Elementary School in Norwalk, even though she had been living in an apartment in Bridgeport.

McDowell allegedly admitted to police she was allowed to sleep in the apartment on Priscilla Street in Bridgeport by the tenant, but had to leave during the day, according to the Advocate. She also told police she sometimes stayed at an emergency shelter in Norwalk.

Police say McDowell used the Norwalk address of the boy’s babysitter to register him at the school.

“Usually when they find a kid out of district, they send him back. I have never heard of people being arrested for it,” Norwalk Board of Education Chairman Jack Chiaramonte told the Advocate.

The apparent crackdown may have something to do with the city’s tightening budget.

“This now sends a message to other parents that may have been living in other towns and registering their kids with phony addresses,” Norwalk Mayor Richard Moccia said.

…… rage

I’m willing to bet money that she’s also not a white woman.

More evidence that being poor is increasingly looked on as a crime itself in the US. (Also, I would not take the other side of that bet.)

bubonickitten

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stfuantichoicers:

peacelovemindfulness:

bubonickitten:

Do they really believe that abortion is murder?

“…the leaders of the abortion criminalization movement have consistently put their political weight behind policies which make little or no sense if they genuinely think that abortion is identical to child murder. And those same leaders routinely endorse policies that make a lot of sense if their goal is to penalize women who have sex – to, as I’ve heard many of them put it, make sure women “face the consequences” of having sex.”

(Source)

I’m not sure if this has been passed around before—probably, since it’s been around since 2006. But I thought it was worth posting.

Note: As usual, replace all instances of “women” with “people with uteruses” or some other inclusive term.

I cannot wait until all of society is able to understand just how barbaric it is to be “pro-life” (more like “pro-forced birth”). Maybe, just maybe, abortion will be seen as the necessity it really is, and people will stop trying to make it illegal. I fear that is just a pipe dream, though.

Just one more example of how “pro-life” has nothing to do with life and everything to do with restricting choices.

Charts make everything easier to understand. Even assholes.