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Queer kid from the Midwest into humans, empowerment, and smiling.

[projectqueer]

This black lesbian activist declined a prestigious honor from The Queen of England. Here’s why.

“I’m honored and grateful, but I have to say no thank you.”

Last week, Queen Elizabeth II said she thought that gay marriage was absolutely “wonderful.” Meanwhile, Phyll Opoku-Gyimah — an LGBT activist in the U.K. best known for founding U.K. Black Pride — was one of 1,200 artists, activists, and other notables listed in the Queens New Year’s Honors List.

Opoku-Gyimah, who also served as a Rainbow List judge and Stonewall Trustee, was happy to be noticed. But it’s complicated.

As she told the U.K.’s Diva magazine:

“If you’re a member of a minority – or multiple minorities – it’s important to be visible as a role model for others [and] for your successes to be seen. An honor is a very public statement that the establishment has decided that you, and what you do, are valued by the wider society. You’ve worked hard, and they’ve actually noticed.”

However, inclusion on the list comes with an MBE, which makes her known as a Member of the British Empire. And she has a problem with that:

“…Member of the British Empire? I don’t believe in empire. I don’t believe in, and actively resist, colonialism and its toxic and enduring legacy in the Commonwealth, where – among many other injustices – LGBTQI people are still being persecuted, tortured and even killed because of sodomy laws, including in Ghana, where I am from, that were put in place by British imperialists. I’m honored and grateful, but I have to say no thank you.”

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[politico]

Why are farmers telling kids what to eat?

If it sometimes seems children come last in school-lunch laws — well, it’s been that way from the beginning. By KEVIN KOSAR

Since its creation 70 years ago, the school lunch law has grown in scale and reach far beyond what their authors would have imagined, and it’s easy to look at today’s draft – and the arguments over what should go on kids’ plates — and imagine we’re watching policy get distorted by powerful agricultural interests. But that would be getting the bill precisely backward. The School Lunch Act, in fact, has served a scrum of agricultural and other interests for the entire 70 years it has existed, each angling for a bigger share of the federal lunch plate. And if you go back to the beginning, it turns out, the School Lunch Act wasn’t created just to feed children. First and foremost, it was a bill to help farmers.

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[kingofthequeerdom]

Click here to support Seth's Top Surgery Fund by Seth McLambchop

Hello friends and family, As most of you are aware , I am a transgender man. I present and live in the world as male. I am currently scheduled for a bilateral subcutaneous mastectomy, better known as double incision breast reduction surgery, on August 17, 2016. This procedure will remove my...

hey all, my friend Seth needs top surgery. i donated because 1) he shouldn’t have barriers and 2) because i know how fucking hard this process is and it is to ask for funding for something so critical. thanks! 

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[kingofthequeerdom]

What one college discovered when it stopped accepting SAT/ACT scores

'We’re done with standardized testing, the SAT, and ACT.'

[think-progress]

Drug Testing Welfare Recipients Is A Popular New Policy That Cost States Millions. Here Are The Results.

In 10 states, someone who applies for welfare cash assistance through the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program doesn’t just have to deal with complicated paperwork at a time when there’s a good chance she’s already in a state of financial crisis. She also has to be screened and possibly tested for substance abuse. And if she tests positive, she won’t receive benefits.

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[georgetakei]

Even monsters deserve love.

Source: I Fucking Love This

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[lovemakesyouwonder]

[kingofthequeerdom]

[kingofthequeerdom]

My body is not to be taken and used out of context. My body is where I live.

but i loved this

[hennndo]

MLK QUOTES WHITE PEOPLE DONT QUOTE

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.- Martin Luther King, Jr.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them. Martin Luther King, Jr.

A riot is the language of the unheard. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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I’m a recent college grad who is struggling to get by. While looking for work, I am making and selling these handmade hats! The hats are only $20! Please message me if you are interested, I accept payment through Venmo and PayPal. Stay warm this season and help a sista out!!

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[wearethe15percent]

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