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[quigonejinn]

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Jocelyn Wabano-Iahtail shuts down disrespectful white journalists over a question asking if Justin Trudeau is responsible for Missing Indigenous Teens in Northern Ontario.

More information here:

Indigenous women call reporter ‘white lady,’ demand she leave press conference

Video source: @asolezz

[uppity-broad]

What a brave and amazing woman.

And that headline on the linked article is a shameful example of exactly what Ms. Wabano-Ishtail was talking about! White fragility at its finest. Out of all the important things she said, reporters think her use of the term “white lady” is the most news worthy.

She is putting herself on the line to educate white people about issues our ignorance and privilege stops us from understanding. We should fucking thank her, not compound the disrespect and harm like that.

So here is a better headline: “Jocelyn Wabano-Iahtail educates disrespectful white journalists.”

[size10plz]

[ Captions ]

Person in background: Stop right now.

Jocelyn Wabano-Iahtail: Don’t speak to us that way. You’re a guest here, and you don’t even know how to speak to us. You don’t even recognize the tone in your voice in your delivery. No you’re done. You’re done. Next question.

Reporter: I’ll-I’ll re-ask what [ inaudible ] question, how do you think

Person off screen: You want to re-ask?

Reporter: Yes.

Jocelyn Wabano-Iahtail: You better be respectful.

 [ inaudible chattering in background ] 

Reporter: I’m being totally respectful. I’m asking how Justin Trudeau record, compared to Stephen Harper’s record, do you think he’s improved the situation. I think that is what Julie was asking. 

[ inaudible chattering off camera ]

Jocelyn Wabano-Iahtail: We have a holistic genocide happening here. 

Female Reporter: I can speak for myself

Jocelyn Wabano-Iahtail: And I can speak for myself. You know what white people? You’ve had your voice here for 524 years. 524 years you’ve been visible, white lady. You’ve been visible for 524 years. Look how fast your white man stands up for you. Where is everybody else who will come and stand up for us? I have a right to my voice, I’m still fighting for my voice, and my visibility. 

Reporter: We asked a question about what you–

Jocelyn Wabano-Iahtail: And I’m telling you! And I’m telling you right now. There has been 524 years of holistic genocide on Turtle Island. We’re the ones that are dying, it is not you that is dying. As far as Justin Trudeau is doing? One of the things that we need to keep in mind is that we’re asking the United Nations to help us of charges of genocide, a war against humanity, war crimes, and a crime of aggression be laid. Because your liberal party, was also responsible; every party, every governments that has been in power. None of your governments have clean hands. All of your governments…all of your governments have blood on their hands. None of you are different, you haven’t changed. The moment we have our voice, and back bone you want to shut us down. And you think you have your privilege to disrespect us the moment we tell you, because of your colonial mindset, and your colonial way of being. Your white privilege, your white fragility, you can’t take our truth. Look how many people came to bat for you, white lady. And you’re a guest here. Without us, you’d be homeless. This is over.

[memorizethisday]

2013//2017

[likeshadowsinthenight]

i think i’m coming back here...if someone still care

[1000drawings]

by Agnes Cecile

[tychodreams]

Okay, so we have sapphic for wlw folk and achillean for the mlm folk. Is anybody able to suggest an equivalent term for bi and ace folk?

[sproings]

I propose mercurian for bi folk.

[likeshadowsinthenight]

At 12 years old

Patroclus: “What would you have done?” (if someone took something from you)

Achilles: “I don’t know, I can’t imagine it. No one has ever tried to take something from me...I think I would be angry”

At 29 years old

They took Patroclus from him

Achilles: *yanks his own hair while screaming Patroclus’ name over and over, kills hundreds of men, fight and hurts a god, then kills Hector*  I think he was angry.

[leopirate-deactivated20170629]

i didn’t ask for this (source)

[rap1993]

God DAMN

[softparagon]

YES THESE ARE BOTH MY INTERESTS AND THEY GO SO WELL TOGETHER

[thempress]

A GOSPEL CHOIR SINGING AN ANIME INTRO…NO THE ANIME INTRO! TELL ME THIS ISN’T ONE OF THE BLACKEST THINGS EVER!

[thelittledrunkapple]

How women prepare for first dates

Bonus: How men prepare for first dates:

[sarcasticbabywhispererjess]

Accurate.

[pokemonprofessor]

Okay but the first set of gifs is not a joke like that’s literally how it goes.

[onemuseleft]

One of the girls at work won’t get in the guy’s car unless he agrees to let her take photos of him and his license plate to text to her mother. If he gets mad or makes a fuss she cancels the date and goes back inside.

[a-high-ass-ginger]

Reblogging for that 👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼

[whatistimeeven]

I’ve had someone take pics of me and my license plate on a first date before & I was okay with it. I’ve also had a friend allow me to view the tracking on her phone when she went to meet up with a guy the first time. This isn’t a joke at all & women have good reason to worry.

[legolokiismighty]

i have only ever met 2 people online, and made sure that we met up somewhere that was 1) public 2) close to my home. 

After, I walked to the dollar store that was a couple shops down until I knew they were gone, before walking home.

[breelandwalker]

Louis C.K. kind of nailed it. Men worry that their date won’t measure up to their aesthetic preferences. Women worry that they’re going wind up dead.

The disparity is RIDICULOUS, and the fact that dudes get offended when women try to protect themselves is hard proof that way too many guys Do Not Understand how dangerous it is to be a woman. (Not to mention it’s fucking insulting. “How dare you not trust your life and safety to a complete stranger whose intentions you have no way of knowing”?)

[breelandwalker]

Lookin’ at the notes on this post following my earlier reblog and just going….

Wow. WOW. Look at all these sheltered people and their internalized misogyny.

The point isn’t, “NOT ALL MEN ARE OUT TO GET YOU.”

The point is, “WE HAVE NO WAY OF KNOWING A NICE GUY FROM A SERIAL KILLER.”

It’s not like they fucking wear nametags, okay? Moreover, the most awful people with the worst intentions often put on the nicest face or deliberately make themselves seem harmless and likeable, to lull potential victims into a false sense of security. (Read up on Ted Bundy sometime. It’s horrifying shit. Or read any thread on the “Let’s Not Meet” subreddit.)

In order to protect ourselves, we are forced to assume the worst of every man we meet, because statistically speaking, the biggest danger to women…IS MEN. Saying “not all men are out to get you, you’re just being paranoid” is like saying “not every car you ride in is going to crash, so buckling your seatbealt is stupid.”

When dealing with an unknown situation, in the absence of absolute proof of safety, exercising a little extra caution can be the difference between life and death. Shaming women for being what you may view as overly cautious is every bit as horrid as blaming them if something goes wrong later on.

And refusing to go to a secluded location with a complete stranger without letting someone know where you’re going, who you’re with, and how to find you is just common street sense, whether you’re on a date or just going out for business or social purposes.

If your life has been so sheltered (or your coping skills so incredible) that you see no need to distrust strangers or worry about the potential for violence, you should thank your lucky stars.

And you should also be aware that just because it hasn’t happened to you or anyone you know does not mean that it doesn’t happen.

Lemme say that louder for the people in the back.

Just because it hasn’t happened to you or anyone you know does not mean that it doesn’t happen.

[bilt2tumble]

Re-Reblog for relevant commentary.

[zafirozorro-deactivated20160501]

And if you won’t take a woman’s word for it because you are some kind of asshat, men who sleep with men also mirror these rituals because even men are afraid of other men based on men’s behavior and inability to understand “no” or take rejection well.

[ladytemeraire]

I’ll stop reblogging this when it stops being relevant

[charlietheskonk]

in my preschool class we’re holding “class president of the day” elections this week.  we already elected our first female president on monday, even though one of the boy’s campaign promises was to “bring jewels” to the classroom.

[charlietheskonk]

tuesday: we talked about the real election happening today. one child says she hopes hillary clinton wins and all of her classmates chime in with sober agreements. one boy says voting for the drumpf “would not be a very good idea.”

they elected the other female candidate today in our mock election, so she won over the jewels boy and the other boy, who said he would make bracelets for the entire class. my students are surprisingly practical, seeing as they voted for the candidate who would clean the school and help them with their work.

once president, she did do those things, but also punched one of her constituents into the sandbox, so, i mean … she’s sort of a typical politician i guess

[charlietheskonk]

wednesday: the children announced tensely to me that trump won the real election. one boy said, “i still don’t like him, but we can’t say we hate him, because then we would be saying we hate the president.”

i said that was true, and that saying we hate him sounds a lot like something trump would say. they nodded and continued to help the toddler class students get their snack plates to the table without dropping their apple slices.

they elected one of the girls again, so she served her second term by helping her friends button their art smocks before we made our galaxy paintings. (because if you think i’m gonna create an art lesson plan to focus any more attention on this shitshow of an election, you are wrong.)

neither of the boy candidates have stood much of a chance in this race so far. one of them came to me and said he was rethinking his campaign promises, and could he make a new poster

he got a paper and wrote a huge list of ways that he would help keep all the children safe, including reminding them to use walking feet and not to touch broken glass. then he volunteered to work in the toddler room and cleaned up all of their messes, and moved all the shelves in my room so he could clean behind them.

i’m feeling so hopeless right now, but these children remind me that there is a future and they. are. it.

[charlietheskonk]

thursday: today i was very pleased. our president today is the little boy who made changes to his campaign promises. he also wore tyrannosaurus rex foot slippers. when the voters were shaking his hand to congratulate him on his victory, one said, “good job, and thank you for having monster feet”

he watched everyone like a hawk to make sure they were being safe, and then spent the morning writing in his journal about how much he loves all of us and his bicycle.

[anancientheart]

from Emery Allen’s new book Soft Human

[n5fw]

[parsonkenny101-deactivated20161]

[abbabyduck]

♥♥♥

[dasyjohnson]

top 15 heroes (as voted by my followers) » 11. Jessica Jones (Power Woman)                 “My greatest weakness? Occasionally I give a damn.”

[ladylindy]

Palma Bucarelli (1910 - 1998) art historian and important cultural figure in Italy after WWII. She saved a lot of art pieces during wwii and the bombings in Rome, and she was the first woman - curator of a museum (the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome). She promoted Abstract art, Tachisme and modern artistic movements that weren’t well known in Italy at that period. A very intelligent, brave, modern and innovative woman - and she was astonishingly beautiful, too. 

[butchbellaswan]

MY BABE IM CRYING I LVOE HER SO MUCH