Miss R*EVOLutionaries

Welcome to Miss R*EVOLutionaries, a California based grass-roots women's community organization (Men are of course welcome too)! Find us on Facebook: Miss R*EVOLutionaries

[cultureunseen]

Terrorism lies in the eyes of the beholder… 1. Mass Murderer Terrorist Dylann Roof kills nine unarmed Black worshippers because he can. 2. Civilian Terrorist George Zimmerman, slayer of unarmed Trayvon Martin. 3. Police Terrorist Darren Wilson, murderer of unarmed Michael Brown… 4. North Charleston Police Terrorist Michael Slager who gunned down unarmed Walter Scott. 5. Police Terrorist Matthew Kenny who slaughtered unarmed Tony Robinson Jr. 6. Civilian Terrorist Craig Stephen Hicks, shot three unarmed Muslim students in the head at Chapel Hill. 7. Police Terrorist Dante Servin  murdered unarmed Reika Boyd because it pleased him to do so… 8. Police Terrorist Sargent Mourad Mourad and fellow Terrorist Officer Jovaniel Cordova took the life of sixteen year old Kimani Gray because they knew that their wouldn’t be any repercussions or consequences… 09. NYPD Terrorist Officer Daniel Pantaleo who applied a homicidal chokehold on unarmed Eric Garner, because he could… http://justiceorelse.com/

[miss-revolt]

I stand in #Solidarity against extremism & violence. We deserve safety & access to health care. http://thndr.me/4l9D07

[buzzfeed]

All The Times President Obama Lost His Chill Around Kids

[miss-revolt]

I’m at a Bernie town hall in Aiken SC. #SCforBernie There’s a fantastic crowd here tonight - nice to see, especially in the South

[cyberprincesstbh]

[liberalsarecool]

Republicans would love to disassemble the USPS. Make it private for their cronies. Bush made it law that the USPS has to have 75 years on pension contributions, all in an attempt to weaken their profits. Perfect example of Republicans being anti-veteran and anti-Constitution.

[revolutionarykoolaid]

Lost in the Margins (9/29/15): A Delaware councilman and a local NAACP are calling for a federal investigation into the death of Jeremy McDole. Police were called out to respond to a report that a man shot himself in a parking lot. When they arrived, they found McDole bleeding in his wheelchair. Multiple officers fired at least 10 shots into Jeremy, claiming his was waving a gun at them menacingly. Witness videos challenged this narrative (warning, the video features very graphic images) however, showing a clearly injured McDole without a gun and struggling with commands. Police begun to revise their account of what occurred. On Monday, they announced finding a gun by his side, instead of in his hands, and have just stopped short of saying “he got what he asked for.”

McDole sits at a unique intersection often ignored in the conversation on police brutality: violence against people who are potentially suffering through a mental illness and those who are a living with a physical disability. He also is one on a growing list of people who the police were originally called out to help, but instead were killed (like James Anderson several days later). These victims of state violence are often the most convenient to label as worthy of lethal force, as many do in fact have a weapon. However, even when police are aware of the potential mental state of these citizens, they do nothing to adjust their approach/tactics. In essence, people like McDole are doubly pathologized, not just for being black but for also being sick. More must be done to uplift the stories of Tanisha Anderson, Janisha Fonville, Lavall Hall, James Anderson, and countless others who have been stolen from us. Rest in Power. We fight for you now too. #staywoke #farfromover

McDole was also killed on the same day as unarmed 19-year old Keith McLeod (who was murdered by police after pointing his fingers like a gun). 

[mew-f-o]

I have a feeling this might be the last straw? Fuck this.

[musinvenusian]

this is sad :/

[thisiswhyredismyfavoritecolor-d]

[mentalhealthfemme]

this is a war-cry from 60 years ago that is still being shouted today.

[sandandglass]

The Daily Show, October 22, 2015

[the-geeky-feminist]

Jeez. I hope they don’t find out that Superman is a intergalactic illegal immigrant.

[discovergames-blog]

This reminds me so much of gamers, and it’s a topic I’ve discussed before. For a certain contingent of gamers, they see nothing “political” whatsoever about games where you fight real wars, assassinate politicians, or stage CIA-backed coups in foreign countries. But the moment a woman gets to be a fully-clothed and well-rounded character, or the moment a gay kid is treated as human rather than a punchline or aberration, things have gotten “too political.” Suddenly, it’s all an “agenda” that’s being “shoved down our throats.” The irony and lack of self awareness would be hilarious if it didn’t have such deleterious consequences.

[so-treu]

How then can one expect the state to solve the problem of violence against women, when it constantly recapitulates its own history of colonialism, racism, and war? How can we ask the state to intervene when, in fact, its armed forces have always practiced rape and battery against “enemy” women? In fact, sexual and intimate violence against women has been a central military tactic of war and domination. Yet the approach of the neoliberal state is to incorporate women into these agencies of violence—to integrate the armed forces and the police.

Angela Davis, “The Color of Violence Against Women” (via tamarrud)

[blackfeministwriter]

Here is a 45 second script for anyone who wants to call Spring Valley High School to demand that Ben Fields be terminated. This can be used during a live call or left on their voicemail system. Please share! The school phone number is 1-803-699-3500. #AssaultAtSpringValleyHigh

[wethoneydew]

reblog this instead of the video cuz it’s extremely triggering

[allisonkilkenny]

Fewer than 5% of the 120,000 gun-related killings between 2001 and 2010 were perpetrated by people with mental illness

Mental Illness is the wrong scapegoat after mass shootings

(via allisonkilkenny)

[outforhealth]

It’s understandable that transmen can be left out of the conversation around abortion, though I think it’s unfortunate. I know I’m not the only transman to experience an unwanted pregnancy. At the same time, though, I don’t feel like I can go to Twitter and shout my abortion. I don’t want to seem like I’m pulling a what-about-the-men. And yet it’s difficult to see trans people so frequently left out of discussions about reproduction. I believe in choice. I believe in bodily autonomy. I believe that people should have the right and opportunity to make choices about their bodies that are best for them. I don’t think there’s a litmus test for what qualifies as an “acceptable” abortion. I don’t need someone telling me that my abortion was sort of ok because it was due to a sexual assault, but someone else’s is not. That’s not how choice works.

I’m A Man And I Had An Abortion

[azspot]

Why Today’s GOP Crackup Is the Final Unraveling of Nixon’s ‘Southern Strategy’

Fresh chatter among Washington insiders is not about whether the Republican Party will win in 2016 but whether it will survive. Donald Trump—the fear that he might actually become the GOP nominee—is the ultimate nightmare.

A Republican lobbyist of my acquaintance whose corporate client has been caught in the middle of the political disturbances shared a provocative insight. “I finally figured it out,” he told me. “Obama created the Tea Party.” I laughed at first, but he explained what he meant. “We told people that Obama was a dangerous socialist who was going to wreck America and he had to be stopped, when really we knew he was a moderate Democrat, not all that radical,” the lobbyist said. “But they believed us.”

[alwaysbewoke]

How so? For starters.

American finance grew on the back of slaves

Economic Consequences of Segregation

GI Bill: White male affirmative action program

Predatory Lending in Black Communities and Black Wealth

African-Americans With College Degrees Are Twice As Likely to Be Unemployed as Other Graduates

America’s giant wealth disparity is driven by a history of racist redlining

Black Graduates From Top Colleges Face Discrimination In Job Search, Salaries

A Black College Student Has The Same Chances Of Getting A Job As A White High School Dropout

40 Acres and a Mule Would Be at Least $6.4 Trillion Today—What the U.S. Really Owes Black America

Racial Bias and Interstate Highway Planning

Race, Opportunity and Uneven Development in Urban America

Racial Bias in Hiring: Black Sounding Names vs White Sounding Names but please white people, tell me how you’re the true targets of racism.

[noelarthurian]

A little comic for National Coming Out Day! Not meant to encapsulate 100% of the spectrum of people’s experiences, just a little chat based on my personal findings :). Change is ok! (and so is not changing, of course!)

[bigeorgeivegotit]

Happy National Coming Out Day! It’s not about what shoes you wear, or what’s on your wrist, or what tattoos you may have gotten–though I obviously like to think all those things matter and help a bit to increase bi male visibility–it’s about what’s in your heart and what you come to feel you need to speak. Whoever you are, wherever you are in your life, you get to define what “coming out” means for you, what it looks like, and how you’ll do it.

And we’re here to support you, no matter what. Because you’re great. Just exactly as you are.