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she/her. big gay energy. i use this blog to talk about movies because no one understands my feelings in the outside world.   use to be - gothamashes

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[baawri]

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[msladyjay]

GO 👏 THE 👏 FUCK 👏 OFF. Also, the American educational system is trash. I applaud this child’s parents for giving her a voice and standing up against bias authority.

[fridakahloblvd]

(Can someone caption this?)

[nico-incognito]

Classroom full of mostly black and brown students:

Black student: [unintelligible—and then]  …and then throwing everything away beneath it because it doesn’t pertain to you. I’m sorry —

White teacher: —you know what, I’m sorry -I’m sorry…

Black student: —No, no, no…I let you talk -I let you talk, you’re gonna let me talk.

[Other students gasps]

White student: Go ahead. Finish.

Black student: I’m sorry that this is the way that it is. You’re right, it is fucked up. But white people control everything…and that’s not fair. And when anybody, any other minority tries to say anything about it or change it, we’re complaining or we’re ungrateful or all this other stuff because we still have this or that. But then you say something about ‘Oh, I don’t want—there’s too many Latinos and there’s too many—’

White teacher: I didn’t say that—

[Various students disagree]

White teacher: I said I want to control the border!

Black student: You said you don’t want this to turn into a Latin country because there’ll be too many 

White teacher: I did not say that.

[Various students disagree]

Student 2: You said you want to preserve the American culture.

Black student: There is no American culture. American culture is EVERYTHING.

[Various students agree]

Random: Mayonnaise!

[Students laugh]

Black student: And because you are white and so closed-minded, you refuse to accept that, you refuse to accept—

White teacher: Don’t tell me I’m closed-minded—

Black student: Everything you’ve said to me is closed-minded.

White teacher: Just because I don’t agree with you doesn’t mean I’m closed-minded.

Black student: You don’t need to agree—I -I’ve had conversations with people that don’t agree with me, but if they at least listen and try to accept—you’re not accepting the truth.

White teacher: Why do I have to accept what you think is right?

Black student: You need to accept the truth! Not what I think is right, what is actually happening right—

White teacher: Well, let me tell you what I think. You said white people have been in control of everything….who is the president of the United States right now?!

Students: A black man!

*Various sounds of incredulity*

Black student: WITH A WHITE CONGRESS! WITH A WHITE SENATE! WITH WHITE EVERYTHING ELSE! HE DOESN’T HAVE THE CONTROL OF EVERYTHING!

Random: GO OFF 

Other Random: GO OFF–

*The class is in an uproar*

Random student: YOU ARE SO PRIVILEGED THAT YOU JUST DON’T SEE IT!

White teacher: Do we have to yell?!

Black student: Yes, because I’m mad.

[homojabi]

LGBTQIA+ Muslims

Blogs and Wesbites:

I am Not Haraam

Queer Muslims

Allah Made Me Queer

Ace Muslim

Imaan: LGBTQI Muslim Support Group

Muslim Alliance for Sexual and Gender Diversity

Alternate Resources:

Masterlist of literature about/including LGBTQ+ Muslims

Muslim Feminist and LGTBQI Muslim Lists of Readings 

Asexuality, Islam, and Marriage masterpost (more)

LGBTQI Muslim YouTube Resources

Domestic Violence Resources for Muslims

Queer Muslim Masterpost

Totally Radical Muslims Zine (more)

Muslim Youth Helpline @ 1-866-627-3342 and Amala Hopeline @ 855-95-AMALA

[egzpl-deactivated20160802]

Islam gave women the right to be involved in politics, the right to earn and keep their own money. Islam gave women the right to work outside of the home. Islam gave women the right to divorce. Islam gave women the right to choose who they marry. Islam gave women a whole bunch of rights that Western women acquired later in the 19th and 20th centuries and we’ve had these rights since the 7th century A.D. So don’t come at me and be like “Islam is sexist”. My religion is not sexist, your society is.

[seth-carr1]

In Saudi Arabia can you drive a car or leave the house without a man? Generally curious.

[egzpl-deactivated20160802]

Saudi Arabia is the state that uses Islam for their own interests, dear. This state was built on corruption, manipulation, and everything can be bought. Money is their religion. They respect no one, they mistreat foreign people who work for them and use them as slaves. They bomb their own people in Yemen for instance and never lift a finger to help Palestinian people. They have a strong alliance with the USA and Israel. So, it is because of people like them that Muslims are very poorly looked upon in the western world. Don’t get confused, learn from the Qur'an not from Muslims for we’re not perfect. Islam is. You’ll see that the prophet Muhammad (saw) preached a different message to all mankind based on respect towards women mostly in his last sermon. The status of women in Islam is very important.

[ishqoinqilab-blog]

on silencing the discourse on patriarchy within muslim communities

[scottsummer]

I want activist communities to complicate their ideas about Islam and Islamophobia.

The response to the Western neocolonialist, Orientalist, patriarchal, and racist idea that “Muslim women need to be saved” (by white people) is overwhelmingly the opposing claim that, “Muslim women are not oppressed!”

I think that’s a silly, infantile and oversimplified response that silences the problems of abuse, violence, manipulation, and policing of women within the Muslim community. Those of us who speak out about Muslim men who are abusing, disrespecting, and dehumanizing Muslim women are then made to feel that we’re “breaking the community,” because we need to put up a united front against Islamophobia/anti-Islamic racism. Newsflash: patriarchy and misogyny really do exist in Muslim spaces. Patriarchy and misogyny are Muslim problems. They are Islamic problems. PATRIARCHY AND MISOGYNY EXIST EVERYWHERE.

And this whole idea that Islam has no faults when it comes to gender - there are plenty of Muslim women with issues about Islam’s treatment of women. Anger about always having to pray behind men? Legitimate. Anger about always having to follow male imams? Legitimate. Anger about not having any woman prophets? Legitimate. Anger about all the Shari’ah laws that disadvantage women? Legitimate. Anger about Islamic constructions of women’s sexuality as fitnah, thus creating the need for hijab? You guessed it, LEGITIMATE.

And you know what else is legitimate? The anger that we Muslim women are barely if EVER at ALL given the resources to understand, deconstruct, contextualize, re-interpret any of this.

It also goes back to Muslim spaces being shaming of those who are asking these questions, as if asking the questions is not honoring the faith. Like, think critically about who the Muslim women are that are saying that Muslim women aren’t oppressed, and what kinds of privileges they have that enable them to say that. What about all the Muslim women who come home to hide from their husbands? Who never come to Jummah anymore because they’re sick of being second class citizens in the mosque? Whose freedom of dress and expression of sexuality is curtailed by judgmental and sometimes violent Muslim families and communities? And I’ve seen all of this bullshit justified as “part of Islam” or part of Hadith or Quranic guidance.

And this also goes out to all the Muslim AND non-Muslim movement people who get all excited about yelling about how Muslim women are not oppressed. Like, do you know anything about Islam? Have you thought critically about Islam and women? Did you know that the hijab originated as a class marker in a highly stratified society? COMPLICATE EVERYTHING.

Muslim women sure as hell are oppressed. And so are all women, and all people of color. When white people want to come colonize our bodies/spaces/places to save Muslim women, I say FUCK NO, but I will not deny the various ways in which Muslim women are oppressed. We need to say “MUSLIM WOMEN CAN SAVE THEM/OURSELVES” instead of wildly and absurdly claiming that Muslim women aren’t oppressed.

[superherofeed]

[scottsummer]

BEN HARDY cast as ARCHANGEL in ‘X-MEN: APOCALYPSE’! FIRST LOOK!

[nolanfans]

Christopher Nolan: TIME’s 100 Most Influential People

[scottsummer]

Christopher Nolan

by Michael Caine

Philosopher of Screen

From Batman Begins to Interstellar, I did six blockbusters in a row with Christopher Nolan. I don’t think I’ve done two blockbusters in a row with anyone else. I used to call him the new David Lean, but he’s not. He’s the Christopher Nolan.

Aside from being a brilliant director, he’s a brilliant screenwriter with an element of surprise and an intelligence that’s quite extraordinary. Just when you think that’s where we’re going, he says, “Let’s go over there!”

Christopher is very secretive, and each film has a code title. He had us call Inception by the name Oliver’s Arrow. On the set, no matter how hot it is, he wears an overcoat and sips tea all day. You wouldn’t be able to pick him out as the director. There’s no shouting and screaming—he’s a very quiet gentleman. If you get it wrong, you just do it again. It’s like working with a philosopher.

[scottsummer]

leo thanked scorsese will i ever be okay

[scottsummer]

will the academy ever give awards to non disney movies tho

[captianstydia]

JUST GIVE LEO HIS DAMN OSCAR ALREADY SO  I CAN GO TO BED

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[museenkuss]

does anyone even remember inception? if yes tag urself I’m issues

[mosaicabstract]

[da-red-evil]

Netflix: Make Daredevil available to blind people

[scottsummer]

That's right people the show about a blind lawyer turned super hero can’t even enjoy his own show. Netflix is not providing the blind community with the much-deserved ability to enjoy the show they created by not having an audio description option. That being said most of Netflix’s shows don’t have this option and I believe starting with Daredevil is a great step. Doesn’t the blind community deserve the same right to enjoy Netflix that everyone else does?

Reblog and sign, please.

Thank you.

Daredevil fans are rallying to make their shows accessible to fans who can relate with the show’s hero.   Support their efforts to encourage Netflix to be inclusive of all fans!

[maarnayeri-blog]

I've lost complete faith in humanity.

Look. I’m not trying to be rude, but I am gonna be real.

You saying you’ve lost faith in “humanity” isn’t worth shit. It doesn’t challenge anything, it doesn’t mean anything. Statements like this evaporate the very nature of oppression and dissolve who is oppressor/beneficiary and who is oppressed. The continuous occurrence of black people being killed by white police isn’t some ubiquitous urgency for which all of “humanity” is at fault. White supremacy, white privilege, a virulently anti black economical/social/political system is at fault and all those who validate it, at any time, are at fault.

And honestly, who the fuck are you to declare that you’ve lost faith in humanity? There are many amazing people from Toni Morrison to Cornel West to Angela Davis to Harry Belafonte who have seen the absolute worst American domestic (and foreign, if we’re being real) terrorism has had to offer and they live with hope in their hearts and revolution on their minds everyday. You don’t get to dismiss the amazing work of my elders and the youth of my community because you lost faith. And you don’t get to come into my inbox and bombarde me with your reactionary garbage when you can’t even locate systems at fault and would prefer to lazily dredge up vague concepts like “humanity”. If we don’t have hope, we have nothing. No praxis. Angela Davis has spoken on this topic many times before. About how those who discuss the world as a perpetually stagnant place and throw their hands in defeat are counteractive to any revolutionary thought.

One of her most relevant quotes. “You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.”

Do I have “faith” in the system? Absolutely not. But I do have faith in the resilience of my people and all oppressed people by Empire, whether we’re talking Pakistan, Mexico, the Congo, Somalia, Palestine, Iraq and beyond. I have faith in the abundance in domestic and transnational solidarity, coalition building and activism that comes from tragedies and injustice. And yes, these are the positives amongst “humanity” which you collectively condemn.

Which leads into my final point, whether or nor you realize it, you mean white people. And your equivalence of white people with “humanity” is actually pretty fucking racist and legitimatizes the dehumanization of everyone who isn’t white, especially black people in this context, which ironically, is how we’re at the point of a black man can get killed on camera and a grand jury in majority decides his life isn’t even worth a trial.

[scottsummer]

SO KARAN HAS PICTURES OF HIS FRIENDS ON THE CUPBOARD