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david bowie was a pedophile which a lot forget but also remember that he called himself the ‘aryan superman’ and said britain needed another hitler and gave the nazi salute and also made the racist ass squinting eyes in china girl and tbh that entire song is racist af like why are we honestly still talking about david bowie
just adding that the video in the last link was removed but here it is
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This is what solidarity with black trans women looks like
On Tuesday, a national day of action took place in more than 20 cities across the country calling for an end to the record number of black transgender women who’ve been killed in recent years. Organizers hope the movement will help cisgender people confront the ways that they’re complicit in transphobia.
Twitter users are rallying around #ToMsRice to send heartbreaking yet hopeful messages of love, prayer and sympathy to Tamir Rice’s mother and family. One tweet from a teacher shows how individuals can make a difference.
“Tamir,
Your death may
not have mattered
to your country,
but your life – child,
your life will always
matter to
your people.”
They said his size made him look much older than he was. He was 12.
#blacklivesmatter #butonlytootherblackpeople
I’m still trying to figure out how one “accidentally” shoots someone. Are they “cops” or kids who found dad’s gun?
Grand jury decides not to indict officers for fatal shooting of Tamir Rice
Cuyahoga County, Ohio, prosecutor Tim McGinty announced Monday there would be no indictment or criminal charges filed in the police killing of a 12-year-old black boy in Cleveland last year. Why critics have called out the tactics used by McGinty in the case.
For weeks, months, or years following a trauma, you may find that you cannot cope with as much stress as you could before. You may now need to take care of yourself at times and in ways that you did not need to before the trauma. This is a common response to trauma that does not reflect poor willpower or weakness; it is a part of the way that traumatic events can change you.
Dena Rosenbloom, Mary Beth Williams (via survivorsupport)
Grand jury chooses not to indict anyone in Sandra Bland’s death
The grand jury has decided not to indict anyone in connection with the death of Sandra Bland, who was found dead inside a Texas jail cell in July, ABC 13 reports. Officers and jailers involved in the case avoided indictments. But the court proceedings aren’t over yet.
Hypervisibility and Anti-Blackness
By Shanice Brim @likethebrimofahat
One of the major stumbling blocks in PoC solidarity has got to be the ways in which non-Black people of color react to Black hyper-visibility. A lot of non-Black people feel that Black issues take up too much space in the racism discussion. I’m sure you’ve experienced it: You’re having a conversation about anti-Blackness and a non-Black person pipes in, “I’m tired of Black people and White people acting like they’re the only two races.” or “If this situation had happened to a non-Black PoC nothing would’ve been done about it.” A recent example is this exchange from Aziz Ansari’s new series Master of None:
I’m here to explain why that’s anti-Black.
1. It ignores the agency of Black people.
In order to wash our hands of the atrocities Black people have faced in this country, America likes to pretend that Black people overcame by the grace of the changed hearts of White Americans. That progress is something that has been handed over to us. This, however, is not true. Every right Black people have earned, we’ve had to take for ourselves. Black people were major players in the Civil War. Many Black people fled plantations and journeyed up North to fight with the Union army. Harriet Tubman became the first American woman to lead a troop in battle in what would become one of the largest successful military strategies in American history during the Civil War. Prior to the Civil War, freed Black people had been fighting for the abolition of slavery and recruiting white allies. Years later, during the Civil Rights Movement, it was Black people who organized themselves. We organized those protests and boycotts that America is so proud to display the images of every Black History Month. We refused to give up our seats or withhold our money from discriminatory businesses. And today, we are the ones tweeting at, calling, and standing in front of major news networks with picket signs to have stories picked up. We are the ones going out into the streets, shutting down highways, getting arrested, and tear gassed in the face in the name of freedom. There’s no mystical group of people coming out in droves to decry American anti-Blackness. It’s us. And nothing is stopping non-Black people from organizing themselves and taking up their causes en masse let alone Black people.
2. It places the responsibility of white supremacy at the feet of Black people.
When you buy into the idea that you can not be free because Black people are receiving “special treatment.” Not only are you sorely mistaken, but you’re not looking at the bigger picture. Black people do not run most major corporations, we do not even have proper representation within most governments, in short we aren’t the ones running the world. Black people aren’t responsible for colonization. The same boot that’s on your neck is on ours too and blaming Black people for working hard to remove that boot is intellectually/historically dishonest and doing a disservice to everyone.
3. It ignores the fact that anti-Blackness is global and that non-Black PoC perpetuate and benefit from it.
When you perceive the successes of Black people as some sort of slight to your people you’re perpetuating NBPOC anti-Blackness. You’re essentially saying, “Black people succeeding is holding us back.” And you’re standing on the side of history that has through Anti-Black legislation and outright terrorism sought to quell the progress of Black people worldwide. You’re also ignoring the role non-Black PoC have played and continue to play in this history. From donning Blackface, to “socially cleansing” us from your countries, to allowing yourselves and others to uphold the model minority myth.
4. You’re ignoring the difference between visibility and hyper-visibility.
Yes, Black people have fought very hard to get to where we are today. The success of Black shows like Empire and Black-ish are great. There’s starting to be more diversity on screen today than there has been in years. However, hyper-visibility is not that. The United States has always had a vested interest in keeping Black people from the mountaintop. From the use of our bodies as free labor, to keeping us out of the same job pool and relegating the worst jobs to us, to locking us out of their neighborhoods and resources, to trafficking in harmful stereotypes about Black people for big bucks. American corporations make a lot of money perpetuating Black stereotypes and those stereotypes are killing us. Myths about “super predators”, “the slapping game”, and angry Black women are literally getting us killed. People are raking in the ratings and blog hits (and the cash) from sharing videos of us getting murdered (Eric Garner and so many others) and assaulted by police (Spring Valley, McKinney and so many others). Then their raking in ratings, blog hits, and cash by blaming us for our assaults and deaths. Trust me. You’re not missing out on anything.
5. You’re ignoring the fact, historically speaking, when Black people progress… so do other people of color.
a. The Civil Rights Movement that Black people fought so hard for has helped countless immigrants of color.
b. Because of Brown v. Board of Education non-Black PoC can attend desegregated schools.
c. Because of Loving v. Virginia ALL PoC can marry interracially.
d. Because of the Voting Rights Act it is illegal to discriminate against voters of color. (Though Republicans are working double to gut/undermine this act.)
Black America is under a lot of stress. All over the globe we are battling anti-Blackness and fighting for our right to live. Do not put it on us to ignite and run your movements for you. Trying to draw attention to your issues is one thing but using Blackness as a litmus test for your suffering is an entirely different beast. We can not truly have solidarity until communities of non-Black PoC address this and other forms of anti-Blackness in their communities. And in a time like this, getting real about anti-Blackness and the resentment non-Black PoC feel about Black progress is crucial.
http://www.philadelphiaprintworks.com/blogs/news/70155781-hypervisibility-and-anti-blackness
do you have any tips on making it easier to come out as non binary to my family?
I don't... I haven't done that myself other than with my sisters... I think it's easiest if you have people who support you, so if you decide this is something you want to do telling the people who you know will accept you no matter what is best so you have people to go to if or when you decide to tell the rest of your family. Coming out is always just a personal thing, and finding your own way and what's best for you is most important.
Tumblr, My brother Kaylan Perry, used to work at a Forever 21 in Alabama. While there a white girl had begun to like him and when my brother did not return her affection because he wasn’t interested and had a girlfriend she decided to retaliate. About two weeks ago my brother went to AAMU homecoming, my brother was proud of his college. While there that same girl said racial slurs before telling my brother she “had something for him.” That something was 10-15 Chicago boys from AAMU and Miles college jumping him and beating him until he was unrecognizable. My family begged AAMU to handle this matter but they told us to come back in 3 weeks. My brother didn’t live to see those three weeks as he was murdered the next. These boys drove through my grandmothers neighborhood every night casing the house. On October 4th my brother went out on his motorcycle to deliver a coat he had just bought his one year old son. These boys ran my brother into a pole, breaking his neck and arms. Kaylan was dead upon arrival. And then after these boys killed my brother, they stole his backpack which contained my nephews coat and my brothers cellphone off of his lifeless body. Then these boys ran from the crime scene. Giving false information, The Birmingham police department told the media that my brother was racing with this car. When that was proved wrong this same department called my brother the agitator, and then later said both my brother and the boys who killed him were driving recklessly. Kaylan was running for his life. There are many witnesses who have gone to the department to tell them what they truly saw and each have said that the department has tried to make them feel like they didn’t see what they saw. They have twisted their words. They have basically closed the case on my brother and will not make any efforts to find out the truth. Please spread this word so my brother’s death won’t be in vain.
there are 2 sexes but a lot of genders. when a child is born, you have to take care of them as the sex they are because they are uncapable of understanding the difference between all the gender identities. it’s not transphobic or cissexist it’s literally giving the child proper care
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there are multiple things wrong with this post but i don’t have the energy to correct things like this anymore someone else do it
Sex, if defined by genitals, cannot be binary, as there are many different possibilities for genital development, and people’s genitals might change (injury, medical transition, etc) over time. If defined by chromosomes, it again cannot be binary, as there are other chromosomal patterns than XY and XX, and chromosomal testing is not terribly accurate either. If defined by hormone levels, well that’s not going to be binary either. What amount of T before you are Male? What if you have both T and E in equal amounts? What if your hormones levels are just entirely out of balance? And we’re not going to be able to define it by secondary sex characteristics, which are even more varied (depth of voice, amount and thickness of facial and/or body hair, whether you have breasts or not) just amongst cis, dyadic people.
All of these things exist on continuums. There is no clear binary here, except ones we force ourselves unnaturally into.
There is no need for a “biological sex binary”. Literally. None. If your doctor needs to know what your genitals are for whatever reason, you can tell them, or show them. If they need to know something about your chromosomes, well you’re gonna have testing anyway. If you know what’s up with your hormones, you can tell them, if you don’t, and it’s pertinent, they can do tests. They’d be doing tests anyways, if it’s important.
and on top of all that the whole “separation of sex and gender, sex being immutable and gender being the thing you can change” is employed hugely by TERFS to delegitimize, harrass, and brutalize trans women, because their “biological sex” is “male”. It also harms intersex people, as they are often surgically altered before they can consent to any such thing, to fit into this arbitrary standard of binarism.
We, as humans, come up with words to describe our experiences. We are not the creators of the universe, but the describers of it. If we have language that is unreasonable or limiting, we should change it, expand upon it. We do not need these concepts, and they are being used against us in violent ways. We can move on. We can be better.
The Sandra Bland jury is 80% white.
I live in NYC, a liberal, progressive city familiar with very public police overreach and discrimination. We seem to regularly pay million dollar settlements to the families of victims murdered by cops (that never go to jail). If I find eight random white people on the street and ask them about Sandra Bland, at least two of them will say “Well, she should have just put out her cigarette…” or “She disrespected the officer…” or “She had a history of mental illness…” and that’s here, in NYC.
Eight white people in the South? In Texas?
The good people of Waller County might as well get their checkbooks ready. There will be no indictments here, but of course, taxpayers will be forking over a multi-million dollar settlement in a civil suit against the police.
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WHAT THEY DID YESTERDAY AFTERNOON _ Warsan Shire
they set my aunts house on fire
i cried the way women on tv do
folding at the middle
like a five pound note.
i called the boy who use to love me
tried to ‘okay’ my voice
i said hello
he said warsan, what’s wrong, what’s happened?
i’ve been praying,
and these are what my prayers look like;
dear god
i come from two countries
one is thirsty
the other is on fire both need water.
later that night
i held an atlas in my lap
ran my fingers across the whole world
and whispered
where does it hurt?
it answered
everywhere
everywhere
everywhere
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i post for the people who may be weak and susceptible when hurt. the ones who are crazy and/or driven to mental illness by constant abuse and trauma. when everybody demands the perfect valiant graceful heroic unaffected ‘survivor’.
Your bones are made from the Earth. She is your mother. And if the Earth can survive and move on after the destruction of earthquakes and tsunamis and hurricanes and volcanoes, then you can survive your broken heart, move on from your past and the terrible things that have happened.
You are a Child of the Earth, and You Can Survive Anything | Nikita Gill (via untamedunwanted)
