May 21st, 2013
There needs to be a code word or something that means “my brain is fighting me every step of the way today and I feel like I’m going to vibrate out of my skin, so I need you to forgive everything and go slowly and speak softly and lower your expectations.” And then we could all just be like, “I know I said we could go to a movie tonight but… tangerines.” And the other person would nod and squeeze your elbow or rub your head and you wouldn’t feel like a failure.
(Source: mr-lindsey, via becauseforoncethisisme)
TW: Hate crime - Friends remember Mark Carson, black gay man shot & killed in NYC, as a ‘beautiful, fabulous gay man’
May 20, 2013More than 100 people attended a candlelight vigil for Mark Carson, a 32-year-old gay black man who was shot and killed in Greenwich Village over the weekend. Carson’s death is being investigated by police as a hate crime after he was allegedly chased out of a restaurant by a man brandishing a gun and yelling homophobic slurs.
Carson’s friends and family shared their grief with the local press.
“I thought that kind of hate stuff was gone, but I see that it’s not,” the victim’s father, Mark Carson Sr., told the New York Post. “It’s simply ridiculous. People are what people are. They do what they do. You can’t knock down who people are.”
Carson’s brother, Michael Bumpars, told the New York Daily News described him as “a beautiful person…he was our foundation.”
Kay Allen, a friend of Carson’s for more than a decade,told the New York Times: “He was a proud gay man. A fabulous gay man.” She added that he loved going to the Village: “His spirit was too big for this city. He didn’t have a negative bone in his body.”
Carson’s violent death has come as a shock for many in New York City’s iconic West Village. The area was home to the infamous Stonewall riots, the event largely credited with sparking the Gay Liberation Movement of the 1970’s. Blogger Joe.My.God. reported from last weekend’s rally and has photos from the event.
Thirty-three year old Elliot Morales has been arrested as a suspect in the crime.
Gothamist reports that Carson’s death was the fourth hate crime targeting a gay man in the last two weeks in Manhattan, and the 22nd anti-gay attack so far in New York City this year.
(via truth-has-a-liberal-bias)
Activists contribute to causes by writing, speaking, teaching, etc. So please shut the fuck up about people “not doing anything” on the internet.
i mean, MLK was only sitting down in his jail cell instead of tryna break out when he wrote the Letter From Birmingham Jail, so y’know. no real activism there. jsyk.
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in response to the "nigga" meme: knowledgeequalsblackpower: marfmellow: frostrocket: thatfeministdyke:...
According to tumblr social justice warriors, if you’re more than one of these things then your opinion is instantly invalid
- straight
- white
- male
- happy with the gender you were born with
- thin
If you’re straight, your opinion on homosexual matters and homophobia is worth nothing. If you’re white, your opinion on racism is worth nothing. If you’re male, your opinion on sexism is worth nothing. If you’re cis, your opinion on transphobia and trans* issues is worth nothing. If you’re thin, your opinion on fatphobia and fat positivity is worth nothing.
You are privileged over that group. These are not your oppressions. You, the oppressor, do not get an opinion.
It’s pretty simple. No one is telling you your opinion is invalid on everything, don’t even fucking act like we are.
Hey I could be wrong here, like I’ve been before.
But I thought the idea was to make white people allies against racism?
‘Cause if my opinion on racism doesn’t matter…Then you’re pretty much saying that it also doesn’t matter if I support you, or if I support the people that are against you, right?
yes, that’s what POC are trying to do - we’re working so hard to make white people allies because we realize white people are the only way we’ll ever be able to appeal to white supremacists.
wrong. and puke.
white people should WANT to be allies without being guilted. it is NOT up to POC to talk nicely or be kind to white people so that they listen and in turn choose to be allies to POC. If you’re white and truly understand equality being an ally to POC is not some big fucking deal - it’s some basic shit.
I can’t stand how willfully stupid some people choose to be. I just can’t stand it.
Like, why does your common sense shut down when it’s time to talk about your privileges??
If we’re having a discussion about quantum physics, and you didn’t know shit about it, you wouldn’t say anything. You’d listen….
But ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, a discussion about racism? Let me, person who isn’t a person of color.. person who hasn’t studied racism.. person with no real concept of history.. person who knows essentially nothing about the topic… talk as much as possible.
And as for “working to make white people allies.”
Save your own souls.
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Don’t tell me about how i dress like a thug. Thugs used to wear suits, and as far as I’m concerned, they still do.
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Why aren’t more people freaking out about the new Venezuelan labor law?
You know, the one that gives housewives/full-time mothers a pension— wages for housework?
It’s ONLY A HUGE VICTORY FOR FEMINISM, SOCIALISM, AND WOMEN OF COLOR. Not a big deal or anything. Tumblr is mysteriously silent about this.
http://rabble.ca/columnists/2013/05/venezuelas-new-labour-law-best-mothers-day-gift
holy shit!
fucking COOL
omg
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(Source: anarchyandacupofcoffee, via political-cartoons)
Can we stop with this already?
Things that are like abortion
- Abortion
Things that are not like abortion
- Slavery
- Genocide
- The Holocaust
- School shootings
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My 14yr old cousin had been missing since Thursday .Please contact NOPD if you have any information and Kerontea Brown where abouts #missing #nopd #AmberAlert
Help her family you guys.
Reblog
Children don’t just come up missing in New Orleans. Someone knows where she is. If you do, please tell her to go home. If the police find her first, they will arrest her until her parents come to get her.
SIGNAL BOOST!!!
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i have to be at work at 9 and here it is 2:30 am and im reading asperger forums why am i so bad at going to bed
Where none work but slaves, usefulness becomes degradation.
Lydia Maria Child, An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans (1836) p.30 (Unitarian, author, reformer)
(Source: uuquotes)
Teachers carry and escort students away from Briarwood Elementary School in Moore, Oklahoma, after it was destroyed by a tornado. (Photo: Paul Hellstern / The Oklahoman)
Teachers are amazing. No matter where you are, when disaster or tragedy hits, these heroes are first responders in the lives of children. Thank you all for your service and devotion to our kids.
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Texas Judge Forbids Lesbian Woman From Living With Her Partner
Carolyn Compton is in a three year-old relationship with a woman. According to Compton’s partner Page Price, Compton’s ex-husband rarely sees their two children and was also once charged with stalking Compton, a felony, although he eventually plead to a misdemeanor charge of criminal trespassing.
And yet, thanks to a Texas judge, Compton could lose custody of her children because she has the audacity to live with the woman she loves.
According to Price, Judge John Roach, a Republican who presides over a state trial court in McKinney, Texas, placed a so-called “morality clause” in Compton’s divorce papers. This clause forbids Compton having a person that she is not related to “by blood or marriage” at her home past 9pm when her children are present. Since Texas will not allow Compton to marry her partner, this means that she effectively cannot live with her partner so long as she retains custody over her children. Invoking the “morality clause,” Judge Roach gave Price 30 days to move out of Compton’s home.
Compton can appeal Roach’s decision, but her appeal will be heard by the notoriously conservative Texas court system. Ultimately, the question of whether Compton’s relationship with Price is entitled to the same dignity accorded to any other loving couple could rest with the United States Supreme Court.
Have something to say to John Roach?
Here you go:
Honorable John Roach, Jr.
Judge Presiding296th District Court
Collin County Courthouse map
2100 Bloomdale Road, Suite 20012
McKinney, TX 75071Phone: 972-548-4409 (McKinney)
Fax:972-548-4697 (District Clerk)
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