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bookishboi: ” but responding to racism with more racism won’t...

Fri, 24 May 2013 14:32:47 -0400

” but responding to racism with more racism won’t get us there. You disgust me. I’m sorry that white people have hurt your ancestors, but you deserve the worst of the worst for being a racist.”

So, if I’m understanding this right…

White people enslaved Black people for centuries, but we aren’t allowed to be upset about it.

Black people built this country while enslaved, but we aren’t allowed to be upset about it.

Black people were medically experimented on AKA tortured, but we aren’t allowed to be upset about it.

Black people were released from slavery only to be segregated, restricted, further dehumanized and sent back into legal slavery AKA incarceration, but we aren’t allowed to be upset about it.

Black people are Public Enemy Number One, but we aren’t allowed to be upset about it.

The genocide of Black people never stopped, it was just legalized. But we aren’t allowed to be upset about it.

So you’re saying, anon, that despite all of these things, we’re still not allowed to have feelings?

k. Just checking.

"I came to Femme as defiance through a big booty that declined to be tucked under; through bountiful..."

Fri, 24 May 2013 14:28:33 -0400

“I came to Femme as defiance through a big booty that declined to be tucked under; through...

6 Months on T ! Doc raised my dose T levels were low.

Fri, 24 May 2013 03:29:05 -0400

6 Months on T ! Doc raised my dose T levels were low.

bookishboi: thebqullective: The B.Steady Project: Brought to...

Mon, 20 May 2013 13:45:04 -0400

bookishboi:

thebqullective:

The B.Steady Project: Brought to you by B.Qullective

Our idea to create The B.Steady Project started the way most great ideas come about: with good food, good music, and best friends. We (Chey, Clara, Jai, and Lane, pictured below) were hanging out one day and listening to one of our favorite queer brown musicians, B.Steady, who is a Washington D.C. based artist and YouTube sensation. Often sharing space together as brown queer artists ourselves, our conversations surround the salient issues that effect our communities. So it wasn’t out of the ordinary when we thought: what if we brought B.Steady to perform at the Twin Cities pride festival? And from there is where this project began. From there the four of us began meeting regularly to network, organize all of the logistics of our fundraiser, and figure out how to get folks to donate.

And did you know? There are incentives for donating, too!

Level Fabulous: $5 – Receive a personalized handmade thank you card from the BQullective founders, as well as recognition as a backer of our project on our website!

Level Fierce: $10 – Receive an official BQullective bumper sticker as well as recognition as a backer of our project on our website!

Level Swag: $20 – Receive an official BQullective t-shirt!

Level Fly: $21 – Receive an original poem written by one of the BQullective Board members!

Level B.Steady: $40 – Receive an official BQullective t-shirt signed by B.Steady!

Level Legendary: $75 – Donate 75 dollars or more and you will get to have dinner with the founders of BQullective! Out-of-state donors can be skyped in to the dinner date.

Check out our Facebook and Tumblr for more info on The B.QullecTivE, us- the founders, and community events and news. If you wish to contact the B.QullecTivE, we would love to hear from you! Please email us at b.qullective@gmail.com.

Also learn more about B.Steady! Jam out to her music on Youtube or Soundcloud, check out her Facebook and Tumblr
for updates on her performances, and buy her music on Amazon
or iTunes.

Thank you all for supporting brown queer and trans* communities by donating to this project and The B.QullecTivE!

yo my voice sounds deep as fuck in this video

anyway

HEY

WE ONLY HAVE 11 DAYS LEFT TO RAISE THE REMAINING CASH FOR OUR PROJECT!

PLEASE HELP! I’M COUNTING ON YOU, TUMBLR!

click the link above and donate a dollar, two dollars, whatever you can afford and BOOST THE FUCK OUT OF THIS POST!

thank you so much!

"A black child with a transparent rib cage, huge head, bloated stomach, protruding eyes, and twigs as..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 13:00:54 -0400

““”A black child with a transparent rib cage, huge head, bloated stomach, protruding eyes, and...

: Queer Reactions to Femininity

Mon, 20 May 2013 12:58:17 -0400

: Queer Reactions to Femininity: throughmotion: I have seen a lot of anger towards the way...

I’d rather run straight into a a routine of jagged etched lines combined with endless crimson...

Sat, 18 May 2013 23:35:41 -0400

I’d rather run straight into a a routine of jagged etched lines combined with endless crimson...

I had to get up today and admit some things because if I didn’t I’d be resentful. I’d be angry. I’d...

Sat, 18 May 2013 23:29:38 -0400

I had to get up today and admit some things because if I didn’t I’d be resentful. I’d be angry. I’d...

"Then, just recently, I heard a rumour that the younger queers don’t like the word butch. This makes..."

Tue, 14 May 2013 14:32:07 -0400

“Then, just recently, I heard a rumour that the younger queers don’t like the word butch. This...

"Then, just recently, I heard a rumour that the younger queers don’t like the word butch. This makes..."

Tue, 14 May 2013 14:30:28 -0400

“Then, just recently, I heard a rumour that the younger queers don’t like the word butch. This...

dykewithdysphoria: mewtoot: i think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people...

Tue, 14 May 2013 14:04:23 -0400

dykewithdysphoria: mewtoot: i think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people...

urbansocialista: Ray Harryhausen R.I.P. (June 29th, 1920 -...

Wed, 08 May 2013 21:45:02 -0400

urbansocialista:

Ray Harryhausen R.I.P. (June 29th, 1920 - May 7th, 2013)

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Wed, 08 May 2013 21:43:11 -0400

ATTENTION ALL POC BLOGGERS

Mon, 06 May 2013 16:37:30 -0400

pocproblems: gtfomyculture: lightspeedsound: I HAVE JUST REALIZED THAT WE NEED A WAY TO SUMMON...

tobeymacguire: when straight guys ask how lesbian sex works i feel really bad for their girlfriends...

Mon, 06 May 2013 16:37:22 -0400

tobeymacguire: when straight guys ask how lesbian sex works i feel really bad for their girlfriends...

dykewithdysphoria: mewtoot: i think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people...

Mon, 06 May 2013 16:37:13 -0400

dykewithdysphoria: mewtoot: i think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people...

damn, you're cool as fuck. thanks for following

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:12:57 -0400

Lol. Thanks … glad someone thinks so. The feeling is mutual by the way.

strugglingtobeheard: ave-atque-vale: foradayofsky: marpotish: ...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:32:56 -0400

strugglingtobeheard:

ave-atque-vale:

foradayofsky:

marpotish:

phaelsafe:

Anita Sarkeesian faces backlash for disabling Youtube comments.

In celebration of International Women’s Day, people are taking to the Internet to complain about Anita Sarkeesian. The first installment of her long-awaited video series about sexism in video games was released yesterday, inspiring an inevitable torrent of backlash. Aside from suggestions that she “stole” the Kickstarter funding for the Women vs. Tropes in Video Games series, much of the criticism is because she disabled comments on the YouTube video.

[…]

Leading the charge against Sarkeesian’s decision is Tumblr user amazingatheist, who posted a ten-minute video entitled “Who’s The Damsel Now?“ Arguing that Sarkeesian’s “censorship” of YouTube comments counteracts her message about strong women, and that her TED talk about online harassment amounts to “whining,” amazingatheist says:

“What are you afraid of, Anita? Why can’t people have a discourse about your material? Why can’t people make their opinions towards your content known? I understand that some comments will be abusive in nature — probably most will — but so what?”

Ironically, the existence of this response means by definition that amazingatheist is making his opinion known, as well as participating in a discourse about Sarkeesian’s material. [READ MORE]

The amazingatheist destroyed his own chance at participating in these discussions by being a misogynistic MRA. Just in case, that link needs a trigger/content warning so TW: rape, misogyny, abusive language.

The woman got bombarded with rape and death threats when she talked about the idea of doing this series. And people are up in arms about her not wanting to deal with that during her actual work??

So aside from the misogyny aspect here (and that isn’t to downplay it at all, because holy fucking shit you ASSHOLES,) I would like to point out something that appears to be lost on 95% of the denizens of The Intertubes:

No one is required to let you air your opinion in their space.

This includes the comments section of anything they upload to YouTube.

Seriously, the number of people who think that they are somehow owed the right to comment on things boggles me. You want to bitch about someone’s videos, comment on news articles, disagree with someone’s Facebook post? Go do it in your space. No one owes you shit.

And in particular, no one you are abusive and violent toward owes you shit.

I’m still boggling at this bit: “I understand that some comments will be abusive in nature — probably most will — but so what?”

Abusive in nature…but so what?

That comment says everything, doesn’t it?

After all, who fucking cares about what it’s like to receive death threats, rape threats? About what it’s like to have people barge into your space to pour violent, abusive vitriol all over your work? They are owed that opportunity, apparently. They are owed the opportunity to abuse you, and if you deny them that, you’re “censoring” them.

I would like everyone to think about that for a moment. @amazingatheist thinks it’s OK to threaten & abuse women he disagrees with - he’s done it himself, and he’s certainly never had any problem with anyone else doing it.

Abuse is OK. But protecting yourself from abuse? OH NO, CAN’T HAVE THAT.

What a shitstain.

reasons i disable all comments on my videos. fuck all that noise. they mad when people they want to abuse set boundaries.

Just Kill Me Now

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:21:50 -0400

So the most terrible things has happened. My MAC has died. Its 800 bucks to fix and I am extremely...

jcoleknowsbest: thatneedstogo: “everybody wanna be a nigga but...

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:04:13 -0400

jcoleknowsbest:

thatneedstogo:

“everybody wanna be a nigga but nobody wanna be a nigga”

accurate for some of the shit on my dash at the moment