Who I Am

"Both heterosexuals and homosexuals view bisexuality with misunderstanding, mistrust, hostility, and..."

Sun, 19 May 2013 22:00:34 -0400

“Both heterosexuals and homosexuals view bisexuality with misunderstanding, mistrust, hostility, and alienation. These scenarios do not leave bisexuals in the situation often referred to as ‘‘having the best of both worlds,’’ because ‘both worlds are closets’.”

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from Attitudes and Self-Images of Male and Female Bisexuals by Carol D. Bronn

“both worlds are closets”

Ouch. That one hit home.

(via loveintheshadowsistheonlykind)

Wow. That is a very elegant way to put it.

capemaygirl1999: Ellen DeGeneres ladies and gentlemen I love...

Sat, 18 May 2013 22:00:38 -0400

capemaygirl1999:

Ellen DeGeneres ladies and gentlemen

I love this woman.

aplaceforart: more art here I adore this.

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:00:19 -0400

aplaceforart:

more art here

I adore this.

kateoplis: The Alternative Limb Project This is amazing.

Thu, 16 May 2013 22:00:33 -0400

kateoplis:

The Alternative Limb Project

This is amazing.

days-and-dust: Babies I love Will.

Thu, 16 May 2013 21:31:44 -0400

days-and-dust:

Babies

I love Will.

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Sat, 11 May 2013 22:00:29 -0400

tyleroakley: troyesivan: The Fault In Our Stars- Troye...

Mon, 06 May 2013 02:06:21 -0400

tyleroakley:

troyesivan:

The Fault In Our Stars- Troye Sivan

Buy the song. All proceeds go toward PMHF.

I am so angry, I could kick something

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 09:23:57 -0400

pfdiva:

I am a black woman. I am also a writer. Because I don’t see enough of myself in the stuff I read, I’ve been trying to come up with ways to describe black people that don’t refer to food, and that encompass the variety of our skin tones and hair textures.

I had an epiphany today. What words would I use to describe us if I weren’t comparing us to white people? What words would I use to compare us to each other?

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Think about this people: I went to church with my family tonight and the pastor said something that I think every Christian should hear

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 22:00:33 -0400

Pastor: Now, according to a few passages in the bible, homosexuality is a sin.
Couple of older males in the audience: Amen!
Pastor: Now, wait, I'm not finished.
Pastor: You know what else the bible defines as a sin? Divorce.
-uncomfortable silence-
Pastor: There are countless passages that talk about how divorce is wrong, and that there are consequences to getting a divorce, such as the wife should be stoned.
Pastor: Yet, I witnessed a divorce just this morning. And I gotta tell you, it was heartbreaking, but I definitely didn't attempt to throw rocks at the wife, even though she was the one who filed for divorce.
Pastor: We choose to overlook the consequences of divorce because time has proven that they're inhumane and cruel.
Pastor: The bible doesn't say anything about the consequences of a homosexual lifestyle. Yet, we seem to be spearheading a campaign to ruin the lives of people we don't even know.
-the pastor shifts a few notes around-
Pastor: The bible states to love thy neighbor. That's it. There are no other rules or restrictions to that passage.
Pastor: So, we as a church family have to support equality with a smile on our face. THAT is the true Christian way.

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Mon, 15 Apr 2013 23:18:01 -0400

the-midnightcity: This is so sad. I wonder if people realize...

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 22:00:18 -0400

the-midnightcity:

This is so sad. I wonder if people realize how poignant this image is, and what it really represents. Suicide/depression is not a phase, it is a disease and an illness that eats away at you every single day. it should be taken just as seriously as cancer or any other terminal illness, and unfortunately, it’s not.

treloser: grizzliemcguire: wakemeup-harry: theuntoldstoryofmyl...

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 21:20:09 -0400

treloser:

grizzliemcguire:

wakemeup-harry:

theuntoldstoryofmylife:

18thfloor-balcony:

hereiamwithoutyouu:

DO YOU SEE IT NOW?

i think i just wasted about half an hour of my life staring at this.

It switches sides when you look at it using the left and right sides of your brain.

Wut.

my brain hurts

tHIS MAKES ME SO ANGRY

um no its actually the colours of the lines and which side theyre on

Riddle me this.

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Thu, 28 Mar 2013 01:41:49 -0400

"If we actually started calling bullying what it is and address it as racism, sexism, homophobia,..."

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 22:00:20 -0400

“If we actually started calling bullying what it is and address it as racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, fat phobia and classism it would actually give children a better way to deal with the very same power dynamics they will face as adults, while also giving adults more responsibility to challenge the intolerance that is rooted within our society overall.”

- Amanda Levitt at Fat Body Politics(October 5th, 2012)

Words are important. When you can’t name something that has an affect on you, then it will always have power over you.

(via bakethatlinguist)

Basically.

(via thegoddamazon)

theartofanimation: Maja Wrońska

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 16:28:07 -0400

theartofanimation:

Maja Wrońska

"To speak of Islamophobia as sentiment is a euphemism. Islamophobia is first and foremost state..."

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 22:00:25 -0400

“To speak of Islamophobia as sentiment is a euphemism. Islamophobia is first and foremost state racism.”

- “Islamophobia: when the Whites lose their Triple A rating” by “Houria Bouteldja (via kawrage)

Bouteldja is pretty insightful here (emphasis is mine):

Such racism has no purpose other than to maintain a population in a subaltern state. The term “Muslim” is itself problematic. I am a Muslim, although 25 years ago – when I was already a Muslim – I wasn’t considered one. At that time I was considered a “beurette” or a second-generation immigrant. Self-identifying as a Muslim is not a problem; it’s even a source of pride. However, the fact that I am automatically considered a Muslim bothers me. After all, non-Muslims are not identified above all by their religion. It is a way of defining citizens according to categories and classifications put in place by public policy and debate. A whole population is automatically classified as Muslim without differentiating the practicing, agnostic or atheists among them. We are placed in the Muslim category regardless of our subjectivity.

Make sure you also read her piece on Western feminism

(via globalwarmist)

YESSSSS

(via post-colonial)

I’ve read it, it’s quite good

(via girljanitor)

sourire-froid: “This shot is the most expensive shot in silent...

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 22:00:19 -0400

sourire-froid:

“This shot is the most expensive shot in silent film history. It was filmed in a single take, that had to be perfect, with a real train and a ‘dummy’ engineer (notice the white arm hanging out the conductors window). Some of the locals who came to watch the filming, thought the dummy was a real person and screamed in horror; supposedly, one person even fainted.”

I love learning about things like this.

queerassfemme: exceptdissent: blacksocialjournal: The NYPD...

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 04:34:36 -0400

queerassfemme:

exceptdissent:

blacksocialjournal:

The NYPD Declares Martial Law in Brooklyn

Thursday, March 14, 2013 20:11

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(Before It’s News) On the heels of three nights of protests over the police slaying of 16 year old Kimani Gray, the NYPD has turned the East Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn into a State of Exception, claiming emergency powers to suspend the constitutional guarantees of the citizenry.

The people regularly targeted by police harassment and violence, overwhelmingly the city’s poor and minority populations, have taken to the streets to speak out against the NYPD’s draconian tactics. The police have in turn responded with even further harsh measures by suppressing the right of the people to voice dissatisfaction with that very same police force.

Cops kettled protesters at Wednesday night’s candlelight vigil, resulting in 46 arrests. Police even arrested Kimani Gray’s distraught sister, Mahnefeh.

The NYPD euphemistically calls the public spaces in which the Constitutional rights of the people are suspended “frozen zones.”

Allison Kilkenny wrote about the NYPD’s so-called “frozen zones” in December 2011:

“The ‘frozen zone’ is an arbitrary, official police business-sounding title that has absolutely zero legal merit. It’s something the NYPD made up, just as the ‘First Amendment zone’ is something [Los Angeles Mayor Antonio] Villaraigosa made up to suppress media coverage of the Occupy raids.”

According to FIERCE, the “frozen zone” in East Flatbush is being used to prevent media from covering the protests and arrests. Meanwhile, people inside the “frozen zone” can be subjected to arrest merely by exercising their constitutional rights.

“It basically means the area is under temporary martial law,” writes FIERCE. “The last times the NYPD declared a Frozen Zone was on the 10th anniversary of 9/11 and during the beginning of OWS.”

An arbitrary dictate that arrests protest and free speech, set forth by the institution that is itself the target of the protests, creates a potentially dangerous precedent of placing the NYPD beyond reproach.

Occupy Austin reposted this poignant summary of events by Jen Roesch as they were unfolding in Brooklyn last night:

“East Flatbush, Brooklyn is under martial law as the NYPD declares it a ‘frozen zone’. Media are being monitored and kept from moving and reporting freely. Dozens of arrests and much brutality. Kimani was shot in the back seven times; a witness is sure he was unarmed; multiple reports are coming out that the police had been waging a campaign of harassment against the young man (including taunting him about a friend who had died in a car accident and threatening to shoot him when he tried to leave). This is just blocks from where Shantel Davis was shot, dragged from her car and left to bleed to death in the street last summer. After that shooting, police went to all the surrounding delis and confiscated their surveillance videos. Residents in the neighborhood live in a state of terror. Heartbreaking, enraging, the stuff that riots are made of. This city is at a breaking point.”

Kimani Gray’s parents are scheduled to hold a press conference this evening to address the March 9 police slaying of their young son.

beyond fucked. fuck the nypd. sending solidarity vibes.

WHAT THE FUCK

misantrophywife: theresolutionyear: thepoetfromthehood: missdi...

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 22:00:09 -0400

misantrophywife:

theresolutionyear:

thepoetfromthehood:

missdimples2012:

I was speaking with a Black friend of mine earlier today about this and he brought up a great point. The Elite, White media can literally stir an entire Nation into a frenzy over the massacre of 20 suburban white children but simply overlook the deaths of over 100 Black children in Chicago. Wake up, People, you are being played by the Government and the Media. All children should be equal in the eyes of our Government.

Truth.

“They don’t give a fuck about us” - Tupac Shakur

We talked about this in my history class last week. The media is absolutely absurd.

Signal boosting the fuck out of this.

pitchfork: Justin Timberlake’s The 20/20 Experience is now...

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 20:19:57 -0400

pitchfork:

Justin Timberlake’s The 20/20 Experience is now streaming in its entirety. Illustration by jonesfactory.

Listening now!