March 2012
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Bonus Withdrawal Puts Bankers in "Malaise" →
I cannot handle people. People are starving…
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Official 2012 National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day Website Launched - African-American HIV/AIDS Resource Center - The Body
angelindiskies:
February 7, 2012 is National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NBHAAD). NBHAAD is a national community mobilization initiative designed to encourage HIV prevention, testing and treatment among Blacks and African Americans in the United...
February 2012
177 posts
“She has this fear
that she has no names
that she has many names
that she...”
– Gloria Anzaldua, La Frontera (1987)
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“Representation can have very real effects. Its distortion of practices and...”
– Strongman, Robert. Syncretic Religion and Dissident Sexualities
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“These forms of homosexuality are different from each other and from those forms...”
– Strongman, Robert. Syncretic Religion and Dissident Sexualities
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“Intersectionality is not optional. It is not something you can take off and put...”
– Intersectionality Is Not Optional (via satifice)
“Intersectionality is not optional.” There should be shirts that say these. I’ll SPECIFICALLY wear them to my womens studies classes
(via newwavefeminism)
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“Syncretism is fundamentally predicated by an ideological inequality that...”
– Strongman, Robert. Syncretic Religion and Dissident Sexualities
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“Carrier’s very possible sexual involvement with some of his young...”
– Strongman, Robert. Syncretic Religion and Dissident Sexualities
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“Anthropologists are very often trained and expected to create a representation...”
– Strongman, Robert. Syncretic Religion and Dissident Sexualities
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“In much the same way as Western feminists writing about women of color in India...”
– Strongman, Robert. Syncretic Religion and Dissident Sexualities
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“The indiscriminate imposition of such gender categories as “gay” or...”
– Strongman, Robert. Syncretic Religion and Dissident Sexualities
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Melissa Harris-Perry's book just quoted Audre...
Awesome! :) Sister Citizen is awesome!
I need to start writing instead of being lost in my reading though.
“To be a person of relative power and privilege viewing a person of less power...”
– Harris-Perry, M. Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America.
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findyourspine:
sheownzthesky:
sometimes i feel likemarilynmonroe i’m the only person who doesnt love andrea gibson.
unpopular opinion? maybe.
Oh, me too! There’s something about hir poems, they just remind me too much of… every other slam poem. And if I’m going to be listening to slam poetry, I’d rather it be Buddy Wakefield.
I could not handle that poem we listened to. I just...
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“I most recently noticed the impact that the openness of artists like Nicki Minaj...”
– Sabia McCoy-Torres does a fascinating analysis on Nicki Minaj’s images on New York City’s queer youth of color on the R today. (via racialicious)
“I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, then...”
– Malcom X (via braceletofnoor)
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NJ Governor Chris Christie on same- sex marriage:... →
“It’s my belief, it’s my core belief,” he said. “And I tell people that. And my friends, whether they be homosexual or not, they know me and they know I’m not bigoted.”
I cannot handle this. How can you even think that excluding a group of people based solely on their sexuality is not bigoted? I can’t…
i just caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror in...
brazenbitch:
I am fabulous
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“When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we...”
– Audre Lorde (via jujuinlalaland)
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“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To...”
– Arundhati Roy (via solitaryforager
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“You picked the wrong Asian to mess with”
– Yellow Rage