December 2011
Top 25 Significant Queer Women of 2011 →
“I said to the sun, ‘Tell me about the big bang.’ The sun said, ‘it hurts to...”
– Andrea Gibson (via lifeincoffeespoons)
ugh <3
“It doesn’t mean everyone has to do direct action. But even if we’re not...”
– Deep Green Resistance (via cultureofresistance)
Cheerleader has to pay $45k for refusing to cheer... →
jewelweed:
scar-lip:
welp, great.
KSDFHAKDF no words
AND PEOPLE WONDER WHY NO ONE WANTS TO SPEAK UP ABOUT RAPE
BECAUSE THE WORLD RESPONDS LIKE THIS
perpetrators getting charged with MISDEMEANOR ASSAULT instead of RAPE and then the survivor gets in trouble because SHE DOESN’T WANT TO CHEER HIS FUCKING NAME
AND NOW SHE HAS TO PAY HER SCHOOL $45,000
FUCK EVERYTHING, ESPECIALLY THE SUPREME...
When Non-Vegans ask you what you eat:
youknowyouareaveganwhen:
“I would like to watch you sleeping,
which may not happen.
I would like to...”
– “Variation on the Word Sleep”, Margaret Atwood (via consistconsist)
“I think we can be reasonably confident that if the American population had the...”
– Noam Chomsky (via cultureofresistance)
“There have been periods of history in which episodes of terrible violence...”
– Gil Bailie (via omchomsky)
“Eight percent of college men have either attempted or successfully raped. Thirty...”
– Margo Maine, Ph.D. (Body Wars)
There was a time that, as a person of the male persuasion, seeing this quote made me really mad. It made me mad that women would assume that I was a rapist; it made me mad that rape was becoming ‘my problem’; it made me mad because, frankly, I didn’t think it was...
“Nobody tells an actor, ‘you’re playing a strong-minded man.’ We assume that men...”
– Meryl Streep, on being told that she often plays “strong-minded women.”
(via andyouhavetogivethemhope)
People people people! Everyone needs to read this.... →
“But whether Manning is ultimately found guilty or not is beside the point: All...”
– No justice for Bradley Manning - Opinion - Al Jazeera (via stfupenguins)
“If you were to press your heart close up against somebody else’s heart...”
– Andrea Gibson (via spine)
They can't go jumping up and down on a love... →
inflateablefilth:
You know what sucks? The fact that most of the big name SJ bloggers on here can basically be as ableist as the like as long as they don’t start saying they tip people in wheelchairs over and nobody seems to give a shite. Especially if it’s mental health stuff. We’ve got popular bloggers denouncing…
“Well, I’ve changed the course of music five or six times. What have you done...”
– Miles Davis to Nancy Reagan at a White House dinner in 1987 after she’d inquired as to what he’d done with his life to merit an invitation. source (via marxisforbros)
Eh this is completely wrong. He was actually quite fond of the Reagans. It was at a White House dinner however. Here is what...
“I want a future where women and girls get to be the subject of their own...”
– Jaclyn Friedman (ConsentFest talks about sex, and wants to add more voices | OpenFile)
mrgolightly:
Indigenous Peoples in India Fight Back Against... →
cultureofresistance:
This small town, barely 150 km away from the bustling eastern metropolis of Kolkata, hit news headlines in December 2008 when adivasis (indigenous people) led by Maoist rebels briefly captured it.
By June 2009 security forces had recaptured Lalgarh, though the forested surroundings called ‘Jangalmahal’ have continued to be under the sway of the Communist Party of India...
New law bans swimming with dolphins →
“I need to be clear that it’s not up to all of us to dismantle the system. Not...”
– Derrick Jensen (via omchomsky)
yes i like dis. learning about these huge problematic structures in class gets so big and theoretical, its important to remember that there are pieces of the system that can be addressed by different people, simultaneously.
(via beccaglass)
Ladies & Gentlemen, I give you, the Republican...
Michelle Bachmann: "Don’t misunderstand. I am not here bashing people who are homosexuals, who are lesbians, who are bisexual, who are transgender. We need to have profound compassion for people who are dealing with the very real issue of sexual dysfunction in their life and sexual identity disorders.” (2004)
Ron Paul: "The rate of AIDS infection is on the increase again. From the gay point of view, the reasons seem quite sensible. First, these men don't really see a reason to live past their fifties. They are not married, they have no children, and their lives are centered on new sexual partners... because sex is the center of their lives, they want it to be as pleasurable as possible, which means unprotected sex. Third, they enjoy the attention & pity that comes with being sick." (1995 in a newsletter)
Rick Perry: "I'm not ashamed to admit that I'm a Christian, but you don't need to be in the pew every Sunday to know there's something wrong in this country when gays can serve openly in the military but our kids can't openly celebrate Christmas or pray in school. " (2011 in a campaign ad)
Mitt Romney: "I should tell my story. I'm also unemployed." (2011 while speaking to unemployed people in Florida. Romney's net worth is over $200 million.)
Newt Gingrich: "She's not young enough or pretty enough to be the wife of the President. And besides, she has cancer." (1994, about his first wife)
Rick Santorum: "Is anyone saying same-sex couples can’t love each other? I love my children. I love my friends, my brother. Heck, I even love my mother-in-law. Should we call these relationships marriage, too?" (2008)
Michelle Bachmann: "Carbon dioxide is portrayed as harmful. But there isn't even one study that can be produced that shows that carbon dioxide is a harmful gas." (2009 during a debate)
Mitt Romney: "PETA is not happy that my dog likes fresh air." (2006, when questioned about driving 12 hours with his dog in a cage strapped to the top of his car)
Adding this gem, by mister Newt Gingrich: The Palestinians are an invented people.
faoi:
We ought to be silent or speak things that are better than silence.
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cultureofresistance:
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BETTER OFF DEAD.: 11 Facts From 2011 →
think-progress:
1. The CIA is monitoring up to 5 million tweets per day.
2. Income inequality in America is worse than in Ancient Rome.
3. Twenty-three straight polls find Americans overwhelmingly want to raise taxes to pay down debt.
4. 68% of millionaires support…