March 2012
anedumacation:
ankh-the-odd replied to your post: Sucks to be you, fictional character.
I would read a story about a struggle between fictional character and author, and the fictional character coming to terms with being fictional.
I would read the shit out of that.
You really, REALLY need to read the Thursday Next series, written by Jasper Fforde. It’s … pretty surreal.
Amanpreet Kaur is a Punjabi Sikh who is being...
tooyoungforthelivingdead:
Amanpreet has been suffering from mental illness, she has cut her wrists and refused food. On one occasion when she was banging her head against the wall she had her breasts grabbed by an officer while others laughed at her.
It is not acceptable that Amanpreet should have to ‘prove’ that she is a lesbian in order to have her claim for asylum taken seriously.
Please...
February 2012
0 posts
the gauntlet has been thrown
anedumacation:
shaelephant replied to your post: shaelephant replied to your post: I actually…
i’m in the process of writing some ridiculous manifesto about how moffat fucked up female agency in doctor who. (not that i don’t love moffat, but… he did.) it loves on rose, donna, martha, amy and river a lot, and how the last 2 got shafted.
I’d be interested in reading that, because to be very...
konjum-mainakkale:
So Ajda makes music. I saw a poem about Lot’s wife on my dash recently and I wrote a lyric and set it to music. I let her hear it today and she went to work on it and she’s just sent me a demo of it and bloody hell, that girl is good. She’s put some throbbing drums and some spacey synths and it sounds marvellous, like something by Lykke Li or Bat for Lashes. We just need...
So I went with that "starting a female music blog"... →
lafours:
Thanks Yan.
Anyway, yeah. It’s there if you’d like to follow. I might bug some of you to write something for it one of these days.
The layout is still under construction. The new design system is ridiculous.
You should follow, it’ll be great.
If black people were as culturally deficient as...
howtobeterrell:
How come our language (African American language)has 5 present tenses?
Where they do that at?
Does anyone know where that came from?
Just, I was reading up about different English dialects the other day and one of them was AAVE*. The other was Irish English, which can be quite odd at times. One of the most obvious quirks is that, at least in certain parts, people won’t...
“Me: Oh man, I’m so tired.
Idiot: You probably need to refresh your inner water....”
– (via whoarethesepeopleinmyhouse)
my friend the lovely and amazing and beautiful clare has started a blog about how awful her housemates are
(via culturalmarxist)
This actually sounds like something a woman in my course would say. She is strange. Like, she carries a heart shape piece of rose...
“I dunno man, it’s like, when I was in Africa, I forgot I was white. I felt...”
– (via whoarethesepeopleinmyhouse)
i kinda thought the ‘good water’ would be the top of the ignorance pile
(via culturalmarxist)
… uhm …
The Narrow State has landed!
fionchadd:
rumourcubes:
That’s right. Our debut album is now available to stream and download in full from here. This is what people have said about it so far:
“…packs more inventiveness into 36 minutes than most bands of this ilk manage in an hour…an accomplished debut that displays their talent to its fullest extent” The Blue Walrus
“Rumour Cubes have truly delivered on this fine debut...
Let me review your band, etc.
thesefewpresidents:
popscenesters:
Rob and Matt and I are going to bring back our website Zest For Life and this time it is going to be better than ever, and this time we actually mean that, maybe. Earlier this week, me and Rob kicked around some really good ideas on how to just make it in to something we actually want to do, and we’re all meeting up on Tuesday to discuss it. The best thing...
I got tired of writing boring cover letters for...
myflagisblackandred:
It was the summer of 1997 in the Sonoran Desert, as monsoon clouds retreated and allowed our father sun to cast an amber film onto the dampened and clouded highway, when the canvas of the landscape dabbed a freckle of orange and white onto its horizon. Intrigued, I straightened my back and folded away the sun visor in front of me. As our car approached this strange body in...
“If you’re white, you can play a Middle Eastern prince. If you’re black, you can...”
– Chris Rock, thank you for calling it out (via hinduthug)
transqueer:
pointy-earedbastard:
samstopswinging:
the-hypocritical-critic:
meganninwonderland:
pizzaforpresident:
Meryl Streep could play my mother and I’d believe her.
#Meryl Streep could play my father and I’d believe her.
#Meryl Streep could play me and I’d believe her
Meryl Streep could play Benedict Cumberbatch at the Oscars and I’d believe her
Meryl could play Leonardo...
Just a beaver with an agenda: Call for submissions... →
whencylonsdream:
autumn-and-eve:
If you don’t already know, Raven and I are in the process of coming up with a zine/pamphlet-type situation all about transmisogyny. Since transmisogyny intersects a lot with race in a way we haven’t experienced, we’d really like to include trans women of color’s views on…
Signal boosting.
BOOBST!
So. Deputy PM Nick Clegg just called all 18-24... →
selchieproductions:
And he was recorded while doing it.
Does anyone seriously think that he cares in the slightest about actually fighting youth unemployment?
Wait, what?
“Well, for starters, I’d like us to think beyond and outside Stonewall. While...”
– Yasmin Nair, on radical queer history and the prison industrial complex for an interview about Captive Genders, edited by Eric Stanley and Nat Smith (via funkyfest)
For Elle, just in case she hasn’t seen this.
If I'm ever in a band and I open up a show,
lafours:
loud-quiet-loud:
I will make sure that I do a cover of the headliners most popular song just to make shit really awkward.
This isn’t really the same, but one time we were going to play a bar where my friend was working, and do an entire cover set of his old band. We couldn’t decide if this was hilarious or creepy (I think a perfect combination of both), so we never got around to...
Speaking Of Leaving The House
It was to go see Chronicle. It’s pretty good, a pretty enjoyable watch. I’ve seen more convincing special effects in student films, but the story and acting were well done enough to get me over that, because it’s not really a special effects kind of movie. It fails the Bechdal Test pretty hard, and the race version even harder, considering it’s a movie with a Black lead,...
“Male privilege has been with us for — how long? Ten thousand years? A hundred...”
– Sara Robinson, on “Why Patriarchal Men Are Utterly Petrified of Birth Control — And Why We’ll Still Be Fighting About it 100 Years From Now”
Everyone should read this article.
(via coketalk)
Tiny Flying Dinosaurs: Reblogging Chloe's serious... →
culturalmarxist:
i’m not sure i agree entirely with your last point (the US plays down “white terrorism” a lot [OKC, unabomber, that Tea Party guy who flew into a side of a building] and i think even the American Right would have a hard time attacking Obama for that without sounding like they outright endorse terrorism) but yeah the average English attitude re:Irish independence falls somewhere...
Tiny Flying Dinosaurs: Reblogging Chloe's serious... →
culturalmarxist:
i literally don’t think i learnt anything about irish history at school, other than a few references during tudor times or the IRA. it’s a very coy way of painting the history of irish independence as ‘okay, sure, we did conquer ireland but that was like 600 years ago and it’s a bit silly to keep harping on it now’ without ever having to actually say it out loud.
i’m just about...
fucking Little Rock...
feralnostalgia:
or more specifically: fucking white people in little rock.
in sociolinguistics we were talking about mother-tongue shift today, and one of the variables in a particular paper we were reading was political power achieved by Latinos in any given municipality. (your children are more likely to speak Spanish as well as English if you actually have Latinos elected to office and...
Reblogging Chloe's serious posts to make silly...
thesefewpresidents:
name-redacted:
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Aside from small amounts of research I’ve done on my own, reading up on wikipedia, I have no idea what happened in Ireland between 1950 and 1990.
Oh, no, see, that’s because nothing happened.
Hah!
Seriously though, while I know you’re being facetious, I just want to talk about this for a minute, because it’s something that’s been...
Jesus Christ this is fucked. →
thesefewpresidents:
I don’t think there’s much I can add to what my friend who posted it on facebook said:
Four things: 1) Underage people having sex with underage people being an incarcerable offence is nuts when the age gap is this small. 2) Having only boys held responsible is even nuttier. 3) “Buggery” being a thing in law at all is mental. 4) In this country, actual, real proper...
Just Been Catching Up On Coach Trip
Don’t judge me, our friends were on it and we got addicted.
Anyway, for anyone who knows what I’m talking about, I’ve just gotten to the episode where Jolyon and Edward got voted off. I just really want them to have their own show now. Just traveling around Britain, moaning about how shit everything is.
It. Would. Be. Amazing.
I'd be cool with White History Month as long as...
sapphrikah:
ghdos:
The Middle Passage
The Trail of Tears and genocide of Native Americans
Jim Crow
How the prison system is set up to keep black and brown people in a cycle of poverty
Japanese Internment camps
Let’s do it in August. There are no other major holidays so the focus can be all on white people plus it’s nice and warm outside. Cookouts and fireworks for all.
I am ALL FOR...
pagannews asked: Seriously? You completely ignored the sentence after that? THE OPINIONS ARE NOT MY OWN. It is from another blog that I posted that.