January 2012
Reblog if you met epic people on tumblr this year.
Tell you what. I bet you're going to have a really...
On Forgiveness
There’s been a lot going around in certain circles about forgiveness, especially in the context of abuse. People are insisting that abusers who repent and change should be forgiven, and that it’s healing for victims to forgive their abusers. I fucking hate this. Merriam-Webster Online defines “forgive” as “to cease to feel resentment against (an offender) :...
December 2011
Dear White Feminists
miraclesaremadeofluckandtime:
zorascreation:
If you can understand and rationalize and believe in the validity of the absolute rage of women, worldwide, then why can you not do the same for the rage of people of colour, worldwide? Why do so many of you expect people to “sacrifice” one experience for another? Why do so many of you use the same asinine arguments against the realities of racism...
“[TRIGGER WARNING: Rape] Fat women are treated as utterly undesirable in our...”
– Jaclyn Friedman, What You Really Really Want: The Smart Girl’s Shame-Free Guide to Sex and Safety (via khaleesi)
House on fire.
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
alexandraerin:
There’s a thing I don’t get about the people who want to ignore racism to focus on classism, claiming that racism is just a tool being used to further class divisions and protect the economic inequalities that the upper classes rely upon…
Imagine your house is on fire. You’re not sure you can get out of it. Your possessions are being destroyed. Your...
Does anyone have stories about coming out as...
velocicrafter:
adamangasaurus:
fromonesurvivortoanother:
I still haven’t told my mom (even though she would prob be super supportive), and I’d like to know how it went for other people, things I should be careful of, what to expect, etc. Links or reblogs would be great.
reblogging for signal boosting
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“White queers, including white trans people, are at the LOWEST risk for pretty...”
– DTWPS (via zorascreation)
Truth! Fuck the ‘it gets better’ campaign!
(via kenzmirage)
Filing this under “things that may hurt for me to say but needs to be said.” it hit me when I was at a transgender day of remembrance event and hearing all the names of women in countries of color being read....
I am getting really tired of this idea that...
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
So, I would like any person who is privileged in some way who has learned even a little bit about how to change their views toward marginalized groups and how to respectfully engage marginalized groups to raise their hand.
*raises hand*
*raises hand*
nefermaathotep:
“The separation of the races is not a disease of colored people, but a disease of white people…I do not intend to be quiet about it.” - Albert Einstein (yet I bet you’ve never heard this quote)
“When we consider the myriad school shootings that have occurred between ...”
– Michael Kimmel: Men, Masculinity, and the Rape Culture (via mollay)
“Yet the obvious fact that these school killers were all middle-class white boys seems to have escaped the media’s notice, in part because race, class, and gender are only visible when speaking of those who are not privileged...
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
dreams-from-my-father:
#do you guys have the one person who follows you and who you follow #but you’re not sure why they follow you because they’re such a quality blog and you’re NOT #and you never talk or anything #but sometimes they’ll like one of your posts and you’re like I HAVE PLEASED HER/HIM
:O
Yeah, this is how I feel about Reagan-was-a-horrible-president,...
alexandraerin:
maevele replied to your post: maevele replied to your post: How is someone…
I had not heard the inky quills one. is perfect
Oh, cool! Seems like most people who have an answer know that one. I can’t remember the last time I ran into somebody who knew the “Poe” one.
Oh, the Poe answer is my FAVORITE.
