She's Gone

Chimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single story

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 14:59:22 -0500

http://www.npr.org/2012/06/29/155904209/africa-the-next-chapter

http://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story.html

Stories matter. Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign, but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.” — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The AHA Foundation for Women's Rights

Tue, 15 May 2012 22:53:43 -0400

The AHA Foundation for Women's Rights

You can have it if it makes you happy.

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 12:12:54 -0500

gamayun:

I could open a vein and share what pumps there

Or bare my teeth

Scare you off

Full of empty threats

From a broken heart

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.

It was silly to think we’d never part

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.

You can take your pound of flesh

But it will come from the ugliest parts of me

The ones that haven’t healed

The skin that’s still marred red and angry

Crawling with all the awful thoughts of you that plague me

.

.

You can have it if it makes you happy

I will be happy to be rid of it.

You can have it if it makes you happy.

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 12:12:27 -0500

gamayun:

I could open a vein and share what pumps there

Or bare my teeth

Scare you off

Full of empty threats

From a broken heart

.

.

It was silly to think we’d never part

.

.

You can take your pound of flesh

But it will come from the ugliest parts of me

The ones that haven’t healed

The skin that’s still marred red and angry

Crawling with all the awful thoughts of you that plague me

.

.

You can have it if it makes you happy

I will be happy to be rid of it.

gamayun: Andy Levy apologizing to Chris Brown. I think this...

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:55:06 -0500

gamayun:

Andy Levy apologizing to Chris Brown.

I think this video is a fantastic addition to seeing these photos and reading this article.

“I am not okay with Chris Brown performing at the Grammys, and I’m not sure why you are.” -Sasha Pasulka

Not watching the Grammys this year, that’s for sure.

fuckyouverymuch: We are big fans of Pussy Riot.

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:36:45 -0500

fuckyouverymuch:

We are big fans of Pussy Riot.

"The outrage is tiresome and deeply hypocritical, in all the tiresome ways you’ve been tired out by..."

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:34:28 -0500

“The outrage is tiresome and deeply hypocritical, in all the tiresome ways you’ve been tired out by before. M.I.A. was illustrating her line, acting out the attitude of the words: performing. Fine, it may not be legal to flip the bird on television, but that’s simply a remnant of the fifties we haven’t shaken. Unless somebody was handing out Xanax with the foam fingers, Lucas Oil Stadium was ringing with the music of profanities last night. More to the point, television viewers were submitted to ad after ad that likened women—negatively—to sofas, cars, and candy. Mr. Winter didn’t have anything to say about that, so I’d like to raise both of my middle fingers to him and anyone who thinks profanity is somehow more harmful to our children than images of violence and misogyny. (My two sons, fourteen and eleven, thought the Fiat ad was corny, so I guess they will be safe without Mr. Winter’s intervention.) I say we get out of The Pretending To Be Moral game altogether and use the Internet for important things like posting pictures of cats looking at croissants and PDFs of sensitive government documents.”

- M.I.A. Shouldn’t Have Apologized - The New Yorker

(via stopdroptroll)

This Shit Is All Racist: tapizdevida: Being White I’m very hesitant to publish this. I’m...

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:47:14 -0500

This Shit Is All Racist: tapizdevida: Being White I’m very hesitant to publish this. I’m...:

I think this is a great video to watch after reading this article. It pretty much sums up how a feel about the whole argument.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPtzS7-H7J4&feature=player_embedded

feministdisney:

tapizdevida:

Being White

I’m very hesitant to publish this. I’m uncomfortable writing it.

A few nights ago, a friend of mine and I were talking about gender roles. Long story short, she said, “the further removed from a straight, Christian, white male, the harder your life is.”

For the…

too longwinded to post so you’ll have to click above to see the rest, this shit is all racist had a nice but well formulated response. I just wanted to say that it always amazes me when people think white privilege translates to “POC mistakenly assuming they [white person] have always had a great life” and “POC always have shitty lives in which they constantly suffer.” Neither are true- there is not one person on earth who has not experienced some truly shitty stuff. I don’t even have to conduct a poll to figure that out- it’s common sense. But beyond our individual sufferings- however dire some are (or are not)- privilege still exists!

And no one pointing out privilege or examining it or discussing it or simply mentioning it in context is trying to say that everyone who is white has had an easy-peasy life with no challenges or hurtles. To act as if that is the core of privilege discussion really undervalues and undermines a lot of the incredibly insightful, powerful work people have done in examining/exposing/challenging/deconstructing it, and ignores all the (plentiful) proof that shows it exists beyond a doubt (and the ways in which it operates in many facets of our lives).

And, I realize OP wasn’t being a super racist poopwad or anything but it just… really bothers me how this comes up again and again and again and it seems like so many people just aren’t listening when it comes to an explanation of how privilege operates. If you read a lot/learn about/are told about structural racism and white privilege and the main point you come away with from all that is that POC are misrepresenting your individual life experience… there is a very large point being missed here.

This is a great video, very eye-opening. Everyone should watch...

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:56:40 -0500

This is a great video, very eye-opening. Everyone should watch this.

Dutch ISPs Refuse To Block The Pirate Bay

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:25:33 -0500

Dutch ISPs Refuse To Block The Pirate Bay:

middleclasswarfare:

Two large ISPs in the Netherlands have said they will not be blocking subscriber access to The Pirate Bay, as demanded by the Hollywood supported anti-piracy outfit BREIN. T-Mobile and KPN argue that blocking websites is a threat to the open Internet, and suggest that the entertainment industry focuses on new business models instead. BREIN is now expected to take the ISPs to court.

so cute!

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:32:46 -0500

so cute!

Things I Did Today:

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:24:00 -0500

Things I did today: Sat in my evil office, at my evil desk whilst stroking my evil goatee and thinking about all of the evil things I’m going to do (to you).

Seriously, get over yourself. You asked for my help, and then when I happily offered it you rudely ignored me. I didn’t have to say anything, I could’ve left you hanging.

My life doesn’t revolve around trying to enact your destruction (I am not an evil robber baron, nor do I act like the paranoid victim.)

Get. Over. Yourself.

Asshole.

stillbeatheart: Two Door Cinema Club - Something good can...

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:52:16 -0500

stillbeatheart:

Two Door Cinema Club - Something good can work.

I can dig it

Casualty-of-society: “From a very young age we’re basically taught to...

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 17:29:13 -0500

Casualty-of-society: “From a very young age we’re basically taught to...:

casualty-of-society:

“From a very young age we’re basically taught to think of racism and “anything bad” isms as something “very bad people [consciously] do.” We are always taught to identify with the good guys and wonder what the bad guys were thinking. We then have a lot of trouble…

Video

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:37:01 -0500

Photo

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:38:54 -0500

"Approximately one in every three minutes of American television is advertising. Children are..."

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:50:31 -0500

“Approximately one in every three minutes of American television is advertising. Children are especially targeted; establish brand loyalty early and you gain a customer for life. And there is no such thing as too young; in 1998 marketers started targeting one-year-olds. An executive for the media giant Time Warner conceded that this was “vaguely evil,” but business is business. By age seven, an average American child watches twenty-seven hours of television a week— nearly four hours a day— and sees an incredible twenty thousand commercials a year.”

- Mark Hersgaard an excerpt from The Eagles Shadow: Why America Fascinates and Infuriates the World

missbananafish: notreallykira: walking-paranoia: DON’T JUST...

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:40:04 -0500

missbananafish:

notreallykira:

walking-paranoia:

DON’T JUST CALL HIM A COPYRIGHT VIOLATOR, SUE HIM OR SOMETHING.

HE FUCKING DESERVES IT.

lol nobody in Congress understands how the internet works and it’s amazing.

It’s a series of tubes!

The Fractals Of Time Passing

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 05:41:21 -0500

officialiwrotethisforyou:

Today you became a yesterday, when once you were a tomorrow.

Don’t Take Your Guns to Town Son

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:32:57 -0500

Don’t Take Your Guns to Town Son