May 2012
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April 2012
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Stud Puffin
I can’t. This man’s shirt is possibly the funniest thing in the world? Or maybe it’s because I’ve been traveling for almost two weeks and I’ve lost track of the entire concept of time?
STUD PUFFIN
no that’s fucking hilarious I don’t care
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What it's like to be brown
My bus to Vegas got stopped at the Border Patrol stop on the 5 freeway if you’re heading north.
no exaggeration. Two agents came on, asked for the IDs and birthplaces of every person who was brown, and did so in spanish, and even when i spoke english back to the guy, he still spoke to me in spanish.
then they skipped all the white people and the couple traveling from China
and left
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tyleroakley:
odair:
omfg press alt+the reblog button
praise god bless jesus hallelu
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Hi, Tumblr! I'm going on tour again. Come hang...
panasonicyouth:
So, the second Mark Does Stuff tour starts TOMORROW in San Francisco, and y’all should come hang out. There is no need to be familiar with my writing, as all events will be geared towards entertaining EVERYONE. All my events are free, with donations accepted to help pay the cost of tour and keep my sites running. Expect live readings, Q&A sessions, and a Bad-Fic-A-Thon to end...
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“It reminds me of the “bike to work” movement. That is also portrayed as white,...”
– comment left on the Racialious blog post “Sustainable Food & Priviledge: Why is Green always White (and Male and Upper-Class)” (via ouiominy)
i can’t echo this enough. this happened all the time in Los Angeles. I started biking to work and school (18 miles each way to work, 22 each way to...
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“taking Obama to the White House”
– Lesley Arfin, writer of the HBO show Girls, in her blog, has a metaphor for “pooping”. This ties to what Mark (of Mark Reads) mentioned here about working with her. She apparently compared Obama to poop regularly because he is brown. (via redlightpolitics)
“Dear Diary” was always the weakest part...
All The Other Girls
spectralradiance:
inmont4uk:
So I had a chance to see the first two episodes of HBO’s new show Girls early, because Lena Dunham went to my school. She actually graduated with the same major as the one I will later this year - Cinema Studies.
Oberlin’s been pretty vocal about their support for and excitement about Dunham and her show. I was apprehensive about it, given that the poster featured...
Watchbulletbutt:
digitallyimpaired:
pandacows:
the pizza guy’s confusion makes this video so brilliant
oh my god
oh my god
slowly making my dream of breaking out into a musical number come true
bless this
bless everyone involved
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Hi, Tumblr! I'm going on tour again. Come hang...
So, the second Mark Does Stuff tour starts TOMORROW in San Francisco, and y’all should come hang out. There is no need to be familiar with my writing, as all events will be geared towards entertaining EVERYONE. All my events are free, with donations accepted to help pay the cost of tour and keep my sites running. Expect live readings, Q&A sessions, and a Bad-Fic-A-Thon to end every...
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[TRIGGER WARNING for anti-black racism, simulation... →
liquornspice:
withrevolutionarycries:
liquornspice:
notaskingforpermission:
TRIGGER WARNING for anti-black racism, simulation of cannibalism/genital cutting
WOW, ok. so this is an addition to the photo/article I posted earlier about this cake. Apparently it is more than just edible, it is an art piece that cries out/screams as it is being cut.
The artist is a mixed black woman, Makode...
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There is something about...
deliciouskaek:
homonoire:
bringing Tupac back to “life” (in hologram form) to “perform” in front of a group of mostly white suburban hipsters that just grinds my gears. Can’t the man simply rest without being “summoned” from the grave to perform songs that have entirely nothing to do with Coachella’s usual demographic group? Let’s get Frank Sinatra to perform at the BET Awards next year; It...
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alice-unchained:
my dad ate a cucumber today and he was like “wow this is pretty cold” and then he just slowly put the cucumber down and stared into space for a really long time until he turned to me with wide eyes and quietly said, “oh my god. cool as a cucumber.”
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nothingbutthedreams reblogged your photoset: i approve
I really hope you do more of these videos so we get more gifs like these.
I bought The Haunted Vagina earlier this week to do a bonus video
so yeah
you’ll get more
videos, i mean. not haunted vaginas. unless you want that?
Anonymous asked: god you are so fucking hot
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thewaroffivequeens asked: You should read The Haunted Vagina for your fundraiser
Anonymous asked: Just to let you know J August Richards who plays Charles Gunn checked out your review of War Zone. He was linked to it on twitter and described your review as awesome.
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Anonymous asked: jennifer lawrence is homophobic tho :(
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Let's See If I Can Explain This Coherently
freedominwickedness:
Every person has an right to not be involved with any other person. That’s a totally basic application of the moral principle of consent, and no one I’m aware of has ever argued that social justice means you have be willing to go out with everyone. However, exercising your right to not be involved with any particular person is not quite the same thing as declaring that you...
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anrachan asked: Yo, how do I know if I am changing...
velocicrafter:
yoisthisracist:
Yo, honestly, both of those scenarios actually constitute progress, so don’t trip too hard trying to figure out which is happening.
i fully support this
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It's so funny...
haveatiggerifficday:
friendlyangryfeminist:
velocicrafter:
cijithegeek:
The amount of folks claiming Black folks were about to riot over Zimmerman killing Trayvon, when the most recent examples of riots have been a bunch of privileged White kids over a fired football coach.
To add to the sociopathy: a football coach who kept silent on the sexual abuse of underprivileged children, many...
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OK, Time To Break It Down
When someone says "racist", what they mean is: There is a systematic, entrenched, system which treats white people as advantaged and privileged and people who are not white as inferior and disadvantaged. This means that although some progress has been made toward equalization of all races, we are still far from true equal footing for all people of all races. What is needed to help with this equalization is for you to realize that the privilege and advantage is still there, whether you mean to benefit from it or not. What is needed to help with this equalization is for you to realize that PoC need safe spaces. What is needed to help with this equalization is for you to help push for PoC history to be in schools. For the teachers to stop writing PoC students off as "going to amount to nothing". For the authorities to stop treating PoC as ten times more dangerous and criminal than white people when we're not.
What some white people hear "racist" what they hear is: You are a bad person. You are an evil person. You are a Klan member wannabe, even if you don't wear the white hood. You burn crosses on lawns. You use the N word even though you know black people don't like it. You would be like the ones who make the news, dragging PoC behind their vehicles, shooting them for looking "suspicious" and beating them up for fun if you thought you could get away with it. You would back up returning to slavery and segregation! You hate all people who are not white!
Why non-PoC want to be able to say the N word: They think it's just a mean, unkind, rude, unpleasant word. That's all. Nothing more. Sticks and stones. No different than honky or cracker.
Why the N word offends many PoC: It is not just a rude word like "dummy" or "stupid" or "asshole". It is a word that was used, for the duration of slavery and beyond, to keep PoC oppressed, and to remind them that if they stood up for themselves they would be whipped, beaten, attacked, mutilated, and KILLED. Let me repeat: KILLED. We fought hard for the right to be treated like HUMAN BEINGS. The N word is an indication that there are still many white people out there who don't think of us as HUMAN BEINGS and don't want us to be treated like HUMAN BEINGS. So it's not just "black people are being mean and not letting us say it." Cracker, by the way, does not mean little thing with salt on it that you put cheese on. It means the one who cracked the whip while PoC were slaves.
So think about these things before you start getting defensive at PoC. And think about why you're getting defensive. Think about why you want to deny the truth of other people's experiences when you have no way of having that experience yourself.
Why do you want to be able to say a word that is sending the message to PoC that you want them to be as they were during slavery and segregation times. If you don't want to send that message. If you don't sincerely feel that way, then there is no valid reason -- NONE -- to want to use the word.
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It's so funny...
friendlyangryfeminist:
velocicrafter:
cijithegeek:
The amount of folks claiming Black folks were about to riot over Zimmerman killing Trayvon, when the most recent examples of riots have been a bunch of privileged White kids over a fired football coach.
To add to the sociopathy: a football coach who kept silent on the sexual abuse of underprivileged children, many of whom were POC
