February 2012
49 posts
“This is not addressed primarily to white people. It does not put you down in...”
– Nina Simone before performing “To Be Young, Gifted, and Black.” (via dionthesocialist)
PREACH Queen Nina!
(via sourcedumal)
The High Priestess, ladies and gentlemen.
(via ANegroKing)
Woman: Can I have birth control?
Government: No.
Woman: I got pregnant because I didn't have birth control and I don't want the fetus. Can I have an abortion?
Government: No.
Woman: I gave birth to my child but since I wasn't expecting it, I can't afford daycare. Can I have help paying for it?
Government: No.
“What settler colonialism does is that it sets a ceiling on what the future can...”
– Andrea Smith plenary talk at Critical Ethnic Studies and the Future of Genocide, Thursday, March 10, 2011 (via zombifuntime)
Finger snaps
“We exist as women who are Black who are feminists, each stranded for the moment,...”
– Michelle Wallace, A Black Woman’s Search for Sisterhood. (via unapproachableblackchicks)
“She writes like she’s starving and reads like she’s feasting.”
– R.D. Larson (via theriches)
“If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives.”
– Lemony Snicket (via selfinspiration)
“I’m not gonna sit around and waste my precious divine energy trying to explain...”
– Esperanza Spalding (via beautiful-ambition)
“Don’t wish me happiness. I don’t expect to be happy all the time… It’s gotten...”
– Anne Morrow Lindbergh (via saddest-summer)
come on up to the house: Brilliance Remastered:... →
blackfeminismlives:
Calling all community accountable scholars and visionary under-represented grad students!
Hey there bright thunder!
Do you ever feel isolated and misunderstood in your department? Do you ever feel that the passions that motivated you to get your degree are…
<3 <3 So much need for this.
“You come to the United States and the United States begins immediately,...”
– Junot Diaz (via thedivanna)
“What counts as activism? Why didn’t the kind of emotional self-care me and my...”
– Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, “A Time to Hole Up And a Time to Kick Ass” in We Don’t Need Another Wave (via kru-pa)
I love this. We get so much push back to “stop talking about problems, go outside & do something” as though A) What we discuss online is the whole of our lives & B) as...
People of Color Organize: A Few Words About... →
peopleofcolor:
If you’re telling me solidarity means to forget my discomfort and experiences with privileged folk, or that privileged folk have a right to speak over the experiences of marginalized ones, or have just as much say in their marginalization, then I’m not interested in solidarity.
If…
kateoplis: Planned Parenthood, Komen & Moving... →
So Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure today announced that they will no longer give any funding to Planned Parenthood.
This funding allowed Planned Parenthood to provide breast examinations and referrals for mammography and ultrasound to patients at their health centers, patients who were able…
Ms. Blaspheming Bitch: So, for those of you who... →
ladyatheist:
So, for those of you who are unaware, tomorrow marks the start of Black History Month. I am so not looking forward to this. Since this year is a leap year, I have 29 of whitewashed history and white people complaints and tears to look forward to. Hip hip hoo-fucking-ray. I fucking hate Black…
Please help me get my dad back!
long-live-starkid-potter:
My dad was taken by Immigration and they could sent him back any day now! He won’t be able to come back for 10 years and he hasn’t done anything wrong. He’s been living here for 20 years, always paying taxes, and helped many families start lives in America. We need your help.
Sign this petition!
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