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zorascreation:

Facebook is not the place. I will tear you apart and dump the remains in the Lake of White Tears that you sprang from.

So I have this photo posted on my Facebook:

A White person comments!

White Person: Is there no positive energy in your life?

Me: Is there any personal business in…

toneyspeaksloud:

Janelle Monae.

Listen to The ArchAndroid (her album). She’s phenomenal. Seriously, she’s incredible. But the problem is, our society is fucked up. She’s a strong woman who dresses “like a man,” and sings from her heart. She doesn’t use her body to get fame. And for the people that don’t care…

This, a thousand times, this. Janelle Monae deserves all the awards and all the fame.

(via zorascreation)

stfuhypocrisy:

The shit hit the fan in the trans blogosphere last night, when it came to light that there is a disturbing new section in the Identity Screening Regulations used in airports throughout Canada. Simply put, Transgender People are Completely Banned From Boarding Airplanes in Canada.

The offending section of the regulations reads:

5.2 (1) An air carrier shall not transport a passenger if …
(c) the passenger does not appear to be of the gender indicated on the identification he or she presents;

Although this obviously discriminatory smear of regulation did not come to significant public attention until very recently, it apparently came into effect on July 27th, 2011.

It is important to note that these regulations are not actually a piece of legislation, which would have had to pass through readings and votes in the House and Senate (which is probably why it went unnoticed until now). Rather, the Identity Screening Regulations are a set of rules implemented unilaterally by the Ministry of Transportation, as part of Canada’s so-called Passenger Protect, which is essentially the Canadian Federal Government’s equivalent to the U.S.’s “no-fly” list.

Minister of Transportation Denis Lebel is, of course, a federal Conservative MP appointed to the cabinet position by Stephen Harper.

So what does this mean? Well, in order to change the ‘sex’ designation on a Canadian Passport, the federal government requires proof that surgery has taken place, or will take place within one year. So for non-operative transgender persons, for gender nonconforming (genderqueer) persons, and for the vast majority of pre-operative transsexual persons, it is literally impossible to obtain proper travel documentation marked with the sex designation which “matches” the gender identity in which they live.

In the eyes of the honourable Minister of Transportation, that makes trans people unfit to fly in Canada.

It is interesting to note that this regulatory adjustment occurred immediately following the federal election in 2011. In the previous parliament, Bill C-389, a bill to amend the Human Rights Code to explicitly enshrine protections against discrimination for transgender people, had successfully passed in the House of Commons, only to die on the Senate floor when Harper declared a Federal Election (thereby dissolving parliament).

Is the timing of this disturbing and blatantly discriminatory regulatory adjustment merely a coincidence? That is up to you to decide. However, the negative impact on trans people is crystal clear, and we need to take action now.

(via afunnyfeminist)

dumbthingswhitepplsay:

dank-potion:

A woman from Slutwalk approaches me about her movement and I, kindly as I possibly could, told her I have no interest. She informs me that, get this, I am letting the oppression of women continue by refusing her my participation. All I could do…

White feminsts who think “we’re all just women! we experience the same oppression!” need to read this right now.

baddominicana:

milkeemountainmama:

baddominicana:

trainbust:

milkeemountainmama:

yeah, kinda disagree with this post completely.

white people clue: if you eva “compassionately encourage me to consider the implications of this approach,” when i say the word bitch? you’re gonna get yourself a nice tongue lashing.

i am really sick and tired of how…

Whatever.  And as a WOC I really resent the constant implication that I will agree to some party line that makes aggression okay no matter how much it tears down other people as long as it concerns race (see baddominicana not speaking for me when expressing her displeasure). 

I fully believe in your right to express aggression. I further believe that it’s okay for me to respond aggressively when you hurt my fee-fees. Notice that your counter-argument only states that criticizing the terminology you use isn’t sensitive to your class background. And sure, “bitch” and “hoe” are a part of your dialect. They’re a part of mine, too. That’s why I care. So, in summary: “hollywood sucks”; “hey, don’t be mean about that”; “whatever, hoe”; “hey, why throw gender issues to the wind when you’re defending your right to be upset about hollywood?”; “You’re not respecting class-issues. I don’t know shit about “axes of oppression” or whatever, white lady”; “I’m not white, don’t tell me how to deal with violence towards me.”  

“Bitch” is used to control me every time I get aggressive. To use it when you’re defending your aggression, is, in the language of my people, totes ridic. You don’t have to participate in taking me down to defend yourself. 

idgaf. you railroaded a post about racism with more fuckin policing bullshit, taggin along on some white bitches derailin ass. congrats!!!!! you enacted the bolded except you aint defend nobody but some white asshole and you took down not just that OP but all the black people whos frustration she was speaking for.

why i dont fucks w SJ.

priorities: FUCKED.

justice for WHITE PEOPLE. thats about it.

hm. i can’t find where this discussion stems from—but i just wanted to clarify.

What I wrote is SO not the “party line.” it was written in response TO what is a “party line.” that using what SJ folks have deemed to be “inappropriate language” calls for “corrections.” and is about “internalized oppression.” i.e. there’s something “broken’ with anybody who uses “inappropriate” language and SJ is about fixing *THAT* broken (i.e. the woman of color using the word bitch) rather than fixing structural issues with language like: why do some women only *have* the word bitch to use?

also—I was interrogating why “aggression” is defined as my filthy mouth, and NOT as the man rubbing his cock on my ass or the white woman denying me a 25 cent raise because she felt like it.

I am not saying anybody can just lay around picking their noses screaming at jesus angels about get their motha fucking cock sucking angel ass down from the goddamn clouds and sit their ho ass the fuck down who you think you are flying all over the damn world like that?

I’m saying—let’s *complicate* the idea that there’s something *mentally wrong* (i.e. internalized oppression) with people who don’t use the exact language people have decided is *correct* language.

yaaaaaaaasssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

theafrosistuh:

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