May 2013
“And after all these years, the trans community is still at the back of the bus....”
– Sylvia Rivera in Genderqueer: Voices from Beyond the Binary (via queeraztlan)
delicate heresy: STREET TRANSVESTITE ACTION... →
delicateheresy:
BOOKS, INTERVIEWS, AND ARTICLES
Stonewall - Martin Duberman
The Gay Militants: How Gay Liberation Began in America, 1969-1971 - Donn Teal
“Sylvia Rivera: A Woman Before Her Time” - Liz Highleyman (from Smash the Church, Smash the State: The Early Years of Gay Liberation)
“Marsha P. Johnson: New York City Legand” - Tommi Avicolli Mecca (from Smash the Church, Smash the...
Why did the libertarian fail algebra?
crazydepressednihilist:
logicallypositive:
He refused to solve inequalities.
i wonder how many angry libertarians have reblogged this
“Feminism is anti-sexism. A male who has divested of male privilege, who has...”
– -bell hooks, Feminism is for Everybody
just going to emphasize that last sentence again: As long as females take up the banner of feminist politics without addressing and transforming their own sexism, ultimately the movement will be undermined.
(via browndenim)
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“I’d like to raise both of my middle fingers to him and anyone who thinks...”
– M.I.A. (via janejacqueline)
Why The Transgender Community Hates HRC →
breathingrevolution:
In conclusion, the drama between the transgender community and HRC (which sadly flared up last week after Rep. Frank introduced a non-inclusive ENDA) is a forty-year-old stew flavored with historical hatred, arrogance, political miscalculations, communication failures, misunderstandings, mistrust, and Machiavellian duplicity. HRC also has a pathetic history of refusing to...
teen-boy-fag:
when a cishet says they care about gay marriage what they really mean is
“i would rather avoid real issues and talk about how all love is equal and how we all bleed red because i dont want to admit my part in the systematic oppression of queer and trans* people”
“I felt terrible. What can one feel to see so many bodies? People under the...”
– FRONTLINE: Syria Behind the Lines (via kileyrae)
Watching such heartbreaking lamentation pour out of Syria can really tear you up.
(via mohandasgandhi)
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US Justice Department acknowledges wide-ranging...
thepeoplesrecord:
May 14, 2013
The president of the Associated Press has sent a letter of protest to US Attorney General Eric Holder over the Department of Justice’s broad surveillance of individual reporters’ phone conversations.
In a letter received by the AP on Friday, the Justice Department acknowledged but offered no explanation for the seizure of two months’ worth of telephone records of...
“I am tired of living in fear of having my family separated at any moment. Why...”
– Xanat Sobrevilla, an undocumented immigrant who is part of a group of seven immigrants who are taking a stance today by blocking doors to Broadview Detention Facility in Illinois.
The protesters also urged the public to support 3 cases of people facing deportation in Illinois by calling the...
“If were gonna talk about Assata and say she’s a ‘cop killer’, let’s be...”
– Assata Ain’t No Terrorist. She’s the One Who Fought Terrorists (via blackcyborgs)
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