Reblogged from rjinswand
Being radical is suffering...
I believe that all people should be treated as human beings.
(via microaggressions)
Working in issues of diversity at a large pre-dominantly white university and standing up in front of a group of peers, academics and top administrators in response to a ‘diversity report.’ I critiqued the lack of words like ‘racism’, ‘oppression’, etc., in the report. The Principal of the school…
Good ol’ “being called a racist is more offensive than actual racism”
There’s more:
[Image: A young Arab man holding up a photograph of a white person offensively dressed in stereotyped “Sheik” clothing with a pretend bomb duct taped to their chest, holding a plastic cup and smiling….
(Source: movingupward)
if you are not a member of a particular marginalized group
and you make a comment or judgement or have an idea concerning members of that group
and several members of that marginalized group tell you you should maybe reconsider the things that you’re saying and thinking
YOU…
See also: guys who freak out about having to be called “allies” of feminism instead of feminists and make a big fucking deal about it and then say they’re leaving the “cause” over it. lol.
(via natellite)
I spent my first year as a law student helping teenagers get abortions. I worked the phones at a small non-profit called Jane’s Due Process, which as far as I know, is the only organization in the country that helps teens navigate the judicial bypass process to get abortions without parental consent or notification. (You should Google it and make a donation right now.) I am now a volunteer attorney for them. It is righteous work. I am paranoid about telling people I about it. I often leave it off my resume.
Bill O’Reilly may snarl that the “left wing” is trying to silence him, but he has a TV show. Its people like me, and the girls I work with, who have truly been silenced. We are the ones who are staring down the barrel of a gun.
