suzy-x:

Frankly I’m bored of trite articles by trite white women and trite shows about trite white women and their trite straight sex lives. But now that they get PAID and CELEBRATED to write trite shit does that mean feminizm is over???

I’m revisiting this because I got a call this morning from folks casting for GIRLS. I had applied to be an extra on this show last summer, and I’ve been called back this week to play the “friend at a housewarming party.”

I suppose this is out of reparations to all POC for their absurd erasure and exclusion of them on their previous season. But you see, they’ve still fucked up; I’m not just a POC, I’m a white-passing one at that. I’m their safest bet, the one who white girls actually feel less guilty around because I’m not always so “in [their] face” about race. I’m not sure how I feel about doing this, besides the fact that I’ll get paid well and that after this part I can join the union. Even though I act part-time, I’m not someone who actually watches TV for these reasons (besides Parks & Rec), and I’ve still never seen this show. I don’t know I don’t know. I’m just curious.

lukut:

i made a slideshow for my presentation

golden.

Speaking of… Lori Barbero incidentally is half Filipina, isn’t she?

Indeed she is.

Hey, thanks! Well, riot grrrl was/is a pretty complex movement with some complex people. Sure, its origins in the Pacific Northwest made it inevitable that it would be a very white-dominated movement during its most active years. (The class background of its founders was mixed, though most of them were college students.) They generally wrote/sang a lot about gendered violence, punk music, sex work, relationships (most often hetero) and body image (of course, from a white perspective). They might have naively intended to speak universally for everyone, but you have to take it all with a grain of salt because most of them were in their teens-20s and surrounded almost entirely by white people.

Girls To The Front did give some quick mentions to people of color in the movement, as well as the fact that a few riot grrrls (like Molly Neuman) actively took part in anti-racist organizing. Later on, more women of color adopted riot grrrl and addressed their own concerns about gender and race through zines and punk music. POC zinesters Mimi Nguyen and Osa Atoe have in fact started the POC Zine Project because riot grrrl has been too white for too long.

So like, of course it was started by white folks for white folks, but riot grrrls of color definitely exist. And in the spirit of DIY, if our concerns aren’t addressed and our needs aren’t met in a movement then we fix that shit ourselves.

becauseproperteaistheft:

rich/ white people learn about/ study/ interact with other cultures for their own amusement/ ‘education’.  poor/ poc learn about/ study/ interact with rich/ white culture to survive.

sylviaandherfigtree:

fatwasandfanboys:

dear cis hetero white guys,

don’t date women of color if you don’t respect women of color. period.

s

i want to knowingly reblog this but i don’t want to let white queers to feel validated and like they’re getting let off the hook

i see you

vaganja:

Because I wake up to this. HAPPY MAY DAY Y’ALL. (Taken with instagram)

cosmicrubric:

iamthecrime:

foreverliberal:

Another Murder Going Unpunished! 

I got this email from MoveOn (it’s another change/petition sort of website) and I had to share it —

On December 23, 2011, my goddaughter, Jasmine Thar, a 16-year-old African American, was shot and killed while in my mother’s front yard in Chadbourn, North Carolina.

When the shot rang out, Jasmine was preparing for a routine shopping trip and doing what most teens do—texting. Two others, my niece and myself, were also injured in the shooting.

The 23-year-old Caucasian male who fired the fatal shot from the house across the street was taken in for questioning, but he has not been charged with a crime of any kind.

Because he claims it was an accident, the police let him go—despite the fact that he admits he fired the shot and police found a Confederate flag and Nazi literature in his home.

The message being sent is that you can shoot and kill someone like Jasmine and get away with it by simply claiming it was an accident. That can’t be the world we live in.

Here’s the petition 

Marissa Alexander shot a warning shot to ward off her abusive husband and she’s facing 20 years in prison for protecting herself while not hurting anyone, but Jasmine’s killer doesn’t face any charges at all? WTF

I cannot even.

Our words aren’t even our words.

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thepeculiarkind:

THE PECULIAR KIND WANTS YOU!

CASTING CALL!

• Must be 18 years or older  
• Must live in or be willing to travel to NYC 
• Must be available to shoot on Saturday, May 5th 2012 
• Must have a multicultural background  ( i.e. Indian, Asian, African, Hispanic, Native American, Caribbean, etc…)

SEND A PHOTO & BRIEF BIO TO GET@THEPECULIARKIND.COM W/ SUBJECT: CASTING CALL

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS APRIL 25TH 2012

omg who wants to audition with me?

baddominicana:

which brings me again to the CLEANING RAGE woc who do all the domestic work in their homes often display.

when youre the only one cleaning and youre being treated like a servant, and its your job day in, day out, and it is NOT paid…on top of all your other duties (you will likely raise the kids on your own, do all everyones laundry and ironing and tend to your husbands every whim)…

why the fuck wouldnt you be mad as hell when youre picking up after several lazy peoples mess and bullshit for decades upon decades just because you were born w a pussy?

the fact the first thing our mamas thought was “dont do housework and make your own money”

says

THEY HATE BEING DOMESTIC SLAVES

and

THEY HATE BEING TREATED LIKE SUBHUMAN JUST BECAUSE THEY DONT HAVE MONEY

class meets gender meets race.

I want my mom to see this. She definitely raised me to clean other people’s shit regardless, but, I’m sure she’ll still appreciate this as much as I do.

My mind is blown.