May 2013
40 posts
“Nonviolence is an inherently privileged position in the modern context. Besides...”
– -Peter Gelderlos, Why Nonviolence Protects the State- Nonviolence is Racist (via tahlalaliaaa)
Note gelderloos is white and an activist who went to jail and learned a lot from within the system. Learned a lot from poc in prison and is pretty young too. I think he makes a lot of credits to poc and...
“The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows....”
– Assata Shakur: An Autobiography
White people get mad when you wear a band t shirt of a band you don’t listen to, but they’re fine with wearing headdresses from cultures they know and care nothing about.
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“I don’t think the comment “bisexuals have straight privilege unless they’re in...”
– Chandra on Autostraddle (via my-drop-is-full-of-tree-branches)
A bisexual or queer person who is in a “heterosexual” relationship DOES benefit from a level of privilege (unquestioned right to marriage, ability to be in public with your partner without receiving homophobic comments, less likely to...
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full moon on my birthday this year aw yiss.
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“I stayed in bed for over an hour
looked at things on my phone
I felt slightly...”
– “Today My Alarm Went Off at 12:30 p.m.,” Mira Gonzalez
April 2013
47 posts
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“Vicious and vulnerable. That’s me.”
– Josh Marquis
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Also just a public service announcement:
sulitati:
Crossing the border into the US without documents is a misdemeanor. It is not a felony.
It’s no more a crime than driving without your license.
Furthermore, being in this country without papers isn’t a crime at all. Your method of entry is a misdemeanor, but your presence in this country will never be “illegal”.
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