bell hooks, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
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Black Oreo.
HUH
Blue Kiwi
ok
black muffin? eh
Brown Coffee…. yes it usually is?
I’m Not Wearing Any Pork Fried Rice
Brown Froyo
“Pink chicken”……
Apparently my band’s music would kill people :/
“I’m Not Wearing Any Pizza”
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Ehhhh… Okay. I’ll make it work.
Little Blue Fish Popcorn
Pantsless Tastykake
Pantsless Lemon Cookie.
Pinstriped Sourdough. I’ll take it.
Posted on May 7, 2013 via Jack Frost with 18,236 notes
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In classroom settings, I have often listened to groups of students tell me that racism really no longer shapes the contours of our lives, that there is just no such thing as racial difference, that ‘we are all just people.’ Then a few minutes later I give them an exercise. I ask if they were about to die and could choose to come back as a white male, a white female, a black female, or a black male, which identity would they choose. Each time I do this exercise, most individuals, irrespective of gender or race invariably choose whiteness, and most often white maleness. Black females are the least chosen. When I ask students to explain their choice they proceed to do a sophisticated analysis of privilege based on race (with perspectives that take gender and class into consideration). This disconnect between their conscious repudiation of race as a marker of privilege and their unconscious understanding is a gap we have to bridge, an illusion that must be shattered before a meaningful discussion of race and racism can take place. This exercise helps them move past their denial of the existence of racism.
bell hooks
Be sure to refer to this the next time someone tries that lazy, anti-critical thinking response of “we are all people” as if someone questioned our genus and species/binomial nomenclature as homo sapiens (though the consistent dehumanization efforts against people of colour leaves the argument open of whether or not we are actually considered human in the first goddamn place), versus questioning the fact that despite race being a social construct, racism is very much a real issue (as if social constructs are not also “real” things, despite being constructed. Real and true do not always mean the same thing.)
Related Posts: Conversations With White People About Race, 8 Predictable and Annoying Responses In Conversations About Race
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Posted on December 27, 2012 via Gradient Lair with 3,037 notes
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Most people in the United States think of feminism or the most commonly used term “women’s lib” as a movement that aims to make women the social equals of men. This broad definition, popularized by the media and mainstream segments of the movement, raises problematic questions. Since men are not equals in white supremacist, capitalist, patriarchal class structure, which men do women want to be equal to? Do women share a common vision of what equality means? Implicit in this simplistic definition of women’s liberation is a dismissal of race and class as factors that, in conjunction with sexism, determine the extent to which an individual will be discriminated against, exploited, or oppressed.
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Always on my mind.
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This is why I never say that feminism has to do with equality. It doesn’t. It’s about ending systems of hierarchical domination.
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Posted on December 19, 2012 via with 2,494 notes
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We're All Mad Here: Public humiliation done right.
Took my little sister toy shopping today. After much browsing, she chose a pack of Hot Wheels cars. She wanted to pay so I gave her the money. As we were waiting in line, some dude waiting behind us asks:
“Buying those for your brother?”
My sister gives him a weird look, “No. They’re mine.”
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Why Women Need Iron
Women need iron. Not the vitamin. The barbell.
We are trained by the world around us to have fucked up ideas about our bodies; iron unfucks them.
We are supposed to be as thin as possible, as small as possible, perhaps until we disappear; iron teaches us to take up space.
We are taught that the only good direction for the scale to go is down, and to agonize ritualistically when it goes up. Iron teaches us the power of gaining weight for strength and gives us another weight to care about – the weight we are lifting.
We are taught to eat small amounts daintily and treat food as sin and pleasure. Iron teaches us to eat heartily, to see food as fuel for life, and to seek out nutritious food rather than avoiding sinful food.
We are taught to think of our bodies as decorative, an object to be looked at; iron teaches us to think of our bodies as functional, our own active selves, not passive objects for another’s regard.
Whole industries exist to profit by removing from us our confidence and selling it back as external objects. Iron gives us confidence from within through progressive training and measurable achievements.
We are taught to be gentle and hide our strength or even to cultivate charming physical weakness until we start to believe our bodies are weak. Iron teaches us how strong we can be.
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Why Women Need Iron
Women need iron. Not the vitamin. The barbell.
We are trained by the world around us to have fucked up ideas about our bodies; iron unfucks them.
We are supposed to be as thin as possible, as small as possible, perhaps until we disappear; iron teaches us to take up space.
We are taught that the only good direction for the scale to go is down, and to agonize ritualistically when it goes up. Iron teaches us the power of gaining weight for strength and gives us another weight to care about – the weight we are lifting.
We are taught to eat small amounts daintily and treat food as sin and pleasure. Iron teaches us to eat heartily, to see food as fuel for life, and to seek out nutritious food rather than avoiding sinful food.
We are taught to think of our bodies as decorative, an object to be looked at; iron teaches us to think of our bodies as functional, our own active selves, not passive objects for another’s regard.
Whole industries exist to profit by removing from us our confidence and selling it back as external objects. Iron gives us confidence from within through progressive training and measurable achievements.
We are taught to be gentle and hide our strength or even to cultivate charming physical weakness until we start to believe our bodies our weak. Iron teaches us how strong we can be.
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i really admire the design for these stairs and how they incorporate a wheelchair access ramp. in a world were barrier free design is essential to living a full and happy life, its amazing to see landscape architect Cornelia Oberlander has taken literal steps to design stairs AROUND a ramp, instead of the other way around.
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Posted on April 26, 2012 via define space. with 16,908 notes
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In Defense of Humorless Feminists
Jokes and humor defuse tense situations. If you want to put your audience at ease, you make a light joke. What if you don’t want to put your audience at ease? What if unease and discomfort are specifically your aims? What if your goal is precisely to reframe something that’s normally dismissed as trivial?
Since women are expected to do the emotional work of making our interlocutors feel comfortable, when we fail to do it, our refusal seems particularly stark. When we care more about communicating our message clearly than communicating it comfortably, our refusal is part of the message.
When our interlocutors accuse us of being humorless, what they are saying is that their comfort is more important than our message.
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Daphne Oram, creator of the pioneering “Oramics” drawn sound technique, the Oramics Machine, and co-founder of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop (she later left to develop her own synthesiser because the Radiophonic Workshop wasn’t experimental enough for her tastes).
In short, she was fucking radical and made some incredible experimental music.
You can see the Oramics Machine and play with a really awesome electronic app that enables you to create music in a similar way at the Science Museum in London - Oramics to Electronica: Revealing Histories of Electronic Music runs til December 2012.
Here are a couple of cool short films about acquiring the Oramics Machine and the Science Museum exhibition (the first by Nick Street, the second by Nick Street and Jen Fearnley):
I believe you can also get an Oramics iPhone app.
If that isn’t enough ORAM for you, here’s a longer BBC Radio 3 documentary:
ORAM ORAM ORAM
ORAM4LYF
Posted on April 24, 2012 via with 5 notes
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Data Raps about his cat
Data is the ultimate cat lady.
Caturday special.
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