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Argentina JUST PASSED a groundbreaking gender identity...

Sat, 11 May 2013 00:38:29 -0400

Argentina JUST PASSED a groundbreaking gender identity bill!!!

From now on, people will be able to change the name and gender on their ID without needing psychiatric permission or any body modifications. Furthermore, anyone who does want hormones or surgery will be able to access them for free through the public and private health system.

It was passed unanimously today by the Senate

UNANIMOUSLY

skeetshoot: theniggaskaramazov: cynthiasandersbutgrown: i...

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 20:00:30 -0400

skeetshoot:

theniggaskaramazov:

cynthiasandersbutgrown:

i dont know about yal

but i know about us

what he dick lookin like

tinted lip gloss game ovah

KATHARINE HEPBURN READS A LETTER SHE WROTE TO SPENCER TRACY

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 06:25:22 -0400

KATHARINE HEPBURN READS A LETTER SHE WROTE TO SPENCER TRACY:

KATHARINE HEPBURN READS A LETTER SHE WROTE TO SPENCER TRACY. 1991

Katharine Hepburn

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 06:04:16 -0400

Katharine Hepburn:

Katharine Hepburn was blunt and candid, in this classic interview with Morley Safer.

everyone else, of course, can just die.

definitionpurity: dynamicafrica: Select artworks from Nigerian...

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 23:42:10 -0400

definitionpurity:

dynamicafrica:

Select artworks from Nigerian artist Njideka Akunyili:

“Nigeria is almost a third character in my work,” she said. “A lot of my work is about investigating my love for Nigeria and my life in America.

“I met my husband at college and there was some anxiety that if I married outside my culture I would lose my identity, but there is a space in my work where these things come together.”

Akunyili is hoping to help change attitudes to art in Nigeria, where she said appreciation is growing slowly.

“If I hadn’t left Nigeria, I wouldn’t be an artist, I would be a doctor,” she said. “When I told my parents I wanted to be an artist, they couldn’t get their heads around why an educated person who went to college in America would want to be an artist.

“If people think of artists, it’s somebody by the side of the road painting signs.”

[…]

“When I was young, the less Nigerian you were the cooler you were, but now we have gone back to tradition,” said Akunyili. “There’s a nice energy about the country that’s finally coming into its own.”

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Can I write my thesis on this woman? I love her work.

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Sat, 20 Apr 2013 06:55:59 -0400

Audio

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 02:22:33 -0400

Goals. @theonlydetox

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 02:34:12 -0400

Goals. @theonlydetox

hipocampo: Pink banner - “Transphobia = Fascism” hung after...

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 15:27:18 -0400

hipocampo:

Pink banner - “Transphobia = Fascism” hung after recent transphobic incident in another social centre. Barcelona, 2012.

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Sun, 07 Apr 2013 14:21:18 -0400

Do yourself a favor and watch this… and you’re...

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 18:42:06 -0400

Do yourself a favor and watch this… and you’re welcome.

Slowdive- Blue Skied an’ Clear

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Fri, 22 Mar 2013 01:10:11 -0400

Angela Davis on violence

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:41:41 -0400

when she was in the California State Prison - 1972
Interviewer: a year ago the black panthers were much more active. We heard much more about that type of struggle. Is the time of the black panthers past?
Angela davis: the black panthers still exist, and the black panthers are still extremely active in the Oakland community and communities all over the country. I’m not sure whether or not you are aware of what is now happening in the black panther party and the kinds of things that the members of that party are doing now.
Interviewer: no but tell me.
Angela davis: first of all, if you’re gonna talk about a revolutionary situation, you have to have people who are physically able to wage revolution, who are physically able to organize and physically able to do all that is done.
Interviewer: but the question is more, how do you get there? Do you get there by confrontation, violence?
Angela davis: oh, is that the question you were asking? yeah see, that’s another thing. When you talk about a revolution, most people think violence, without realizing that the real content of any revolutionary thrust lies in the principles and the goals that you’re striving for, not in the way you reach them. On the other hand, because of the way this society’s organized, because of the violence that exists on the surface everywhere, you have to expect that there are going to be such explosions. You have to expect things like that as reactions. If you are a black person and live in the black community all your life and walk out on the street everyday seeing white policemen surrounding you… when I was living in Los Angeles, for instance, long before the situation in L.A ever occurred, I was constantly stopped. No, the police didn’t know who I was. But I was a black women and I had a natural and they, I suppose thought I might be “militant.” And when you live under a situation like that constantly, and then you ask me, you know, whether I approve of violence. I mean, that just doesn’t make any sense at all. Whether I approve of guns. I grew up in Birmingham, Alabama. Some very, very good friends of mine were killed by bombs, bombs that were planted by racists. I remember, form the time I was very small, I remember the sounds of bombs exploding across the street. Our house shaking. I remember my father having to have guns at his disposal at all times, because of the fact that, at any moment, we might expect to be attacked. The man who was, at that time, in complete control of the city government, his name was Bull Connor, would often get on the radio and make statements like, “niggers have moved into a white neighborhood. We better expect some bloodshed tonight.” And sure enough, there would be bloodshed. After the four young girls who lived, one of them lived next door to me…I was very good friends with the sister of another one. My sister was very good friends with all three of them. My mother taught one of them in her class. My mother—in fact, when the bombing occurred, one of the mothers of one of the young girls called my mother and said, “can you take me down to the church to pick up Carol? We heard about the bombing and I don’t have my car.” And they went down and what did they find? They found limbs and heads strewn all over the place. And then, after that, in my neighborhood, all the men organized themselves into an armed patrol. They had to take their guns and patrol our community every night because they did not want that to happen again. That’s why, when someone asks me about violence, I just, I just find it incredible. Because what it means is that the person who’s asking that question has absolutely no idea what black people have gone through, what black people have experienced in this country since the time the first black person was kidnapped from the shores of Africa.

Marlon Brando playing baseball on an Actors Studio picnic, c....

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 00:01:53 -0400

Marlon Brando playing baseball on an Actors Studio picnic, c. 1948.

When I'm 75 I wanna look as good as Jane Fonda

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 00:36:40 -0500

Hot tub tea and tunes. I feel very decadent right now.

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 20:14:11 -0500

Hot tub tea and tunes. I feel very decadent right now.

bygoneamericana: Mexican workers recruited and brought to the...

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 13:45:54 -0500

bygoneamericana:

Mexican workers recruited and brought to the Arkansas valley, Colorado, Nebraska and Minnesota by the FSA to harvest sugar beets. 1943.

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Sat, 23 Feb 2013 00:52:53 -0500

"Not queer like gay. queer like, escaping definition. Queer like some sort of fluidity and..."

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 16:49:03 -0500

“Not queer like gay. queer like, escaping definition. Queer like some sort of fluidity and limitlessness at once. Queer like a freedom too strange to be conquered. Queer like the fearlessness to imagine what love can look like… and pursue it.”

- Brandon Wint (via etiquette-etc)

msalexismarie: tranqualizer: anarcho-queer: Submitted by:...

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 14:24:05 -0500

msalexismarie:

tranqualizer:

anarcho-queer:

Submitted by: sydlow

Thanks sydlow! I just sent this flier to organizers and they love it.

Justice for Reynaldo Cuevas

Reynaldo Cuevas was shot and killed by an NYPD officer on September 7th, 2012, after escaping from an armed robbery at the bodega he worked at. He was dragged 25 feet away by police and left to bleed for 20 minutes as witnesses yelled at them, informing police that he was an employee of the store. A few days later the community held a vigil for Reynaldo and marched with his family to the 42nd precinct to demand justice. Since then, the Cuevas family has held a candlelight vigil every Saturday at the corner of the block here he was killed. Less than two months later, on October 27th, the NYPD rammed into the dirt bike Reynaldo’s cousin and friend were riding, killing one and paralyzing the other. A witness from the scene says the NYPD rammed into the dirt bike purposely.

We need to let the NYPD know, they cannot get away with this. We will not give up. We are stronger.

More information on facebook, search for “Justice for Reynaldo Cuevas”

This is absolutely sickening. There is a war on brown bodies being waged in my streets.