February 2012
13 Year Old Jada Williams Persecuted by the...
sanityscraps:
ladyatheist:
baddominicana:
thatmuchlove:
13 Year Old Jada Williams Persecuted by the Rochester City School District Over her essay on Frederick Douglass.
ai-yo:
jumpstart-therevolution:
theafrosistuh:
beautifulbrwn:
“On Saturday, February 18, 2012, the Frederick Douglass Foundation of New York presented the first Spirit of Freedom award to Jada Williams, a 13-year...
Perpetually Myself: In many ways, one of the... →
reasonlogicandfacts:
allies-person:
In many ways, one of the saddest things about the awful comments on That Site is the absolute ignorance that many people who claim to be PWD have about the disability movement.
Like, one person complained that the social model of disability contributes to cultural silence around the issue of…
Talking about people behind their backs, making fun of them and...
The Pros and Cons of reading quality fanfic
talldarkbishoujo:
spicyobsession:
Pro: oh my god this is so amazing i want to have author’s children and offer all my feels and internet cookies love the way the characters are written so beautiful in this scene and that line of dialogue and i want to share this slice of happiness with everyone
Con: FUCK SHIT GODDAMMIT I’LL NEVER WRITE LIKE THIS EVERYTHING GOOD HAS ALREADY BEEN WRITTEN WHY...
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"When Beethoven passed away, he was buried in a...
thegoddamazon:
i-like-blue-boxes:
thenewfantastic:
criminallyobsessed:
hotel-denouement:
moral-highground:
yougotredonyou:
nicklex:
hannahisdead:
oh my god
BEST JOKE.
THIS JOKE SHALL BE TOLD FOREVER
LMFAO
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Aaand after an hour of playing
ouyangdan:
eyeofmantorok:
my head strongly protests the camera.
I don’t get it, I played it fine a couple of years ago.
Then again, my head wasn’t nearly as bad then as it is now…
Drat. Seems like I’ll be playing through this game rather slowly.
The cameras on FPS games make me sooooooo nauseous and increase my chance of migraine on a given day. I tend to play in 20-30 minute bursts and...
feeling ill... why is this?
Nothing was wrong this morning, but the past 4 hours have been full of pain and misery.
Body, what is happening in you? Tell me, please, so I can do something.
Urgh :-(
draggle:
sunriseovervenus:
draggle:
goldenheartedrose:
draggle:
I’m a bad female because my main objectives are domestic and I’m not independent.
Holla! ;-)
High five! Me too.
Ours is a club of adventure.
We have cookies. Or cake, as the case may be. I made a chocolate fudge cake with vanilla frosting last night. It’s delish!
Our club’s snacks are not store bought. I think...
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youneedacat:
If anyone’s interested in an actual critique of a lot of autism “science” (most of which has extremely low standards for proof compared to actual science), try the autism page of Morton Ann Gernsbacher. She’s the former president of the Association for Psychological Science, and she’s pointed out serious holes in many theories, including the empathy stuff. Simon Baron-Cohen’s...
QUICK EVERYONE REBLOG THIS WITH A BOOK SUGGESTION
jhameia:
jiggit:
ayries:
foreverwholockian:
gryffmeister:
kathrynamelia:
an0raksalmanac:
badwolfpiper:
mynameisgrey:
i-dressed-for-rio:
dontbedeadforme:
redridingwiththewolves:
the-rose-elf:
I’ll start! The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Nation by Terry Pratchett
It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
Oh good, I need these. Lisey’s Story by Stephen King.
...
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On the ME3 multiplayer demo...
b-mommy:
talldarkbishoujo:
antivian:
princesscheesecake:
unidentifiedspoon:
I decided to finally start using voice chat and warned a guy when he was getting snuck up on by a Phantom. Here’s what happened…
“thanks man—oh my god wait you’re a girl”
“holy shit what there are no girls on the internet lol”
“hey will you let me suck your tits”
And just as I was about to disconnect, guess...
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What the Bible says about...
christiantheatheist:
Handicapped People
Ex.4:11
Who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the LORD?
Lev.21:17-23
Whosoever … hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God. For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous, Or a man that is...
Eah.... why...
…couldn’t my crush just have dissipated into nothing, like they usually do?
Now it’s been replaced by warm feelings of just wanting to be closer to her. Hold her. Why did my emotions have to go and make this all complicated as fuck?
Shit :-(
“People think dreams aren’t real just because they aren’t made of matter, of...”
– Neil Gaiman (via fadesandspins)
How does this man know everything?
Transethnic FTW
nijireiki:
brandx:
Oh, for fuck’s sake.
Apparently a clutch of privileged, delusional bigots have hijacked the term “transethnic,” ensuring that us Class Bastard adoptees and foster kids encounter even MORE dismissal and confusion in public discourse.
“Transethnic,” for those who don’t know, occurs in the context of adoption. For example, a white Jewish child is adopted by non Jews. Or a...
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Thing I love about Brettlock
neffinesse:
blinkpink:
neffinesse:
#34
The way Jeremy plays Holmes so completely pleased when he astonishes or delights his Watson.
It’s the cutest.
You mean like this?
YES EXACTLY LIKE THAT
Jeremy Brett, may he rest in peace, was perfection as Holmes. Love this so much.
Witchy Ways: Some commentary and criticism →
gemini-witch:
Ok, so bear with me please, I’m sure many people in the Pagan community will not agree with some things that I am about to say about the above image; you are always free to disagree with me.
Ok, I’m going to break this down piece by piece and explain why I don’t care for…
allies-person:
youneedacat:
What is ableist discourse according to Feministe?
allies-person:
[…]
In this particular contest I definitely feel as though people were using their concern for “health” as a cover for more noxious ableist attitudes towards people with intellectual disabilities. Somehow I doubt that these people would get as worked up about fetuses which test positive for heart...
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On the "transabled" phenomenon
nekobakaz:
genderbitch:
polerin:
stfuconfederates:
murphysbride:
sanityscraps:
deaf-aspie:
Anonymously Submitted:
As a disabled (Autistic) trans* person who has talked with other trans* people about it and read “transabled” theories and narratives, I’ve got a bunch of opinions. They aren’t particularly nice. The fact that there’s an underlying phenomenon that causes distress...
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“11. Bring consent out of the bedroom. I think part of the reason we have trouble...”
– Holly over at The Pervocracy with an excellent 101 post on Consent Culture. Read the whole thing.
(via a-bayani)
Even out of the micro-“lunch table” type examples, the idea of non-consent is so pervasively intertwined in western/north american culture. it is cousins to the “i know, better than...
This whole "don't physically discipline your kids"...
guerrillamamamedicine:
femmenoire:
zorascreation:
That’s why White children are disrespectful as FUCK.
That’s why White families are FOREVER asking Black & Brown women to be mammies and Black & Brown men to be mentors to their damn pickney.
Fuck no.
Even if you don’t physically discipline your child personally, GROW A FUCKING BACKBONE AND DISCIPLINE THEM SOME KINDA WAY.
YOUR...
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wahaha-sexual:
noitemsfoxonlyfinaldestination:
howtfoldlaundry:
noitemsfoxonlyfinaldestination:
if you think you’re oppressed because you’re self-diagnosed as autistic or aspberger’s or anything else, you need to sit down
unless you’re qualified to make such a diagnosis
which i doubt most self-diagnosed people are
okay it’s asperger’s, not aspberger’s, for one.
for two, unless you...
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Question on stimming
tal9000:
So, like, I get really bored when I try to put all my attention into absorbing something that someone else is doing. This is bad when I have, like, a lecture in class. I have a lot more mental energy there than paying attention to the class takes up (especially when the professor is just writing on the board and has finished verbally explaining the point), and I have to have everything...
“I can say to myself that I would never make such an obviously silly choice, but...”
– Lisa Guerrero, And the Beat Goes On: Chris Brown, Too $hort, and the Disposable Conscience of Consumer Society (via thecurvature)
zorascreation:
excentricyoruba:
aphoticoccurrences:
electriczara:
People be fair, Richard Dawkins’ ancestor, Henry Dawkins owned 1,013 slaves in Jamaica, that’s nothing to do with him.
oh, it most certainly does. you see, when slaves were brought to the Americas, we worked for centuries without pay. we built this country from the ground up. WITHOUT PAY. when white families during that...
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cantankerousgenerosus:
jemimaaslana reblogged your post: I thought I’d never find a term more idiotic than…
It isn’t offensive. It’s just inaccurate. To have neurotypical mean non-autistic is erasing of all those people with…
Thanks for the response. My problem with “allistic” is that it’s redundant. The word is used as the logical opposite of “autistic,” which relates to one’s self. Allistic...
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bittergrapes:
wanmaru:
Black/asian/latino/etcetera people: no objective inferiority; discrimination based on ungrounded prejudice
Homosexual/bisexual/etcetera people: no objective inferiority; discrimination based on ungrounded prejudice
Transgender/genderqueer/etcetera people: no objective inferiority; discrimination based on ungrounded prejudice
You need to stop comparing discrimination...
Lemme say this again for those who didn't catch it...
ethiopienne:
SURVIVORS. DO. NOT. NEED. YOUR. INPUT. [TW: sexual assault, domestic violence] I cannot tell you how many times I’ve found the courage to speak about what happened to me when I was younger only to hear “…you know you should’ve reported that, right?” or “so you didn’t say anything? what’s wrong with you?” or “well maybe if you had done X or Y or Z he’d be in jail right now and you...
theoceanandthesky:
that awkward moment when you put a jump drive in a computer and all the sudden it has weird, unopenable files dated december 31, 1903.
think about that guys.
1903.
computers didn’t even exist then.
this computer is such a fucking troll.
… that is totally the beginnings of an intricate and terrifying science-fiction plot - possibly involving The Doctor :-p
