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Posted 4 months ago
alexandraerin: underthestarssofaraway: girljanitor: sourcedumal: girljanitor: mylesbiansensesaretinglingagain: girljanitor: Okay, so I had planned to write a big long review of this book, but you know what? It’s too fucking good. You need to buy this book. It is a fantasy novel. It is the best fantasy novel. It is in a fantasy universe populated with protagonists of color, and evil white people. There are a few good white people, but mostly evil white people who have wayyyy too much power and are evil. You need to buy this book if only for the scene where the disabled Black woman protagonist picks up a bottle of white people shampoo, sniffs it, and just rolls her eyes and thinks, are they expecting me to use this astringent shit on my beautiful Maroneh(Black) woman hair? It in particular is actually the second book in the series, but I accidentally read it out of order the first time (and have since read the other) and it didn’t particularly suffer from being read out of order. You need to buy this book. There is also a bit of sexy sex. The exact right amount of sexy sex. I cannot tell you how much I fell in love with this book. All three, but in particular this one was my favorite. There is also a significant amount of queer sex in the trilogy. QUEER PEOPLE OF COLOR. This is N. K. Jemisin. She wrote this book. You need to buy all of her books. I plan to. just bought this, can’t wait to read it IT’S SO GOOD. IT GAVE ME LIFE. ALL THREE ARE SO GOOD BUT THIS WAS MY FAVE BECAUSE OREE IS SO AMAZING. I got to ‘fantasy world with protagonists of color’ and that was all I needed to know. seriously, it’s sooooo good. It made me go out and buy fresh art supplies i maybe can’t afford just so I can start making fan art. As a white chick, I think I’ll pass but thanks. I’m so done with being told I’m evil because of my skin color.  It’s interesting how you feel that a book with white antagonists or an “evil” race that is white reflects on your skin color. I suppose the next time a sf/f fandom argument breaks out over whether having the evil races be dark-skinned in most every fantasy world ever has any effects on the real world people who read them, we can count on you to turn up and say “Well, of course it does.”? I might have to check this out.

alexandraerin:

underthestarssofaraway:

girljanitor:

sourcedumal:

girljanitor:

mylesbiansensesaretinglingagain:

girljanitor:

Okay, so I had planned to write a big long review of this book, but you know what? It’s too fucking good.

You need to buy this book.

It is a fantasy novel. It is the best fantasy novel. It is in a fantasy universe populated with protagonists of color, and evil white people. There are a few good white people, but mostly evil white people who have wayyyy too much power and are evil.

You need to buy this book if only for the scene where the disabled Black woman protagonist picks up a bottle of white people shampoo, sniffs it, and just rolls her eyes and thinks, are they expecting me to use this astringent shit on my beautiful Maroneh(Black) woman hair?

It in particular is actually the second book in the series, but I accidentally read it out of order the first time (and have since read the other) and it didn’t particularly suffer from being read out of order.

You need to buy this book.

There is also a bit of sexy sex. The exact right amount of sexy sex.

I cannot tell you how much I fell in love with this book. All three, but in particular this one was my favorite.

There is also a significant amount of queer sex in the trilogy. QUEER PEOPLE OF COLOR.

This is N. K. Jemisin. She wrote this book.

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You need to buy all of her books.

I plan to.

just bought this, can’t wait to read it

IT’S SO GOOD. IT GAVE ME LIFE. ALL THREE ARE SO GOOD BUT THIS WAS MY FAVE BECAUSE OREE IS SO AMAZING.

I got to ‘fantasy world with protagonists of color’ and that was all I needed to know.

seriously, it’s sooooo good. It made me go out and buy fresh art supplies i maybe can’t afford just so I can start making fan art.

As a white chick, I think I’ll pass but thanks. I’m so done with being told I’m evil because of my skin color. 

It’s interesting how you feel that a book with white antagonists or an “evil” race that is white reflects on your skin color. I suppose the next time a sf/f fandom argument breaks out over whether having the evil races be dark-skinned in most every fantasy world ever has any effects on the real world people who read them, we can count on you to turn up and say “Well, of course it does.”?

I might have to check this out.

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Posted 7 months ago
thartist72: Noooo! Lol classic Zoom

thartist72:

Noooo!

Lol classic

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Posted 7 months ago

Racism 101: Are you a Racist?: blackmanonthemoon: Why it is hard for me fully accept that Obama was...

blackmanonthemoon:

Why it is hard for me fully accept that Obama was being so polite to avoid the “black man stereotype” is that it is a belief that he changed his debate style to cater to an ignorant public that believes that stereotype. Barack Obama is one of the greatest speakers this…

So very true

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Posted 8 months ago

The Wyrd: About "Honey Boo Boo"

brashblacknonbeliever:

I can’t stand her and I hate that damn show. Why? Because she’s doing nothing but appropriating AAVE and making mockery of black folks in the process. She’s taking a part of black culture and making it into a costume for white folks to slip in and out of when they see…

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Posted 8 months ago

blackexce11ence:

What were you saying about what we DON’T DO again???

Lol love

(Source: racismschool)

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Posted 9 months ago

Blackness
is a title,
is a preoccupation,
is a commitment Blacks
are to comprehend—
and in which you are
to perceive your Glory.

The conscious shout
of all that is white is
“It’s Great to be white.”
The conscious shout
of the slack in Black is
‘It’s Great to be white.’
Thus all that is white
has white strength and yours.

The word Black
has geographic power,
pulls everybody in:
Blacks here—
Blacks there—
Blacks wherever they may be.
And remember, you Blacks, what they told you—
remember your Education:
“one Drop—one Drop
maketh a brand new Black.”
Oh mighty Drop.
______And because they have given us kindly
so many more of our people

Blackness
stretches over the land.
Blackness—
the Black of it,
the rust-red of it,
the milk and cream of it,
the tan and yellow-tan of it,
the deep-brown middle-brown high-brown of it,
the “olive” and ochre of it—
Blackness
marches on.

The huge, the pungent object of our prime out-ride
is to Comprehend,
to salute and to Love the fact that we are Black,
which is our “ultimate Reality,”
which is the lone ground
from which our meaningful metamorphosis,
from which our prosperous staccato,
group or individual, can rise.

Self-shriveled Blacks.
Begin with gaunt and marvelous concession:
YOU are our costume and our fundamental bone.

All of you—
you COLORED ones,
you NEGRO ones,
those of you who proudly cry
“I’m half INDian”—
those of you who proudly screech
“I’VE got the blood of George WASHington in MY veins”
ALL of you—
you proper Blacks,
you half-Blacks,
you wish-I-weren’t Blacks,
Niggeroes and Niggerenes.


You.

gwendolyn brooks, primer for blacks. (via black-poetry)
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Posted 9 months ago

abarero:

Five 2012 Olympic Ladies You Should Know About:

  •  Olympic Weightlifter Zoe Smith Shuts Down Sexist Tweets About Female Athletes’ ‘Manly’ Bodies [x]

We, as any women with an ounce of self-confidence would, prefer our men to be confident enough in themselves to not feel emasculated by the fact that we aren’t weak and feeble.    

                                                     

  • Afghani female sprinter, Tahmina Kohistani, resists country’s old ideals, vows to show women new future [x]

My feeling is different because I’m going to do something for my country. I like to change the society, to change the mind of people about [women] and they should accept this. We are not wrong. We are right.


  • After years of keeping her sport a secret from her parents, Sarah Menezes wins judo gold for Brazil. [x]

In the beginning, they used to say judo was not a girl’s sport. Then, they would complain that being an athlete was a not a proper career. I would go to my training sessions anyway, sometimes saying I had to stay longer at school, sometimes asking the neighbour to take me secretly.


  • When Nur Suryani Mohamed Taibi makes her Olympic debut in the 10- metre air rifle event, she will be the first woman to represent Malaysia in Olympic shooting and eight months pregnant. [x]

Every morning I talk to her and I say: ‘Mummy is going for training. Please remain calm. Don’t kick.’ But if the baby kicks I have to breathe easy and let her calm down before shooting.


  • Less than a month away from the London Games, U.S. women’s soccer standout Megan Rapinoe says publicly for the first time that she is gay. [x]

To be honest I’ve been thinking about it for a while, trying to find a time that works, now leading up to the Olympics, people want to get personal stories. Our team in general is in a position where people look up to us and kids look up to us. I embrace that and I think I have a huge LGBT following. I think it’s pretty cool, the opportunity that I have, especially in sports. There’s really not that many out athletes. It’s important to be out and to live my life that way.

All of this women are Courageous as hell!!

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Posted 9 months ago
mytongueisforked: Tara FTW.  Damn can I use this at work without being fired?

mytongueisforked:

Tara FTW. 

Damn can I use this at work without being fired?

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kyssthis16: blackraincloud: arieswym: “I have an advantage because I’m the underdog and I’m black and no one thinks I’d ever win. Well, I’m going to inspire so many people. Everybody will be talking about, how did she come up so fast? But I’m ready to shine.” ~ Gabby Douglas TELL EM BABY!!!!! TELL EM!!!!! This young lady is fierce!! Zoom

kyssthis16:

blackraincloud:

arieswym:

“I have an advantage because I’m the underdog and I’m black and no one thinks I’d ever win. Well, I’m going to inspire so many people. Everybody will be talking about, how did she come up so fast? But I’m ready to shine.” ~ Gabby Douglas

TELL EM BABY!!!!! TELL EM!!!!!

This young lady is fierce!!

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Posted 10 months ago

Petition to get Daniel Tosh taken off the air

searchingforknowledge:

zubaeda:

femetits:

Sign and share.

get the scumbag off the air.

Oh there it is! Thanks!!!!!!

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