ride4thefuture:

Team Photo!

these are some super rad people doing some really important work! 

https://www.facebook.com/RideForTheFuture

http://rideforthefuture.org/

kittiesinqueerland:

say hi to scrappy, one of my new roommates

LOOK AT DIS. JUST LOOK. IT’S LOVE

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ricefieldsfreezing:

With all this ‘white feminist playing and making art with their period blood’ on my dashboard, I did some research and came across this South African artist who uses hers own menstrual blood to address the queerphobia and violence she has experienced with being a South African lesbian, Zanele Muholi. 

Through her use of menstrual blood in her show Isilumo siyaluma (Period Pains, 2006-2011) in Cape Town, Muholi sought to tell the story of black lesbians in South Africa and represent “curative rape.”  She wrote of the project in a press release for the exhibit:

 Isilumo siyaluma is a Zulu expression that can be loosely translated as “period pains/ periods pain”. Additionally, there is an added meaning in the translation that there is something secretive in and about this blood/“period in time.”

At one level, my project deals with my own menstrual blood, with that secretive, feminine time of the month that has been reduced within Western patriarchal culture as dirty.

On a deeper level then, my menstrual blood is used as a vehicle and medium to begin to express and bridge the pain and loss I feel as I hear and become witness to the pain of ‘curative rapes’ that many of the girls and women in my black lesbian community bleed from their vaginas and their minds.

Between March – May 2011, three (3) young black lesbians under the age of 25 were brutally murdered in various townships [….] As we continue to live and survive in troubled times as black lesbians in South Africa and within the continent, where rampant hate crimes and brutal killings of same gender loving women is rife, this ongoing project is an activist/artist’s radical response to that violence.

Read more.

(via historicalslut)

“The Love Competition” 

Because “Love is a feeling you have for someone you have feelings about.”

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youarenotyou:

this is probably the #1 issue i have with other anarchists and “radicals” in general, and it’s almost always coming from white dudes who are relatively class-stable* (meaning they have families to fall back on if things become difficult, no children, no health care needs, and they basically choose to live in poverty and can do so comfortably). 

and it’s bullshit. it’s not even true. 

like i get that voting is not going to bring about any systemic changes and that we are “voting for the lesser evil” and all that shit. i myself was opposed to voting until fairly recently when i wisened up. but i simply cannot support the viewpoint that we should vote for the worst candidate with the hopes that the entire system will fall apart. i find that logic to be completely asinine. similarly, abstaining from voting because one believes the candidates are too similar to matter is an incredibly privileged decision.

because while the left and right wing in the US are both corporately controlled, pro capitalist, pro privatization, etc. the fact remains that, if the GOP was in power, a lot more people would literally die due to being denied resources. you cannot convince someone at the bottom of the social hierarchy that there are no differences between the parties. they are the groups that are MOST affected by the differences that anarchists either deny the existence of entirely, or consider to be too small to matter. i’m talking about the extremely poor, mostly consisting of POC, people with disabilities, & trans people.

too many people think these populations are disposable and are ‘necessary sacrifices’ which is just disgusting and i want no part in any movement that encourages such thinking. 

*(and yes i know that quote is usually attributed to emma goldman, but that’s irrelevant.)

(via kittiesinqueerland)

lettherebecramp:

if your feminism does not actively advocate for and with women of color, your feminism is shit

if your feminism does not actively advocate for and with trans* women, your feminism is shit

if your feminism does not actively advocate for and with disabled women, your feminism is shit

if your feminism does not actively advocate for and with financially disadvantaged women, your feminism is shit

no exceptions

no questions asked

there will be no revolution for women if you willingly ignore and scorn your sisters in favor of a “feminism” that is more palatable to your privilege　

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oncewild:

anartea:

this reminds me of a certain vlogbrothers video

This is why our front yard looks desolate in the winter and full of life in the summer.

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