February 2012
black woman spy.. →
Bowser is one of many African-American female spies who worked for the Union during the Civil War, yet her works are hardly known to us today. The U.S. government honored Bowser for her work in the Civil War with an induction into the Military Intelligence Corps Hall of Fame in Fort Huachuca, Arizona.
The AfroFuturist Affair: AfroFuturism: A... →
afrofuturistaffair:
GriotWorks, Misty Sol, Sanctuary Wholistic Arts, and The AfroFuturist Affair Present:
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Domestic workers in Haiti.. the fucked up things...
TW ( sexual assault)
the horrors i have see and heard. this country is going to need a labor movement.. it’s goign to need a fucking revolution .. for women to get what the need and deserve.. I’m from a upperclass background and the horros i have witness in those circles.. the way women treat other women .. i’m wathching the analysis of the movie the Help and Those white...
the dopest ethiopienne: today in class i... →
arewomenhuman:
TW gendered racism, sexual violence.
latinosexuality:
and some young men of color in my class wanted to challenge the idea that women dont get paid the same as men (b/c they dont go into the same field). when i shared that men who go into fields stereotypically assigned…
bless your patience.. bless it be .. I just imagine myself with a machete hacking at people...
Watchnewwavefeminism:
Melissa Harris-Perry: The Help Doesn’t Help Domestic Workers
B SAMA: Reasons abound to be turned off by the New... →
b-sama:
Reasons abound to be turned off by the New York Times columnist, Nicholas Kristof. He is too pleased with himself and demonstrates no capacity for self-reflection. He is too earnest. He claims to be in the vanguard of journalism because he tweets. He is said to be Doing Something about human…
“In August of 1990 I found myself laying on my stomach in the woods with a pair...”
– Kathleen Hanna, Our Hit Parade (via grrrlstudies)
Ten women arrested in Cameroon for being lesbian →
Fangs For The Fantasy: Face Off: Musty Vampire... →
fangsforthefantasy:
This week we were going to use a Face Off to decide who is the Mustiest Vampire of them all. You know, the vampire who is so sad and tortured by his need to drink blood, who just wants to be human and normal and fluffy and find the love of a good woman to settle him down. But, alas, it never works…
“Because it’s going to be hard. That’s the thing: it’s always going to be hard....”
– from Sady Doyle’s essay “Ellen Ripley Saved My Life” (via thewayoftheid)
“Sandy” had a common experience: She is a 35 year-old transgender woman from...”
– Human Trafficking of Immigrant Transgender Women: Hidden in the Shadows (via thetart)
Watchsexismandthecity:
An organization uses yoga to help rape survivors in Rwanda heal and grow stronger.
Since 2007, in collaboration with the medical NGO WE-ACTx, Project Air has reached up to 4,000 HIV+ women and children in eight locations in Rwanda
“Some of Hollywood’s goals are to reinforce white supremacy, patriarchy,...”
– (via afrolez)
Africa’s Singapore? →
Libyan Militias Face Accusations of Ongoing War... →
dynamicafrica:
As Libyans prepare to mark the one-year anniversary of the Western-backed uprising that ultimately toppled the regime of despot Muammar Gadhafi, human-rights monitors say hundreds of “out of control” militia groups are still engaged in mass savagery — raping and torturing people to death in makeshift prison camps, ethnically cleansing parts of the country, and more.
The most...
Vaginal/Clitoral Orgasm Guide →
needed to be said.. because again like I said... →
this is coming from a perspective of a balck women living in a third world country.. because i never understood why they got mad at Alice and Nozhange for telling the truth about black women about our oppressors. I know that African American women must deal with the white oppressor , but the fact that people are mad at them for telling the truth the other oppressors looks like us.. yes .....
Blackamazon is too much: karnythia: baddominicana:... →
karnythia:
baddominicana:
and this burns me up especially, coz this is something i rarely talk about,
but the guy i was dating, who raped me, (he was 23, i was 16) got me drunk first. :/
and even in the haze i still said no at least a hundred times.
and even then it was still a game…
sending an ocean of love your way.. my dream is one day one day it will stop we will be valued...
Young Goddesses Whom Walk on Water: The Black Male... →
daughterofzami:
“Embracing patriarchal notions of manhood, black males thought of sex as informed first and foremost by male desire.In his essay “Patriarchal Sex” Robert Jensen explains: “Sex is fucking. In patriarchy, there is an imperative to fuck—in rape and in ‘normal’ sex, with strangers and girlfriends and…
Precarious Me: Black and Proud in the US →
novice86er:
Through the ages they told us that we were inferior due to our subtle differences. They enslaved us and treated us like subhumans. After we were liberated, they segregated us and withheld precious knowledge from us (and we still face the consequences of segregation to this day). When some of us…
novice86er:
What’s the point in going on when all you do ends badly? I’m so sick of it all. Failed dreams and hopes washed away in one night. And all over ignorance. I don’t know about much anymore. I can’t trust.