August 2012
Poet Needs Help
sweetwhatsername:
My friend and awesome poet Ara Harris needs some help. Recently her car was towed and it needs $1500.00 in repairs. It is her only mode of transportation. She is a single mother who needs it to get to work. She has 2 children who are relying soley on her right now.Her oldest is handicapped and this makes things more difficult. All donations are greatly appreciated.
You can...
Rough Draft: Paper Babies
I googled her because of the other poems I posted and I really like this stuff
sweetwhatsername:
My boyfriend sends me a text that says,
“When we have a daughter, can we name her Marble?”
Its not the name Marble
Or the daughter
It’s the WHEN
That pulls me record scratch stopped in the middle of a crosswalk[[MORE]]
That same week
My roommate breaks up with his girlfriend because
“there...
hernnione asked: What are your thoughts on Ella Enchanted?? I thought there were a bunch of questionable parts :S (Sorry if this has been asked before!)
Automated defense mechanisms & body image
submission
Just a short point to the “common sense” comment re: rail thin Minnie & Daisy: I have done research with M. Häfner on automated defense mechanisms in response to idealized media images (following on a 2008 paper by Häfner et al, Journal of Social & Clinical Psych.), which showed that young women automatically defended against idealized media images they recognized...
biologistkid-deactivated2012101 asked: Just as a comment to the disney/barneys: In one of the Orlando Downtown Disney stores (I'm pretty sure it's TrenD, haven't seen it since December) Minnie Mouse is painted on the walls of the girls section repeatedly as this very tall, extremely skinny figure wearing fashionable clothes. It made me really uncomfortable, but this Barneys thing looks very similar to the image the...
caniscorvidus asked: (You need more abortion posts.) I'm definitely pro-choice, but I'm not comfortable arguing for my position because I feel like it's for selfish reasons. While a pro-lifer wants to ban abortions for everyone because they believe it is MURDER (should you have the choice to murder someone or should the law restrict you?), I want the option to have an abortion because I never want to be...
oh no! How did I reblog that to the wrong blog? Gaaaahhhh
autumn-and-eve:
secondaryidentity:
maybe this sounds like not a logical question but on this secondary blog, can YOU like or reblog what I say?? I can’t tell yet but that is rather important to know…
Mhm, I can like and reblog it! Oh and also I’ve been meaning to tell you to make a personal blog for forever and now I’m so excited you have one. I’ve always hated that when you get drunk I...
ghastlii asked: Probably getting sick of me, but regarding the Barneys/Disney Collabo, I mean, yeah, the models are rail thin. But that's just it. They're literally RAIL thin. It's more abstract art than serious fashion and the target clientele probably has enough common sense to know that no human being looks anything like this. I just don't think it's worth the energy to get so worked...
new personal blog →
just fyi it is nothing too exciting, no deep dark secrets or pictures of me, mostly just stuff that doesn’t really apply to this blog- photographs of traveling (mostly in Germany obviously, but other places too) and thoughts, worries, poetry about dead animals, etc. Follow if you like but I certainly won’t be offended if you don’t!
karnythia:
Children of color are old to face racism when they’re born. Old enough to bear the weight of stereotypes & hate before their little eyes can focus. But somehow white kids are supposed to be too delicate & too shielded to even know race exists because somehow that might hurt them. When your definition of innocent child doesn’t include my babies? I know what you’re on & I...
'10 Honest Thoughts On Being Loved By A Skinny...
sweetdeltablues:
10 HONEST THOUGHTS ON BEING LOVED BY A SKINNY BOY
Rachel Wiley
1. I say, ‘I am fat.’ He says ‘No, you are beautiful.’ I wonder why I cannot be both. He kisses me hard.
2. My college theater professor once told me that despite my talent, I would never be cast as a romantic lead.[[MORE]] We do plays that involve singing animals and children with the ability to fly, but...
mnemehoshiko asked: This is referring to your Princess and the Frog review. You mentioned in your critique that you believe that part of the reason that Tiana was a frog for most of the movie was that it would less threatening to little boys? I feel it was more along the lines that keeping her as a frog for most of the movie helped audience from identifying Tiana as a black woman. Maybe I'm wrong, but it's...
xxkaleidoscopic asked: Regarding the Barney's and Disney collaboration - I originally heard about it on Lovelyish, and the commenters (and I assume many others) seemed to believe that it wasn't a big deal, because they're animated animals, and therefore not representative of the unrealistic thin ideal. If that's the case, why not stylize them as beautiful, plus-sized women/animals? That artistic...
carminerainbow asked: Did you hear about the department store Barneys and Disney's collaboration, making Minnie Mouse and other Disney cartoon icons into tall 5' 11" stick thin models (because their original figures couldn't handle wearing the clothes, so they altered their forms)? I will say, the article I'm reading about it definitely does not praise the illustrations at all.
aint-over-till-a-fatboy-swims:
Me and nobody sitting in a tree
B-L-O-G-G-I-N-G
The Road to El Dorado: the streets are paved with...
mynamestouya:
renamok:
jhenne-bean:
feministdisney:
*~ 1.5/4 Stars (see bottom for breakdown)
The Road to El Dorado… where do I even begin? I thought this would be a quicky review, and once I started watching realized it would, instead, probably take hours to write up because there is so much going on. So okay, let’s start with the easier stuff: representation of women.
There are...
wolfknifeandthecursedcrowbars asked: Is there a legitimate reason for someone to use the phrase "judeo-christian" over "abrahamism" when referring to Judaism/Christianity/Islam? I just feel like using "judeo-christian" needlessly demotes/others Islam (if that makes sense) but I might just be overly sensitive.
Anonymous asked: Hi! I was wondering if it's alright if I can quote the text you wrote in post/9710548036, the one with the image depicting two women - one wearing a bikini, the other wearing a niqab - and they both think about how the other must be oppressed by the male dominant culture? I'm about to comment in a thread where the OP of the thread talked about how zie finds burqa's morally...
Anonymous asked: What do you think about the things lost in translation with Spirited Away? tinyurl(.)com/9tu7x2c (link talks about the examples in depth) For example: the bath house being a brothel and No-Face offering Chihiro money for her "services".
“My roommate had a single story of Africa. A single story of catastrophe. In this...”
– Chimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single story
(via newwavefeminism)
Ya Rabb… wallahi, I LOVE THIS VIDEO so much (I’ve watched this video three times… NOTE: It has English subtitles as well as subtitles in other languages) …This is an extremely important video to watch, a MUST-SEE for all...
I just said ‘I don’t want to go to schoool” in my head, and then remembered it is now real life and I have to work instead
I WANT TO GO TO SCHOOL where I can sit at a desk and drink coffee and half tune in ;_;
revcleo asked: re: gypsy. That tends to be the more politically collect way to refer to people in the UK, we don't say it any other way unless it's travellers or slurs (such as gyppo and pikey)
void-where-prohibited asked: I think the problem comes from assuming anything about anyone. Assuming a Romani or Irish Traveler wants to be called a gypsy, or assuming someone's gender; it's always better to err on the side of caution. On one-on-one situations, it's better to ask. If not, like, for example, if you're writing a post on tumblr, use the term that would be least offensive. It's not really...
boku-no-poltergeist asked: I'm part roma, and didn't know until recently that the word gypsy was an insult - I would always say I was 'part gypsy', as would my dad and grandparents. because I saw it used so casually when I was growing up, even in media aimed at childred, I assumed it was the correct term. i didnt find out the origins of the word until I saw it on tumblr.
I’m turning off anon for now because I have a bunch of questions I dont want to publish because they’re so easily “has this been asked before” or not really logical for the general audience but when people send them anon I don’t have any other choice. Also anon is just 99% of the time a screen for people who don’t want to actually answer for their replies even...
Anonymous asked: The people that typically get angry over being called Rroma are usually non-Rroma that also got grouped in with the "gypsy" slur category such as Irish Travelers and other similar groups.
Anonymous asked: Um no. Gypsy is not a slur. There are Gypsies who are angry about being called Roma instead of Gypsies. As me and father do. I know, trust me. Don't speak if you have no idea aside from tumblr blogs.
Anonymous asked: This is the anti-slavery-Lincoln anon. I can't link in an ask (I have no tumblr.), but the documentation is actually in Lincoln's personal diary. For a brief discussion, see Andrew Delbanco's /The Death of Satan/ (which is a book I actually don't like, but he talks about it). This is actually a really complex issue because Lincoln was never an abolitionist as such. That is, he...
cold-november-air asked: This blog is purely amazing. Cheers.
Anonymous asked: Going off the last ask (I saw) what are some great trans* blogs for a cis person to educate themselves with? I mean, I follow people of the trans* community already but they are more personal blogs so I don't want to barge in and start asking them questions.
Anonymous asked: RE: Lincoln. Though I agree that beatifying Lincoln is not a useful exercise and I understand the EP as largely a political tool to appeal to slaves of the Confederacy, etc., it is important to note the extensive documentation of Lincoln's personal pro-abolitionist politics. He did not act on those personal politics for a variety of reasons (with which one may or may not agree), but he did...
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What Do Guys Want? If Feminism Ran the Magazine...
Everyone has probably seen the “What guys want” lists that show up month after month, year after year, in women’s magazines- from those aimed at preteens to more adult issues of Cosmo, magazines love to remind us that our bodies are a constant performance and we should always want to know what men think about ourselves and our decisions. If it’s not what they think about how we dress, it’s our...
lioness-the-herbivore said: Make a nickname. :3 or you could go the way of the blogger in charge of STFU Parents, who is called “B.”
haha I like on here when people call me FD, it appeals to me as a moniker. But I mean in real life, like say my name was Penelope Lichtenstein, I third person it in my head a lot like, Exccuuse me but no sir, Penelope Lichtenstein is NOT the type of girl to...
adenydd asked: RE: historical republicans. Republicanism in the 19th century (when Lincoln was president) is completely different than the current US Republican Party. Republicans in the 19th century supported universal suffrage and a constitutional republic, and rejected the idea of an inherited aristocracy. This culminated in the revolutionary wave of 1848. In retrospect, they would probably be considered...
maliciousmisanthropy-deactivate asked: Lincoln didn't free anyone. I *just* wrote a post about it.
someone used my name in a comment on here and I panicked hardcore before I recognized them from real life, like, “Oh god, did I refer to myself by name on a post here by accident?!”
I really need to stop referring to myself in the third person all the time, because one day I am so going to slip up on here
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