Today’s achievements: got a job, got an apartment. Not bad considering it’s only 2PM.
“they were throwing rocks at the police!” oh no that’s so sad i hope the police at least had full tactical armour and riot shields and lethal weapons to protect themselves. from the rocks. being thrown by high schoolers.
Everybody who is criticizing the “rioting” that is happening in Baltimore and other parts of the country. You tell me. How peaceful will you be when it’s your family? Were the police being peaceful? Why are you not telling the police to be peaceful? What do you tell a group of people about “peaceful revolution” while their family is slaughtered by the very system they’d be negotiating with, according to you? Everything the “riot” breaks can be rebuilt or replaced. Shame on you for valuing property over lives.
here’s the thing about violence:
baltimore and many other cities have been entrenched in anti-black violence from the get go. every effort that has ever been made in richmond, philly, baltimore, durham… to build black power, black culture, black community has been met with fires, guns, bombs, murders. the black youth growing up in these cities have been trapped by the legacies of anti-black violence and slavery: an economy that does not employ black people, underemploys and then underpays, a system that ships black youth to segregated schools in segregated neighborhoods on segregated buses, a system that kneels and begs at the hands of investors and bankers and promotes gentrification in coded language, a system that humanizes and sympathizes with cops whose repeat offenses will never get them jailed.
there’s the thing about violence. you do not kill, repress, entrap a people and then complain about having rocks thrown at you when you show up in the neighborhoods you gerrymandered to tell them to quiet down.
When TERFs like Robin Morgan (who supplied Sheila Jeffreys’ Gender Hurts a glowing recommendation) threatened to disrupt the 1973 West Coast Lesbian Feminist Conference unless the conference vote to eject trans women, the conference voted to instead keep trans women. Radical Feminists like Robin Tyler were physically beaten for trying to protect trans women from TERFs. Even though the conference overwhelmingly supported the inclusion of trans women, trans women left so that the conference wouldn’t be destroyed by TERFs. When TERFs threatened to boycott the iconic women’s music collective, Olivia Records unless it voted to eject trans women from the collective, Olivia instead voted to keep trans women. However, after the collective began receiving death threats, trans women left to prevent potential physical assaults and the threatened destruction of the entire collective by TERFs. Ironically, both of these cases are cited by TERFs as evidence of an inherent male-essenced trans aggression.
— this article by Cristan Williams
man her boyfriend is WHIPPED!!!!!! like she expects him to treat her with total respect & everything !!!! crazy
Guys there is a huge lack of resources, especially food, for the survivors. I was just watching the news and a fight broke out between people due to lack of food and some bastard on top of that was assaulting women. Also it is raining profusely and people are hiding out beneath flimsy make shift tents.
My cousin lives in Nepal and she’s stuck there, all the roads are blocked and there is no way to bring her home. Please please donate to Nepal. If you aren’t in the position to donate, then encourage others to do so and if u’re a believer then please pray for them or sth.
I live around 300 km away from Nepal and the quake here was so fucking strong we’re still shaken and terrified I can’t even begin to imagine how strong even the aftershocks there are. Today morning we experienced a tremor of 6.9 richter and a couple of hours ago there was one of 5.2 richter. Definitely more are to come which will deteriorate the situation. Please help us
please put less pressure on gay people to ‘come out’ and more pressure on straight people to stop assuming everyone’s sexuality is fucking straight
so Kevin’s classes in New York apparently start August 3
which actually means I only have slightly over three months before he moves across the country
WHAT THE FUCK
gonna make our time before then count