Etiquette, etc.

2010-08-09T01:57:00.002-07:00

hello folks,

i've given in to the tumblarity. see you there?

2010-08-07T15:30:00.002-07:00

sunny feeds

THEESatisfaction

2010-08-07T15:26:00.001-07:00

... to which he answered, "no, i'm that chick from the ellen degeneres show.'

from the gang's all queer

2010-08-07T15:11:00.003-07:00

HEYOOOOOO (even though i'm a couple days late in posting this)

except the video's kinda concerning. ie,

"YEAH. I THINK WE ARE AT A CRITICAL FULCRUM IN THE DEBATE, WHERE PUBLIC OPINION IS GRADUALLY CHANGING. I WISH IT WOULD HAPPEN A LITTLE FASTER, BUT WE ARE THERE ON A 50/50 LEVEL. AND I THINK OVER TIME AS OLDER PEOPLE DIE OFF, AND YOUNGER PEOPLE TAKE HOLD WITH THEIR ATTITUDES OF TOLERANCE FOR HOMOSEXUALS IN SOCIETY, I THINK IT WILL CHANGE AND BE DONE IN A MATTER OF TIME."

HOWEVER

from my girlfriend is a homo

2010-08-07T15:01:00.002-07:00

smote by the higher forces

it has rained without lull for hours and hours on the only day i needed sunshine.

2010-08-06T15:55:00.001-07:00

"I have this weird thing that if I sleep with someone they're going to take my creativity from me through my vagina."

- lady gaga

2010-08-05T13:26:00.004-07:00

the rose unfolds her yawning arms

that would outstretch in early mornings

we sit wrapped up in a mountain of sheets

with peaks of skin that rest in her bedroom's filtered light

almost a while ago, you said you'd never listen

now, look at you two lying face to face in a corner of her room

her wood-panelled walls are lined with thinly gold-plated frames remembering

her when she had her brothers and sisters to rest on

she holds you close pressing her forehead against yours

emptinesses are never empty and, this close,

you can see the multiple spokes that connect her centre to her perimeters

which spin and spin and bite at ankles

this close, you can feel community in breath

as you understand and counsel

one another's lips and eye lids

i was disfigured, by the looks of it, but

now i've become part of her shape

viewing her fallen hair in all landscapes

but now her words grow anemic

where has that blush gone that

always revealed itself past the darkness

- m. a. allen

2010-08-05T11:37:00.001-07:00

i like sober eminem

hypothetically

2010-08-05T10:22:00.004-07:00

Today, we join members of the LGBTQ community in applauding Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker’s decision to declare Proposition 8 unconstitutional. This declaration is a victory against state regulation of our bodies and relationships and a step further towards building a culture where everyone’s lives are deeply valued.

In the weeks and months to come, we have a tremendous opportunity to build on this victory to challenge the many other ways in which the state continues to violently regulate the bodies and relationships of so many in our communities, both LGBTQ and non-LGBTQ. On July 29, communities around the U.S. and beyond came together to refuse to comply with Arizona’s racist SB1070 and the broader set of local, state, and federal policies and laws unfolding throughout the country to criminalize and separate immigrant communities and families, such as the dangerous 287g and Secure Communities (S-Comm). These policies and laws increase ICE-police collaboration and create a culture of fear and scapegoating that leaves those of us most vulnerable more at risk than ever for arrest, detention, and deportation.

CUAV was proud to stand with our allies in the San Francisco Immigrant Rights Defense Committee to tell Attorney General Jerry Brown that California is no place for racism, and demand that he allow San Francisco to opt-out of S-Comm. LGBTQ people are sending a clear message that we will not comply with violence of any kind, anywhere.

In our celebration of Judge Walker’s decision to combat institutionalized discrimination, we recognize that this victory is the tip of the iceberg in addressing many forms of state violence that LGBTQ people face. When our communities come together and refuse to leave anyone behind, we can win big victories. We call on the LGBTQ movement to come out against all forms of state violence, and join with immigrant communities and communities of color in our ongoing quest for true justice and safety.

***

To find out more about national immigrant rights organizing or to get involved, visit the National Day Laborer Organizing Network.

Founded in 1979, Community United Against Violence (CUAV) works to build the power of LGBTQ communities to create safety. If you or someone you know is experiencing violence, you are not alone. Call (415) 333-HELP or come in during walk-in hours, Fridays 11am-5pm.

from Facebook | CUAV: CUAV Responds to Prop 8 Ruling via Curate

2010-08-05T10:19:00.001-07:00

sunny feeds

2010-08-05T10:13:00.002-07:00

the way bodies move genuinely to beats is, after all, gorgeous and affecting.

2010-08-05T00:09:00.002-07:00

black lesbians matter

Black Lesbian Matters,” report is a quantitative study on the Black lesbian community. The creation of this report was a year long process of developing the survey, conducting focus groups, and finally writing the report. This report, “Black Lesbians Matter,” is an examination of the unique experiences, perspectives, and priorities for the Black Lesbian Community, and has been our most rewarding accomplishment as of yet. The report focuses on five key priorities: Aging, Health, Identity, Family, and Invisibility.

from Zuna Institute

2010-08-04T16:53:00.006-07:00

being on the same wavelength is the stuff that dreams are made of.
thanks shants

With that said, I have begun to realize that there are several key aspects present in having these relationships (friendships and otherwise) come to fruition:

1. Intentionality (being open and honest about who you are, what you want and where you’re coming from).

2. Responsibility (owning your shit, no matter how difficult).

3. Accountability (checking your shit. this includes sites of privilege and power that you may possess as per your social location).

4. Communication (being able to articulate to your community about numbers 1 through 3 in an open and respectful manner).
5. Trust (understanding that trust is something that is built and earned over time and is indicative of investment in one another. bell hooks says that “trust is the heartbeat of genuine love” and I believe trust is absolutely essential in the formation of a healthy community).

more at you can have it all

2010-08-04T13:47:00.001-07:00

FONT GAME. goodbye bananagrams.

2010-08-03T18:45:00.003-07:00

my imagined superhero power would look something like this:

cyclops sunglasses - uv protected
nipple pew pew
straight up, just red tights
aerodynamic bike features

from scissorkiss culture

2010-08-03T18:17:00.002-07:00

maggot found in teenage boy's eye - boy must now wear glasses

2010-08-03T16:05:00.002-07:00

promotheus brown does tumblr: brownouts

2010-08-03T15:55:00.004-07:00

let's play "clues that tell you kristen stewart is a big homowner"

clue one: pseudo rolled up t-shirt

clue two: tied up hair in baseball cap

clue three: awkward posture and lanky frame with slightly uncomfortable smurk

clue four: THERE'S A RAINBOW TOWEL IN THE BACKGROUND.

clue four, you are the straw that broke the camel's back.

2010-08-02T23:17:00.002-07:00

k last video about type: watch michael winslow takes the role of scribe to act out the evolution of typewriters. he is so real.

History of the typewriter recited by Michael Winslow from SansGil—Gil Cocker on Vimeo.

2010-08-02T23:12:00.003-07:00

a completely unabridged play-by-play of how magazine layouts for esquire are created. whoever enjoys this as much as i do should probably contact me asap so i can ask you to marry me in some old fashion way already.

2010-08-02T23:00:00.001-07:00

let us all cry in unison as we watch hermann zapf freehand his self-titled typeface.

The Art of Hermann Zapf from Johnny Dib on Vimeo.

2010-08-02T22:52:00.005-07:00

good weekend, guys.

happy moments in life include vancouver pride 2010 with friends and stragglers that join the group because you realize there's a common bond of liking girls involved and no matter how awkward things might get at the end of the night, it doesn't matter because you realize that everyone is as high as a kite and your friend just lost her tshirt while hanging off a cage enclosing five people wearing lacy bras and skinny jeans. long armpit hair as a form of resistance and sexy eyes, DTP and awkward older lesbian after parties and then you call it a night. at the end of the day, when you come home and your pack is still pristine in numbers, you sigh a little sigh and grate your teeth one last time before falling into slumber as you listen to your friends try to inflate the web of hook-ups.

beautiful.

2010-08-02T22:50:00.000-07:00

yaaaAAayyyy

THE ABC 2009 // KLUB7 from KID CASH // KLUB7 on Vimeo.

2010-08-02T22:26:00.002-07:00

creepy but nice. in that way you understand and feel as though you share an affinity with holden caulfield at the beginning of the book, but by the end... YOU REALIZE YOU'RE ACTUALLY CRAZY. let's think of happy thoughts.

Your secret from Jean-Sebastien Monzani on Vimeo.

2010-07-30T22:42:00.002-07:00

that's a hardass story.

"Listen: I was in St. Tropez, in the South of France. In Ibiza, Spain. I was in Monte Carlo. I was in the Ukraine, Russia, all those places, for three months. From Russia I went to Lisbon, Portgual, from Portugal I went to Amsterdam. In Amsterdam I met this drug dealer, right? And he sees that I like getting high, and he wants to be my buddy, right? This guy goes and gets me a big rock of cocaine. So pretty soon I got a party going on. I got everything: I got these rugby players. I got these naked girls, I got all these … everything’s going on in the room. Plus I also had this girl with me that I picked up in Romania. But then [the dealer he met in Amsterdam] saw how much of a mess I was. He came in and kicked everybody out of my room! All the nude people, all the people having sex. He said, “I feel so bad I ever gave him that stuff.”

- Mike Tyson, Sports Illustrated

from with leather via sports illustrated

2010-07-28T19:21:00.002-07:00

"This hybrid spirituality is a ‘‘politicizing spirituality,’’ as artist Amalia Mesa-Bains phrased it, and it emphasizes embodiment — that is, manifestation on the earthly plane in acts of goodness with respect to real bodies and in human societies, in nature, and on the globe, rather than in vague, abstract, and binary notions of goodness, God/gods, s/Spirit(s), and spirituality. What is explored, articulated, or deployed by their art is a notion of spirituality whose effects matter socially and politically."

from curate via tikkun magazine

2010-07-23T08:52:00.001-07:00

the only thing that can make me feel better (besides making out with hot girls) after watching that "i want asian girls" video.

2010-07-23T08:50:00.001-07:00

this is gross and disgusting and the answer to his question probably, "for the same reaon no one wants to have sex with you."

I Want Asians - watch more funny videos

2010-07-21T11:29:00.005-07:00

no i am not a hipster

and by stating that i am not a hipster, by no means, ironically notes me as a hipster

and i say ironically, not with a tinge of endearing style, but as in: i am not a hipster so stop using irony as a point of definition

because i do not subscribe to the colonial tactics that encourage an "independent" culture

because i see that appropriation is indeed appropriation and not using feathers as a stylistic ode to Indigenous cultures

because i see now that "independent" has now branched off to individualism and has ironically rooted itself to capitalism

(how's that for irony?)

because i see poverty as an issue, not as a fashion statement or muse with a view from the top

because i hate beards and flannel is so over (kidding, wear your and clothes however you like)

because i'd rather belong to a community rather than a scene

and whoever tells me i'm being racist, to them i shall say

firstly, hipsters do not make up a race

secondly, the hipster culture is predominantly white so if you're going to run that whole reverse racism shit on me, it's not going to work

because it's the power dynamics and history of the social majority and the social minority that create oppression

but let's expand from this victimized binary of the oppressor and the oppressed and view it more as personal agency-based

whereas i identify more as being part of a community that is inclusive and wise to race, gender, ability, class, sexualities, hybridized identities

where neither of them are exoticized nor appropriated nor invisibilized

and where style comes from beauty and where beauty comes from community - not the shit you see in lookbooks and do's and don'ts - but from families, born and chosen

so call me what you may

but remember context is everything, and i can sense that you're trying to compliment me in some strange way by saying i'm a hipster

except i just happen to be inherently stylish - all thanks to my inherently beautiful family

2010-07-18T10:00:00.000-07:00

illegal border volleyball

from curate

2010-07-17T11:02:00.000-07:00

Sunny Feeds

from sweaterves

2010-07-14T15:39:00.002-07:00

i like charice singing justin bieber. i'm thinking this might be a gateway to falling for those blond bieber bangs.

2010-07-13T01:45:00.005-07:00

y = (maggie gyllenhaal)vibrators + period piece

y = why not?

also...

how many times will you consider obsessively internet stalking maggie gyllenhaal after reading this post?

the answer: as long as it takes for your bitterness towards her being with peter sarsgaard to subside

Maggie Gyllenhaal is to star in a film about the origins of a sex toy.

The actress is reportedly in talks to take the lead role in "Hysteria", a Victorian-era drama which examines the invention of the vibrator in the 1870s.

According to Daily Mail newspaper columnist Baz Bamigboye, Rupert Everett, Hugh Dancy and Jonathan Pryce are also in negotiations to star in the film, which will be directed Tanya Wexler.

Jonah Lisa Dyer, Stephen Dyer and Howard Gensler are writing the screenplay, which is based on the mid-19th Century medical idea that some women suffered from 'hysteria', a condition which encompassed symptoms such as irritability, anger and lack of sleep.

Medics treated their patients with a manual pelvic massage, but over time a clockwork, then electric, device was created to do the job, developments which the film will explore.

The film will reportedly be shot in London and Luxembourg.

from noush via ohnotheydidnt

2010-07-11T11:47:00.002-07:00

tough, fair and practical: a human rights framework for immigration reform in the united states

2010-07-11T10:37:00.000-07:00

global migration: a world ever more on the move

2010-07-11T10:30:00.004-07:00

ms. ellene calling the ILO out on their shit

proud to say i've known and worked with amazing people

“A definitive, coherent, and comprehensive instrument is needed to clearly establish minimum standards and rights for all domestic workers as workers,” Migrants Forum Asia executive committee chair Ellene Sana said in a speech on June 3 to delegates to the ongoing 99th International Labor Conference in Geneva, Switzerland.

from the global national inquirer

2010-07-08T08:28:00.001-07:00

Sunny Feeds

Shh Shh by Frances May

2010-07-07T22:30:00.003-07:00

for people who love nature so much that they aren't afraid to cry and be confused about what it could mean

2010-07-07T11:10:00.001-07:00

happy birthday, ms. kahlo.

2010-07-07T11:05:00.001-07:00

first domestic workers' bill of rights passes (yay!)

Two different versions have been passed by the two houses of the New York state government. The Senate version is more expansive and would grant guarantees such as paid holidays, sick days, overtime pay, and the right to collective bargaining. Right now, domestic workers are not even entitled to minimum wage.
Claudia Reyes from Mujeres Unidas y Activas talked about the fight for labor rights in California. In 2006, AB 2536, which gave household workers the right to overtime and fined employers who failed to pay their employees, passed both houses in California. But Governor Schwarzenegger vetoed it.
Reyes says that what happens in New York will help domestic workers in California in 2011 and 2012. It’s historic legislation. And it proves that it’s possible.
from curate

2010-07-07T00:48:00.003-07:00

i'm comic sans, asshole.

here's to eurotrash swiss type.

enough of this bullshit. i'm going to get hammered with papyrus.

via danielle, ms. green

2010-07-06T14:43:00.003-07:00

ok, without a doubt, i can't quite keep myself from saying that i thought this was FRIGGIN AMAZING. i mean, come on, so many costume changes. and he lands on that motorcycle so effortlessly. i mean, it didn't even hurt him ... in many cases, it would have hurt others who would have dove into a hot tub in such a graceful manner. but alas, his crotch was in tact. yenno? anyway, despite all this, i can't let this visually appealing, visual smooth sailing (it was like cutting a really really soft cheese with a sharp knife), mask the fact that it was extremely heteronormative and gender profiled to the utmost.

you didn't trick me, old spice. and you never will....

2010-07-05T15:25:00.004-07:00

if the point of this trailer is to make its viewers feel uncertain about all movies having a meaning then it has succeeded. if the point of this trailer was to make a film that seemingly has absolutely no cohesion in plot, then it has once again succeeded.

but hey, joseph gordon-levitt's in it, guys!

2010-07-05T15:15:00.002-07:00

he can even make family portraits look magical.

2010-07-05T13:05:00.000-07:00

from sex is not the enemy

2010-07-05T11:55:00.003-07:00

arial vs. helvetica

helvetica : the finest cheese and charcuterie :: arial : processed mcdonalds cheese burger

2010-07-05T10:42:00.007-07:00

sunny feeds

sharon van etten :: love more

she makes me love, she makes me love more.

2010-07-05T10:33:00.000-07:00

here's how arizona may target children of immigrants

2010-07-05T09:54:00.002-07:00

far-right scores nebraska law banning immigrant renters

makes me sick to my stomach how much people don't look after one another. how can people say we're living in a post-racist world, or in canada's case, a post-colonial/colonization never happened world, when that our own neighbours are being redlined. first of all, "illegal" immigrants are not coming here for kicks. it's all part of a neoliberalist, capitalist, imperialist structure that slowly squeezes citizens and natural resources out of their own country like a tube of whitening toothpaste. second of all, no one is illegal.

love your fellow neighbours, people - whether they be in your community or not. we're all in this together.

2010-07-05T09:48:00.003-07:00

the young people building tomorrow's queer world

i feel like some of my friends should be on this, too.

2010-07-05T09:42:00.000-07:00

Squat

an anarchist birth journal

2010-07-05T00:22:00.001-07:00

Natives propose a new name for Vancouver's Stanley Park

“Most people this day and age think that is the right thing and a pretty cool thing to do.”

2010-07-04T23:52:00.001-07:00

from RaceTalk

2010-07-04T23:50:00.001-07:00

this is just a suggestion:

i wholeheartedly support the up-rise of hot queer lady sauna parties.

2010-07-04T23:46:00.002-07:00

"... this is part of what it means to move through a world in a brown body."

Privileged bodies, whose mobility is unrestricted worldwide, get to decide where capital goes, where factories are built, where coal is mined. In the wake of advanced, global capitalism, of course not everyone can move through the world freely, because if they did, what’s to stop them (us) from moving to places where wages are livable, land is unpolluted and resources are plentiful? Because at the end of the day, that’s what Western immigration laws are about: protecting access to centuries of amassed (stolen) wealth, and perpetuating a system wherein white bodies can move through the world at will, taking what they need.

from irresistable revolution

2010-07-04T09:40:00.000-07:00

thank you for looking at me the way you do

To all the beautiful, kick ass, fierce and full-bodied femmes out there, I would like to extend my thanks to you.

It is for you that I press my shirts and carefully iron my ties. It is for you that I make sure my underwear and socks match. It is to you that I tip my cowboy hat. It is for you that I polish my big black boots.

I know that sometimes you feel like nobody truly sees you. I want you to know that I see you. I see you on the street, on the bus, in the gym, in the park.

I don’t know why I can tell that you are not straight, but I can. Maybe it is the way you look at me. Please don’t stop looking at me the way you do.

All of my life I have been told that I am ugly, I am less than, I am not a man, I am unwanted. Until you came along, I believed them. Please do not ever stop looking at me the way you do.

I would never say that the world is harder on me than it is you. Sometimes you are invisible. I have no idea what this must feel like, to pass right by your people and not be recognized. To not be seen. I cannot hide, unless I am seen as something I am not. This is not more difficult, it is just different.

I know those shoes are fucking killing your feet. I want you to know how much I appreciate that you are still wearing them. You look hot. I love you in them. They look great with that dress.

If it makes you feel any better at all, the boots I have on right now weigh approximately 12 pounds apiece and they make the soles of my feet burn like diaper rash in a heat wave and it feels like I’m wearing ski boots when I have to walk up stairs. But I wear them for you.

Even still, my new boots are velvet slippers compared to your knee-high five-inch heels. I notice, and I salute you.

I promise, I am not just staring at your tits. I am trying to look you directly in the eyes, but you are almost eight inches taller than me, please see above note regarding your five-inch heels. At the same time, I would like to mention that while I was trying to look you in the eyes, I couldn’t help but notice your lovely new pendant. I am sure it really brings out the colour of your eyes, if I could see them.

I want to thank you for coming out of the closet. Again and again, over and over, for the rest of your life. At school, at work, at your kid’s daycare, at your brother’s wedding, at the doctor’s office. Thank you for sideswiping their stereotypes.

I never get the chance to come out of the closet, because my closet was always made of glass. But you do it for me. You fight homophobia in a way that I never could. Some of them think I am queer because I am undesirable. You prove to them that being queer is your desire.

Thank you for loving me because of who I am and what I look like, not in spite of who I am and what I look like.

Thank you for smelling so good.

Thank you for holding my hand on the sidewalk during the hockey playoffs. I know it is probably small-minded of me to smile wicked at all the drunken dudes in jerseys smoking outside the sports bar in between periods because you are so fucking hot, and you are with me and not them, but I can’t help it. That’s right fellas. You want her but she wants me. How do you like them apples?

Thank you for wearing matching bra and panties. I don’t know why this makes my life seem so perfect, but it really does.

Thank you for being the daughter my mother always wanted. You are so smart and successful and you dress so fine that you almost make up for her having me and my sister for her real children.

Thank you for reaching out in the dark at the movie theatre to grab my hand in the scary parts. It makes me feel like I am strong, that I can take care of you. Even if there is no such thing as vampires, and you do so much yoga that you could probably easily kick my ass.

I want you to know I love your crooked tooth, your stretch marks, the missing part of your finger, your short leg, your third nipple, your lazy eye, your cowlick, your birthmark shaped like Texas. I love it all.

I want you to know that I know it is not always easy to love me. That sometimes my chest is a field full of landmines and where you went last night you can’t go tomorrow. There is no manual, no roadmap, no helpline you can call. My body does not come with instructions, and sometimes even I don’t know what to do with it. This cannot be easy, but still, you touch me anyway.

Thank you for escorting me into the women’s washroom because the floor of the men’s was covered in something unmentionable. Thank you for asking me if I had a tampon in my purse really loud so the lady in the turquoise sweatshirt did a double take before gathering up her daughter and hitting me with a pool noodle. I can’t say for sure whether that is what actually would have happened, but thanks to you I didn’t have to find out.

Thank you for wearing that dress just because you knew it would match my shirt. Together, we are unstoppable. When seen through your eyes, I am beautiful. Turns out I was a swan the whole time

- ivan e. coyote

loose end

2010-07-03T02:30:00.000-07:00

julia schuurman, you're a fuckin' legend.

2010-07-02T16:02:00.000-07:00

2010-07-02T09:51:00.008-07:00

good days are lurking in the corner

which is good because i've already turned all my pants into cut-offs.

2010-07-01T11:18:00.007-07:00

dear canada,

do you really expect me to celebrate the red and white flag when

yesterday:

you created genocide in order to "civilize" this land - killing both people and culture
propagandized the language and storytelling of the true history of Turtle Island
created the maps that severe ties for any form of bayanihan/community

today:

you continue to occupy with little to no acknowledgment of unceded traditional Indigenous land
you fear the growth of the "minority" and mirror the anti-immigration legislation by naming "minorities" in your law but still continue to state that everyone is treated equally under the eyes of the law
you continuously go about with both your discreet and blatant systemic racism
you completely dispel any important talk about reproductive rights at the g8/g20 summit
you introduce HST today after a clear response that it is unwanted
you cut funding for pro- women's, children's, youths', POC's and Indigenous peoples' organizations
the red on the flag symbolizes the blood and tears shed from the canadian government's continuous subjugation of racialized and Indigenous peoples
the white on the flag symbolizes the dominating and unchallenged whiteness in this nation

tomorrow:

you will not even shudder when you continue to perpetuate all this

sorry canada, our histories get in the way of your celebration.

sincerely,

mel

2010-07-01T01:22:00.007-07:00

k i usually wouldn't post pictures or video of myself on my own blog... and despite the fact that this video gives little to absolutely no information on what's actually happen... BUT i must commend myself on being photogenic in this one. THAT NEVER HAPPENS.

ALSO, go here from time to time.

Also, check out those shorts. It's basically like all the folds are arrows pointing to my crotch. Last time I wear those babies when I'm doing outreach.

2010-07-01T01:16:00.003-07:00

Doctor Treating Pregnant Women With Experimental Drug To Prevent Lesbianism

"abnormal" disinterest in babies, don't want to play with girls' toys or become mothers, and whose "career preferences" are deemed too "masculine."

2010-07-01T01:13:00.002-07:00

It's been more than two months since Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed SB 1070 into law. Since then, at least 17 cities across the country have passed official boycotts of the state of Arizona, helping to galvanize a renewed national immigrants rights movement. The state is facing multiple lawsuits and the Justice Department is expected to file its own suit next week.

But then there's the simultaneous, countering trend: SB 1070 has also lifted up the most vitriolic elements of the anti-immigrant movement and as of today, politicians in 21 states are following Arizona's lead. We've found five states in which legislators have introduced laws that mirror the one in Arizona and 16 in which politicians say they plan to introduce bills.

more at colorlines

2010-06-29T12:29:00.001-07:00

from the girls not chicks colouring book

2010-06-29T12:27:00.001-07:00

from hoaxzine

2010-06-29T12:21:00.001-07:00

32 Nonprofit & Philanthropy Blogs Written by People of Color

2010-06-29T12:17:00.002-07:00

gaga as a man for Vogue Hommes Japan

from Many Bothan vis fuckyeahladygaga

2010-06-28T00:46:00.003-07:00

bursting with old love and new confidence.

when bad plumbing takes the initial cake & when people run for the valleys: worry not, the underdog will prevail.

2010-06-25T16:11:00.005-07:00

re: today

there seems to be a storytelling of beautiful tattooed women in vancouver and an ostentation of lurking creep-o men. in this situation, the beauty seems to be overthrowing the awkward glaring. also - just realized - i hope i'm not part of the creepy lurker crowd.

action: get tattoo sleeve

action: move to city that is not victoria

2010-06-24T21:16:00.005-07:00

fodder for your poeticisms

collective nouns for animals

a culture of bacteria

a singular of boar

a storytelling of crows

a memory of elephants

a mischief of mice

a watch of nightingales

an ostentation of peacocks

a murmuration of starlings

from fun with words

2010-06-24T18:14:00.004-07:00

kentucky supreme court rules fetus cannot be considered separate person

there's hope for us yet

2010-06-24T18:07:00.004-07:00

brazilian judge refuses abortion for fetus without brain

no abortion because there was no danger to the woman who'd be pregnant with a fetus with no brain... because being pregnant for nine months is what women do for kicks, right?

2010-06-24T18:02:00.002-07:00

bleeding pregnant woman arrested while in emergency room

absolutely disgusting and shameful

2010-06-24T17:57:00.003-07:00

June 24 has been declared a day of action for Indigenous resistance, for Indigenous sovereignty and to defend the land. we at SOAR echo the calls against policies of assimilation, against the criminalization of land protectors, against policies of dispossession, against the exploitative resource extraction industry which destroys Indigenous communities. we echo the call to confront the invasion, to end the occupations, and to resist.

We call on all settlers to recognize that the colonization of Indigenous lands—of Indigenous nations—continues today. Colonialism is an ongoing process and so are the genocides on which the so-called americas were founded.

We call on all settlers to recognize the myriad ways in which they are complicit in the destruction of Indigenous lands and communities. complicity comes from state collaboration with mining and forestry corporations, through over-policing and over-incarceration, through the Children’s Aid Services, through Indian Act bureaucracy, through the imposition of borders, of neoliberalism, christianity and capitalism. complicity comes from empty apologies for a century of kidnap, torture, and indoctrination—for the unforgiveable residential school system.

We call on all settlers to confront the governments and police forces whose legitimacy is allegedly rooted in our consent, thus making us complicit in their crimes. we take responsibility. police forces and government bureaucracies are part of our system, they come out of our communities—and that is where we must confront them.

We call on all settlers to dismantle the systems of colonialism and the state that enforces them.

We call on all settlers to support the struggles of Indigenous communities to protect the land, to support struggles for sovereignty. in solidarity on the land and in Indigenous communities we must take direction from the frontline communities most affected by the exploitative destruction of colonialism. when we are in our own communities, confronting our own systems, solidarity means attack.

This is all native land.

On June 24, the Indigenous day of action, we respect the calls to limit our tactics to so-called non-violent actions. we respect the tone set by frontline communities for this day, and we hope that these communities also see the value in settlers confronting the colonial system with more militant tactics on other days—we know that many individuals do.

Defend the land!

Sovereignty for Indigenous nations!

Smash the state!

We are anti-colonial.

from curate via SOAR

2010-06-24T17:53:00.003-07:00

60 Severed Heads Found on Southwest Jet

"There is an underground market for these things and we want to make sure we haven't stumbled upon some type of underground market.

YEAH! We don't want to be stumbling on underground markets here!

from ish via ktla

2010-06-24T00:32:00.002-07:00

it's just not the same
SECOND HAND: Alexander McQueen, which recently named Sarah Burton creative director in the wake of the founding designer’s death, also has tapped another key talent, WWD has learned.Pina Ferlisi — who has been creative director of Generra and held senior design posts at Coach, Gap and Marc by Marc Jacobs — has been named creative director of McQ, the licensed secondary line for which the Gucci Group-owned house has big plans. It is understood Ferlisi will work under the creative leadership of Burton.

from wwd fashion

2010-06-23T17:05:00.002-07:00

i wish for more visibility.

Two Moms Fight to Stay Together from Breakthrough on Vimeo.

2010-06-23T12:16:00.001-07:00

Sunny Feeds

2010-06-23T08:35:00.002-07:00

the female gaze

erotic short film competition

(fundraising opportunity... hey-o)

2010-06-23T08:29:00.001-07:00

from radioactivesunrise

2010-06-23T08:14:00.000-07:00

a play by play of how work is going to go down today:

Palance - JW and Blaze from ForceFed Blog on Vimeo.

2010-06-22T21:49:00.002-07:00

after updating myself on the g8/g20 and then once again finding a litany of facts leading up to the idea that canada's govt sucks, i find it not surprising to see that this is all i want to post today:

(i want)

from kevin via cache.gawkerassets

2010-06-22T19:07:00.001-07:00

Sunny Feeds

2010-06-22T17:58:00.005-07:00

june 22nd is an ode to summer dresses and half priced wine

and getting over old lovers and realizing that there's a hot lady that works at that asian street food restaurant - HEYOO.

good afternoon, summer.

2010-06-22T17:37:00.007-07:00

ladies and gentlepeople, we have a winner...

two separate grilled cheese sandwiches sandwiching a beef burger HEY-O. my thighs are screaming nooooOOooo. almost as good as the chicken bun chicken burger (three times as good, in fact).

2010-06-20T12:04:00.002-07:00

butler refuses pride award and speaks to racism in queer communities

2010-06-16T00:09:00.002-07:00

shit gets real on oprah

don't worry, faith's lived experiences have been documented in her autobiography as well as an additional anthology re: the same deal.

2010-06-15T22:05:00.003-07:00

stuff lesbians like part 28: straight girls

This is not to say that no straight girl can be convinced to take a walk on the other side of the fence. However a general rule of thumb is that affairs with straight girls do not end well. Having an affair with a straight girl ends in one of three ways:
Everything is going splendidly. You believe that you and she are soulmates. You’re like Ellen and Portia! Rosie and Kelly! Timmy and Lassie! Cheech and Chong! Then one day she announces, “Hey, my boyfriend and I got back together! Isn’t that great?” You say, “Wait! What about me? What about us!” She laughs and says, “Huh? Silly, I’m not gay! But that was fun!” thereby crushing your soul.
You come to your senses before #1 happens and break it off. This makes her angry and stalkerish. How dare you cut short her experimental stage before it was completed! You bitch! She keeps calling and hanging up. You call her and tell her to seek a therapist. She then has an epiphany and believes that if she says the following, she will somehow win you back: “You were a huge mistake! I’m going back to my boyfriend!” You say, “Good! Problem solved!” In retaliation, she makes a point to make out with her boyfriend in front of you, but she also leaves weird love letters in your email inbox under a fake name. She continues to stalk you on e-mail/IM/Facebook until you threaten to send your entourage, your friends Vinnie and Tony from Jersey, and/or the cops after her.
She realizes that she is gay, that you’re the one, and she rides away into the sunset with you.
Just kidding. #3 never happens
from grace the spot c/o tara (because she doesn't believe in gateway lesbians)

2010-06-15T07:28:00.002-07:00

Chris Brown denied visa over abuse

The day before his European tour kicks off, the singer is denied entry to the U.K. on account of his rap sheet

BY TRACY CLARK-FLORY

Chris Brown models at Naomi Campbell's Fashion For Relief - Haiti fashion benefit

It turns out domestic abuse wasn't the best career move for Chris Brown. Sure, many of his die-hard fans welcomed him with open arms after he assaulted then-girlfriend Rihanna, but the same cannot be said for the United Kingdom. The day before the start of his European tour, Brown has been denied a visa on account of his rap sheet, and the tour has been postponed.

"We reserve the right to refuse entry to the UK to anyone guilty of a serious criminal offense," a UK Border Agency spokesperson told AFP. "Public safety is one of our primary concerns. Each application to enter the UK is considered on its individual merits." That raises the question of whether Brown was actually considered a credible threat to public safety, and whether all abusers are treated equally by the Border Agency, but officials declined to comment further. It certainly sends a powerful message, though: Britain isn't playing around when it comes to domestic violence.

from salon

2010-06-10T20:14:00.003-07:00

disturbed that there's a facebook like called "when i was your age, i lost my tooth, not my virginity."

2010-06-10T18:04:00.001-07:00

words on "that guy"

from hoaxzine via synecdochic

2010-06-10T17:58:00.001-07:00

sunny feeds

Lady Daydream by Twin Sister from Big Ugly Yellow Couch on Vimeo.

2010-06-10T15:07:00.003-07:00

patterns patterns patterns

i don't understand why the issue of older boys/men sexually preying on young women is only now an emerging topic

2010-06-10T15:05:00.001-07:00

aa's full body employment policy

american apparel does not win the inner beauty pageant

2010-06-08T10:00:00.001-07:00

evelina galang on pinay comfort women, healing, empowerment and resistance.

2010-06-08T09:50:00.001-07:00

it has rained all week like a broken faucet that drips and stops

and drips

it is Sunday which is never busy except when the rain drives

people inside into waiting arms

at the bathhouse I peer into rooms sweat forming at the base of

my back bare feet grate carpet

here he is with me all sweat and glow my chest against his

wide back we rock one branch in the wind

my fingers' indentations in his thigh I am fascinated by his

mouth changing shapes in response to pleasure

he asks me why I'm here I tell him it is because you are away

returning in twenty days from Shanghai which you write

is damp and cool and crowded

and we called it kaputs quits no longer

and because I've been trying to pretend that I'm healing and that

you are not all I think of

he tells me it is because his lover returned to Hong Kong after

five years for work and family and sometimes it is nice to

hold someone and be held and why do we need reasons

and he tells me lately because he and his friends have been

saying these days how you hardly ever get what you want

we thank each other I drench my body which is moist and dry

and I miss you and I do not miss you and my body feels good

and I am still in love

a. quan

2010-06-06T18:29:00.002-07:00

to all the men with asian fetishes (that seem to multiply as the sun comes) that think i will always and forever be their spicy asian noodle soup - unapologetically, it's not happening.

How to Know You are Dating a Racist (HTKUADAR)

In lieu of this profoundly short-sighted and blatantly racist piece published at the Huffington Post titled "How to Date an Indian," I thought it was time for me to write my own dating guide to help us stay away from people that might potentially follow this kind of advice.

How to know you are dating a racist.

1. You realize you have never met their parents and they live down the street.Nothing says, "I love you," like, "I am embarrassed for my parents to find out you are not the race they want you to be."

2. They love the Rolling Stones but think that Jay-Z is sexist. I mean, I know it is hard to overlook Mick Jagger's profoundly progressive views on women, but let's just try for the sake of argument. *eyeroll*

3. They ask you on the first date if (insert with ethnicity) girls are as (insert with ethnicity related explicit sexual act) as people say they are. It's like sexist racist mad libs, really.

4. They ask you offensive questions about what they perceive your culture to be, defending their profoundly ignorant question by saying, "I just want to learn more about your people baby!" (via @popscribblings)

5. They ask you if they can touch your hair or skin or eyelash or eyelid before you have even kissed.

6. They want to know why your family acts like "that."

7. They say something about how it might be easier to date someone from their own race.

8. When you are in a foreign country (or a taxi cab), they look to you to translate even though you don't speak the language, either.

9. They say something to you like, "You are so different from the rest of your race, I really like you." OR, they put down other races in front of you, as though it is OK as long as they are not putting down your race. (via Latoya Peterson)

10. They say they noticed you because you look "exotic." Do I look like a bird of paradise to you? #iamnotyourfetish

All of these may sound like sure signs you are DAR (dating a racist), but it took dating a long line of people who asked if I was a "Kama Sutra Indian," or told me, "I love Indian food," (like, dude are you saying you are going to eat me??) or that I have "almond eyes," or claimed to know more about India than I do, to learn how to detect that I was asked out by or was dating...a racist.

Please, feel free to add more in comments. This information could save us from so many horrible dates!

from feministing

2010-06-06T15:38:00.001-07:00

the harper government, women's rights and the cost of speaking out

2010-06-03T17:21:00.000-07:00

from curate via lalay

2010-06-03T09:49:00.003-07:00

on a happier note: home is wherever i'm with you