from Oakland Occupy Patriarchy:
Everyone please spread this as widely as possible and please show out tonight to stand up against transphobic violence!
No news stories yet on the situation but will try and keep this updated with info
jesus this is fucking scary- a night before this a friend and i were out on 17th and some dude started fallowing us and screaming at us cuz he read us as a lez couple then relized i was a trans woman and started threatening rape and that he was going to kill me and just a day before a friend of my barely escaped getting beaten or worse by a group of dudes only cuz they were able to convince them that they were a cis woman and not a trans woman/faggot. It could have been any of us- were all just a moment away from encountering the wrong man/men on the wrong street. Fuck this world, kill men, die cis scum.
A close friend of mine was told “stay the fuck away, I don’t like faggots like you around me” despite keeping 5 feet of distance on the Amtrak platform. Sometimes I have to remind myself that the Bay Area is still part of a larger social fabric — a tainted and moldy social fabric that often responds to queerness with threats and violence :/
Another trans* womyn murdered… right in my neighborhood…
I’m so sick of this… I don’t know why I bother or what the point is… This is the reality of being a trans* womyn… constant violence.
fuck.
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TW cissexism & transmisogyny
cupcakesnotbombs replied to your post: What do you do when you are in a room of radscum…
that is really gross and really scary. are you organizing with these people? or do you work with them?It was at an event that I staffed/organized for my job (a promo event for a memoir we are publishing)
There were some problematic elements in some of the performances that I felt really sad/nauseous about, and didn’t know how to address because I was photographing the event and I was like, uh, I’m not going to sit here and photograph you while you talk about how much you love MitchFest… and I was like, okay, after the event go talk to that person and tell them they fucking suck. But then there was a roundtable discussion that basically just turned into a white supremacist cissexist and transmisogynist hatefest where people from the audience took the mics and used words like “dispicable” “horrifying” “mutilation” “hidden rapists” “repugnant” “everything i am fighting against” etc etc to talk about trans people. And I was about to do/say something and take the mics and whatever but then this person started going on this rant against hormone therapy and my head started spinning really badly and my heart was pounding out of my chest and I felt like I was going to pass out and my coworker looked at me and said, “you don’t have to be here if you don’t feel safe!” and I said “i can’t do this!” and she said, “go go go go!” and I basically threw my camera at her and ran out and chainsmoked and screamed a lot and tried not to throw up. And then I witnessed a pedestrian get hit by a car, and it was extremely terrible and there were like a million cops and ambulences and I couldn’t leave because my keys were backstage and the event was still happening so I just like, kept sitting and shaking and freaking out and was totally not able to go and talk to any of the people and tell them they are despicable wastes of space.
I feel so fucked up about it that I don’t even know where to start, I feel mostly damaged and fucked up over all the beautiful awesome trans folks who came to our event and sat through that. I had friends who stayed inside the event and said the conversation just continued to get worse. I know that I needed to get up and leave but I wish so badly I had been able to throw down.
The rest of the staff were really angry and upset too but were totally cis about the situation and didn’t cut people off, didn’t stop people from saying anything, didn’t throw down or correct or call out. They came outside to see me and told me they were sorry but the whole thing felt like, “Oh no, we offended our one employee who is transgender! The problem is that Shaun was upset, not that these VIOLENT ASSHOLES said the kind of shit that makes trans people kill themselves”!
And my boss just emailed me asking to talk to me/support me/do something to rectify the situation… which is like okay cool I guess that’s nice? but there were so many trans people in that space who probably went home with the biggest pit in their stomach and pain in their hearts and its like oh cool we deal with this ALL THE FUCKING TIME and our organization just facilitated **yet another** space where we are shat on/devaluated/made to feel like horrible human beings… I feel responsible because I am a staff member of the org that put on the event and I just feel so complicated levels of awful
idk i am going to write an email with all of the feelings and send it to my boss/the executive director and idk be like “y’all need to be held publicly accountable for this shit” HOPE SOMETHING WORKS OUT IDEK
=(
that is so fucked up on so many different levels. it’s so disturbing and disgusting they see it as a problem of a couple of trans folk being offended, rather than a problem of a bunch of cissupremacists going on unchecked and unquestioned hate speeches.
i am so angry, and so sad, and really really sorry. if you decide to send that e-mail, good luck! i mean, i know it definitely won’t take back the seriously traumatizing bullshit that occurred, but hopefully some important conversations will be had?
fuck, though. that is so wrong.
so, this sick womyn of color was arrested for trespassing at a hospital that refused to treat her. she died of blood clots minutes after arriving in her jail cell.
it is like such a trip to know that our lives have literally no value. to have it reiterated every day like this. wow. good night, tumblr.
Last week the Southern Poverty Law Center released a report discussing the explosion in the conspiracy-minded hate groups. The number of groups have grown by 755% in the last 3 years.
The radical right grew explosively in 2011, the third such dramatic expansion in as many years. The growth was fueled by superheated fears generated by economic dislocation, a proliferation of demonizing conspiracy theories, the changing racial makeup of America, and the prospect of four more years under a black president who many on the far right view as an enemy to their country.
The number of hate groups counted by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) last year reached a total of 1,018, up slightly from the year before but continuing a trend of significant growth that is now more than a decade old. The truly stunning growth came in the antigovernment “Patriot” movement — conspiracy-minded groups that see the federal government as their primary enemy.
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To those who tell me we live in a post-racial society, take a look at reality.
wtf america
[trigger warning: details of anti-trans hate crimes and severe discrimination]
…AND STILL WE RISE.
#BROWNGRRLSOLDIERS #BEAUTYSTILLINTACT
…fuck
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House Passes H.R. 358, the “Let uterus-bearers Die” Act of 2011
Today the GOP-led House of Representatives, with the blessings and encouragement of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and extremist religious groups such as the Family Research Council, passed a bill in a vote of 251 to 172 that would, among other things, allow doctors and hospitals to “exercise their conscience” by letting pregnant people facing emergency medical conditions die.
Yes. Die.What. The. Actual. Fuck?
well……..smdh
pero en que año e que ‘tamo? yo ya no comprendo al mundo.
:|
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NYPD Officers Shoot and Kill Three Black Men in One Week
Ramarley Graham, 18, was shot and killed by a NYPD officer in the Bronx on Thursday afternoon after running into his home as undercover officers pursued him. He’s the third person the NYPD have killed in a week. According to the police spokesperson, he was unarmed.
Paul J. Browne, the New York Police Department’s chief spokesman, said there was “no evidence that he was armed” when the officer, a member of a narcotics unit, shot him once in the upper left chest, the New York Times reports.
The Graham shooting is the third time in a week that a member of the NYPD had killed a suspect. On Jan. 26, an off-duty police lieutenant shot a 22-year-old carjacking suspect in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn. And on Sunday, an off-duty detective shot a 17-year-old in Bushwick, Brooklyn, during a mugging, authorities said.
In Graham’s case, police found a small bag of marijuana in the toilet at the home he entered after the pursuit, the NY Times reports. “It’s likely the story will thicken and the NYPD will argue the cop acted in self defense, but right now it looks like the cops killed a kid trying to get rid of a little pot,” said Seth Freed Wessler, Colorlines.com’s investigation reporter.
“Despite directives from the NYPD Commissioner to stop arresting people for simple possession of marijuana, the NYPD actually conducted more marijuana arrests in 2011 than in the previous year,” Wessler said.
In New York City, marijuana arrests strike people of color the hardest. Last year the NYPD made a near-record number of low-level marijuana arrests, making 2011 the second-most prolific period for marijuana arrests in NYC history. Close to 87 percent of those arrested for marijuana were black or Latino, while only 10 percent were white.
“The daily practice of harassing black and Latino kids with stop and frisk policing and then arresting them for simple possession of pot would be bad enough even if it did not lead to shootings. In this case in the Bronx, it looks like the day-to-day drug war left this 18-year-old kid dead,” Wessler said.
In 2011 the NYPD stopped 684,330 New Yorkers, of them 603,286 were totally innocent 402,308 were black and 176,165 were latino. The Black and Latino numbers alone account for 85% of all NYC stops. The numbers speak for themselves.
Cops catching Blacks and Latinos in compromising situations and bad things happen. The saddest part is that our communities stand by and allow these things to happen. No letters written, no rallies, no protests, just tears and bloodshed.
we have got to do better. i (we) am (are) accountable.
List of Books Banned in AZ
Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years (1998) by B. Bigelow and B. Peterson
The Latino Condition: A Critical Reader (1998) by R. Delgado and J. Stefancic
Critical Race Theo…ry: An Introduction (2001) by R. Delgado and J. Stefancic
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (2000) by P. Freire
United States Government : Democracy in Action (2007) by R. C. Remy
Dictionary of Latino Civil Rights History (2006) by F. A. Rosales
Declarations of Independence: Cross-Examining American Ideology (1990)
by H. Zinn
Occupied America: A History of Chicanos (2004) by R. Acuña
The Anaya Reader (1995) by R. Anaya
The American Vision (2008) by J. Appleby et el.
Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years (1998) by B. Bigelow and B. Peterson
Drink Cultura: Chicanismo (1992) by J. A. Burciaga
Message to Aztlán: Selected Writings (1997) by R. Gonzales
De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views Multi-Colored Century (1998)
by E. S. Martínez
500 Años Del Pueblo Chicano/500 Years of Chicano History in Pictures
(1990) by E. S. Martínez
Codex Tamuanchan: On Becoming Human (1998) by R. Rodríguez
The X in La Raza II (1996) by R. Rodríguez
Dictionary of Latino Civil Rights History (2006) by F. A. Rosales
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 to Present (2003) by H. Zinn
Ten Little Indians (2004) by S. Alexie
The Fire Next Time (1990) by J. Baldwin
Loverboys (2008) by A. Castillo
Women Hollering Creek (1992) by S. Cisneros
Mexican White Boy (2008) by M. de la Pena
Drown (1997) by J. Díaz
Woodcuts of Women (2000) by D. Gilb
At the Afro-Asian Conference in Algeria (1965) by E. Guevara
Color Lines: “Does Anti-War Have to Be Anti-Racist Too?” (2003) by E. Martínez
Culture Clash: Life, Death and Revolutionary Comedy (1998) by R. Montoya et al.
Let Their Spirits Dance (2003) by S. Pope Duarte
Two Badges: The Lives of Mona Ruiz (1997) by M. Ruiz
The Tempest (1994) by W. Shakespeare
A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America (1993) by R. Takaki
The Devil’s Highway (2004) by L. A. Urrea
Puro Teatro: A Latino Anthology (1999) by A. Sandoval-Sanchez & N.
Saporta Sternbach
Twelve Impossible Things before Breakfast: Stories (1997) by J. Yolen
Voices of a People’s History of the United States (2004) by H. Zinn
Live from Death Row (1996) by J. Abu-Jamal
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven (1994) by S. Alexie
Zorro (2005) by I. Allende
Borderlands La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1999) by G. Anzaldua
A Place to Stand (2002), by J. S. Baca
C-Train and Thirteen Mexicans (2002), by J. S. Baca
Healing Earthquakes: Poems (2001) by J. S. Baca
Immigrants in Our Own Land and Selected Early Poems (1990) by J. S. Baca
Black Mesa Poems (1989) by J. S. Baca
Martin & Mediations on the South Valley (1987) by J. S. Baca
The Manufactured Crisis: Myths, Fraud, and the Attack on America’s
Public Schools (1995) by D. C. Berliner and B. J. Biddle
Drink Cultura: Chicanismo (1992) by J. A Burciaga
Red Hot Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Being Young and Latino in the United
States (2005) by L. Carlson & O. Hijuielos
Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing up Latino in the United States
(1995) by L. Carlson & O. Hijuelos
So Far From God (1993) by A. Castillo
Address to the Commonwealth Club of California (1985) by C. E. Chávez
Women Hollering Creek (1992) by S. Cisneros
House on Mango Street (1991), by S. Cisneros
Drown (1997) by J. Díaz
Suffer Smoke (2001) by E. Diaz Bjorkquist
Zapata’s Discipline: Essays (1998) by M. Espada
Like Water for Chocolate (1995) by L. Esquievel
When Living was a Labor Camp (2000) by D. García
La Llorona: Our Lady of Deformities (2000), by R. Garcia
Cantos Al Sexto Sol: An Anthology of Aztlanahuac Writing (2003) by C.
García-Camarilo et al.
The Magic of Blood (1994) by D. Gilb
Message to Aztlan: Selected Writings (2001) by Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzales
Saving Our Schools: The Case for Public Education, Saying No to “No
Child Left Behind” (2004) by Goodman et al.
Feminism is for Everybody (2000) by b hooks
The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child (1999) by F. Jiménez
Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools (1991) by J. Kozol
Zigzagger (2003) by M. Muñoz
Infinite Divisions: An Anthology of Chicana Literature (1993) by T. D.
Rebolledo & E. S. Rivero
…y no se lo trago la tierra/And the Earth Did Not Devour Him (1995)
by T. Rivera
Always Running - La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. (2005) by L. Rodriguez
Justice: A Question of Race (1997) by R. Rodríguez
The X in La Raza II (1996) by R. Rodríguez
Crisis in American Institutions (2006) by S. H. Skolnick & E. Currie
Los Tucsonenses: The Mexican Community in Tucson, 1854-1941 (1986) by T. Sheridan
Curandera (1993) by Carmen Tafolla
Mexican American Literature (1990) by C. M. Tatum
New Chicana/Chicano Writing (1993) by C. M. Tatum
Civil Disobedience (1993) by H. D. Thoreau
By the Lake of Sleeping Children (1996) by L. A. Urrea
Nobody’s Son: Notes from an American Life (2002) by L. A. Urrea
Zoot Suit and Other Plays (1992) by L. Valdez
Ocean Power: Poems from the Desert (1995) by O. Zepeda
Bless Me Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
Yo Soy Joaquin/I Am Joaquin by Rodolfo Gonzales
Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea
The Devil’s Highway by Luis Alberto UrreaWhite supremacy alert
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A year ago this month, Jordan Miles, an 18-year-old music student at Pittsburgh’s Creative and Performing Arts High School, was walking to his grandmother’s home in the city’s Homewood neighborhood when three undercover police officers in an unmarked white car decided he looked “suspicious.” Officers Richard Ewing, Michael Saldutte, and David Sisak, all white, would later say in police reports that Miles, who is black, seemed to be “sneaking around” and had a bulky object protruding from his coat that appeared to be a gun. It turned out to be a bottle of Mountain Dew—which, curiously, was never taken into evidence…
The three officers severely beat the unarmed viola player, who is five feet, five inches tall and weighs 150 pounds. They hit him with multiple punches to the face and a knee to the head. They also tore off a large clump of his hair… . Once he was out of the hospital, Miles, an honors student with no prior criminal record, was arrested and charged with loitering, aggravated assault, and resisting arrest. The police claimed that earlier in the evening they had spoken with Monica Wooding, who lives in the neighborhood, and were responding to her complaint that Miles was loitering on her property without her permission. But Wooding later testified that she made no such complaint. In fact, she testified that she has known Miles, a friend of her son, for years…
Under its charter, Pittsburgh’s Citizen Police Review Board is not allowed to look into the incident until all criminal investigations are completed. So while it took just a few hours to falsely charge Jordan Miles with assaulting three police officers, more than a year later federal and local officials still can’t decide whether the officers who beat him should be charged, removed from the force, or, as the local police union recommends, praised for their heroism.
—A Beating In Pittsburgh (1/24/2011)
You want a verdict? Fuck this whole goddamned system.
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Breaking: NYPD fatally shoots 18 year old in the bathroom of his home in front of 6-year-old brother.
Deputy Police Commissioner Paul Browne said the shooting happened following a struggle with the suspect. He said an officer from the Special Narcotics Unit fired one time, striking 18-year-old Rahmarley Graham in the chest.
The shooting happened around 3 p.m. Thursday afternoon in the bathroom of the apartment house where Graham lived with his mother and grandmother.
Graham was rushed to Montefiore Hospital and pronounced dead. The suspect’s mother, Constance Malcolm, claims police chased her son because he had marijuana on him and that he was unarmed.
The suspect’s mother also said that the teen’s grandmother and 6-year-old brother were inside the house at the time of the shooting.
“In the bathroom they shot him. My 6-year-old son was there and saw everything,” Malcolm said. “I’m going to get justice.”
The NYPD’s Internal Affairs Unit is investigating the details.
Update: The NYPD has admitted that there was no struggle and the police were undercover and in plain clothes.
It’s not clear whether the officers identified themselves before pursuing Rahmarley Graham.
This marks the third young black man killed by the NYPD in last week.
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The Tea Party of Tennessee wants to remove from history textbooks any incidents of slavery and genocide linked to the founders of the U.S. for fear those references would tarnish the image of the Founding Fathers.
Members of Tennessee tea parties presented state legislators with five priorities for action Wednesday January 11, including “rejecting” the federal health reform act, establishing an elected “chief litigator” for the state and “educating students the truth about America.”
What Do They Mean By This?
From The Memphis Commercial Appeal:
Regarding education, the material they distributed said, “Neglect and outright ill will have distorted the teaching of the history and character of the United States. We seek to compel the teaching of students in Tennessee the truth regarding the history of our nation and the nature of its government.”
That would include, the documents say, that “the Constitution created a Republic, not a Democracy.”
The material calls for lawmakers to amend state laws governing school curriculums, and for textbook selection criteria to say that “No portrayal of minority experience in the history which actually occurred shall obscure the experience or contributions of the Founding Fathers, or the majority of citizens, including those who reached positions of leadership.”
Fayette County attorney Hal Rounds, the group’s lead spokesman during the news conference, said the group wants to address “an awful lot of made-up criticism about, for instance, the founders intruding on the Indians or having slaves or being hypocrites in one way or another.
Demand To Remove All References To Slavery Or Genocide
In other words, the request is to remove all references to slavery or genocide from American history textbooks, so as not to besmirch the reputation and standing of the Founding Fathers.
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The rationale behind HB-56 is that Alabama wanted to deal with its incredible undocumented immigrant problem. But Alabama doesn’t have an undocumented immigrant problem: Only 2.5 percent of Alabama’s population consists of undocumented workers—less than Colorado and California. The country’s toughest immigration law sits in a state where there isn’t a problem to begin with.
Think about that.
There’s also evidence that the immigrant workers who have come to Alabama have, in fact, helped revive some of its dying, small-town economies.
HB-56, on the other hand, hasn’t helped Alabama. Samuel Addy at the Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Alabama predicted that the state will lose 40 million dollars simply from the loss of spending from both documented and undocumented immigrants. Apparently, while lawmakers were writing this particular bill so they could protect Alabama’s economy, they forgot how all those pesky immigrants spend money.
oh, look. turns out that when you’re trying to cover up a child prostitution ring, you don’t much care when your players stab somebody 90 times or rape/beat multiple women.
as far as I’m concerned, fuck firing people, they need to shut down the entire fucking dept, if not the school (the rest of the school, mostly just to perform oversight and examine how money from the football program/athletic dept has made it into the rest of the depts,)—and do some *serious* institutional reorganizing. no more police chief serving the football coach, no more sponserships and donations to keep the program running, no more men only programs/departments/teams/etc (not saying that other genders present will stop rape, but that it’s *acceptability* of the “men only” space that makes it ok to determine under what conditions “outsiders” (i.e. children, women, fellow students, etc) will be allowed into the space—and it’s NOT ok for men to decide how others will be a part of their community)
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