Watch: “How we’re perpetuating systems of oppression through our privileged identities.”
I tried to explain this to a girl that CUBAN and all she had to say for herself is that “Latinx don’t have privilege and that racism is an issue for everybody” lmao
educate yourself
Whether it’s a boo-boo or a fuck-up, no one is immune from making mistakes. But mistakes can be conversation starters, not conversation enders. Mistakes not only make us smarter, they can make feminists better feminists. The road to intersectionality begins in the mirror.
NEVER THOUGHT I’D SEE THE DAY
y’all are picking on me for BREATHING now? are you serious
(also: my bird is cute)
Darling!!!!!!
“being disabled or having a mental illness doesn’t give you immunity from dick-ishness”
HELL FUCKN YEAH
(Source: http://2jam4u.tumblr.com/)
Intersectionality
Standardis the undercurrent theme of this blog. Perhaps this is a new concept. If so, here are some things to get started:
Kimberlé Crenshaw (who coined the term in 1989) on intersectionality: “I wanted to come up with an everyday metaphor that anyone could use.” (source)
“Intersectionality promotes an understanding of human beings as shaped by the interaction of different social locations (e.g., ‘race’/ethnicity, Indigeneity,gender, class, sexuality, geography, age, disability/ability, migration
status, religion). These interactions occur within a context of connected
systems and structures of power (e.g., laws, policies, state governments
and other political and economic unions, religious institutions, media).
Through such processes, interdependent forms of privilege and oppression
shaped by colonialism, imperialism, racism, homophobia, ableism and
patriarchy are created.PUT SIMPLY: According to an intersectionality perspective, inequities are never the result of single, distinct factors. Rather, they are the outcome of intersections of different social
locations, power relations and experiences.” (source)Read more things! There are a lot. Here are just a few:
1: Kimberlé Crenshaw on intersectionality in NewStatesman
2: USCB Center For New Racial Studies
3. Interview with bell hooks in Common Struggle
4. Lecture by bell hooks at the New College of Florida
5. The Institute for Intersectionality Research and Policy
Teen With Epilepsy Has A Seizure When Her Service Dog Is Distracted
This article is too important for me to just post a link that you probably won’t click through to read. THIS is why you DO NOT EVER pet service dogs. They are working and it can mean serious injury or even death if you are distracting them from doing their job.
Yo, I actually learned that you shouldnt pet service dogs from a lady who trains them.
Important
How Can You Use Your Privilege To Help Others?
StandardThere are a number of ways. Check out our posts below and tell us what you’re doing to use your privilege for good by sending us an ask or reblogging with your comments.
5 Ways To Use Your White Privilege To Help Others
5 Ways To Use Your Cisgender Privilege To Help Others
5 Ways To Use Your Male Privilege To Help Others
being called “racist” isn’t simply an insult or something mean that people are saying to you because they want to bring you down. if you’re being called racist you shouldn’t be brushing it off because you “can’t see the haters” you should be assessing your behaviour, your language, and mindset for signs of prejudice, discrimination, and sympathy/support for unfair and violent treatment towards racially persecuted people in your country
Living With Chronic, Severe, Untreatable Depression
StandardMeans:
*Never being able to trust my own thoughts and feelings
*Spending huge amounts of time, money, and energy chasing treatments that never work
*Being socially isolated and lonely because the world is not meant for people like me
*Being unable to relate or connect with other people unless they are also depressed
*Sense of paralysis with no motivation to do anything
*Having no hope in my future
*Being obsessed with death
*Constant, unrelenting exhaustion
*Alternating between sleeping and crying all day
*Extreme sensitivity to loss, rejection, trauma
*Feeling very sad for my family when I realize I will most likely end my life
*Experiencing all of these things even though I am in talk therapy and on medication like the perfect model patient.
anonymous writer
If you’re a Non-Muslim and you see a Muslim praying in public, could you please not pass in front of them?
Go behind them, but not in front. 👍🏻
Good to know. I had no idea. Pass it on.
