June 2013
35 posts
The Mary Sue: Hey everybody! We were contacted by a grad student studying video... →
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Hey everybody! We were contacted by a grad student studying video games who’d like to gather more gender equal data than typical video game-based surveys, which tend to skew male. We thought you might be able to help her out. Here’s the info!
Hello, my name is Katheryn Christy. I am currently…
just another day casually scrolling tumblr
certainly nothing interesting goin-
wait. is that what i think it is
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MY PEOPLE
DO YOU HEAR THE PEOPLE SING
THE SONG
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Public Shaming: Racist Basketball Fans PISSED a Mexican-American Boy Dared to Sing Their National Anthem →
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10 year old Mariachi singer Sebastion de la Cruz was thrust into the national spotlight last year on America’s Got Talent. Tonight, he was once again seen by the nation as he sang the national anthem at Game 3 of the NBA finals in San Antonio where the Spurs took on the Miami Heat.
As you…
“Through the centuries, while their European counterparts in Europe grew up on stories that depicted women as weak, helpless, sinister, or untrustworthy, Native American women grew up hearing tales about the powers and strengths of women. They heard stories about women healers, women warriors, women artists, women prophets. But above all, they heard stories of woman as the divine creator, woman as a supernatural power, woman as a force of transformation in the universe. There are dozens of variations in the details, but the core meaning is consistent: women, and the female forces of the universe, are strong. Sometimes they are so powerful that they can change the course of the world. Often, once they take a stand, they change their own lives and the lives of those around them.”
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Susan Hazen-Hammond, Spider Woman’s Web: Traditional Native American Tales About Women’s Power
[This quote is from the FIRST TWO FUCKING PAGES of the introduction.]
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Opinion: The problem with “Devious Maids” goes far beyond Hollywood →
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Many of my readers have asked me to opine on the matter, so here is what I think.
It is not wrong to be a maid, or even a Latina maid, but there is something very wrong with an American entertainment industry that continually tells Latinas that this is all they are or can ever be.
My grandmother was a maid in Cuba; my biological grandfather was her employer. My father, never claimed by his bio-dad, was a janitor when he first began working in the United States, as a teen immigrant. My father went on to get his PhD, sort of a real-life Good Will Hunting, and became a leading sociologist. He raised me to believe in myself and my voice; I went to Columbia, and I’m a bestselling author Tom Wolfe called one of the most important social critics of our time.
We don’t see stories about people like me or my dad. Indeed, network executives say to my face that I don’t exist. That’s the problem.
Ten years ago, Mexican American actress Lupe Ontiveros lamented to the New York Times that she had been cast as a maid 150 times in her career. The astounding number of times this one (outstanding) Latina actress has been cast as a maid destroys Longoria’s defense of Devious Maids as “Latina maids deserving to have their stories told, too.” According to academic research on Latino roles in mainstream US film and TV, the maid is pretty much the only Latina story being told, other than seductress, whore, dying immigrant and gang member.
There is more to stereotyping of Latinas than laziness or lack of information.
Hacker who outed Steubenville rapists could get more jail time than Steubenville rapists →
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Meet Deric Lostutter, a 26-year-old cybersecurity consultant who also goes by the moniker “KYAnonymous.” Lostutter obtained and published tweets and Instagram photos in which members of the Steubenville High School football team joked about an incident in which a 16-year-old girl was raped.
Lostutter’s actions inspired a group of people to take justice into their own hands. A hacker called “Bobcat” vandalized the Facebook page of the Steubenville football team. Other hackers took similar action.
It’s unclear if Lostutter participated in any hacking shenanigans, but if he’s indicted and found guilty of any, he faces 10 years in jail. By comparison, the Steubenville rapists received one- and two-year sentences each.
My doppler came in and it’s great! We found the heartbeat today before my appointment and then heard it again at the doctor’s office. So cool.
CODEPINK Statement Regarding Twitter →
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We would like to apologize for our recent actions that displayed an undeniable insensitivity to persons of color, especially women of color.
As an organization, we strive to speak truth to power and stand for human rights for all. We respect intersectionality and strive to stay aware of the many forms of privilege among our group. We would like to make an unequivocal apology to Michelle Obama, Alicia Keys, and everyone who took offense to messages we posted on Twitter.
By tweeting about how Michelle Obama “should have” responded to Ellen Sturtz’s interruption, we behaved in such a way that reflected a long history of white women dictating how Black women should behave. Our actions were not in keeping with our own values as an organization. While yesterday’s interruption was not a CODEPINK action, it is exemplary of CODEPINK tactics, and the way we responded to it was insensitive and thoughtless.
When the process of petitioning, lobbying and writing letters fails, and when mainstream media ignores the real issues, interruptions of high-profile officials are one tactic to make our voices heard. Because it crosses the line of agreed-upon civility, this tactic is always messy.
We appreciate all the people who gave us instant feedback over Twitter and it has been and will continue to be a learning opportunity for CODEPINK. We are immediately reviewing our process and criteria for social media use, as an organization, and we invite any of our our critics to speak with us directly about issues of race and privilege in order to prevent a similar occurrence in the future.
Onward to peace and justice,
The CODEPINK StaffSo this happened. Take it how you will, but for me their actions from this moment forward will dictate if this is a sincere apology or not.
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Apparently a lot of ultrasound technology schools will do free or low cost ultrasounds to train their students. Google free ultrasounds in your area and if a school doesn’t come up some thread on a pregnancy message board with the pertinent information will come up.
For Phoenix AZ it’s West Coast Ultrasound Institute
4250 E Camelback, building K suite 190
(602) 954-3834
Ultrasound 3D/4D
I don’t think we’ll do it, but I though someone might want the information.
I just lost a bid on eBay for a used Sonoline B fetal doppler; it sold for $50 plus $8.49 shipping. New ones are listed at $70 on Amazon, but one helpful reviewer suggested checking ClinicalGuard.com AND retailmenot.com has 5% discount code (enter clinicalguard.com in the search bar).
I just bought a new doppler online for $64 with the discount code and free shipping. It also comes with the gel and a 1 year warranty. Not bad considering the same model is $119.99 at Walgreens and a lot of the used ones aren’t much cheaper.
I’ve been a bad pregnant lady. I got laid after a dry spell (my husband was freaked out after spotting last time, thought he was going to hurt the baby) and I’m having a soda. With caffeine. Rebel!
May 2013
80 posts
you're close to blasphemy: oneohtrixpointnever: tetraghost: psa to photosensitive and epileptic... →
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psa to photosensitive and epileptic folk: if you do not already have a browser extension to stop all gifs by default, now is the time to get it- tumblr and its advertising customers are very fond of flashing gifs and these will now be placed directly on your dashboard on the desktop and not just mobile
Paused! for Chrome (gifs start only when you click on them)
Active Stop Button for Firefox
Toggle Animated GIFs for Firefox
Firefox users can disable all .gifs by default with no extension:
- In the Location bar type ” about:config ” and hit enter (no quotes/spaces)
- Type “animation” into the filter field to find the preference
- Double-click the image.animation_mode line and edit it from “normal” to “none”
deliciousKaek: nanosquishlyn: Tumblr Savior v0.4.6 Releasedrevolutionator:... →
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Alright, I’ve updated Tumblr Savior to work with the new Tumblr dashboard. I’m only releasing v0.4.6 for Chrome and Firefox at the moment since I don’t see the new dashboard on Safari or Opera. I’ll…
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The finding suggests that black people have contributed to the “indigenous” British gene pool despite previous evidence to the contrary.
Africans were first recorded in northern England some 1,800 years ago, part of a Roman garrison brought in to defend Hadrian’s Wall against raids by tribes in what is now Scotland, the study team said.
But slaves from West Africa, Jobling said, were the most likely source of the African DNA revealed in the study.
“The first boatful of slaves showed up in 1555 in England, and so from that time on their numbers increased,” Jobling said.
In 1601 Queen Elizabeth I issued an edict “that black people should be expelled from Britain because there were too many of them around, which everybody ignored,” he added.
Historian Ron Ramdin, author of Reimaging Britain: 500 Years of Black and Asian History, said that by the end of the 18th century an estimated 10,000 black people were living in Britain, mostly concentrated in cities.
” —Rare African DNA Discovered in White British Males(via howtobeterrell)
“The high status of women in Native societies did not escape the notice of white women either. White women often looked to the Native societies as models of equality from which the white society should base itself, often to the dismay of white men. Even in war, European women were often surprised to find that they went unmolested by their Indian captors. Mary Rowlandson said of
her experience: “I have been in the midst of roaring Lions, and Savage Bears, that feared neither God, nor Man, nor the Devil … and yet not one of them ever offered the least abuse of unchastity to me in word or action” (Rowlandson 1974, 108–109). Between 1675 and 1763, almost 40 percent of women who were taken captive by Native people in New England chose to remain with their captors (Namias 1993, 25).3” —Not an Indian Tradition: The Sexual Colonization of Native Peoples ANDREA SMITH (via whitedenial-ontrial)
her experience: “I have been in the midst of roaring Lions, and Savage Bears, that feared neither God, nor Man, nor the Devil … and yet not one of them ever offered the least abuse of unchastity to me in word or action” (Rowlandson 1974, 108–109). Between 1675 and 1763, almost 40 percent of women who were taken captive by Native people in New England chose to remain with their captors (Namias 1993, 25).3” —Not an Indian Tradition: The Sexual Colonization of Native Peoples ANDREA SMITH (via whitedenial-ontrial)
do british people have a special £ key on their keyboards
how do you hashtag ??????
hashtag is over by the enter key don’t you worry your lil butt
wait
what… what do American keyboards look like then?
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