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The ‘i am QUEER in BROOKLYN’ promo has arrived! Watch and Share! Episode 1 premiers two-twenty-two-twelve ;)

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#how do you explain to someone that this is what you do for a living

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WHAT

THE

FUCK

WHAT.  WHAT DID I JUST WATCH.

OH.  MY.  FUCKING.  GOD.  

this is…. very awkward to watch………………………….

what

i was just staring in horror at the screen the entire time

i

what

what is this

WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

wtf just happened

what did i just watch

what the fuck did i just watch

what the fuck why am i laughing lklfkldassklafajk

Isabella NOOOOOOO what the fuck

I Love Isabella Rossellini. This is so funnny.

rantsomnotes:

That awkward moment where you get served by an elderly woman.

zorascreation: THIS ELDERLY WHITE LADY PUT IT DOWN! LMFAO

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our many mothers.

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Misha B 

X Factor Contestant.

Versatile.

Black and Beautiful.

Again another one to listen to the lyrics of.

Check it out.

She’s ill!

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israelfacts:

On This Day — December 28, 2008: Five Palestinian sisters killed in Israeli airstrike while they slept

The five Palestinian sisters were fast asleep when a night-time Israeli airstrike hit the next-door mosque in Gaza. One of the walls collapsed on to their small asbestos-roofed home and they were all killed in their beds. The eldest sister, Tahrir, was 17 years old, the youngest, Jawaher, just four.

“They grow up day after day and night after night. Within a second, I have lost them,” the girls’ father [pictured, bottom photo], Anwar Balousha, said yesterday. The 37-year-old, along with another three of his children, was himself injured in the attack on the densely populated Jabalya refugee camp.

The funerals of the sisters – Tahrir, 17; Ikram, 15; Samar, 12; Dina eight; and Jawaher, four – were attended by family members and thousands of mourners. But with space running out in the cemetery, the five girls had to be buried in just three graves, one for the eldest and the others forced to share.

The Independent | Read the BBC’s report  (Photos: Getty Images / Reuters)

This is sickening!  Fuck Zionism.

mytongueisforked:

Vikki Law, author of Resistance Behind Bars, explains how the police often protect the interests of the privileged, while failing to protect women of colour and poor women from violence (while also being the source of violence within their communities). She talks about alternative ways in which we can respond to gendered violence and how violence is also racialized as well. 

zours:

“TRANS” is a feature documentary now in post-production, scheduled for exclusive release in selected festivals and markets in early 2012. For more information, go to TransTheMovie.com. It offers a “up-close and very personal journey into the transgender world.” Watch the trailer. 

Read more: http://www.andersoncooper.com/2011/11/15/trans-documentary/#ixzz1du3xjXvk

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Thank you for sharing this, I can’t wait to watch it in it’s entirety.  But, where are the transfolks of color?

Sister Souljah on Larry King - Pt. 2

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Sister Souljah on Larry King Live Part 1, Part 2 (1992)

Rap artist, activist and author Sister Souljah addressing the controversy that arose after remarks she made following the 1992 LA Riots. Sister Souljah was quoted as saying: ”If black people kill black people every day, why not have a week and kill white people?” As a result Bill Clinton infamously compared Sister Souljah to white supremacist and Klu Klux Klan member David Dukes. In this interview Sister Souljah puts her comments into context while providing a sharp social analysis of White supremacy, racism and capitalism in America and their toxic impact on the socio-economic infrastructure of American society. She also explains why she proudly identifies as an African and why she chose to express herself through Hip-Hop music. The Guardian later described Sister Souljah’s comments as a key event in the history of Hip-Hop.

much respect for this woman. her autobiography (No Disrespect) is a must-read for WOC, particularly AA women.

No Disrespect is a homophobic text which repeatedly attacks the LGBT community.  The passage with Mona (pg 213-226) is especially troubling:

• “the so-called gay lifestyle cannot produce life” (224)
• “You’ll have children to whom you’ll have to explain that for the pleasure of being with another woman, you were so selfish that you brought him or her into a world where the Bible, the Quran, the Torah, and the community says his same sex parents are wrong” (224)
• I continued to feel that Mona’s embrace of a lesbian life was due more to inner weakness and her victimization as a Black woman than out of any genetic compulsion… homosexuality, while perhaps offering some individuals relief from their pain, was nevertheless a way of avoiding our people’s need to build strong, life-giving, and enduring family structures… (226)

And these are only a sample of the homophobic comments that are sprinkled throughout.  Given her negative judgements of the queer community, it’s hard to imagine that this book would have much appeal for women of color who also identify as LGBT because No Disrespect shows such strong, pervasive contempt and disrespect for same-sex attraction.

You don’t have to imagine it. I’m living proof. I didn’t read the book to gain insight on my sexuality but rather as a way to examine what it means to be a black woman in Amerikkka. And actually I’d argue that this is an excellent book for QWOC because it is important for us to understand why people who are homophobic in our communities feel the way that they do. That’s a necessary step to being able to eradicate these kind of myths. Lucky you, you can separate race from sexuality, but we cannot. #KBURD

as a queer woman of color who read this book a long time ago, i think the most troubling thing is when conscious black people uphold Sistah Souljah without calling her out on her shit. 

yeah i get it, she provides a much needed insight into an experience that rings true for a lot of black women and even non-black women of color. yet at the same time i’m hesitant to uphold a figure who is homophobic simply because she provides a much needed wake up call and she is a woman of color. at the same time she wakes people up to what’s really going down in America, why can queer black america be her wake up call? why can’t we say “okay, if you’re going to be a prophet of truth for our community, then you need to come to terms with the fact that there are LGBT people within the black community and fundamentally get over it. You don’t need to accept it. You don’t have to tolerate it, but get over it. And we wont have somebody who wants to uplift the black community be homophobic at the same time. Not in our name”. 

and not to say that we can’t do this, but i wonder why we hesitate to do it. is the black community as a whole really short on good leadership that we are willing to overlook the oppressive behaviour of some people in order to get a larger message across? are we really that desperate? 

i mean, to me saying “she’s an example of why people are homophobic and its important to understand those feelings” is still giving her a free pass to go unchecked. 

My intent was not to give her a free pass although I see how it came off that way. What I’m trying to say is that I think queer (and non-queer) black people can gain something from her teachings despite her homophobic rhetoric. Now would I participate in a movement lead by her or any other leader who advocates for the oppression and eradication of LGBT persons in their teachings, ABSOLUTELY NOT. Many of the black leaders of the past and present were/are homophobic and/or misogynistic. It sucks but that is the truth. So while by no means do I condone those aspects of their ideology, I feel it is important to take notes on the things they’ve said that are important and can be incorporated by black activists who are for ALL black people today. I do agree that we need to call people out on their shit but I disagree with dismissing everything they said as a result. We have to reference the leaders of the past and analyze what has worked and what doesn’t and what is still relevant if we ever hope to effectively mobilize anything.

I hope I’m coming off more sensible now. And thank you for your input because you gave me some things to think about.

there is a huge difference between learning from homophobic leaders of the past, or even learning from present leaders who have shown emotional and intellectual growth from their previous bigoted sentiments. 

yet sistah souljah is not a leader of the past. she may not be up there with jessie jackson in terms of current day status, but she is far from laying in a pine box. people still listen to her, people still read no disrespect and take it seriously. she has done nothing since no disrespect was published to show that she has departed from her homophobic views and realized the error of her ways. she has not apologized for what she has said. 

and to be honest, there are plenty of  LGBT POC allies and LGBT POC who have said the exact same things she speaks out minus the homophobic rhetoric. so knowing that i fail to see the use in learning from somebody who is unapologetically homophobic. 

if she were the revolutionary figure she thinks she is, she would HAVE LEARNED from the mistakes of the civil rights movement, the black panther movement, and the response of black leadership during the beginning of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s in effectively silencing LGBT black voices. There are plenty of examples within the painful history of black people in this country for her and others to learn from. 

so its not me dismissing what she has to say, but knowing there are other people within out community who have said it, probably have said it better than her, and who would see me as an ally and not a threat. 

This woman is amazing!  Holy MOLEY, so gonna use this video for my final project.