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ehrola:

Modern Korra?

I was just killing time until my siblings got home so we could all watch Korra together.

That last episode was intense you guys! My feels can’t take it! D:

love-among-the-tombstones:

transtoons:

Pronouns: Do it Right. by mjthinkpink

True story: pronouns are the bane of my existence. I misgender cisgender people all the time. I just have so much trouble keeping them straight. I make it a point to correct myself as much as possible, but I know I’m a mess.

kindelling:

The Afghan girls who live as boys

For economic and social reasons, many Afghan parents want to have a son. This preference has led to some of them practising the long-standing tradition of Bacha Posh - disguising girls as boys.

When Azita Rafhat, a former member of the Afghan parliament, gets her daughters ready for school, she dresses one of the girls differently.

Three of her daughters are clothed in white garments and their heads covered with white scarves, but a fourth girl, Mehrnoush, is dressed in a suit and tie. When they get outside, Mehrnoush is no longer a girl but a boy named Mehran.

Azita Rafhat didn’t have a son, and to fill the gap and avoid people’s taunts for not having a son, she opted for this radical decision. It was very simple, thanks to a haircut and some boyish clothes.

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Girls brought up as boys do not stay like this all their lives. When they turn 17 or 18 they live life as a girl once again - but the change is not so simple.

Elaha lives in Mazar-e Sharif in northern Afghanistan. She lived as a boy for 20 years because her family didn’t have a son and reverted only two years ago when she had to go to university.

However, she does not feel fully female: she says her habits are not girlish and she does not want to get married.

“When I was a kid my parents disguised me as a boy because I didn’t have a brother. Until very recently, as a boy, I would go out, play with other boys and have more freedom.”

She has returned reluctantly to her gender and says she has done it only because of the social traditions.

“If my parents force me to get married, I will compensate for the sorrows of Afghan women and beat my husband so badly that he will take me to court every day.”

missvoltairine:

shaunsense:

earlgreyandpeppermint:

thedailywhat:

In Case You Missed It of the Day: An unidentified homeless man is fighting for his life after his face was nearly eaten off by a naked attacker Saturday on a downtown highway ramp in Miami.

The attacker has been identified as Rudy Eugene, a 31-year-old homeless man. Some are speculating that he may have been high on LSD.

“He was ripping into his face with his teeth,” said Miami resident Larry Vega, who witnessed the attack. “He was ripping his skin, his neck. He had him held down. The guy couldn’t move really, and he was just tearing into his flesh. … You see these things in the movies, but when you see it up front and up close, it’s pretty traumatic. It really is.”

When a police officer approached and told Eugene to get off his victim, Eugene just kept chewing. “The guy just stood… with pieces of flesh in his mouth and he growled,” Vega said.

The officer then shot and killed Eugene.

As for the unfortunate victim, “much of his face was gone, the skin ripped away, the nose bitten and the eyes gouged,” according to the Miami Herald. He is in critical condition.

“We’re hoping that he pulls through, for his well-being, but also so he can tell us what happened,” said Sgt. Javier Ortiz, of the Miami police union. “Only he knows.”

[nydn]

No. No. No. This guy was not on LSD. This is fucking awful reporting. Awful. I hate ignorant, misinformed fear-mongering. This is why people fear psychedelics.

Perhaps when I’m less angry and raging, I will write a more in-depth rant. But, fuck this article.

I don’t know much about this stuff, so what kinda drugs could make a guy chew someone’s face off?

only on tumblr could someone post an article about horrific violence against a homeless person, and get an angry response of “OMG STOP MISREPRESENTING LSD”

Priorities, eargreyandpeppermint, I see that you have them.

fucklewalker-texas-ranger:

“A female soldier in Iraq or Afghanistan is more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire.”

stfuandlistenwhitepeople:

CC: Look at how racist and inaccurate this photo it. Just look. It’s absolutely mesmerizing, how completely disgusting it is.

Now let’s get to work.

1. The little Black girl on the left would most likely choose a white doll. This study was actually carried out already and proved the self-hatred and sense of inferiority young Black children internalize because of the barrage of supremacist images/messages given to them on a regular basis. We live in a culture where “white” is the standard of beauty, the norm, the ultimately acceptable. “Black” is presented as the racial opposite of white and is therefore the opposite of everything white is: the opposite of “beauty”, “intelligence”, “success”, “health”, “goodness”, “purity”, etc. The likelihood that a Black child, already exposed to so much subliminal anti-Blackness, would choose a Black doll is unfortunately small.

2. I can see that this cartoon is meant to be a metaphor for “white pride” and “Black pride”. It was disgustingly carried out and the artist should be extremely ashamed. White and Black are NOT equivalent to one another. They are not on the same platform and are not easily interchanged in the manner displayed here. There is a systematic oppression continuously being perpetrated against Black people by white people. “White pride” is not something that should be expressed or celebrated because WHITENESS has committed extreme atrocities on a global scale and CONTINUES to do so. “White pride” is a phrase that glorifies the subjugation, rape, displacement, genocide/murder, demonization and oppression of people of color. It celebrates the wicked “triumph” over people of color by white people. It should not be something that any white person would want to commemorate.

Furthermore, as a result of slavery and global displacement, many Black people cannot trace their roots back to which African country they’ve come from (without paying large sums of money). White people have purposefully destroyed important records that would’ve allowed Black people to identify their origins and celebrate their ethnicity so “Black” has more meaning than “white”. It serves to fill a gap which many displaced Black people have had to deal with, whereas a white person could most likely trace their heritage back to a specific country and culture.

No one is saying that it’s wrong to have Irish pride or Russian pride or Swiss pride. But “white pride” is racism in and of itself.

3. LOOK AT THE WAY THE BLACK GIRL IS DRAWN, AS WELL AS THE WAY THE BLACK DOLLS ARE DRAWN.

IF YOU DON’T SEE HOW EXTREMELY PROBLEMATIC THAT IS, GOD HELP YOUR SORRY ASS.

The Black girl and the Black dolls are drawn as disgusting caricatures and stereotypes of Black people. It is very reminiscent of the racist caricatures presented in cartoons and media mere decades ago.

This is completely unacceptable.

This entire cartoon is completely unacceptable.

(Source: antigravity000)