“They drove a thousand miles for an Ozzy show. Two days for a Jayhawks game. And when it was clear, they’d park her in the middle of nowhere, sit on the hood, and watch the stars… for hours… without saying a word. It never occurred to them that, sure, maybe they never really had a roof and four walls but they were never, in fact, homeless.”
(Source: igotlokid)
Yes, it’s a tough read, but a good one. (It’s written in response to the new Hitman trailer, but it covers way more than that.)That is a pretty great read. Heed the trigger warning.
(Source: voguedissent)
On pregnancy and reproduction: ‘People capable of getting others pregnant/people capable of getting pregnant’, ‘People with small-gamete producing reproductive systems/people with large-gamete producing reproductive systems’
On hormones (which causes basically everything else): ‘People with testosterone-dominant endocrine systems/people with estrogen-dominant endocrine systems’
As you can also see, CAFAB trans people taking T are not strictly ‘female’ under this definition, and CAMAB trans people taking estrogen are not strictly ‘male’, because guess what? They aren’t! Sex is a social construct, moreso than gender, as I’ve brought up before. It can be modified, while gender…not so much.
But yeah-THIS is how you use trans-inclusive language when discussing reproduction and physical differences and the like. And it’d be really nice if other people actually listened this time, considering how people describing my body as ‘female’ triggers the fuck out of me (if we get the medical community to cut that transphobic shit out today, it would’ve taken too long), and I imagine I can’t be the only one.
oh hey guys this is some good shit right here
read it.
ngl people who just say “male” or “female” when referring to physical differences end up with me staring blankly at them like they’re spouting gibberish and asking them to define their terms until they approximate accurate language.
Brian Banks has rape and kidnapping convictions overturned
Ten years ago, Brian Banks was a promising high school linebacker at Long Beach Poly, hoping to play for Southern California.
Thursday, he walked out of a courtroom, his football dreams rekindled, after a Los Angeles Superior Courtjudge reversed Banks’ 2002 rape and kidnapping conviction.
“At first, my mind actually went blank,” Banks said. “I was overwhelmed and extremely happy, but at the same time, I was very sad that I had to go through what I went through.”
As a junior, Banks had played on Poly’s CIF Southern Section Division I championship team in 2001 and was looking to be a leader on the team’s defense in 2002 after spending much of his career playing behind Pago Togafu, who is now in the NFL with the Arizona Cardinals.
“Brian was one of our top linebackers that year,” said Poly football coach Raul Lara. “He was a pretty good football player with good size (6-4, 225), especially for high school. I know Southern Cal had shown some interest, and the rest of what was then the Pac-10 would follow if he played well.”
This still pisses me the fuck off. The lack of Tumblr coverage is deplorable but that’s another post for another day.
finafidnfiawfienbfai so fucking depressing.
“But in 2002, Banks was accused of kidnapping and rape by a high school classmate. He protested his innocence, but on the advice of an attorney who told him, “You’re a big, black teenager. They’re going to assume you’re guilty,” he pleaded no contest. He subsequently spent 62 months in jail and another five years on probation, registered as a sex offender.” (Bolding mine.)
Time Lords never forget to bring a towel
A true staple in intergalactic travel
I AM BUYING THIS WHEN I GET PAID!
oooooo (not that I need any more towels)
O.O never thought I’d say I had a particular interest in buying a towel
Alright. So I’ve been thinking about things lately. Most about being black and being asexual in a white society.
Excuse my looking at some of this from an art history perspective, considering how I’m stronger in that then… I don’t know… “regular history.”
More under the cut because this is quite long!
^ THIS IS IMPORTANT.
Please try not to beat yourself up today! You don’t have to be so hard on yourself!
Things to keep in mind this summer (and always).
Cis people are the shrinks that get to decide whether or not a person is “really trans*”, who get to tell us the validity of our own identities.
Cis people are the surgeons that operate on trans* people if we want to have SRS.
Cis people are the ones who decide whether or not we can change our names, our birth certificates.
Cis people are the ones on the street and in our family and in our circles of friends who get to tell us whether or not we “pass”, whether or not our gender identities are worth respecting based on how we look.
Cis people are the ones who get to decide whether or not the words we use to define our genders are “real”.
Cis people are the ones who get to write the news stories about trans* people, who get to report on those stories and comment on them.
Cis people are the ones who are the focus of movements that affect trans* people just as much as it affects them.
Cis people are the ones who attack trans* people, physically and verbally.
Cis people are the ones who kill trans* people.
Cis people are the ones who get away with that, who are sympathized with after they are the ones who do terrible things to trans* people.
And there are some trans* people who do all of those things, too, but it’s mostly cis people. Cis people who determine whether our identities are valid, who get to decide for us whether or not we’re allowed to transition, who can become violent with trans* people and have it shrugged off as a “well, I don’t really blame them”.
You have a voice.
You have such a loud voice that it overpowers those who you are speaking about.
You have such a loud voice that your opinion is considered more valid than those who actually experience the things that you’re called an expert on.
You have such a loud voice that you’re the fucking gatekeepers to trans* people being able to be how we feel we should be, physically and legally and socially.
Cis people already have the power to oppress trans* people, your voice is already overpowering our voices, and you still think that adding a few more spaces to do that in is this radical thing? You think that a few trans* people calling you scum or just asking you to call them by their fucking preferred pronouns is such a terrible thing that you actually feel like you need a safe space to rage about it?
What the fuck is actually wrong with you?
veliseraptor replied to your post: whoever came up with gendered bathrooms in dorms…
and by “James you are a dork” you mean “James you are a cool and should kill people because they probably deserve it”
have you seen what else bears that tag
(also any such threats to violence on my part are entire and deliberate hyperbole and metaphor, so killing is not going to happen anyway, even if it were deserved, which I hardly claim to be the arbiter of)
jollityfarm replied to your post: whoever came up with gendered bathrooms in dorms…
otherwise how is science going
lol I don’t even know we just got here today. we got something more resembling a schedule but I’m still not sure when I’m doing the actual researchy bits.
also I have not honestly slept since nine a.m. yesterday. which may explain some things about any current or future output of my keyboard.
whoever came up with gendered bathrooms in dorms was a horrible person who deserves to get shot
whoever came up with dudes and ladies living on different sides of a dorm was also a horrible person who deserves to get shot
however the latter person has also brought me and my army onions, where “onions” here are a flimsy rationale of “well I’m on the dude side of the dorm so I guess I’ll just have that be the deciding factor in what showers I use because fuck if I can tell how people are reading me”, so I think I will give them a cat after I shoot them.
(the first person receives no such cat)
Of course, no Linguistic blog would be complete without an IPA chart.
I don’t think that I’ve ever posted one! O.o
What kind of a Linguist am I? Naughty.
clearly I have been remiss in my duties.
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“Walkable Neighborhoods Can’t Just Be For Rich People
Sarah Laskow. May 31, 2012
Most Americans want to live in walkable neighborhoods, but only a fraction can afford it. Housing in places with easy access to stores, restaurants, jobs, and public transit is in short supply, and only about a third of those who say they want to live in walkable neighborhoods actually do. Aaccording to a new study, the people lucky enough to live in the most walkable neighborhoods are often also be the most well-off.
Brookings Institution researchers Christopher Leinberger and Mariela Alfonzo set out to create metrics for judging a neighborhood’s walkability and monitoring its progress. They picked a sample of neighborhoods in the Washington, D.C., area and, by examining several aspects of each one, assigned each a walkability score between one and five.
Once each neighborhood received a score, the researchers began exploring what distinguished high performers from low ones. They found that the most walkable communities boasted the strongest economies—and the most costly housing. Moving up one walkability point came with a $300 monthly bump in rent. Those living in the most walkable communities spent a greater portion of their income on housing and tended to be wealthier. As Leinberger told Atlantic Cities, “Only the wealthiest among us can afford to live in [these neighborhoods].”
Leinberger and Alfonzo say this trend poses “a serious social equity issue.” Living in walkable neighborhood brings a slew of health and economic benefits. It also means life takes less time: commutes are shorter, trips to the grocery store are easier, going to the park requires almost no effort. Often, living in a more “walkable” neighborhood actually requires less walking: Everything a person needs might be located within a two- or three-block radius instead of a 10-block one. Life is just easier.
There’s no reason that these benefits should be reserved for wealthier Americans. Revitalizing urban centers won’t mean much if lower-income people are simply displaced to the suburbs. There is a simple way to start reversing this trend before it takes hold: Build more affordable housing in neighborhoods already full of walkable amenities and public transit options. People of all income levels want to move into these places. They should be able to. “
Via: GOOD Magazine
Photo: via (cc) Flickr user t-bet
thats what i love about my hood. coz i dont drive. :/](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4xyqjTYcs1qm7ffpo1_500.jpg)
“Walkable Neighborhoods Can’t Just Be For Rich People
Sarah Laskow. May 31, 2012
Most Americans want to live in walkable neighborhoods, but only a fraction can afford it. Housing in places with easy access to stores, restaurants, jobs, and public transit is in short supply, and only about a third of those who say they want to live in walkable neighborhoods actually do. Aaccording to a new study, the people lucky enough to live in the most walkable neighborhoods are often also be the most well-off.
Brookings Institution researchers Christopher Leinberger and Mariela Alfonzo set out to create metrics for judging a neighborhood’s walkability and monitoring its progress. They picked a sample of neighborhoods in the Washington, D.C., area and, by examining several aspects of each one, assigned each a walkability score between one and five.
Once each neighborhood received a score, the researchers began exploring what distinguished high performers from low ones. They found that the most walkable communities boasted the strongest economies—and the most costly housing. Moving up one walkability point came with a $300 monthly bump in rent. Those living in the most walkable communities spent a greater portion of their income on housing and tended to be wealthier. As Leinberger told Atlantic Cities, “Only the wealthiest among us can afford to live in [these neighborhoods].”
Leinberger and Alfonzo say this trend poses “a serious social equity issue.” Living in walkable neighborhood brings a slew of health and economic benefits. It also means life takes less time: commutes are shorter, trips to the grocery store are easier, going to the park requires almost no effort. Often, living in a more “walkable” neighborhood actually requires less walking: Everything a person needs might be located within a two- or three-block radius instead of a 10-block one. Life is just easier.
There’s no reason that these benefits should be reserved for wealthier Americans. Revitalizing urban centers won’t mean much if lower-income people are simply displaced to the suburbs. There is a simple way to start reversing this trend before it takes hold: Build more affordable housing in neighborhoods already full of walkable amenities and public transit options. People of all income levels want to move into these places. They should be able to. “
Via: GOOD Magazine
Photo: via (cc) Flickr user t-bet
thats what i love about my hood. coz i dont drive. :/
THIS month’s Steampunk POC interview is with Nivi Hicks, from Salt Lake City, UT.
Ms. Hicks is also @NivatimaDimenti on Twitter, and she is also a con organizer: Salt City SteamFest! She’s of African-American, Spanish and Lebanese descent, and takes a pan-Asian approach to her steampunk costuming.
Also, don’t remove this text; it’s important to see WOC take charge like she does!
So fucking EPIC
Nivatimadimentia her cosplays are so cool
