White privilege is the luxury of normalcy. Not having your entire ancestral history and present reality rooted in resistance to oppression.
— Rahiel Tesfamariam (@RahielT) July 20, 2015
This is what 'black privilege' looks like http://t.co/4Gm2m3zMg7 via @dailykos Powerful words.
— Propane Jane (@docrocktex26) July 19, 2015
Three miles from where 13-year-old Andy Lopez was shot and killed by a Sonoma County sheriff’s deputy nearly a year ago, a mural of the boy went up.
Santa Rosa artist Mario Uribe installed Friday the temporary 8-foot-by-16-foot mural along the side of a vacant gas station at West Avenue and Sebastopol Road in the heart of Roseland. It’s one of the busiest intersections in the southwest Santa Rosa neighborhood, which was rattled by the fatal Oct. 22 shooting by Sonoma County Sheriff’s Deputy Erick Gelhaus, who reportedly mistook the airsoft BB gun Lopez was carrying for an AK-47 assault rifle that it was designed to resemble.
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“It’s funny how much people hate
to see me standing at the Gates,
presuming I can give expression
to real, system-wide oppression.
To them I say,” Well you tell me
why nothing here applies to me.
Why every fundamental right
applies to everyone in sight
except for those you single out
as people who just do not count.”
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Source: electricinthedesert.wordpress.com
Check the whole post to get the full impact.
It’s haunting and powerful.
“Since the recent Anti-Colonial Anarchism or Decolonization poster went viral I’ve been privileged, as the poster’s maker, to take part in several conversations it has provoked.”
Across mobile, and especially in iOS, people use emojis to express deep and complicated emotions. But the lack of diversity in the human-related emojis makes it hard to accurately represent life through these pictograms. For the most part (see above), they either depict white people/disembodied white hands, or the traditional…
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In states where gay marriage is legal, gays are still banned from openly marching in St Patrick’s Day parades in New York and Boston.
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Mindy Kaling, best known for being in “The Office” (2005-2013) and “The Mindy Kaling Project” (2012- ) on American television, made the cover of the February 2014 issue of Elle magazine in America….
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A generation of Pakistani artists focuses on expressing life under daily violence.
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“ Tatyana Fazlalizadeh’s Street Art Confronts Sexual Harassment”
STOP STREET HARASSMENT. Love this campaign.
Gradient Lair is one of the most well organized and laser focused blogs I’ve ever seen from an individual (one owner) blog.
Here’s a paragraph from her Bio page:
“I am college-educated. I have a Master’s degree in Criminal Justice and I completed 2 years of additional graduate work in Psychology and Mental Health Counseling. I studied race, gender and adolescent mental health/education and I have a lot of interest in how media/culture impact this. I studied Behavioral and Social Sciences at the baccalaureate level.” –Trudy
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Favianna Rodriguez artist. agitator. techie. I make art about womyn, love, sex, sluts, queers, migration, revolution & justice. I work for global social justice. http://www.favianna.com
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