Because I'm a lady that's why

ohformusicssake: M.I.A. - Paper Planes (DFA Remix) This gem...

Mon, 20 May 2013 16:02:19 -0400

M.I.A. - Paper Planes (DFA Remix)

This gem just popped into my mind for no reason.

harikondabolu: Have you ever wanted to ask a white guy...

Mon, 20 May 2013 15:47:25 -0400

Have you ever wanted to ask a white guy anything? Well, we here at Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell sent Kamau & writer Ethan Berlin up to Harlem to ask the residents this very question.

latimes: An end to zero tolerance for willful defiance in L.A....

Mon, 20 May 2013 15:43:57 -0400

Manual Arts High School student Damien Valentine, 16, is photographed at Community Coalition in South Los Angeles.

Manual Arts High School student Damien Valentine, 16, is photographed at Community Coalition in South Los Angeles.

David Chinchilla, 15, of Augustus Hawkins High School in South L.A., was suspended for interrupting and cursing at a teacher.

latimes:

An end to zero tolerance for willful defiance in L.A. schools?

California schools have long brought about swift punishments for instances of so-called willful defiance, which have disproportionally led to suspensions of many minority students not just in our home state, but nationwide.

Take the case of Damien Valentine, a Manual Arts Senior High School sophomore fighting against the practice, who says that several such punishments earlier in his school accomplished nothing but setting him back.

So just what is “willful defiance?”

That offense is now widely criticized as an arbitrary catchall for any behavior a teacher finds objectionable, such as repeatedly tapping feet on the floor, refusing to remove a hat or failing to wear the school uniform. It accounted for 48% of 710,000 suspensions issued in California in 2011-12, prompting both state and local efforts to restrict its use in disciplinary actions.

A resolution moving through Los Angeles County would make L.A. Unified the first school district in California to ban suspensions for the aforementioned offenses.

Said Tonna Onyendu of the Liberty Hill Foundation, a Los Angeles nonprofit:

“This will be a transformational shift. Instead of punishing students, we’re going to engage them.”

Read more on the matter in Teresa Watanabe’s report.

Photos: Christina House / For The Times

tangiblesoul: trynabecarefree: That little girl at the end is...

Mon, 20 May 2013 15:36:59 -0400

tangiblesoul:

trynabecarefree:

That little girl at the end is like fuck yes

I’ve been waiting for this gifset lol

"A consent-based educational model isn’t just about responding to rape culture—it’s a proactive,..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 15:22:12 -0400

“A consent-based educational model isn’t just about responding to rape culture—it’s a proactive, comprehensive system where consent is integrated into the curriculum from day one. In the same way that rape culture ingrains certain messages about sexuality, responsibility and control that take on new meanings as we grow older, consent culture works by prioritizing consent and bodily autonomy long before they’re understood in the context of sex.”

- Teaching Consent: A Better Sex-Ed (via inseptica)

satanic2chainz: bougieblack: So Kanye’s got songs on the new album called Black Skinhead, I Am...

Mon, 20 May 2013 15:16:37 -0400

satanic2chainz:

bougieblack:

So Kanye’s got songs on the new album called Black Skinhead, I Am God, and New Slaves, and I’m just hoping every single song on the album has a title that makes white people uncomfortable. I’m talking shit like “I’m Having Sex With Your Little Sister” and “I Peed In The Back Of Your Toilet So Now When You Flush Your Pee More Pee Will Come Out.”

I honestly think the titles are just to prevent mainstream airplay

"Someone asked me, ‘When you do ‘SNL,’ are you going to do a skit about the paparazzi and humanize..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 14:58:41 -0400

““Someone asked me, ‘When you do ‘SNL,’ are you going to do a skit about the paparazzi and humanize yourself?’ What the fuck do I have to apologize for? When did I become inhuman? Or was it them demonizing me and harassing me that made me less than human?””

- Kanye West

Yeezy has really always been about that real talk and this is why this nigga ain’t afraid to name his album Yeezus. If black folks can’t be humans it must be because we’re gods.

(via satanic2chainz)

botoxheart: pleatedjeans: Six seconds well spent. It was. It...

Mon, 20 May 2013 14:58:10 -0400

botoxheart:

pleatedjeans:

Six seconds well spent.

It was. It was.

runenweib: Post-mastectomy tattoos by Tina Bafaro. Photos by...

Mon, 20 May 2013 14:38:24 -0400

runenweib:

Post-mastectomy tattoos by Tina Bafaro. Photos by Bafaro.

zuky: thegoddamazon: hamdoullahcava: Muhammad Ali on the...

Mon, 20 May 2013 14:31:54 -0400

zuky:

thegoddamazon:

hamdoullahcava:

Muhammad Ali on the Vietnam War Draft

The fact that this is STILL relevant should be very telling.

Immortal words…

“If I’m gonna die, I’ll die right here fighting you … You my enemy, not the Viet Cong or Chinese or Japanese … You my opposer when I want freedom, you my opposer when I want justice, you my opposer when I want equality … You want me to go somewhere and fight, but you won’t even stand up for me here at home.”

kiwimaddog2020: PJ Harvey - Sheela-Na-Gig

Mon, 20 May 2013 14:28:55 -0400

kiwimaddog2020:

PJ Harvey - Sheela-Na-Gig

Real-Life Documentarian: John Cho – on the infantilization of Asian Americans

Sun, 19 May 2013 18:12:43 -0400

Real-Life Documentarian: John Cho – on the infantilization of Asian Americans:

asamstudiesintro:

from Oliver Wang, “The Game-Changer: An Interview With John Cho,” Asia Pacific Arts 7.3.2009) <http://www.asiaarts.ucla.edu/090703/article.asp?parentID=110145>;

APA: Last question…for Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay, Viva La Union recorded a song for the soundtrack with the line, “I want my own Chinese baby” — what’s that about?

JC: When I was thinking about it, I thought of a literal baby. There’s a kind of lack that children fill, that’s just the dark side of being a parent, I think. And there’s an accessory quality to Chinese babies in America, and I just think it’s funny. I just liked it. And you know, I would know people who would fawn over Asian babies more, and it got me to thinking, there’s this belief that Asian babies are really cute, and it got me thinking that our whole race is infantilized to some degree, and it manifests itself in different ways. You infantilize a woman, and she becomes eroticized. You infantilize a man, and he becomes emasculated. You infantilize a baby [laughs] — and it’s possible, it appears that you can infantilize a baby even more. [laughs] The babies need to be cuter than white babies. And it’s just a weird thing that I felt like said something about mainstream America’s relationship to Asians in general. So that’s where it came from.

longlivecharmander: Kanye…..as you’ve never heard him before....

Sun, 19 May 2013 17:57:31 -0400

longlivecharmander:

Kanye…..as you’ve never heard him before. (or maybe you have I dunno)

purepopfornowpeople: Bring Da Ruckus - Wu-Tang Clan

Sun, 19 May 2013 17:56:31 -0400

purepopfornowpeople:

Bring Da Ruckus - Wu-Tang Clan

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Sun, 19 May 2013 17:31:54 -0400

Beirut - Cliquot But what melody will lead my lover from his...

Sun, 19 May 2013 17:27:07 -0400

Beirut - Cliquot

But what melody will lead my lover from his bed?
What melody will see him in my arms again?

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Sun, 19 May 2013 17:26:55 -0400

Fantastic Fandom: Superheroes, Film Casting, Racism, and You

Sun, 19 May 2013 17:25:32 -0400

Fantastic Fandom: Superheroes, Film Casting, Racism, and You :

satanic2chainz:

A few weeks ago a rumor hit the web that Chronicle star Michael B. Jordan was the frontrunner to play Johnny Storm, the Human Torch, in Fox’s Fantastic 4 reboot. As I’ve come to expect, the internet went berserk and the racism began immediately – from cries of PC liberalism and it somehow being Obama’s fault to jokes about black men on fire that seemed more like the kind of things people would’ve said at a lynching than on the internet in 2013.

I wrote a thing

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Sun, 19 May 2013 17:10:16 -0400