February 2012
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Pain of 'Trail of Tears' shared by Blacks as well...
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CNN | Tiya Miles | 2/27/12
African American history, as it is often told, includes two monumental migration stories: the forced exodus of Africans to the Americas during the brutal Middle Passage of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, and the voluntary migration of Black residents who moved from southern farms and towns to northern cities in the early 1900s in search ...
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“Rape culture is a culture in which people who have survived a violent crime are...”
– (i wish i could put this on a business card and hand it out to people who make rape jokes. the flip side would say FUCK YOU)
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NEW MOLESKINE PASSIONS SERIES RELEASES INCLUDE A... →
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“Cross-racial struggle made clear the work that white women needed to do in order...”
– Becky Thompson, “Multiracial Feminism: Recasting the Chronology of Second Wave Feminism,” in Nancy Hewitt, ed., No Permanent Waves: Recasting Histories of U.S. Feminisms (via ohgeeznora)
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LIBRARIANS FTW.
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ofanotherfashion:
Maybe the most stylish librarian ever - check out that fascinator! Lucille Baldwin Brown was the first Black public county librarian in Tallahassee, Florida. This photograph is part of the collection at the State Library and Archives of Florida.
jamie
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What the fuck, Tumbo?
I leave here to do party-planning for like 2 days, and you go all rainbow on my dash.
Well, yr just lucky that I happen to be a fan of rainbows.
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anthrodynia
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. a state of exhaustion with how shitty people can be to each other, typically causing a countervailing sense of affection for all things that are sincere but not judgmental, are unabashedly joyful, or just are.
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Plagiarism, Racism, Sexism. Three things that are...
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karnythia:
So when Amanda Marcotte says the exact same thing about Rihanna that WOC bloggers have been saying for months, & suddenly it’s a good idea not to judge her? Farreal, that’s when white feminists can hear that being a survivor is more complicated than doing what makes other people feel good? Mmm..okay. I see I need to spend less time giving away...
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“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old,...”
– Socrates [via psychotherapy]
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