rubato:

that east asians’ wealth often comes at the expense of other people of color

that korean people will often set up businesses in black neighborhoods and not invest money back into the neighborhood that pays them

that chinese people will often manage real estate and pay the mortgages and have disposable income from section 8 tenants, often latin@s, then turn around and say those tenants aren’t working hard enough and blame them for their problems

never forget that while affirmative action fucks us over by holding us to higher standards that screws us out of college, we’ll often turn around and blame brown and black people instead of the white people who are the true culprits

never forget that wealth privilege affords many of us east asiams better lives

but often at the cost of exploiting other poc

doveilmiosoldi:

like i really hate professors that don’t think about the political economy of their syllabi

do u realize that by requiring your students to purchase tim wise’s book instead of bell hooks, you’re actively choosing to (a) privilege a white perspective over a POC’s and (b) helping that white person to profit off of being anti-racist? 

do u think about tim wise’s royalties? and do u think about that student and their limited budget for books, and how that fucking tim wise book is taking up space on the shelf and in that budget that coulda gone to edward said?

i mean damn

(Source: nitanahkohe)

gqgqqt:

I appreciate Joe’s debate answer on abortion more than I do most answers

because some folks will be like: “well I think abortion is good and I’M OBVIOUSLY MORALLY RIGHT so abortion is the right choice”

and some folks will be like: “well I think abortion is bad and I’M OBVIOUSLY MORALLY RIGHT so abortion is the wrong choice”

but Joe’s is more like: “well, fuck what I think. that’s me. what’s your personal belief and what works for you? …okay, do that.”

That’s the answer I want to hear from people

heylittlelion:

Note: The cure for asthma is not, “Just breathe!”, and the cure for cancer is not, “Stop growing those cells!” Similarly, the cure for depression is not, “Just be happier!”, and the cure for anxiety is not, “Stop worrying so much!” These are not phases of life for teenagers and the weak-minded - they are serious and chronic medical illnesses.

(Source: vangoghsdaughter)

supportivecoloredfriend:

If anyone gives you the whole “If you want shit to change in media become a director or writer and change it” bullshit 

Show them this

Heres a little quote, 

“In this day and age, it’s quite disappointing that so many shows failed to hire even a single woman or minority director during the course of an entire season — even shows whose cast and crew is notably diverse, Barclay noted. “And, ‘We just don’t know anybody’ doesn’t cut it anymore — the pool of talented and experienced women and minority directors grows every year, and too many of these qualified, capable directors are still overlooked.”

This is from the Directors Guild of America basically saying that there a DROVES AND DROVES of women, women of color, men of color all different types of brown people, WHO ARE TALENTED AND EXPERIENCED who do NOT get hired. 

Don’t want to believe the LA Times? It’s right there. From the horses mouth.

So please. When people give you that 

• Go make some media if you don’t feel represented
• There probably aren’t that many POC making media
•  They want to find the best people and they just so happened to be white

TELL THEM TO READ THIS AND GO FUCK THEMSELVES. 

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beermuda:

Every single time someone makes a post about how all m/m is fetishizing and anyone who writes it is a cesspool of internalized misogyny I just have to laugh.  There are definitely some problematic aspects of m/m slash and definitely some people who do (some admittedly) fetishize m/m relationships.  If you do the stuff on this list, you should probably check yourself.  Hard.

• Do you tell everyone that you hope your children are gay men so you can ship them with their friends?
• Do you ignore and/or vilify the lady characters?
• Do you ignore the men of color because you think only white men are attractive and interesting?
• Do you ship two attractive white dudes, and only two attractive white dudes, in everything? 
• Have you ever asked who the woman is in a relationship between two men? Do you designate a male character the “woman” in the relationship?  This is not okay because the whole like, point of a relationship between two gay dudes is that we are, you know, dudes.
• Do you call gay men in relationships that are not part of the yaoi subgenre “seme” and “uke”?  On that note, do you make a huge deal out of stuff like “Who tops?”  This is a really silly thing to do!  Some gay men who have anal have a preference one way or another, some don’t.  Sexual preferences are not always dictated by personality traits, either!  Some men who paint their nails prefer to top, and some lumberjacks prefer to bottom.
• Do you put anal sex on a pedestal as the only kind of “real” sex two men can have?  A lot of gay men don’t even have anal sex.
• Do you think that “true love” is between two men because ladies are gross?
• If there is a feminine male character who shows canon interest in women, have you decided that he has to be gay?  
• Do you say that you are a “gay man in a woman’s body”?  Please stop saying that.  Queer trans* men are, you know, literally gay men trapped in women’s bodies, and they have to face a pretty fair amount of adversity for that!  Claiming to be a gay man in a woman’s body because you like to read and write about gay men is trivializing that.  Please don’t do it.
• Do you see a picture of two gay men walking down the street and freak out about it?  I mean, like, we do that.  We do stuff!  We’re people.  We do things like walk down the street and eat food.  There’s no reason to make a huge deal out of that!

If you answered no to these questions, then I am pretty sure you don’t need to check yourself.  I don’t think anyone with a lick of sense is going to argue that there is a lot of misogyny in fandom, internalized or otherwise.  But occasionally enjoying m/m is not an infallible indicator of internalized misogyny. 

A lot of people who enjoy m/m and f/f are, you know, queer people.  Queer men, queer women, queer non-binary folks.  It is not fetishizing for queer folks to want to read and write about queer people.  Whenever this argument comes up, we are always the ones left out.   It is always a strongly worded letter to the Evil Fangirls.

It is entirely possible for a lady, queer or otherwise, to write respectful fanfiction about gay men that normalizes gay relationships.  This actually like, happens a lot. While I don’t think there’s anything wrong with being shallow as long as your version of shallow doesn’t exclude marginalized groups, I am pretty sick of seeing ladies who like m/m in any aspect being repeatedly dismissed as a bunch of screaming and woman hating fangirls unable to think critically about material.   What was that about misogyny again?

marielikestodraw:

mm-coconut:

(Sequel to Needs More Sparkly Pens. Stiles finds his notebook in his room and oh holy god.)(ao3)

Slightly NSFW for throbbing.

“What,” Stiles said.

I don’t think I’ve laughed so hard in a very long time. A very long time. This is just fuckin amazing, I can’t even.

(Source: mmmcoconut)