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[Image: A picture of a tall, very thin Black woman with her shoulder over a shorter, older white man wearing traditional Orthodox Jewish clothing on a New York sideway.]
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“This one is very serious, guys:
I came upon these two on the sidewalk. They were having a conversation. “Excuse me,” I said, addressing the girl: “I’m sorry to interrupt, but is there anyway I can take your photo?”
“Why would you want my photo?” she asked.
“Because you look beautiful,” I said. And she did. She was Sudanese. There is a very distinct beauty among people from the Sudan, and she was filled up with it. Suddenly the man cut in:
“I was just telling her she was beautiful,” he said.
Naively, I assumed I had just walked up on one stranger giving a compliment to another. I wanted to capture the moment. “Let me take your photograph together,” I said. The man seemed reluctant, he started smiling nervously and inching away. But the girl called him back.
“Come take a picture with me,” she said. Encouraged by her attention, he returned. She put her arm around him, and I took the photo.
As I examined the photos on my camera, the man started whispering to the girl. She answered him in a loud voice: “I told you! I’m not that kind of girl.” She seemed agitated now. Finally sensing that I had misread the situation, I stepped between them. The man began hurrying down the sidewalk.
When the man left, the girl’s demeanor changed completely. She seemed shaken. Her eyes were tearing up. “He just offered me five hundred dollars to go out with him,” she said. “And then when I said ‘no,’ he offered me one thousand. Why does this always happen to me?”
“It happens a lot?” I asked.
“All the time,” she said. “I’m sorry I’m getting emotional. I just can’t go out of my house without this kind of thing happening. I have a son. I’m a mother. I would never degrade myself like that. I just don’t understand why this keeps happening.”
“Do you mind if I tell this story?” I asked.
“Please,” she said. “Tell it.”
Let’s hope this man, and all men, realize the emotional damage they are inflicting on the women they try to buy. In the meantime, feel free to SHARE.*
Dear Tumblr, fuck you for trying to erase this.
I’m saving this post because as many times as Tumblr tries to erase this woman’s story and act like anything about this was okay, that’s as many times as I’m reposting it. They can either cut me off or stop being assnuggets about this. whichEVER.
Do not forget this.
This belongs back on my blog. And I should probably save the page to disc.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3v4ahIMJ41qlxu8ho1_500.jpg)
2 weeks ago[Image: A picture of a tall, very thin Black woman with her shoulder over a shorter, older white man wearing traditional Orthodox Jewish clothing on a New York sideway.]
“This one is very serious, guys:
I came upon these two on the sidewalk. They were having a conversation. “Excuse me,” I said, addressing the girl: “I’m sorry to interrupt, but is there anyway I can take your photo?”
“Why would you want my photo?” she asked.
“Because you look beautiful,” I said. And she did. She was Sudanese. There is a very distinct beauty among people from the Sudan, and she was filled up with it. Suddenly the man cut in:
“I was just telling her she was beautiful,” he said.
Naively, I assumed I had just walked up on one stranger giving a compliment to another. I wanted to capture the moment. “Let me take your photograph together,” I said. The man seemed reluctant, he started smiling nervously and inching away. But the girl called him back.
“Come take a picture with me,” she said. Encouraged by her attention, he returned. She put her arm around him, and I took the photo.
As I examined the photos on my camera, the man started whispering to the girl. She answered him in a loud voice: “I told you! I’m not that kind of girl.” She seemed agitated now. Finally sensing that I had misread the situation, I stepped between them. The man began hurrying down the sidewalk.
When the man left, the girl’s demeanor changed completely. She seemed shaken. Her eyes were tearing up. “He just offered me five hundred dollars to go out with him,” she said. “And then when I said ‘no,’ he offered me one thousand. Why does this always happen to me?”
“It happens a lot?” I asked.
“All the time,” she said. “I’m sorry I’m getting emotional. I just can’t go out of my house without this kind of thing happening. I have a son. I’m a mother. I would never degrade myself like that. I just don’t understand why this keeps happening.”
“Do you mind if I tell this story?” I asked.
“Please,” she said. “Tell it.”
Let’s hope this man, and all men, realize the emotional damage they are inflicting on the women they try to buy. In the meantime, feel free to SHARE.*
Dear Tumblr, fuck you for trying to erase this.
I’m saving this post because as many times as Tumblr tries to erase this woman’s story and act like anything about this was okay, that’s as many times as I’m reposting it. They can either cut me off or stop being assnuggets about this. whichEVER.
Do not forget this.
This belongs back on my blog. And I should probably save the page to disc.
I need help transitioning (I’m a trans girl) and I’m quite poor. :( I hate asking for help, but could my lovely followers reblog this link or donate. Even a teensy bit helps. <3
HALP!
Harmony is a total sweetie and needs it. :<
signal boosting. D:
AND AGAIN
halp our trans WoC survive :<
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3 weeks ago3 weeks agoStanding up against rape culture means giving rape victims every benefit of the doubt. It does not mean that anyone accused of rape is always guilty.
If you believe that unconditionally supporting rape victims means that we must always consider…
From the article:
“He can’t look like that. That’s wrong. Just look…
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3 weeks ago1 month agoThe right to vote, birth control, abortion access, workplace rights, beauty standards… fucking everything connected to mainstream feminism has a stained history, and a stained present. And most likely, a stained future too. If you do not admit and examine the racism and…
1 month ago“The trial for trans woman CeCe McDonald officially began today at 9am in Minneapolis. We will be doing our best to follow the case closely and post updates here on PrettyQueer. If you have additional items to report, email red@prettyqueer.com or tweet us @prettyqueer.
The judge is expected to rule on two outstanding motions today, first on whether the defense can use the fact that Dean Schmitz, the deceased, had a swastika tattoo on his chest. The second motion that is still pending is the defense motion to have an expert witness on transgender issues speak to the “climate of violence perpetrated on the trans community and to educate jurors on trans issues.”
If you’d like a full history of the case, check out Support CeCe! or if you’re a legal buff, download the case history in PDF form, from June 7, 2011 to today.
According to reports by the local support team, a number of whom attended the pretrial hearing on Friday, a number of items were decided. The full text is below, but we’ve extracted and color-coded the items of note here as well. Items colored green were beneficial to the defense, regardless of who entered the motion. Red items show that they were decided in a manner that would be unhelpful to the defense.”- prettyqueer.com
So they can talk about CeCE writing a bad check but can’t talk about the dead guys previous assault charges? Wtf…
Yeah, really.
Racist judge is racist.
Dear brothers and sisters, I really need your help. I have a dear friend, Tayyaba Beg whose family has been hit by tragedy. Due to a rare genetic disease (MPS), starting at the age of 3, her daughters went from being completely normal, to slowly losing, one by one, their ability to walk, see, eat, talk, and even swallow. Now they live in wheelchairs and on oxygen tanks. I have gotten the humbling honor to visit Tayyaba and her family in their home, and it was one of the most shaking experiences of my life. Tayyaba is up day and night caring for her kids (may Allah grant her and her family the highest jennah) and they cannot afford these overwhelming expenses. Tayyaba and her family are drowning in debt due to the monthly medical expenses and equipment. They desperately need new wheel chairs, which cost $2000 and up because their old ones are giving them bruises due to being too tight. Her girls do not even fit in their beds and need medical beds. Please donate generously and share widely:
1. Go to www.paypal.com and click on “Send Money”
2. Enter the amount in United States Dollars and select “Family and Friends”
3. Enter to send to the following email: Tayyaba@helpourgirls.com-Yasmin Mogahed
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1 month agobecause I distinctly remember getting thrown into detention for weeks as a fifth grader for punching a girl who wouldn’t believe me when I said this book was bullshit and insisted on calling me Little Tree
because educators shouldn’t be using this book for something even as ‘inane’ as reading comprehension work
because shit like this is part of why Natives are fucking fed up with appropriation and racism:
If you want to know how easy it is to pull the wool over everyone’s eyes then meet Asa Earl Carter who thirty years before his “Indian” writing days was a Ku Klux Klan organizer, a fierce segregationist, racist propagandist and a talk show host who preached the dangers of integration.
“In 1963, he drafted an inaugural address for Alabama Gov. George Wallace that would become one of the most notorious speeches of the civil rights era”…Carter was the guy who wrote these famous words for Governor Wallace:“In the name of the greatest people that have ever trod this earth I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!”Carter was the same man who years later penned a best selling and highly acclaimed “autobiography of a Native American orphan struggling against racism,” called “The Education of Little Tree.”The book, now recognized as fiction, recounts the childhood remembrances of an orphaned Native American boy living with his Cherokee grandparents in a mountain log cabin in eastern Tennessee during the 1930s. Since its first publication in 1976 the book has sold more than 1 million copies.
Originally accepted by the literary and broader media community as an actual work by a Cherokee Indian, The Education of Little Tree now ranks as one of the great literary hoaxes of American literature.
An article by John C. Hopwood in 2008 puts into perspective who Asa Earl Carter really was down deep in the fiber of his being.“Asa Earl Carter (after being fired in 1953 from radio station WILD in Birmingham for expressing anti-Semitic views on-air) subsequently formed his own “klavern” of the Ku Klux Klan, again an offshoot or splinter group of recognized organizations, that he called the Original Ku Klux Klan of the Confederacy. With Jessie Mabry, he began publishingThe Southerner, a racist newspaper.When his career in Alabama’s politics and segregation movement ended Carter reinvented himself as a writer of Western novels.
Members of Carter’s klavern stoned an African American woman who attempted to register as a student at the University of Alabama, assaulted (the then popular singer) Nat King Cole during a Birmingham performance in 1956, and beat civil rights leader Fred Shuttleworth and his wife (who was stabbed).
The wave of violence initiated by Carter’s klavern culminated in the castration of an African American handyman, who nearly bled to death. Mabry and three other members of the Carter klavern were convicted of the crime, and were sentenced to twenty years in jail. (A parole board appointed by Governor George Wallace commuted the sentences of Mabry and the three others in 1963.)
Carter was not implicated in the brutal castration/attempted murder of the African American handyman (an incident that is featured in Tennessee Williams’ Sweet Bird of Youth), but his propensity for violence was extremely pronounced. He shot two fellow Klansmen in a dispute over the klavern’s finances, but was not charged. He would later die from complications caused by a fist-fight with his own son.”
Hopwood writes he took the pen name “Forrest Carter,” and took as his new “Christian name” the surname of Nathan Bedford Forrest — the founder of the Ku Klux Klan.
By 1975 Carter found himself on NBC’s The Today Show being interviewed by Barbara Walters who bought everything Carter was selling (he told her he had “wrangled horses” and when he lived in Oklahoma he was “the storyteller to the Cherokee Nation.”)
His first Western novel, The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales, was made into the hit 1976 movie “The Outlaw Josey Wales,” starring and directed by Clint Eastwood.
Carter was paid $35,000 for the book’s movie rights. After the Eastwood film was released, The New York Times revealed that Forrest Carter was Asa Earl Carter, the segregationist.
In addition to his sequel to Josey Wales, Carter wrote a second Western novel about Geronimo and after that his block-buster The Education of Little Tree: A True Story, which he claimed was a memoir of “Forrest Carter,” Cherokee sage.
Although slow starting in sales the book eventually went on to became Delacorte’s best-selling book ever — over a million copies sold.
The University of New Mexico acquired the title in 1985. For its initial edition it printed a dust-jacket biography claiming, untruthfully, that “Forrest Carter, whose Indian name is Little Tree, was known as ‘Storyteller in Council’ to the Cherokee Nations.”
And no one checked with the Cherokee Nations to see if that was true.
Carter died in 1979 after finishing a draft screenplay for his Josey Wales sequel. His Geronimo book was published posthumously. In fact, in the 1990’s four of his books were published.
In 1991, Education of Little Tree now published by the University of New Mexico Press with the A True Story subtitle dropped, became a #1 best-seller on The New York Times paperback non-fiction best-seller list.
…the Cherokee words that Forrest Carter used in his “memoir” weren’t Cherokee. They weren’t anything. They were made up out of thin air.
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1 month ago“This is a brilliant move on his part,” says Amy Singer, a Gainesville-based trial consultant. By engaging the public online, “you get a lot of comments, a lot of perspectives, a lot of discussion.”
And Singer should know: During the Casey Anthony trial, she analyzed more than 40,000 tweets and comments for Anthony’s defense, gauging the public’s reaction to various arguments and tactics.
Because thousands of people give their opinions unsolicited through social media, services like Twitter can put a defense team in theenviable position of being”a fly on the wall,” Singer said, monitoring how people react to each twist and turn.
O’Mara, she said, has just taken the next logical step. By creating a Facebook and Twitter profile, “all that they’re doingis joining in the conversation” already taking place online.
In case you were under the mistaken impression that people still had souls.
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1 month agoHi! I just started a tumblr, the Transgender Couchsurfing Network. After seeing dozens of posts come across my dash about displaced or homeless trans people needing places to crash, I decided that there had to be a way to organize these posts somehow, and to put those in need in contact with those willing to lend a hand. If you’re trans and need a place to stay, or if you have a couch or floor or spare bedroom available for someone in need, I urge you to reblog this post, follow the blog, and get the word out. Everything is still under heavy construction, but the more people that see and hear about this blog, the more people will be able to benefit from it! I know that there are so many people here on tumblr who are in need of a place to stay for a night or two, and I also know how many amazing, wonderful people would be willing to host someone and help out a trans person in need. We all know what a huge problem unemployment and homelessness are for trans people (especially TPOC and trans women) — even a place to stay for a night can make the biggest difference! So PLEASE, even if you can’t offer up your couch, REBLOG AND SIGNAL BOOST. I really, really think that this is something that could help a lot of people, and I would LOVE to see this spammed all over my dash and the dashes of all of my lovely followers!!
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