http://de1icate.tumblr.com/

oh shit

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 23:12:18 -0700

i came back to tumblr to find out that one of the photos i had commented on has 239 notes:

http://de1icate.tumblr.com/post/14637425897/an-eight-foot-high-drawing-of-a-woman-wearing-a

BUT i don’t think that most ppl who reblogged/liked have seen my commentary. -_-

To file or not to file a harrassment complaint? That is the question.

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:06:29 -0800

To file or not to file a harrassment complaint? That is the question.

lost/misplaced my moleskine last night. all those notes on stuart hall, diaspora, human rights...

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:59:32 -0800

lost/misplaced my moleskine last night.

all those notes on stuart hall, diaspora, human rights discourse, tourism. all that self-reflection on my time in korea, my positionality, tourist experience in india, etc. GONE. GONE. GONE.

i feel like i’m missing an extension of my mind.

UGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

Wallowing in misery.

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:27:17 -0800

Food poisoning. Again. Ugh. Just looking at food makes me feel nauseous.

there are moments when we’re talking when it feels so right for me to say “i love...

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:32:26 -0800

there are moments when we’re talking when it feels so right for me to say “i love you.”

i don’t know if it’s still love or just remembering the moments/times when it was easy/better and meaningful to say those words.

i don’t need a super privileged white woman to tell me...

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:04:39 -0800

i don’t need a super privileged white woman to tell me about the progress of the world’s women, AS IF “WOMEN” IS A MONOLITHIC CATEGORY.

1radicaldreamer: rainbowfairyprincess: dangertits: skiptripfal...

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:07:05 -0800

1radicaldreamer:

rainbowfairyprincess:

dangertits:

skiptripfall:

rainbowfairyprincess:

I am incredibly grateful to my parents for giving me both kinds of toys. I preferred the dolls, but at least I know that was my own honest choice.

My mom wouldn’t let me have toys.

I still find most commentary on the sexist division of girl toys and boy toys to be rather lacking. Of course if is terrible that girls and boys are given toys that encourage them to enact stereotypical gender roles ways so young; this type of socialization might prime them to fill specific roles later on in life. But people are still undervaluing “girls toys,” equating them with passive frivolousness. And how sexist is that? The sentiment is that “gender neutral” toys, always verging towards “boys toys,” are constructive, educational, and worthwhile. Dolls aren’t. This is the kind of sentiment that dismisses the value of “women’s work” of care-giving later on in life.

“Boys toys” tend to be physically complex. “Girls toys” tend to be socially complex. The complexity of the imaginary play that children often engage in with dolls is intangible and made invisible early on—because you aren’t looking. It is so much easier for a child to say “look what I made” and get a pat on the back than to say “watch me engage.”

I played with lot of different types of toys. Sure, I liked to build things with legos. But I much preferred my dolls. And guess what? All forty or so of my beanie babies had individual personalities. They had roles, romances, they interacted with each other in complex ways. There were smaller subgroups of birds or bears. I used them to create a complete micro-society. But an adult passerby would see that pile of critters as a rather useless and excessive collection.

Understanding social complexities, the kind of play which “girls toys” encourage, is undervalued from an early age.

Let’s please stop with the “dolls are dumb” rhetoric. It isn’t helpful. It’s still sexist. The problem of gendered children’s toys won’t be fixed by allowing free access to “boys toys” for all, but by seeing the value in diverse types of play, and encouraging all children to engage in them.

Re-reblogging for commentary.

And to add that dolls ought to be marketed/designed in a way that encourages that kind of creative play, rather than the way they seem to be done now, with pre-packaged personalities and an emphasis on how “sexy” they are.

reblogged for commentary.

sour mood

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:01:10 -0800

slept 4 hours
woke up to finding out that ppl could see things that i thought was private. (SERIOUSLY FUCK THE TIMELINE.)
accidentally put my phone in the laundry machine. it’s sitting in a bag of rice.
went to the wrong korean language discussion….THREE TIMES in a span of 20 minutes
webreg isn’t working. can’t sign up for a fucking class.

bitter. oh so bitter.

was just told you that you could see pictures i was tagged in. i’m incredibly fucking pissed....

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 07:18:29 -0800

was just told you that you could see pictures i was tagged in.

i’m incredibly fucking pissed. fuck you fb.

trying to finish up a paper from last quarter. i really don’t want to start winter qrtr with...

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 19:43:37 -0800

trying to finish up a paper from last quarter.

i really don’t want to start winter qrtr with baggage.

but i’m getting really cold, hungry, tired, restless.

i’ve been in geisel for the past six hours.

600 words left. ):

time to power through this shit!

"First Nations people live with stereotyping every day of their lives. A perfect example of this..."

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 16:24:06 -0800

“First Nations people live with stereotyping every day of their lives. A perfect example of this comes straight out of history books that Hollywood picked up on from day one. When America’s educational system does include “Native American” history, it breezes through Pocahontas, Sacajawea, and the Trail of Tears and on to the real “Indians” who were defeated during the “Indian Wars” of the late 1870s. By focusing on the nomadic and warrior traditions of the Great Plains Nations, textbooks used in American Schools have perpetuated “Indian” stereotypes that cause everybody to imagine teepees, feather bonnets, trade beads, fringed buckskin clothing, and painted pony warriors with deep copper-colored skin and long, black braids every time they see the words “Native American.” The comment “Gee, you don’t look like an Indian” arises from this stereotyping so faithfully followed by Hollywood today.”

- Suerra S, Adare, “Indian” Stereotypes in TV Science Fiction: First Nations’ Voices Speak Out (via adailyriot)

When I was in school they didn’t even get that far. We talked about Squanto, Pocahantas, and light mention that the Cherokee helped fight in the Revolution. Period. Done. Natives stopped existing until Manifest Destiny, then they were nameless, faceless, and only an “inconvenience” that attacked settlers but were otherwise ignored.

(via notyourkinddear)

Soy Dulce de Leche: And i dont believe in empowering yourself being dominance. But i do...

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 08:03:05 -0800

Soy Dulce de Leche: And i dont believe in empowering yourself being dominance. But i do...:

soydulcedeleche:

And i dont believe in empowering yourself being dominance. But i do believe in finally opening your mouth to assert the fact that you too are human and get to need and want things to be a certain way too. That just like we spend our lives accomodating for others, we deserve some accomodating in…

clarity

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 00:19:00 -0800

three years of falling for and falling apart, loving and being loved, hurting and being hurt, lying and being lied to, growing together and growing apart have taught me that words are cheap.

i know my worth, but you clearly don’t. you had me, and you never will have me again.

organorigami: “I remember when I was doing Rent and I was too...

Sat, 07 Jan 2012 22:55:02 -0800

organorigami:

“I remember when I was doing Rent and I was too thin, and I was doing that on purpose because I’m dying, I’m a HIV+ drug addict. I remember having to eat raw food and doing all this work to make sure I could stay thin… And I remember everyone asking me when I was doing press for the movie, “what did you do to get so thin? You looked great!” and I’m like, “I looked emaciated.”

It’s a form of violence in the way that we look at women and how we expect them to look and be, for… what’s sake? Not health, not survival, not enjoyment of life, but just so that you can look ‘pretty’.

I’m constantly telling girls all the time, “everything’s airbrushed, everything’s retouched, to the point of just that it’s never even asked, and none of us look like that.”

- Rosario Dawson

knowledgeequalsblackpower: politicalprof: Calling Newt...

Sat, 07 Jan 2012 22:49:14 -0800

knowledgeequalsblackpower:

politicalprof:

Calling Newt Gingrich:

Who uses food stamps and other welfare programs. And no, Newt, it turns out they’re not all African American.

From Charles Blow.

History Time!

Even though today Americans incorrectly associate welfare dependency with Black people, Black people were excluded from the welfare system for most of its history.

Welfare was meant for immigrant women. Proponents of the welfare system thought that urban immigrants threatened “the social order.” Welfare was seen as not only charity but also as a way of “supervising and disciplining recipients.” They felt that the cure for single mothers’ poverty was for these foreigners to “conform to American family standards.”

Black single mothers were not included in this effort. Welfare was intended for White mothers only. Administrators either set-up regulations that disqualified Blacks (such as eligibility standards that excluded domestic servants) or didn’t enact programs in areas that had large Black populations.

As a result, in 1931 the first national survey of mothers’ pensions broken down by race found that only three percent of recipients were Black.

In addition to this, other programs, such as those enacted in the New Deal, also excluded Blacks. When Blacks were able to gain access to some benefits, they were given less than Whites on the grounds that “Blacks needed less than Whites to live off of.”

Blacks only began to gain access to assistant programs through the Civil Rights era. As a result of lots of hard work by grassroots organizations, welfare benefits were secured for all.

However, this became a double edged sword kinda victory for Black America.

As AFDC became increasingly associated with Black mothers already stereotyped as lazy, irresponsible, and overly fertile, it became increasingly burdened with behavior modification, work requirements, and reduced effective benefit levels. Social Security, on the other hand, effectively transferred income from Blacks to whites because Blacks have a lower life expectancy and pay a disproportionate share of taxes on earnings. Meanwhile, a white backlash had decimated the War on Poverty programs within a decade.

(via “Welfare and the Problem of Black Citizenship” by Dorothy E. Roberts)

youarenotyou: fuckyeahselfcare: Making self-care apart of...

Sat, 07 Jan 2012 22:47:49 -0800

youarenotyou:

fuckyeahselfcare:

Making self-care apart of your daily routine is important and can drastically improve your well being. Recently, as inspired by this, I’ve started having self-care days once a month, weather I go out or stay at home.

BEST DAY OF THE YEAR.

progressive-brutal: “Historical consciousness”

Sat, 07 Jan 2012 16:40:10 -0800

progressive-brutal:

“Historical consciousness”

QUEERING THE GAME OF LIFE: thefremen: “What’s so wrong with Georgia’s childhood obesity campaign?...

Sat, 07 Jan 2012 16:33:00 -0800

QUEERING THE GAME OF LIFE: thefremen: “What’s so wrong with Georgia’s childhood obesity campaign?...:

thefremen:

“What’s so wrong with Georgia’s childhood obesity campaign? Everything.” by Harriet Brown

cabell:

Peter Muennig, M.D ., of Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health, researches the connections between weight and health. He believes stigma and weight bias are responsible for at least some, and possibly most, of the adverse health effects associated with obesity. In other words, it may not be weight itself that makes people sick, but rather the stress of being fat in a fatphobic society. Kortni Jones, a physician’s assistant in Michigan, looked at the relationship between weight stigma and health care in her master’s thesis, and found thatmessages of overt stigmatization from health-care providers translate to worse health care for people who are obese. Rebecca Puhl of Yale’s Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity has come to similar conclusions after doing a series of studies on how stigma affects obesity.

I’d be really interested to see how this plays out in maternity care and outcomes, where we already know that stress is particularly harmful, and imo the posited links between weight and health are ESPECIALLY batshit.

(Sorry about linking to Psychology Today, which is not a publication that I support, but I think this piece is good.)

Fierce as fuck: Not sound racist, but...

Sat, 07 Jan 2012 16:29:27 -0800

Fierce as fuck: Not sound racist, but... :

zorascreation:

I don’t date Muggles or Muggle-borns. It’s not racism, just a preference. I’ll date Half-bloods if they grew up in the magical world, though.

Is it true all Muggle-borns have longer wands?

It’s not MY fault Purebloods are naturally more powerful.

I’ve never personally experienced “Pureblood Privilege”, so it doesn’t exist.

How come you can call other Muggle-borns the M-word, but I can’t? How is that okay?

Purebloods suffered persecution from Muggles, but you don’t hear us complaining about it.

I think it’s even MORE racist to assume that I have “privilege” because I’m pureblood!

ANYONE can be a Mudblood, not just Muggle-borns!

It’s not my fault Mudbloods often live up to the stereotypes!

Muggle-borns just happen to be more dangerous and prone to violence because they come from such un-magical backgrounds.

If you hate the Wizarding world so much why don’t you leave Hogwarts?

If a Pureblood calls you a Mudblood, it’s automatically racist? But you can call me a Bloody or a Death Eater and that’s NOT racist? That’s so unfair!

Words only have the power you give to them. Besides, Mudblood now means “friend” anyway, so there’s no problem with me using it! Mudblood Mudblood Mudblood!

How can I have pureblood privilege? I’m a Black wizard! You know the Wizarding world is Eurocentric. Wait…what’s intersectionality?

Jonathan, why are you the absolute BEST?

1radicaldreamer: this is for the white supremacist dude spewing...

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:39:18 -0800

1radicaldreamer:

this is for the white supremacist dude spewing anti-asian racism at the bus stop (i.e. “go back to your own country gook; learn to speak english; *when people don’t response to him* you don’t understand anything i say huh?”) and making people around him (including me) feel unsafe.