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tw: assault, miscarriage

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:29:43 +0100

theuppitynegras:

Pregnant Muslim woman attacked in Paris loses baby

cleophatrajones:

knowledgeequalsblackpower:

radicalrebellion:

lalazarda:

The 21-year-old Muslim woman, who was four months pregnant, was physically attacked by two men. The attackers first tried taking her headscarf off and later cut off her hair and tore part of her clothing. After she screamed out that she was pregnant, one of the attackers started kicking her in the stomach.

http://www.todayszaman.com/newsDetail_getNewsById.action?newsId=318574#.UcBZU7W9QzQ.facebook

But Europe is so tolerant, though.

Absolutely disgusting.

Disgusting. I hope they burn.

Reblogged for the Europe comment

notwiththoseshoesonboi: Yup this is a troll blog

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:30:33 +0100

notwiththoseshoesonboi:

Yup this is a troll blog

I specifically found a tumblr tag wrapping plugin for chrome so I could see the tags on your posts. Tryin' so hard not to creep but CREEPIN' REALLY HARD ANYWAY SORRY I'LL SHOW MYSELF OUT

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:38:00 +0100

How my mother's fanatical feminist views tore us apart, by the daughter of The Color Purple author

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 03:40:55 +0100

How my mother's fanatical feminist views tore us apart, by the daughter of The Color Purple author:

sapphrikah:

mstresir:

alienswithankhs:

werewolfpussychiapet:

teacakeomnislash:

theedjcagedbird:

eyan-j:

trillaryclinton:

As a revered feminist and author Alice Walker touched the lives of a generation of women through her iconic book The Color Purple. But one woman didn’t buy in to Alice’s beliefs - her daughter.

wow.

YOP

Hmmm…. This is deep. I am suspicious tho. But that image she painted of Alice tho… jesus

i got some thoughts on this

this is really sad, but sometimes that’s how the shit goes, y’know?

I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of folks who art we loved treated their children/spouses/families horribly

Oooooh…there’s so much going on here.

Alright so:

Lmao, I too feel that motherhood would be servitude. Lmfao. I’m half-joking, cause I really don’t like kids and never fucking want them.

But view—that motherhood is servitude—is a bit extremist and I don’t think it should necessarily be projected onto others, as it is obviously (or at least should be) a person’s choice, whether or not they will have kids.

But this: “As the child of divorced parents, I know only too well the painful consequences of being brought up in those circumstances. Feminism has much to answer for denigrating men and encouraging women to seek independence whatever the cost to their families.”

I’mma need Ms. Rebecca Walker to have a seat on that note. The denigration of men? GIIIIIRL, BYE. And I need a motherfucking study on how often feminism has led mothers to seek independence thus harming their families [read: children, ‘cause that’s obviously what she’s getting at.] Cause I really don’t see that being a big trend. At all.

Here’s some conservative slut-shaming I don’t need.: “But the truth was I was very lonely and, with my mother’s knowledge, started having sex at 13. I guess it was a relief for my mother as it meant I was less demanding. And she felt that being sexually active was empowering for me because it meant I was in control of my body.

Now I simply cannot understand how she could have been so permissive. I barely want my son to leave the house on a play-date, let alone start sleeping around while barely out of junior school.”

There’s also some more shit about how feminists are wrong about abortion, about how mothers basically aren’t good mothers if they don’t set boundaries a plenty on their children. I mean okay, from what she’s saying about Alice never being there, and never taking part in her life, that’s definitely fucked up. Definitely. But she’s cast a very terrible light on the whole movement for her mother’s extremism and competitiveness and negligence which as far as I know, do not rally stand for attributes of any way of feminism by large, as far as I know.

I mean the article is basically this: feminism is bad because my mom was feminist and it made her neglect me, never be there for me, disown me, and wanting to be a mother is natural, mother’s should be conservative and homemaking, and traditional.

Like your mom’s issues are not what feminism is truly about. Am I making any sense?

See look: “I know many women are shocked by my views. They expect the daughter of Alice Walker to deliver a very different message. Yes, feminism has undoubtedly given women opportunities. It’s helped open the doors for us at schools, universities and in the workplace. But what about the problems it’s caused for my contemporaries?”

What problems, shorty? Feminism is not about creating problems, son.

Like, ugh, okay:

“Then there is the issue of not having children. Even now, I meet women in their 30s who are ambivalent about having a family. They say things like: ‘I’d like a child. If it happens, it happens.’ I tell them: ‘Go home and get on with it because your window of opportunity is very small.’ As I know only too well.

Then I meet women in their 40s who are devastated because they spent two decades working on a PhD or becoming a partner in a law firm, and they missed out on having a family. Thanks to the feminist movement, they discounted their biological clocks. They’ve missed the opportunity and they’re bereft.

Feminism has betrayed an entire generation of women into childlessness. It is devastating.”

And there are the true bitter ass color of this article, which has a huge undertone of WOMEN HAVE TO HAVE BABIES AND STAY AT HOME AND BE DOTING MOTHERS. Like, what, girl, you’re telling women to go have babies? “Feminism has betrayed an entire generation of women in to childlessness”?!I just. What. Since when is working to get doors opened for women who CHOOSE to study and get demanding careers robbing them of the choice to be parents? And since when is it that women HAVE to choose between the two? Fathers can be caretakers too. Nobody is telling me they shouldn’t have become doctors because SHIT NOW YOU’VE MISSED THE WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY ON YOUR SPERM CELLS.

Nah, she made Alice sound fucked up, if her words are true, but I’m not here for her bullshit either.

So this post says what I was trying to say much better.

thefemaletyrant: sourcedumal: niggawitamacbook: Yoooooooooo S...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:18:36 +0100

thefemaletyrant:

sourcedumal:

niggawitamacbook:

Yoooooooooo

SONNNN……

This film

sagansense: NASA’s Space Exploration Vehicle for Asteroids...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:16:04 +0100

sagansense:

NASA’s Space Exploration Vehicle for Asteroids & Beyond

expose-the-light: High Speed Photographs of Exploding...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:07:14 +0100

expose-the-light:

High Speed Photographs of Exploding Lightbulbs Filled with Objects

ijustlovesharks: Carwash - Luc Eeckhaut

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:04:14 +0100

ijustlovesharks:

Carwash - Luc Eeckhaut

odditiesoflife: The Giant Black Catfish that Shook Japan In...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:02:48 +0100

odditiesoflife:

The Giant Black Catfish that Shook Japan

In November 1855, the Great Ansei Earthquake struck the city of Edo (now Tokyo), claiming 7,000 lives and inflicting widespread damage. Within days, a new type of color woodblock print known as namazu-e (lit. “catfish pictures”) became popular among the residents of the shaken city. These prints featured mythical giant catfish (namazu) who, according to popular legend, caused earthquakes by thrashing about in their underground lairs.

The popularity of namazu-e exploded, and hundreds were available within weeks. However, the namazu-e craze abruptly ended two months later when the Tokugawa government, which maintained a strict system of censorship over the publishing industry, cracked down on production. Only a handful survive today; more can be seen here.

Picture 1 - Namazu are normally kept under control by the god Kashima using a large rock. The Great Ansei Earthquake is said to have occurred when Kashima went out of town and left Ebisu (god of fishing and commerce) in charge. In this print, the giant catfish unleashes destruction on the city while Ebisu sleeps on the job. Kashima rushes home while the city burns, and Raijin the thunder god defecates drums.

Picture 2 - Earthquake victims take revenge on the giant catfish responsible for the destruction.

Picture 3 - This print refers to the old Japanese saying, “The most frightening things are earthquakes, thunder, fires, and fathers.” Here, a namazu and the gods of thunder and fire discuss their powers over a fish dinner while a middle-aged man (father) looks on.

unicorn-meat-is-too-mainstream: NUWA Nuwa is a series of...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:00:14 +0100

unicorn-meat-is-too-mainstream:

NUWA

Nuwa is a series of imaginary characters, in reference to the creative goddess of the same name, who shaped the first humans with some clay.

teacakeomnislash: When You Kill Ten Million Africans You Aren’t Called...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:55:28 +0100

teacakeomnislash:

When You Kill Ten Million Africans You Aren’t Called ‘Hitler’
canadian-communist:

Take a look at this picture. Do you know who it is?

Most people haven’t heard of him.

But you should have. When you see his face or hear his name you should get as sick in your stomach as when you read about Mussolini or Hitler or see one of their pictures. You see, he killed over 10 million people in the Congo.

His name is King Leopold II of Belgium.

He “owned” the Congo during his reign as the constitutional monarch of Belgium. After several failed colonial attempts in Asia and Africa, he settled on the Congo. He “bought” it and enslaved its people, turning the entire country into his own personal slave plantation. He disguised his “business transactions” as philanthropic and scientific efforts under the banner of the “International African Society”. He used their enslaved labor to extract Congolese resources and services. His reign was enforced through work camps, body mutilations, executions, torture, and his private army.

Most of us – I don’t yet know an approximate percentage but I fear its extremely high – aren’t taught about him in school. We don’t hear about him in the media. He’s not part of the widely repeated narrative of oppression (which includes things like the Holocaust during World War II). He’s part of a long history of colonialism, imperialism, slavery and genocide in Africa that would clash with the social construction of the white supremacist narrative in our schools. It doesn’t fit neatly into a capitalist curriculum. Its bad to “say racist things” (sometimes), but quite fine not to talk about genocides in Africa perpetrated by European capitalist monarchs.

Mark Twain wrote a satire about Leopold called “King Leopold’s soliloquy; a defense of his Congo rule“, where he mocked the King’s defense of his reign of terror, largely through Leopold’s own words. Its 49 pages long. Mark Twain is a popular author for American public schools. But like most political authors, we will often read some of their least political writings or read them without learning why the author wrote them (Orwell’s Animal Farm for example serves to re-inforce American anti-Socialist propaganda, but Orwell was an anti-capitalist revolutionary of a different kind – this is never pointed out). We can read about Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer, but King Leopold’s Soliloquy isn’t on the reading list. This isn’t by accident. Reading lists are created by boards of education in order to prepare students to follow orders and endure boredom well. From the point of view of the Education Department, Africans have no history.

When we learn about Africa, we learn about a caricaturized Egypt, about the HIV epidemic (but never its causes), about the surface level effects of the slave trade, and maybe about South African Apartheid (which of course now is long, long over). We also see lots of pictures of starving children on Christian Ministry commercials, we see safaris on animal shows, and we see pictures of deserts in films and movies. But we don’t learn about the Great African War or Leopold’s Reign of Terror during the Congolese Genocide. Nor do we learn about what the United States has done in Iraq and Afghanistan, potentially killing in upwards of 5-7 million people from bombs, sanctions, disease and starvation. Body counts are important. And we don’t count Afghans, Iraqis, or Congolese.

There’s a Wikipedia page called “Genocides in History”. The Congolese Genocide isn’t included. The Congo is mentioned though. What’s now called the Democratic Republic of the Congo is listed in reference to the Second Congo War (also called Africa’s World War and the Great War of Africa), where both sides of the multinational conflict hunted down Bambenga and ate them. Cannibalism and slavery are horrendous evils which must be entered into history and talked about for sure, but I couldn’t help thinking who’s interests were served when the only mention of the Congo on the page was in reference to multi-national incidents where a tiny minority of people were eating each other (completely devoid of the conditions which created the conflict no less). Stories which support the white supremacist narrative about the subhumanness of people in Africa are allowed to be entered into the records of history. The white guy who turned the Congo into his own personal part-plantation, part-concentration camp, part-Christian ministry and killed 10 to 15 million Conglese people in the process doesn’t make the cut.

You see, when you kill ten million Africans, you aren’t called ‘Hitler’. That is, your name doesn’t come to symbolize the living incarnation of evil. Your name and your picture doesn’t produce fear, hatred, and sorrow. Your victims aren’t talked about and your name isn’t remembered.

Leopold was just one part of thousands of things that helped construct white supremacy as both an ideological narrative and material reality. Of course I don’t want to pretend that in the Congo he was the source of all evil. He had generals, and foot soldiers, and managers who did his bidding and enforced his laws. It was a system. But this doesn’t negate the need to talk about the individuals who are symbolic of the system. But we don’t even get that. And since it isn’t talked about, what capitalism did to Africa, all the privileges that rich white people gained from the Congolese genocide are hidden. The victims of imperialism are made, like they usually are, invisible.

for further reading check out

King Leopold’s Ghost

and

King Leopold’s Rule in Africa

Reblogging this mostly for the links, and also because I just heard Obama’s idiotic address and I am furious.

Beautifully Exotic Looking Species of Moths from Ottawa

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:38:31 +0100

Beautifully Exotic Looking Species of Moths from Ottawa

How my mother's fanatical feminist views tore us apart, by the daughter of The Color Purple author

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:02:00 +0100

How my mother's fanatical feminist views tore us apart, by the daughter of The Color Purple author:

alienswithankhs:

werewolfpussychiapet:

teacakeomnislash:

theedjcagedbird:

eyan-j:

trillaryclinton:

As a revered feminist and author Alice Walker touched the lives of a generation of women through her iconic book The Color Purple. But one woman didn’t buy in to Alice’s beliefs - her daughter.

wow.

YOP

Hmmm…. This is deep. I am suspicious tho. But that image she painted of Alice tho… jesus

i got some thoughts on this

this is really sad, but sometimes that’s how the shit goes, y’know?

I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of folks who art we loved treated their children/spouses/families horribly

I’m actually not surprised at all. I think I’ve mentioned before that I came from a horribly emotionally and physically abusive household—this just aside from the influence of extended family, like my paternal grandmother who regularly promised to poison me, or my uncles who called agberos on my siblings and me and put guns in my face more than once. My father is an ordained bishop, an academic, and is charismatic and extraverted in social company. So no, I’m not at all amazed by whatever private self Alice Walker cultivated, or how Rebecca Walker coped with it. I mean, for my own part, I moved out in my mid-teens and had no contact with any of my family until nineteen/twenty, when I did some reflecting and decided to forgive them only because I realised there’s been a long legacy of neglect, abuse (emotional, verbal, and physical) passed down especially from my father’s side, and most if not all of my family who were alive at the time (including my parents) likely suffer from undiagnosed PTSD brought on by the war and its decades-long aftermath. For all our parts, we deal with the ghosts by simply pretending all that bleeding never happened.

So I understand how Rebecca Walker’s own pro-woman ideas would be shaped partly in response to her mother’s.

…On the other hand…I don’t understand why her conception of female empowerment (and women’s agency) is so very…white? Admittedly, there is the potential that this is just a bad interview (the Daily Mail isn’t above spinning a story against the wind), and it IS old, but I’m not so sure if that’s to blame here. I dunno, maybe it’s my myopia talking, or experiences as a desperately poor immigrant as well as a black woman talking, but when she was going on about academic access, economic stability, socio-financial mobility, and the ability to enjoy motherhood free of stigma, and motherhood as a burden…well, it was just kind of like staring at a dead fish to me. None of it resonates because these ideas are not applicable to anything I’ve known. Self-sufficiency and independence have never been “feminist” acts to me, because I see them only as articles necessary for survival. No one will take care of me if I fail myself. They never have done. And I also know that, socially, I will be demonised as a leech, a drain if ever I do; there is no country that favours women who look like me. Even within Igbo culture, post-colonial patriarchy would have me abandoned, penniless, and called “useless” (worse yet if formerly married and with children). And black motherhood has never been viewed as valuable, so this “tricking” of women into “forsaking” it just all feels so irrelevant.

I guess what I’m getting is that I find it weird that she’s attacking the embodiment of this just very objectivist, Randian narcissism (like, that is some Kate Chopin type of bullshit) and framing it as not only the epitome, but the universal representation of all pro-woman discourse. It doesn’t feel relevant to me, and even less so when examined through the lens of collectivist experiences where devotion to family, many times to the exclusion of all else, is more or less given. If what she’s describing is the type of “pro-womanhood” Alice Walker subscribes to (and let’s be honest—that’s really just selfishness), then I couldn’t disagree with AW more and it is the sort of conflation we should be attacking. If Rebecca Walker is trying to say that women needn’t adhere to some stringent, arbitrary checklist in order to be considered “pro-woman,” then by all means, I agree with her because the school’s foundation is respecting a woman’s decisions for herself and her agency to make them. But it really seems to me she’s mostly striking out at her mother’s ~~ghost~~ whispering in her ear.

And what was that hot mess about women’s responsibility for “disrespecting men” (not touching the kids need two parents thing)? Pro-woman movements have zero obligation to men (provided the more privileged within them aren’t stepping on disenfranchised men) because it, at it the very essence, is concerned with furthering women. Naturally pro-male advocation arises from intersections of sexuality, gender-identity, race, class, and all other determinants in a kyriarchy—as it should—but bruh, I did not like that nonsense at all. I understand where she’s coming from, but almost none of what she said sat well with me.

How my mother's fanatical feminist views tore us apart, by the daughter of The Color Purple author

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:30:45 +0100

How my mother's fanatical feminist views tore us apart, by the daughter of The Color Purple author:

teacakeomnislash:

theedjcagedbird:

eyan-j:

trillaryclinton:

As a revered feminist and author Alice Walker touched the lives of a generation of women through her iconic book The Color Purple. But one woman didn’t buy in to Alice’s beliefs - her daughter.

wow.

YOP

Hmmm…. This is deep. I am suspicious tho. But that image she painted of Alice tho… jesus

i got some thoughts on this

mattressdemon: brashblacknonbeliever: So guys, I’m still broke, still jobless, and still stuck in...

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 06:42:49 +0100

mattressdemon:

brashblacknonbeliever:

So guys, I’m still broke, still jobless, and still stuck in a state with none of my or my child’s things. To everyone who donated before, thank you so much. It helped me get some clothes for me and the baby, diapers, food, and internet access so I could apply for jobs. However, I have bills I need to pay and necessities I need to buy. If you can spare a few dollars, that would be so freaking amazing and I’d love you forever.

Anyone who donates $1 to her I will draw you a quick one character portrait sketch and anyone who donates above $5 I will draw full body sketch, anyone who donates above $10 I will do you a flat colored portrait, and $20 will do you a colored full body. If you donate higher let me know we will work something out. These are negotiable to other things.

Send me a submit with a pic of the receipt and your request.

My art.

versatilequeen: explore-blog: So lovely: For her daughter...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 21:35:52 +0100

versatilequeen:

explore-blog:

So lovely: For her daughter Emma’s fifth birthday, Canadian photographer Jaiime C. Moore styles her in the likeness of powerful female role models – Amelia Earhart, Jane Goodall, Coco Chanel, Susan B. Anthony, and Helen Keller.

Nazi Coco Chanel.

Also at the helm of the fashion industry which is totally abusive to women who weigh more than 100 lbs, and don’t look like a white pixie.

Nope.

*sigh*

“If all men are to vote - black and white, lettered and unlettered, washed and unwashed, then the safety of the nation demands that we outweigh this incoming tide of ignorance, poverty and vice, with virtue, wealth and education of the women of the country.”

The old antislavery school says that women must stand back, that they must wait until male Neroes are voters. But we say, if you will not give the whole loaf of justice to an entire people, give it to the most intelligent first. If intelligence, justice, and morality are to be placed in the government, then let the question of woman be brought up first and that of the Negro last.

“I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ever work for or demand the ballot for the Negro and not the woman.”

— Susan B. Anthony

Role models.

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 20:36:23 +0100

txchnologist: Earliest Stages of Life Plumbed With Sheets of...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 19:03:09 +0100

Image of the ~50,000 cell nuclei of a 22-hour-old zebrafish embryo. The fluorescently labeled cell nuclei are shown in a blue-to-red color code that indicates depth in the image.

By following the color-coded cells of a Drosophila embryo (top) over time, each cell’s lineage becomes trackable (bottom) with simultaneous multiview light sheet microscopy.

Image of the ~6,000 cell nuclei of a 3-hour-old fruit fly embryo. The fluorescently labeled cell nuclei are shown in a blue-to-red color code that indicates depth in the image.

Dorsal and ventral views of a 3-hour-old fruit fly embryo. The embryo’s ~6,000 fluorescently labeled cell nuclei are shown in a blue-to-red color code that indicates depth in the image.

A SiMView microscope uses lasers to illuminate specimens while two cameras to the left and to the right of the central imaging chamber capture shots of the specimen’s cells from different angles.

txchnologist:

Earliest Stages of Life Plumbed With Sheets of Laser Light

by Michael Keller

This month’s issue of the journal Science focuses on advances in developmental biology, the study of how organisms grow and change from a single cell.

The edition includes a few stunning photographic examples from the lab of Philipp Keller at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Keller’s team uses a new microscopy technique called simultaneous multiview light-sheet microscopy (SiMView), which created the detailed images of zebrafish and fruit fly embryos above. Click on the images to get a fuller description of what they depict.

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sagansense: “Science that leads over the horizon depends on...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 19:00:09 +0100

sagansense:

“Science that leads over the horizon depends on gathering the best minds and enabling them to do what the best minds naturally seek to do: pursue the most thrilling questions of the time. Such minds inevitably draw their like, and the rest takes care of itself. The dividends of such greatness, however, go beyond what is to be gained by winning the next scientific race. They extend to the enrichment of the student body by giving them a broader appreciation of intellectual values.”

UPDATED POST regarding the review I published on his 2007 book, shown above..

Stay Curious! James Watson | How we discovered DNA | TED

Why you should listen to him (if you aren’t inspired already):
James Watson has led a long, remarkable life, starting at age 12, when he was one of radio’s high-IQ Quiz Kids. By age 15, he had enrolled in the University of Chicago, and by 25, working with Francis Crick (and drawing, controversially, on the research of Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin), he had made the discovery that would eventually win the three men the Nobel Prize.

Watson and Crick’s 1953 discovery of DNA’s double-helix structure paved the way for the astounding breakthroughs in genetics and medicine that marked the second half of the 20th century. And Watson’s classic 1968 memoir of the discovery, The Double Helix, changed the way the public perceives scientists, thanks to its candid account of the personality conflicts on the project.

From 1988 to 1994, he ran the Human Genome Project. His current passion is the quest to identify genetic bases for major illnesses; in 2007 he put his fully sequenced genome online, the second person to do so, in an effort to encourage personalized medicine and early detection and prevention of diseases.

How about, “AVOID RACIST PEOPLE”? Yeah, fuck this guy.

yagazieemezi: “Swahili women of Pate Island traditionally wear...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 18:45:06 +0100

yagazieemezi:

“Swahili women of Pate Island traditionally wear gold jewellery, much of which is not seen elsewhere and is thought to be of local design. Abundent in the 16th century, it is now only found amonger the older women of a few Pate families. Here a Pate woman’s ears are trimmed with small gold rings ‘Kipete’, below which hang a larger crescent earring and a gold earlobe disc known as ‘kuta’ | ©Angela Fisher, Africa Adorned, 1984