I don’t know. I’ve been thinking about Trayvon Martin lately and the politicization surrounding his death and today I woke up and realized that his parents probably haven’t had a moment’s rest since this tragedy unfolded. Not only at the hands of White supremacists and Conservatives hell bent on vilifying this slain child at any chance they get, but also with the people who are supposed to be on their side. I mean with people like Al Sharpton turning his singular death into a mobilization of the Black community and the Black Panthers offering a reward for Zimmerman’s capture, when the money could be better spent on assisting the Martin family with their legal fees.

Don’t get me wrong, we absolutely need to recognize that this was an act of racism and America’s overall apathetic attitude towards Trayvon’s murder speaks a large volume about the reality we’re living in. However, I also feel like we need to humanize Trayvon. In addition to being a victim of racism, he was also someone’s son, cousin and boyfriend. I feel like people are losing sight of that; it seems like we’re distancing him from his humanity. It almost feels like Trayvon’s become a hollow narrative instead of a person. I understand Trayvon did not deserve to die and it’s absolutely horrific that people try to rationalize it as so. But on the flip side, Trayvon isn’t a marytr for the Black cause either. He was a kid trying to get some candy and unfortunately came across a vile individual and an early fate.

4:22 pm  •  24 May 2012  •  78 notes

“You can’t turn a hoe into a housewife”

“You can’t turn a sexist, double-standard holding, woman-shaming douchebag into anything remotely useful, nevermind a husband”

8:46 pm  •  23 May 2012  •  2,316 notes

• I’m not racist, some of my best friends are bl-
• I don’t hate the LGBTQ community, but I feel like marriage is betw-
• I’m pro-life because it’s wrong to kill a ba-
• I’ll start showing women respect when they act-
• If your people want equality, they have to-

12:38 pm  •  14 May 2012  •  12,749 notes

Men.

Do you realize that in your fallacious attempt to “liberate” women from our make-up and high heels by proclaiming “I love natural/real girls” that you’re, in fact, enforcing the same patriarchal ideals you seek to destroy by assuming we do these things for you in the first place? 

11:58 pm  •  13 May 2012  •  1,646 notes

Imagine if there was a church for Kanye West?

We’d probably be required to wear Louie V, take shots of Hennessy for communion and give offerings of poorly rated Taylor Swift albums.

4:05 pm  •  11 May 2012  •  65 notes

“we’re not all racist”

“we’re not all islamophobes”

“we’re not all transmisogynist”

“we’re not ignoring intersectionality”

We already know this. That’s not the point. When we say mainstream feminism is racist, bigoted, islamophobic, transphobic, etc. .. we’re talking about the structures that hold up the movement, not every single individual involved in said movement.

The point is your institution is like that. The women who are in charge the slutwalk campaign thought placating John Lennon’s “women is the nigger of the world” all over banners, effectively embarrassing black women and dismissing their intersectionality was a good idea. The women who organize “nude liberation” protests all over Europe in “solidarity” with Muslimahs, while ignoring that the hijab/niqab/abaya is a choice for most Muslim women around the world and the horrific Xenophobia/Islamophobia in their own countries are like that. World-famous feminist Gloria Steinem continually disrespecting trans* women and receiving little criticism proves how cissexist feminism is. The fact that we hear women make 77 cents to the man’s dollar, but not that the scale is the White man’s dollar, by then which WoC make significantly less (about 50-69 cents) and MoC make about the same as White women proves that mainstream feminism is not addressing specific issues within particular communities.

You need to learn how to separate yourselves from feminism and look at the institution as a spectator.

3:08 pm  •  11 May 2012  •  78 notes

You guys wanna hear a joke?

“I’m a pro-life feminist”

10:11 pm  •  10 May 2012  •  67 notes

Nah mate.

Knock it off.

It takes talent. Plenty of talent.

To produce stellar beats like Kanye takes talent.

To freestyle a 16 straight off the dome like Lil Wayne takes talent.

To have a song chock-full of clever analogies, metaphors, similes and a whole host of other figurative language like Jay-Z takes talent.

To speak for and to an entire youth’s struggle through music takes talent.

Not just any youth. We’re talking about an afflicted youth. A youth that’s been propagated as inferior. Not worthy of opportunities or resources.

Hip-Hop is the absolute epitome of art, talent and expression.

Hip-Hop is an outlet, a culture, a way of life.

What you mean to say is you have no conception of talent outside of your pretentious, condescending, small-minded, bigoted and dare I say racist taste.

And that’s cool.

You’re entitled to be boring and willfully ignorant if you so choose

.. but call it for what it really is.

4:43 pm  •  9 May 2012  •  214 notes

Can people not treat Obama like he put forth some Herculean effort today? It doesn’t take much to say “gay people are also people and shouldn’t be treated like second-class citizens under the law”. That’s the most basic of fucking things you can say to be considered a decent person. 

I get it was a bold move with the controversy regarding gay marriage, but we should be addressing the bigotry that makes it a bold move in the first place instead of giving Obama this unnecessary praise.

4:18 pm  •  9 May 2012  •  88 notes

If you don’t see anything wrong with white feminist saying she never felt loved, (as not only a woman, but a white woman) in a majority black genre of music (that was specifically made for black people) until white men infiltrated it, although they weren’t any less misogynistic than other hip-hop artists, you have a lot of naivety to work out.

Intent doesn’t absolve anything.

That’s problematic as fuck.

3:37 pm  •  9 May 2012  •  149 notes

Even her name sounds like an illness.

“Hey, dude how are you today?”

“Not so good man, I came down with the Ayn Rand today.”

11:14 pm  •  8 May 2012  •  51 notes

I wish I had a dollar for every time I’ve thought “fuck this college shit, I’m gonna be a stripper”.

Then I wouldn’t have to strip or be in school.

10:32 pm  •  8 May 2012  •  108 notes

And if you really wanna talk about misogyny, maybe we should discuss how women in the West are sexually commodified? Reduced to nothing more than their bodies? And simultaneously punished for our sexual autonomy? And in western context, the hijab/niqab/abaya/burqa/etc. is a direct defense against that? If removal of clothes is the ultimate liberation of women in the Middle East, then surely we can say covering up is liberation in the West?

9:54 pm  •  8 May 2012  •  26 notes

Even if the hijab is used as a means of oppression in some areas, who are you, as a resident of the West, someone completely unknowledgeable of the complex history, traditions and social dynamics in the Middle East to even propose a possible solution? That’s nothing but your Western elitism speaking. There are prominent feminists, social progressives and politicians who are making valiant efforts to change the current laws and structures. The most you can do is ask them how you can help them, since they know more than you ever will. You cannot, in all your vast unfamiliarity, lead Muslim womens’ fight for them.

9:46 pm  •  8 May 2012  •  158 notes

If you can tell me with a straight face that Islamophobia isn’t directly connected with racism, with White Christians wreaking havoc on entire autonomous continents for the past millennium without so much as a blip of a stain on their faith, I’m just going to assume you live under a rock or on a different planet.

9:11 pm  •  8 May 2012  •  309 notes