fuck off me nigga
pimp hand activated
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The people calling Will Smith homophobic need to shut the fuck up forever.
That man is a stranger that waltzes through any of Will’s personal boundaries at a public event. He doesn’t just try to kiss him, he initiates full body contact, complete with an arm wrapped around the neck.
He then has the nerve to smile once he is pushed off, even when he receives the slap (which, let’s be honest, is barely more than a tap). He doesn’t apologize, even when he sees how upset he made Will. None of the people with Will step in.
If Will Smith really wanted to damage this man, he could do it. He’s been in enough action movies that he knows how to throw a proper punch and could probably lay this man out really quickly.
And let’s just take a minute to think about the shit that would be hitting the fan if this happened to one of the many white female actresses.
That arm around the neck. Every time I look at this clip, I stare at the arm & think about how white female celebs are shielded from close contact at red carpet events, and how many members of security will rush someone who tries to lean too far over the rope line, never mind actually grab someone. But in this clip the guard in the background doesn’t move an inch.
Saying that pushing off unwanted sexual contact is homophobic, IS homophobic. Gayness isn’t inherently sexual, queer people don’t get special rights to other people’s bodies. Saying that queer people are allowed to commit sexual assault says that queerness is aggressive and queer people can’t help themselves. Which is some homophobic bullshit.
And apparently this guy isn’t even queer, just some reporter looking for ratings, which is another level of nasty ish. Oh yes, thank you so much for protecting a straight White guy’s right to twist same-sex affection into a racist display of sexual aggression for sensationalist consumerism. That’s exactly what the queer community was missing, thanks.
(Source: itsexclusive)
Okay tumblr, here’s the dealie. Remember how I posted about awesome bro who was about to become homeless because his poop butt parents were kicking him out because he wouldn’t break up with his equally awesome boyfriend?
WELP He’s currently bouncing around on couches and is…
Dear White Baby,
Welcome to the world! I hope you’re enjoying it so far? It seems like you’ve already gotten a bunch of rather entitled misinformation shoved into your head. Yes baby, you are white, and while I don’t hate you for this, you are very lucky because of it.
Did you know that black babies are WAY more likely to die within the first year? It is SO BAD it is being called an epidemic by some and intiatives have been started to reach out to black mothers at risk.
You don’t suffer the risk of being considered an anchor baby, a mere tool used by evil brown whores to take your mommy and daddy’s hard-earned money. You don’t have to worry about your parents being deported, or even YOU being deported, despite never having even been to your parents’ homeland before in your life! And risks to your future education due to you being undocumented, pfft, never going to be a problem! You won’t have to worry about people mocking your parents’ accents, questioning their legal status even if they are legal. Chances are, regardless of legal status, those brown women, like my mother, will be your caretakers and house cleaners, so be sure to burp with disgust in their general direction when you see them! Have fun on your family trip to the Caribbean, by the way. I’ve never been since the family couldn’t afford it, but it is just the homeland so whatever. no big deal. We shoulda just worked harder. You on the other hand deserve the vacation!
Before Latina women were your mules though, it was black women who cared for you like their own while your parents kept them as slaves, raped them and their daughters, lynced their husbands and sons, and desecrated and undermined their communities and identities for hundreds of years. Your mothers STILL make a profit off their suffering and servitude to you, as should you in the future. Remember fondly your mammy, white baby!Your mothers don’t have to fight forced, racialized eugenics, sterilazation, and slanderous attacks on their reproductive rights like women of color do. You don’t have Conservatives using you as anti-choice tokens like black babies are, or stealing you from your homes to collect government money or assimilte you to white culture like Indigenous babies are.
You will never be suffering disfiguration from drone attacks on your home by American soldiers.
You will never be misplaced, a refugee, an expat. You will never know war, suffering, or famine. You will never be murdered for buying orange juice or skittles while being black, you will never die of overwork and exhaustion in fields, you will never be executed then buried nameless under a school where you were forcibly brought to ne extracted of your identity. Those are fates for babies of color, not you.I was a baby when I was taught I was inferior, that I should be ashamed of what I saw in the mirror, of the language I spoke, of where I came from. I was a baby when I learned I was hated and to hate myself. You see, many babies never got the chance, to be loved and given their humanity, because your society deemed them ugly and wrong from the get-go.
But never mind that white baby. Just rest your little head. These are only nightmares you can wake up from, stories far flung and removed from your reality, unsavory things you hear about in the news and can turn off. Sleep tight, now. Goodnight, baby.
(Source: ricksantorum-2012)
A little backstory to this clip before you watch it:
Will Smith’s father abandoned him and his mother when he was a child, and when Will was finally getting into show business and making a name for himself, he tried to sneak his way back into his life like nothing happened. Will co-wrote this episode, and James Avery (Uncle Phil) said “this scene was the hardest thing I’ve ever had to shoot in my life. Every emotion, every word.. that was Will”
Will was actually supposed to play it off and then walk away, and there was originally an alternate scene that was supposed to happen, but he actually completely cut out what was supposed to be said, and did all of his own dialogue. The hug at the end of this scene is completely genuine, and this was a stepping stone in Will’s career where he started to take on the “do what feels, sounds, and looks right” approach to his acting.
This will make me cry every single time I see it.
What Anjle said.
All of the tears. Bloody parents, they are so over-rated.
just in case you folks don’t quite understand the implications of “employment discrimination” and “housing discrimination” i will break it down for you:
it means you can be FIRED from your job, no matter HOW long you’ve been working there or how great an employee you are, for NO other reason, and it means you can be KICKED OUT OF YOUR HOUSE AND/OR EVICTED for NO OTHER REASON. it means you can be DENIED a job SOLELY because you are trans* and it means you can be denied a home SOLELY because you are trans*. and it is COMPLETELY LEGAL.
mass only recently ended this with the trans* rights bill we passed just a few months ago.
i hope you understand that the legal sanctioning of stripping BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS from trans* people is DIRECTLY CORRELATED with the outrageously high homelessness and SUICIDE rates of trans* people. THIS is part of why over 50% of trans* people UNDER 20 have attempted suicide, many successfully. 50 FUCKING PERCENT.
this is not just discrimination. this is STRIPPING people of their HUMANITY and ENDORSING their deaths. this is borderline LEGAL GENOCIDE.
why i’m not at all impressed w/ Obama’s “groundbreaking” stance on gay marriage.
remember intersectionality
remember that the threat for eviction and firing increases if you are a person of color, disabled, non-binary/non-“passing”, an immigrant or perceived to be one, poor, etc.
(Source: homosexualintellectual)
MSNBC Talks To And About Trans People For An Hour, Doesn’t F*ck It Up
We’re only about 30 seconds into MSNBC’s 20-minute “Transgender in America” segment when host Melissa Harris-Perry describes herself as “cis,” explaining that “cis” means that “the sex of the body I was born with, the gender I was assigned at birth, and my personal identity all match. She then pointed out that “being ‘cis’ does not make me “normal” or “natural,” it just makes me cis.” After last week’s shitshow with Barbara Walters and Jenna Talackova, the last thing anybody expected from a mainstream (if left-leaning) news organization was to hear the definition of “cisgender” on National television. It gets better from there.
The National Center for Transgender Equality, in its press release, said of the MSNBC program that:
“For the first time in recent memory, a major television network will dedicate an hour-long panel to discussing transgender social and political issues. NCTE Executive Director Mara Keisling will be a featured guest on the show joining other recognized experts on trans issues. The panel will focus broadly on advancing transgender equality and other political issues.”
“When we see transgender people like Chaz Bono or others in the media, we’re often encouraged to see the spectacular, not the person,” Harris-Perry explained before introducing three guests: author and activist Kate Bornstein, the aforementioned Mara Keisling and Mel Wymore (a Democratic candidate for the New York City Council). She later brings out Allison Kilkenny of Citizen Radio who also chimes in on issues within the LGBT community that don’t really apply to the “T.” The importance of non-discrimination policies were addressed at length, including the Prison Rape Elimination Act, as well as the importance of inclusiveness within the LGBTQ community. They went into how issues like same-sex marriage and Don’t Ask Don’t Tell have very different impacts on different segments of the LGTBQ umbrella and how crucial it is that the LGBs understand that.
After going over some of the harrowing statistics about discrimination against transgender people in housing, employment, school and the criminal justice system, the story of African-American transgender Crishuan “CeCe” McDonald is introduced. CeCe was, as Kate Bornstein describes it, “beaten savagely by a group of folks and she fought back and ended up, in self-defense, killing one of her attackers. She was charged with second-degree murder, and put in the slammer, and that’s that.” Harris-Perry compares CeCe’s situation to that of Trayvon Martinand Kate mentions the online petition that you should all sign to get her out of jail.
“Transgender people are just normal people in most ways,” Keisling declared. “but nature loves diversity.”
The ensuing 15 minutes, which were devoted to discussing the Obama administration’s refusal to sign the executive order against discrimination by employers with federal contracts based on gender identity and sexual orientation, which Jillian T.Weiss writes about on the Bilerco Project today.
All-in-all, a pretty solid program and an excellent antidote to the Barbara Walters situation. (Although I was a little surprised by the section where Kate and Melissa seemed to imply that most trans people don’t use/like binary-identified pronouns — what did y’all think of that part?) In response to the Jenna Talackova 20/20 interview, many hoped that the sort of horrifying way in which that was covered would at least open up a door to discussing trans issues in a more serious and less sensationalistic way. This piece would suggest that the door is opening, and that people are walking through it. And that’s pretty fucking awesome.
I’m impressed
this is so great.
I cried.
i keep seeing this everywhere, and yet, I am not terribly internet connected at the moment and just this morning, i saw a whole string of critiques from prominent black trans scholar, DRKRZ. I don’t know how to put all of his tweets here, but here is the most pointed critique—and there’s tweets above and below this one that you should check out as well.
It just seems like this is a continuing forever pattern. all it takes is a google search, all it takes is following prominent non-white social media makers, all it takes is interrogating key phrases like “mommy,” all it takes is wondering where the color is at the table—but even just very simple things like these things seem to be beyond the imagination of so many people.
i mean, why *is* it not noticed the that there was only one person of color at the table and she identifies as cis? how would this conversation have been different if there was one WHITE person at the table?
**edited out just-woke-up attitude**
Uncompromising Photos Expose Juvenile Detention in America
On any given night in the U.S., there are approximately 60,500 youth confined in juvenile correctional facilities or other residential programs. Photographer Richard Ross has spent the past five years criss-crossing the country photographing the architecture, cells, classrooms and inhabitants of these detention sites.The resulting photo-survey, Juvenile-In-Justice, documents 350 facilities in over 30 states. It’s more than a peek into unseen worlds — it is a call to action and care.
“I grew up in a world where you solve problems, you don’t destroy a population,” says Ross. “To me it is an affront when I see the way some of these kids are dealt with.”
The U.S. locks up children at more than six times the rate of all other developed nations. The over 60,000 average daily juvenile lockups, a figure estimated by the Annie E. Casey Foundation (AECF), are also disproportionately young people of color. With an average cost of $80,000 per year to lock up a child, the U.S. spends more than $5 billion annually on youth detention. On top of the cost, in its recent report No Place for Kids, the AECF presents evidence to show that youth incarceration does not reduce recidivism rates, does not benefit public safety and exposes those imprisoned to further abuse and violence. Ross thinks his images of juvenile lock-ups can, and should, be “ammunition” for the ongoing policy and funding debates between reformers, staff, management and law-makers.
(Source: sunrec)
