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“You guys know about vampires? You know, vampires have no reflections in a...”
– Junot Diaz, Speaking to students at Bergen Community College, (via aliceincrohnsland) afrogeekgoddess: #This is why. #This is why we need canon femslash and not just rule!63 characters.#This is why we need more stories—media fanfic whatever—about POC. #This is why fandom exists. #To build all of...
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jonnovstheinternet: Just an Australian ad for pads.
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The effects of unchecked criminalization: Teen... →
edwardspoonhands: laurennmcc: fuckyeahfeminists: This is what the school-to-prison pipeline looks like. This is how black youth are criminalized. She was doing a science experiment She’s being charged as an ADULT She’s being charged with a FELONY If this all goes the way the prosecution wants, this young woman will be LEGALLY discriminated against for the rest of her life. No voting,...
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APE IN A CAPE: Things I Learned From The... →
gailsimone: jemeryl: gailsimone: thefingerfuckingfemalefury: gailsimone: Not ALL the stories did these things, mind you…but enough did that it got a little weird… 1) Lots of bloggers don’t know the difference between transgender and transvestite. 2) Lots of bloggers and journalists don’t know the difference between Batwoman and Batgirl. 3) Once you say something is… ‘4) Right wing...
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April 2013
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Junot Diaz on Men Who Write About Women
The Atlantic: It sounds like you're saying that literary "talent" doesn't inoculate a writer—especially a male writer—from making gross, false misjudgments about gender. You'd think being a great writer would give you empathy and the ability to understand people who are unlike you—whether we're talking about gender or another category. But that doesn't seem to be the case.
Junot Diaz: I think that unless you are actively, consciously working against the gravitational pull of the culture, you will predictably, thematically, create these sort of fucked-up representations. Without fail. The only way not to do them is to admit to yourself [that] you're fucked up, admit to yourself that you're not good at this shit, and to be conscious in the way that you create these characters. It's so funny what people call inspiration. I have so many young writers who're like, "Well I was inspired. This was my story." And I'm like, "OK. Sir, your inspiration for your stories is like every other male's inspiration for their stories: that the female is only in there to provide sexual service." There comes a time when this mythical inspiration is exposed for doing exactly what it's truthfully doing: to underscore and reinforce cultural structures, or I'd say, cultural asymmetry.
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“If owning a gun and knowing how to use it worked, the military would be the...”
– A Short Post on Rape Prevention (via brute-reason) Exactly. Be honest: You don’t give a shit about rape victims. You don’t fucking care. You make excuses for the rapists all the damn time. This is about policing women’s bodies and telling them to just ‘shut up and stop complaining about your...
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Free Tee Monday!
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“I just noticed something strange on Wikipedia. It appears that gradually, over...”
– Wikipedia’s sexism toward female novelists (via explore-blog) IMPORTANT UPDATE the author, Amanda Filipacchi, from Sunday: “In an Op-Ed article I wrote, published on The New York Times’s Web site on Wednesday, I suggested it was too bad that there wasn’t a subcategory for “American Men Novelists.”...
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“The idea that intelligence is linked to English pronunciation is a legacy from...”
–  Delalorm Semabia, 25, a Ghanaian blogger (x)
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Guillermo Del Toro Bringing Japanese Manga MONSTER... →
gailsimone: It has today been revealed that HBO and Guillermo del Toro are teaming up for Monster; a series based on Naoki Urasawa’s Japanese Manga. As if that wasn’t exciting enough, it sounds as if At The Mountains Of Madness is once again back on track for the big screen treatment! One of my favorite manga series!
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