“We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.” ― Malcolm X
December 2011
13 posts
At a Republican Governors Association meeting last week, strategist Frank Luntz discussed his fears about the way the movement has changed the national dialogue: “I’m so scared of this anti-Wall Street effort. I’m frightened to death. They’re having an impact on what the American people think of capitalism.”
- from Waging Nonviolence
http://wagingnonviolence.org/2011/12/occupy-wall-street-as-talking-point/#more-14186
listening to bright eyes and tegan and sara because i miss my best friends
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While many trans women have died at the hands of Philadelphia police, more have died of AIDS in a city with grossly inadequate resources to address the health crises in poor trans communities. Our work for heath care, housing, and against violence sets us up against racist capitalism.
By linking these issues in our analyses and work, we can all begin to do what mainstream gay movements won’t: build movements committed to justice for all people, movements committed to challenging capitalism and white supremacy alongside fighting homophobia.
” —Michelle O’Brien’s chapter titled “Staylin’ Alive: Trans Survival and Struggle on the Streets of Philadelphia” in That’s Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation (via sistahmamaqueen)
“Barack Obama says that as the father of two daughters, he wants the government to “apply common sense” to rules about over the counter medications. Well, I too have a daughter, and so [do] many many pro-choice women. Who died and made Barack Obama daddy in charge of teenage girls? Would he really rather that Sasha and Malia get pregnant rather than buy Plan B One-Step at CVS? And excuse me, Mr. President, thanks to your HHS, acquiring Plan B is prescription-only not just for 11 year olds but for the 30 percent of teenage girls between 15 and 17 who are sexually active, and is a cumbersome process for all women, who have to ask a pharmacist for it and, as many news stories have reported, be subjected to fundamentalist harangues and objections. Apparently it’s okay with you if Michelle is treated like a sixth-grader. I’m trying to think if there are any laws or regulations affecting only men in which unfounded fears about middle-school boys deny all men normal adult privileges. Needless to say no one suggests that underage boys get a prescription if they want to use condoms, or that grown men have to ask the pharmacist for them and maybe get a lecture about the evils of birth control and promiscuity.”
—Katha Pollitt on the HHS overruling the FDA on Plan B access (via jessicavalenti)
