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gaywrites:

Secret’s newest deodorant commercial is about a trans woman building up the courage to exit a stall in a women’s bathroom once other people have walked in. 

The tagline at the end of the commercial reads, “Stress test #8260: Dana finds courage to show there’s no wrong way to be a woman.” When Dana walks out, you can hear the other women saying, “Cute dress!” 

“I always have moments of insecurity but I have conditioned myself to act unbothered,” Karis Wilde, the actress featured in the ad, told Queerty about having to use public restrooms. “While shooting, I allowed myself to feel vulnerable. It terrified me how much I’ve stored all those emotions; I almost cried in the middle of taping.”

Androgynous queer actor, realistic storyline, affirming ending. I’m here for it. (via the Huffington Post) 

iwriteaboutfeminism:

It’s really important that when you vote, you vote for more than just the next President.

Republican Senators Ted Cruz and John McCain have said that if Hillary Clinton is elected they will continue to block the nomination of any and all Supreme Court nominees. 

Republican Senators have refused to do their jobs for months now, refusing to vote to either approve or reject the President’s nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court. We’ve been waiting for the Presidential election for this matter to resolve itself, yet here we are, with two prominent Republican Senators promising to continue this ridiculous obstruction. 

In addition to voting for President, PLEASE ALSO VOTE FOR SENATE AND CONGRESS!

The President, as important as that position is, DOES NOT introduce or vote on legislation. That job belongs to the Senate and Congress. Currently, Republicans hold majorities in both houses, and get to decide the legislative agenda. We can change this with our votes. 

Electing Democrats won’t magically fix our problems, but we have a somewhat better chance of influencing them to do what we want, including holding a damn vote to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court!

(And this isn’t to say I’m a particular fan of Merrick Garland either, but he deserves a vote!)

Thousands of Wild Buffalo Appear Out of Nowhere at Standing Rock (VIDEO)

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Native Americans attempting to stop a pipeline from being built on their land and water just got assistance from a large herd of wild buffalo.

gitsie007:

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losille2000:

Call it what you will–coincidence or supernatural sign–but this gave me chills and made me tear up.

It made me weep. Watch the video. It’s one of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen.

Do not doubt the power of the People.

Wow

open-plan-infinity: “ putting-it-in-putin: “ onyourtongue: “ 1500 cases from 1990-2016 (that we know of). And to clarify, this lists comprises of brown and black lives.. there’s so many names I could add to this, we are far from this post-racial...

open-plan-infinity:

putting-it-in-putin:

onyourtongue:

1500 cases from 1990-2016 (that we know of). And to clarify, this lists comprises of brown and black lives.. there’s so many names I could add to this, we are far from this post-racial utopian society people try to paint us as. In some areas in the UK, black people are 17x more likely to be stopped and searched. Black bodies mysteriously die in cells while the IPCC torments the families with biased investigations that they were never here to seek justice for them. Just this February Sarah Reed a black British woman died under mysterious circumstances in her cell. Tell me how a black woman who was sexually assaulted in the psychiatric hospital she was put in ended up in prison? She was also a victim of police brutality a couple of years ago. In 2012, police broke the neck of science student Julian Cole leaving him brain dead while the family still awaits his justice in 2016!

We need to know why our lives are seen as so disposable. We need to know why black people are over represented in the custodial system and why such racial prejudices exist in the criminal system in the first place. They purposely hide the history and achievements of black people in the UK so we remain ignorant and forget about our own movements in the 60s - our fights to bring in “no discrimination” laws. Our fights to be treated as equal. Many Brits don’t even know the origin of the biggest festival in Europe - Notting Hill carnival, which was political, created as a means to celebrate our heritage and culture in the face of adversity. Gangs of police have been terrorising us since the majority of our grand parents came during the windrush era in the 40s. Police brutality is nothing new. Ask your grand parents how they used to try to intimidate black folks minding their business, kidnap and beat them up only to drop them off somewhere far from home. How they’d ignore evidence pointing to members of white hate groups who would murder us, harass us and vandalise our property/businesses. This isn’t anything new. And history continues to repeat itself as the list of brown and black lives continue to be taken away/brutalised. The media may try to hide it but it’s happening.

Let’s not pretend that the UK hasn’t played a huge role in propagating the false belief that whiteness is superior. Let’s not pretend that they have not spread this through violence, pillaging countries, colonisation and slavery. Do not wipe away the history of this country and what they continue to do, to paint some utopic fantasy which you can use to compare to America. What can Britain teach America about valuing black lives? We aren’t above them at all.

The UK has a higher incarceration rate of blacks than America does

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2010/oct/11/black-prison-population-increase-england

^ This is true. 

“ Black people are more disproportionately represented in U.K. prisons than in the U.S. The proportion of black people in jail in the U.K. is almost seven times their share of the population, whereas in the U.S. the proportion of black prisoners is four times greater than their population share” (x)