thewightknight:

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closet-keys:

Whether or not a protest is “peaceful” is decided by the state, not the protestors.

There’s a reason the Women’s March wasn’t considered a riot, and it has everything to do with white privilege and nothing to do with how “well behaved” we were. Police show up to peaceful BLM protests already in riot gear all the time.

“The abuser’s problem is not that he responds inappropriately to conflict. His abusiveness is operating prior to the conflict: it usually creates the conflict, and it determines the shape the conflict takes.”

― Lundy Bancroft, Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

thewightknight:

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autisticbird:

transcoranic:

Hey, everyone, could you do me a favor and reblog this? 

I know that we’re all scared right now, but disabled people are going to be one of the most at-risk groups in the coming years. Things like the repeal of the ACA, reductions of disability services and aid, and whatever bullshit the republicans are going to pull out of their asses next are going to hurt disabled people preferentially. This is intentional. If we neglect disabled people we will be guilty of mass murder, because disabled people are going to die. 

 This is just as important as your “pussy hats”, but the fight against ableism is difficult even in the best of times. Please, don’t let disabled people get swept under the rug again.

An A++ addition to my post!

the-evil-twin:

just-a-muse:

dopeking95:

cashmeoutsidehowbowda:

Co-Director of GetEqual, Angela Peoples

Put this in a frame.

Just posted this on Facebook, so I’ll do it here too.

If I’m reading into it right, this post is pointing out an often uncomfortable truth: The people beside you now aren’t always the people beside you before. Women from all ethnicities attended Women’s Marches all over the US, and it was beautiful, inspiring, and unifying. But that picture is a reminder that unifying isn’t enough. It’s taking responsibility. It’s being accountable. What your commenters seem to be missing is that this isn’t an “All White Women” sign, or even a “Those Certain White Women” sign. It’s a reminder that people who look like you and stand with you and march by you aren’t ALWAYS for you. You’ve got to accept that. Accept, as in stand up and look them in the eye and don’t stop until they look away. Accept, as in call out and demand an account and not excuses or derailments. Accept that people that you love and people that I love voted for someone who does not have your best interests in mind and that they felt that was ok.

If the they don’t see a problem or don’t care there is a problem, that doesn’t mean you don’t hold them accountable. You demand justice of a criminal whether or not he or she cares about the crime, those involved, or those affected. Those people who voted for Trump or support his nominees, aren’t assholes, they are people who made a choice and per that choice should be charged with the collective debt of those choices.

The point of this picture isn’t for you to say it’s divisive or doesn’t do for you, it’s to get you to start a conversation women of color have been talking about all along.

Some people shout in the streets, some whisper in the home.

Open. Your. Mouth. And. Talk.

And to everyone in the comments saying “But Asians and Hispanics and black women also voted for Trump!1!” – lol 94 percent of black women voted for Clinton, as did 68 percent of Latinas. Even though some may have been self-hating and dumb enough to vote for Trump, it was nowhere near the volume of white women, because 53 percent of all white women voted for Trump. (source) 

Like Samantha Bee said, white women have A LOT of karma to work off, and I say this as a CIS white woman, even though I sure as shit didn’t vote for that moldy piece of shit. But I have a responsibility, as someone with white privilege, to educate the other white women around me, because most white women are apparently SO internally-misogynist that they were willing to throw their own gender and shot at equality under the bus for someone that thinks it’s honestly okay to sexually assault them, mock them, body shame them, and tell them their 6′s or 7′s at best. This isn’t meant to just tear white women down just because, this is all a matter of fact. And it’s NOT okay. 

This woman in the photo is not wrong. It’s a hard fucking pill to swallow, but she’s right. 

refinery29:

We went to the Women’s March on Washington to ask our fellow marchers what they had to say to Donald Trump and what brought them into the streets today. Over the next couple of days we’ll be posting some of their stories. Here’s one woman who’s a first generation American who says she feels devastated to think that her parents would not be welcomed into our country today.

And now, museums are collecting their favorite women’s march signs from this historic moment.

wastey:

ipsadixit:

Let’s give credit where credit is due: Women’s March organizers Tamika Mallory, Bob Bland, Carmen Perez, and Linda Sarsour 

i find the lack of notes disturbing.

thejusticethatissocial: