crashntumble:
if you know of some community here that myself and every trans* person I know in PDX are unaware of DO tell us where it is. Because we would really love to stop being queer bashed, gender policed, excluded from intentionally unintentional spaces, fired from our jobs, denied medical treatment/sexual health screenings and told we dont belong on earth by the townspeople of portland because we are “pansexual liberal hipsters”. yes i am a liberal socialist, a polysexual (pansexuality implies i give a fuck about gender classification), and if i werent re-claiming my own culture from white people who took reggae, soul, hip hop, blues, and jazz i’d probably be called a hipster too so i guess maybe i’m the problem you think you see in the community. however, what you dont see on portlandia or tumblr is that trans people in portland deal with all the same shit trans people everywhere deal with. we contend with hateful christians, redneck trainhoppers who beat up anyone freakier than them to get initiated into street gangs, drunk predatory men, neo nazis, girls giggling out their mercedes to call us “nigger” and the ignorant “queers” of portland like violent gay men who accuse us of being traps, 2nd wave feminists who want to eradicate trans men and women entirely, other transmen who support oppression and condone/practice open misogyny against women both trans and cis.
but since you are so all seeing and knowing anon, please tell us how to break free from that “homogeneity” we are so happily practicing as: verbal punching bags, victims of police brutality, sex workers, caregivers, natural doctors, neurodiverse minds, fishermen&women, jews, buddhists, muslims, non able bodied people, fatties, faggots, femmes, dykes, privilege unlearners, first nation children, broke/low-co/unemployed, poc native to portland by way of railroad slave labor, people who were financially cut off after coming out, people balancing food stamps, medical bills, and rent in a rising price town. please please please tell us how we can be more diverse like you and stop being cattle clones.
j/k!
SIT THE FUCK DOWN AND SHUT THE FUCK UP.
(Source: ftmconfessions, via ftmconfessions)
Fall Halloween special! NBC media,Black Panther,aclu spokespersons also available!
LOL!!!!! OMG!! Too soon?
die in a huge fire
Please, please, for the love of all that is beautiful and sacred in this world, go take a nap in rush hour traffic.
I’m rarely at a loss for words but this…this is too much. I’m going to not comment on this right now. I may take it on later when I’ve calmed down a little. First it was the targets, now this. Yeah, I really better not comment on this right now.
WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT?!
(via typhlosion-explosion)
Absolutely, I’ll clarify.
To return the comment y’all so ungraciously deleted, what I said was this:
Clarifying question: Does this mean y’all are also officially enacting a ban on fake afros too? Or is it just simply not ok to appropriate Mexican culture but ok to appropriate Black…
“If you can’t have a
dialogue about race and racism,
things you don’t experience and
just don’t know anything about
other than what your white peers
tell you, without getting angry and
defensive, perhaps you shouldn’t
be playing black music”
^
THAT FOREVER
Real talk, I support Tom and Co. in all their other non appropriative music related endeavors but I’ve never set foot at HF due to the personal problems the existence of the event itself pulls up for me…the 2 most glaring being brown people suffering from hella internalized oppression and many a privileged hipster homo dancing at a small space in what used to be an unsafe part of the mission {i still avoid it out of habit} feeling cultured because they’re dancin to soul which is only fresh and engaging to them because they grew up without it in their households (and it doesn’t require much rhythm to dance to)
Wtfffff
DISMANTLE THE KLU KLUX KLAN IN AMERICA MR. PRESIDENT. AMERICA WANTING JUSTICE FOR ALL (by pourouge12)
Justice for Hate Crime against Lakota Sioux Elder Vernon Traversie!
Why This Is Important
Vernon Traversie, a member and resident of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of South Dakota came home from a 14-day stay in the hospital to find he had been horribly mutilated. Three Ks can be easily seen carved or burned into his abdomen in the shocking photograph taken the day after he came home.
The victim is age 68 and completely blind. Vernon Traversie’s nightmare began when he had a heart attack while at the Heart Doctors office in Rapid City last August. He was immediately sent a few blocks away to Rapid City Regional Hospital for emergency surgery. Being blind, Traversie didn’t even know what was done to him until a RCRH employee came into his room and advised him to have pictures taken of his chest and abdomen as soon as he got home. She said she could not testify on his behalf, but that her conscience got the best of her and she did not agree with what had been done to him.
The tribal police, FBI, and Traversie’s pastor all have photographs of the suspicious wounds.
Traversie is a Lakota elder, who may have been the victim of a vicious hate crime, and his case deserves investigation. Nothing is being done on his behalf by law enforcement. Traversie had retained a lawyer and waited seven months for his Rapid City attorney to take action on his behalf. He posted a video on youtube because his attorney took no action and had told him not to speak about his case. It is not uncommon for lawyers in the Rapid City area to refuse or neglect cases of injustice toward American Indians because of fear the association will hurt business, or because of personal prejudice. The threat of racism and discrimination is ever present in this part of the country. Traversie has since ended his contract with said attorney and tribal officials are working to find someone to take his case.
Please sign this petition on behalf of Vernon Traversie. American Indian elders should be protected against this kinda of vicious abuse. We ask that the State Attorney General of South Dakota, Marty Jackley, investigate the hate crime against Vernon Traversie. We want racism and hate crimes against our American Indian community to end.
For more information:
http://www.facebook.com/JusticeForVern
http://www.lastrealindians.com/2012/04/25/lakota-man-accuses-hospital-of-heal…
Sign The Petition Today ! http://www.change.org/petitions/justice-for-hate-crime-against-lakota-sioux-e…
(via sexgenderbody)
LIL’ DEBBIE & RiFF RAFF —- TAKING CULTURAL APPROPRIATION TO NEW HEIGHTS OF DISRESPECT SINCE 2012
(Source: youtube.com)
What? WHAT? Unbelievable.
I’m trying to post more positive things… but I can’t help it.
I have a burning need to call this man an idiot.
The fact that anyone gives him the time of day dumbfounds me.
Christians being rounded up? Forced to wear special clothing? I can’t even pretend to debate this statement. It’s like the Nazis complaining about persecution from the Jews. I can’t…just find your own planet already, Pat. ~ Steve
Christians do a great job of constantly victimizing themselves ALL the time.
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DEAR WHITE PEOPLE,
FUCK YOUR SAVIOR COMPLEX AND FETISHISM. DONT OUTSOURCE YOUR ADOPTIONS! IN STATE/COUNTY OR GTFO.
love,
AN ADOPTED 100% AMERICAN ORPHAN
affirmative action, racism, and the entitled generation.
I go to a school that is 75% white males, and the rest filled with equal parts minorities and females…
now, freshman a friend of mine worked for the admissions department for her…
