As a little wee lass growing up in Northern England, I used to think that my family and relatives were “primitive,” “filthy,” “backward,” and “inferior,” because we were so different from everyone else. Everyone in my family and the clan ate food with their hands at home, my mother wore a saree…
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nuestrahermana reblogged deafmuslimpunx:
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dumbthingswhitepplsay reblogged masteradept:
“Louisiana is the world’s prison capital. The state imprisons more of its people, per head, than any of its U.S. counterparts. First among Americans means first in the world. Louisiana’s incarceration rate is nearly triple Iran’s, seven times China’s and 10 times Germany’s.”
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dumbthingswhitepplsay reblogged siddharthasmama:[Flash 10 is required to watch video.]
TRANS RAPPER MYKKI BLANCO FREESTYLES IN HARLEM
This is a must see. As one of the best gay rappers in the game (and soon to be the first to cross over to mainstream success), Mykki Blanco is a sick enigmatic gem that is here to stay! In a recent mini-documentary with Glasnost NY, Mykki hits the streets of Harlem and the subway’s of NYC freestyling like the beast that she is. You just have to see for yourself.
p.s. Look out for Mykki in Issue 5 of WeTheUrban Magazine on newsstands this summer!
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scarlettentacle reblogged catladysoul:
The Afghan girls who live as boys
For economic and social reasons, many Afghan parents want to have a son. This preference has led to some of them practising the long-standing tradition of Bacha Posh - disguising girls as boys.
When Azita Rafhat, a former member of the Afghan parliament, gets her daughters ready for school, she dresses one of the girls differently.
Three of her daughters are clothed in white garments and their heads covered with white scarves, but a fourth girl, Mehrnoush, is dressed in a suit and tie. When they get outside, Mehrnoush is no longer a girl but a boy named Mehran.
Azita Rafhat didn’t have a son, and to fill the gap and avoid people’s taunts for not having a son, she opted for this radical decision. It was very simple, thanks to a haircut and some boyish clothes.
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Girls brought up as boys do not stay like this all their lives. When they turn 17 or 18 they live life as a girl once again - but the change is not so simple.
Elaha lives in Mazar-e Sharif in northern Afghanistan. She lived as a boy for 20 years because her family didn’t have a son and reverted only two years ago when she had to go to university.
However, she does not feel fully female: she says her habits are not girlish and she does not want to get married.
“When I was a kid my parents disguised me as a boy because I didn’t have a brother. Until very recently, as a boy, I would go out, play with other boys and have more freedom.”
She has returned reluctantly to her gender and says she has done it only because of the social traditions.
“If my parents force me to get married, I will compensate for the sorrows of Afghan women and beat my husband so badly that he will take me to court every day.”
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strugglingtobeheard reblogged hiphopcheerleader:As a Black Woman who is Mothering Black kids While Black...cuz I'm Black
Y’all need to understand how DANGEROUS it is for us to allow our kids out the house even looking a LITTLE ashy/raggedy/disheveled/unkempt. It means that The People will come and take your kids from you. It means that some teacher or social worker at the school will assume that your home is a dangerous place and call DCFS on you.
Even if your kid has done nothing but played hard on the playground before class. Even if you have to leave CRAZY early for work (or not get in from your night job until the kids are gone) and don’t have time to do a Body/Wardrobe check before they leave for school.
Our kids can’t have shoes that are too small or pants that too short or skirts with a loose hem. That could mean you will lose your kids if some person of the System decides that what they thought about your Black Mothering (oh, that is ALWAYS called into question) is true.
This is why we scrub our children almost raw in the tub, comb and brush and hot comb our girls’ hair into reluctant submission and shop for clothes sometimes in lieu of paying the electric bill. This is why we slather our babies down with Vaseline because shiny= healthy and clean (slavery imprinted that on us).
Mothering While Black is living in constant fear and under constant judgment.
But…BUT: We’ve been trusted with White babies since we got here.
I remember being in the store once with kid #1 & he had chalk dust all over him (as they do when they are tiny), and some woman making a really nasty comment about “those people” that ended with her talking about someone should do something. Mind you, this was sidewalk chalk dust. What child with blue & pink stains on his otherwise clean shirt is endangered? Then again, when he was in 4th grade some woman tried to tell me I was too mean to him because I told him that if he forgot his gym shoes again he’d have to take the lost points. The minutiae of life is an excuse to police our parenting & people who think we’re overreacting should go look up some stats on which kids are taken into custody & how long they stay there vs which families are offered services & how long those services are accessible.
A few years ago I grasped why my mother insisted that I was always spotless, well groomed, and unnaturally fresh when I saw the notes in my file from my brush with social services, which noted that I was “clean and well adjusted.” Those notes were one of the reasons I was able to stay in my home with my mother during an incredibly stressful time. I shudder to think what would’ve happened if, before one of those visits I had went to play with my friends, fell off my bike as I was prone to do, burned myself attempting to curl my hair, been sullen, had unpermed hair, the list foes on and on and on.
It is unfair, and incredibly restricting to be denied the stages of childhood and adolescence where we are unconcerned with anything but out own joy in finding our limbs, in conquering the jungle gyms, skate parks and empty spaces of our youth. This is an example of the incredible and impossible standards we are held up against, another burden for our mothers to constantly curtail us, to ensure that we are protected against a world that will not allow us our humanity.
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dumbthingswhitepplsay reblogged keakuki:
No matter how much you deny it. Not matter how “nice” you act to PoC (lol like we can’t sense your racism and white rage underneath your sugar).
And if you deny it, yes, you should expect to be called a “cracker,” because that’s what you’re…
Ok, so I understand there’s still quite an issue with racism. But to essentially say that white people are born racist, is completely ignorant. People, regardless of their skin colour are taught to be racist or taught that people will hate them and to protect themselves because of their skin colour. What people need to be taught is that who you are, no matter what that is, is beautiful and that others are beautiful for who they are. And everyone I know, was raised this way, and they find it abhorrent that someone could be judged in this way. SO how about instead of bitching about how white people are racist always, and people of colour are oppressed always, maybe we should just try and be more chill and teach people how to be cool with themselves and each other.
you failed right from the start, booboo
have a seat
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zorascreation reblogged eclecticspectrum:
I’m really trying not to laugh but this is too much.
Where are the sedatives? I cannot handle this hilarity.
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tierracita reblogged lotsalipstick:
talking, kinda talking, confused
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strugglingtobeheard reblogged queennubian:
zuky:
MOVE massacre: On May 13, 1985, 11 people, including five children, were burned alive after police, acting on orders from Democratic Mayor Wilson Goode in collusion with the Feds, dropped a powerful incendiary bomb on the Osage Avenue home of the largely Black MOVE commune in West Philadelphia.
The firebombing followed a 12-hour siege during which the cops unloaded over 10,000 rounds of ammunition into the house. Firefighters on site were held back, and cops shot at anyone who tried to escape the burning building. The inferno spread, destroying 61 houses and leaving hundreds homeless in the African American neighborhood.
This is one of my earliest memories.
Nobody was ever criminally charged for this atrocity — because it fit comfortably into the larger pattern of ongoing white supremacist violence and ethnic cleansing (e.g. white race riots, lynch mobs, redlining) perpetrated or supported by the state. This was 1985, almost two decades after the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X — the attack on Black communities was strongly resurgent in the Reagan era, with the CIA’s documented introduction of crack to inner cities, alongside the “war on drugs” and the reformulated “southern strategy” racist propaganda about “states rights” and “welfare queens” who defiled America’s “shining city on a hill” (i.e. white people paradise!).
More on the Philadelphia firebombing from Democracy Now! including an interview with Mumia Abu-Jamal and Ramona Africa.
what amerikkka does to black people who try to unite and subsist on their own.
i had never heard of this.
I had never heard about it until I moved to Philly and lived a couple of blocks away from the site. The number of racially-motivated atrocities that happened recently here in the States and how few people are even aware of their history… SMH
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taysgallery reblogged rhythmhitem:
