Originally posted by twbasketcase at Mississippi Personhood Amendment
Originally posted by gabrielleabelle at Mississippi Personhood Amendment

Okay, so I don't usually do this, but this is an issue near and dear to me and this is getting very little no attention in the mainstream media.

Mississippi is voting on November 8th on whether to pass Amendment 26, the "Personhood ( Read more... )

Hey, y'all.

Just echoing the "please don't crosspost my stuff" plea circling LJ.  If I want it crossposted, I am fully capable of doing so myself.

I can say without any fear of overstatement that I hate one of my classmates.

It is a simple fact, nothing more.

As part of a class exercise on interpretation and other such things, we had to listen to Eminem's '97 Bonnie and Clyde. If you're unfamiliar with the song, please read the lyrics before you go on ( Read more... )

Maine GOP Forced To Apologize After Convention-Goers Vandalize An Eighth-Grade Classroom

Although Maine is known for its two moderate Republican senators - Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins - last week's state GOP convention showed the growing influence of far-right activists. An "overwhelming majority of delegates" voted to "scrap the the proposed ( Read more... )

bookshop makes a post about something that has been bothering me about fandom in general for a very long time:

Fandom is not woman-positive. Fandom needs all the urging it can get just to talk about female characters, let alone talk about them nicely. Fandom prioritizes men above everything. Fandom prioritizes male-based fantasies, and fandom ( Read more... )

You know what pisses me off the most about the anti-abortion crowd?

They don't raise a goddamn finger to help the women who follow their party line and "choose life".

They don't give a shit about the "poor, helpless babies" after they're born, only while they're in utero.

They don't support life, they support punishing women for having sex.

I don't ( Read more... )

Dear world at large,

Racists exist in places that are not the South.

I know that this may come as a shock to some of you, but rest assured that the American South doesn't even come close to having a monopoly on racism.  Sure, they're the most open about it, but for the love of GOD.

People, stop scapegoating the South so you don't have to face the ( Read more... )

I've been thinking a lot in light of the recent controversies -- specifically, the casting of The Last Airbender, and, more to the point, Bloomsbury's recent cover fails, wherein books about young women of colour have covers depicting white women.  To my knowledge, there was no reason given for the chosen covers, but it got me pondering.  There ( Read more... )

This article on deviantArt has a way for all of you artistically-inclined folk to help out with what's happening in Haiti.

( For the link-phobic )

You can text HAITI to 90999 to put a $10.00 donation on your cell phone bill, or text YELE to 501501 to put a $5.00 donation on your phone bill.

Other good places to donate if you can are listed here.

Want to help the folks in Haiti but can't quite afford to do so?

help_haiti is the fandom effort to help raise money for those suffering from the quake.  I've ( Read more... )