Props to myrrhmade for linking me to this.

Most of you have no idea what Martin Luther King actually did.

So, some of you may have heard that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently made a speech about human rights in which she said that gay rights = human rights. Gay people being human, this does not come as a surprise to anyone with a functioning conscience. President Obama followed up this speech by issuing a directive that countries which ( Read more... )

Lemony Snickett chimes in on Occupy Wall Street. I'll put this on facebook too but I'm in training and can't access it.

Ray Comfort's latest movie is out. Trigger warnings apply for pictures and discussion of the holocaust, for talking about violent scenarios, for hate speech, for anti-choice rhetoric, for Christian supremacism, for white supremacism, for antisemitism, and a whole hell of a lot of other extremely triggery subjects. Seriously, this is a rough video ( Read more... )

Doug Edwards is awesome. "Can you please raise my taxes? I would like very much to have the country, to continue to invest in things like Pell Grants and infrastructure and job training programs that made it possible for me to get to where I am."

THANK YOU.

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Literata has an excellent post up which rounds up a lot of links on the activities of the NAR. Long, but well worth the read.

(( TW for racism and white supremacy ))

The National Policy Institute, which is a white supremacist organization, recently had their 2011 conference. Media Matters has coverage. While he was there, the reporter ran into some folks from the AFA... that is, the Asatru Folk Assembly. The Wild Hunt has observations on that ( Read more... )

(( TW Heterosexism, General Sexism))

I could write a lot about this but I'm not going to. It's mostly all here, including some pointed side-by-side examples of how male characters would look drawn in the same costumes and poses as female characters. Basically, female characters are posed to emphasize their sexuality. Hips, breasts, ass, etc. ( Read more... )

TW for Cissexism liek WHOA.

The American Family Association's Bryan Fischer has had a LOT to say about Chaz Bono's participation in this season of 'Dancing with the Stars'. Aside from calling Chaz a 'sexually mutilated aberration', he also had this to say:

"Chaz Bono is not a "he," Chaz Bono is a "she." She is a "she" in every single cell ( Read more... )