I was almost rabid
for love.
Would’ve lunged at any thing
thrown my way
carcass, shadow, memory, promise
shell of a man.
I thought it was better
to be loved by a dead thing
than to be left alone.
Then I loved a dead thing
and was completely alone.
[image description: a photo of a person with dark skin from behind wearing a graduation cap. Written on the cap is the quote “I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, make verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood. That the speaking profits me, beyond any other effect.” by Audre Lorde. End description.]
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Justice for Tasered 8 Months Pregnant Woman
Police in Chicago used a Taser on an African-American woman who is 8 months pregnant because she parked in a handicapped parking space.
Tiffany Rent parked there because she was trying to calm down her 3-year-old daughter. She tried to explain what happened, but they wouldn’t listen. Instead, they gave her a ticket for $200.
The police, who had blocked her in, started insulting her — one told her to call Jesse Jackson — and Rent got into her car because she was scared. They tasered her through the window, and her boyfriend, Joseph Hobbs, had his elbow dislocated while trying to protect her. This all happened in front of her children.
Rent and Hobbs were taken into custody and charged with resisting arrest and simple assault. Rent was taken to the hospital for treatment and may have to deliver her baby early because of the stress.
Please tell the Chicago Police Department to do a full investigation of this incident and get justice for Tiffany Rent!
Angela Y. Davis, Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture (via missymissydee)
Why does this have so little notes? Where are all the White Saviors™ jumping up and crocodile tearing over this? Is it because the person committing the crime isn’t black? Is it because this piece of shit person says more about the nature of white mentality in America? Because this doesn’t make you feel good and can’t be “solved” by wearing a bracelet? Is it because Trayvon Martin is one person who’s life can not be “saved”? Is it because Trayvon Martin is one human being and not a country or a continent?
The irony is the similarities between the poster above and some of the “stop Kony” ones.
OHHHHH LOOK YOU GUYS, LOOK UP THERE^^ LOOK AT THE TRUTH! Reblogging again for this fucking glorious commentary.
JACKSON, Miss. — A Mississippi House bill would effectively ban abortion after six weeks of pregnancy.
The bill would require doctors to search for a fetal heartbeat before performing an abortion and, if a heartbeat is found, would make going ahead with the procedure illegal.
The bill passed the House on Wednesday and now goes to the Senate, where a similar bill died in committee.
House Judiciary B Committee Chairman Andy Gipson, R-Braxton, says the bill will ban 90 percent of the abortions in the state because most women seek abortion after a fetal heartbeat is detectable.
The bill allows exemptions if the woman’s life is at risk or no fetal heartbeat can be found. There are no exemptions for rape and incest victims.
The bill is among several supported by anti-abortion groups.
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This is an embryo at 6 weeks LMP (or about 28 days since fertilization):
Actual size 4-6 millimeters!
Up to 6 1/2 weeks calculated from the 1st day of the last menstruation cycle, no embryo can be visualized yet, therefore merely a gestational sac can be seen.
But, yeah, whatevs. This sounds like a great law to pass.
wait. is this real life?
Yeah I can totally believe Zimmerman felt the need to defend himself from this screaming child.
KateP, Internet commenter (via cocklordsimone)
Brandon Morgan, the Marine in this photo, says of its viral popularity:
To everyone who has responded in a positive way. My partner and I want to say thank you. Dalan, the giant in the photo, can’t believe how many shares and likes we have gotten on this. We didn’t do this to get famous,or something like that we did this cause after 3 deployments and four years knowing each other, we finally told each other how we felt. As for the haters, let em hate…to quote Kat Williams, everyone needs haters, so let them hate. We are the happiest we have ever been and as for the whole PDA and kissing slash hugging in uniform…it was a homecoming, if the Sergeants Major, Captains, Majors, and Colonels around us didn’t care…then why do you care what these random people have to say?
Perfection. More.
And there is a fantastic line-up of Tributes. Check out the trailer for this year’s event and see for yourself.
Can March 23rd come any faster? Fell in love with the series.
DISTRICT TWELVE’S OTHER VOLUNTEER?
By now, avid Hunger Games fans are well aware that Katniss Everdeen is District 12’s first volunteer Tribute in decades - but she won’t be the only volunteer on Team 12 at the 74th Hunger Games! Meet Cinna, the hotly-tipped young stylist who — get this — actually requested to work with the D12 Tributes. We have to say, this brave if not odd entreaty has been paying off — everyone from Mayor Luna to Seneca Crane has been clamoring to see what Cinna’s got in store for 12!
