Hey TSB! It’s nice to see you! It’s been so long. I’ve been in school, still trying to get all the courses I need to get into university. I’m doing super well, but I’ve been having to work so hard to maintain my high grades that I haven’t been around much. I’m sorry. I feel less guilty hosting a post on this topic,…
The restaurant industry is an entertainment industry. It is about smoke and mirrors and it is very good at it. Kitchen Bitches was a feminist conference as well as an industry event meant to address the toxic culture of professional restaurants and it’s impact on women in the industry.
Hey, wanna see some interesting stuff I found online this week? Links and videos and whatnot? Ever wonder what Intheweeds sees online? Where she goes? What she reads? Now you can find out! Here are some fun, funny and interesting things I saw this week on the interwebs.
...everything is down low. It all is in a plie.
I am... actually relatively pleased with his statement considering what we’re dealing with here. I suspected it might come down. Gawker never removes articles and knowing that, I don’t know why I believed it would come down, but yes, I did save that shit to PDF because this is Kinja and that is what we do here when we…
I’ve been pretty much over this whole thing that white feminists do where they make some stupid ass “White women, amirite?” joke every damned time some WOC tries to say something even remotely heartfelt in a comment somewhere. Usually, here’s what goes down:
Hey do you guys remember that white legacy girl, Abigail Fisher, who was so pissed that she wasn’t good enough to get into the university her dad went to that she sued saying she was a ‘victim’ of affirmative action? This girl:
Well this is pretty funny. A woman in Baltimore was sent a letter from a bigot warning her that she may have the police called on her over the relentless gayness of her yard.
Everyone gets one Dolezal post. This is mine.
In news that shocked no queer women anywhere yet is nevertheless THE GREATEST GAY CELEBRITY NEWS EVER, Kristen Stewart is dating her personal assistant Alicia Cargile. This is possibly the hottest damned couple since ever.
Caitlyn Jenner slays. She does. It’s been stated all over Twitter and Facebook. We’ve all seen the pictures. Her supreme slayage is objective fact. She looks amazing. Now that we’ve established that - and I really, really think we have - let’s talk about trans issues for real.
So this weekend an awesome kinja person, Dangertits, pointed me towards this series of videos called ‘Jiz and the Mammograms’. She said, “You won’t like it”. It is super offensive, it’s true. But I said on twitter that actually I really liked it and I couldn’t figure out why since yes, all signs point to offensive as…
I always have a lot to say about the racism we encounter in Canada. It infuriates me because I find it’s just as bad for Canadian POC as it is for Americans but Canada is much better at dismissing and pretending it isn’t so. Canadians really do think we are sooo much better up here. Our liberals are way more…
Yanni- is an incredible young man who has worked hard on issues around social justice and race relations inside of his predominantly white school. His college application process was one where his college counselor was sure that he had a chance at a place like Stanford or some other top schools in the country. He took…
One of the big projects we all have to do for our communications class is called: Teach us Something. Everyone has to find something that they know well and that matters to them to teach the rest of the class in a presentation and today my friend did hers. I would like to share some of it with you since I think a lot…
If a large scale White blog writes a post about an appropriation video put forth by a Black woman that a smaller blog for POC wrote about a day previous on the same blogging platform, without credit to that smaller blog, is that appropriation of appropriation discourse? Meta-appropriation? Or coincidence?
...until we start to hear from the St. Louis University medical student population who apparently spent two years with him as he pretended to be Black. I'm sooooo curious.
We've been talking a lot recently about colourism and the African diaspora and well... it's a topic near to my heart and so I've been thinking recently. I don't have much to say really, I just wanted to share this song with you. I know it's very kumbaya, 'we're all one big family' and maybe you find that a bit corny,…
"The classroom remains the most radical space of possibility in the academy... ...Urging all of us to open our minds and hearts so that we can know beyond the boundaries of what is acceptable, so that we can think and rethink, so that we can create new visions, I celebrate teaching that enables transgressions — a…
I'm not even sure what one even says about this. I was torn about even posting this and ruining people's days. TRIGGER TRIGGER TRIGGER WARNING. Don't click here if you're already in a bad space. Okay, lets start with some kitten love because I'm not sure what will show up on the main feed.
