Truth (from a Londoner). We bash people in the face with our bags and then turn about to say “sorry” in a tone dripping with contempt. It’s mindboggling but it’s How It Is Done.

Same - I didn’t get it because I couldn’t afford it. And I’m well aged out now. It makes me incredibly angry.

Thank you— that does help.

I’m an idiot who basically just wants to protect my basic privacy and is at a loss about how to do so in this moment. I’ve been changing over account names and passwords and choosing two factor authentication for log-ins whenever it is possible, but the VPN thing is a little confusing to me. My…

If you’re interested in the roots of blood quantum and the self-destructive nature of its presence and practice in native communities, I’d recommend reading Kim TallBear. Blood quantum was forced onto these nations, and it is perpetuated by the very real vice of anti-native settler policies in the US and Canada…

Actually, they are both — the racialization of men of colour often goes hand-in-hand with rendering them effeminate, or queer, or otherwise “less manly” in someway. If you look at how men “of the Orient” are portrayed in literary accounts by French and Englishmen (and women) during the nineteenth century (i.e.…

I wish the crowd would boo Jimmy Kimmel making fun of non-white names as hard as they applauded this statement from Farhadi.

I’m a Palestinian in the diaspora (daughter/granddaughter of exiles, not refugees) so bearing in mind that context I have to say that a resurgent line of thought - particularly among younger Palestinians who have close ties to Jewish anti-Zionist thinkers, organizers, and organizations (though this also includes old…

Alan <3

As a Muslim living in the U.S. I love love love the outpouring of support from allies to my community, and that includes everyone’s generous donations to the ACLU. But the attack on CAIR is a long time coming from the right and they could use support too! Please consider donating to your local or the national CAIR, or…

More often than not anyone who joins a nonviolent rally and attempts to start agitating are cops, not actual anarchists. There’s a reason that the black bloc came out on inauguration day in D.C. to keep people out of the inauguration celebration but only showed up as medics and to keep an eye on law enforcement during…

Thank you. These fucking comments are making me ill with how little self-awareness of why throwing away anarchists and other radical politics and tactics is what actually subverts effective movements.

Attacking alternative tactics - and yes, tactics that destroy property - by blaming anarchists (or communists, or whatever yes-sir-mister-officer anti-radical lingo you prefer) instead of blaming law enforcement for making us believe that breaking a fucking starbucks window is “violent” and “illegitimate” (windows…

Karl Sharro was right: America DOES look like an Arab country right now. Sorry guys!

Bum bags are pretty big in UK street style. You’ll often see them turn up at London fashion week - men’s and women’s.

A++ reference, I’m laughing myself to tears in my office right now.

DevaCurl is great but for health and form (depending on how curly your hair is - this is more suitable for 3b and up) smoosh some curl cream or coconut oil into your hair every day, even on no-wash/no-wet days. I recommend Desert Essence coconut curl cream or DevaCurl’s new coconut curl cream. One quarter-sized…

I mean not really irony: Malek Alloula wrote about how the French state apparatus in colonial Algeria was so afraid of “veiled women” (because they could look at the colonizer but the colonizer could not look at them) that they pumped resources into propagandizing the ‘great unveiling.’ Subverting the male gaze and…

And a lot of nations will give a second shorter-term passport if you need one to apply for visas while traveling elsewhere. The U.S. does this for diplomats and journalists, for instance (the secondary passport only lasts 2 years typically).

For the future - if this ever happens again but outside (my kitty never got out of the habit of running away whenever she could!) - put some of their dirty litter outside. It’s very likely some other critters will come by and sniff it out/use it, but your kitkit will be able to smell himself and know where home is.