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mindofadevil:

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Anonymous asked: Top 10 songs of the year?

fuckrashida:

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6. Mariah Carey - Caution

7. The Internet - Roll (Burbank Funk) 

8. Ariana Grande - blazed

9. Teyana Taylor - Hurry

10. City Girls - Run Them Bands Up (feat. Trina)

777killa:

Every time…

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gothhabiba:

gothhabiba:

gothhabiba:

hilarious when white people in disability studies, Deafness studies, LGBT studies etc., compare that marginalisation to race (most often, to Blackness) & draw some kind of comparison or contrast between the two that reveals that (even though they’re itching to use race as presenting perhaps the most visible & obvious logic for the othering of bodies that they can freely extrapolate from and use for their own purposes) they don’t know what the fuck they’re talking about when it comes to race. I have to laugh

“I am sure many readers are asking themselves: is Lennard J. Davis a person with disabilities? And what is his disability?

One needs to understand the motive behind such a question. […] Disabilities always create curiosity on the part of the observer. What is the disability? How profound is it? Can I see it, touch, know it? How did it happen? What does it interfere with? What would life be like if I had that impairment? […]

The question demands an answer. I must tell you the status of at least some portion of my body. Unlike other kinds of interventions around the issues of race, class, or gender, there is a powerful policing mechanism that demands I answer your question. If I am a woman, a person of color, or even poor, my body reveals enough so that I don’t have to explain why I am a woman, how I became black, or why I am poor. But  the disabled body must be explained, or at least tolerate the inquisitive gaze (or the averted glance) of the questioner. The question never has to be put because it is always actively in a default mode — it is always already asked.”

imagine believing that the racialised body is never called upon to explain its racialisation. @ Lennard J. Davis fight me

what is the purpose of claiming that the disabled body is “much more transgressive and deviant” (Davis, Enforcing normalcy: disability, deafness, and the body, p. 5 ; emphasis mine) than the racialised body (also for Davis, than the gay or lesbian body)? why is race constantly brought in as a site of comparison in this way? why is the political work that (most commonly cited) African American studies has done towards reconceptualising and untangling the discourses of race, presented as somehow… an unfair amount of “progress” solely because disability hasn’t been theorised to the same extent? why complain that the work hasn’t been done for you rather than simply.. doing the work? why set up people of color as the bogeymen who are holding back progress for disabled people as if the groups & conceptions / creations thereof don’t interlap (”In some universities where diversity requirements have been instituted, there has been a struggle over including disability - which seems to some people of color to be a side current that would simply muddy the waters about the central issue of racism”–ibid. 6)? because you understand that Blackness is very visible in this way & want to use that visibility & those political frameworks for your own purposes while simultaneously denigrating them for that same visibility? get good!!

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anti-capitalistlesbianwitch:

geekandmisandry:

spork:

ethereal-blackgirl:

I don’t want to ‘feel’ empowered. I want to be empowered. Where is my fucking land? Or my higher position in society? Why are women supposed to feel grateful about a ‘feeling’? Whilst men are actually empowered.

Wow. I’ve literally never thought about it this way.

Well fuck.

This. So many times women use the word “empowered” when they mean “confident.” They do not mean the same thing.

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