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Military mom ‘proud’ of breast-feeding in uniform, despite criticism
National pride, or disgrace? A photo gone viral of two servicewomen breast-feeding their children while in uniform has added a new layer to the debate over nursing in public.If you think this is a “disgrace”, just quit following me now.
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I’ve seen a ton on the facebooks about “thanking veterans for their service.” As a veteran let me just be very straightforward and honest with you. We didn’t “serve our country”; we don’t actually serve our brothers/sisters or our neighbors. We serve the interests of Capital. We never risked our lives or spent months on deployment away from our family and friends so they can have this abstract concept called “freedom”. We served big oil; big coal; Coca-Cola; Kellogg, Brown, and Root and all the other big Capital interests who don’t know a fucking thing about sacrifice. These people will never have to deal with the loss of a loved one or the physical and/or psychological scars that those who “serve”, and their families, have to deal with for the rest of their lives. The most patriotic thing someone can do is to tell truth to power and dedicate yourself to building power to overthrow these sociopathic assholes. I served with some of the most real and genuine people I’ve ever met. You’ll never see solidarity like the kind of solidarity you experience when your life depends on the person next to you. But most of us didn’t join for that; we joined because we were fucking poor and didn’t have many other options.
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If you don’t think trans women are real women, then unfollow this blog right now. Get the fuck out of here and don’t come back. Transmisogyny is something I cannot and will not tolerate.
Predictably, since I was so utterly convinced that yesterday was Monday, I woke up thinking today was Tuesday. The fact that I remembered that it was meant to thunderstorm on Weds & that it was meant to thunderstorm today clicked it for me, though, which reminded me that today is when I’m going into town to buy a new dress with the money from my gran’ma (depending on lack of thunderstorms, of which there are none). I checked my account & my £60 Adsense earnings had gone in, too, so now today’s a super good day (even though I have to do boring stuff like popping into the agency & handing out some more CVs, haha!). It’s pretty cool that I’ve managed to get my sleeping pattern on track so that even after forgetting that I was meant to go out for ages, I’m half ready to go & it’s only 10am!
This is a really boring post; I’m just happy to have some cash & be able to job-search & to not be sleeping in late & because I’m getting a new dress :3
English transgender activist and law professor Stephen Whittle.
During his childhood, he discovered he was sexually attracted to both men and women, and had a strong desire to be a man, grow a beard and have a hairy chest. When he was 16, he read an article about a person who had transitioned from female to male.
In 1974, he came out as transgender after attending a women’s liberation conference in Edinburgh, Scotland as a member of the Manchester Lesbian Collective. Whittle co-founded the Manchester TV/TS group, the first support group for transgender people in the United Kingdom in 1975.
He also founded and co-ordinated the U.K.’s FTM Network, which he led until 2007. Whittle is also the founder of Press for Change, one of the U.K.’s most successful trans rights lobby groups. He has actively worked to change the U.K.’s laws and social attitudes about transgender individuals, and allowed a television special to be made about his phalloplasty surgery in 2002.
After the U.K.’s Gender Recognition Act came into effect in 2005, he got a new birth certificate and legally married his partner, Sarah Rutherford. They have four children.
That same year, Whittle was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for his services to transgender issues.
Born May 29, 1955.Oh, what a badass.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY STEVE!!!!!
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ya’ll don’t face racism…
sooo’
STFU
So you are either admitting you don’t know what racism is, or you have never heard of the Black Panthers, or the phrases “Black Power” or “White Devil”
“WAAH WAAH! We are considered the standard of human beauty! Our cultures and societies are the gauge by which all others are measured and deemed wanting! Despite a history of slavery, genocide, imperialism and cultural/intellectual theft, we still consider ourselves the most (the only?) civilised peoples on this planet! Southern societies exist for our delectation, and women of colour? Are they even people or what?
“…But being called a white devil is JUST AS BAD!”
—Racist whites
OP please stop and think why the black panthers existed. Look at the context behind it.
White people seem to think that the Black Panther party are just a big ol’ Black Klu Klux Klan, running ‘round, lynching white folks. It’s just depressing is what it is.
The KKK isn’t currently lynching people, all though it still exists, [and btw, the KKK lynched tons of white people too], they’re an occultist terrorist organization. The BPs hold the exact equivalent racist beliefs as the KKK. The BPs are screaming about how they’re “not lynching crackers, Yet, yet yet.” It should go without saying its the ideology that is EXACTLY the same, not the actions. the BPs aren’t wearing black pointy hoods for instance.
Black Liberation theology holds that pale skin literally makes one a devil. This is what these people believe. It is evil.
What…I..
It used to be called The Black Panther Party For Self Defense for a reason.
Where does it say “KILL ALL WHITE PEOPLE!”
Can I not read right?
???
people are STILL smoking this “black panthers are a white hatred group” crack???
What is this “equivalent racism” nonsense I’m reading? To give an example of why historically ignorant white people need to stop pretending racism is something that can be so easily flipped and made “equal”, when a bunch of white dudes decided to be racist as fuck against anyone not white and Protestant, they spawned a murderous organization that would endure for over a hundred years, in which time they were able to gain enough political power to influence local and national politics, such that former Klan members held political positions.
They at one point had millions of members. Klan activity was enough to be the partial influence for millions of black people getting the fuck out of dodge and leaving the South. That is what happens when a few white guys decide to be racist. What happens when a few black folks decide to form their own group to respond to racism? They’re dismantled by government interference within 20 years and labeled radicals, terrorists, and a hate group from the jump.
Black people defending themselves against murderous white people is the same kind of wrong as white people killing black people for no reason? That is what you say when you try to suggest those two groups are two sides to the same coin.
The KKK was allowed to come back like a cockroach 3 different times over more than a century. That is how deep anti-black racism runs in this country. The Black Panther Party wasn’t allowed to exist for two decades before the government actively sabotaged them. That is how afraid this country is of mobilized black people who have learned they don’t have to take this bullshit anymore. That we even have to have this conversation is what happens when white people get to write history.
Wait, didn’t the Black Panthers have white members? So technically, this whole argument about them being racist is thrown out the window. In fact, they had a party called the ‘white panther party’ which supported the Black Panthers.
The Black Panthers had a program that gave poor black children lunch and helped feed communities. Where did the KKK do anything that helped anyone ever? Y’all so damn dumb.
I’m not sure whether or not the creator of this .jpeg knows this or not, BUT when you had members of the Black Panther Party or any black activist walking around with raised fists saying “Black Power”.. It wasn’t because they (we) viewed themselves (ourselves) as superior, they wanted to show black people how powerful and dynamic we are as a race. They were teaching the importance of uplifting one another and supporting one another in our communities. We were focused on building up our children and not allowing them to forget their beauty, worth, or intelligence. Black people were out to take back what was stolen and stripped from us; not to murder, kill, rape, or sodomize white bodies.
The murder and degradation of any PoC (along with those in support of PoC) was all the KKK was ever about.
im glad yall took the time to break it down for mf’s cuz i wouldn’tve gave em shit. keep it simple- in this world in our lifetime there is no such thing as reverse racism, period, and the BPP was never a “white hate” group, period. end of story
I’m just reblogging for the commentary. OP (Creator of the .jpeg) is about as dense as Hassium. End of story.
Nicely done. Reblogged for commentary.
This commentary is much more pleasing.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3x2dgPbmr1r1bfe0o1_1280.jpg)
ya’ll don’t face racism…
sooo’
STFU
So you are either admitting you don’t know what racism is, or you have never heard of the Black Panthers, or the phrases “Black Power” or “White Devil”
“WAAH WAAH! We are considered the standard of human beauty! Our cultures and societies are the gauge by which all others are measured and deemed wanting! Despite a history of slavery, genocide, imperialism and cultural/intellectual theft, we still consider ourselves the most (the only?) civilised peoples on this planet! Southern societies exist for our delectation, and women of colour? Are they even people or what?
“…But being called a white devil is JUST AS BAD!”
—Racist whites
OP please stop and think why the black panthers existed. Look at the context behind it.
White people seem to think that the Black Panther party are just a big ol’ Black Klu Klux Klan, running ‘round, lynching white folks. It’s just depressing is what it is.
The KKK isn’t currently lynching people, all though it still exists, [and btw, the KKK lynched tons of white people too], they’re an occultist terrorist organization. The BPs hold the exact equivalent racist beliefs as the KKK. The BPs are screaming about how they’re “not lynching crackers, Yet, yet yet.” It should go without saying its the ideology that is EXACTLY the same, not the actions. the BPs aren’t wearing black pointy hoods for instance.
Black Liberation theology holds that pale skin literally makes one a devil. This is what these people believe. It is evil.
What…I..
It used to be called The Black Panther Party For Self Defense for a reason.
Where does it say “KILL ALL WHITE PEOPLE!”
Can I not read right?
???
people are STILL smoking this “black panthers are a white hatred group” crack???What is this “equivalent racism” nonsense I’m reading? To give an example of why historically ignorant white people need to stop pretending racism is something that can be so easily flipped and made “equal”, when a bunch of white dudes decided to be racist as fuck against anyone not white and Protestant, they spawned a murderous organization that would endure for over a hundred years, in which time they were able to gain enough political power to influence local and national politics, such that former Klan members held political positions.
They at one point had millions of members. Klan activity was enough to be the partial influence for millions of black people getting the fuck out of dodge and leaving the South. That is what happens when a few white guys decide to be racist. What happens when a few black folks decide to form their own group to respond to racism? They’re dismantled by government interference within 20 years and labeled radicals, terrorists, and a hate group from the jump.
Black people defending themselves against murderous white people is the same kind of wrong as white people killing black people for no reason? That is what you say when you try to suggest those two groups are two sides to the same coin.
The KKK was allowed to come back like a cockroach 3 different times over more than a century. That is how deep anti-black racism runs in this country. The Black Panther Party wasn’t allowed to exist for two decades before the government actively sabotaged them. That is how afraid this country is of mobilized black people who have learned they don’t have to take this bullshit anymore. That we even have to have this conversation is what happens when white people get to write history.
Wait, didn’t the Black Panthers have white members? So technically, this whole argument about them being racist is thrown out the window. In fact, they had a party called the ‘white panther party’ which supported the Black Panthers.
The Black Panthers had a program that gave poor black children lunch and helped feed communities. Where did the KKK do anything that helped anyone ever? Y’all so damn dumb.
I’m not sure whether or not the creator of this .jpeg knows this or not, BUT when you had members of the Black Panther Party or any black activist walking around with raised fists saying “Black Power”.. It wasn’t because they (we) viewed themselves (ourselves) as superior, they wanted to show black people how powerful and dynamic we are as a race. They were teaching the importance of uplifting one another and supporting one another in our communities. We were focused on building up our children and not allowing them to forget their beauty, worth, or intelligence. Black people were out to take back what was stolen and stripped from us; not to murder, kill, rape, or sodomize white bodies.
The murder and degradation of any PoC (along with those in support of PoC) was all the KKK was ever about.
im glad yall took the time to break it down for mf’s cuz i wouldn’tve gave em shit. keep it simple- in this world in our lifetime there is no such thing as reverse racism, period, and the BPP was never a “white hate” group, period. end of story
I’m just reblogging for the commentary. OP (Creator of the .jpeg) is about as dense as Hassium. End of story.
Nicely done. Reblogged for commentary.
This commentary is much more pleasing.
