March 2012
Update: 11 year old trans girl lost appeal →
transawareness:
The above article is an update. Her mother went to appeal to keep her out of the psychiatric ward and lost. She will be institutionalized because of her expression of her gender. She will be held until she conforms to male gender and then released to foster care, not her mother who was supporting her.
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The criminalization of black America →
anticapitalist:
There are more African American adults under correctional control today — in prison or jail, on probation or parole — than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began.
As of 2004, more African American men were disenfranchised (due to felon disenfranchisement laws) than in 1870, the year the Fifteenth Amendment was ratified, prohibiting laws that explicitly deny...
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Watchihopericksantorum:
“We know the candidate Barack Obama what he was like, the anti-war goverment nigg—the uh—…” Wow.
It’s so sad that it will have had to come to this to make his campaign go away, but at the same time I’m glad it will be gone.
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Watchihopericksantorum:
Two men interrupted a Rick Santorum event in Illinois with a same-sex kiss, and were promptly ejected by security when the crowd turned on them. The duo would would not reveal whether they were gay to reporter Savannah Ziegelbauer, emphasizing Santorum’s oft-divisive gay-rights policy, not their sexuality, as the important issue. ““I don’t think the message should be about...
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Racist homophobes keeping themselves busy →
stfuconservatives:
thehighshelf:
National Organization for Marriage is a vile, monstrous hate group.
Their actual plan is to encourage self-segregation as a way of ghettoizing people of color and encouraging POC to focus their frustrations on gays, which will also ensure that POC remain the focus of discussions of cultural homophobia.
One doesn’t need to tease out intersections of oppression...