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On the other hand, a lot of anti-makeup sentiment– particularly anything that starts talking about how “frivolous” and “shallow” makeup is– is also misogynistic and femmephobic. Makeup is a form of visual art. If making your face beautiful is shallow, so is making a canvas beautiful or a block of marble or a hunk of plastic. If you understand why someone would feel satisfied and happy when they make a gorgeous print, you understand why someone would feel satisfied and happy when their makeup looks perfect. I do not think it is accidental that the form of visual art almost entirely practiced by women is the one that gets accused of frivolity and where the talent exhibited by many of the artists is ignored or denigrated.

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Other People’s Makeup Use: None Of Your Business – Ozy Frantz’s Blog (via brute-reason)

I feel this so much, these convos happen so much in intro women’s studies classes.

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paesanamargarita: secrethistoriesproject: 12. Bayard Rustin What do a ‘Communist draft-dodging homosexual sex-pervert’ and a ‘Civil Rights hero’ have in common? Well, for starters, they’re sometimes the same person. Bayard Rustin was an activist and teacher who played a key role in the Civil Rights movement. His accomplishments included: Rustin moved to New York after spending time at university and in teacher training, and quickly became active in civil rights politics. He registered as a conscientious objector to World War II, and went to California to help protect the interests and properties of Japanese-Americans who were interred for the duration of the war. He worked on the campaign to defend the Scottsboro Boys, and was an early worker on the campaign for desegretation on public transport. In 1942, he was arrested for the first of many times for repeatedly refusing to move from the front seat of a bus when asked to do so. In 1947, he helped organise the first of the Freedom Rides, sponsored by the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR), an interfaith and mixed-race pacifist group. He was arrested while on the Ride and served twenty-two days in a chain gang in North Carolina In 1948, he travelled to India to learn from Gandhi’s pacifist independence movement.  In 1956, he went to work as a close advisor to Dr Martin Luther King, passing on the techniques of non-violent resistance that he learned from the Gandhian movement.  And finally, he was the main organiser of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom — the event at which Dr King made his ‘I Have a Dream’ speech (link is to video). It was in no small part thanks to Rustin’s careful organisation (of everything from bus marshals to bathroom facilities) that the march was able to stay peaceful and non-violent. So why have you never heard about Bayard Rustin in history class?  Because Bayard Rustin was gay.  (or, perhaps more accurately, because Bayard Rustin was openly gay and not particularly interested in keeping quiet about it). In 1953, he was arrested in Pasadena, California for having consensual sex in a parked car with two male partners. He was intially charged with vagrancy and lewd conduct: the charges were later altered to a lesser count of ‘sex perversion’, to which he pleaded guilty. After his conviction, he was asked to leave the FOR,and he was later shunned by many members of the civil rights movement. It’s important to remember that this may not have been completely due to the homophobia of the other civil rights leaders — they were acting under  the fear of being smeared or blackmailed by right-wing opposition (after all, these events were taking place at the height of McCarthyism). Their fears weren’t ill-founded, either — in 1963, right-wing Senator Strom Thurmond lectured Congress on Rustin’s ‘Communist draft-dodging homosexual sex-pervert’ ways. Some opponents even threatened to circulate rumours that Rustin and Dr King were having an affair.  Nevertheless, Rustin never seems to have been inclined to deny his sexuality or to keep it a secret. Rachelle Horowitz, a fellow March organiser, commented that she thought ‘he’d never heard there was a closet’.  Immediately after his removal from the FOR Rustin briefly saw a psychiatrist, Dr Robert Ascher, but seems to have quickly given up on the idea of attempting to ‘cure’ himself of being gay. He continued to have male partners, and formed a long-term relationship with Walter Naegle in the late 1970s which lasted until the end of his life. As the litany of his achievements above suggests, he also managed to overcome the stigma of having been arrested for his sexuality. After being dismissed from the FOR, Rustin became secretary of the War Resisters’ League, and later worked as a secretary to Dr King. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Rustin continued to work for civil rights — and among those rights were gay rights. He was one of the first thinkers to begin comparing the post-Stonewall gay rights movement to the Civil Rights movement, and in 1986 he gave a speech entitled ‘The New N****** Are Gays’ — a statement that I’m not going to comment on aside from saying that I think he was much more qualified to have an opinion about the topic than I am. He also worked to found Project South Africa, a programme which sought to connect concerned Americans with groups working for democracy in SA. By the time of his death in 1987, his FBI file stretched to over 10,000 pages. At a time when post-1960s white American society was settling into cosily mythologising the history of the Civil Rights movement into a non-threatening, happy story of ‘Rosa Parks sat down on the bus because her feet were tired and then racism was over, hooray’, Rustin continued to ask difficult questions, cause trouble and demand more from his society — and for that, I sort of have to love him.  More: PDF of Rustin’s essay ‘From Montgomery to Stonewall’ plus a pamphlet authored by him preparing marchers for the 1963 March: http://www.illinoisprobono.org/calendarUploads/Rustin%20Documents.pdf Walter Naegle, Rustin’s partner, speaks about his life: http://rustin.org/?page_id=11 Detailed bio of Rustin from ‘Waging Nonviolence’: http://wagingnonviolence.org/2012/03/revisiting-rustin-on-his-centennial/ Profile on KNOWhomo with a brief excerpt from ‘The New N****** Are Gays’: http://knowhomo.tumblr.com/post/11565611172 Washington Post article on Rustin: http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/bayard-rustin-organizer-of-the-march-on-washington-was-crucial-to-the-movement/2011/08/17/gIQA0oZ7UJ_story.html Website for Brother Outsider, a film biography of Rustin: http://rustin.org/?page_id=2 Article on Rustin’s speech ‘The New N****** are Gays’: http://killingthebuddha.com/mag/damnation/gays-are-the-new-niggers/ Wikipedia biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayard_Rustin Yes. A great reminder of the intersections between sexual politics and racial and economic liberation movements. Hallelu & thank you, Bayard Rustin. paesanamargarita: secrethistoriesproject: 12. Bayard Rustin What do a ‘Communist draft-dodging homosexual sex-pervert’ and a ‘Civil Rights hero’ have in common? Well, for starters, they’re sometimes the same person. Bayard Rustin was an activist and teacher who played a key role in the Civil Rights movement. His accomplishments included: Rustin moved to New York after spending time at university and in teacher training, and quickly became active in civil rights politics. He registered as a conscientious objector to World War II, and went to California to help protect the interests and properties of Japanese-Americans who were interred for the duration of the war. He worked on the campaign to defend the Scottsboro Boys, and was an early worker on the campaign for desegretation on public transport. In 1942, he was arrested for the first of many times for repeatedly refusing to move from the front seat of a bus when asked to do so. In 1947, he helped organise the first of the Freedom Rides, sponsored by the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR), an interfaith and mixed-race pacifist group. He was arrested while on the Ride and served twenty-two days in a chain gang in North Carolina In 1948, he travelled to India to learn from Gandhi’s pacifist independence movement.  In 1956, he went to work as a close advisor to Dr Martin Luther King, passing on the techniques of non-violent resistance that he learned from the Gandhian movement.  And finally, he was the main organiser of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom — the event at which Dr King made his ‘I Have a Dream’ speech (link is to video). It was in no small part thanks to Rustin’s careful organisation (of everything from bus marshals to bathroom facilities) that the march was able to stay peaceful and non-violent. So why have you never heard about Bayard Rustin in history class?  Because Bayard Rustin was gay.  (or, perhaps more accurately, because Bayard Rustin was openly gay and not particularly interested in keeping quiet about it). In 1953, he was arrested in Pasadena, California for having consensual sex in a parked car with two male partners. He was intially charged with vagrancy and lewd conduct: the charges were later altered to a lesser count of ‘sex perversion’, to which he pleaded guilty. After his conviction, he was asked to leave the FOR,and he was later shunned by many members of the civil rights movement. It’s important to remember that this may not have been completely due to the homophobia of the other civil rights leaders — they were acting under  the fear of being smeared or blackmailed by right-wing opposition (after all, these events were taking place at the height of McCarthyism). Their fears weren’t ill-founded, either — in 1963, right-wing Senator Strom Thurmond lectured Congress on Rustin’s ‘Communist draft-dodging homosexual sex-pervert’ ways. Some opponents even threatened to circulate rumours that Rustin and Dr King were having an affair.  Nevertheless, Rustin never seems to have been inclined to deny his sexuality or to keep it a secret. Rachelle Horowitz, a fellow March organiser, commented that she thought ‘he’d never heard there was a closet’.  Immediately after his removal from the FOR Rustin briefly saw a psychiatrist, Dr Robert Ascher, but seems to have quickly given up on the idea of attempting to ‘cure’ himself of being gay. He continued to have male partners, and formed a long-term relationship with Walter Naegle in the late 1970s which lasted until the end of his life. As the litany of his achievements above suggests, he also managed to overcome the stigma of having been arrested for his sexuality. After being dismissed from the FOR, Rustin became secretary of the War Resisters’ League, and later worked as a secretary to Dr King. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Rustin continued to work for civil rights — and among those rights were gay rights. He was one of the first thinkers to begin comparing the post-Stonewall gay rights movement to the Civil Rights movement, and in 1986 he gave a speech entitled ‘The New N****** Are Gays’ — a statement that I’m not going to comment on aside from saying that I think he was much more qualified to have an opinion about the topic than I am. He also worked to found Project South Africa, a programme which sought to connect concerned Americans with groups working for democracy in SA. By the time of his death in 1987, his FBI file stretched to over 10,000 pages. At a time when post-1960s white American society was settling into cosily mythologising the history of the Civil Rights movement into a non-threatening, happy story of ‘Rosa Parks sat down on the bus because her feet were tired and then racism was over, hooray’, Rustin continued to ask difficult questions, cause trouble and demand more from his society — and for that, I sort of have to love him.  More: PDF of Rustin’s essay ‘From Montgomery to Stonewall’ plus a pamphlet authored by him preparing marchers for the 1963 March: http://www.illinoisprobono.org/calendarUploads/Rustin%20Documents.pdf Walter Naegle, Rustin’s partner, speaks about his life: http://rustin.org/?page_id=11 Detailed bio of Rustin from ‘Waging Nonviolence’: http://wagingnonviolence.org/2012/03/revisiting-rustin-on-his-centennial/ Profile on KNOWhomo with a brief excerpt from ‘The New N****** Are Gays’: http://knowhomo.tumblr.com/post/11565611172 Washington Post article on Rustin: http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/bayard-rustin-organizer-of-the-march-on-washington-was-crucial-to-the-movement/2011/08/17/gIQA0oZ7UJ_story.html Website for Brother Outsider, a film biography of Rustin: http://rustin.org/?page_id=2 Article on Rustin’s speech ‘The New N****** are Gays’: http://killingthebuddha.com/mag/damnation/gays-are-the-new-niggers/ Wikipedia biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayard_Rustin Yes. A great reminder of the intersections between sexual politics and racial and economic liberation movements. Hallelu & thank you, Bayard Rustin.

paesanamargarita:

secrethistoriesproject:

12. Bayard Rustin

What do a ‘Communist draft-dodging homosexual sex-pervert’ and a ‘Civil Rights hero’ have in common?

Well, for starters, they’re sometimes the same person.

Bayard Rustin was an activist and teacher who played a key role in the Civil Rights movement. His accomplishments included:

  • Rustin moved to New York after spending time at university and in teacher training, and quickly became active in civil rights politics. He registered as a conscientious objector to World War II, and went to California to help protect the interests and properties of Japanese-Americans who were interred for the duration of the war.
  • He worked on the campaign to defend the Scottsboro Boys, and was an early worker on the campaign for desegretation on public transport. In 1942, he was arrested for the first of many times for repeatedly refusing to move from the front seat of a bus when asked to do so.
  • In 1947, he helped organise the first of the Freedom Rides, sponsored by the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR), an interfaith and mixed-race pacifist group. He was arrested while on the Ride and served twenty-two days in a chain gang in North Carolina
  • In 1948, he travelled to India to learn from Gandhi’s pacifist independence movement. 
  • In 1956, he went to work as a close advisor to Dr Martin Luther King, passing on the techniques of non-violent resistance that he learned from the Gandhian movement. 
  • And finally, he was the main organiser of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom — the event at which Dr King made his ‘I Have a Dream’ speech (link is to video). It was in no small part thanks to Rustin’s careful organisation (of everything from bus marshals to bathroom facilities) that the march was able to stay peaceful and non-violent.

So why have you never heard about Bayard Rustin in history class? 

Because Bayard Rustin was gay. 

(or, perhaps more accurately, because Bayard Rustin was openly gay and not particularly interested in keeping quiet about it).

In 1953, he was arrested in Pasadena, California for having consensual sex in a parked car with two male partners. He was intially charged with vagrancy and lewd conduct: the charges were later altered to a lesser count of ‘sex perversion’, to which he pleaded guilty. After his conviction, he was asked to leave the FOR,and he was later shunned by many members of the civil rights movement.

It’s important to remember that this may not have been completely due to the homophobia of the other civil rights leaders — they were acting under  the fear of being smeared or blackmailed by right-wing opposition (after all, these events were taking place at the height of McCarthyism). Their fears weren’t ill-founded, either — in 1963, right-wing Senator Strom Thurmond lectured Congress on Rustin’s ‘Communist draft-dodging homosexual sex-pervert’ ways. Some opponents even threatened to circulate rumours that Rustin and Dr King were having an affair. 

Nevertheless, Rustin never seems to have been inclined to deny his sexuality or to keep it a secret. Rachelle Horowitz, a fellow March organiser, commented that she thought ‘he’d never heard there was a closet’.  Immediately after his removal from the FOR Rustin briefly saw a psychiatrist, Dr Robert Ascher, but seems to have quickly given up on the idea of attempting to ‘cure’ himself of being gay. He continued to have male partners, and formed a long-term relationship with Walter Naegle in the late 1970s which lasted until the end of his life. As the litany of his achievements above suggests, he also managed to overcome the stigma of having been arrested for his sexuality. After being dismissed from the FOR, Rustin became secretary of the War Resisters’ League, and later worked as a secretary to Dr King.

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Rustin continued to work for civil rights — and among those rights were gay rights. He was one of the first thinkers to begin comparing the post-Stonewall gay rights movement to the Civil Rights movement, and in 1986 he gave a speech entitled ‘The New N****** Are Gays’ — a statement that I’m not going to comment on aside from saying that I think he was much more qualified to have an opinion about the topic than I am. He also worked to found Project South Africa, a programme which sought to connect concerned Americans with groups working for democracy in SA. By the time of his death in 1987, his FBI file stretched to over 10,000 pages.

At a time when post-1960s white American society was settling into cosily mythologising the history of the Civil Rights movement into a non-threatening, happy story of ‘Rosa Parks sat down on the bus because her feet were tired and then racism was over, hooray’, Rustin continued to ask difficult questions, cause trouble and demand more from his society — and for that, I sort of have to love him. 

More:

PDF of Rustin’s essay ‘From Montgomery to Stonewall’ plus a pamphlet authored by him preparing marchers for the 1963 March: http://www.illinoisprobono.org/calendarUploads/Rustin%20Documents.pdf

Walter Naegle, Rustin’s partner, speaks about his life: http://rustin.org/?page_id=11

Detailed bio of Rustin from ‘Waging Nonviolence’: http://wagingnonviolence.org/2012/03/revisiting-rustin-on-his-centennial/

Profile on KNOWhomo with a brief excerpt from ‘The New N****** Are Gays’: http://knowhomo.tumblr.com/post/11565611172

Washington Post article on Rustin: http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/bayard-rustin-organizer-of-the-march-on-washington-was-crucial-to-the-movement/2011/08/17/gIQA0oZ7UJ_story.html

Website for Brother Outsider, a film biography of Rustin: http://rustin.org/?page_id=2

Article on Rustin’s speech ‘The New N****** are Gays’: http://killingthebuddha.com/mag/damnation/gays-are-the-new-niggers/

Wikipedia biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayard_Rustin

Yes. A great reminder of the intersections between sexual politics and racial and economic liberation movements. Hallelu & thank you, Bayard Rustin.

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stfuconservatives: popgothecrackers: angryasiangirlsunited: noonaneomuhomo: This is motherfucking bullshit. I am an English-speaking American citizen. I have collegiate-level English language and grammar skills and an excellent handle on and interest in linguistics in general. I am also a first generation Afro-Dominican, ESL speaker whose mother tongue is Spanish. There are millions of Spanish speakers, bilingual or otherwise, legal or otherwise, in this country and all across the Americas. The Americas are mostly comprised of Spanish-speaking Latin@ countries. It is arrogant, racist, and bigoted to not move to make this country bilingual and accessible based on those reasons and for Latin@s. It is entitled, supremacist, and bigoted to hold this aggressive, toxic attitude, to tell people to “go back to Mexico,” reducing us to one monolith, showing us you most likely have a highly racist caricature of us in your mind. It is dangerous to devalue the existence, cultures, and livelihoods of Latin@s, immigrants & naturalized citizens, legal or otherwise. It’s galling to be ignorant to the massive amount of privilege English speaking Westerners have in the world, given that everyone else is expected to and generally does speak English, so you don’t actually have to learn Spanish when you go to Mexico. It is hilarious do to this all while speaking in poor English. Get your head out of your ass and join the real world. We’re here to stay, y si, hablamos Español! lol look at that first comment, tho “couldn’t of said it better”  its “couldn’t HAVE said it better.” These dumbasses don’t even have a complete grasp on their ONE language. What fools. God, these fuckers would shit their pants if someone pointed out to them that we kind of actually weren’t the first people here and that we never, ever bothered to learn the language of the people who lived here first. Quick! Somebody make one of these that says: This is America! We speak: Nahuatl Kanienkeha Navajo Cree Inuktitut Cayuga Mixtec Ojibwe If you can’t learn your regional Native American language, you can LEAVE! (Native American languages via) View Larger

stfuconservatives:

popgothecrackers:

angryasiangirlsunited:

noonaneomuhomo:

This is motherfucking bullshit.

I am an English-speaking American citizen. I have collegiate-level English language and grammar skills and an excellent handle on and interest in linguistics in general. I am also a first generation Afro-Dominican, ESL speaker whose mother tongue is Spanish.

There are millions of Spanish speakers, bilingual or otherwise, legal or otherwise, in this country and all across the Americas. The Americas are mostly comprised of Spanish-speaking Latin@ countries. It is arrogant, racist, and bigoted to not move to make this country bilingual and accessible based on those reasons and for Latin@s. It is entitled, supremacist, and bigoted to hold this aggressive, toxic attitude, to tell people to “go back to Mexico,” reducing us to one monolith, showing us you most likely have a highly racist caricature of us in your mind. It is dangerous to devalue the existence, cultures, and livelihoods of Latin@s, immigrants & naturalized citizens, legal or otherwise. It’s galling to be ignorant to the massive amount of privilege English speaking Westerners have in the world, given that everyone else is expected to and generally does speak English, so you don’t actually have to learn Spanish when you go to Mexico. It is hilarious do to this all while speaking in poor English.

Get your head out of your ass and join the real world. We’re here to stay, y si, hablamos Español!

lol look at that first comment, tho

“couldn’t of said it better” 

its “couldn’t HAVE said it better.”

These dumbasses don’t even have a complete grasp on their ONE language.

What fools.

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God, these fuckers would shit their pants if someone pointed out to them that we kind of actually weren’t the first people here and that we never, ever bothered to learn the language of the people who lived here first. Quick! Somebody make one of these that says:

This is America! We speak:

  • Nahuatl
  • Kanienkeha
  • Navajo
  • Cree
  • Inuktitut
  • Cayuga
  • Mixtec
  • Ojibwe
If you can’t learn your regional Native American language, you can LEAVE!

(Native American languages via)

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