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If We Knew Trans History, We’d Thank Black Trans Women
If we knew trans history, we would thank Black women for whatever liberation trans people enjoy today. Black trans women have long faced brutal transmisogynistic violence. They have often fought …
Moscovitch: People with mental illness don’t need more talk
Stigma-busting campaigns like Bell Let’s Talk Day don’t do much to actually create the change that’s needed for Canadians with mental illnesses – and might even do more harm
PLOT: Progressive Leaders Of Tomorrow
Update 1/25: Statement from parents: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1052896724834103&id=243963979060719 📝
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Last night (1/22/19), 200 concerned residents packed a Binghamton School Board meeting in response to four 12-year-old girls being strip searched by East Middle School administrators. The girls were searched for alleged behavioral concerns, which included appearing “hyper and giddy,” according to a letter from Principal Tim Simonds.
This afternoon (1/23/19), Binghamton City School District released a statement to the press, noting:
“A student may, under current law and policy, be searched in a school building by an administrator when the administrator reasonably suspects that a student’s health is in danger or is in possession of a substance that may harm themselves or others. These searches involve an administrator requesting a student to EMPTY THEIR POCKETS, REMOVE THEIR SHOES and/or REMOVE THEIR JACKETS.” [Emphasis added]
This statement does not address or acknowledge the concerns brought up by the victims, who were told to remove their clothing and stand in their undergarments while searches and sobriety tests were conducted.
Three (3) students were made to remove their shirts, and were searched in only their bras. One (1) of those students was also made to pull down her leggings, exposing her underwear. A fourth student refused to remove her clothing, and received in-school suspension as a result.
Additionally, it was noted that insensitive comments were made during the searches by the administering adults, pertaining to the girls’ skin and breasts.
According to BCSD’s own statement, strip searches are not permitted.
•If the Binghamton City School District admits strip searches are not permissible, why were these searches conducted?
•If the Binghamton City School District is denying these searches occurred, why did they give their reasons for administering them? And why was one student suspended after the search? Why did the nurse make comments about the girls' bodies under their clothes?
We believe Black women and girls.
With the release of their statement, the Binghamton City School District is surreptitiously accusing all four girls of lying about their trauma.
As such, the community is being asked to rally behind these girls, once more, on Tuesday, 1/29 for Rally at East Middle: End Child Strip Searches in BCSD Schools.
The Binghamton School Board, Superintendent Tonia Thompson, and the Binghamton City School District have been informed of the expectations of the community.
We will repost those expectations below.
In solidarity,
-PLOT
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BCSD Expectations for Accountability
1) Immediately stop the practice of strip searching children for any reason, including and especially in response to "giddiness" or behavioral concerns.
2) Remove Assistant Principal Michelle Raleigh and Principal Tim Simonds from their roles at East Middle, for exhibiting astoundingly poor judgement which resulted in child trauma.
3) Remove the nurse who administered the strip searches (with a revocation of their license pending further review).
4) Publicly apologize to the students, their families, and the community at large for violating the trust of all parties harmed by their actions.
5) Provide alternate instruction for the girls, at either West Middle School or via home instruction, until this situation has been rectified to the satisfaction of the families.
OccupyMARINES
Kylie Brooks - Activist and Writer
As of right now, Jan 22, it is one full month of the USA shutdown now - 31 days to be exact. The effects extend far beyond the federal workers.
People in the USA, I am calling on you to center the needs of the people on food stamps, Section 8, and so on. Do not focus only on the federal workers. Others need you too.
Appalachian Feminist Coalition
Terry Crews: Black Women Lifted Me Up While Black Men Stayed Silent After Sexual Assault Confession
The actor explains how their differing reactions shocked him.
“I want her to tell us why we should trust her leadership, on the record, as president. She needs to answer for each of these things as we would want any other candidate to do so as well. H/t Derecka Purnell”
“Under District Attorney Kamala Harris, the overall felony-conviction rate in San Francisco rose from 52 percent in 2003 to 67 percent in 2006, the highest seen in a decade. Many of the convictions accounting for that increase stemmed from drug-related prosecutions, which also soared, from 56 percent in 2003 to 74 percent in 2006. As California’s attorney general, Harris pushed a punitive initiative that treated truancy among elementary schoolers as a crime for which parents could be jailed. In 2014, she attempted to block the release of nonviolent second-strike offenders from overcrowded state prisons on the grounds that their paroling would result in prisons losing an important labor pool.”
Via Charlene Carruthers
The senator’s new book shows the difficulty of translating short-form virality into a substantive text.
“I have heard many black Americans talk about the awkwardness of white people “over-smiling”. The act is meant to convey acceptance and approval while maintaining moral integrity, but actually conveys white racial anxiety. Over-smiling allows us to mask an anti-blackness that is foundational to our very existence as white. A fleeting benevolence, of course, has no relation to how black people are actually undermined in white spaces. Black friends have often told me that they prefer open hostility to niceness. They understand open hostility and can protect themselves as needed. But the deception of niceness adds a confusing layer that makes it difficult for people of color to decipher trustworthy allyship from disingenuous white liberalism. Gaslighting ensues.”
While most of us see ourselves as ‘not racist’, we continue to reproduce racist outcomes and live segregated lives
Important
Reparations is the idea that white Americans owe a debt to black Americans to compensate for slavery, Jim Crow and institutionalized racism.
It is essential that we confront the roots of mass incarceration.
As local activists and Fort Bend ISD officials discuss how to memorialize the remains, some say the discovery is an opportunity for the fast-growing city southwest of Houston to come to terms with a dark chapter of its past.
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, 56 percent of American Indian and Alaska Native women have experienced sexual violence during their lifetimes. Native Americans are twice as likely to experience a rape/assault compared to all races/ethnicities. The Justice Department also says 90 percent of all sexual assaults committed against Native women are done by non-tribal members.
Published January 8, 2019 PHOENIX — The woman who has been in a vegetative state for over a decade and gave birth to a child has been identified as being a Native American woman. “It was confirmed …
Jada been a real one.
A young Jada Pinkett Smith telling Eazy-E that he needs to change his lyrics about women 🌸💕
Vellum and Vinyl
Tumblr user memes--memes:
[twitter user Coca-kun ():
If the Uber driver did nothing wrong, give him 5 stars. That's how it works.
you ain’t grading a college paper
Tumblr user succyfunhouse:
Do this for any company that asks you to review their employees always.
Tumblr user an0nymz:
You wouldn’t believe the number of times I swear I get 4/5 star ratings at my job just because the way people think is “well 5/5 means perfect and nobody’s perfect, 4/5 is good!”
The company I work for doesn’t understand this common mentality at all, and will let people go over not having consistent enough 5/5 ratings. Obviously they don’t inform the customers of that.
Tumblr user ollivander:
this also applies to your restaurant servers!!
Decolonize Myself - A First Nations Perspective
Transformative
Hardline stance. Please feel free to unfollow if you disagree
has been asked to promote several R. Kelly concerts over the years. I’ve always answered, “Absolutely not.” And on a few occasions, I’ve been asked, “Why?” My response, “Aaliyah.”
R. Kelly has BEEN a predator. I hope the rest of y’all (and your pockets) finally acknowledge this.
The US government deliberately made the desert deadly for migrants | Natascha Elena Uhlmann
The deaths of two Guatemalan child migrants in US custody highlights the perilousness of a journey that is no accident
Half-Price MetroCards Supposed To Roll Out Next Month, But Does Anyone Know?
There's a new city-run program coming in the new year to help low-income New Yorkers, but no one seems to know about it.
The Chilling Cruelty of the ‘Iceboxes’ at the Border
Migrant women and children are being held for days in freezing-cold cells.
The Most Sobering Thing about the Racial Dot Map
I was able to perfectly predict where a correctional facility was on located, based on the odd concentrations I was finding on the racial dot map.
USA TODAY
An 8-year-old boy from Guatemala has died in government custody, U.S. immigration authorities say. He is the second immigrant child to die in detention this month.
N.J. legend is right: Adults failed wrestler who had dreadlocks chopped | Politi
Jordan Burroughs had strong words about the Buena wrestler who was forced to cut his hair before a match this week -- and the referee isn't his only target.
The 'Nightmare' That Made Black Legislator Kiah Morris Resign
In this episode of "The Scarlet Letter Reports," Amanda Knox speaks with Kiah Morris about living through an onslaught of white supremacist hatred and threats while fighting to represent her district.
'No water was provided'
Father of girl who died in Border Patrol custody contradicts agents' statements
This happened to a Jamaican student in CT.
I see universities policing tf out of black folks (black students included) but what are they doing to keep black students safe from these kinds of attacks?
The student who was poisoned has lasting symptoms from exposure to a dangerous chemical.
An incident of racist graffiti revealed a more sinister plot at a Pennsylvania university.
OMG I love this
An ad released by South African restaurant Chicken Licken, depicting a storyline of "reverse colonialism" has been banned and people are confused.
FACTS
Opinion | Post- , we now know why Janet Jackson's Hall of Fame induction took so long
Disgraced former CBS chairman Les Moonves derailed the career of a music icon in a fit of pique. But now that he's out, she's in.
ELLE Magazine (US)
Drag Queens are responsible for some of the buzziest makeup trends dominating your feeds: Thick, ombré block eyebrows, heavily contoured cheeks, blinding highlighter, fluttering false eyelashes. Some call it "Instagram makeup," but what it really is is decades of quiet, but powerful, influence from the drag community. ELLE is exploring all this in "BEAT," an original documentary.
There’s no way they didn’t know she needed food, water, and medical care immediately. That should be standard procedure (if this agency gave a f**k about keeping people alive).
They killed this baby.
Abolish this illegitimate border and the evil agencies that operate and police it.
Angry Black Hoemo
Skinny people eat a mountain of chili cheese fries and are cheered on. Fat people get made fun of for literally working out at the gym.
Miss me with the idea that your ridiculing of fat people has anything to do with "concern" for people's health. 🙃
”It is galling to see how much attention the press is giving to Andrew Gillum and Beto O’Rourke as 2020 contenders while Abrams is mostly ignored. Gillum and O’Rourke are fantastic candidates and future leaders, but the cold, hard truth is they both lost their races, while the Georgia race was stolen. The press may lie, campaign spokespeople lie, but numbers don’t.
Yes, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is annoying and a hypocrite and nobody likes him, but he’s not stupid nor corrupt and he was runner-up to be the Republican nominee for president just two years ago. Charming as he is, Beto was never tied with Cruz let alone held a lead. Andrew Gillum is a transcendent political talent but talk to Florida insiders and they’ll tell you; his campaign lacked infrastructure. Plus, he got hit with the Obama Effect. Once those “independent” white voters in Florida realized that electing a 39-year-old black man with a national profile to the governor’s mansion meant Obama 2.o, they flipped in the voting booth. Gillum was a victim of his own talent. Now the Abrams campaign? Totally different story.
Her campaign literally started on a dollar and a dream. Abrams only had $13,000 in the Minority Caucus budget in 2011 and in seven years parlayed that into the most successful Democratic campaign in the history of the state of Georgia.”
This past September at a Congressional Black Caucus party, I caught up with one of the main players of the “Stacey Abrams for Governor” campaign. I’d been covering the Georgia election from day one so I had a pretty honest relationship with most of the team. At that point, Abrams and Republica...
I Have a Son Now, Which Means I Can Finally Start Respecting Men as People
Last week, my wife gave birth to a beautiful, healthy, bouncing baby boy. He is all the things that you hope new babies are. A blessing. Loud. Adorable. Soft. Precious. Gassy. Alert. Moderately bemused. Perpetually hangry. Vaguely human. Somewhat reminiscent of Fred Sanford.
Sincecombahee
follows over half a century of Black activists punished for supporting Palestinian rights
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Best line of TV this year. Maybe ever. #QueenSugar
SoFar in New Haven #healingincommunity
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