backthatelfup:honeyedexcrements:

My niece was never found. She is still in my prayers. Daily.

MISSING: Mishell-Nicole DiAmonde Green (link)

please pass this around if you can.

Case Type: Endangered
DOB: Mar 09, 1995
Missing Date: Sep 08, 2011   
Age Now: 16
Missing City: New York
Missing State: NY
Case Number: 2074

Gender: Female
Race: Black
Complexion: Medium
Height: 5-0
Weight: 150
Hair Color: Other
Hair Length: Shoulder Length
Eye Color: Brown
Wear Glasses or Contacts: Yes

Location Last Seen: Last seen leaving home headed to her after-school program located at 555 Broome Street in Manhattan, NY. Reported to have been in the area of the West Village in Manhattan, New York by an acquaintance which the detectives have interviewed by phone. This was Friday the 9th of September she was last reported to be seen by her acquaintance.

Circumstances of Disappearance: Unknown. We have no idea why she disappeared, where she could have went or who she’s with. None of her friends, or boyfriend have heard from her, no Facebook activity and no calls to anyone. She is a model child who is very focused on graduating high school and attending a historical black University. She only has one year left in school. She never exhibited any behavioral problems or issues and is loved by all. Her Facebook reflects that. We just have no clue. She disappeared into thin air.

Last Seen Wearing: White rain jacket, blue jeans, blue canvass shoes with white soles. Green bag with brown trim in the style of an across the chest bag.

Identifying Marks or Characteristics: Unknown

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Holy smokes, that afterschool is right by my old home in NY. Please reblog this. Please. My thoughts are with this young woman and her family.

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nudiemuse:dumbthingswhitepplsay:justsomegirl23:thesydneyspell:

racialicious:ladyatheist:

newwavefeminism:

Things white activists say to Activists of Color

umm how much do I love that someone made this and decided to send it in to me? A LOT

fixedwhilefeminist submitted: 

We are People of Color. We didn’t choose to be, but we love our cultures. Because of our skin, we have added struggles. In our safe spaces, we have every right to feel welcomed and not tokenized, harassed or ignored. We ask for you to listen to us when we speak about racism because we are being effected by it daily. This video is a compilation of things actually said to POC involved in activism and social justice. 

We want to be heard, listen to us.

“I don’t have an privilege, I’m a woman.”

“You’re really angry. Why don’t you calm down?”

All. The. Fucking. Time.

“I read bell hooks.” 

“I read Tim Wise.”

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

Guys. I love being of color. LOVE

An activist is an activist. Let’s not alienate each other now.

this is a joke right

I love this person. A lot.

myflagisblackandred:

brat-grrrl:

socialistscum:

anticapitalist:

Chilean students question the education system as commercial and elitist because it reproduces existing social inequities and makes them worse. But they are not just asking questions: They are practicing the kind of education they have spent years dreaming about and struggling to obtain.

“If workers can manage a factory, we can manage the school,” says Cristóbal, 17, as he flashes a smile. Cristóbal is a student at the Luis Galecio Corvera A-90 high school in the Santiago borough of San Miguel. The school is among the 200 in the city that students have occupied. But on September 26, they decided to follow the example of the workers of Cerámicas Zanón, the Argentine factory workers took over and began running 10 years ago.

“Things were getting complicated because the occupation was weakening,” Cristóbal says. “It was clear to us that it wasn’t enough to just criticize our education. We had to do something more, but we didn’t know where to start until we heard that the Zanón workers were giving a talk at the University of Chile. We went to listen to them and when we came back we started running the school ourselves.”

After the takeover, a majority of students—with the enthusiastic support of many parents—returned to school. Some of the teachers joined them. “When I saw that my children were getting up and going to school without having to wake them up, that they were excited about going, I understood that they were doing something important, something that adds up to a different kind of education,” says a mother at the basketball court, where the November sun shines brightly.

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Holy shit. This is fucking awesome.

That is actually the coolest thing I have read all day.

I am actually crying. This is beautiful.

Can Tucson follow Chile’s example?

This is so fucking significant oh my god.

pompadoursandpincurls:

beetroots:

fuckthegenderpolice:

coffeewithants:

viviopsis:

peak-society:

boobsanderson:

Sec 5.2(1)(c) of the ID screening regs of Aeronautics Act: “An air carrier shall not transport a passenger if the passenger does not appear to be of the gender indicated on the identification he or she presents.”

OH FUCK NO. 

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Just gonna leave this here

what the fuck

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(Source: underboobsanderson)

This interview is from 2008, and I’ve JUST learned about it. He might possibly be the biggest douche in the world.

readnfight:

Had to flee or ‘I might be dead,’ victim says of racial attack Cops: 3 white teens put noose around black teen’s neck

Joshua Merritt said he had no reason to be suspicious when one of his friends texted him, asking him to hang out with two other teenagers they both knew.

But after Merritt, 17, arrived at the home of one of the boys in Chicago’s East Beverly neighborhood Dec. 23, he realized his friends weren’t simply looking to have a good time.

The three teens, who are white, allegedly put a noose around the neck of Merritt, who is black, and hurled racial epithets at him before one of the boys held a knife to his throat and threatened to kill him, police and Merritt said Thursday.

The teens were apparently upset about Merritt’s relationship with one of the boys’ female cousins, police said.

People wonder why I’m so grumpy all the time: this happened two blocks away from my parents’ house, the house I grew up in. In fact, I just wrote about 2 weeks ago about the threats of violence that come from growing up black in such a segregated and racially tense (racially fucked up?) environment. And now here we are, and I am not surprised but wish I were.

This is exactly the sort of stuff my mom warned me about when I was a kid, about not going past the cemeteries alone because that was how the white kids jumped out to beat the shit out of you when they were drunk, and why no one stayed around my grade school once classes got out.

Meanwhile, my parents’ block just became the border of their ward, because Chicago had a ward redistricting fight going on and the two blackest, lowest-income streets were a worthy thing to compromise and kick out the ward.

Why I don’t often go back home, and why I’m mad about it even when I’m not there. In my zine class we’ve been talking and writing about our neighborhoods and conflicts and violence, so they’ve been asking me what my neighborhood growing up was like. This is all I’ve got for them.