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“Bisexual women with m*nosexual partners have an increased rate of domestic violence compared to every other female demographic.” i can’t believe people still quote this??? as evidence of “m*nosexual privilege” no less? “m*nosexual partners” i.e. we’re making no distinction whatsoever between lesbians and straight men, even though straight men presumably make up the vast majority of this group given that only about 9% of coupled bi people are in same-sex relationships. make no mistake, bi women suffering higher rates of abuse by their male partners than straight women is serious and awful, but lesbians are not responsible for that or privileged by it and to suggest that they are while treating them and straight men as an undifferentiated group is, well. it’s really something, as is using bi women’s abuse at the hands of (overwhelmingly) men to score points against lesbians in an internet argument.

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i'm an assimilated mestisx xicanx and i was wondering if you had any resources to help me understand my culture better? Any would help,

I’m not sure if you mean Xicanx culture or Mexican culture? :/ I’ll post both.

Xicanx Articles/Blog posts:

Chicanos as a Racialized Minority

Chicano Liberation

Chicano! A History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement

Mexican American Culture and Language (PDF - I really like this)!!

Cultural Diversity: Eating in America Mexican-American

Pochos: Mexican-Americans Who Survive Between Two Cultures

Mexican Articles/Blog Posts:

Overview of Mexican Culture (PDF)

Mexican Traditions and Culture

African-Mexican Culture

History of Day of the Dead and the Sugar Skull Tradition

The People of the Corn: Cultural Survival

An Introduction to Mexican Culture (PDF)

Corn, Mexican Culture and Why Free Trade Threatens Both

- Nichole

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Comprehensive data released Friday by the US Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights offers a striking glance at the extent of racial inequality plaguing the nation’s education system.

Analysts found that black, Latino and Native American students have less access to advanced math and science courses and are more likely to be taught by first-year instructors than white students. Black and Native American students are also suspended and expelled at disproportionate rates.

For the first time in history, the Education Department also examined school discipline at the pre-K level, finding that black students as young as four years old are already facing unequal treatment from school administrators.

The Education Department released four papers with the data, analyzing inequality in school discipline, early learning, college readiness and teacher equity (pdfs). Here’s a breakdown of some of the key findings, taken straight from those papers. During the 2011–12 school year:

Black students accounted for 18 percent of the country’s pre-K enrollment, but made up 48 percent of preschoolers with multiple out-of-school suspensions.

Black students were expelled at three times the rate of white students.

American Indian and Native-Alaskan students represented less than 1 percent of students, but 3 percent of expulsions.

Black girls were suspended at higher rates than all other girls and most boys.

American Indian and Native-Alaskan girls were suspended at higher rates than white boys or girls.

Nearly one in four boys of color, excepting Latino and Asian American students, with disabilities received an out-of-school suspension.

One in five girls of color with disabilities received an out-of-school suspension.

A quarter of the schools with the highest percentage of black and Latino students did not offer Algebra II.

A third of these schools did not offer chemistry.

Less than half of American Indian and Native-Alaskan high school students had access to the full range of math and science courses, which consists of Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II, calculus, biology, chemistry and physics.

Black and Latino students accounted for 40 percent of enrollment at schools with gifted programs, but only represented 26 percent of students in such programs.

Black, Latino and Native American students attended schools with higher concentrations of first-year teachers (3 to 4 percent) than white students (1 percent).

Black students were more than three times as likely to attend schools where fewer than 60 percent of teachers meet all state certification and licensure requirements.

Latino students were twice as likely to attend such schools.

The Department of Education’s civil rights survey examined all 97,000 public schools in the US, representing 49 million students. Explore the datasets, organized by school, state and district, here.

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Image description: On Saturday, the Navy christened a new research ship the “Sally Ride” after the first U.S. woman and youngest person in space. It is the fifth current ship named for an astronaut. 

Photo from the U.S. Navy

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Lesbian characters wearing maroon jackets with black leather sleeves.

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Flier being distributed at the protest in Ferguson. Text reads as follows:

Ad Hoc Committee for Justice on Behalf of Michael Brown OUR DEMANDS:

The officer involved in the shooting death of Michael Brown be IMMEDIATELY identified.

The same officer should be immediately fired and charged with murder.

The Ferguson Police Department “Protocol Handbook” be distributed throughout the Ferguson community.

The racial composition of the Ferguson Police Department should reflect the racial demographics of the community.

Upcoming Action Items:

Keep calling the Ferguson Police Department demanding justice for Michael Brown at 314-522-3100

On Tuesday August 12th join us in front of St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch’s office located at 100 South Central Avenue, Clayton Missouri 63105

Supporting organizations: Tasheed Youth Organization, Organization for Black Struggle (OBS), New Black Panther Party (NBPP), Moorish Science Temple, Coalition Against Police Crimes & Repression, Nation of Islam - Mosque 28, Universal African Peoples Organization (UAPO) and more to follow!

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  A bail and legal fund has been established to support the 43 or so people who have been arrested during the anti-police demonstrations in Ferguson, Mo.  Please spread the word widely and help us get some money together to get these people out.

Also, we are looking for information on who was arrested so we can get them legal support and bail them out if necessary. If you have a friend or family member who was arrested, please email us their name at antistatestl@riseup.net

All funds collected will be used to support those arrested during the demonstrations–their bail money, fines, legal funds, or other related expenses. In the unlikely event that there are additional funds, they will be used to support people resisting police repression and police violence in the future.

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Do not be inactive in a time such as this. Sign the petition. Promote Safety.

https://www.change.org/petitions/president-barack-obama-please-enact-new-federal-laws-to-protect-citizens-from-police-violence-and-misconduct

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I don’t care if Mike Brown was going to college soon. This should not matter. We should not have to prove Mike Brown was worthy of living. We should not have to account for the ways in which he is suitably respectable. We should not have to prove that his body did not deserve to be riddled with bullets. His community should not have to silence their anger so they won’t be accused of rioting, so they won’t become targets too.

"silence is not an option," roxane gay (via brookehatfield)

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It’s important that people see this

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Days after Michael Brown’s death, Ferguson looks like a war zone

A vigil held for Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager gunned down by Ferguson, Mo., police on Saturday in disputed circumstances, turned into what the media described as a riot on Monday evening.

But while national coverage has focused on the indisputably counterproductive violence and destruction committed by Ferguson residents during a moment of anguish, videos and photos taken from the scene show local police aggravating the situation as well.

Years of tension have reached a boiling point

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Further proof that whites have no conscience.

WE CANT HAVE SHIT I SWEAR

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Unrest in Ferguson about a lot more than police shooting unarmed teen.

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Please pay attention to what is happening in Ferguson right now.

The people of Ferguson are staging a peaceful protest regarding the unlawful, tragic murder of Mike Brown, and the police are responding with rubber bullets (one man has been injured so far) and tear gas, calling the protesters “fucking animals.”

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We say once again that racism is not an accidental discovery. It is not a hidden, dissimulated element. No superhuman efforts are needed to bring it out. Racism stares one in the face for it so happens that it belongs in a characteristic whole: that of the shameless exploitation of one group of men by another which has reached a higher stage of technical development. This is why military and economic oppression generally precedes, makes possible, and legitimizes racism. The habit of considering racism as a mental quirk, as a psychological flaw, must be abandoned.

Frantz Fanon, “Racism and Culture” (via its-sic)

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