Veganism is not a “white” thing but “Indigenous” and “Original People’s” Thing: Hood Health breaks it down
by Sistah Vegan
whoa, this is important.
Fuck yeah. Privileged vegans, take note!
White defensive vegans need to watch this.
I want to signal boost Breeze’s blog. She’s amazing and has many many equally amazing videos about race and veganism. A lot of them are relevant and thought-provoking, even if you aren’t vegan.
Check it out!
http://sistahvegan.wordpress.com/
Today’s Style section.
Chuck Brown (1936-2012).
The obituary | His impact | The reaction | Video
Illustration by Marc Burckhardt
Henrietta Lacks. Lived: 1920-1951 Who’s DNA was pivotal in forming modern genetics.
When tobacco farmer Henrietta Lacks was diagnosed with cervical cancer at the age of 30 in 1951, all she wanted to do was get better. Sadly, after eight months of radiation and surgery at Johns Hopkins University Hospital, Lacks and her tumor-riddled body lost the battle with the disease.
However, unbeknownst to her and her family, her cells lived on — right up until today. Known as HeLa cells (a combo of the first two letters of her first and last name), they have been multiplying since the sample was (secretly) taken from one of Lacks’ tumors and sent to Dr. George Gey’s tissue-culture research lab back in the 1950s. Not only did Lacks’ cells help scientists test the polio vaccine, HeLa cells were also sent into space.
Unfortunately, Lacks’ family didn’t find out about the grand experiment till the early 1970s when a researcher from Johns Hopkins called them. But now Rebecca Skloot’s recently released “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” will ensure history knows the unprecedented role Lacks played — and how her body revolutionized modern science.
Just finished writing an essay on Mrs. Henrietta Lacks. If you did not believe the Black Woman is God. May you understand her story. Her cells have been used for 11,000 different patents. Perfect example of how science has experimented on blacks and ultimately took advantage of her, and her family.
her son came and spoke at our school. it was an interesting discussion.
i’ll never NOT reblog this
i don’t wanna be a stan but the first gif is beautiful. you can see a lot just from the way they look at each other
Quick and Thorough Takedown of Iggy Azalea (with no need to delve into matters of personal taste):
- her lyric: “I’m a runway slave…master,” which she raps in her video while smirking and making a whipping motion with her hand
- her half-assed apology for the above lyric, which she describes only as “careless” while denying its or her underlying racism
- unlike, say, Ke$ha, who incorporates (appropriates?) rap into what is clearly pop music, Iggy Azalea truly fancies herself to be a white rapper. let’s pretend for a moment that that by itself is totally unproblematic (though it isn’t); now let’s take a look at the above video for “PU$$Y.” tell me that that shit is not fucked up. what is this middle-class white Australian girl thinking?!
- not to mention lines like these from “My World”: “My world / Rhyme vicious / White girl / Team full of bad bitches” | “In the gutter got them saying she the other color” okaaaaay then, white girl…
- oh, and she says more about rapping and her whiteness in the above pseudo-apology. read this liberal bullshit where she implies rap is racist if it doesn’t laud white people:
I don’t hate any race of people… I am for unity and equality. People should get a fair shot at whatever they want to do no matter what color they are; rap and hip hop as a culture is not exempt from this.
It is unfair to say other races who also grew up listening to rap don’t get a place too. We have a place and the Azaleans [her fans] and myself are evidence of that fact. All people have a voice and equal right to use it.
And to top it all off, her biggest nonwhite defender, T.I., also happens to be a misogynist fuckhead, who had this to say about Azealia Banks:
…the fact that she’s speaking upon me and mine—that is what I consider (and excuse my language) that’s bitch shit.
I’m a man and not even just that, you ain’t got no business addressing me. Get your man to address me. Get him to address me and he and I can speak on it. But you and me, nah. Keep dealing with that woman. Y’all handle that. Me and you, we ain’t got nowhere to go with that. I do what men do.
In short, Iggy Azalea and her supporters stand for racism and misogyny directed towards women of color. Great work, people!
People don’t understand that I go through extreme lows.
Going to Take Back the Night was a trigger for me
seeing my ex, triggered me
talking to my mother and having her basically ignore me/ have a horrible attitude fucked up mood
and now i need to write a paper
and i cant even think straight
or breathe without feeling like there is a weight on my chest
and the guilt I’m feeling is almost unbearable
Angela Davis - The Prison Industrial Complex (17 parts all MP3 files)
01 - On Becoming An Activist.mp3
02 - Race, Class & Incarceration.mp3
03 - Young Black Men & Prison.mp3
04 - Technologies Of Punishment.mp3
05 - The Specter Of Crime.mp3
06 - Political Persecution.mp3
07 -…
