catlover /transplant

(because i refuse to see “political correctness” as weak and because i care deeply about the safety and happiness of my amazing trans friends)

Larry White, in his 70’s, has spent 32 years of his life behind bars. He discusses how difficult it was for him to transition back into society after being in prison for so long. While he was incarcerated, he had organized a small social network within prison to advocate for better treatment of inmates. Once released, he decided to continue his advocacy, especially for older inmates living behind bars: “My whole life now is geared to go back in and help those I left behind.”

Joseph Weinberg & Michael Biernbaum, Conversations of Consent: Sexual Intimacy without Sexual Assault (via cocknbull)

oops

(via crackerhell)

96%…wow just wow.

(via clairebearology) Not shocking being white men brought rape to the new world and still do it worldwide. (via bad-dominicana)

but someone please tell me how jim crow is over. please. and why the hell we don’t talk about this as an aspect of rape culture.

(via so-treu)

Let’s remember our herstories and histories: Rape only became a criminal act when white slave masters became afraid of relationships between black male slaves and white female masters. They needed a law that would make it so that a relationship between a black male and a white female could NEVER be adult and consensual even when it was. This, of course, only worked in the white woman’s favor. When the black male was being raped by the white female masters, ONLY the black male slave could be blamed (sound familiar?). Before AND after that, though, whites continued to rape blacks, female AND male, with reckless abandon. And it was never considered a crime. At worst, it was considered an investment. Go do some research and see how many white men have raped black women or men. And then research how many of those white rapists were brought to trial and convicted. You won’t be astonished by what you find. And that’s a damn shame. In the main, rape is a crime when it’s perpetrated AGAINST the white body—especially if perpetrated BY a non-white body. America is, down to its damned mitochondria, a rape culture.

We Talked about this.

Barbara Smith, “The Tip of the Iceberg” (1994), from The Truth That Never Hurts, 100

Three NYPD Officers Have Drunkenly Shot at People in the Last Week

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