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Today is Juneteenth, which commemorates the ending of slavery in Texas on June 19, 1865. Although the Emancipation Proclamation was issued by Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, it was not enforced in the state of Texas due to a lack of Union troop presence and enforcement in the confederate state.

However on June 19, 1865, Union soldiers led by Major General Gordon Granger and his regiment  entered Galveston, Texas to override the resistance to the law and to enforce the Executive Orders. Union Major-General Gordon Granger read General Orders, No.3 to the people of Galveston. It stated:

“The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor. The freedmen are advised to remain quietly at their present homes and work for wages. They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts and that they will not be supported in idleness either there or elsewhere.”

Since 1865 black Americans have regarded June 19th as the official emancipation day, and on January 1, 1980, the state of Texas proclaimed June 19 an official state holiday thanks to the African American state legislator Al Edwards.

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If you got a cute face and your booty so fat, GO GIRL!

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cumaeansibyl: notwiththoseshoesonboi: wretchedoftheearth: oops should be sleeping and when I don’t I run into shit like this vomiting everywhere because of pseudo-intellectual liberal men This person needs to get hit So all rapists were taught about consent and just don’t care? Man, that’s a lot of evil men. What is it about these men trying to deflect responsibility by throwing their own under the bus? I’m a card-carrying misandrist and I could never say some of the shit about men that they say with a straight face. It’s the assertion that any parent who would teach their daughter about safety would naturally teach their son about consent that really gets me, because we all know that a lot of people teach rape-prevention tips to women with a healthy dose of “and if you don’t do this you deserve what you get” — not to mention that not all parents have daughters and sons. I’ll admit, this isn’t that far off from what I’ve been saying about rapists who cry that they didn’t know it was rape — my position being that they damn well know what they did — but to me it goes deeper than teaching your sons about consent. You have to start by teaching them that women are human beings who deserve respect. If you fail at that, if you let them learn what women are from our culture and the men poisoned by it, then they’re not going to care about consent. I’m not a parent so I obviously don’t know how one goes about teaching this sort of thing, but the good men I’ve known obviously learned that lesson from a young age. They still have their issues with sexism, because privilege is pervasive, but I can trust that they see me as human. And I don’t know that any of their parents ever sat them down and explained exactly what rape is and why it’s wrong, but the fundamental message that a woman’s choices should be respected got across. View high resolution

cumaeansibyl:

notwiththoseshoesonboi:

wretchedoftheearth:

oops should be sleeping and when I don’t I run into shit like this

vomiting everywhere because of pseudo-intellectual liberal men

This person needs to get hit

So all rapists were taught about consent and just don’t care? Man, that’s a lot of evil men. What is it about these men trying to deflect responsibility by throwing their own under the bus? I’m a card-carrying misandrist and I could never say some of the shit about men that they say with a straight face.

It’s the assertion that any parent who would teach their daughter about safety would naturally teach their son about consent that really gets me, because we all know that a lot of people teach rape-prevention tips to women with a healthy dose of “and if you don’t do this you deserve what you get” — not to mention that not all parents have daughters and sons.

I’ll admit, this isn’t that far off from what I’ve been saying about rapists who cry that they didn’t know it was rape — my position being that they damn well know what they did — but to me it goes deeper than teaching your sons about consent. You have to start by teaching them that women are human beings who deserve respect. If you fail at that, if you let them learn what women are from our culture and the men poisoned by it, then they’re not going to care about consent.

I’m not a parent so I obviously don’t know how one goes about teaching this sort of thing, but the good men I’ve known obviously learned that lesson from a young age. They still have their issues with sexism, because privilege is pervasive, but I can trust that they see me as human. And I don’t know that any of their parents ever sat them down and explained exactly what rape is and why it’s wrong, but the fundamental message that a woman’s choices should be respected got across.

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Casting directors: EVERY TIME a role is non-race-specific, I urge you to throw a diverse mix of artists into the casting pool and just see what happens. I know that there are so so many actors vying for your attention and that categorization is necessary, but too often I hear of talented minority actors who’d be perfect for a role but they can’t even get seen for the part. I don’t mean to in any way single you out, but the reason I focus attention on casting directors specifically is because casting is – as you know – a numbers game. The fewer artists of color the director and playwright even see in the first place, the fewer that will make it to the stage. So as a policy I urge you to just think a little wider when you’re thinking of who’d be perfect for a role. When an actor loses a plum role to somebody else, that’s hard. But when they never even had a shot to begin with, that’s devastating.
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bathroomwallanarchy: They’re not the best but… View high resolution

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They’re not the best but…

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Our categories are important. We cannot organize a social life, a political movement, or our individual identities and desires without them. The fact that categories invariably leak and can never contain all the relevant “existing things” does not render them useless, only limited. Categories like “woman,” “butch,” “lesbian,” or “transsexual” are all imperfect, historical, temporary, and arbitrary. We use them, and they use us. We use them to construct meaningful lives, and they mold us into historically specific forms of personhood. Instead of fighting for immaculate classifications and impenetrable boundaries, let us strive to maintain a community that understands diversity as a gift, sees anomalies as precious, and treats all basic principles with a hefty dose of skepticism.
— Gayle Rubin “Of Catamites and Kings: Reflections on Butch, Gender, and Boundaries.” 1992. Reprinted  in The Transgender Studies Reader, edited by Susan Stryker and Stephen Whittle, 2006, page 479. (via queerbetweenthelines)

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Xbone: (Verb) [xboned, xboning]

crackerhell:

genderbitch:

The act of engaging in self sabotage so severe that you virtually guarantee failure in every venture that you possibly can. Often leaves others with the impression that you are actually trying your hardest to fail, on purpose.

Ex

“Wait you got drunk and sent that text of you having sex with a snowman to your BOSS?”

“Oh my god I’m going to get fired”

“Wow, dude, you really xboned yourself”

g’night folks

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apologeticsnstuff: danareane: onefootinthevoid: this was me and the word “facade”  OMG. “Niche,” anyone? I run into this so often with words that I’ve only ever read, and when it comes time to employ them in a sentence I realize that I actually have no idea how to pronounce it irl. View high resolution

apologeticsnstuff:

danareane:

onefootinthevoid:

this was me and the word “facade” 

OMG. “Niche,” anyone?

I run into this so often with words that I’ve only ever read, and when it comes time to employ them in a sentence I realize that I actually have no idea how to pronounce it irl.

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