Michael S. Kimmel, in the introduction to the book, “Privilege: A Reader” (via thinkspeakstress)To be white, or straight, or male, or middle class is to be simultaneously ubiquitious and invisible. You’re everywhere you look, you’re the standard against which everyone else is measured. You’re like water, like air. People will tell you they went to see a “woman doctor” or they will say they went to see “the doctor.” People will tell you they have a “gay colleague” or they’ll tell you about a colleague. A white person will be happy to tell you about a “Black friend,” but when that same person simply mentions a “friend,” everyone will assume the person is white. Any college course that doesn’t have the word “woman” or “gay” or “minority” in its title is a course about men, heterosexuals, and white people. But we call those courses “literature,” “history” or “political science.”
This invisibility is political.
(via anarcho-queer)
This is happening now. This image has to reach the rest of the world. The Kayapo being expelled from their homes for the construction of the Belo Monte Dam, which will flood 400.000 acres of the Amazon Rainforest in Brazil.
(via fuckyeahcompassion)
I find it a bit out of order when people complain about Tesco for having horse meat in some of their ‘beef’ burgers. If you’re prepared to eat a dead cow, you should be prepared to eat a dead horse.
(via fuckyeahcompassion)
Oh. My. Goooddddddd. This animal is called a Quokka and it is the happiest thing on the planet.
(via ibelieveingatsby)
