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I tend to use female pronouns for ease of use but also because I feel that it is important to promote and default to that which is female in this world that so often degrades and downplays all that is female. It’s my own tiny, private war against the patriarchy. And Leslie Feinberg is the kind of person that would have understood and supported that.
Alley Hector, “How Leslie Feinberg Changed Our Lives: The Autostraddle Roundtable” (via andersien)
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The Myth of Plausible Deniability for Anti-Black Violence & How Ferguson Birthed a Movement
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Ferguson is about Black rage in the face of systematic racism first and foremost, but it is no longer just Black rage. It’s White people’s rage at recognizing the problem in society and their place in that society. It’s the rage of the marginalized rebels across the globe who have finally found common ground with Black Americans. It’s the pain of Mike Brown’s parents on the night of the verdict and it’s the shattered hope that each march slowly begins to piece back together. This time it’s not a moment. It’s a movement.

100 Reasons Autostraddle is Thankful for Autostraddlers 1. I’m grateful for the welcome wagon that old school commenters will roll out when a new reader leaves their first comment! Speaking up for the first time in a public space like AS can be...

100 Reasons Autostraddle is Thankful for Autostraddlers

1. I’m grateful for the welcome wagon that old school commenters will roll out when a new reader leaves their first comment! Speaking up for the first time in a public space like AS can be scary, but y’all go out of your way to let everyone know we want to hear from them, and that they matter.

2. For giving me and the rest of us someone to talk to on Friday nights about our girlfriends and, most importantly, my dog.

3. Reading the comments and seeing how many other queer women work in STEM makes me feel less alone.

4. I’m thankful for readers that post thoughtful and complimentary comments on an article I worked really hard on. It really brightens my day.

5. I’m so much better at actual scissoring thanks to your tips on all NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday posts.

6. AS readers welcomed me into the queer community I knew I wanted but didn’t know how to find. Your cute little profile pic faces fill all the gaps in my queer heart.

7. Y’all make me want to work harder, write fiercer and dig deeper so I can give you the stories, essays and news posts you deserve.

8. I’m thankful for Autostraddle readers who cite our work in their school projects and then tell us about it.

9. I’m thankful for how Autostraddle readers often seem to understand me better than people I’ve known in real life for years.

10. I’m thankful to the readers who constantly push us to challenge our own assumptions and be better versions of ourselves.

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If you can shoot Martin [Luther King Jr.], you can shoot all of us. And there’s nothing in your record to indicate you won’t, or anything that would prevent you from doing it. That will be the beginning of the end, if you do, and that knowledge will be all that will hold your hand. Because one no longer believes, you see—I don’t any longer believe, and not many black people in this country can afford to believe— any longer a word you say. I don’t believe in the morality of this people at all. I don’t believe you do the right thing because you think it’s the right thing. I think you may be forced to do it because it will be the expedient thing. Which is good enough.
James Baldwin, 1968
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If you can shoot Martin [Luther King Jr.], you can shoot all of us. And there’s nothing in your record to indicate you won’t, or anything that would prevent you from doing it. That will be the beginning of the end, if you do, and that knowledge will be all that will hold your hand. Because one no longer believes, you see—I don’t any longer believe, and not many black people in this country can afford to believe— any longer a word you say. I don’t believe in the morality of this people at all. I don’t believe you do the right thing because you think it’s the right thing. I think you may be forced to do it because it will be the expedient thing. Which is good enough.
James Baldwin via #BlackLivesMatter: A Longform Reading List
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