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April 11, 2012
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I’m suppose to be packing for coachella. Instead I’m in bed. My muscles hurt and I can’t breathe. I know I’m having a panic attack but I just want it to stop. Need to find a way to cope. Sometimes I think about how other people who just get really excited and are all energized and shit and my body if there’s too much going on wi just be like “haha sike, go to sleep”. I’m wondering how much of this is connected to me still unlearning shit about my body (yes you’re fat and you’re gonna sweat but you aren’t gonna die I have to tell myself daily) and how much is connected to something that happened last year that still scares me. How much my anxiety is linked to wanted to feel safe. How much of it is linked to the fact that I crashed yesterday and am scared to drive.

My anxiety is kinda like my spirit telling me my survival instincts need to be on high alert. I don’t wanna be in a state of panic though. I wanna have an existence for a bit that can just be living and not trying to survive. Just long enough to enjoy life.

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February 19, 2012
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bitch that's the tubby custard machine: the thing about michael fassbender...

athinkinganimal:

mswyrr:

…is that he’s a domestic violence committing, female co-star intimidating asshole. You can read the details of what he did to his female partner at the link. Regarding his treatment of female costars: Keira Knightly didn’t want him spanking her during one…

Only part of the reason I couldn’t bring myself to watch Shame.

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November 23, 2011
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[Trigger Warning: police brutality, rape, racism, abuse, assault, Prandomberlinchick: From a 2007 article in The New York Times: Ten years ago today, a 30-year-old Haitian immigrant named Abner Louima was arrested and sodomized with a broomstick inside a restroom in the 70th Precinct station house in Brooklyn. The case became a national symbol of police brutality and fed perceptions that New York City police officers were harassing or abusing young black men as part a citywide crackdown on crime.The case also marked the beginning of the unraveling of Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani’s relationship with the black community in New York. That relationship would deteriorate even further, after the police shot two unarmed black men, Amadou Diallo in February 1999 and Patrick Dorismond in 2000. One officer, Justin A. Volpe, admitted in court in May 1999 that he had rammed a broken broomstick into Mr. Louima’s rectum and then thrust it in his face. He said he had mistakenly believed that Mr. Louima had punched him in the head during a street brawl outside a nightclub in Flatbush, but he acknowledged that he had also intended to humiliate the handcuffed immigrant. Read the rest of  “TheAbner Louima Case, 10 Years Later.” I had only recently moved to NY when that happened and thought seriously about leaving again. I remember the piece Vanity Fair did on the case, in which the cop with the broomstick, Justin Volpe, maintained that he couldn’t be a racist because his girlfriend was black. Whatthefuckever. Okay, but yeah, justice was served and Volpe is doing thirty years without parole in a Minnesota (??) prison  … which brings me back to Amadou Diallo. I’m still so angry about that fucking case and the fact that just two years after Abner Louima was beaten and sodomized, Sean Carroll, Richard Murphy, Edward McMellon, and Kenneth Boss fired 41 shots with 19 meeting their unarmed target—and were acquitted after a change of venue.  And perhaps not as well known, but equally infuriating: The Patrick Dorismond case, for the uninitiated, involved undercover cops targeting people of color as potential drug dealers. Mr. Dorismond, who was unarmed, became angry when the cops approached him to buy drugs. From a July 28, 2000 letter to the editor of The New York Times from the Episcopal Diocese of NY: Regardless of the judgment of the grand jury about criminal culpability in the death of Patrick M. Dorismond, it remains unconscionable for New York City police to shoot unarmed people. It is also a scandal that a person of color would automatically be assumed to be a drug dealer.  Amen Rev. Kendall …  All of which I suppose is rising to the surface again in light of the police brutality witnessed in relation to the Occupy Movement. Police brutality, particularly in NY, has a long, and nasty history, and it looks ready to repeat itself.

[Trigger Warning: police brutality, rape, racism, abuse, assault,

Prandomberlinchick:

From a 2007 article in The New York Times:

Ten years ago today, a 30-year-old Haitian immigrant named Abner Louima was arrested and sodomized with a broomstick inside a restroom in the 70th Precinct station house in Brooklyn. The case became a national symbol of police brutality and fed perceptions that New York City police officers were harassing or abusing young black men as part a citywide crackdown on crime.

The case also marked the beginning of the unraveling of Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani’s relationship with the black community in New York. That relationship would deteriorate even further, after the police shot two unarmed black men, Amadou Diallo in February 1999 and Patrick Dorismond in 2000.

One officer, Justin A. Volpe, admitted in court in May 1999 that he had rammed a broken broomstick into Mr. Louima’s rectum and then thrust it in his face. He said he had mistakenly believed that Mr. Louima had punched him in the head during a street brawl outside a nightclub in Flatbush, but he acknowledged that he had also intended to humiliate the handcuffed immigrant.

Read the rest of  “TheAbner Louima Case, 10 Years Later.”

I had only recently moved to NY when that happened and thought seriously about leaving again. I remember the piece Vanity Fair did on the case, in which the cop with the broomstick, Justin Volpe, maintained that he couldn’t be a racist because his girlfriend was black. Whatthefuckever.

Okay, but yeah, justice was served and Volpe is doing thirty years without parole in a Minnesota (??) prison  … which brings me back to Amadou Diallo.

I’m still so angry about that fucking case and the fact that just two years after Abner Louima was beaten and sodomized, Sean Carroll, Richard Murphy, Edward McMellon, and Kenneth Boss fired 41 shots with 19 meeting their unarmed target—and were acquitted after a change of venue. 

And perhaps not as well known, but equally infuriating: The Patrick Dorismond case, for the uninitiated, involved undercover cops targeting people of color as potential drug dealers. Mr. Dorismond, who was unarmed, became angry when the cops approached him to buy drugs. From a July 28, 2000 letter to the editor of The New York Times from the Episcopal Diocese of NY:

Regardless of the judgment of the grand jury about criminal culpability in the death of Patrick M. Dorismond, it remains unconscionable for New York City police to shoot unarmed people. It is also a scandal that a person of color would automatically be assumed to be a drug dealer.

 Amen Rev. Kendall … 

All of which I suppose is rising to the surface again in light of the police brutality witnessed in relation to the Occupy Movement. Police brutality, particularly in NY, has a long, and nasty history, and it looks ready to repeat itself.

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November 17, 2011
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Jerry Sandusky was allowed to adopt a boy? Okay now I have to throw up.

anglophonic:

(Trigger Warning for “my friends and I were victims of this kind of shit, and I am angry as fuck.” Don’t read this if you can’t handle a rant.)

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“The biological mother of a boy adopted by Jerry Sandusky said Thursday that she had contacted authorities because she was afraid…

I may possibly be derailing here and I’m fine with a call out but I really need to say the following:

Stop bring in gay people and their rights as an argument against the morality of straight people. These types of arguments are not logical at all.

“Sandusky rapes little boys and so do other grown men THEREFORE, gay couples should adopt” MAKES ZERO FUCKING SENSE. I’m tired of having the lives of the queer community having to be made relevant, having rights that we deserve, be put in a context of the wrongs of straight people. Gay couples should adopt because they are competent, NOT because some straight people aren’t. Pedophile men shouldn’t adopt because they are pedophiles!

It’s that simple ! When people are trying to make arguments against something throwing around “… Straight people are failing at x and gays would make it better” doesn’t validate your argument more and it sure as fuck doesn’t do much of anything for “gay rights”.

(Source: thedailybeast.com, via bad-dominicana)

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