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NOW AT YALE-REJECT.TUMBLR.COM 22, Toronto, She/Her (They?) ,White queer femme Radical vulnerability and productive tension Mad, sad, rad
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sherryfrajer

unpopular opinion 2-for-1: sweetened iced tea is an abomination unto the world, and the wing is the least convenient and sensible chicken meat delivery system.

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zonegirls

Trans Women on Bandcamp

I spent the last couple hours compiling this list. It is by no means the entirety of trans women/trans feminine folks on Bandcamp, it’s just the ones I could find. Reblog it, add to it, buy their music. Lich Witch House/IDM

Jane Doe and the Misery Loves Co Folk Punk

Ashby and the Oceanns Folk/Punk/Indie

Bella Trout Folk/Punk/Indie

Little Waist Punk/Pop Punk

Hazagussa Black Metal/Noise Metal

Lyskoi - Alyssa Kai Folk/Folk Punk   -Do not know for sure how Alyssa identifies, but there’s a good chance that Alyssa fits here.

Calliope Wong Instrumental/Classical/Electronic/Noise

Venus Selenite Spoken Word

Stars on a Bedroom’s Wall Tremendously Varied

Trrtle Nation Experimental Electro Noise

Ellie Rose Instrumental Synthpop

Skeletor Rising Electronic Harsh Noise

Hot Noisy Mess Electronic Harsh Noise/Experimental

Mya Byrne Folk/Americana

Pain Wife Electronic Harsh Noise/Death Industrial

Bog Witch Doom Noise/Noise Metal

Virtual Intelligence Cyber-Goth/Industrial/Neon Metal

Through Waves World Fusion/Darkwave

Ellah a Thaun Lyrical Dissonance

Toxic Delirium Gutter Punk/Noise Grunge

HIRS Speedcore/Thrash/Grind

Noize Pervertz Harsh Noise

pinkclaws Ambient Electropop

Ruby Price Pop Punk/Mumblepunk

So many people added bands to this post when they reblogged it Lemme try and update it: G.L.O.S.S Hardcore Punk

Wet Dress Punk

Noel'le Longhaul Experimental/Folk/Indie

Mallory Folk/Folk Punk

Knight of Swords Gothic Rock

Listen Lady Indie/Punk

blacksquares Alternative/Electro Pop

Cate Wurtz Lo-Fi Electronic

Lauren Bousfield Electronic

Dingo Experimental/Ambient Arcane Electronic

Computer Vs World Chiptune Synthpop/Electronic

Svetlana Synthpop/Chiptune

She/Her/Hers Folk Punk

hopeinthestatic Lo-fi Folk Punk

hearken ambient drone/glitch/punk

Violent Pastels Crossover Thrash

Mean Girls Screamo/Emo/Pop Punk

Recurse Witch House/Ambient/Industrial

Hoity~Toity Old-School Pop Punk/Punk

a glass box Punk/Emo/Grunge

Tall Girl Metal/Basement Punk/Grunge

CRISSY BELL Art Rock/Goth Pop

Infantile Dissention Anarcho-Punk/Crust Punk

White Mascara Anarcho Post-Punk

Bümflap Feminist Loser Punk

TRON MAXIMUM Vapor Metal/Black Noise/Electronic Takeshi and the Kid Chiptune/Synthpop/Darkwave 

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grandenchanterfiona

I feel like if someone ever did an episode by episode breakdown of Chopped this is what they’d find.

  1. Chefs of color are far more likely to have their culture brought up and to be told directly or indirectly to cook from their culture by judges. White chefs will be far more free in what they make 
  2. Women chefs will be judged more harshly for presentation. Chefs who are men will be allowed to make rustic dishes, but 9 times out of ten if presentation is brought up it’s about a woman’s dish.
  3. Women chefs are far more likely to be personal chefs or caterers, men are more likely to be head-chefs. 
  4. Even once the numbers are balanced for race and gender, I would bet good money white men still tend to win by a substantial margin,
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skywritingg

From what I’ve seen I think you’re right about all of this and Netflix has a sample someone could work with, I just want to add on for #4 something that no one ever seems to talk about: different cultures value different flavor profiles, as well as different cooking methods. In order to win you have to not only know that, but have a mastery of it for the almost always majority white American panel. For a common example, say you make something that’s a perfectly acceptable level of spice in your culture - well Aarón thinks it’s great but fucking Marc and Amanda can’t handle it and believe it’s objectively too spicy rather than subjectively too spicy, so you suffer for it. And this kind of thing happens a lot if you watch enough. The judges (of any given show in the US, really) use a rubric that is based on certain standards that favor an industry ruled by white men and how they cook.

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grandenchanterfiona

I’ve noticed similar things. 

I think you’re right.

I’d like a rundown of how many episodes has either one woman or one man of color and the rest is white boys.

There’s also been an episode where, like, the theme was Italian…chefs. American Italian chefs…something only whites call themselves. The episode wasn’t just exclusively white, but designed to be exclusively white.

I watched Cutthroat Kitchen before I ever saw Chopped, and when someone was praising Cutthroat Kitchen for being so diverse I was like ’??? but it’s not?’. Then I saw chopped and was like… Oh.

I’m not saying that someone’s a bad person if they like Chopped, of course, but I swear I broke out in hives watching that shit.

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blackfemalescientist

I remember in top chef there was an asian american chef who specialized in classic (read french/ european) cuisine and who always got dinged for “not being himself” as a chef, and was only praised unequivocally when he cooked “asian inspired” food. Cut to a few seasons later when a white chef who specialized in asian inspired food was praised for her flavors. The fact that she wasn’t representing her culture never came up. I’m still pissed about that one.

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tedallen

I have always had a lot of issues with the food network because of this, honestly. I’ve noticed specifically a lot of the time that it’s also the women who are judges often are more likely to be hard on other women which is such a shame. And as far as chopped goes, the only time that poc ever get half a chance is when aaron sanchez is judging :/

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kalany

Look, can we quit it with the conflation of arithmetic and higher mathematics?

I have dyscalculia. My teachers gave up on teaching me to perform basic arithmetic in tenth grade. I struggle with anything below trigonometry, and even trig is hard for me.

I have a bachelor’s in pure math and a master’s in statistics. Calculus? I can do that. Abstract algebra? I’m there. Topology and probability theory? Awesome. (Don’t ask me to do combinatorics, though. Don’t know why, but my brain nopes out on that one.)

I am SICK AND TIRED of reassuring kids I teach who come into our intro stats or calc courses going “I’m bad at math” and expecting to fail. A good three quarters of the time I probe further and discover they failed or nearly failed algebra because they struggle with arithmetic, and now they’re convinced they’re going to fail anything that even looks like it might possibly be adjacent to math.

WE HAVE CALCULATORS NOW, PEOPLE. Inability to do arithmetic is not even close to the end of your mathematics career. So can we please quit discouraging kids now?

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Renowned Canadian scientist Ursula Franklin dead at 94
'All her career, she was always the first and the pioneer and the woman,' her daughter says
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Ursula Franklin, one of Canada’s most accomplished scientists and educators, died Friday in Toronto at the age of 94.
Franklin was born in Germany and moved to Canada in 1949 to improve her education after surviving the Holocaust.
The researcher joined the University of Toronto’s department of metallurgy and materials science in 1967, and became the institution’s first ever female university professor (a special designation accorded to a small portion of the faculty) in 1984.
“All her career, she was always the first and the pioneer and the woman,” said her daughter, Monica Franklin.
Franklin accrued a long list of awards and accomplishments throughout her long career. She was appointed to the Order of Ontario in 1990, and named a Companion of the Order of Canada in 1992.
In what was arguably her biggest contribution to science, Franklin discovered radioactive substances in Canadian children’s baby teeth.
“It was a little disconcerting because it was my teeth,” her son, Martin Franklin, recounted. “I was seven or so at the time and while other children had the tooth fairy, mine were being tested for strontium-90.”
Franklin’s research helped sway world opinion against nuclear weapons testing during the Cold War.

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clementinevonradics
Non-violence is an inherently privileged position in the modern context. Besides the fact that the typical pacifist is quite clearly white and middle class, pacifism as an ideology comes from a privileged context. It ignores that violence is already here; that violence is an unavoidable, structurally integral part of the current social hierarchy; and that it is people of color who are most affected by that violence. Pacifism assumes that white people who grew up in the suburbs with all their basic needs met can counsel oppressed people, many of whom are people of color, to suffer patiently under an inconceivably greater violence, until such time as the Great White Father is swayed by the movement’s demands or the pacifists achieve that legendary “critical mass.” People of color in the internal colonies of the US cannot defend themselves against police brutality or expropriate the means of survival to free themselves from economic servitude. They must wait for enough people of color who have attained more economic privilege (the “house slaves” of Malcolm X’s analysis) and conscientious white people to gather together and hold hands and sing songs. Then, they believe, change will surely come. People in Latin America must suffer patiently, like true martyrs, while white activists in the US “bear witness” and write to Congress. People in Iraq must not fight back. Only if they remain civilians will their deaths be counted and mourned by white peace activists who will, one of these days, muster a protest large enough to stop the war. Indigenous people need to wait just a little longer (say, another 500 years) under the shadow of genocide, slowly dying off on marginal lands, until-well, they’re not a priority right now, so perhaps they need to organize a demonstration or two to win the attention and sympathy of the powerful. Or maybe they could go on strike, engage in Gandhian noncooperation? But wait-a majority of them are already unemployed, noncooperating, fully excluded from the functioning of the system. Nonviolence declares that the American Indians could have fought off Columbus, George Washington, and all the other genocidal butchers with sit-ins; that Crazy Horse, by using violent resistance, became part of the cycle of violence, and was “as bad as” Custer. Nonviolence declares that Africans could have stopped the slave trade with hunger strikes and petitions, and that those who mutinied were as bad as their captors; that mutiny, a form of violence, led to more violence, and, thus, resistance led to more enslavement. Nonviolence refuses to recognize that it can only work for privileged people, who have a status protected by violence, as the perpetrators and beneficiaries of a violent hierarchy. Pacifists must know, at least subconsciously, that nonviolence is an absurdly privileged position, so they make frequent usage of race by taking activists of color out of their contexts and selectively using them as spokespersons for nonviolence. Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. are turned into representatives for all people of color. Nelson Mandela was too, until it dawned on white pacifists that Mandela used nonviolence selectively, and that he actually was involved in liberation activities such as bombings and preparation for armed uprising. Even Gandhi and King agreed it was necessary to support armed liberation movements (citing two examples, those in Palestine and Vietnam, respectively) where there was no nonviolent alternative, clearly prioritizing goals over particular tactics. But the mostly white pacifists of today erase this part of the history and re-create nonviolence to fit their comfort level, even while “claiming the mantle” of Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhi. One gets the impression that if Martin Luther King Jr. were to come in disguise to one of these pacifist vigils, he would not be allowed to speak. As he pointed out: “Apart from bigots and backlashers, it seems to be a malady even among those whites who like to regard themselves as “enlightened.” I would especially refer to those who counsel, “Wait!” and to those who say that they sympathize with our goals but cannot condone our methods of direct-action in pursuit of those goals. I wonder at men who dare to feel that they have some paternalistic right to set the timetable for another man’s liberation. “Over the past several years, I must say, I have been gravely disappointed with such white “moderates.” I am often inclined to think that they are more of a stumbling block to the Negro’s progress than the White Citizen’s Counciler [sic] or the Ku Klux Klanner.”

Nonviolence is Racist, How Nonviolence Protects The State by Peter Gelderloos (via quietlyexhale)

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me being with friends: omg i'm so loved!!! i love my friends,they're always here for me and i'll always be there for them too, we're having so much fun omg so many things we should do!!!
me once i'm alone: ...
me: anyways everyone hates me and i'm Ready to Die
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andythanfiction-deactivated2017

right now you might be in a situation that you think you won’t survive but six months ago you were in a situation that you didn’t think you’d survive and two years before that you were in a situation you didn’t think you’d survive and the point is you will always surprise yourself and you will always make it through

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