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here's an amalgam of the stuff i like. feminism/social justice/anti-racism-classism-sexism-cissexism, you name it. i'm continually learning and trying my best to dismantle oppresson and white-cis-hetero-privilege bit by bit. i signal boost a lot of anti-racism/cissexism/all sorts of isms because i think other people should be reading them.

i'm a sex educator and generally a rad person.

besides that, i like kittens, and punks, and dead things, and metal, and paganism.

fuckyeahfelines:

My gorgeous boy, Spangles<3

serial-killers-101:

Gerald Gallego
Gerald Gallego never met his father, but he had the old man’s temper, all the same. Gerald, Sr., was serving time in San Quentin when his son was born, in 1946, and nine years later he became the first man to die in Mississippi’s gas chamber, condemned for the murder of two police officers. Gerald, Jr., didn’t know the difference, accepting his mother’s fiction of an accidental death, but he would start to log his own arrests before the year was out. Minor scrapes climaxed with his incarceration, at age 13, for having sex with a six-year-old neighbor girl. By age 32, he had been married seven times — twice to the same woman — with several bigamous unions along the way. Outstanding warrants called for his arrest on charges that included incest, rape, and sodomy. Gallego’s latest wife, Charlene, would stand in striking contrast to her husband. A Sacramento native and the product of a solid, caring home, she somehow fell head-over-heels in love with Gerald, learning to accept his quirks and falling into line with fantasies that called for him to build a secret hideaway where hostage “sex slaves” would be kept to do his bidding. On September 11, 1978, 17-year-old Rhonda Scheffler and a friend, 16-year-old Kippi Vaught, disappeared from Sacramento, on the short walk to a local shopping center. Two days passed before their ravaged, battered bodies were recovered outside Baxter, 15 miles away. Both girls had been molested, bound and beaten with a tire iron, after which a single bullet had been fired through each one’s skull. On June 24, 1979, 14-year-old Brenda Judd and 13-year-old Sandra Colley vanished from the Washoe County fairgrounds, in Reno, Nevada. Neither girl was seen again, and both were listed as runaways until 1982, when Charlene Gallego’s confession linked her husband with their abduction and murder. Ten months later, on April 24, 1980, Karen Chipman and Stacey Redican disappeared from a Reno shopping mall, their remains discovered near Lovelock, Nevada, on July 27. Both girls had been sexually abused, then beaten to death with a blunt instrument. Linda Aguilar, age 21, was four months pregnant when she disappeared from Port Orford, Oregon, on June 8, 1980. Relatives reported her missing on June 20, and her body was found two days later, in a shallow grave located south of Gold Beach. The victim’s skull was shattered, her wrists and ankles bound with nylon cord, but an autopsy revealed sand in her nose, mouth, and throat, indicating that she was buried alive. On July 17, 1980, 34-year-old Virginia Mochel was abducted from the parking lot of a West Sacramento tavern, where she worked as a barmaid. Her skeletal remains, still bound with nylon fishing line, were found outside of Clarksburg, California, on October 30. In the absence of other evidence, loops of cord around the neck were seen as proof of death by strangulation. Craig Miller, 22, left a Sacramento fraternity dance with his date, 21-year-old Beth Sowers, around 1:30 a.m. on November 2, 1980. Moments later, friends observed them seated in a car outside, a rough-looking stranger sitting up front, on the passenger’s side. One of Craig’s friends was sliding behind the wheel, to make small talk, when Charlene Gallego appeared, slapping his face as she ordered him out of the car and sped away. Miller’s frat brothers memorized the license plate, telling their story to police when Miller was found dead the next day, near Bass Lake. (Beth Sowers would not be found until November 22, shot three times and dumped in a Placer County ditch.) Officers traced the vehicle to Charlene’s parents, recording her flat denial of the incident. She also gave her name as “Mrs. Stephen Styles,” a false identity Gallego had secured by stealing a policeman’s I.D. card, using the vital information to request a “duplicate” birth certificate and driver’s license for himself. Identified by Charlene’s parents, Gallego skipped town with his wife, using Charlene to phone home for money on November 3. The next call came from Omaha, two weeks later, and federal agents were waiting when the suspects called for their money at Western Union, on November 17. The killer team of man and wife hung tough for 18 months, but Charlene gave it up in mid-1982, turning state’s evidence in return for a maximum sentence of sixteen and a half years in prison. Gallego’s four-month trial in Sacramento, on charges of murdering Miller and Sowers, ended with his conviction and sentence of death in April 1983. Transferred to Nevada for trial in the Chipman and Redican murders, Gallego became the target of an unprecedented public subscription campaign, with California residents donating $23,000 to help defray the cost of his prosecution. Convicted on two more counts of murder, plus two of kidnapping, Gallego was sentenced to death a second time.Gerald Gallego died at the Nevada prison system’s regional medical center on July 19, 2002.

fuckoffshittattoos:

Apparently this is Marilyn Monroe

gowns:

josé julio sarria, gay latino who ran for public office in 1961 - many many years before harvey milk

he ran for the san francisco board of supervisors and almost won by default, until people noticed there was a gay man running and immediately submitted everyone possible for the position. he didn’t win, but he still got 6000 votes, which shocked conservatives
he was also a drag queen popular at many of the balls at the time…and he still does it today (lookin good for a guy in his late 80s)!

While we diminish the stimulant of fear, we must increase to prisoners the incitements of hope: in proportion as we extinguish the terrors of the law, we should awaken and strengthen the control of the conscience.

― Dorothea Dix (Unitarian, reformer, educator)

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May 30 10:23with 3 notes

keepyourcorsetstight:

drbippy:

Tim Burton should just make a movie called ‘Johnny Depp’.

plot twist: Johnny Depp is played by Helena Bonham Carter

But Depp’s love interest, Helena Bonham Carter, should be played by Johnny Depp.

(Source: funeralfrost)

May 30 9:21with 21,732 notes

wtffanfiction:

Fandom: Twilight
“Jacob then put his long hard hairy wolf dingaling into my cat and I moaned sexily. His dingaling digged into my body sexily. It felt so good I started to cry tears of rainbow blood. I moaned and Jacob bit my neck while ejecoulating and barking.”

inothernews:

THRUST A FRIEND A photograph by NASA astronaut Don Pettitt offers a previously unseen view of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft as it approached the International Space Station last week. (Photo: NASA via The Telegraph)

keepyourbsoutofmyuterus:

New Video Attack on Planned Parenthood Stokes Sex-Selective Abortion Panic

On Tuesday, anti-abortion activist Lila Rose’s group Live Action released a highly edited “undercover sting” video that claims Planned Parenthood is facilitating gender selective abortions.

Live Action claims U.S. census data and national vital statistics illustrate sex-selection is a growing problem in the United States but MediaMatters points out Centers for Disease Control data from 2008 that says 91.4% of abortions were performed before the 13th week of pregnancy, before gender is identifiable.

The following is a statement by Akiba Solomon, Colorlines.com’s gender reporter and columnist:

This sneak attack brought to you by Live Action’s Lila Rose (the female James O’Keefe) dovetails with tomorrow’s House vote on HR3451, the so-called Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act (PRENDA). To understand the timing of this video, lets examine the bill.

HR3451 claims to address the rising “sex-selection industry” and cites gender-based abortion tourism by “citizens of other countries.” As evidence of the “growing threat” of sex-selective abortion, the bill also cites a study by Columbia University economists who analyzed 2000 census data for U.S.-born children of Chinese, Korean, and Asian Indian parents. Because sons outnumbered daughters, the economists concluded that their mothers must have practiced sex-selective abortion. This evidence is thin as hell, but PRENDA authors claim that “it strongly suggests that some Americans are exercising sex-selection abortion practices within the United States consistent with discriminatory practices common to their country of origin, or the country to which they trace their ancestry.”

Taken together, the bill and video are part of the same old right wing attempt to criminalize abortion under the mantle of equal rights and stoke white population anxiety. Instead of using the black genocide trope, PRENDA employs Yellow Peril dog whistles. The video supports this race-baiting legislation.

Live Action and PRENDA supporters are concern trolls. If they were, in fact, concerned about the lives of girls, they would focus on policies that support, say, living wages, jobs, affordable health care, quality public education and safety from gender-based violence rather than ginned up threats of sex-selective abortion.

May 30 5:16with 126 notes

inflateablefilth:

xtremecaffeine:

numbuh214:

laughingstation:

These are not chips.

They are crisps.

These are chips.

That is all.

we don’t care

THIS IS A VEGETABLE

BECAUSE WE LIVE IN AMERICA

These are chips

and these are chips too

That is all.

who the fuck cares about chips and fries and vegetables when you can have bagged milk

Haggis is actually really tasty.

Agreed! Haggis is actually the shit! Seriously need to eat it more often.

(Source: onelifelefttolivetoforgive)

May 30 4:39with 80,233 notes

nessfraserloves:

whitewhine:

Sound logic from the future leaders of our nation

Wut.

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