http://kellypope.tumblr.com/

pbsthisdayinhistory: June 18, 1983: Sally Ride Becomes First...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:57:10 -0500

June 18, 1983: Sally Ride Becomes First American Woman in Space

On this day in 1983, at the age of 32, astronaut Sally Ride became the first American woman in space aboard the space shuttle Challenger. Her voyage came 20 years after Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space. After the voyage, Sally Ride received many honors for her contributions to the field of science and space exploration.

In May 2012, Sally Ride became the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States.

On July 23, 2012, Sally Ride died at the age of 61 after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer.

Visit PBS NewsHour to learn more about Sally Ride.

Photo: Courtesy of NASA

Ok, PBS, but why gloss over the very important fact that Sally Ride was gay? I mean, it’s “Pride Month”—can you at least pretend to connect the dots?

mrtrueman: The United States and Arkansas sue Exxon for oil...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 08:35:06 -0500

mrtrueman:

The United States and Arkansas sue Exxon for oil spill.

thepoliticalfreakshow: Something’s wrong with this picture....

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 12:40:35 -0500

thepoliticalfreakshow:

Something’s wrong with this picture. Racism[and sexism] still exists in America. Deny it all you want, it’s still here!

will-potter: New documents reveal TransCanada is secretly...

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 11:11:46 -0500

will-potter:

New documents reveal TransCanada is secretly instructing police how to handle Keystone XL protesters, and urging terrorism prosecutions for non-violent activists.

Please REBLOG if you stand with the pipeline protesters!

http://www.greenisthenewred.com/blog/transcanada-police-presentation-on-protests/7094/

leslie-feinberg: Photo credit: Boston branch, Workers World...

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 09:50:01 -0500

leslie-feinberg:

Photo credit: Boston branch, Workers World Party
Photo caption: Leslie Feinberg, Boston, 1984.
I had already been infected with tick-borne diseases for a decade.

6/11/13
Message from Leslie Feinberg:

I want to be the one to tell you that I am failing to thrive very rapidly,
and a local hospice expert is working to set up care in our home.

In the meantime, messages of personal support are welcome,
but I can’t respond. I can’t do interviews or videos.
Please no commercial inquiries of any kind.

Minnie Bruce and I welcome your messages of support at: minniebrucepratt@yahoo.com

Please do not send these messages to our other e-mail accounts!
And—please do not ask for details or send medical advice.

I suffered with tick-borne diseases for 35 years without treatment. In the five plus years since I have been in treatment, I have been diagnosed with late-stage Lyme along with serious coinfections including Babesiosis, Protomyxzoa Rheumatica, and Bartonella. My 20-year pattern of periodic immuno-suppression has become chronic for quite some time.

My body is failing so fast that I can’t undergo more diagnostic and treatment attempts. It is difficult for me to swallow, walk, breathe, talk and write. This sharp decline, evidenced in labs and in life, has forced me to set up home hospice care quickly.

My goal is to survive hospice. But I set out to do so with this reminder: illnesses and deaths are not personal failings.

Nor is hospice a surrender.

While it might not be realistic or possible, I have a fierce determination to get out in the streets with you all at the Central New York Pride March this Saturday, June 15.

I will continue to work in hospice—if not now, when?—to finish the Stone Butch Blues 20th anniversary author’s edition. {For updates on this free online-read/at cost print-on-demand, www.tumblr.com/blog/leslie-feinberg}

I will continue to work on the slideshow honoring CeCe McDonald. Titled “This is what solidarity looks like,” the slideshow is part of a multi-media dedication of Stone Butch Blues to CeCe. The slide show demonstrates the breadth of the demand to “Free CeCe!” {supportcece.wordpress.com}

The deadline for “Free CeCe!” photo submissions is July 1, 2013.

Send solidarity photos/art, permission form, and photo information including date/location/photographer to: transgenderwarrior@gmail.com

See permission forms: www.iacenter.org/lgbt/feinberg-mcdonald100712/

To subscribe for updates:

Leslie’s Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/leslie.feinberg.tgwarrior?ref=tn_tnmn

Leslie’s tumblr:
http://www.tumblr.com/blog/leslie-feinberg

Leslie’s twitter:
https://twitter.com/lesliefeinberg

Minnie’s Bruce’s Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/minniebruce.pratt

***

Health care for free—not for profits!

Jobs, homes, education, recreation—
not wars at home & abroad—covert & overt—
that only profit the 1%!

Free CeCe McDonald, B. Manning & Lynn Stewart!
End police brutality & racist mass incarceration

Solidarity with immigrant workers, Muslims,
oppressed peoples and workers
around the world!

lyme solidarity. endless love and gratitude. onward, fighting, onward.

boxersandbinders: View report from Center for American Progress...

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 09:39:34 -0500

boxersandbinders:

View report from Center for American Progress here

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/lgbt/report/2013/06/04/65133/a-broken-bargain/

Find links to the Full report from Movement Advancement Project here

http://www.lgbtmap.org/lgbt-workers

yesterday i finally dropped some paycheck on a sports bra, like a real one that’s made for...

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 09:17:52 -0500

yesterday i finally dropped some paycheck on a sports bra, like a real one that’s made for ~performance~ from the athletics shop next to my workplace. i have about 5 really cheap others, but they all have stretched out and ~don’t do what they’re supposed to~

but now i have this one and it’s making me feel better. yay making budgets to know how much you can spend on frivolous stuff like clothing!

Practical Plants

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:12:27 -0500

Practical Plants:

janedroid:

The Practical Plants wiki resource and community.

“Practical Plants is a collaboratively edited encyclopedia and database of information on plants cultivated with a practical intention. Over 7400 plant articles covering edible, medicinal and material uses, propagation and cultivation information, plant associations and polycultures, and everything else you need to know to grow and benefit from practical plants.”

ATTN mattie!

strongseas: I wrote a haiku about Florida Why is it raining It rains every fucking day God dammit...

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:39:24 -0500

strongseas:

I wrote a haiku about Florida

Why is it raining
It rains every fucking day
God dammit Florida

"Let’s stop claiming that certain genders and sexualities “reinforce the gender binary.” In the past,..."

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:32:45 -0500

“Let’s stop claiming that certain genders and sexualities “reinforce the gender binary.” In the past, that tactic has been used to dismiss butches and femmes, bisexuals, trans folks and our partners, and feminine people of every persuasion. Gender isn’t some faucet that we can turn on and off in order to appease other people, whether they be heterosexist bigots or queerer-than-thou hipsters. How about this: Let’s stop pretending that we have all the answers, because when it comes to gender, none of us is fucking omniscient.”

- Julia Serano, “Performance Piece,” from Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation Ed. Kate Bornstein and S. Bear Bergman (via bisexual-books)

Was the Gulf of Mexico Sacrificed for Three Full Months to Protect BPâs Billions?

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:28:35 -0500

Was the Gulf of Mexico Sacrificed for Three Full Months to Protect BPâs Billions?:

A small group of oligarchs have determined that destroying the earth is profitable for their immediate gain. The government gives the green light to the oil industry to fill our arteries with lard. Oil spills are turning our communities, water, forests and lands into uninhabitable dead zones, global warming disasters are escalating to biblical proportions—but no tornado is big enough, no hurricane is threatening enough, no drought is deadly enough to deter business as usual for those profiting from pollution.

current: John Fugelsang on equal rights versus “special...

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:24:01 -0500

current:

John Fugelsang on equal rights versus “special rights”

relevant, if we are also talking about employment, housing, and services

Support BKTC at Punk Island

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 20:59:27 -0500

Support BKTC at Punk Island:

fyeahqueermusic:

Help Brooklyn Transcore fund our stage of all trans and queer artists at the 2013 Punk Island music festival!

9 hours to go for Brooklyn Transcore’s Indie Gogo for their stage at Punk Island 2013. A whole stage dedicated to queer and trans punk! Support if you can!

joanthedeductionist: don’t tell people not to be aggressive to their oppressors when even pointing...

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 21:59:06 -0500

joanthedeductionist:

don’t tell people not to be aggressive to their oppressors when even pointing out facts is seen as aggressive.

don’t tell people not to be aggressive to their oppressors when simply speaking up is seen as aggressive.

jonathan-cunningham: slutaeyang: thebengalcat: Israel...

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 15:49:58 -0500

jonathan-cunningham:

slutaeyang:

thebengalcat:

Israel is rounding up and deporting Africans and will soon be putting tens of thousands of them in detention camps.

Meanwhile, they invited 350 Jewish north American immigrants to the country, 127 of whom will be serving in the Israeli army.

The immigrants arrived today and were greeted by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu himself at a special ceremony, a stark contrast to Israel’s treatment of Africans. The Zionists were welcomed with open arms, while Knesset Members Miri Regev and Danny Danon called Africans “a cancer in our body” and “infiltrators”.

More than 4,800 American, Canadian and British Jews have or will be making aliyah (“ascent”) this year; immigration to the Land of Israel — one of the basic principles of the Zionist ideology.

(Photos: Getty Images / Reuters)

nope nope nope fuck no

“Detention Camps”. Okay Israel, whatever you want to call them.

xenainnuendoisland: You trying to tell me something, Youtube?

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 15:45:36 -0500

xenainnuendoisland:

You trying to tell me something, Youtube?

Key West: Creepiest City in America

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 12:16:18 -0500

Key West: Creepiest City in America:

oldflorida:

“But after you peel back the layers of sunshine and smiles you will find a core of pure evil.”

Fucking creepy people Stay Out Of My State

othermike: John Waters//Pikachu mike! so good!

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 11:43:22 -0500

othermike:

John Waters//Pikachu

mike! so good!

UPDATED:: How to change your gender settings to neutral with Facebook Timeline

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 00:01:41 -0500

glitterfieldstudy:

Reblogging with a few clarifications since facebook changes stuff around sometimes!

First of all you HAVE to use m.facebook.com! Regular facebook doesn’t work!

You also HAVE to use Mozilla Firefox and Firebug! facebook mobile in chrome doesn’t let you edit your profile because it’s formatted for smartphones or something.

When you have facebook MOBILE open in MOZILLA FIREFOX with FIREBUG installed, you will go to the main page and click “Profile”. Then you will click “Info” which is right above the status box. Scroll down to where it says “Sex” or “Gender” (it could be either of these, it was “sex” in mine and “gender” in my guinea pig profile). Then you will get the screen shown in the tutorial above.

Follow instructions 6-10. I found it easier for me to copy the code in step 10 character-by-character. And bam you’re done~~~! Hope it works for you!

phenominel:

Instructional post.

Problem: Once you set a gender on your Facebook profile, you can’t reset it to neutral. Although you can choose to hide your gender from your info page, it still appears when referencing you, as in “X changed his profile picture”.

Solution: As seen here. For Firefox users - use Firebug to edit the HTML of the dropdown selection box and add in a third option with a value of zero. This returns your reference pronouns to they, their etc.

Problem #2: Facebook changes profile to “Timeline” setup. Above solution stops working.

Solution #2: Okay, here’s the instructional part. The trick is nearly identical to the one above.

1) Get an HTML inspector, e.g. Firebug for Firefox. These instructions are written for Firebug users, but can be adapted to other HTML inspectors.

2) Open Facebook Mobile.

3) Click “Timeline” to go to your profile page.

4) Under your name, click “Edit profile”.

5) Under “Basic information”, click “Sex”.

6) Radio button options for “Male” and “Female” appear.

Right click the radio button which is selected. (In this example, it’d be the “Male” radio button.) From the context menu, select “Inspect Element With Firebug”.

7) Firebug will highlight a line of code, <label onclick=””>.

Expand the line of code by clicking the plus sign on the left.

8) The line expands into the following block of code:

Right click the line that begins “<input type…” and select “Edit HTML”.

9) A line of code appears.

Note the property “value”. The “Male” option has value 2, the “Female” option value 1.

Copy the line and paste it so you have two lines of code. Remove the checked=”1” from the first line of code. In the second one, change the value to zero (value=”0”).

10) Your code should look something like this:

Looking up from the Firebug panel, you’ll notice the page has changed to include an extra radio button, which is checked:

Click save to submit the value “0” from the radio button you created, and you’re done!

Old hacking instructions involving Safari never did nothing for me. This is what worked (though I had to trash my old Firefox and reinstall the last compatible version for my processor to get this done).

after too many attempts at hacking fb to count… i finally got the neutral pronouns back. i am...

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 23:56:01 -0500

after too many attempts at hacking fb to count…

i finally got the neutral pronouns back.

i am a god. that is all.