February 2012
4 posts
Stress Impacts Good Parenting →
Good parenting requires psychic resources. Complex decisions must be made. Sacrifices must be made in the moment. This is hard for anyone, whatever their income: we all have limited reserves of self-control, and attention and other psychic resources. In that moment, fretting about the deadline, your psychic resources were depleted. Facing pressure at work, you did not have the freedom of mind...
HEY WHITE PEOPLE
spinkbottle:
CAN WE STOP WITH THE SELF-RIGHTEOUS OUTRAGE OVER BEING ACCUSED OF RACISM
CAN WE START WITH ASKING OURSELVES WHETHER WE ARE IN FACT BEING RACIST
AND CAN WE THEN PROCEED TO REALISING THAT POC KNOW MORE ABOUT RACE THAN WE DO AND WE SHOULD PROBABLY SHUT THE FUCK UP AND LET THE EXPERTS SPEAK
THEN CAN WE FINISH BY PROFOUNDLY UNDERSTANDING THAT WE SHOULD BE 100% CONCERNED ABOUT...
“If you are a white woman and you want to call yourself a feminist, you must...”
– ladyatheist (via mamaatheist)
BOOM.
(via getsnarly)
get free or die tryin'.: White Privilege: Now What... →
racismschool:
Examples of what white privilege deniers THINK it means to be told to “Check Your Privilege.”
Apologize for being white
Believe white is bad or wrong
Be ashamed of being white
Feel guilty for being white
Examples of what people ACTUALLY mean when they say “Check Your…