Month: November 2014

I’m thinking I should wear the outfit I wore on set for tomorrow’s con. No one will know that I am cosplaying but oh I am. I am.

Also I want to write all the fanfic about me and the folks I got to know during filming. It’s not self insertion if you were actually there, right?

kyliesparks27:

brielleariana:

kyliesparks27:

clevercheshire:

the-treble:

The above was posted by one of my friends.

Dear fellow white people, stop using the guise of social justice for your attempts to get your angsty violence out. You’re disgusting.

This was an issue when we were marching in LA on Tuesday. White people talking over powerful speeches to scream about “the revolution!”, trying to get the crowd on the freeway when we wanted to keep it peaceful, youth on skateboards turning over signs and trashcans, white people screaming at the police and shaking railing to start shit when the LAPD had been really fucking restrained and actually very accommodating to the march by keeping traffic away from us and only blocking us at the freeways (understandably). There were elderly folks, kids, and animals out there for fucks sake. You aren’t helping anyone but yourselves so you can have fun and a story to share about you getting tear gassed or shot at.

Dear White People:
Be allies. Not instigators. While this is upsetting and maddening that we have to protest this shit in 2014, you are in a group of privilege. Do not start shit. Find your place in peaceful protest and do not be an asshole.

This is my problem when we talk about looters and rioters, because often the looters and rioters are not black people, and yet it is our faces that are blasted everywhere. Young, black people are always painted as the violent ones and though black people undoubtedly have the most to be angry about, so many of us are protesting peacefully. Yet, white “allies” set things on fire and instigate violence, and yet you only see white protestors faces when they are talking about the peaceful protests.

Many white allies are actually allies. But some are not, and I want the media to stop pretending like we’re the only ones that’s violent when that’s just blatantly not true.

*aggressively nodding*

micdotcom:

Here’s the peaceful side of the Ferguson protests the media isn’t showing you 

Groups like Hands Up United and Millennial Activists United have been committed to community building and nonviolent protest since day one, and their work in the months since August 9 proves it.

In fact, most demonstrations in Ferguson unfold peacefully — assuming the police don’t escalate them with wrongful arrests and chemical-spewing teargas canisters. But you’d never know it from the billowing smoke clouds and flashing police sirens you see plastered across your TV screens.

Do thinks like ferguson actually happen in Canada?

saskatchewanroughriders:

I’ve seen a lot of people either ask why Canadians should be talking about police brutality and racism when “it doesn’t happen here” or try to talk like Canada is so above this shit so here are a few examples

The Saskatoon Freezing Deaths or “Starlight Tours” where native people have been picked up by police, dropped outside of the city and abandoned, often resulting in a person freezing to death, have been documented from 1976 – 2003 but I wouldn’t be surprised if it happened a lot more often and has just gone unreported. Neil Stonechild, a Cree teenager, was found frozen to death in a field in 1990 and had last been seen cuffed in a police cruiser. Rodney Naistus and Lawrence Wegner, both native men, were found frozen to death in the same place in 2000, and the same place where Darrel Night, another native man, was left by police, although he survived and the cops were put in prison for 8 months. Two Worlds Colliding is a film about him.

John Joseph (J. J.) Harper, from the Wasagamack Indian Band in Manitoba, was killed by a cop in Winnipeg in 1988 who insisted that the gun went off accidentally, and was later exonerated.

Robert Dziekanski, a polish man immigrating to live with his mother in BC, was tasered to death in the Vancouver Airport by three cops in 2007. Eyewitnesses, including another traveller that took a video of the entire incident (which later went viral), led to the realization that the police had lied about the circumstances surrounding his death.

Dudley George an Ojibwe man murdered in 1995 by an Ontario Provincial Police officer while he was protesting for sacred burial land on which a military camp was built under the war measures act in WWII to be given back to the Stony Point First Nation in theIpperwash Crisis 

Frank Paul, a Mi’kmaq man from British Columbia, was arrested for public drunkenness and left in an alley by two cops, where he died of hypothermia in 1998

Crystal Taman, a mother of three in winnipeg, was killed in 2005 when an allegedly drunk, off duty cop rearended her vehicle.

Anthony Griffin, a black nineteen-year-old, was killed by a cop in Montreal in 1987, which led to discussions of the widespread racism and racial profiling that happens in Quebec and among Montreal police. At the time of his death, his killer had already had to pay fines after allegations of racism stemming from other incidents

Eric Osawe, a 26-year-old from Nigeria with two children, was shot in the back by a cop during an apartment raid in 2010 in Toronto. The police officer responsible for his death was charged with murder, but later exonerated

Duane Christian, a 15 year old black child, was killed in 2006 while driving a stolen minivan. He was shot at five times.

Junior Alexander Manon, an 18 year old black teenager, died in police custody in 2010 due to injuries caused by police in apprehending him and tackling him to the ground. Eyewitnesses, including one that was trained in first aid, said that one police officer had held his arms while another slapped his face, and that it was apparent he needed CPR which they did not perform.

Reyal Jensen Jardine-Douglas, a 25 year old African man with a history of mental illness, was shot and killed by police in 2010, after his family had called to have him taken to the hospital. this article names some other people shot by police under similar circumstances

Matthew Dumas, an Aboriginal 18-year-old, was shot and killed by police in Winnipeg in 2005 for carrying a screwdriver.

Phuong Na (Tony) Du, a 51 year old in Vancouver, was killed py police on November 22nd, 2014, for brandishing a piece of lumber.

Jermaine Carby, a 33 year old black man in Brampton, was shot and killed during a traffic stop on September 24th, 2014. This is a facebook page dedicated to him.

aprildralle:

mquester:

I loved this scene so much. The actors play off this pairing as flirty and adorable in a way the characters really weren’t in the novels IMO. 

That said, when she said the line, “Girls see more blood than boys,” my husband was all confused and like, “What, warrior women, she means?”

So I just looked at him and started listing off, “Blood from their periods every month, maybe blood from sex, blood from childbirth, blood from tending and washing the wounded and dead…That’s been true for most of womankind all through history.”

And he got very, very quiet.

I’ve reblogged this before, but I’m reblogging again for the commentary because this little exchange is like a wink to the female audience that I really loved and I guarantee you that any woman who saw this would know exactly what she means. There are a pretty big chunk of men in the world who don’t think that “women’s work” or women’s bodies are worth knowing about. Also I think find it really amusing when he tries to pass off his ignorance with, “you’re different, you’re not like other women” and she immediately shuts that down.