When Brock Turner, a former student at Stanford University in California, was sentenced in June 2016 to only six months for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman, many people were understandably outraged. And they were even more angry when Turner was released on September 2nd after serving only half of his already meagre sentence.
In response to this miscarriage of justice, Yana Mazurkevich, a 20-year-old student at Ithaca College in New York, decided to create the photo series you can see below. The project, titled “It Happened”, was made for a sexual assault awareness media platform called Current Solutions, and as you can see, the message is pretty powerful. As Mazurkevich wrote on her Facebook page, “In response to Brock Turner’s early release, this photo series aims to continue the conversation on sexual assault, As well as to raise a huge finger to Turner and his 3-month jail time.” (Source)
YESSSSSS FUCKING GO PBG
(He deleted some of these tweets, but I find them really important. Austin, if you want these down just let me know and I will delete this)
“Calling a male character hot means you’re attracted to males” listen buddy. When I see Tony Tiger on screen and I call him hot does that mean I’m attracted to him? Does that mean I want him to raw my ass until it’s nothing but floor dust? Does that mean I want him to call me his big hungry bungy and hold me in his big strong sexy arms?? actually this is a bad example can I start over
seeing a lot of posts condemning “pussy grabs back” as cissexist and although i would agree that it is not the perfect “women’s march” slogan by any means i would urge you all to keep in mind that it is a direct response to trump’s violent statement and therefore makes sense as a phrase of political retaliation …..like obviously there should be many other myriad phrases and slogans for protesting that aren’t as exclusionary but i don’t think we should be shaming those who wielded “pussy grabs back” signs today since those signs are in active & necessary conversation with sexually violent remarks made by our president and the people wielding those signs are absolutely at liberty to respond directly in that way. anyways perhaps try to have some nuance in your thought today folks
yes yes yes. we need to remember: not all women have vaginas, and not all people who have vaginas are women, but all vaginas are a probable site of violence, and as such they have a place in the conversation.
This. Also keep in mind that reproductive rights was also a big issue, which might have caused people to carry signs with uteruses/vaginas, and there’s nothing wrong with that.
There’s nothing inherently transphobic about women talking about their own genitalia and reproductive rights, and it’s possible to talk about and fight transphobia without condemning people for fighting for their own rights.
important points that i kind of dismissed earlier, fair points all around. so often though people use genitalia to define womanhood so i guess this is all valid and keep in mind in discussions, but also never never forget that assuming all women have vaginas and uteruses is excluding trans, non binary, and intersex ppl. but i like this post a lot thank you it made me think
Just a reminder to everyone who thinks this “Invasion Day” business should be put behind us; until 1967 Aboriginal people, their lives and well being, were regulated under the Flora and Fauna Act, meaning that they weren’t even classed as human.
That’s less than 50 years ago.
The legal recognition of Aboriginal humanity in Australia is younger than my father, and that generation still holds the reins of power today.
This history exists, and it doesn’t go away overnight.
we frequently equate Australia’s WW1 and WW2 involvement with tomorrows public holiday (for reasons i personally have, at best, mixed feelings about) but unknown numbers of indigenous servicemen and women worked and died in both these conflicts and more before they were ever recognised constitutionally as people, let alone rights-holding citizens of this country
this is an informative article on the relationship of indigenous people and the ‘ANZAC tradition’, for those that are unaware and want somewhere to start
You try to go into Lush. The store is busy, overcrowded. There is no way to get in. People are spilling out of the store. Bodies are pressed against the glass, against the ceiling. Blood oozes out the door of those not who have not made it. Yet you join the mass of thrashing limbs. The Phoenix Rising bath bomb is back in stock.
Off Ya Tree is closed and you wonder why. As you walk past, you see roots growing out from the store. Branches break through the ceiling. You see faces in the patterns of the bark and they whisper to you. Piercings starting from $15.
“Meet at HJs” you text to your friend as you wait outside the fast food restaurant. You look around, suddenly feeling a chill run down your spine. Someone’s watching you His eyes are following you closely. Who is he? He is Jack, and he is hungry.
It’s 3:30pm and there are school children everywhere. Everything suddenly goes dark. St Laurences, All Hallows, Kelvin Grove, Brisbane High, Grammar. They arrive in their packs from the King George Square bus station, teeth bared and snarling, fur bristling and monstrous eyes glowing in the darkness. They demand a sacrifice. They demand blood. They demand a $1 large frozen coke.
You walk into the Myer centre to go to Daiso. You catch the escalator to go up a floor. You arrive at the fifth floor but the escalator keeps going. You look down to see the food court grow smaller and smaller until it fades away in the distance. There is no way to stop your ascension.
for anyone who doesnt play overwatch, heres essentially whats going on in no particular order
symmetra, someone who’s INDIAN and likely practices HINDUISM if anything at all, was given a CHINESE QIPAO skin and the skin is literally called QIPAO and its still sexualized, bc apparently qipaos and chinese clothing arent constantly sexualized enough
mercy, some WHITE WOMAN, was given a skin based off chinese new year colours, and even worse, a highlight intro where she, a WHITE WOMAN, writes the CHINESE character for good fortune
tracer, a WHITE WOMAN, was given a highlight intro where she does the CHINESE lion dance, the very traditional and culturally important CHINESE lion dance
YELLOW-FACE zenyatta, winston, reinhardt, and roadhog to give them journey to the west themed skins, these four NOT CHINESE characters are given very CHINESE themed character skins
YELLOW-FACE ana’s skin, you know, ana, the dark skinned ARAB MUSLIM WOMAN FROM EGYPT
using CHINESE CULTURE as an ~EXOTIC~ aesthetic for tons of sprays
junkrat, who is NOT chinese, has a voice line where he speaks a CHINESE phrase for good fortune in the new year, and is deckd out in CHINESE fireworks which are actually CULTURALLY SIGNIFICANT and used in CHINESE new year festivals for a reason
in short this event is a fucking racist mess
Okay, this has to be one of the most misinformed posts I’ve seen about Overwatch, so sit your ass down as I refute this point by point. (If you need credentials I’m actually Chinese plus I play Overwatch on a regular basis :V)
First of all, Lunar New Year is not a religious celebration. It is just a celebration of the new year on the lunar calendar, as the name might suggest. Religion has nothing to do with this. Also, Symmetra isn’t actually wearing a qipao, it’s just her usual outfit recoloured into the LNY colour palette. Which is a shame, but that’s Blizzard’s only crime in this regard.
Are white people not allowed to speak Chinese? At all? And wear Chinese themed clothing? It’s not even based on racial stereotypes so there’s nothing wrong with Mercy (and everyone else’s outfit). There’s only one Chinese person in the Overwatch cast. Did you really expect them to load everything on just her and ignore everyone else? I, as a Chinese person, would have been really disappointed in that case. (On a side note, I’m kinda sad there aren’t more Korean themed stuff but Blizzard chose to focus on the Chinese aspect of Lunar New Year I guess.)
The lion dance is not a religious dance. It’s a celebratory dance and also one of skill. The lion’s dance isn’t limited to just Chinese performers, people of other cultures can perform it if they are capable of doing it.
Hahahaha, bud have you LOOKED at the skins? None of those four costumes have anything resembling a yellow face.
Please. Go on. Point out the yellow face. Also thematically each of these four characters fit the skins they’ve received. The protagonist of Journey to the West, Sun Wukong, is a monkey. Why not give it to the gorilla? Zhu Bajie is actually a pig. Roadhog is pig themed. This makes sense right??? Sadly I’m not as familiar with the other two main protagonists but I can guarantee if I did the research I’d find nothing wrong.
The sprays as far as I’ve seen have all been respectful and none of them are offensive. Just a bunch of Lunar New Year symbols.
See point above about speaking Chinese. Not to mention, Junkrat says Gong Xi Fa Cai perfectly, it’s not a racist imitation? It’s a well wishing phrase often said during Chinese New Year to wish the recipient prosperity and fortune. What’s wrong with that?
To conclude, Chinese New Year is a celebration that is open for sharing, and Blizzard as far as I’ve seen has been respectful of the event and the Chinese culture. So, OP, shut the fuck up.
did they did they seriously try to say that a fucking aracialrobot given a chinese motif skinand A Gorilla given a skin to resemble the monkey king was yellowface
pls stop appropriating monkey culture
also can I add that junkrat is australian and a huge chunk of our population is chinese and chinese new year is a massive thing that everyone gets together to help celebrate - these celebrations also happen to have a lot of chinese fireworks so i don’t know why it’s such a big deal that blizzard gave him the skin they did
ALSO while i’m at it.. zenyatta was based in nepal and his character itself is based on nepalese monks. the nepalese also celebrate the lunar new year.
