marxman95:

“The Grapes of Wrath was written because Steinbeck stole the notes of a hardworking Dust Bowl-era journalist named Sanora Babb, who was trying to write her own book. When she finally had a chance to pitch it, she found that the market was overpowered by a successful book—based entirely on her notes. When Steinbeck saw the things in person that he later wrote about, he couldn’t stand to look at it for more than a day. Babb spent much of her career working with and chronicling impoverished farmers. Her book wasn’t published until the year before she died. In 2004. She would be a household name if not for the theft.”

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Fuck you, Steinbeck. (via theangelofbucephalon)

Steinbeck based his book on reports made by Sanora Babb (leaked to him by her boss, Tom Collins, to whom Grapes of Wrath is dedicated). Sanora Babb was planning to write her own book, but Steinbeck published before she did. Babb was told that the market could not bear another on the same subject. Her book, ‘Whose Names are Unknown’, was finally published in 2004. I haven’t read either book yet, but am now definitely going to be reading ‘Whose Names are Unknown’ soon.
Babb’s novel is described as showing how by re-creating rudimentary democratic practices the refugees restructure their lives as a unified community, resisting violent discrimination. In ‘Whose Names are Unknown’, we hear the whole powerful story from the point of view of a woman who had actual experience with both the origin and the destination of the migrants.

Sanora Babb was a member of the US Communist Party in the 1930s and 40s, dropped out of the party due to the authoritarian structure and in-fighting.

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here are some sources, in case you were looking for them

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HOLY SHIT

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so that’s fitzgerald, and now steinbeck outed as thieves, who stole the intellectual property of women to write their “masterpieces”. i’m sure there are many more examples of male theft from women in the literary domain, probably as many thefts as in the sciences. men are pathetic, talentless pieces of shit.

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I THOUGHT ACADEMIA TOOK A FIRM STANCE AGAINST PLAGIARISM

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Source: tastefullyoffensive

It’s probably good that ICE lost ‘1,500 kids’

canmom:

zwischenstadt:

There’s a lot of misinformation going around about the kids that ICE has supposedly lost. I bought it too, but Arri has pointed out to me that there’s serious misunderstandings being passed around social media.

– The 1,500 ‘missing kids’ number does not come from families separated at the border. Rather, it comes from children released back from custody to their families, who are not obliged to then tell ICE their whereabouts. This is good. ICE shouldn’t know their whereabouts

– Families that have actually kept ICE updated about their whereabouts have often been mass deported. ICE is intentionally trying to trick these families into getting themselves deported

– The Office of Refugee Resettlement is currently run by a fascist religious psychopath who’s trying to use this narrative to gain more power over refugees

– There has been an escalating policy of separating kids from families by ICE over the past decade, and Jeff Sessions wants to increase the frequency with which this happens. The information being published about this, especially from the ACLU, is legit.

If you want to read analyses of this from actual immigration lawyers:
Tina Vasquez

Josie Duffy Rice

Additional thread by the mentioned Josie Duffy Rice clarifying the situation

beejohnlocked:

superblyboring:

robotlyra:

Me: *watching* What the hell is the point of th- OH MY GOD

I thought this caption was being over the top, but… they aren’t wrong

I was not prepared for any of this. But least of all, the fucking parachute.

justcatposts:

Cat catcher

brisbone:

I just bought plantains at the store and the cashier was like “u know these aren’t bananas right” and I said yes and then she rang them in as Bok Choy.

mudwerks:

alien seed pod

Source: srsfunny

kingjaffejoffer:

wholesome memes

Source: positive-memes

fierceawakening:

xenoqueer:

justonepurpose:

deetzcourse:

legsdemandias:

“cishet aces are are the biggest biphobes”

Ah yes. I remember when ~cishet~ aces started bi discourse in 2013–those DARN cishet aces, they just have a STRANGLE HOLD on the community.

i dont have to remember cishet aces making young bisexuals, most of whom are still trying to figure themselves out, afraid of LG people and afraid they’ll lose their community because it’s literally Happening Right Now.

also when is the last time you talked about biphobia in the community when it wasn’t related to ace discourse? it’s starting to seem like the only time this matters to anyone is when it’s related to ace discourse lmao

We talk about biphobia in Ace Discourse because a ton of REGs/exclusionists are biphobic. They continue to make up or change definitions of words and in doing so they constantly invalidate and erase bisexuals and other mspec folks. There’s a lot of bi/ace solidarity because bi people have already been through the shit REGs are putting aspecs through.

So try again with your “cishet aces are making bi kids afraid of LG people”. You know damn well there’s plenty of nasty biphobia in those communities and that bisexuality has historically been panned by gays and lesbians just as much as it has been by the straights. Bi people are afraid of the LG community because of those communities, not because of the nebulous cishet aces who are somehow responsible for all that’s wrong in the world.

More of my bi friends have been shit on by LG folks than aces, or are we forgetting that “bihet” shit that went around on Tumblr not three years ago. That wasn’t aspecs. Part of it wasn’t even straights. We’re just conveniently forgetting mspec antagonism from gays and lesbians because it’s the cool beans to shit on aspecs rn, are we.

Looks like you’re just as guilty of using biphobia as a discourse token as everyone you’re slagging off.

Oh, discussions of biphobia and monosexism have been happening non-stop, on and off tumblr, for literal decades.

If deetscourse here hasn’t seen those conversations, I imagine that’s a lack of effort not a lack of existence.

If you want to see more discussions of a subject, just find people talking about them.

Well, that and don’t spend years trying to silence those conversations, remove the language used to have them, redirect all of them to unrelated subjects like acecourse and lesbophpbia, etc.

It’s not bi people acting as ace allies that are ignoring or erasing these conversations…….

I honestly didn’t realize there was overlap until I dared ask aloud “wait so why does tumblr keep recommending me butch style/moodboard blogs but as soon as I look at the byf “this is not for bi women?”

An avalanche of angry people descended upon me to tell me of my “lesbophobia,” a word I’d never heard before.

THEN I started to understand.

If you don’t run afoul of Discoursey types you may not even realize they’re there.

noodle:

hello this is a somewhat emergency! my gfs tablet has stopped working and i would like to replace it for her. i was wondering if anyone would like to commission me for any my little pony art? i can also design some ponies for you based off of themes ( like how my adoptables are )

alternatively if anyone just wants to help out https://ko-fi.com/croagunk

the tablet im looking to buy her is 30$ but if anyone commissions me i would be able to buy her an even nicer one