nashville/queer/feminist ignostic (not agnostic) sci-fi and knitting. politics and religion. time travel and typography. cooking, comics and coding. BOOKS, bikes and babes. Check out my other blog for social justice content: The Justice Link instagram:laurencampbellsoup last.fm 365Tumblr (3.0; @the-tesseract)http://the-tesseract.tumblr.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/235452876022d28466401cd0b1dda26d/tumblr_mn89nf2ypm1qcujoko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://sinidentidades.tumblr.com/post/51114620726/cece-mcdonald-tw-racism-violence-transphobia">sinidentidades</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>CeCe McDonald</strong></p> <p><em>TW: Racism, Violence, Transphobia, Murder </em></p> <blockquote> <p>Around 12:30 am on June 5, 2011, CeCe was walking to the grocery store with some friends, all of them young, African American, and LGBTIQ or allied. As they passed a local bar, the Schooner Tavern, a group of older, white people who were standing outside the bar’s side door began hurling racist and transphobic slurs at them, without provocation.  They called CeCe and her friends ‘faggots,’ ‘niggers,’ and ‘chicks with dicks,’ and suggested that CeCe was ‘dressed as a woman’ in order to ‘rape’ Dean Schmitz, one of the attackers. When CeCe approached the group and told them that her crew would not tolerate hate speech, one of the women said, “I’ll take you bitches on,” and then smashed her glass into CeCe’s face. She punctured CeCe’s cheek all the way through, lacerating her salivary gland. A fight ensued, during which one of the attackers, Dean Schmitz, was fatally stabbed.</p> <p>The only person arrested that night was CeCe.  She was briefly taken to the hospital where she received 11 stitches in her cheek. While she was still suffering both physically and mentally from this traumatic incident, she was left alone in a room for three hours and then interrogated, and then placed in solitary confinement at the Hennepin County men’s jail. She spent the next several months in jail and had to wait almost two months between her initial doctors’ visit and a much-needed follow-up appointment.</p> <p>After her arrest, CeCe was quickly charged with second-degree murder. In short, she was prosecuted for surviving a violent, racist, transphobic attack. </p> </blockquote> <ul><li><a href="http://supportcece.wordpress.com/about-2/background/">Read more</a></li> <li><a href="http://supportcece.wordpress.com/category/ceces-blog/">Read her blog</a></li> <li><a href="http://supportcece.wordpress.com/get-involved/">Get involved</a></li> </ul></blockquote>http://the-tesseract.tumblr.com/post/51126550827http://the-tesseract.tumblr.com/post/51126550827Wed, 22 May 2013 23:11:57 -0500cece mcdonaldfree cecereblogracismviolencetransphobiamurdertrans*transtransgendertrans issuestwoc<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/13e10d111e4e94789fef3b33e3335447/tumblr_mn8gwprapP1qjnlwxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://itspronouncedmetrosexual.com/2012/05/what-does-the-asterisk-in-trans-stand-for/">http://itspronouncedmetrosexual.com/2012/05/what-does-the-asterisk-in-trans-stand-for/</a></p>http://the-tesseract.tumblr.com/post/51126430872http://the-tesseract.tumblr.com/post/51126430872Wed, 22 May 2013 23:10:01 -0500trans*transtransgendertranssexualgendergenderqueernon binarybigenderitspronouncedmetrosexual<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/d2a915ba112e3241db6610dc0163c25c/tumblr_mmuwzeyVg41qa4hcao1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://shesonlylittle.tumblr.com/post/50517193726">shesonlylittle</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>One of my best boys is graduating this Sunday and so I made him a handy thing to use whenever people ask “And what do you plan on doing with <em>that</em>?” Which is still every other day of my life, even a year after getting my diploma.</p> </blockquote> <p>Also applies to philosophy :)</p>http://the-tesseract.tumblr.com/post/51126253176http://the-tesseract.tumblr.com/post/51126253176Wed, 22 May 2013 23:07:13 -0500englishcollegephilosophylifeadulthoodgraduatinggraduationclass of 2013<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/8d1dd7fa2f941f65c6793d0b9daf6d26/tumblr_mn6ekhVkGJ1rs6t15o1_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/e90c5ef5f5f30154214323a3d3102fb2/tumblr_mn6ekhVkGJ1rs6t15o2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://shitstraightwhiteguyssay.tumblr.com/post/51125693637/liorakphotography-gotta-love-the-militant">shitstraightwhiteguyssay</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://liorakphotography.tumblr.com/post/51122144897/gotta-love-the-militant-baker">liorakphotography</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>gotta love The Militant Baker!</p> <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://oopsfuckproductions.tumblr.com/post/51034468406">oopsfuckproductions</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><img alt="image" src="http://media.tumblr.com/78fdd3204e3620ed3fac7f57d582f512/tumblr_inline_mn6ejpfpvd1qz4rgp.gif"/></p> </blockquote> </blockquote> <p>This is so much better than Fitch the Homeless. Consenting participants empowering themselves and making a much better statement (I am beautiful / I will wear what I want to wear / I can pull these clothes off and you’re wrong to think I can’t)</p> </blockquote>http://the-tesseract.tumblr.com/post/51126076663http://the-tesseract.tumblr.com/post/51126076663Wed, 22 May 2013 23:04:26 -0500abercrombie & fitchabercrombiebody positivefat positiveawesome<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/3d8b32402679f6d1ab7aaadf3d9d8a69/tumblr_mn7gnki8fv1qzlc1ro1_500.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/7af08f000331bbf0881d37ae53944467/tumblr_mn7gnki8fv1qzlc1ro2_r1_500.gif"/><br/> <br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://edwardspoonhands.com/post/51086735874/tyleroakley-oops-lolololol">edwardspoonhands</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://tyleroakley.tumblr.com/post/51086326805/oops">tyleroakley</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Oops.</p> </blockquote> <p>lolololol</p> </blockquote>http://the-tesseract.tumblr.com/post/51091447855http://the-tesseract.tumblr.com/post/51091447855Wed, 22 May 2013 15:27:49 -0500atheistatheismCNNlolbazinga<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/XWgofRorqOE?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><blockquote> <p><strong>Kelly Mizrahi (and Leiomy) speaking about violence against gay and trans* People of Color. She highlights the disparity in the treatment and coverage for Black queer people facing the violence versus that of white people. </strong></p> </blockquote>http://the-tesseract.tumblr.com/post/51013557146http://the-tesseract.tumblr.com/post/51013557146Tue, 21 May 2013 15:56:19 -0500raceviolencetrans*trans* pocqueerqpockelly mizrahileiomytransgender<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/157b85b556b41e3c2ef3405a9f423bd9/tumblr_mn60d3tBRX1qjnlwxo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://everydayfeminism.com/">http://everydayfeminism.com/</a></p> <p>“<span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption"><span class="hasCaption">Upcoming Online Course - The Summer of Body Love!<br/><br/> This 6-week course will start you on self-discovery process with powerful techniques to free yourself from body shaming messages and heal your body image issues.<br/><br/> To make sure it meets your needs, we’d love it if you completed this SURVEY: <a href="http://everydayfeminism.com/courses/summer-of-body-love-survey/" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank"><span>http://</span><span class="word_break"></span><span>everydayfeminism.com/</span><span class="word_break"></span><span>courses/</span><span class="word_break"></span>summer-of-body-love-survey/</a><br/><br/> And as our thank you, you’ll get a DISCOUNT on the course when it’s released.”</span></span></p> <p><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption"><span class="hasCaption"><br/>Text and photo credit from: <a href="http://everydayfeminism.com/">http://everydayfeminism.com/</a><br/></span></span></p>http://the-tesseract.tumblr.com/post/51010567660http://the-tesseract.tumblr.com/post/51010567660Tue, 21 May 2013 15:17:00 -0500everyday feminismfeminismbody positivebody positvitysummer of body loveonline feminismsummer bodysummerbody love<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/5akYnlwubDo?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://waffledennis.tumblr.com/post/51006538527/i-love-laura-mvula">waffledennis</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>I love Laura Mvula </p> </blockquote>http://the-tesseract.tumblr.com/post/51007372959http://the-tesseract.tumblr.com/post/51007372959Tue, 21 May 2013 14:33:58 -0500laura mvulagreen gardensing to the moonbritishbritish soulneo soulsinger songwritershaved headblack is beautifulfuck yeah dark girls<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mb6jk1GQT41r9e4kjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://the-tesseract.tumblr.com/post/51006734892http://the-tesseract.tumblr.com/post/51006734892Tue, 21 May 2013 14:24:56 -0500dark girlsblack is beautifulwocblack beautymakeupshort hair<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/785a899f21959dec32d51022a1cf79f2/tumblr_mltkgmPVpY1r09o0jo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://the-tesseract.tumblr.com/post/51006439869http://the-tesseract.tumblr.com/post/51006439869Tue, 21 May 2013 14:20:42 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/18757503bca5501896dad088f2f46269/tumblr_mmcfecvlI01sq7eovo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>I want to do this!</p>http://the-tesseract.tumblr.com/post/50998867041http://the-tesseract.tumblr.com/post/50998867041Tue, 21 May 2013 12:15:42 -0500poetrypoems<a href="http://dead-dog-fred.tumblr.com/post/50923045090/if-there-is-one-thing-radicals-progressives-liberals">bread and roses, coffee and alcohol: if there is one thing radicals/progressives/liberals have failed to get right in the new age</a>: <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://navigatethestream.tumblr.com/post/50922090341/if-there-is-one-thing-radicals-progressives-liberals">navigatethestream</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>its the notion of boycotts</p> <p>you wanna know why the bus boycotts of the civil rights movement were so successful?</p> <p>because an alternative black run transportation system was created for those who couldn’t walk to work or whatever they had to go</p> <p>they didn’t just tell people…</p> </blockquote>http://the-tesseract.tumblr.com/post/50998743116http://the-tesseract.tumblr.com/post/50998743116Tue, 21 May 2013 12:13:28 -0500boycottactivismraceclasspolitics<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/6e4fb4883c50ca5d9ac1974013d8a414/tumblr_mn1xkxGTND1sny78xo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://marfmellow.com/post/50996928339/the-box-ticker-five-ways-to-spot-somebody">marfmellow</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://the-box-ticker.tumblr.com/post/50836466309/five-ways-to-spot-somebody-suffering-from">the-box-ticker</a><span>:</span></p> <p>Five Ways to Spot Somebody Suffering from Transphobia</p> <blockquote> <p>reblogging because my anons are fucking up. </p> </blockquote> </blockquote>http://the-tesseract.tumblr.com/post/50997117747http://the-tesseract.tumblr.com/post/50997117747Tue, 21 May 2013 11:44:34 -0500transtransgendertransphobiagenderpronounstrans*<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/91c857c72ca46d55c351d0c14c14a8fb/tumblr_mn5qevdm6D1qjnlwxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>OMFG. DYING. </p> <p>Who wants to give me all these babies?!?!?!?!</p> <p>photo credit: https://www.facebook.com/humansofnewyork</p>http://the-tesseract.tumblr.com/post/50997001740http://the-tesseract.tumblr.com/post/50997001740Tue, 21 May 2013 11:42:31 -0500HONYhumans of new yorknew yorkpocstylekid stylecute kidsbabiesblack babiesswag<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/665d0f5d6332b6bf5ad3ed1a397d68a2/tumblr_ml8mnthSim1rt05vro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://boyinflowers.tumblr.com/post/50639933859/jp-mika-mami-wata-2012">boyinflowers</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><span class="tumblr_blog">JP Mika, Mami Wata, 2012</span></p> </blockquote>http://the-tesseract.tumblr.com/post/50962264160http://the-tesseract.tumblr.com/post/50962264160Mon, 20 May 2013 22:12:04 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/638d5a4ca21b3af28207272d6005e2a8/tumblr_mlmnw2F3YE1qailquo1_500.png"/><br/><br/>http://the-tesseract.tumblr.com/post/50962140276http://the-tesseract.tumblr.com/post/50962140276Mon, 20 May 2013 22:10:29 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/b75f5d9f1e7fe26dee3b2dfd377c96e9/tumblr_mn2bvzFKv71qjnlwxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>MONTREAL!! No pants! 😄 (at Montréal)</p>http://the-tesseract.tumblr.com/post/50848324800http://the-tesseract.tumblr.com/post/50848324800Sun, 19 May 2013 15:35:59 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/57bfe4407c49862c04f0a7476f616293/tumblr_mn0dqlgzsT1qjnlwxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Ben & Jerry’s factory and Magic Hat Brewery tours. After many cinnamon yum yum and #9 samples, I am drunk and full of ice cream. #istoleabunchofsamples #whoops (at South Burlington, VT)</p>http://the-tesseract.tumblr.com/post/50749661303http://the-tesseract.tumblr.com/post/50749661303Sat, 18 May 2013 14:20:44 -05009istoleabunchofsampleswhoops<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/c07b7bddaff3ab14dbb40e98e6f5399d/tumblr_mmygdmyc7b1qjnlwxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Let’s get historical y’all. (at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery)</p>http://the-tesseract.tumblr.com/post/50664871158http://the-tesseract.tumblr.com/post/50664871158Fri, 17 May 2013 13:22:34 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/6f9b74e89f8e29456d16687b5d105526/tumblr_mmt7gup1Dr1qjnlwxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Boston. New York. Montreal. Italy. France. London? Austin. Phoenix. LA. ROUND ONE LEZ GO! #byegirlbye #seeyouinjuly! (at Baltimore / Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI))</p>http://the-tesseract.tumblr.com/post/50449202032http://the-tesseract.tumblr.com/post/50449202032Tue, 14 May 2013 17:22:06 -0500seeyouinjulybyegirlbye