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thecurvature:

cruelyouth:

dumbthingswhitepplsay:

siddharthasmama:

bulletinaweave:

Last summer, CeCe McDonald, a young African American transgender woman, was violently attacked in the heart of South Minneapolis. As she and several friends, also African American and queer or allied, were walking to the grocery store, a group of white adults standing outside of a bar started shouting racist and transphobic insults at them, calling the youth “faggots,” “niggers,” and “chicks with dicks”. Tragically, the violence did not stop there- one of the white adults slashed CeCe across the face with a broken bottle, cutting all the way through her cheek, and another of the attackers was fatally stabbed. Amazingly, in the aftermath of this racist and transphobic attack, the only person facing charges is CeCe McDonald- the victim. Michael Freeman, the Hennepin County Attorney, has charged CeCe with two counts of second degree murder. Because of these charges, she has been unable to recover from the attack and prevented from continuing her studies at the Minneapolis Community Technical College. Considering that County Attorney Michael Freeman has dropped charges in similar situations this year and that he has advocated strongly for programs to keep kids in school, arguing “We all know that when kids miss school they don’t learn,” why is Michael Freeman ruthlessly going after this young student? We refuse to allow racism and transphobia, on Minnapolis streets or in Minneapolis courts. We support CeCe. We are waiting for County Attorney Michael Freeman to honor his committment, in his words “to serve all of our citizens with understanding, dignity, and respect” by dropping the charges against CeCe McDonald. (via Petition: FREE CECE: We’re Looking at You, Michael Freeman: Drop the Charges Against CeCe McDonald | Change.org)

Can anyone explain to me how if one person was fatally wounded, she can be charged with two counts of second degree murder? I’m genuinely confused and I generally understand charges dealing with homicides, but this doesn’t make sense to me?

…I too would like to know this.

I have no idea. I read this story from Racialicious, and it says one of the attackers was stabbed (this says so too), and I guess they died. But it doesn’t even say that CeCe did it. Even if she did, it would have clearly been self-defense.

So either way, this is bullshit.

This petition needs a LOT more signatures than it has. This case hasn’t been getting nearly enough media attention, and we can’t just let it get swept under the rug (which is exactly what prosecutors want).

loveyourchaos:

(by lapinfille)

During November 1970, forty people were photographed at the instant exactly after the photographer said, “You have a beautiful face.” By Douglas Heubler.

parisiennecomplex:

Kalopsia, noun: the delusion that things are more beautiful than they are.

executions:

bic pen drawing by m. lewandowski

Pablo Neruda

jadelyn:

jonathan-cunningham:

weasleylove:

An Indian couple have had their children taken away by Norwegian social workers because they were feeding them with their hands and sleeping in the same bed as them.

Anurup and Sagarika Bhattacharya lost custody of their three-year-old son and one-year-old daughter eight months ago after authorities branded their behaviour inappropriate.

This is an absolute injustice and complete cultural ignorance.

Please sign this petition and spread this post around. Return these children to their parents.

Reblogging so people have access to the change.org petition.

Signal boost.  This is unacceptable.  And their visitation, btw, would be only twice a year, for an hour each time.  Two hours a year, they would get to see their children, until the kids are 18, simply because of racism and xenophobia in the officials’ ideas of how to “properly” care for children.

Mermaids (1990)