cosmicmoves:

nothing–new:

marsincharge:

cosmicmoves:

The founder and CEO of Who Speaks For Me?, an organization which is dedicated to the issues of women who have experience trauma and imprisonment, has had her intellectual property stolen by a White broadcaster from Utah.

Taylar Nuevelle coined the phrase “trauma to prison pipeline” and dedicates her work to outreach and education regarding the issue of women’s imprisonment after trauma. Her work is being stolen by Kim Fischer, a White woman who works for ABC4 in Utah, who claims that she has no idea who Nuevelle is and that her boss created the term “trauma to prison pipeline” out of thin air.

Nuevelle has clarified that she has no problem with the issue being discussed but is rightfully upset that her work is being claimed by people who have not lived the experiences which lead to her research and who have no personal investment in the issue.

You can contact Kim Fischer at kfischer@good4utah.com, on FB @ ABC4Kim, on insta @ ABC4Kim, and on twitter @ ABC4Kim.

You can also contact the ABC4 General Manager to complain about this journalistic plagiarism.

Hey! This is *really* important. The erasure of Black Women is an ongoing problem and if we don’t nip this in the bud, it’s going to grow into a huge issue for this Black intellectual who is doing such important work.

I’m sorry but for a phrase or term for use as a title, to claim it’s under your ownership would you not need to have a Trademark for it? This isn’t a copyright case, it’s a trademark one.

You do not have to have a phrase trademarked or copyrighted in order for it to be recognized as your intellectual property. The simple act of creating the term makes it her intellectual property. Nobody is talking about copyrights, we’re talking about intellectual dishonesty and journalistic plagiarism. They are using a concept she created and research she has dedicated her working life to and claiming they came up with it themselves. That’s plagiarism.

please stop going on about things you clearly don’t know about lmao

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viergacht:

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THINGS MORE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW ABOUT LAFAYETTE

plumpieplumpa:

-wrote in all caps in his letters when he was excited

-slept under a tree with Washington after the battle of Monmouth, both enveloped in Washington’s cape

-basically saved the life of the Queen by kissing her hand

-re-gifted a fucking aligator to President John Adams cause he didn’t know what the fuck to do with it

-wanted to go kill the Beast of Gévaudan (some big scary people-eating wolf that scared the shit out of the french at the time) by himself at like 6 years old

-called both Jefferson and Washington on their bullshit, telling them to free all their slaves… neither listened

-actually bought an entire island full of slaves with his wife Adrienne and freed them all, gave them money for the work they did, gave them education

-last letter he wrote before his death was about freeing slaves and how sad he was that France was taking so long to give people of colour the same rights than white people

-died holding a picture of his dead-wife to his heart

-cried with Jefferson when they met for the first time in years after both American and French revolutions

-continued to fight and got back on his horse when he was shot in the leg during his first battle

-called his only son “George Washington de Lafayette”

-was socially awkward af, especially when he was young

-a ginger

-left France to go fight for America when the King, his step family, and basically the whole court told him “no”

-had to sneak out of France

-sources differ, but probably left disguised as a woman so no one would recognised him

-gave the biggest symbol of French Revolution  (the key of the just-destroyed Bastille, a prison where the enemies of the King and Kingdom were imprisoned) to Washington

-orphan

-told Washington he was his lost father

-tripped when dancing with the Queen of France and never heard the end of it

-had “sleepovers” on the grass with John Laurens and Alexander Hamilton where they talked about politic

-threw himself in front of a loaded cannon ready to shoot to try to stop an event of the french Revolution to become too bloody

-at some point, pretty much everyone in France wanted him dead

-slept through two of the biggest events of the french Revolution lol

-gave money and helped a lot of poor farmers in need

-fought for other religions than his and the King’s own to be respected and have the same rights (specifically fought for Protestant and Jewish people)

-fought against death penalties

-brought back some dirt from America and told his son to put it on top of his grave when he dies

-redecorated his whole house in France just like American’s homes

-actually told people he was American

-altogether had a slight obsessing problem with America

-had his own room at Washington’s home

-had a ring with Washington’s hair in it

-was one of the richest man in France at the age of 12 because his whole family had basically died at that point

-changed back his family motto to “Why not?”

-was only 19 when he left for America

-was detained in horrible conditions in prison for 5 years (2 of which with his wife and daughters)

-refused the hell out of several powerful positions in politic and in the army because he didn’t found these to be close enough to his ideals of freedom and shit