February 2011
One of the more important things I will ever post....
nerdypopculture:
So, many of us know of Haley, the wonderful girl that was surprised with Darren Criss performing at her bat mitzvah a few weeks ago.
If you know anything about her situation, you know that she is constantly bullied at her school. But recently, the bullies discovered that she was bi and today the bullying escalated to extreme physical abuse. To quote, “They punched her. In the...
The War Against Street Harassment Goes Global →
lettuceleaves:
Hollaback, the “movement dedicated to ending street harassment using mobile technology,” has launched in 10 new cities today, including U.S. towns like Atlanta, Portland and Houston… But also international locations, like Buenos Aires, London and Mumbai.
Inti Maria Tidball-Binz, the leader of Hollaback Buenos Aires, says, “For many of us in Buenos Aires ‘piropos,’ or ‘catcalls’...
"model" minority
izilen:
baseln:
a term used to describe Asian Americans as the “ideal” kind of minority population in mostly white countries: “quiet, hardworking but never threatens positions of the white majority.” The term is dangerous to all demographics: it locks all minorities in an inferior status quo, it leads the majority to believe that they are living in a post-racial society. The model second-class...
we too could be glorious: Seriously, I don't even... →
hotelsongs:
itsinthetrees:
hopesichord:
invisibilities:
I’m pretty sure a lot of you were too young to even remember the drama, let alone have been involved in it, but sweet fucking god she did some really suss things. Plagiarism, profiteering, manipulating fans into giving…
Sudan accepts the south's secession, wishes them... →
From Google: Some weekend work that will... →
hakimabdi:
We worked with a small team of engineers from Twitter, Google and SayNow, a company we acquired last week, to make this idea a reality. It’s already live and anyone can tweet by simply leaving a voicemail on one of these international phone numbers ( +16504194196 or +390662207294 or +97316199855 ) and the service will instantly tweet the message using the hashtag #egypt. No Internet...
“I believe, with good reason, the most unsympathetic Hollywood portrayal of...”
– Ayn Rand. AHhahahahahahah.
was Ayn Rand a man, or a parasite?
(via 3liza) AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA NO. (via thesadnessofpencils)
Okay, I’m taking an Amer-Indian History class this semester, and we just talked about this last week, so I’m going to tl;dr at y’all.
The Indians of yore did have...
“FLASH: Google says has launched service for people in Egypt to send Twitter...”
– @Reuters (via brooklynmutt)
A+, Google.
(via mohandasgandhi)
“We need to cut these things that aren’t constitutionally mandated, that are kind...”
– —Sarah Palin, on President Obama’s State of the Union address, to Fox News’ Greta von Susteren, Jan. 26, 2011. (via voomin)
Siiiiiiiigh (via isthatevenlegal)
The fluffery, like public radio and education, support for the arts and sciences, healthcare and maintenance of communities. I see. But...
January 2011
adventuresofcomicbookgirl asked: Sorry I didn't see yer reblog regarding G and T Beauty. I just want you to know that I totally didn't mean to dismiss that...I just hadn't read the books in at least five years, since I was fourteenish, so probably not only didn't notice any racism at a tender age, but forgot about it too, I will reread the books sometimes and probably be way more critical, but I totally get...
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A Visitor by Mary Oliver
My father, for example, who was young once and blue-eyed, returns on the darkest of nights to the porch and knocks wildly at the door, and if I answer I must be prepared for his waxy face, for his lower lip swollen with bitterness. And so, for a long time, I did not answer, but slept fitfully between his hours of rapping. But finally there came the night when I rose out of my sheets and stumbled...
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“Many families in Egypt are fast running out of staples such as bread, beans and...”
– (Salma Abdelaziz, CNN)
Okay so this is pretty bleak. Egypt imports a whole lot of its food supply, and people living in urban areas acquire basically all their food through shopping, so there’s a whole complicated supply chain upon which everyone is relying, and that’s breaking down. This probably...
Most creative idea ever in case your camera is...
crazi-ness:
-mariacuvos:
blackcatbastet-aka-maria:
yousmileyoulie:
instant reblog. forever.
win.
total win x)
“Many families in Egypt are fast running out of staples such as bread, beans and...”
– Salma Abdelaziz, CNN)
Okay so this is pretty bleak. Egypt imports a whole lot of its food supply, and people living in urban areas acquire basically all their food through shopping, so there’s a whole complicated supply chain upon which everyone is relying, and that’s breaking down. This probably...
