January 2012
“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope...”
– Neil Gaiman (via dusk-to-starlight)
December 2011
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They criticize me, but they don’t want to help me get better.
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“Dress suitably in short skirts and strong boots, leave your jewels in the bank,...”
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Countess Markievcizv, 19th century Irish revolutionary, dispensing eternally relevant fashion advice. (via sharkyteeth)
Whoa. New role model.
(via karenhealey)
South Carolina man threw a 12-pound bowling ball... →
Rape culture is when men feel so entitled to have access to women that they throw bowling balls at us when they are denied.
cherokeemist:
Sweetest Kill || Broken Social...
billiepaulpiper:
do you think kanye west gave himself all his albums for christmas
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Oh what fun it is to walk down the street and be...
rosalarian:
A couple nights ago, while walking two long city blocks to my car after dark on a fairly well-traveled but still less savory street, some shenanigans happened.
I was initially walking behind two men who stood shoulder to shoulder. They were walking slow and I had no room to pass them, so I walked slowly behind them. The two men stopped, and stood on either side of the sidewalk, and...
One teachers approach to preventing gender...
togetherforjacksoncountykids:
“It’s Okay to be Neither,” By Melissa Bollow Tempel
Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got in line for art, and I noticed that she still had not removed her hood. When we arrived at the art room, I said:...
Watchmorethan-myselfff:
locksandglasses:monamiac:abortiaclinique:kevinless:
Kai’s “controversial” poem. This topic I can definitely relate to as someone who was told in high school that I “act white” because I got straight A’s, and in college, “I thought you were stupid until you spoke” because I’m black. (Had to compress it all crazy to get it to upload to Tumblr. It had to be removed from...
“Physics says: Go to sleep. Of course you’re tired. Every atom in you has been...”
– Albert Goldbarth, The Sciences Sing a Lullaby (via sleepinginthesnow)
“In Rome a vagina is una fica, a term deriving from the fig, a great thing, a...”
– Pubic hair as public space (via nodicesoldier)
Watchthepositivedistraction:
Dr. Maya Angelou: The Power of Words
THE POWER OF WORDS, MAYA ANGELOU
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“I get angry when I have to know more about their damn religion than they do.”
– Greta Christina, “Why Are You Atheists So Angry?” (via rev)