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arishako: The Wretched of the Earth: fuckyeahcracker: native-detroiter: satanic2chainz:...

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:14:14 -0500

The Wretched of the Earth: fuckyeahcracker: native-detroiter: satanic2chainz: wearebecauseiam: I…

fuckyeahcracker:

native-detroiter:

satanic2chainz:

wearebecauseiam:

I just wanna say that if someone made a whitepeoplemeet.com and had tv commercials for it, we’d be called racist lol.

its called okcupid, march.com, etc. there are white people on black people meet. no one’s gonna arrest you if you sign up.

Yup, here are some studies on white racist dating sites

On Dating Sites: Fewer than 7% of men stated a racial preference for Black women. Okcupid proclaims explicitly based on messaging patterns “racism is alive and well”

Dating sites are not PoC friendly hence safe spaces such as “Blackpeoplemeet”

Clearly there already are websites for only white people when 93% of users don’t want to date Black women :)

Overwhelming majority of American dating sites proves people do NOT like to date POC (TIME article), specifically BLACK WOMEN AND ASIAN MEN

(information from knowledgeequalsblackpower)

Try again, white people. Just like with the BET whine y’all do, you don’t realize you own and dominate everything, you just don’t call it “white” whatever— you don’t have to. Racists stats prove it.

I love her, and that’s the beginning and end of everything.

Sun, 19 May 2013 03:59:09 -0500

I love her, and that’s the beginning and end of everything.

buck-barnes: i wish there was a non-assholeish way to say “our friendship has run it’s course, you...

Sun, 19 May 2013 03:22:44 -0500

buck-barnes:

i wish there was a non-assholeish way to say “our friendship has run it’s course, you make me uncomfortable with your feelings and a lot of shit you do pisses me off bye”

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Sun, 19 May 2013 03:00:12 -0500

"Yes, false rape accusations happen. Run the protocol anyway. I’ve heard that perhaps the military..."

Sun, 19 May 2013 02:42:34 -0500

“Yes, false rape accusations happen. Run the protocol anyway. I’ve heard that perhaps the military has the highest number of ‘em. True or not, RUN THE PROTOCOL ANYWAY. Because in 15 years of investigating rape accusations, I can count those that panned out as false on one hand. Meanwhile, the one time I almost skipped the protocol, the one time I almost didn’t believe a petty officer, because I was naive as an investigator and a young woman, because her commanding officer described her as “a party girl, always late, always out drinking, don’t bother with this one”, she turned out to be the victim of one of the most brutal assaults I’ve ever investigated. She shouldn’t have still been -alive-, let alone up and making the accusation. So let me repeat: five false accounts in fifteen years. And one time I almost failed a woman ‘cause of the bullshit way it’s normal to talk about us. Take your shipmates’ word, and then run the protocol. Every. Single. Time.”

- - JAG lawyer, speaking to my husband’s plant during Sexual Assault Prevention Month. (via circusbones)

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Sun, 19 May 2013 02:35:53 -0500

steffalopod: basically gay marriage should be legal but it’s basically the least pressing queer...

Sun, 19 May 2013 00:16:54 -0500

steffalopod:

basically gay marriage should be legal but it’s basically the least pressing queer issue there is. coincidentally it’s the one that allies care most about. haha ok come back to me when you care about the rates of homelessness and violence and suicide among queer youth

Because of the Times

Sun, 19 May 2013 00:09:40 -0500

makingfists:

It’s like this…

You’re fourteen and you’re reading Larry Niven’s “The Protector” because it’s your father’s favorite book and you like your father and you think he has good taste and the creature on the cover of the book looks interesting and you want to know what it’s about. And in it the female character does something better than the male character - because she’s been doing it her whole life and he’s only just learned - and he gets mad that she’s better at it than him. And you don’t understand why he would be mad about that, because, logically, she’d be better at it than him. She’s done it more. And he’s got a picture of a woman painted on the inside of his spacesuit, like a pinup girl, and it bothers you.

But you’re fourteen and you don’t know how to put this into words.

And then you’re fifteen and you’re reading “Orphans of the Sky” because it’s by a famous sci-fi author and it’s about a lost generation ship and how cool is that?!? but the women on the ship aren’t given a name until they’re married and you spend more time wondering what people call those women up until their marriage than you do focusing on the rest of the story. Even though this tidbit of information has nothing to do with the plot line of the story and is only brought up once in passing.

But it’s a random thing to get worked up about in an otherwise all right book.

Then you’re sixteen and you read “Dune” because your brother gave it to you for Christmas and it’s one of those books you have to read to earn your geek card. You spend an entire afternoon arguing over who is the main character - Paul or Jessica. And the more you contend Jessica, the more he says Paul, and you can’t make him see how the real hero is her. And you love Chani cause she’s tough and good with a knife, but at the end of the day, her killing Paul’s challengers is just a way to degrade them because those weenies lost to a girl.

Then you’re seventeen and you don’t want to read “Stranger in a Strange Land” after the first seventy pages because something about it just leaves a bad taste in your mouth. All of this talk of water-brothers. You can’t even pin it down.

And then you’re eighteen and you’ve given up on classic sci-fi, but that doesn’t stop your brother or your father from trying to get you to read more.

Even when you bring them the books and bring them the passages and show them how the authors didn’t treat women like people.

Your brother says, “Well, that was because of the time it was written in.”

You get all worked up because these men couldn’t imagine a world in which women were equal, in which women were empowered and intelligent and literate and capable.

You tell him - this, this is science fiction. This is all about imagining the world that could be and they couldn’t stand back long enough and dare to imagine how, not only technology would grow in time, but society would grow.

But he blows you off because he can’t understand how it feels to be fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen and desperately wanting to like the books your father likes, because your father has good taste, and being unable to, because most of those books tell you that you’re not a full person in ways that are too subtle to put into words. It’s all cognitive dissonance: a little like a song played a bit out of tempo - enough that you recognize it’s off, but not enough to pin down what exactly is wrong.

And then one day you’re twenty-two and studying sociology and some kind teacher finally gives you the words to explain all those little feelings that built and penned around inside of you for years.

It’s like the world clicking into place.

And that’s something your brother never had to struggle with.

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Sat, 18 May 2013 04:17:32 -0500

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Fri, 17 May 2013 14:51:17 -0500

wugs: justremovethearrow: goodmessagepussy: I’m going to say this once and only once. Not...

Fri, 17 May 2013 13:55:30 -0500

wugs:

justremovethearrow:

goodmessagepussy:

I’m going to say this once and only once.

Not everything needs to be dubstep.

ONCE- AND ONLY ONCE- AND ONLY ONCE- AND ONLY ONCE- AND ONLY

NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT

“not everything needs to be-“

.

WUB WUB WIWIWIWIWIWIWIWIWIWIWIWIWIWI WUUUB WUUUUB

oh my god

hellotailor: rubdown: lovelymoonbeams: stunningpicture: ‘Caus...

Fri, 17 May 2013 13:30:13 -0500

hellotailor:

rubdown:

lovelymoonbeams:

stunningpicture:

‘Cause people seem to only post the 20-something Audrey Hepburn

this is genuinely the first photo i’ve seen of her looking older

I didn’t know Audrey Hepburn grew old into a bomb-ass old lady until like, last year. I thought she died young cuz that’s the only pictures I’ve ever seen.

omg

whodidthistoyou: A Man/Me/Then Jim - Rilo Kiley

Fri, 17 May 2013 13:14:50 -0500

whodidthistoyou:

A Man/Me/Then Jim - Rilo Kiley

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Fri, 17 May 2013 13:02:53 -0500

Glendora by Rilo Kileyfrom The Initial Friend EP (2000)

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:52:45 -0500

Glendora by Rilo Kiley
from The Initial Friend EP (2000)

headlikeanorange: A male Six-plumed Bird-of-Paradise tidies up...

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:46:06 -0500

headlikeanorange:

A male Six-plumed Bird-of-Paradise tidies up his display area and tries to attract a female.

specialist-: DEMONS | SLEIGH BELLS

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:30:46 -0500

specialist-:

DEMONS | SLEIGH BELLS

hometown-unicorn: My eye caught a dark form lying on the river...

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:29:27 -0500

hometown-unicorn:

My eye caught a dark form lying on the river bottom. It took me a few moments to comprehend what I had stumbled upon. Lying peacefully in the shallow waters of the river, only a few meters from shore, was a full-grown cougar. The contrast between the serenity of the scene I was witnessing and what must have played out here in the cougar’s final moments made me shiver. It was the first shiver of many, as I stripped down and waded out into the icy water to get this shot. x

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Fri, 17 May 2013 12:24:50 -0500

If grandmothers around the world had a rallying cry, it would...

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:23:36 -0500

If grandmothers around the world had a rallying cry, it would probably sound something like “You need to eat!”

Photographer Gabriele Galimberti’s grandmother said something similar to him before one of his many globetrotting work trips. To ensure he had at least one good meal, she prepared for him a dish of ravioli before he departed on one of his adventures.

“In that occasion I said to my grandma ‘You know, Grandma, there are many other grandmas around the world and most of them are really good cooks,” Galimberti wrote via email. “I’m going to meet them and ask them to cook for me so I can show you that you don’t have to be worried for me and the food that I will eat!’ This is the way my project was born!”

The project, “Delicatessen With Love”, took Galimberti to 58 countries where he photographed grandmothers with both the ingredients and finished signature dishes.

Galimberti said many of the subjects for the project were selected serendipitously, picked while he was working on a project about couch surfing that explored the global phenomenon of staying in other people’s houses. Since Galimberti never slept in hotels while working on the project, he was able to come into contact with people who introduced him to grandmothers in the area.

Galimberti acted as photographer and stylist during each shoot with the grandmothers, taking a portrait of both the women and the food they made for him.

From top to bottom:

Inara Runtule, 68, Kekava, Latvia. Silke (herring with potatoes and cottage cheese).

Grace Estibero, 82, Mumbai, India. Chicken vindaloo.

Susann Soresen, 81, Homer, Alaska. Moose steak.

Serette Charles, 63, Saint-Jean du Sud, Haiti. Lambi in creole sauce.

The photographer’s grandmother Marisa Batini, 80, Castiglion Fiorentino, Italy. Swiss chard and ricotta Ravioli with meat sauce.

Normita Sambu Arap, 65, Oltepessi (Masaai Mara), Kenya. Mboga and orgali (white corn polenta with vegetables and goat).

Julia Enaigua, 71, La Paz, Bolivia. Queso Humacha (vegetables and fresh cheese soup).

Fifi Makhmer, 62, Cairo, Egypt. Kuoshry (pasta, rice and legumes pie).

Isolina Perez De Vargas, 83, Mendoza, Argentina. Asado criollo (mixed meats barbecue).

Bisrat Melake, 60, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Enjera with curry and vegetables.