December 2011
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i'm in paris
weeeee macarons and crêpes forever!!!
going on hiatus for three weeks or so because i’m going to paris/madrid in like eleven hourssss byeeee.
“Affection is only one ingredient of love. To truly love we must learn to mix...”
– bell hooks - all about love, 2000 [*M. Scott Peck - The Road Less Travled, 1978] (via jenniferbundock)
always this
(via norjo)
“I’m also a feminist because I like to fuck, and I resent everything and everyone...”
– The Pervocracy: Full Frontal Feminism. (via filigrees)
Partying on New Year's Eve?
Don’t drink and drive-and don’t ride with anybody who does. Tipsy Tow offered by AAA: you don’t have to be a AAA member, from 6pm-6am on New Years Eve/day, they will take your drunk self and your car home for FREE. Save this number… 1-800-222-4357. Please reblog this if you don’t mind.
“When the deepest part of you becomes engaged in what you are doing, when your...”
– Gary Zukav (via streetetiquette)
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Feminist texts written by women of color →
fyeahsociology:
Feminist texts written by women of color
mylifeasafeminista:
This list is stil a work in progress, but I really wanted to get it posted. I have either read parts of/all of the texts below or they have been recommended to me. Please reblog and add your own suggestions…
Man at bar ribs cop, 'Aw, you suck at darts'; cop... →
stfuconservatives:
anarchyagogo:
A man at a bar in Murrieta, California ribbed an off-duty cop that he ‘suck[ed] at darts,’ the cop, 42-year-old Dayle Long, reportedly responded by pulling out a gun and executing him in front of a shocked crowd in an incident one man described as ‘the most horrific scene I’ve seen in my entire life.’ Patch.com reports:
Chris Hull, a 39-year-old Temecula...
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Tell President Obama: Protect access to birth... →
quelola:
I edited the original text that went with this link because it was narrow and said “Protect acess to birth control for all women!” Signal boost and sign this petition and in the comments if you’d like add something about how everyone needs access to birth control not just women.
signal boost!
“Seven states have already passed strict laws requiring a government-issued ID...”
– Keeping College Students From the Polls - NYTimes.com (via becauseiamawoman)
Can everyone just repeat after me? →
theraptorwhomurderedlove:
I do not have the right to put my hands on other people without their permission. I do not have the right to turn into an angry jackass with those people when they tell me that they are uncomfortable with me touching them. I do not have the right to continue touching them after they have told me that they are uncomfortable with it.
And can we all just keep repeating...
“If feminism is a movement to end sexist oppression, and depriving females of...”
– bell hooks (via asopo)
11 Quotes From 2011 →
think-progress:
1. “There’s been class warfare going on for the last 20 years, and my class has won.” — Warren Buffett
2. “Gay rights are human rights and human rights are gay rights.” — Hillary Clinton
3. “Today, we are all Troy Anthony Davis. Tonight, a little piece of all of us…
Esoterica: ethiopienne: are we still on this... →
ethiopienne:
are we still on this bootstrap shit?
talldarkbishoujo:
Regarding this financial aid wank going around my dash:
I’ve worked in FA off and on for like, the last 5 or so years (most recently as an FA counselor at a for-profit, at least until I moved back east and…
“The U.S. Government doesn’t drop bombs on people because of their race....”
– Norman Solomon, This War and Racism (via darkjez)
speaking of bombs, how bout this truth bomb?
(via velocicrafter)
“Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke (via troubled)
11 Facts From 2011 →
think-progress:
1. The CIA is monitoring up to 5 million tweets per day.
2. Income inequality in America is worse than in Ancient Rome.
3. Twenty-three straight polls find Americans overwhelmingly want to raise taxes to pay down debt.
4. 68% of millionaires support raising…
Something Something.. Oh Whatever.: Have you ever... →
diontheblacksupremacist:
whenever black people are bitter toward white people, everyone acts as if that black person is the problem? They’re told to change their actions: don’t let it upset you, don’t judge all white people based on the bad ones, don’t generalize, etc. Is there any bigger…
Politicalprof: Coding Race →
politicalprof:
Let me offer some thoughts about an important issue in American political life that is informed by the Ron Paul flap, but that many Paulites might not be thinking about as they defend him: the concept of code. (Note that this discussion is about Ron Paul, not libertarianism as such.)
Code means…
“Science is not “neutral,” nor is it purely beholden to positivism. People do...”
– More Race Science: They Lock Up Those “Crazy” Negro Agitators and Call Them “Schizophrenic,” regarding Jonathan Metzl’s The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease (via thetart)
this is my father’s story
(via guerrillamamamedicine)
