January 2012
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“You are alienating me because you’re not speaking in English.”
– Said to me by a U.S. born acquaintance after a friend and I were having a personal conversion in our native language. (via microaggressions)
I can’t…
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Where You Should Be (ft Sam Frank) by Skream
Man,...
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I love saying "Y'all" because it's simultaneously...
fromonesurvivortoanother:
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mmmmilksupply:
YES, IN TOTALITY.
*simultaneuosly Southern/Appalachian and gender-neutral
because i’m from there and i’m picky and it’s not just texan
Asfsada this makes me happy
We say that in Southern Maryland too! Yay!
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Wait, so all of tumblr was waiting for me to post...
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You, being all mysterious with your cheekbones.:... →
dalyn-aurelius:
chocotaur:
Five facts:
1. ACTA isn’t the “European” SOPA. It’s nearly GLOBAL, and will apply to every country that signs the treaty.
2. ACTA is far more aggressive. ACTA will not simply affect websites and have them blocked out of the internet - its measures go as far as surveillance of…
ACTA is really, really bad news. We fought SOPA, now let’s fight this.
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“I was a young woman with an evolved mind who was not afraid of her beauty or her...”
– Lauryn Hill (via soaringaboveitall)
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fromonesurvivortoanother:
I know an Angry Black Girl— the ghost of Audre Lorde— and she’s pissed as hell that the LGB is doing to the T what white feminists did to black women.
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“It’s hard not to notice that once the right number of white folks are affected,...”
– - elon james white, Dear OWS: Welcome to Our World (via squintyoureyes
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“The first thing you have to have is desire—and then you have to have the...”
– Gordon Parks
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“All I want is blackness. Blackness and silence.”
– Sylvia Plath (via tobia)
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“TO BE LONG, LEAN AND FITTED.”
– (via forwhomyouwish)
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“Sixty-one percent of paid interns working at for-profit companies received a job...”
– That’s Jean Chatzky, writing in Newsweek, on why students shouldn’t take unpaid internships. (via newsweek)
I respect these numbers, and the underlying message, but I’ve only worked unpaid internships and they’ve led to so many positive opportunities and paid opportunities that...
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“I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the...”
– Anaïs Nin (via fxckyeahmander)
GPOY. Hardbody.
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18° 15' N, 77° 30' W: THE UNCOMFORTABLE STARE OF... →
18-15n-77-30w:
This happens all the time, especially when I haven’t been home in a while. I’ll be in the living room having a friendly verbal joust with my oldest sister and I’ll glance at my mom and she’d be over there just staring at me. It ALWAYS makes me seriously uncomfortable and I never knew why; until…
This is really personally resonant for me. Especially the part where you dont...
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December 2011
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1 in 4 women are on psych meds →
newwavefeminism:
I hate how we make statistics say just about anything in the interest of having concise headlines. People pay more attention to headlines than the actual story these days…
From the article:
One of the more startling statistics in the report, which analyzed prescription claims data from 2.5 million insured Americans from 2001 to 2010, is that one in four women is dispensed...
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“We may make mistakes as we walk/ we fall but we get up dust ourselves off/ try...”
– Hodgy Beats on The Jet Age of Tomorrows’ “Dust Off”
Words I’m trying every day to live by right now.