January 2011
41 posts
That moment when you're running late and you can't...
tiffanymarieholland:
either glasses or keys. EVERYTIME.
REBLOG if English isn't your first language
misstorres:
“Coming into a feminist conversation with, “Have you considered that sometimes...”
– The above is a great excerpt from a post at Fugitivus a couple years ago. The post is longish, and definitely worth a read, but this particular quote stood out.
You can probably imagine the stupid ass shit that doesn’t get out of The Border House moderation queue. ”HAVE YOU CONSIDERED THAT MEN ARE...
“Political Correctness” is a reactionary term... →
dancingonembers:
Laurence Berg, Canada Research Chair for Human Rights, Diversity and Identity, disagrees with the idea that PC language and policies are oppressive. Why? Because he doesn’t really believe that PC policies existed in the first place.
“What [they]’re calling the ‘PC movement’ I would call a social movement by marginalised people and the people who support them,” he said. “[A...
QueerBeauty →
stfusexists:
This is the awesome Tumblr community’s response to the transphobia exhibited by SuicideGirls. I definitely encourage everyone to follow.
whoo!
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That awkward moment where you have to turn your...
3patchproblem:
Slow death by carbon credits →
dancingonembers:
Indigenous peoples can suffer from pollution compensation plan
By Dennis Martinez January 10, 2011
FORGET ANY spin. In the end, the recent UN gathering on climate change in Cancún repeated Copenhagen’s failure in 2009. Again, the world’s industrial economies refused to set new binding reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, despite dire warnings by ...
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To the gentleman looking disapprovingly at the...
…”Culture and Anarchy” is a rather dull book by a fairly dull guy from the 19th century they are making me read at uni, about what culture is, what it’s good for, not a manual for poking royalty with sticks and chucking fire extinguishers at innocents.
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Muslims turned up in droves for the Coptic... →
soupsoup:
Egypt’s majority Muslim population stuck to its word Thursday night. What had been a promise of solidarity to the weary Coptic community, was honoured, when thousands of Muslims showed up at Coptic Christmas eve mass services in churches around the country and at candle light vigils held outside.
From the well-known to the unknown, Muslims had offered their bodies as “human shields”...
“…and this all factors into why i am completely serious when i say that i wanted...”
– eating dictionaries: Ginny Weasley and That Time JKR Forgot About Her
(via sevenofcups)
Ha!
tricksy-sprite asked: OH!!!!
My life makes SO MUCH MORE SENSE NOW! Especially 'cause I was like "wait, one of those interactions was through a message *mindsplode*"
Okay. Internet is now a bit less mysterious. Which is WHY it's not as cool as the TARDIS.
And I definitely intend to, and I'll probably get a recording somehow, if only for you guys and because my...
My life makes SO MUCH MORE SENSE NOW! Especially 'cause I was like "wait, one of those interactions was through a message *mindsplode*"
Okay. Internet is now a bit less mysterious. Which is WHY it's not as cool as the TARDIS.
And I definitely intend to, and I'll probably get a recording somehow, if only for you guys and because my...
“Because I’m a woman, and I have accordingly been taught my entire life to view...”
– Sady fucking Doyle (via splatterdick)
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poetry is no place for a heart that's a whore:... →
readnfight:
microaggressions:
White girl: I find that women from other races tend to be very, very ugly or very, very hot. There’s not much in between. Whereas white women are usually not very hot or very ugly but fall in the middle. Me (Asian girl): Um. That’s because your standards of…
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“If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize...”
– Bertrand Russell (via libraryland)
“When we look at what the factors are that make life so miserable for young gays...”
– Homosociality and homophobia: why the distorted rules of “manhood” are the real problem at Hugo Schwyzer (via sexisnottheenemy)
Speak it.
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Patriarchy is the problem more so than religion…
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good stuff.