August 2012
“Seeing (white male) comedian say the best way to react to oppression is with...”
– flannery-culp (via feministsbakecupcakestoo)
“Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel...”
– Andrew Boyd (via coffeeislovely)
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Fun story for you guys!
I am currently in Boston. And Boston is awesome. Well, what little of it I have seen in the whole hour I have been here.
So here was the deal for those of you who have been following my visa fiasco…
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I had a plane ticket to Boston today and a ticket to Ireland that was supposed to go out tomorrow night. I thought, “I will not change this unless I have to and I will give...
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No Chick-Flick Moments: Angels and White Privilege
Okay, there are a couple of things that I have to straight up ignore right out hand in order to suspend disbelief for “Supernatural” as a story.
Firstly, we have to suspend disbelief that God would totally chose a couple of white American boys to be so important in the grand scheme of things when, Biblically speaking, God has almost always (with the exception of a handful of people...
“If society does not find fault in a woman’s talent, competence or intelligence,...”
– Feminist Fury (via feminist-fury)
“White people do not face racism. They have never faced racism. If white people...”
– eclecticspectrum (via wretchedoftheearth)
Just a reminder…
(via guerra-feminista)
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“Like, yeah it’s not considered attractive for anybody to be morbidly obese or...”
– By user Blaarghh: Idiots on Facebook - The Something Awful Forums (via bagleworm)
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There’s nothing like working in a bar that messes up your sleep schedule so that when it’s ten o’clock, you look at the clock and go, “oh, I still have six hours to get stuff done before bed…”
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deanepay asked: Did your visa issues get resolved, or are you still running into trouble on that front?
“When a film does focus on someone in a subordinate group, it gets little...”
– Allan G. Johnson (via wretchedoftheearth)
What powerful last note, “such films are supposedly about everyone or at least everyone who counts”
(via recreationalsociologist)
“A group of university students were given questionnaires to find out what they...”
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PhD. Bernard Camber, PhD. William C. Dement, et al. Understanding Human Behavior: An Illustrated Guide to Successful Human Relationships- Volume 1. Columbia House; New York. 1974. (pg. 66)
“[Flaunting a big girl body in a punk-rock way is] kind of like a drug…it’s a...”
– Beth Ditto (via pussybow) 