June 2011
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here's where I'm coming from personally, re:...
youarenotyou:
invertebrateparty:
1. I teach an incredibly difficult subject to college students. When I am reading a student’s paper and trying to figure out whether she understands Hegel or not, the last thing I’m concerned about is a sentence ending in a preposition. Unless the formal elements of a student’s writing are so poor that I can’t decipher the intended meaning, I don’t worry about...
Feminism inadvertently destroyed marriage,... →
Women's History: The Kaifeng Jews →
historicity-was-already-taken:
Late nineteenth century photo of two members of the Kaifeng Jewish community
When people think about Jewish Diaspora communities, they probably think of Fiddler on the Roof style Jewish communities, inquisitions, and lynch mobs. They forget that the Jewish Diaspora was not one singular event, and that it sent people in every direction across the globe, and not just...
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“The day I stopped seeing M. was the day he took off my glasses and was like, “I...”
– my mom
apparently i was wrong in “remembering” that my mom made me get contacts for her second wedding, which my bad mom! but offending her by telling her my fake memory was totally worth it because she told me this story and i was like, fuckyeahmamaisabel.
(via isabelthespy)
Accosted at Barnes and Noble
thepersonalispolitic:
Tomorrow is my birthday but I’m working all day and I was off today so my boyfriend took me out all day long for some birthday celebration awesomeness. At one point we ended up at Barnes and Nobel just relaxing and reading and checking things out. It was very nice, until I sat down to leaf through a magazine and got verbally intruded upon by some guy who happened to be...
Moniquilliloquies.: As promised... →
moniquill:
A giant post on the nature and function of education, mostly quoted from my LJ; it started with a question prompt:
Do you think having children is a fundamental human right? Should there should be any restrictions?
Are we talking about -making- children, or -raising- children? Because the…
This is a wicked awesome post and ya’ll should read it.
Dear white people who think you are prolife,
karnythia:
When you feel the need to discuss abortion in the black community & compare it to slavery I suggest reading this piece in its entirety and then doing some basic historical research about what motherhood meant to enslaved women. Or you could just shut the fuck up and tend to your own knitting for once. Because there is only so much that the white man can say to the black woman...
So ya wanna get Barack/ Michelle
blackamazon:
So everybody with the Michelle’s looking for Barack / Barack looking for Michelle will do and be ok with the following:
If you wish to be Barack :
Ask out the woman you like bout three four times over a period of months-years, because she is that special.
Be respectful of her no in a way that is honorable but fully let’s her know you’ll wait
Have a passion, hobby, and or...
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Call for submissions: Anthology Of South Asian... →
The spaces for expressing queer concerns have increased across South Asia in the last decade. Much is being written about sexuality, rights and queer lives. Yet, in all of this, sex itself doesn’t get written about very much and there is a dearth of queer erotica from South Asia. Contemporary queer erotica with a South Asian focus would make these queer lives apparent in newer and compelling...
Another terrorist plot foiled as TSA forces 95...
theangryblack:
spastasmagoria:
iheartchaos:
The TSA has gotten hell and has stood by its decision to give a 95 year old woman with leukemia and in a wheelchair, an enhanced pat-down, which included forcing the woman to remove her soiled adult diaper. Another terrorist plot thwarted! Good job America.
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TSA you suck so much.
Seriously now, when are we going to get some...
“I began thinking about the disconnect around this seemingly obvious fact after...”
– Why the Left Has Failed to Mobilize Black Americans Around the Dream Act | TheLoop21.com
not impressed with this tactic (some are deserving, others aren’t) in the immigration situation. if you’ll notice, we’re in the middle of a “some are deserving, others aren’t” policy at the moment, and that’s...
Editor Who Blamed Lara Logan for Her Gang Rape... →
karnythia:
paradiscacorbasi:
Dan Rottenberg, editor of the online arts magazine Broad Street Review, doesn’t have any sympathy for Logan or outrage on her behalf. Instead, Rottenberg says Lara Logan is to blame for her gang rape because she once showed cleavage at a US award show.
Rottenberg’s editor’s letter, published on June 6th, is titled ‘Male Sexual Abuse and Female Naivete,’ six...
http://pastthestorm.tumblr.com/post/7052670183 →
pastthestorm:
tangledupinlace:
qbug:
scratchedglasses:
casket-case:
erikastaysrad:
this is so gross
Holy fuck
Oh my god. -____-
Guys, this is terrible. I never want to have sex again. :(
OMG THIS IS FASCINATING!!!!
MY PHONE WON’T LOAD THIS AND I AM SOOOO SAD ABOUT IT.
So that’s it? Just the same view of a penis thrusting into a vagina over and over? And...
knitmeapony asked: Holy crap, please cut-tag or something that video. Hugely triggering to suddenly see rotating image of someone's insides on my dash. And once I knew what it was it was even worse.
Real Men Get Their Facts Straight: Ashton & Demi &... →
thecsph:
clownyprincess:
A MUST-READ! This is soooo important to read, so please do so! Reblog and share it around! This is a correction of a gross distortion of facts! It should be as heavily reblogged as pithy quotes about fatness and emotional testaments of slutwalk. It is so important to be educated on this issue! There is a perverse moral hysteria at work in the fixation on this fiction...
Reblog if you want someone to compare you to a...
missrottenstein:
aladdinsfuturewife:
This would be interesting, actually.
Bahaha, this should be interesting.
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Oi With The Poodles Already: Privilege, Power,... →
jaded16india:
Numa identifies as Bangladeshi-Austrian for the sake of convenience, and works in the field of International Development for which she sometimes gets paid a living wage. She has the ambition of engaging and encouraging wider dialogue on development from a dusty perspective and hopes that she…
"The Menorah Spangled Ship," by Bertha Wiernik.
jessnevins:
Quite by accident I ran across a piece of early Jewish science fiction: “The Menorah Spangled Ship,” by Bertha Wiernik, in the Jewish Daily News, April 23-28, 1919. It’s too long to excerpt here, and and not particularly outstanding stylistically, although the politics of the piece are interesting (says the narrator’s Jewish friend, “the Jews are blundering again by joining the...
“One of the questions that’s constantly on my mind though is to what extent can...”
– Jessica Yee, quoted in The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities ed. Ching-In Chen, Jai Dulani, & Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. This particular entry being “It Takes Ass to Whip Ass: Understanding & Confronting Violence Against Sex Workers,”...
Danielle Scruggs: on being an artist. →
nolaclarke:
a friend asked me for advice on being an artist. this is what i said. i dunno if it helped. lol.
well. you have to motivate yourself. you gotta create all the time. and you have to promote all the time. you have to put yourself out there for consumption. you can create a masterpiece, but if no one sees it, you’re the only person who’ll know how awesome you are. which is fine. ...
