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portraitsofboston: “What is the most important lesson you have learned in your life?” “That there...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 03:02:24 +0200

“What is the most important lesson you have learned in your life?”

“That there are still lessons to learn.”

burn-thenightaway: pondermoofin: watchtheskytonight: purplesma...

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 19:20:29 +0200

pondermoofin:

watchtheskytonight:

purplesmauge:

crowleysdelicateass:

popsible:

I love this new trend of actresses calling reporters out on their bullshit.

Can I just, Renner’s face is the second and third frames. He’s so disappointe in the male race at that moment. And so proud of Scarlett.

Scarlett Johansen, you are badass.

Bless her.

Four for you, Scarlett! You go, Scarlett!

Forever reblog this damn woman.

"Students of color are allowed to enter the classroom but never on an equal footing. When they walk..."

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 14:40:04 +0200

“Students of color are allowed to enter the classroom but never on an equal footing. When they walk in, they are subject to the same racial stereotypes and expectations that exist in the larger society. Students of color do not have the advantage of walking into a classroom as individuals; they walk in as black, brown, or red persons with all the connotations such racialization raises in the classroom. They do not walk into a classroom where the curriculum embraces their histories. They walk into a classroom where their histories and cultures are distorted, where they feel confused about their own identities, vulnerabilities, and oppressions. There is no level of liberal reforms that can alter these experiences for students of color without directly challenging the larger systems in society.”

- Critical Race Theory Matters: Education and Ideology | Margaret Zamudio, Caskey Russell, Francisco Rios & Jacquelyn Bridgeman (via yasodhara)

tyleroakley: See also: life.

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 19:20:27 +0200

tyleroakley:

See also: life.

Reasons To Be Happy: Dead trees still stand and so can you. You have five fingers on each hand. One...

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 14:40:23 +0200

Reasons To Be Happy:

Dead trees still stand and so can you.

You have five fingers on each hand. One day those fingers will travel from your lap to someone else’s and that person will know all the bad stuff and still want to kiss you.

Seasons are guaranteed when nothing else seems to be.

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Sat, 08 Jun 2013 19:20:21 +0200

storyboard: For Transgender Youth, a Home on Tumblr Lucas...

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 14:40:19 +0200

storyboard:

For Transgender Youth, a Home on Tumblr

Lucas Fabray was 22 years old when he realized that he was born in the wrong body. It happened at the grocery store. Fabray, who was born and raised as a girl, began looking at the older women around him. “They were casually pushing carts, holding their baskets, sorting coupons … and I realized that I didn’t want to grow old as a woman,” he recently wrote. “It was just then I realized that I wasn’t in the right form, and that I had to do something about that.”

That was in 2002. The internet had already become the predominant research tool for people of Fabray’s generation, but it was, well, limited. Once back at home, Fabray started looking up terms like “transgender,” “female to male,” and “gender identity disorder.” What he found was educational — but foreign. “There were these few guys that were out there that had these sort of super masculine names: Hudson. Alpha Dog,” he recalls. “They were like the forerunners, and they wanted to give back and make some awesome resources. And they’re awesome! But they scared the hell out of me.”

Fabray says that at that age, he wasn’t ready for surgery or hormones — and he wasn’t sure he ever would be. Living as an “alpha dog” seemed almost as alien to him as living out his life as a woman. And yet, 10 years later, the web no longer presents such limited answers. To the contrary, it’s become a place that reflects how complex, fluid, and nuanced we now understand gender to be.

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clumsyoctopus: life rules - you are never as awkward as you think you are- you are never as...

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 19:20:31 +0200

clumsyoctopus:

life rules

- you are never as awkward as you think you are
- you are never as annoying as you think you are
- you are never as boring as you think you are
- your compliments are never as creepy as you think they are
- you are way more wanted than you give yourself credit for
- chin up, dude

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Fri, 07 Jun 2013 14:40:09 +0200

"Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with..."

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 19:20:09 +0200

“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as an escape.”

- Bell Hooks

by Jenny’s site

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 14:40:19 +0200

by Jenny’s site

"Be of service. You are taking your degree into a society dominated by concentrated poverty and a..."

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 19:20:19 +0200

“Be of service. You are taking your degree into a society dominated by concentrated poverty and a vulnerable middle class, a society where it is harder to pay for education, harder to find a job, harder to buy a house and harder to hold onto those things even if you manage to get them. You are entering adulthood during a period of mass incarceration and near constant war. There is a lot for you to do. Service is the rent you pay for the space you take up on the earth, and as a relatively privileged American you take up a lot of space. We are the most consuming, polluting, wasteful nation on earth. So your rent is steep. Pay it with service.”

- Dr. Melissa Harris-Perry’s advice to Class of 2013

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Wed, 05 Jun 2013 14:40:30 +0200

hokeyfright: people who aren’t in any minorities making jokes about social justice is like making...

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 19:20:34 +0200

hokeyfright:

people who aren’t in any minorities making jokes about social justice is like making fun of a kid for not having any lunch money after stealing their lunch money

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Tue, 04 Jun 2013 14:40:20 +0200

"Two other women, also breast cancer survivors, said their husbands left them after they were..."

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 19:20:35 +0200

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Two other women, also breast cancer survivors, said their husbands left them after they were diagnosed. Both had to have mastectomies (in case anyone doesn’t know, this is the surgical operation to remove one or both breasts).

The first woman said her husband told her that he would rather see her dead than see her lose her breasts. The second woman had her operation and waited all day to be picked up by her husband, who never arrived. By nightfall, one of the nurses offered to give her a ride, and she came home to find the house empty.

Obviously, these are extreme cases of a man’s reaction to his wife’s breast cancer, but this is what I see when I see the “I ♥ Boobies” bracelets. I see love of the body parts, not the person being treated—not the patient, not the victim, not the survivor.

”

- My Beef with the “I Love Boobies” Bracelets

christracy19: ladyw1nter: George R.R. Martin on sex versus...

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 14:40:14 +0200

christracy19:

ladyw1nter:

George R.R. Martin on sex versus violence

hero

marrymyface: bisexual guys are assumed to be secretly gay bisexual girls are assumed to be secretly...

Sun, 02 Jun 2013 19:20:11 +0200

marrymyface:

bisexual guys are assumed to be secretly gay

bisexual girls are assumed to be secretly straight

both are assumed to secretly like men

see what i’m getting at?

"Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive."

Sun, 02 Jun 2013 14:40:11 +0200

“Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.”

- Hafiz

This Is My Body

Sat, 01 Jun 2013 19:20:50 +0200