May 2012
Racial PTSD
strugglingtobeheard:
nom-chompsky:
velocicrafter:
pixyled: nudiemuse: liquornspice: shanaelmsford:
Is There Such A Thing As Racial PTSD?
A recent study out of Penn State University has found that chronic exposure to racial discrimination is analogous to the pressure troops can feel in combat and war. Researchers found that many African-Americans who’ve been faced with racism struggle...
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Trigger warning: Suicide
dearcispeople:
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stfuprolife:
god-is-prochoice:
patosdeminas:
A message to the feminist who criticized the campaign, talking nonsense:
The campaign against abortion covers decisions of women who had sex and then don’t have maturity to care for the child, just wanting to abort. Before you offend pro-life ideas, go reflect on the murderous ideology you support and stop talking bullshit.
That’s a laugh; an...
April 2012
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do you know that i do know?
ambiguous-transparency:
you kept telling me that i have not suffered, that i have been too sheltered from this harsh spotlight and i replied, “i know where you have been,” but you didn’t listen, because you had already measured out your degree of sufferings and mine seemed like child’s play. but have you counted bruises on your body, over and over again, until you lost count and you cried your...
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“We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky (via musingsinfemininity)
“People of color have to learn white culture for survival. White people learn...”
– Sara David (via fatwasandfanboys)
or to appear ‘well-rounded’ or ‘spiritual’ or ‘authentic’ or ‘enlightened’ or ‘hip’ or ‘radical’ (via theanimalnamesofplants)
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“There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a...”
– John Green, The Fault in Our Stars (via 35bit)
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Sex Advice From My Grandmother
By Alison Denisco
When I was twenty years old and dating my first serious boyfriend, my grandma Carmela asked my mother point-blank if I was still a virgin. She didn’t get an answer, but I came home on my next college break to find the now-infamous Grandma Sex Letter patiently awaiting my arrival, the grandmotherly cursive writing on the back of a newsletter from her senior housing facility...
“Poor women, working-class women, Latinas, Asian American women, Native American...”
– Dr. Sarah Jackson, y’all. Bravo. (via keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus)
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“Human eyes are only made to see one version of reality at a time.”
– Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys (via girlwithoutwings)
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10 Things Your Commencement Speaker Won't Tell You
pb-n-pineapples:
By Charles Wheelan
Class of 2012
I became sick of commencement speeches at about your age. My first job out of college was writing speeches for the governor of Maine. Every spring, I would offer extraordinary tidbits of wisdom to 22-year-olds—which was quite a feat given that I was 23 at the time. In the decades since, I’ve spent most of my career teaching economics and public...
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Famous
deadfiction:
She wanted to be famous.
I still remember the time when she took off her dress and told me she was mine. I could treat how I wished and my part would be to give her the world. Little did I know I was one of many. Like cheap whiskey in those blue bars where failed marriages go. I was tainted by this young woman who had eyes of fall trees and hair of honey. Her smile beckon me, to...
My little sister's advice on how to be a good...
Her: Being good is easy.
Me: Okay, what does someone have to do to be good in your eyes?
Her: Cook people your favorite food. Give people the best piece of lamb that you want. Let people share your umbrella. Give people hugs when they are crying. Don't scream at people when you don't understand them. Give the delivery guys a tip because he brought you food you were too lazy to make. Don't hang up on telemarketers because that makes them sad since hanging up on someone is the rudest thing to do. Thank God for what you have and smile a lot at people that are frowning.
Me: Is that it?
Her: That's all!
Her: Oh and get your little sisters ice cream.
Me: I figured something like that was coming.
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“It has rained for five days
running
the world is
a round puddle
of sunless...”
– “Coping,” by Audre Lorde (via jiminwestwood)
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“Salinger, I’m sorry, but “Don’t ever tell
anybody anything” is a string of...”
– “Catch a Body,” Ilse Bendorf (via clavicola)
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“And yet a woman’s weight is seen by American culture as an outward manifestation...”
– Kaye Toal (via lavender-labia)
Attention ALL females
alexandraerin:
eternalhomeinheaven:
It’s not cute when you post pictures of yourself in a bra and panties. Have some self respect.
It’s not attractive when you broadcast how many sexual partners you have or how often you have sex. Promiscuity comes at a steep price.
It’s not sexy when you cuss like a sailor, smoke like a chimney or drink like a fish. It just shows how badly you want to fit...
fuckyeahfeminists:
transfeminism:
Feds honor 66-year-old East Flatbush transgender woman: Victoria Cruz honored by Justice Dept.
Transgender advocate Victoria Cruz was recently awarded a top honor by the Department of Justice for her work helping victims escape abuse.
The feds are watching one of Brooklyn’s toughest ladies.
East Flatbush resident Victoria Cruz, a transgender woman who...
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“The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can...”
– Terence McKenna (via mounabowa)
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dopedrews:
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Little-Known Black History Fact (No. 74)
afro-art-chick:
Paul Jennings was a personal servant to President James Madison in the 1830s during and after the latter’s term in the White House. Jennings is credited with writing the first White House memoir, titled “A Colored Man’s Reminiscences of James Madison.” Jennings is also credited with planning the largest slave escape attempt in U.S. history.
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Given
mylifeinitalics:
With crisp words laid in open palms you sacrificed your heart to me. You gave me words crafted from the fresh plucked strings that hold your heart upright. And each breath, pulled through porcelain and exhaled from between seeds of comfort eased the ache at my core. Whispered lullabies and grey-blue fantasies sweep over me, lovingly emptying my reserves of resistance. In this...
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How Student Debt Impacts Students of Color →
of-praxis:
anticapitalist:
On July 1 the interest rate on federally subsidized Stafford Loans will double from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent if Congress doesn’t act. Though this rate hike will have devastating consequences on more than 7 million students nationwide who currently hold a Stafford Loan, change will hit students of color especially hard.
The facts below show how students of color...
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Undocumented student blocked from being...
of-praxis:
Texas A&M Vice President for Diversity hopeful, Jose Luis Zelaya, was blocked from the position by the Texas A&M Student Senate Wednesday night after his immigration status was brought up. Jose Luis has been an advocate for diversity, inclusion, and social justice since he first entered Texas A&M and is without doubt the most highly qualified individual for the position.
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“Anything, anything to stop drowning in this dull, trivial and cowardly...”
– Ham on Rye - Charles Bukowski (via henrycharlesbukowski)
“Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.”
– Epicurus (via philosophy-quotes)
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themindislimitless:
I was looking at the blog of someone who’s not been on for a while and there on their blog is a reblog of an argument we had on tumblr a while ago…on hijabis. On a picture. So anyway, I was looking through the notes in mild states of amusement of just feeling tired.
But it’s interesting when Muslim women- or women, in general- get mad, it’s the men who go up in arms about...
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Poem Of The Day April 29th 2012
burningmuse:
Staff note: Funny and awe inspiring.
evil-ken-evil:
Fairies There are fairies at the bottom of my garden I told the woman next door. They are cute, they are small They come when I call. I leave food out for them at night. There are fairies at the bottom of my garden I told the men in white. They are pink, they are green They like strawberries and cream. I watch...
Hello, dear studious white people who wish to...
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
cruelyouth:
Do you know why people who conduct studies and experiments on other human beings ask for permission before doing so? Do you know why participants are asked to sign consent forms?
Because depending on the study, it can be mentally dangerous to the participants if they do not know that they are being studied in a controlled environment. It can be...
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How Student Debt Impacts Students of Color →
of-praxis:
anticapitalist:
On July 1 the interest rate on federally subsidized Stafford Loans will double from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent if Congress doesn’t act. Though this rate hike will have devastating consequences on more than 7 million students nationwide who currently hold a Stafford Loan, change will hit students of color especially hard.
The facts below show how students of color...
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“There were thousands and thousands of forms of joy in the world, but that all...”
– Michael Ende, The Neverending Story (via delucazade)
Hello, dear studius white people who wish to...
anotherwordformyth:
cruelyouth:
Do you know why people who conduct studies and experiments on other human beings ask for permission before doing so? Do you know why participants are asked to sign consent forms?
Because depending on the study, it can be mentally dangerous to the participants if they do not know that they are being studied in a controlled environment. It can be...
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Ego
manuscriptsandbourbon:
You were fatboy nerdy. Awkward shrimp sticking out From a bowl of ornamental fish. An ancient omen; no one got your Elvish. Eyes kohl-caked, you Jabbed barbiturates to ferment ruin. Dark-colored clothes, darker thoughts–alone. Stick and stones in your bloodstream. They made you hurl. Psyche permanently pockmarked, A war-wound worn proud, as slime. Cruelty felt like a...
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Ego
manuscriptsandbourbon:
You were fatboy nerdy. Awkward shrimp sticking out From a bowl of ornamental fish. An ancient omen; no one got your Elvish. Eyes kohl-caked, you Jabbed barbiturates to ferment ruin. Dark-colored clothes, darker thoughts–alone. Stick and stones in your bloodstream. They made you hurl. Psyche permanently pockmarked, A war-wound worn proud, as slime. Cruelty felt like a...
Me: She identifies as a girl. So she's a girl.
Friend: But she's really a
Me: No stop
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Why The Rest of the World Should Tell the U.S. to... →
tonybaldwin:
Here are some uncomfortable historical facts that are largely ignored, glossed over, or blatantly suppressed in most American school curricula:
1) The United States government (largely through the CIA and its predecessors) is directly responsible for the overthrow of at least half a dozen democratically elected governments around the world over the past hundred plus years. Among...
