March 2012
“Rape culture is a culture in which people who have survived a violent crime are...”
– (i wish i could put this on a business card and hand it out to people who make rape jokes. the flip side would say FUCK YOU.)
February 2012
13 Year Old Jada Williams Persecuted by the... →
racismschool:
beautifulbrwn:
“On Saturday, February 18, 2012, the Frederick Douglass Foundation of New York presented the first Spirit of Freedom award to Jada Williams, a 13-year old city of Rochester student. Miss Williams wrote an essay on her impressions of Frederick Douglass’ first autobiography the Narrative of the Life. This was part of an essay contest, but her essay was never...
“You’re going to have to figure out how to live your own miserable life… Because...”
– -Newt Gingrich on what the United States should tell Afghanistan. (via officialssay)
Dear America, this is one of your Republican presidential candidates.
“How I don’t know what I should do with my hands when I talk to you.
How you...”
– The Weakerthans - Pamphleteer (via abeachcomber)
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“Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a...”
– D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers (via bookmania)
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Tawakkul Karman - coolest woman ever. →
Fighting for women’s rights nonviolently in Yemen. Youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner and first Arab woman. She is possibly the coolest woman ever.
“My wife and I were at a dinner in Washington DC earlier this year - it was a...”
– Peter Hermann, husband to Mariska Hargitay & co-founder of the Joyful Heart Foundation
(I loved this too much not to post. I think it’s good to balance some of the difficult posts on the blog with inspiring things.)
“Really, Congress? You held a Congessional committee on reproductive rights and...”
– AMY POEHLER, Weekend Update (via inothernews
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'You'll sing me lullabies in the form of your cat...
Why yes, when you sing and play my favorite songs for me, I will fall in love with you.
Skittles make me nauseous. Boo. Too bad I have a giant bag in my desk at work.
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I’m meeting his parents tonight. Ahhh.
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think...”
– Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood (via bookmania)