June 2012
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me: gets out of shower
me: sits in front of computer wrapped in towel for two hours
May 2012
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“Twitter is where news breaks; Facebook is where news goes. This is something...”
– BuzzFeed’s John Herrman • Making a wise point about how the Facebook IPO was really a much bigger story on Twitter than Facebook. Part of that, to us, is due to the way the networks work. “The site, as is, is great at building after-the-fact, heavily filtered digests,” Hermann explains, “While...
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“Remember? Remember how our president gave speeches shortly thereafter about...”
– Read the whole thing at The Abortioneers here. (via hellyeahscarleteen)
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I JUST WANT TO BUY FUCKING CORNFLAKES I CANNOT...
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Hey, Men, I'm Funnier Than You →
Oh, great! Let’s talk some more about how women aren’t funny. Science has performed yet another study of terrible people, and—surprise!—unearthed terrible results: Apparently women in the workplace are incapable of making funny jokes. Men’s jokes, on the other hand, receive laughs 90% of the time. The reason? Well, science checked with conventional wisdom, and conventional...
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Bisexual Tumblrs
safespacenetwork:
Here’s just a quick list of a few (not all)of bisexual tumblrs we made up for someone last February, most of which have been around for quite a while.
http://bidyke.tumblr.com Important!
http://thebiblog.tumblr.com
http://fuckyeahbigirls.tumblr.com
http://finebime.tumblr.com
http://bisexualme.tumblr.com
http://fuckyeahbisexualityisawesome.tumblr.com
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“Many people still confuse ‘attachment’ with ‘love.’ Attachments are about fear...”
– Yasmin Mogahed (via nirvikalpa)
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Get your summer reading list together!!
zombifuntime:
Half.com is offering FREE SHIPPING on all of its books via code FREESHIP! (You have to buy at least $10 of books and can take off a max of $25 for shipping- but most of the cost on Half.com is shipping, so this is an amazing code!)
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“Masturbation is a meditation on self-love. So many of us are afflicted with...”
– Betty Dodson (via dreaminginspanish)
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“Being feminine is being desired and hated at the same time. A feminine body or...”
– Womanist Musings: Processes of Feminization: Becoming Myself (via biyuti)
On. Point.
(via quelola)
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“We modern people are problem-solvers, but the demand for answers crowds out...”
– The Spirituality of Imperfection – wonderful 1993 read on storytelling and the search for meaning (via explore-blog)
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“Males as a group have and do benefit the most from patriarchy, from the...”
– bell hooks, Feminism is for Everybody (via poeticallyspeaking13)
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“You are the universe, expressing itself as a human for a little while”
– Eckhart Tolle [via: wakeupandbefree] (via monamade)
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SIGNAL BOOST: HELP ME CREATE THE NON-FETISH POC... →
fuckyeahfeminists:
strugglingtobeheard:
navigatethestream:
okay y’all, here’s the deal.
i’m basically working on a list of POC photo/media blogs that acknowledge the source of the content they reblog/recieve and are not out to turn subjects into fetishes.
what do i mean by this?/ give me an example
take the tumblr 18° 15’ N, 77° 30’ W for example, a blog that reblogs and posts a lot of...
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“Do not assume that gender politics or feminist concerns come in neat and...”
– How Not to Study Gender in the Middle East by Maya Mikdashi (via bad-dominicana)
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bankuei:
liquornspice:
You can’t constantly name-drop Black scholars while mischaracterizing their work to legitimize your ahistorical, fallacious thought-vomit AND continuously claim racist ownership of our language, style, FACES and expect me not to punch you in the fucking face with a brick wall. irnv?L’nv’orihv’/wkl’Ae/jkbbv;jksdbv;/JKS!!!!!!!!
Appropriation. Everything is the “New...
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“I don’t think it’s terribly controversial to note that women, from a young age,...”
– Jennifer duBois, Writing Across Gender (via florida-uterati)
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Sombrero Lawn Mowing Pledges & “Conquistadors and... →
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“Good science is more like Proust than Mr. Popper’s Penguins; its stories startle...”
– The New Yorker’s Adam Gopnik critiques Jonathan Gottschall’s The Storytelling Animal (via explore-blog)
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“Free speech as a legal concept only guarantees you the right to speak. It...”
– “Not Okay”: MovieBob on Sexism and Harassment in Nerd Culture. (via jerrymuffinbutt)
always relevant
(via lettherebecramp)
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The Top 6 Reasons Why You Should Hate Dan Savage
forgetpolitics:
1. Dan Savage hates trans people and uses transphobic slurs.
“Children have a right to some stability and constancy from the adults in their lives. Perhaps I’m a transphobic bigot, but I honestly think waiting a measly 36 months to cut your dick is a sacrifice any father should be willing to make for his 15-year-old son. Call me old-fashioned.
Unfortunately, your ex wasn’t...
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“Gaslighting is a term, often used by mental health professionals, to describe...”
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WatchThe Big Picture: Bob Takes on Nerd Sexism
