May 2012
Stephen Fry: What is the ideal way to kiss a Frenchmen?
Alan Davies: A French man?
Alan Davies: ..I don't know...With his consent?
Stephen Fry: Very well put! What a nice young man.
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“If you speak in an angry way about what has happened to our people and what is...”
– Malcolm X, the ultimate truth teller (via ancestryinprogress)
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“America needs an honest discourse with itself. It’s like the greatest country in...”
– Dave Chappelle on Inside the Actors Studio (via lucy-vanpelt)(via trill-scott)
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“I have a healthy range of fetishes, one of which is so unusual that I’ve never...”
– Porn panic! | Martin Robbins | The Lay Scientist | Science | guardian.co.uk (via sexisnottheenemy)
April 2012
“Here’s a window into a tragedy within the American military: For every soldier...”
– New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof • In an opinion piece on the death of soldiers after they return home. A few other key stats — more former soldiers have committed suicide after returning home than died in combat in Afghanistan and Iraq combined, being a veteran doubles the risk of suicide,...
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“Our job is not to get those people who dislike us to love us. Our aim was to try...”
– Bayard Rustin(via queerblackfeminist)
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NPR did this really interesting piece talking...
i-killed-the-kkk-with-malcolm:
and how in the 1890s and 1930s and even prior to that, white immigrants were killing each other in record numbers and it became this big societal issue. “How to keep the white folk from gacking each other”, to the point that the government got involved and social workers (or the equivalent of social workers) worked with the youth of the time, and with their parents...
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kateoplis:
“When you look at America, you have to concede that we have failed. Most Americans today are worse off than they were fifteen years ago. A full-time worker in the US is worse off today than he or she was 44 years ago. That is astounding – half a century of stagnation. The economic system is not delivering. It does not matter whether a few people at the top benefitted tremendously –...
“France, Japan and Australia rated best and the United States worst in new...”
– France best, U.S. worst in preventable death ranking (via pantslessprogressive)
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“A New Jersey ninth grader made the toughest decision of her life Sunday — she...”
– Jersey girl stays behind as mom is deported to Argentina
Time to occupy Senator Menendez’s office.
(via queerdesi)
this is me in one year
(via of-praxis)
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Music Then: Ski-doo-be-dop
Eww
Ski-doo-be-dop
Eww
(Ski-doo-be-dop) We were at a party (Eww)
(Ski-doo-be-dop) His ear lobe fell in the deep (Eww)
(Ski-doo-be-dop) Someone reached in and grabbed it (Eww)
(Ski-doo-be-dop) Was a rock lobster (Eww)
Aaaah
Rock lobster
Aaaah
Rock lobster
Eww
Eww
We were at the beach (Eww)
Everybody had matching towels (Eww)
Somebody went under a dock (Eww)
And there they saw a rock (Eww)
It wasn't a rock (Eww)
Was a rock lobster (Eww)
Aaaah
Rock lobster
Aaaah
Rock lobster
Rock lo-o-obster
Rock lo-o-obster
Motion in the ocean (Ooh ah)
His air hose broke (Hoo ah)
Lots of trouble (Ooh ah)
Lots of bubble (Hoo ah)
He was in a jam (Ooh ah)
He's in a giant clam! (Hoo ah)
Rock, rock
Rock lobster! (Aaaaaaaaah)
Down, down! (Aaaaaaah)
Lobster
Rock
Lobster
Rock
Let's rock!
Boys and bikinis
Girls and surfboards
Everybody's rockin'
Everybody's frugin'
Twistin' round the fire
Havin' fun
Bakin' potatoes
Bakin' in the sun
Put on your noseguard
Put on the lifeguard
Pass the tanning butter
Here comes a stingray (ooh wok ooh wok)
There goes a manta ray (ah ah ah)
In walked a jellyfish (huah)
There goes a dogfish (rea-owr)
Chased by a catfish (geh geh geh geh geh geh geh geh geh geh)
In flew a sea robin (Laaaaa)
Watch out for that piranha (eh rek eh rek ah hoo)
There goes a narwhal (eeeeh)
Here comes a bikini whale! (Aaaaah!)
(Lobster rock lobster-ster) Rock lobster
(Lobster) Rock lobster (Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah)
(Lobster rock lobster-ster) Rock lobster
(Lobster) Rock lobster (Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah)
(Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah)
(Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah)
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What a difference a year makes
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My intentions for Tumblr and what I use it for/what I want to get out of it has changed drastically since I started using it
I used to use it to post lots and lots of normative bodies I was attracted to (thin/hairy/white men)
I try my very hardest to not post random normative bodies for no reason now, and it’s a political action for me
I used to have mixed feelings...
“The world does not reward honesty and independence, it rewards obedience and...”
– Noam Chomsky (via thosehearts)
“A student blows up at a teacher, drops the F-bomb. The usual approach at Lincoln...”
– Lincoln High School in Walla Walla, WA, tries new approach to school discipline — suspensions drop 85% (via mchotdog)
what a radical idea yo
(via matthewdgold)
no fucking duh.
(via josipbeantito)
“When you live in a poor neighborhood, you are living in an area where you have...”
– Malcolm X (via warriorsrise)
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“Hip-hop was a problem because an underclass that had been left to die didn’t,...”
– America Is Dying Slowly: Talking About Hip-Hop After Trayvon Martin - Culture - GOOD (via unequal-design)
“The police are very kind when I’m a young white woman just doing my job,...”
– - Mary Burnet, quoted in “Trying to understand a tragedy” at the Halifax Media Co-op (April 23, 2012)
one of the best ways i’ve seen a white person address their privilege in relation to the attitude of “calling the cops” when you feel unsafe. for so, so many people, calling the cops means exactly...
“Unfortunately it looks like the CeCe McDonald case is going to trail starting on...”
– CeCe’s Case Going To Trial
Don’t forget to support CeCe if you can! (and however you can)
Oh jesus fuck.
That poor woman.
(via dumbthingswhitepplsay)
“So if you – the oppressed – hurt someone’s feelings, you’re just like the...”
– » The Revolution Will Not Be Polite: The Issue of Nice versus Good Social Justice League (via mmmajestic)
“To prevent Africans and Native Americans from uniting Europeans played...”
– William Loren Katz, Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage, p. 13 (via a-lostbird)
How Student Debt Impacts Students of Color →
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 depend on...
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“Despite the fact that white single motherhood rose steeply in these years (and...”
– Rickie Solinger, Wake Up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race Before Roe v. Wade (via thecurvature)
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