February 2012
Alright, you win this time, exercise.
A nice walk makes everything suck a little less, even when it’s as cold as Newt Gingrich’s shrived little heart outside.
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India.Aire - I am Not My Hair
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“Normally, I try not to pay attention to my haters, but this time I’d like to...”
– ELLEN DeGENERES, reacting to the group One Million Moms.
(via BuzzFeed)
I love Ellen
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Things I am over, an abridged list:
Teenagers who know everything
Conversations about white people and dreads
Conversations about what other people should be writing about on THEIR blogs
Conversations about if anyone should be policing business owners, celebrities and public servants write on their facebook pages
Being poor.
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Learning about how to fight for rights
If I started a kickstarter to send me to Denver for the Amnesty International human rights conference next month?
I mean, I’d do more than just attend. I would write about it for Persephone and Afropunk, with separate focuses about women in human rights, and how black youth fit into human rights advocacy. I would of course do some serious human rights blogging here.
And duh, I’d...
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“I have the audacity to believe that people everywhere can have three meals a day...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr. (via azspot)
See also: “I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.” from that same speech.
Dear white guy putting on blackface to prove a point about racism,
You. Are. Part. Of. The. Problem.
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Current Meal:
french bread
apples
strawberry preserves
agave nectar
BRIE
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WatchSo, a bunch of schools in NYC are getting shut down.
The thing is, that not only are these schools failing, but if you look at the locations of where the majority of these schools are? They’re in predominantly Black & Latino neighborhoods.
If it came down to school closings due to consistent low-performance in a lot of cities? There would hardly be any schools left in our...
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THERE ARE SO MANY ARGUMENTS ON MY DASHBOARD RIGHT...
I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT TO BE ANGRIEST ABOUT.
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If you are too dense to figure your way from a...
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Scruples
I just read an open call for writers of a blog associated with a “Network!” I associate networked blogs with money and potential opportunities to reach more readers. In the call/want ad/whatever they used the word “Freelancers,” so I figured there’d be money involved for writers who were up to their needs.
I read some of the bloggings of the website in the...
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The Lack Thereof: Offsetting Ignorance with Love →
persephonemag:
From the article:
Two years ago, I got this totally bitchin’ tattoo that I really love. It is a quote of something a drama teacher once said to my class. He was explaining motivation in scenes. From a passionate love scene to talking in a commercial about toothpaste, everyone has some form of motivation for doing what they’re doing. He simplified the various levels of this...
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sarahptor:
I want to take you to a gay bar.
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Why I find that picture of the little girl with...
The little girl dressed up in the Tiana costume with the actress kneeling and signing her book really moves me. Every time I see it.
There is an entire generation of little Black girls who are walking the earth right now, learning to tie their shoes and reading the Pokey Little puppy. These tiny girls are the first African American generation who will never wonder, “Why isn’t there a...
Things I do not like
glitter
getting syrup/honey/jelly on my hands
charlie brown
the patriots
lana del ray
rent prices in Manhattan
driving while tired
not being able to shower for extended periods of time
Mayo
racist gay people
homophobic people of color
licorice
benidict cumberbatch’s face
people who try to convince you to be in a relationship with them by using persistence
hotmail
having...
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Spice Girls - Stop
This song is grossly...
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I scribbled this in a notebook today
I would like to tend to a garden for you Sunlit breezy and free I’ll place a bench there and hang you a hammock Between apple & pomegranate trees I will plant a plot of my intentions And use my fingers to seed every choice And fertilize every one With the words of James Joyce In early spring I will seed bright laughter And harvest private jokes with you in the fall I will use music to...
The Lack Thereof: Offsetting Ignorance with Love →
In which my loving glow was infested by some racist pricks, but I fight back with joy and a variety of creative insults on the internet.
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“You know I’m not gon’ diss you on the internet. Cuz my momma taught...”
– Destiny’s Child - Survivor
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Saul Williams - Black Stacey
“The outrage is tiresome and deeply hypocritical, in all the tiresome ways you’ve...”
– M.I.A. Shouldn’t Have Apologized - The New Yorker
(via stopdroptroll)
or: Advertisers Ought to Apologize to My Vagina.
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College students are ill due to interns "for hire"...
wordistry replied to your post: FALSE ADVERTISING
Even as college students it’s pretty bullshit. We’re still adults who want to get paid but sometimes have no other options, and feel like it’s required to do free labor in order to get considered for a wage/salary in the future.
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FALSE ADVERTISING
Places need to use a word that isn’t “Hiring,” when they have an intern position to fill, because they’re not hiring anyone.
When I say that I am for hire, that doesn’t mean that I’ll come by and write you some shit out of the good of my heart. A contractor isn’t looking for college credit. We want some motherfucking money, and maybe *shriek!* some...
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“Fat girls do it well.”
– My mom singing along with MIA’s Bad Girls.
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grace-notes:
MIA - Bad Girls
No...
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I hate all your faces because some people's brains...
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“Our goal should not be to declare our policies as biblical. It is God who is...”
– President Obama (via azspot)
My cousin and her wife took their baby to the...
eryntherat:
Can someone in Louisville go have a shit fit at her doctor since I can’t get there.
Thanks.
What hospital was this?
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“I’m not going to sit around and waste my precious divine energy trying to...”
– Esperanza Spalding - Precious