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May 24th, 2013 at 8:40PM

The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all … The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor. The majority of mankind are working people. So long as their fair demands—the ownership and control of their livelihoods—are set at naught, we can have neither men’s rights nor women’s rights. The majority of mankind is ground down by industrial oppression in order that the small remnant may live in ease. —

- Helen Keller, 1911

Why did we learn about Helen Keller’s childhood in school and not about the socialist and feminist advocacy that was her focus for the vast majority of her adult life? She was a suffragette and a disability rights activist! She helped to found the ACLU! She was a member of the Wobblies! She supported birth control and the rights of sex workers! In school her story always ended when she went off to college and “became a writer.” She was a badass political activist, not an inspirational disability trope, and if we learned about that we would think of her as more than just a joke in Apples to Apples.

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May 24th, 2013 at 6:20PM

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“Caught Thoughts (Tiny Story REmix)”

Tiny Story REmix by MattConley

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I caught a thought
I had thought to think.
And, in thinking,
I lost the thought
I had caught.

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Contribute your Tiny Stories HERE!

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May 24th, 2013 at 4:00PM

“‘We Have Always Fought’: Challenging the ‘Women, Cattle and Slaves’ Narrative” by Kameron Hurley â A Dribble of Ink

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I am going to tell you a story about llamas. It will be like every other story you have ever heard about llamas: how they are covered in fine scales; how they…

THIS. This is fantastic. *applauds* Also some fantastic artwork in the article.

READ THIS. READ THIS READ THIS READ THIS READ THIS. It’s long-ish but it’s totally worth it (and also the illustrations are gorgeous). It does an excellent job of illustrating how language and stories have a REAL, TANGIBLE impact on your life and everyone else’s lives. Dear sweet Christ over the rainbow on a barrel, I want to force everyone I know to read this.

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May 24th, 2013 at 1:41PM

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remolupin:

my headcanon sirius has a magic tattoo of a moon on his upper left shoulder and it changes to match the phase of the moon so he never forgets even in azkaban bye

nope I’m not crying it’s just raining on my face

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May 24th, 2013 at 11:20AM

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For those of you who don’t understand archaeology, I have made a diagram.

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May 23rd, 2013 at 8:40PM

This is a guy who, one day after a devastating natural disaster killed his own constituents, said he will not vote to alleviate their suffering unless he can inflict some pain on someone somewhere else in the country. And his spokesman defends this as a matter of principle, and uses the worst act of domestic terrorism in the history of the United States as a salutary example… Does Senator Coburn really believe you can budget for the unthinkable? That tornadoes are zero-sum events? That you can horse-trade on human suffering as though it were a line-item on a transportation rider? I no longer am willing to try to understand how people like this think. They are monsters and they operate on their own monstrous imperatives. —

Charles Pierce. (via quickhits)

Read the entire article here.

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May 23rd, 2013 at 6:20PM

Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences. (Roy Ascott’s phrase.) That solves a lot of problems: we don’t have to argue whether photographs are art, or whether performances are art, or whether Carl Andre’s bricks or Andrew Serranos’s piss or Little Richard’s ‘Long Tall Sally’ are art, because we say, ‘Art is something that happens, a process, not a quality, and all sorts of things can make it happen.’ … [W]hat makes a work of art ‘good’ for you is not something that is already ‘inside’ it, but something that happens inside you — so the value of the work lies in the degree to which it can help you have the kind of experience that you call art. —

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I could reblog/post this every day as a constant reminder.

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May 23rd, 2013 at 4:00PM

Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences. (Roy Ascott’s phrase.) That solves a lot of problems: we don’t have to argue whether photographs are art, or whether performances are art, or whether Carl Andre’s bricks or Andrew Serranos’s piss or Little Richard’s ‘Long Tall Sally’ are art, because we say, ‘Art is something that happens, a process, not a quality, and all sorts of things can make it happen.’ … [W]hat makes a work of art ‘good’ for you is not something that is already ‘inside’ it, but something that happens inside you — so the value of the work lies in the degree to which it can help you have the kind of experience that you call art. —

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I could reblog/post this every day as a constant reminder.

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May 23rd, 2013 at 1:40PM

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BE PROUD WISCONSIN

WE ARE NOTHING BUT DRUNKS

I AM SAYING THIS WHILE DRINKING BOOZE!

On Wisconsin, on Wisconsin!

We also do dairy production better than CA… if you break down the numbers too. Or you know… just try the cheese.

Wisconsin cheese and beer are both made of awesome.

This is particularly funny to me because I moved FROM California TO Wisconsin. And now when people ask, WELL. TAH DAH!!

Fuck yeah, proud to be a cheesehead.

Home sweet home!

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May 23rd, 2013 at 11:20AM

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jamesellsworth:

new favorite human being.

Brave woman to admit that out loud in Oklahoma, apparently she’s getting hate mail on Twitter now…such a good Christian response…*sarcasm*

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May 22nd, 2013 at 8:40PM

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“During the civili rights struggle, Birmingham canceled high school prom for many black teenagers. This weekend, the dance went on for the Class of 1963”

http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/19/living/civil-rights-prom/index.html?hpt=hp_c2

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May 22nd, 2013 at 6:20PM

Here is the thing, okay? Coming into a feminist conversation with, “Have you considered that sometimes women acquire free drinks at bars?” is like walking into graduate school during Philosophy finals and saying, “Have you considered that the color blue that I see may not be the color blue that you see?”

Imagine you are the guy who just walked into that Philosophy class and laid that shit down. Imagine the class full of students who have worked very hard and committed themselves and sacrificed to be here, students who have spent several years of their lives learning about this subject. Imagine now their feelings when you go to the head of the classroom with a smirk on your face and demand the professor give you an A for effort. Imagine now that they think you are a douchebag asshole, because they do, and because you are. You are a douchebag asshole because you are obviously so self-centered, arrogant, and completely ignorant of the world around you, that you thought you could walk into a high-level course with no background and no work and say something profoundly simplistic and totally unrelated and also everybody should congratulate you for having done this thing, so brave, so provocative.
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You are not asking us a real question. You are simply illustrating, for all to see, your own ignorance. You are saying, “I have not considered the implications of the question I have just asked. I have not taken the time nor effort nor commitment to sit down and ask myself this question. Instead, I have come into your philosophy classroom/office/feminist blog and shat out my question with a smirk, because I believe that my two seconds of thought are worth more than your long-term analysis, because I believe I am worth more.”

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Fugivitus: A few things to consider when you find a feminist blog (via absolutely-spiffing)

THANK YOU FOR THIS

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May 20th, 2013 at 8:40PM

Once you have identified with some form of negativity, you do not want to let go, and on a deeply unconscious level, you do not want positive change. It would threaten your identity as a depressed, angry, or hard-done by person. You will then ignore, deny, or sabotage the positive in your life. This is a common phenomenon. It is also insane. — Eckhart Tolle (via skeletongarden)

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May 20th, 2013 at 6:20PM

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Teen’s invention could charge your phone in 20 seconds

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Waiting hours for a cellphone to charge may become a thing of the past, thanks to an 18-year-old high-school student’s invention. She won a $50,000 prize Friday at an international science fair for creating an energy storage device that can be fully juiced in 20 to 30 seconds.

Read the complete story.

Everybody, remember this face.
Remember this name.
If this becomes a commonly used & highly lauded discovery, at some point a White guy is going to take credit, even if he has to word it like “Improved upon a previous…”
No no no
Remember this brown girl.
Remeeeemmmmmberrrrr

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May 20th, 2013 at 4:00PM

joannaestep:

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joannaestep:

Listening to Daft Punk and drawing some Vikings. :3

Great, now all I want is a Vikings graphic novel drawn by you where everyone burns churches and pees on priests and it’s hilarious.

I would draw the shit out of that, let’s be real here.

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