May 2012
65 posts
Undecided Women, Don’t be Fooled: Your Control of... →
cognitivedissonance:
stfuhypocrisy:
Women, especially young childless undecided women voters, are talking about jobs, not abortion rights, right? What women really care about is not contraception, not access to family planning resources, not social issues like gay marriage, abstinence-only sex “ed” or Mitt Romney’s 50 year old bullying. Nope – it’s the economy. Women, “like everyone else,”–...
“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)
“That means we are going to have to encourage more persons with disabilities to...”
– There are no bad jobs, Flaherty says - Canada - CBC News
“Getting rid of disincentives” has got to be one of the weirder double negatives to come out of this new Conservative ideology. They seriously think the best way to address labor shortages is by cutting services to seniors, native groups and...
“We used to think that breast milk was just a food and that it was filled with...”
– Florence Williams on the benefits of breast milk (via mommyslittlesunshine)
Very interesting…
Mandated paid maternity leave in countries around... →
stfuconservatives:
other-stuff:
Afghanistan 90 days Algeria 14 weeks Angola 90 days Argentina 90 days Australia None ETA: No longer true - as of 1/1/2011, you get 18 weeks government-funded paid leave. -added by STFUConservatives Austria 16 weeks Bahamas, The 8 weeks Bahrain 45 days Bangladesh 12 weeks Barbados 12 weeks Belarus 126 days Belgium 15 weeks Belize 12 weeks Benin 14 weeks Bolivia...
FACT: The number of students who have to go into... →
In Germany, police fired 85 bullets in all of...
think-progress:
In the U.S., police fired 90 shots at one unarmed man in Los Angeles.
“You can be fully satisfied with where you are, understanding that you’re...”
– Abraham Hicks (via terramantra)
I need to appreciate where I am. It’s just really hard sometimes.
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I feel so much but not enough
Why did I become more vulnerable as time and separation grew?
hahaha whhhyyy was I drawing and planning a letter to you 2 days before I had to ask and things ended?
It makes me wonder which truth I thought was true. Because I was worried but was I convinced I was being presumptuous, or did I really know and was protecting myself from the truth in a way...
gpoy
Watchbarackobama:
President Obama to Betty White: Where’s your birth certificate?
Ha!
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“Our work of love should be to reclaim masculinity and not allow it to be held...”
– bell hooks, The Will to Change, p115. (via tiledsarenomore)
our work of love
(via transitionsurrection)
Dion, the Socialist.: Taylor Swift hugs a dude... →
dionthesocialist:
Motherfuckers are really going to believe that Taylor Swift didn’t know what a swastika was.
Really.
That’s her actual response.
And people will actually believe it.
Because she’s a cute white girl and it’s totally believable that she’s innocent enough to not know what’s going on around,…
My name escapes their minds: When I went to Europe →
kiriamaya:
thisisnotafrica:
I have to start off by saying it was a tough decision to make. I’ve never left my my friends and family to embark on a journey to a place where I knew no one. But my world as I knew it was too tiny and there’s so much out there I didn’t know of.
I visited…
elliott writes: i think the reason why white... →
bad-dominicana:
volviomarilia:
white people food is pretty bland.
i’d be pretty angry too if my neighbor’s food was tastier than mine.
and if their people were way better looking
and their land was way more fertile and spanse
and they had hella more natural resources
and their…
STFU, Sexists.: Links & Resources. →
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