May 2012
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“If you let one (truant student) run loose, what are you gonna’ do with the rest...”
– Houston judge Lanny Moriarty • On his decision to sentence a 17-year-old honor student, who (since her parents divorced and both skipped town) has had to work both a full and a part time job just to support two siblings, to spend a day in jail, after she missed school recently. Diane Tran, who also...
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this whole being sick thing
is kicking my ass
and i have to work tomorrow
:-/
relative privilege: a few words.
i make less than $30k per year before taxes.
i put about 1/3 of my income toward rent alone.
i do not qualify for medicaid.
i am being billed by the institute for family health (my care provider) because i am financially responsible for the care i receive through the institute.
i can’t technically afford to take 2 days off work
but i *needed* these days off so i could feel better. &...
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“I am afraid that we may be raising a generation of young people who will grow up...”
– When All You’ve Ever Wanted Isn’t Enough, Harold Kushner (via ichronicles)
Less than 4 hours for the $1 Play Project →
eshusplayground:
Help put on more theatre by and for women, people of color, and LGBTQ people. Just takes $1 and 60 seconds.
eyan is a saint
or at least a sweetheart
Rihanna Does Whatever She Wants With Her Vagina... →
muckrakingiswomenswork:
z’amazing how aerodynamic and pithy articles that COMPLETELY IGNORE ANTI-BLACK RACISM as any relevant (existing at all??) factor in their choosing choices is the chooosiest, slut shaming’s mean so cut it out you guize are nonetheless predicated on a Black woman’s experiences and yet have nothing to do with how her identity calls that shit into being?? i want those 2...
Can Anyone Tell Me
eyan-j:
How the fuck Chris Katan has been paying his bills the last 10 years? He wasn’t funny on SNL. He wasn’t funny OFF SNL.
Is he a drug mule or something?
those undercover brother residuals…
i made myself a pastelon
to the best of my recollection, that is.
see, my sister’s homegirls gave her a recipe
& my sister gave me this recipe
but i forgot it
so i just winged it
and i love the end result. love.
coughing up a goddamn lung
& all i want is thai food
meh
“The key to wasting time is distraction. Without distractions it’s too obvious to...”
– Paul Graham, What You’ll Wish You’d Known (via omybestbeloved)
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kiriamaya asked: RAWR :D
How I Learned To Be A Breastfeeding Dad →
**Still needing y'all to help!** Homeless in... →
crimelapse:
tender—heart:
tender—heart:
Hi followers, my friend and I are both homless in Oakland and we desperately need a place to stay. Even one night is fine, but we are exhausting a lot of time and energy (things we’re both dearly short on) trying to find a new place to stay every single night. We’re both transgender, one trans…
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Hey, so PSA, anyone with epilepsy issues or...
goldenheartedrose:
minionier:
Because oh god.
Signal boost. Holy fuck, she’s not kidding.
out of damn pocket.
Reading about how Japanese farmers knew what the...
strugglingtobeheard:
deluxvivens:
hamburgerjack:
In both cases, we were exploited by the White man.
They profited from the knowledge and bodies of PoC, either destroyed our successes or took them over to claim them as their own.
They don’t have any fucking shame.
EVER.
Black Rice:The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas
Judith A. Carney
Few Americans identify slavery...
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next mother's day
i’m going into hiding.
i just had to cuss someone out for asking me why i don’t have babies
i can’t deal with this shit
have a baby at 15 & motherfuckers read you the riot act
be childless at 31 and they all think you’re defective
what the fucking shit is wrong with ppl?
“shawty, pop that pussy if you wanna.”
– big krit, “country shit”
