June 2012
"Nobody Cared, Nobody Did Anything:" The...
peopleofcolor:
In the summer of 2004, while working as a producer for CBC News Sunday, I undertook a road trip to research Traces of Missing Women. My intent was to gather memories of Indigenous women who had been murdered or disappeared and create a video collage of images and words spoken by mothers, daughters, aunties, sisters and other loved ones to bring some light to a subject that had...
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amazing and necessary post is amazing and...
coldbitterness:
saschaeatsteeth:
boyprincessdiaries:
[Trigger warning: Emotional manipulation, revenge, abuse]
abetteryear:
elfstaranymore:
boyprincessdiaries:
I Am The Dandy Highwayman: True Facts Your Abusers Don’t Want You to Know:
boyprincessdiaries:
You have inherent worth. You don’t have to do anything to prove it, just existing is enough.
You deserve love, support and...
it legit kind of annoys me when people romanticize...
missvoltairine:
like I mean yeah of course a lot of thought and planning and history goes into my work, particularly autobiographical stuff, which tends to make up the majority of my work.
But you know what else goes into it? Years of education and practice and building concrete marketable skill.
Any kind of creative work is like… 20% raw inspiration at the VERY most.
The rest is skill and...
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“You guys, ladies suck at technology and the New York Times is ON IT.
Radia...”
– Xeni on : NYT -“MEN invented the internet” (via wilwheaton)
Seriously?
Go read this article, but keep away from sharp objects. Because when it comes to ignoring the contributions of a generation of overlooked female computer scientists (including people like my mom), the New York Times is ON IT.
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there's our catastrophe: Work is its own cure. You... →
zincfingers:
ourcatastrophe:
sort of re: this thread.
I dunno man, I don’t like these assertions that if you fixed your mental health problems with effort and discipline and medical advice then they must not have been very serious to begin with, that if you were truly crazy you would not be able to take any steps to improve your situation, only to ameliorate it around the edges.
it’s true...
Eight-millimeter event horizon: shaving23spiders:... →
zincfingers:
dissonancengine:
shaving23spiders:
boozledorf:
yufeelme:
don’t trust anyone with a strong negative opinion on rap music
I sense a contradiction in terms.
“Music” implies change in some sort of pitch. ”Rap” implies a lack thereof. Therefore, “Rap music” is an oxymoron. If you remove the “oxy”, you get the kind of people that like rap music.
Hey dude you dropped your...
shaving23spiders:
boozledorf:
yufeelme:
don’t trust anyone with a strong negative opinion on rap music
I sense a contradiction in terms.
“Music” implies change in some sort of pitch. ”Rap” implies a lack thereof. Therefore, “Rap music” is an oxymoron. If you remove the “oxy”, you get the kind of people that like rap music.
Hey dude you dropped your fedora
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My favorite otherkin #1
Elves and fairies
A casual observer of otherkin might come to the conclusion that these are basically the same thing. While it’s true that on the surface they both resemble beings with a neurotic desire to be viewed as beautiful, powerful, dangerous, and old as balls, there are some important differences.
1. You can only be an elf if you have read everything JRR Tolkien ever shitted out....
God: *creates the human butt*
God: Oh they are gonna love this
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