January 2012
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Let's Not Forget: While Y'all Trip Over Yourselves...
rubyvroom:
As Secretary of Education in 1971, Margaret Thatcher cut the free school milk program in order to save money. This earned her the lasting nickname, “Thatcher Thatcher Milk Snatcher” http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/15/newsid_4486000/4486571.stm
She implemented the Poll Tax/Community Charge, which replaced a tax system based on property value and income with a...
“The K-12 education system, more so the 6-12 portion has become so distracted...”
– Comment Posted by Jabreel Chisley on “Youth Rights, Dignity, and the Anti-Democratic Values of Public Schooling” « Cooperative Catalyst (via adventuresinlearning)
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hollivander:
“First time in nine years there have been no Americans fighting in Iraq.”
“Women should earn equal pay for equal work.”
“Keep the American dream alive.”
Boehner
UHHHHHHHH
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Her family hired me as a maid for 12 years, but... →
rubyvroom:
sexgenderbody:
ethiopienne:
blackamazon:
stupidfancy:
Called it.
Let’s go to bed with this
Even the NAACP does not give a damn when a black woman’s heart is broken and she’s been exploited since she was 13
I couldn’t even make it through the article, y’all. And yeah, I called it, too. Ugh.
color me: not fucking surprised
reblogging this again just to remind everyone...
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“If women always seek to avoid confrontation, to always be “safe,” we may never...”
– - bell hooks (via girrrlafraid)
A reminder to myself.
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“As we mark the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, we must remember that this...”
– President Obama’s statement on the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade (via barackobama)
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“As a female legislator, I often speak to groups of women — from Girl Scouts and...”
– Michigan State Senator Gretchen Whitmer says sexism is rampant at the State Capitol | Michigan Radio (via mimitakestheleftturn)
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After a date rape (by a "poet") during a trip to... →
motherjones:
“The Way It Was”: Abortion in the US before Roe v. Wade.
“A friend recently said to me, of another friend’s photography: “She’s so...”
– -Ann Friedman, On Talent (via jessicavalenti)
This reminds me of the Ira Glass quote that went viral a couple of months ago. - Jess
(via guardiancomment)
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Fear and War: Please sign this petition, this is... →
thegoddamazon:
stfuconfederates:
appletumbling:
When Sandra Baker was called to pick up her 9-year-old autistic son, Chris, from his Mercer County, Kentucky school, she was stunned by what she found: She says that Chris’s teacher had stuffed him in a bag and left him in the…
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“Many white Americans of good will have never connected bigotry with economic...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr. (via journolist)
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Shit White Professors Say
friendlyangryfeminist:
“I am an expert in this culture because I have read a book and spent two months living there in undergrad”
Last semester I had a professor who told me about a professor she had in her grad program. I believe the class was about Chicano activism or feminism. I’m not entirely sure. Well part of the class took place online where the students would have to discuss the...
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Don't Grow Your Sorrow On Your Own.: Put your iPod... →
Opening Credits: Operation Ivy – “Urity”
Waking Up: Nico – “I’ll Keep It With Mine”
Falling In Love: Blank Dogs – “Three Window Room”
Fight Song: The Breeders – “New Year”
Breaking Up: Sonic Youth – “On the Strip”
Life’s OK: The Stranglers – “Duchess”
Getting Back Together: Felt – “All the People I Like Are Those That Are Dead”
Wedding: Sonic Youth – “Orange Rolls, Angel’s Spit”
Birth of...