December 2010
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“You pray to me unceasingly, But it is the expanse of great bliss which grants...”
– Yeshe Tsogyal
(Have a blissful start to 2011)
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White girl: I find that women from other races tend to be very, very ugly or very, very hot. There's not much in between. Whereas white women are usually not very hot or very ugly but fall in the middle.
Me (Asian girl): Um. That's because your standards of beauty are normalized around white women. You're taught to think that way through the barrage of media presenting whiteness as normal and color as exotic or repulsive.
White girl: No, I think I'm right. I've talked to other people and they all agree with me.
Me (Asian girl): ...
A year ago, both of us 19, in a car with other people.
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So, is there a privilege-denying girl meme?
Anonymous asked: some blogs you recommend?
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-12-19) →
Little Dragon (20)
Nat King Cole (2)
Nina Simone (2)
Regina Spektor (2)
Nikka Costa (2)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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When you’re watching a dating, makeover, lifestyle, or competition show, consider the following deconstruction questions:
Framing: What narrative messages did the show’s producers decide are central to the series? How is each episode framed to support that master narrative? What do the producers (and the show’s embedded sponsors) want you to believe about women and men,...
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The Day, and Its Splendid Parts (by Toni Morrison)
Uncle Green was late so that meant all the Blue Gums would be late too. He was up from Alabama for 20 days with a $500 bill which never broke because nobody – nobody – had change and so he had to borrow whatever he needed until the time he could get to a store big enough to handle it. Mama and Aunt Millie looked at his big bill, then at each other, then at the sky that stretched overhead with...
“Thinkin wont do me a bit of good tonite / I need to be loved / & havent the...”
– Ntozake Shange (For Colored Girls)
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"I'm mean"
Me: You're cute, Señor Coconut.
He (5): Señor Coconut? Why do you call me that?
Me: Because you're cute.
He (5): I'm not cute. I'm mean.
Me: You are cute.
He (5): (resigned) I'm mean in a cute way.
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From Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, author of bestseller “THE DIRTY GIRLS SOCIAL CLUB”:
Yesterday, I posted a description of how it is that I came to be in possession of the pilot script adapted by Luisa Leschin from my bestselling novel THE DIRTY GIRLS SOCIAL CLUB, which I foolishly optioned to Ann Serrano Lopez’s ENCANTO production company after being lied to by Ann and her VP of...
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How does racism hurt white people? →
lostgrrrls:
jonathan-cunningham:
janedoe225:
Answers:
Racism sharply reduces white people’s chance opportunities in life to acquire new knowledge or new perspectives from intelligent or wise people.*
Racism causes white people to overestimate their abilities and to underestimate their own weaknesses. It prevents them from knowing themselves and stunts their personal growth.
Racism...
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Firefox backs "Do Not Track" with online stealth... →
f-22:
vruz:
vruz: the “do not track” button, formely known as “fuck facebook”.
#FUCKFACEBOOK
I can imagine advertisers pushing back against this, hard. New software wars, perhaps? But this is so very needed.
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On discovering my daughter & Basquiat have the...
She: Who is Basquiat?
Me: This amazing artist who died too young.
She: I'm an amazing artist!
Me: Yes.
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“…For we are not a nation that says, ‘don’t ask, don’t...”
– President Obama on DADT repeal
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WatchRebecca Saxe discusses the Right temporal parietal junction (RTPJ), a part of the brain w/Empathy as its sole purpose. This is the area from which we make moral judgments, and is imperative to develop in children. Empathetic children become fair-handed adults.
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A man has been cured of HIV. →
so-treu:
isabelthespy:
nezua:
Two immediate thoughts. Judge as you will.
1: Damn, I love Science. 2: Freddie Mercury should not have had to go the way he did.
holy fuck.
why is this not news? i need to know more about this.
Wow… “Doctors who carried out a stem cell transplant on an HIV-infected man with leukaemia in 2007 say they now believe the man to have been cured of...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-12-12) →
Azealia Banks (5)
Little Dragon (2)
Talib Kweli (Prod. Hi-Tek) (2)
Sneaker Pimps (1)
La Caution (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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"I'm able to make a distinction between you and me... →
Aaron Sorkin on Sarah Palin’s blood-thirsty, joyful massacre of a caribou on her reality TV show.
For the win.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-12-5) →
Cee-Lo (29)
dead prez (19)
The Cool Kids (15)
Bat for Lashes (13)
Emiliana Torrini (12)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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"If I’m eating emotionally, I’m giving up my... →
A great post on emotional eating that we could probably all learn from.
I’d add that I think there’s emotional self-starvation as well, which probably plays off a similar brain chemistry dopamine reward system, just triggered in reverse.
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"For some strange reason, industry tastemakers... →
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I hate this article *so* much. →
coketalk:
Keeping romance alive in the age of female empowerment? Are you fucking kidding me? This kind of shit drives me crazy.
Yet again, the underlying assumption here is that women are the ones who have to coddle a man’s delicate sensibilities. Am I the only one who sees that the condescension is inherently worse? Am I the only one who thinks this is a men’s issue and not a women’s issue?
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"In our lives, what we do once is hardly as... →
The things we do over and over again are the ones that define us. Yes. And I would add: what we do most defines us, whether it’s by design or by default.
Purposeful action & active choices, otherwise you’ve chosen without realizing it.
I need to be reminded to rededicate to something greater than myself more than once a year, how about you?
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Nitty Scott freestyle — “Deep Cover...
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You come from a long line of poets, some of the... →
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