May 2013
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“So there must have been dozens of times that the word “nigger” was spoken in...”
– Gloria Naylor
I had to read her essay for English(that she wrote in 1986). A classy way to describe the word nigger and how it was/is used in the African American community. I respect that her mother kept the negative connotations from her as a child until necessary that she know, but with that...
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“More girls have been killed in the last FIFTY years, precisely because they were...”
– Nicholas Kristof, Half the Sky
Read that AGAIN.
(via kateoplis)
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jebiwonkenobi:
When I was little I thought being an adult meant not having a bed time but I’ve come to realize that it just means being in charge of my own bed time and it turns out that I am not equipped to handle that responsibility.
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daniellemertina:
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nomadmanifesto:
teen girls are so lovely, they’re so honest and bashful and enthusiastic but afraid and eager and wild and desperate. my little sister’s friends are over and they ask me to do their makeup and hair and i love them so much omg. teen girls are the best.
Have you ever been to a high school?
well at one point i went to high school and was a...
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roseisreturning:
mermaids don’t have thigh gaps but they can still lure men to their deaths
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shannananan:
mercimonamie:
i fell in love with him like ketchup falls out of a bottle: slowly, and then all at once.
oh my god you managed to one up john green.
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au where gatsby and nick get married and gatsby’s vows are all addressed to old sport and when the preacher asks if he takes nicholas carraway to be his lawfully wedded husband, gatsby just stands there in confusion for a few minutes and eventually confesses that he has no idea who nicholas carraway is he’s here to marry old sport
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kauvera:
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demeaniac:
STOP SCROLLING
straighten your back, mate
NOW GO ON
woah thanks i really needed that today
tumblr user demeaniac doing little favors for tumblr one post at a time
FUCK THIS POST HAS SHOWED UP LIKE 10 TIMES TODAY AND I HAVE BEEN HUNCHED OVER EVERY FUCKING TIME
PLEASE KEEP THIS GOING it is the best reminder for me ever...
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“[Obama’s] words will be little consolation for 8-year-old Nabila, who, on Oct....”
– The Forgotten Victims of Obama’s Drone War (via theamericanbear)
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trigger-incoming:
This website is like a suicide hotline but with text chat instead. I would appreciate it if you guys helped spread the word.
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Eating dinner with three strangers. Two of us are women, the other two are men. One of the guys brought up abortion (WHY?) and kept talking about how Jane Roe is now pro-life (WHICH IS TOTALLY IRRELEVANT SINCE ROE V WADE WASN’T EVEN ABOUT HER) and he kept saying that Roe v Wade was the beginning of women’s autonomy and abortion hardly existed before then (LOL). He also thought Roe v...
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John Green: I fell in love the way you fall asleep; slowly, then all at once.
John Green: Chicken nuggets are like my family.
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daniellemertina:
wretchedoftheearth:
it sucks because i hate the death penalty is very racist in practice and obviously innocent people have been executed but in theory i do support it
before i knew how classist and racist the death penalty (and the entire criminal justice system is) i supported the death penalty. the idea that murderers (and imo rapists) should die sounds good to me. but in...
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Shawn (Jay-Z) Carter Offers College Scholarship... →
The Shawn Carter Scholarship Foundation is unique in that it offers scholarships to single mothers, children who attend alternative schools, students who have earned a GED, students with grade point averages of 2.0 and students who have previously been incarcerated, etc., but desire a higher educational opportunity.
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