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“IDK how y'all do this 9-5 shit”
- Karl Marx
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Sometimes I like to go on doll makers and make race-bent versions of Disney princesses.
Options are limited, but: black!Aurora / latina!Belle / east asian!Cinderella / arabic!Snow White / indian!Rapunzel
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Finally! Digitally made race bent Tinkerbell! Oh, how I wish she would have looked like this originally 😍 Created with Paint.net
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The signs as Mean Girls quotes
Aries: “That’s why her hair is so big, it’s full of secrets.”
Taurus: “Why are you so obsessed with me?”
Gemini: “It’s like I have ESPN or something.”
Cancer: “Four for you Glen Coco, You go, Glen Coco!”
Leo: [Cough cough] “I’m sick.”
Virgo: “On Wednesdays we wear pink.”
Libra: “I want my pink shirt back!”
Scorpio: “ I can’t go to Taco Bell! I’m on an all-carb diet! God, Karen, you are so stupid!”
Sagittarius: “You wanna do something fun? You wanna go to Taco Bell?”
Capricorn: “This is Susan from Planned Parenthood. I have her test results. If you could have her call me as soon as she can? It’s urgent. Thank you!”
Aquarius: “You can’t sit with us!”
Pisces: “Boo, you whore.”
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Pisces VS All
Libra: I dare you to kiss the hottest person in the room
Capricorn: Pisces?
Pisces: [Blushing] Yes?
Capricorn: Move so I can get to Taurus
Feeling some kind of ways about the people I love leaving SF and the tech scene, namely for Los Angeles. Half of it is bittersweet. The other half is wondering if I’d ever pull the same Molotov cocktail on my life, leave Silicon Valley, and finally pursue my childhood dreams of being a full-time writer. A poor one but a writer nonetheless. Then I wonder if it’s truly a dream or just my nostalgia speaking
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Which means her rapist was never held accountable. This post is so bittersweet.
Source: mic.com
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6 folks ignored traditional prom dress codes, with stellar results.
“I love wearing fun, gorgeous gowns like this because I feel like I’m expressing myself authentically, and I feel like I’m living my truth, and owning who I am, and sharing that with the world.” — Jacob Tobia
“What you are, what you feel, how you dress is totally legitimate, and you shouldn’t ever have to feel like you have to be something you’re not.” — Alok Vaid-Menon
“If prom is supposed to be this quintessential high school experience that all young people are supposed to be able to have, what are they doing to make them feel included?” — Renee Reopell
“I just didn’t wanna wear anything that had like gender attached to it.” — Tyler Ford
In a lot of states, high schools have strict gendered dress codes on what people can wear to prom, often policing people’s gender expressions and identities. It’s sad, and it’s limiting.
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Towards the end of Janet Mock’s memoir Redefining Realness, she quotes Oprah Winfrey, saying “Your past does not define you. You can step out of your history and create a new day for yourself. Even if the entire culture is saying, ‘You can’t.’ Even if every single possible bad thing that can happen to you does. You can keep going forward.” So it only makes sense that on her journey as a writer and trans advocate, she would eventually end up sitting across from the very woman she quoted, taking even more steps to create that new day for herself.
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i kinda wanna rebel against society but i also kinda wanna take a nap
theaffluenza
everything gets so much better after you realize that idleness is strongly discouraged by capitalism, so you can now do both at the same time
this was the most affirming thing i’ve read in my life
Source: buttify
Why I won’t be watching the video of Walter Scott’s murder
Updated 4/07/15 10:07 P.M. PST
Today, the Internet exploded when the New York Times published an article — and a video — recounting how a white South Carolina police officer, Michael T. Slager, shot Walter L. Scott, an unarmed Black man, 8 times in the back. After shooting, Slager leaves his Taser next to Scott’s dead body, calls in on the radio, and lies about Scott trying to take away his Taser.
An unnamed observer took the video, providing enough evidence to get Slager charged with Scott’s murder.
This is the story that many news outlets have rehashed in the last few hours again and again — and the vast majority of them have embedded the video showing Slager shooting Scott to death. Many articles have used a thumbnail image of a screenshot from the video. Many folks on the Internet have directly shared screenshots from the video, or the video itself onto their own Facebook feeds.
But I haven’t pressed “play” on the video at all. I haven’t watched it, I will not watch it, and I hope you will not either.
Let me be clear, I am glad this story is being told. I am glad that the unnamed bystander was brave enough to catch a person in authority shooting an unarmed person in cold blood. I am glad that this video exists so that it may be presented in court to a judge and a jury, and so that there may possibly be justice for Walter Scott — and, most of all, justice for a Black person killed by a white police officer, something that so rarely happens in a country with a history like the one it has.
But unless Scott’s family had said otherwise, that video of Walter Scott’s death should have remained for the jury’s eyes only. It would have sufficed to read text descriptions of the video, but to provide it to the public’s eye was to sacrifice Walter Scott’s dignity as a human being. If it was your kid, your sister, your brother, your parent being shot on video, would you want that to suddenly and unexpectedly become an Internet spectacle?
I’ve noticed many folks — many of them white — argue that it’s necessary for white people to see the video in order to understand the racism that exists.
With all due respect, if you need to see a graphic video of a Black person being killed in cold blood to understand that racism exists, you weren’t paying attention in the first place. Black folks have been speaking up about this for a long time — and white racists have been knowingly enabling it for a long time as well. Why can’t we just take Black folks’ word rather than have to watch a horrifyingly violent video to be convinced?
The Internet has watched John Crawford die on camera. The Internet has watched Eric Garner die on camera. They’re out there for the public consumption, and yet people still continue to victim-blame Black folks who get killed by the police. I continued to see people blame Eric’s health for his suffocation, blame John even though he was in his right to carry a gun in an open-carry state, let alone a toy gun. I continued to see people completely unable to understand the shitload of systemic racism that this country thrives on. I see white people argue that the sacrifice of Walter’s dignity was for a cause, but a cause that thrives on turning Black people’s bodies into media spectacles is not a good cause at all.
We know what happened. We can read the articles. We can listen to the news reports. We don’t have to watch to understand what happens. We don’t have to salivate over the visuals.
Please. Don’t watch the video of Walter Scott’s murder. He died in cold blood, by the hands of a system that has long been racist, and will continue to be so if we continue to view Black people as less than human — and to pass around videos and images of Black folks in pain, in death is to dehumanize them.
The least we could do is give Walter a little dignity as he rests in peace — as he rests in power.
UPDATE, 4/7/15, 10:07 P.M. PST:
William C. Anderson already wrote about this at TruthOut three months ago, and it is still very applicable today. These particular excerpts stand out to me:
"Dead Black people are not ornaments to be put up and taken down for every activist need, purpose and point. Treating those who have come before us as such might reinforce our objectification and further cement our disposability in public consciousness." "Black people whose lives have been taken become a commons of sorts: Their bodies are utilized as signs of solidarity, collective struggle and rallying points, and also as media commodities. We must be aware that this metamorphosis of their bodies into perdurable tools puts us at risk of desensitizing ourselves to their fatalities."
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What It Means When Women in Tech Are Told They’re ‘Too Abrasive’ (Hint: It’s Got Something To Do With Sexism)
In a recent study by linguist and startup CEO Kieran Snyder, she examined the kind of feedback men and women receive at tech companies. Snyder asked men and women in the tech industry to send her their performance reviews. She received 248 reviews from 105 men and 75 women.
This is what she found: men and women receive different kinds of feedback. Women’s personalities were criticized much more frequently in performance reviews than men’s. Men were criticized for job performance, while women were criticized for not just their work output but for being ”abrasive" or having "the wrong tone". The results are so shocking, they seem skewed.
Men received comments like “There were a few cases where it would have been extremely helpful if you had gone deeper into the details to help move an area forward.”
While women received comments like “Your peers sometimes feel that you don’t leave them enough room. Sometimes you need to step back to let others shine.”
Words like bossy, abrasive, strident, and aggressive are used to describe women’s behaviors when they lead; words like emotional and irrational describe their behaviors when they object. All of these words show up at least twice in the women’s review text I reviewed, some much more often. Abrasive alone is used 17 times to describe 13 different women. Among these words, only aggressive shows up in men’s reviews at all. It shows up three times, twice with an exhortation to be more of it.
This data validates women’s experience in STEM fields. They are stuck between a rock and hard place. Sheryl Sandberg tells them to Lean In, to speak up, and to be aggressive. While their peers and managers tell them to lean back, let others shine, and to be a little quieter.
This is just one example of how the culture in STEM fields turns women away. While other factors keep the pipeline leaky, company culture plays a huge role. Women should be encourage to speak up, to be leaders. They should not turned down when they act like one. It seems some tech companies have a long way to go to eliminate gender bias.
And please ladies, don’t be discouraged by this study. Women in tech and other STEM fields are some of the most intelligent, driven, and successful people I know. Even when they face daunting obstacles. If anything this study gives validation and motivation to the need to change the way women in STEM are treated. Remember: It isn’t just you. Other people go through this too. And it doesn’t have to be this way.
To learn more check out my episode on gender bias in STEM fields.
You keep doin’ you, STEM ladies. We need you.
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"what music are you into?" "i like this! it’s very grown up…"
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This Is The Face of My Mental Illness
I took this picture of myself at the end of a day I spent in bed, scared and crying, feeling alone and hopeless and completely desperate.
This is the face of my mental illness. This is the face of my sadness when it is at its most inexplicable and its most pronounced.
I am not ashamed of it.
Beautiful.
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A reporter recently interviewed me about going to the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival in 2008, and here were my answers to her questions. I just thought I might pass them on, as they might be of interest, given that we’re in Michfest-arguing silly season.
What was your general state of mind...
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A few months ago, I was attending a yoga class and a woman entered as our sun salutations began. She sidled up to a short blonde girl near me and asked, “Could you move your mat over a little?” The blondie responded, “Stay out of my Namaste space! I got here on time.” And thus, the inspiration...