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The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.- Emily Dickinson
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If you’re a Non-Muslim and you see a Muslim praying in public, could you please not pass in front of them?

Go behind them, but not in front. 👍

Oh, signal boost! I didn’t know this.

Okay, but also: if you see a Muslim praying in public and they have something in front of them, like a purse or a bag or something like that, you can pass in front of them, but pass in front of that object.

it’s called a sutrah, and it’s meant to act as a physical barrier between the person praying and someone who might happen to pass in front.

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ramentic

Also, if you did this and didn’t know, please don’t beat yourself up over it. Now you know! Muslims aren’t supposed to pass in front of Muslims praying, either, because prayer is communication with God and you don’t want to break that connection.

Spread culture, respect customs, be good people. Simple as that.

Didn’t know this.

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aymygod

Reblogging again

THE AMOUNTS OF REBLOGS THIS HAS JUST MAKES ME SO HAPPY

S I G N A L B O O S T

Reblog forever ! 

Similarly, if a Jew is saying the Shemonah Esrei prayer (whispered, moving only the mouth, standing facing east with legs together) don’t go in front unless there’s a barrier.

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no one coulda reblogged this a month ago when i spent 500

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trappunzelll

Look at KB coming through

Every time you see this, reblog it. There is always someone in college that will see this.

i’m insulted that os just textbooks, I’m adding a little something to download articles and a few open databases

sci-hub: each article has an ideantifier called doi, just copy paste it in the site and enjoy the magic.

Open access databases.

here’s another post with 4 ways to get text books

also, I’m a student, I got access to more databases and online libraries, if you really need a text just message me, email me, and I’ll see what I can do.

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WTF I LIETERALLY THOUGHT IT WAS ABOUT DOGS UNTIL NOW I AM 20 YEARS OLD

of course it was, why would he actually sing about real dogs and why they got out

No it isn’t. It’s actually talking about the men who predate upon women in clubs, calling them dogs, not ‘ugly women’. Just look at the lyrics:

And tell the fellas stop the name callin’ Yepee ah yo Then them girls respond to the call I hear a woman shout out Who let the dogs out Woof, woof, woof, woof, woof

Or if that isn’t clear enough for you that it’s women quite clearly calling the men dogs then read this next bit:

Get back gruffy, mash scruffy Get back you flea infested mongrel Now I tell meh self dem man go get angry Ah yepee ah yo To hear them girls calling them canine

It’s saying that men who attack women for being ‘ugly’ or refuse to leave them alone are worse than stray mongrels! It plainly points out that women do not want or appreciate the attention and so taunt them with the verse of ‘who let the dogs out’ because they are both unable to control themselves and vile little creatures. Learn to do some fucking research.

It’s about how cat calling guys are awful.

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On Aug. 5, 2014, John Crawford III and his girlfriend, Tasha Thomas, went shopping at a Wal-Mart in Beavercreek, Ohio, a suburb of Dayton. They planned to buy marshmallows, chocolate and graham crackers to make s’mores at a family cookout.
While on the phone with the mother of his two children, Crawford picked up a toy BB rifle. Another customer, Ronald Ritchie, 24, called 911, claiming that Crawford was waving a gun and pointing it at customers.
Officers immediately arrived at the scene, including Officer Sean Williams, who shot and killed Crawford. The Beavercreek police claimed that Crawford ignored their commands to put the weapon down.
The store surveillance video that was released showed Crawford standing in the aisle by himself carrying the toy gun. When police arrived, he was immediately shot, contradicting claims that they had given Crawford orders to drop the gun.
Ritchie, who made the initial 911 call, later recanted his claims about having seen Crawford wave the gun and point it at customers. ….. [A year later]…
1. No police officers were indicted in Crawford’s death.
2. The trial date for a federal lawsuit is set for Feb. 13, 2017.
3. An Ohio lawmaker has proposed “John Crawford’s Law.”

I am against the proposed law because it doesn’t address the problem at all. The issue was not that the gun wasn’t brightly colored.. The problem is that in America it is still okay for the police to murder Black people. The person who called the police lied and then the police lied. Where is the justice for this man?

^^^^

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“dont get mad at cis people saying transphobic things! Teach them why its bad!”

why does their ignorance get to trump my existence? Why does their ignorance get to trump my emotions? Why am I expected to be calm and collected when presented with transphobia just because they didn’t realize transphobia is bad? Why am I expected to be a teacher when my field of study choice is psychology? Why am I expected to do this for every cis person I ever encounter?

Am I not allowed my own sentience? Must I live to make cis people happy?

Transphobia isn’t always obvious, sometimes it appears in expecting trans people to turn any situation into a classroom to discuss ultra private aspects of their lives.

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The couples speak to the daily experience of living at the crossroads of being black and identifying as LGBT. Together or separate, these two groups carry the burden of societal implications that stem from ignorance and assumptions. Milan shares that his mother was fearful that he would not find love – a common concern among loved ones of those in the trans community, he said.

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“How can we take down this flag and erase the honor of those proud Americans-”

Confederates weren’t Americans. They were actual, honest-to-god Not Americans; that was the whole fucking point of the Civil War. They were a bunch of people who collectively said “fuck America” and then spent years desperately fighting in order to not be Americans anymore. Flying the Confederate flag doesn’t honor Americans, it honors Confederates, and they don’t exist anymore because they lost the war, so there is no goddamn point to this flag ever at all. Right-wing folks really love to talk about “anti-American sentiments” and “treason” until it comes to the (white) people who actually did commit treason and were anti-American in every sense of the word. 

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