“I have written a poem for a woman who rides a bus in New York City. She’s a maid, she has two shopping bags. When the bus stops abruptly, she laughs. If the bus stops slowly, she laughs. I thought, ‘Mmm, a-ha.’ Now, if you don’t know black features, you may think she’s laughing. But she wasn’t laughing. She was simply extending her lips and making a sound. I said, ‘Oh, I see.’ That’s that survival apparatus. Now, let me write about that to honor this woman who helps us to survive.” Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise (2016) dir. Rita Coburn & Bob Hercules

fucking kill me now

i cant wait for the feminist fighter jet to drop bombs right onto peoples boobs

NY moments

Quelques affiches des manifestations du 1er mai.

10 South Korean LGBT activists have just been arrested by police when they walked into a national security press conference where a major president candidate, Jae-In Moon, was giving a speech. The protesters demanded for his apology for his previous statement that he ‘does not agree with homosexuality’. Currently, all president candidates except for 1 publicly stated that ‘they do not agree with homosexuality’ and would not push for anti-discrimination bill that will protect LGBT Koreans.

Please spread the word! A lot of people don’t really know about how LGBT rights are quickly deteriorating in South Korea right now.

My friends are so talented.

…I swear I am not procrastinating. 

EVERY FUCKING BODY NEEDS TO WATCH THIS OMG.

hOLY SHIT MY SIDES HURT

I saw the asian chick and automatically reblogged omg

OMFG

LOLLLL.

LITERALLY DYING LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Happy 420! Let’s take the time to remember the black Americans jailed for marijuana use/distribution far more than white Americans despite the usage rates being about the same. Look at how steady those arrest rates are for white people while the black arrest rate climbed steadily.

The hero France deserve

http://m.leparisien.fr/amp/paris-75005/paris-des-panneaux-d-affichage-de-la-ville-demandent-a-francois-fillon-de-rendre-l-argent-21-04-2017-6875931.php

Not the hero we deserved, but maybe thé one we needed.

sometimes i forget how to spell a word so i change the whole sentence to avoid using it

Best April’s Fools day prank ever

Imagine how excited he was to show this to his class <3 <3 <3

Can’t spell lesbien without bien am I right French tumblr

I wonder what she’s dreaming of 🌸🍃

PSA: journalists aren’t supposed to put names in the headlines if the person isn’t a public figure. It’s not a matter of maliciously not giving credit

^^^as a journalist, this is something that bothers me ALL THE TIME

A friend of mine on Twitter explained this the other day, so to elaborate based on what she said: If the name is not instantly recognizable the way a public figure is, then putting the name in the headline isn’t going to bring about any sort of recognition or connection in the reader, and doesn’t do much to draw the reader into the story. But something like “local teen” does create a connection by tying the person into the community, and encourages the reader to learn more about what this local teen has done. The name will be in the article itself, after the headline has done its job at getting the reader to look into it.

I think some of y’all need to see this 

Just got done reading an interesting article about how language affects the way we think and perceive the world. There were some interesting examples. Like how in Spanish, the word bridge is masculine, while in German, it is feminine. So native speakers of these languages describe the same thing differently. Spanish speakers will comment on how strong or sturdy a bridge is, while German speakers will comment on how elegant or beautiful it is. Another example that blew my mind was the Guugu Yimithirr language. So, most languages, including English, use an egocentric type of directional language (turn right, left, behind, in front.) these directions are relative to you as a person. Well, the Guugu Yimithirr language uses fixed geographical directions (North, East, South, and West) no matter the context. If you were to put an English speaker and a Guugu Yimithirr speaker in the same hotel, and put them in rooms opposite sides of the hallway from each other, the English speaker will see the exact same room (that person will see the desk to the right of blah and the closet in front of blah) but the Guugu Yimithirr speaker will see a COMPLETELY different room because the bed will be facing south instead of north, and all of that jazz. And the article went on to state how speakers of this language might even have a lower sense of egotism, because directions do not revolve around them, they’re just another part of the picture. Really fascinating. It made me think really long about language imperialism and how rapidly we’re moving towards a world that deals almost exclusively in English. It makes me sad to know that we’re losing completely different ways of thinking. Completely different perspectives, just gone. I guess that’s why I always get upset when people say that language imperialism isn’t so bad, and that English as a language is connecting people together. The world is a great big place, with completely different perspectives, and I think the fastest way to kill a culture is to take away the language, because not only are you taking away a method of communication, but a way of thinking.

american but amerishouldn’t

Can this be our foreign policy from now on