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Marge Simpson is the bomb!

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:24:00 -0400

Marge Simpson is the bomb!

Pure beauty

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 22:47:31 -0400

Pure beauty

comicsforever: Masters Of The Universe // artwork by Gerard Parel...

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 02:14:50 -0400

comicsforever:

Masters Of The Universe // artwork by Gerard Parel (2013)

Awesome!

"What I do want to tell you is that you need to stop using the “wives, sisters, daughters” argument..."

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 16:28:21 -0400

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What I do want to tell you is that you need to stop using the “wives, sisters, daughters” argument when you are talking to people defending the Steubenville rapists. Or any rapists. Or anyone who commits any kind of crime, violent or otherwise, against a woman.

In case you’re unfamiliar with this line of rhetoric, it’s the one that goes like this:

You should stop defending the rapists and start caring about the victim. Imagine if she was your sister, or your daughter, or your wife. Imagine how badly you would feel if this happened to a woman that you cared about.

Framing the issue this way for rape apologists can seem useful. I totally get that. It feels like you’re humanizing the victim and making the event more relatable, more sympathetic to the person you’re arguing with.

You know what, though? Saying these things is not helpful; in fact, it’s not even helping to humanize the victim. What you are actually doing is perpetuating rape culture by advancing the idea that a woman is only valuable in so much as she is loved or valued by a man.

The Steubenville rape victim was certainly someone’s daughter. She may have been someone’s sister. Someday she might even be someone’s wife. But these are not the reasons why raping her was wrong. This rape, and any rape, was wrong because women are people. Women are people, rape is wrong, and no one should ever be raped. End of story.

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- I Am Not Your Wife, Sister or Daughter. I Am A Person. (via jlmillered)

most rape is at the hands of family and close friends/friends of the family, so yeah.

(via bad-dominicana)

Totally agree!

Can´t stand my hair with no volume. In my case the bigger my fro...

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 18:54:00 -0400

Can´t stand my hair with no volume. In my case the bigger my fro the happier I am.

The LatiNegr@s Project: A Declaration...

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 23:44:13 -0400

The LatiNegr@s Project: A Declaration...:

pleasurepoliticsstanford:

Let me begin this post by declaring my stake and investment in the project of rearticulating and reframing narratives around black female sexuality. I was born to a Black Puerto Rican American mother who birthed me at age 18. I was raised by my mother,…

Awesome article!

Such a precious treasure…

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 01:05:38 -0400

Such a precious treasure…

Awesome. Over unto Silence by Jessica Tremp

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 23:43:23 -0500

Awesome.

Over unto Silence by Jessica Tremp

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Mon, 18 Feb 2013 00:16:03 -0500

gifs-from-movies: What I expect, when I go to Heaven. Cute!

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 12:36:56 -0500

gifs-from-movies:

What I expect, when I go to Heaven.

Cute!

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Mon, 28 Jan 2013 23:31:17 -0500

Para @eldeficit

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 02:21:36 -0500

Para @eldeficit

Oh Velma! babaface

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 02:04:18 -0500

Oh Velma! *babaface*

the moral of the story is never have feelings for anybody ever That’s the saddest thing...

Sat, 12 Jan 2013 20:14:33 -0500

the moral of the story is never have feelings for anybody ever

That’s the saddest thing I’ve read in a long time.

comicsforever: Before Watchmen // artwork by Lee Bermejo...

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 16:16:46 -0500

comicsforever:

Before Watchmen // artwork by Lee Bermejo (2012)

Promotional art for the 2012 DC Comics event.

Yes!

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Thu, 27 Dec 2012 23:30:50 -0500

provocatoria: crackerhell: goodstuffhappenedtoday: How A...

Sat, 22 Dec 2012 14:36:54 -0500

provocatoria:

crackerhell:

goodstuffhappenedtoday:

How A Middle-School Principal Persuaded Students To Come To School

by David Kestenbaum

Shawn Rux took over as principal of MS 53, a New York City middle school, last year. At the time, 50 or 60 kids were absent every day. You could understand why they stayed away: The school was chaos.

Twenty-two teachers had quit, the entire office staff had quit, and hundreds of kids had been suspended. The school was given a grade of F from the city’s department of education.

“It was in a bad place,” Rux says.

Rux decided he needed to create incentives for kids to come to school. Incentives that were more obvious to middle-school kids than, “If you come to school you’ll be better off 20 years from now.”

He handed out raffle tickets to anyone who showed up to school on time. One of the prizes was an Xbox. And he threw in an element of randomness: The first kids in line when the doors opened might get 20 tickets.

It worked. Kids started showing up early.

“It was … like, ‘Get out of my way, I’m trying to get into school,’ ” Rux says. “It was nice.”

Rux also created his own currency. He called it Rux Bux. Teachers hand them out when kids are well behaved. They can be traded in for school supplies, or special lunches. A sixth-grader named Wander Rodriguez is trying to save up 5,000 Rux Bux — enough for a personal shopping spree with Rux.

The principal also stands outside school every morning, greeting the students as they show up. This recognition is another, subtler incentive to come to school.

“I like this school,” Wander Rodriguez says. “They treat me like home, they treat me nice, they always give me stuff. … They always say ‘hi’ in the mornings.”

The school went from an F to a C. Daily attendance went up to over 90 percent. Then the hurricane hit.

The school is in Far Rockaway, Queens — one of the areas hardest hit by the storm. Some kids’ homes were destroyed. One student who stayed at home through the storm told a teacher, “My apartment complex was in the middle of the ocean.” Rux’s car was destroyed. The first floor of his house was flooded.

After the storm, after school started up again, Rux’s goal was to get attendance back to 90 percent. Every day, his staff texts him the attendance numbers. The day I visited last week, 89.2 percent of students attended school. Close, but not close enough for Rux.

The storm has been tough on everyone, he says. But that’s no excuse. Kids have to be in school.

not going to see this man in no news nowhere

Oh, treat the kids like human beings instead of livestock and they end up wanting to be there? That’s a novel idea. I love this!

Awesome guy!

saveroomminibar: Video Game Japanese Traditional Woodblock...

Sun, 18 Nov 2012 14:29:34 -0500

Street Fighter

Star Fox

Kirby

Donkey Kong/Jumpman

Metroid

The Legend of Zelda

Mario Kart

saveroomminibar:

Video Game Japanese Traditional Woodblock Prints by Jed Henry.

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Bello!

Take your pick!

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:23:30 -0500

Take your pick!

mromants: República Dominicana esta pasando una serie de...

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 15:14:58 -0500

mromants:

República Dominicana esta pasando una serie de conflictos entre las autoridades y el pueblo, estos últimos se han lanzando a las calles durante esta semana para que eliminen la reforma fiscal (La reforma fiscal busca aumentar los impuestos para organizar la economía del país ya que hay un déficit presupuestario que heredamos de los 8 anos de gobierno de Leonel Fernandez, lo mejor es que se gasto mucho dinero en el gobierno de Leonel, pero el pueblo no sabe en que lo gasto, ES OBVIO que Leonel se llevo todo el dinero para necesidades personales de los funcionarios. Otro punto a destacar es que el pueblo se pregunta: Para que subir los impuestos si todos sabemos que los funcionarios se lo van a robar?!)

Hoy estuvo en la televisión Leonel Fernandez para hablar sobre los gastos del del presupuesto nacional, y lo que dijo fue pura palabrería y no respondió las grandes preguntas que tenia el pueblo sobre los gastos realizados durante su gobierno. Esto despertó la ira del pueblo, quienes con velas y ropa de negro, en luto por la situación del país, salieron a las calles en protesta pacifica para hacerle recordar al gobierno que no somos idiotas y no nos dejaremos enganar. Todos se dirigieron a FUNGLODE para hacer la protesta, y cuando una MUJER fue a colocar la vela en las aceras de FUNGLODE uno de seguridad pateo la vela y toda la cera callo en la cara de la mujer. De milagro no le ocurrió nada pero esto no deja de ser violencia.

ESTO NO VA A QUEDAR ASÍ, ESE HOMBRE DEBERÍA ESTAR PRESO. NO DEBIERON PROTEGERLO POR EL MAL QUE HIZO, DEBIÓ HACERSE RESPONSABLE. EL MUNDO DEBE DE ENTERARSE DE LO QUE PASA AQUÍ EN MI PAÍS UNA SITUACIÓN NO MUY AGRADABLE Y SE SIENTE LA FURIA DEL PUEBLO AL GOBIERNO QUE EN CUALQUIER MOMENTO EXPLOTAREMOS A TODA LA PRESIÓN ECONÓMICA QUE HEMOS AGUANTADO DURANTE SIGLOS.