December 2011
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“May we always resist what we know in our hearts to be wrong. May we do right and...”
– Nikky Finney’s introduction to her Carolina epic RICE
Ujima. Collective work and responsibility. Let’s all work to nourish each other with love! <3
(via mobilehomecoming)
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there were posts a while back about how to block...
tumblr menu way of blocking followers so they don’t show on your list, but; discussing if you can do like with facebook blocks and
stopping them seeing your tumblr [so you don’t have to get your friends to do the private list thing just to occasionally discuss IRL things]
stop seeing their posts at all, even if friends reblog them.
Any ideas?
eta: though i could just quit...
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“I don’t feel rejected by the sky. I’m part of it-tiny, to be sure, but...”
– Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot (via terramantra)
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“The specificity of the language is sometimes necessary because quite often the...”
– dorothy allison, notes to a young feminist (via negationparty)
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AM - Christmas truce on asylum seekers 24/12/2011 →
DAVID MARK: The Government and the Opposition have struck a Christmas truce on the question of how to process asylum seekers. They’ve agreed to continue talks aimed at hammering out a bipartisan offshore processing policy.
The plan is to circumvent the Greens’ control of the Senate and the High Court decision that struck down the Government’s Malaysia solution. The private...
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Brazil dam company wins Belo Monte appeal →
cultureofresistance:
So angry. It should be apparent of the people in charge of making these decisions affecting all the lives around them, that they have absolutely NO care for the living. Why would they listen to the words and symbolic actions of those who do? They won’t be swayed. They have to be stopped.
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A judge in Brazil has revoked a decision which had halted work on the Belo Monte dam...
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Happy Nations and Unhappy Veterans « Wildly... →
The rise of happiness discourse in the last few decades has been remarkable. Although the Declaration of Independence codified the pursuit of happiness as a key element of freedom for US politics, happiness talk has spread far and wide. There are mildly critical public and popular discourses – such as Alain de Botton’s Affluenza – but these mostly critique assumptions about what it is that will...
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Nina: Why is it always down to the victims to do the right thing?
George: Because there has to be a difference between us and them...
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“People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that’s what everyone wants....”
– Elizabeth Gilbert via melodysblog (via jaeboogie) (via anonymousaliens) (via so-treu) (via rickeylaurentiis)
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The Intersex Roadshow: Five Myths that Hurt... →
Five Myths that Hurt Intersex People
I’ve had conversations with some intersex acquaintances recently about painful situations in which (nonintersex) people have accused my friends of not “really” being intersex. Besides revealing how rude people in our society can be about policing sex and gender, what these conversations have illustrated are some central myths about...
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