May 2012
96 posts
FUN FACT
the vatican owns 2 different versions of jesus’s foreskin
u think im kidding im not its called the holy prepuce
because apparently jesus had 2 foreskins which have to be kept under security
Even better: The vatican doesn’t own them all. I know of at least one other off the top of my head (contained in the “A of Charlemagne,” if memory serves.) The Louvre (I believe,) owns three “true crowns of thorns.”
“I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to friends and family and neighbors when I think about members of my own staff who are in incredibly committed monogamous relationships, same-sex relationships, who are raising kids together, when I think about those soldiers or airmen or marines or sailors who are out there fighting on my behalf and yet feel constrained, even now that Don’t Ask Don’t Tell is gone, because they are not able to commit themselves in a marriage, at a certain point I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same sex couples should be able to get married.”
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The full quote. (via nprfreshair)
There are many things that one thinks they won’t see in their lifetime. Watching the president of the United States of America affirm the love of my mom and her partner of nearly 30 years was one of them. No more. Thank you, Mr. President. You have joined the right side on this issue and we welcome you.
#Forward
Like for the quote, reblog for the commentary.
“The idea that intelligence is linked to English pronunciation is a legacy from colonial thinking.”
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— Delalorm Semabia, 25, a Ghanaian blogger (x)
An important note to remember - it’s more than just personal ability, it’s yet another form of institutional racism.
I have difficulty understanding people (regardless of accent or perceived lack thereof) when I can’t see them talking. (It has to do with ADD and my inability to filter out noises unless I am engaging visually.) However, the fact that *I* have difficulty understaning someone has no bearing on *their* intelligence. As my studet exchange orientation trainers always said, they don’t talk fast, you listen slow.
“Social justice is about destroying systematic marginalisation and privilege. Wishing to live in a more just, more equal world is simply not the same thing as wishing to live in a “nicer” world. I am not suggesting niceness is bad or that we should not behave in a nice way towards others if we want to! I also do not equate niceness with cooperation or collaboration with others. Here’s all I am saying: the conflation of ethical or just conduct (goodness), and polite conduct (niceness) is a big problem.”
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» The Revolution Will Not Be Polite: The Issue of Nice versus Good Social Justice League (via lookoutsideyourself)
LAWD JAYSUS THANK YOU
THANK YOU
EQUALITY DOES NOT MEAN “EVERYONE IS NICE TO EACH OTHER”
IT MEANS “EVERYONE IS EQUAL”
JUSTICE IS NOT “EVERYONE IS NICE TO EACH OTHER”
IT MEANS “JUSTICE IS PROVIDED WHEN REQUESTED”
JESUS FUCK WHY IS THIS HARD
(via dumbthingswhitepplsay)
This this this
ESPECIALLY THAT LAST LINE
(via hamburgerjack)
When Eating Falls Apart →
fatnutritionist.com
Another excellent post over at The Fat Nutritionist.
Never Have Just One Serving...: cyanide-ballet: “but that aborted baby could have cured cancer!”so... →
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“but that aborted baby could have cured cancer!”
so could have the person who had to give up studies because of an unwanted pregnancy
so could have the person who died while giving birth
so could have the person who killed themselves because of bullying
so could have the person who died from an illegal abortion
so could have the person pressured into not following their dreams
so could have millions of kids without homes, if given a chance
i dont see you defending them
fuck you
Never forget that when you are “arguing for the baby,” you are, by default, arguing against the rights of the mother. ALWAYS; and that your assumption that the mother ‘has had her chance, this is how she blew it?’ Is the very worst kind-of slut-shaming: it removes the agency of a person.
“An even bigger issue is that if people think social justice is about niceness, it means they have fundamentally misunderstood privilege. Privilege does not mean you live in a world where people are nice to you and never insult you. It means you live in a world in which you, and people like you, are given systematic advantages over other people. Being marginalised does not mean people are always nasty to you, it means you live in a world in which many aspects of the cultural, social and economic systems are stacked against people like you. Some very privileged people have had awful experiences in life, but it does not erase their privilege.”
—The Revolution Will Not Be Polite (via hiphopcheerleader)
“The United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black population than South Africa did at the height of apartheid.”
—Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (via carnivorousdreams)
restless all night: "Sweet Dreams & the Second Coming" by Ada Limón →
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A bat cracks in the flickery background,
and we’re dead tired from the horse track
with all those losing bets stuck crumpled up
in our cheap fedora hats, but no one, not even
the dog, is unhappy. Baseball announcers
are trying to be funny about nothing, crowds
cheer on the momentum of the home team
and it’s not too early for pj’s, or promises,
or some low sung lullaby that salutes
the original song on the inside. I decide
someday to name a kid Levon, and you
agree, and outside the dark traffic bellows by
on our curving country road making a sound,
something like the slow roar of applause
when the tide unexpectedly turns.
Mostly for Mr. The Jeef, but also for Ian.
“When you live in a poor neighborhood, you are living in an area where you have poor schools. When you have poor schools, you have poor teachers. When you have poor teachers, you get a poor education. When you get a poor education, you can only work in a poor-paying job. And that poor-paying job enables you to live again in a poor neighborhood. So, it’s a very vicious cycle.”
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Malcolm X (via warriorsrise)
EXACTLY EXACTLY EXACTLY.
(via sapphrikah)
And this is why school funding should be evened out statewide. But that, of course, would be socialist. ::sigh::
Okay, I am Deeply Amused by this...
I’m doing gift entry, because it’s what I do, and I come across this address in a record:
Mr. F.M. Lastname
10 Inches
City, MI Zip+4
Even better? It’s a verifiable adress.
“I’d woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist.”
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Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet (via beautyisanillusion)
This is my every day.
