December 2011
80 posts
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fuckyeahfeminists:
An ‘Inconvenient Truth’: Income Inequality
newwavefeminism:
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Is income inequality becoming the new global warming? In other words, is this another case where the facts of an existential threat lose traction among a weary American public as deniers attempt to reduce them to partisan opinions?
It’s beginning to seem so.
A Gallup poll released on Thursday...
thesunkeeper asked: Hey there! I'm a newly admitted Wesleyan transfer student coming this January. I'm so nervous and hoping I made the right choice. Would you possibly be willing to talk about it some?
embracetheunknown asked: Hello! So, I was searching the Wesleyan tracked tag and stumbled across your blog. I'm currently a freshman at Endicott College but I'm planning on transferring. I'm seriously looking into Wesleyan. I'm kind of falling in love with it, actually. But yeah, hi!
“Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me...”
– Sylvia Plath (via atomiclanterns)
i’ve said it before, i’ll say it again… i never won’t reblog sylvia
“Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.”
– Alan Watts: The Way Of Zen (via fuckyeahpsychedelics)
Why Michelle Obama is kick ass & garners so many...
fuckyeahfeminists:
An article by Akiba Solomon talking about the comment from Wisconsin congressman Jim Sensenbrenner, saying she has a “large posterior.”
Every time Michelle Obama from Chi-Town jumps Double-Dutch with schoolkids, hits the hula hoop, teaches us how to dougie, shows Desmond Tutu how to do a proper pushup or does a record number of jumping jacks, she chips away at Ronald...
“Occupy Wall Street has set the snowball rolling…it has made America aware of a...”
– Michael Thomas’s piece in Newsweek on how Wall Street has destroyed the wonder that was America. (via newsweek)
“In the instances when POC say shit like ‘Oh I can’t stand white folk’ or ‘Damn...”
– Briana
“but u guise reverse racism is real!!!1!!one!! im realy prejusidse against bcus im white every1 hatez me”
(via grrrlfoxxx)
And this is why it is not “aggressive” to want to protect our own needs, cultures, and seek out better representation of people like us. Excuse me if I just can’t...
I'm a scary feminist
estrogenfueledrants:
starlightgrin:
if you call a movie that portrays women in a complicated multidimensional manner
a chick flick
expect me to be offended
because you don’t know the burden of
being deemed a chick
and expected to like flicks
that tell me I’m a silly girl
and that I can’t function properly
and that I should obsess on finding a guy
to fix my sad life
because men are...
stfuracists:
recovering hipster: Ok, so here’s my take on the whole “white people saying the N-word” thing.
recoveringhipster:
I understand what you’re saying, white dudebros. I really do. Because, despite all the anti-racism, anti-sexism, social justice-y stuff I do, deep down I’m still one of you. I’m a straight, white, middle-class, cisgender American male who grew up...
The “Why Ron Paul is Awful” Mega-Resource
stfuconservatives:
Does the neocon in your life need some schooling? Here’s a mega-resource of assorted reasons Ron Paul is NOT Libertarian Jesus.
(This is a rebloggable version of what’s on this page)
What’s Wrong With Ron Paul?
10 Reasons Not to Vote for Ron Paul
Ron Paul’s Strange Freedom (ThinkProgress)
Ron Paul: Against A Woman’s Right to Choose
Reasons This Blog Is Not...
caffeinatedfeminist:
private-revolution:
gonzodave:
PBS | Are we becoming a police state? Five things that have civil liberties advocates nervous
By Sal Gentile December 7, 2011
Is our Constitution under siege?
Many civil liberties advocates fear it might be. They’re worried about a provision tucked into the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act, approved by the Senate last week,...
One teachers approach to preventing gender...
togetherforjacksoncountykids:
“It’s Okay to be Neither,” By Melissa Bollow Tempel
Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got in line for art, and I noticed that she still had not removed her hood. When we arrived at the art room, I said:...
“Reproductive rights are central to the economic equality of women. It’s not a...”
– - Commenter on Occupy Seattle Online Events (via rooftopsedge
)
privilege; a poem for men who don't understand...
[TW: RAPE]
privilege is simple:
going for a pleasant stroll after dark, not checking the back of your car as you get in, sleeping soundly, speaking without interruption, and not remembering dreams of rape, that follow you all day, that woke you crying, and privilege is not seeing your stripped, humiliated body plastered in celebration across every magazine rack, privilege is going to the...
“Women are not allowed to make off-color jokes. They have to appear to be...”
– Why Most Women Will Never Become CEO - Forbes (via robot-heart-politics)
pbnjay asked: Hey! I'm a senior in high school, and trying to decide between applying ED2 or regular. I was wondering if you could answer a few questions! How do you like Wes? How are the students and what is the social life like? What do you guys do for fun? Also, how's studying science at Wes? Thank you so much!
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can i just say
that one of the best things about going home (and being back in the real world) for a while will be…
SEEING BABIES
I love babies and living in this bubble inhabited by mostly 18-22 year olds does not really lend itself well to seeing them. I mean, this is probably a good thing, but still. I just about died over Thanksgiving seeing my new baby cousin for the first time.
Did I mention...
“The math is the math. You can’t lower current (tax) rates and raise revenue...”
– President BARACK OBAMA, responding to Republican charges that he is “fixated” on “raising the tax rates for the wealthiest Americans,” on 60 Minutes.
This whole thing, summarized so simply and yet the conservative element in these United States continues to pretend not to understand the sheer,...
“I want a future where women and girls get to be the subject of their own...”
– Jaclyn Friedman (ConsentFest talks about sex, and wants to add more voices | OpenFile)
Don't stop abortion.
hyrulian-feminist:
Stop misogyny
Stop sexism
Stop slut-shaming
Stop sex policing
Stop rape culture
Stop victim blaming
Fourteen Senators demand Sebelius explain EC... →
The fourteen Senators we can thank for standing up against this decision:
Patty Murray
Kirsten Gillibrand
Barbara Boxer
Richard Blumenthal
Daniel Akaka
Carl Levin
John Kerry
Tom Harkin
Al Franken
Frank Lautenberg
Bernie Sanders
Ron Wyden
Maria Cantwell
Jeff Merkley
GO DICK!
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congrats to wes '16 recent admits!
Congratulations to anyone accepted ED to Wesleyan University’s Class of 2016!!!
As a member of Wes ‘15, I think you’ve made a fabulous choice to come here.
Feel free to ask me questions about Wes!
For those of you deferred or denied, please don’t spend precious time worrying about it. Everything happens for a reason. It may seem like these are just empty words, but...
These "Until Abortion Ends" people should say what...
ragged-blossom:
They do NOT mean “until abortion ENDS”
They mean “until abortion is illegal,” which translates directly to “until abortion stops being SAFE.”
Abortion will never end. People who don’t want to be pregnant will always go to whatever lengths they have to to terminate said pregnancy. You cannot end abortion, only safe abortion. And if you want to do that, you are a dickhole.
...
No!
-rosasparks-:
I’m not breast feeding any more strangers in public until coffee stops having abortions.
There really is no difference between men and... →
unknowablewoman:
inraptorswetrust:
fuckyeahfeminists:
I know my lovely readers knew this already, but thought it can never be reiterated too many times.
Now, researchers Jane Mertz of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Jonathan Kane of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater have performed the most comprehensive exploration yet of math performance. They took in data from 86...
“when i was 16, i had a fake i.d. and decided to go to a gay bar by myself...”
– god bless drag queens (via didyouhearmekitten)
This is my favourite story about anything ever. Seriously. So much love.
(via fuckyeahsexeducation)
Updated Winter Break Reading List
Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins
Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
Carrie by Stephen King
On The Road by Jack Kerouac
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
Tonto and the Lone Ranger Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman...
“O God, I am not like you
In your vacuous black,
Stars stuck all over, bright...”
– “Years” by Sylvia Plath