February 2012
Sponsor of Alabama ultrasound law has financial... →
stfuconservatives:
rodmanstreet:
ladonnapietra:
Now isn’t that interesting.
Ugh.
SURPRISE!
“In failing to implement a living wage for its lowest paid employees, the...”
– Joseph Williams
Williams is one of 18 Virginia students participating in a hunger strike — now more than a week long — to protest the poor wages paid to many of the university’s contracted service employees.
Williams decried the pay disparity between “hundreds of contract workers who may make as...
My favorite post today... this one's by... →
stfuracists:
Great anaolgy…
motorizedmycologist:
when people get mad at other people saying that something they did was racist/sexist/homophobic/whatever
I don’t get it
it’s like
If you were hanging out with your friend and your friend turns to you and says “hey I don’t know if you noticed but you just stepped on my foot, can you please stop”, I am guessing most people would say “oh man,...
“I am well and weaving things
that will eventually change this scene.”
– Robert Adamson, from “The Landscape” (via the-final-sentence)
“To all the girls whose thighs touch, with stretchmarks laid like gold across...”
– Kim Crosby, http://queergiftedblack.tumblr.com/ (via queergiftedblack)
“Summer is over and
we part, like eyelids,
like clams opening.”
–
Robert Hass, “Basho: A Departure”
(via the-final-sentence)
“I love animation because in the world of animation, you can be anything you...”
– CHRIS ROCK, introducing the Best Animated Film Oscar. (via inothernews)
The Bechdel Test and Race in Popular Fiction
crystalsavestheday:
1. It has to have two POC in it.
2. Who talk to each other.
3. About something other than a white person.
No Joss Whedon show passes, neither does Supernatural, or Being Human.
Veronica Mars passes, but doesn’t pass the original Bechdel Test.
Check out a few more here.
“So when the Irish, when Germans, when Italians were coming, and they didn’t...”
– Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Race-The Power of an Illusion (via lati-negros)
To read more of.
(via mimitakestheleftturn)
STFU, Conservatives: note-a-bear: deliciouskaek:... →
note-a-bear:
deliciouskaek:
allyintraining:
OK, I just found out from my dashboard about the whole Billy Crystal black face debacle. I don’t have cable, so there ya go. WTF, Billy Crystal?! Anywho, I found this article about it, and there’s a poll that asks, “What did you…
“If vaginas disgust you then you hate women. If vaginas don’t actually disgust...”
– Misogyny in the Gay Community (via satifice)
whats even more disturbing is “straight” men who also hate vaginas. they wanna fuck them, but swear theyre gross: you sirs, are fucking misogynist as fuck.
(via baddominicana)
Chicago Alderman Joe Moreno has said that he plans... →
utnereader:
Via Windy City Times:
According to a fact sheet put out by veteran activist Rick Garcia and Anthony Martinez, executive director of The Civil Rights Agenda (TCRA), the ordinance will mandate a policy for interacting with transgender detainees and set up a mayoral-appointed commission to oversee the treatment of transgender arrestees.
“It’s a human rights issue,” said...
This has a little over 500 signatures. You guys... →
stfuconservatives:
nefariousnewt:
reagan-was-a-horrible-president:
dobbaaa:
What HB2675 will do: Mandate that university students without a national merit scholarship or an athletic scholarship to pay a $2,000 tuition payment out of pocket. This will exempt all scholarships, grants, and forms of financial aid.
Again, AZ seems to be a pro in setting bad examples for other states.
I know...
