February 2012
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“If you’re white, you can play a Middle Eastern prince. If you’re black, you can...”
– Chris Rock, thank you for calling it out (via hinduthug)
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The biggest photo of the night sky ever taken. →
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“I’ve had librarians say to me, “People in my school don’t agree with...”
– David Levithan - Supporting Gay Teen Literature (via cake-light) This man is another of my very favorite authors and editors. If I ever met him in real life, I think he might be one of my very favorite people. (via beckiejean)
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“When the newspapers were full of alarms about Iran possibly developing a nuclear...”
– Howard Zinn on Kurt Vonnegut (via axelgonz08)
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Feb 21st
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What I'm reading
Again it’s been awhile. Since reading The Portable Dorothy Parker I have read: The thing around your neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. This is a brilliant and provoking collection of short stories. I had never heard of the author and now am glad I have as I will be reading more of her stories. Curfewed night: One Kashmiri journalist’s frontline account of life, love and war in...
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Feb 19th
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: No longer writing for Salient →
constancecravings: It’s with disappointment that I have to announce there’s been a change of plans involving my column in Salient this year. When this year’s editors asked me to continue to run a sex advice column for the publication, they neglected to first mention that they had a really cutting edge idea to… so this is ridiculous, way to be not cool salient.
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hey can you guys help me help a friend out?
miranatee: miranatee: go here:  http://kinnery.chipin.com/ eating-disorder-treatment and give however much you can and even if you can’t give maybe reblog this?? i’d love to know she’s able to get adequate help. come on come on come onnnn signal boost. please help. she really needs this treatment
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Turkey: Another victim in the undeclared war on... →
There’s no doubt in my mind that violence against transgender and transsexual (TS/TG) women is not only endemic and global in scale, but also that trans* women generally are experiencing escalating levels of violence which are disproportionately high in relation to our numbers, even though it seems practically impossible to put precise figures on the rates of transphobic violence. As is...
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hey can you guys help me help a friend out?
miranatee: go here:  http://kinnery.chipin.com/ eating-disorder-treatment and give however much you can and even if you can’t give maybe reblog this?? i’d love to know she’s able to get adequate help. This is a friend of mine who really needs ED treatment and her insurance won’t pay. Please please donate if you can.
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FLAMSHED: Mojo Mathers, New Zealand’s first Deaf... →
flamshed: Mojo Mathers, New Zealand’s first Deaf MP, is being forced to use her personnel allowance to pay for the live closed captioning of Question Time debates. Not only is this a prerequisite for her participation in the debate - an important part of her job - but live closed captioning of Question…
Feb 13th
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