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Is Yahoo! buying Tumblr the new Justin Timberlake buying MySpace?

Mon, 20 May 2013 06:21:28 -0400

"Laurie Penny’s Saudade There are more of us than you think, kicking off our high-heeled shoes to..."

Sat, 18 May 2013 10:23:50 -0400

“

Laurie Penny’s Saudade

There are more of us than you think, kicking off our high-heeled shoes to run and being told not so fast

The best minds of my generation consumed by craving, furious half naked starving-

Who ripped tights and dripping make up smoked alone in bedsits bare mattresses waiting for transfiguration.

Who ran half dressed out of department stores yelling that we didn’t want to be good and beautiful

Who glowing high and hopeful were the last to leave the gig our skin crackling with lust and sweat and pure music

Who wrote poetry on each other’s arms and cared more about fucking than being fuckable

Who worked until our backs stiffened and our limbs sang with the memory of misbehaviour that was what it was to be a woman

Who dared to dance until dawn and were drugged and raped by men in clean T-shirts and woke up scared and sore to be told it was our fault

Who swallowed bosses’ patronizing side-eyes stole away from violent broken boys in the middle of the night and vowed never again to try to fix the world one man at a time

Who slammed down the tray of drinks and tore off our aprons and aching smiles and went scowling out into the streets looking for change

Who stripped in dark rooms for strangers’ anodyne dollars because we wanted education and were told we were traitors

Who sat faces upturned to the glow of the network searching searching for strangers who would call us pretty

Who bared our breasts to hidden cameras and fought and fought and fought to be human

Who waited in grim hallways with synth-pop crackling over the speaker system for the doctor to call us clutching fistfuls of pamphlets calling us sluts whores murderers

Who crossed continents alone with knapsacks full of books bare limbs clear-eyed vision running running from the homes that held our mothers down

Who filled notebooks with gibberish philosophy and scraps of stories and cameras to prove we were there keeping our novels and the name of out children close to our hearts

Who were told all our lives that we were too loud too tisky too fat too ugly too scruffy too selfish too much too and refused to take up less space refused to be still refused refused refused to be tame

Who would never be still. Who would never shut up. Who were punished for it and spat and snarled and they shook the bars of our cages until they snapped and they called us wild and crazy and we laughed with mouths open hearts open hands open and would never not ever be tame.

Sara, I’m with you in hospital, in the narroe rooms where you have put off your veil to count your ribs through your T-shirt, short hair and secrets and quiet defiance crying together that we don’t know how to be perfect-

Lara, I’m with you in mandatory art therapy, where we draw pictures of weeping cocks and are told we are not making progress-

Lila, I’m with you in a north London bathdroom, watchhing unreal maggots crawl in the cuts in your arms and listening to your girlfriend drunk and raging through the wall-

Andy, I’m with you in Bethnal Green where you love ambitious angry women with heart brain pen fingers tongue and you have a line from Nietzche tattooed over your cunt-

Adele, I’m with you in the student occupation, with your lipstick and cloche hat and teenage lisp drawling that there’s not enough fucking in this revolution and we must take action-

Kay, I’m with you on the night bus, half drunk and high dragging bright-eyed boys home to our bed, where we watch them worn out sleeping and whisper that we will never be married-

Katie, I’m with you in Zuccotti Park, where a broken heart is less important than a broken laptop is less important than a broken future and we watch the cops beating kids bloody on the pavement for daring to ask for more-

Tara, I’m with you in Islington where you have thrown all your pretty dresses out of the window and flushed your medication so you can write and write-

Alex, I’m with you and a bottle of Scotch at two in the morning when you tell me that no man will make us live for ever and we must seduce the city the country the world-

We are always hungry.

There are more of us than you think.

”

- Laurie Penny’s Saudade, from Fifty Shades of Feminism (via mollycrabapple)

So good.

(via neil-gaiman)

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Thu, 16 May 2013 22:10:15 -0400

lemondifficult: bidenette: Le boom.

Thu, 16 May 2013 22:07:48 -0400

lemondifficult:

bidenette:

Le boom.

STFU, Conservatives: I’m tired of people shitting on liberal arts degree types. This...

Tue, 14 May 2013 17:46:30 -0400

STFU, Conservatives: I’m tired of people shitting on liberal arts degree types. This...:

stfuconservatives:

I’m tired of people shitting on liberal arts degree types. This includes President Obama. Math, science, and engineering aren’t the only degrees of value. I’m tired of people saying a degree is only useful for teaching. That idea demeans the field AND teaching. Don’t pretend history, literature, or languages (not to mention social sciences like law, psychology, or sociology) don’t matter to education or society. - besociallyaware

I just answered an Ask similar to this, but yes. The focus on STEM majors (science, tech, engineering, math) makes me angry too. Liberal arts degrees actually give you a wider variety of career options. I know a former psychology major who’s a corporate communications expert. I know a geography major who designs websites for a major newspaper. I know a theater BA who works in casting for major networks. I know an English/comp lit BA who works in nonprofit fundraising. Liberal arts degrees require you to learn to research and write and edit and think critically, and dear lord do we need more of that in the world.

Yes, STEM degrees are important, and on a totally separate occasion, we should talk about getting more women and people of color into these fields, because that’s its own issue. But liberal arts degrees aren’t worthless or frivolous.

As one of, like, 20 English majors with a non-teaching, English-related job: This. (But if someone wants to hire me as a nonprofit fundraiser-er, ask-box me, bby.)

wtf, plus size clothing manufacturers?: guys. yes i have seen that article about abercrombie and fitch. i...

Sun, 12 May 2013 19:30:58 -0400

wtf, plus size clothing manufacturers?: guys. yes i have seen that article about abercrombie and fitch. i...:

wtfplus:

guys. yes i have seen that article about abercrombie and fitch. i addressed it in this post and this post yesterday.

in short, again, that article is a weird hatchet job by business insider (the national enquirer of business news), where they applied a random 10 year old quote about a&f’s…

I’m naming him Jack Harkness because he won’t die.

Fri, 03 May 2013 05:51:43 -0400

I’m naming him Jack Harkness because he won’t die.

She did it! Thanks everyone who reblogged, tweeted, retweeted,...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:16:50 -0400

She did it! Thanks everyone who reblogged, tweeted, retweeted, and generally social-media bombed the band.

WEEK 1 DONE. Week 2 sounds scary, but I need it to be Wednesday already because I miss Sam.

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 09:51:06 -0400

I love Tumblr because I'm not alone in my Sam Yao feels.

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 19:21:31 -0400

I'm pulling the cancer card...

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 16:11:18 -0400

I'm pulling the cancer card...: My friend Talia has cancer. Again. The second time before she’s 30. She really, really wants to meet The Avett Brothers at the Firefly Music Festival this summer. Signal boosts welcome! (Also, her blog is fab.)

Six websites I go to when I am upset:

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 21:30:26 -0400

babedesev:

missredaholic:

acurlyheadedman:

acurlyheadedman:

1) When I am disgruntled

2) When I need a quiet place

3) When I want everything to be okay

4) When I need a hug

5) Just click this.

6) When I need to calm down.

FOR FUTURE REFERENCE

the hugging one actually feels like they’re actually hugging you and you feel so much better

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Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:09:00 -0400

shawskankredemption: reinwald: SVU motherfucker always reblog...

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:36:31 -0400

shawskankredemption:

reinwald:

SVU motherfucker

always reblog the sickest burns from Law and Order SVU

but really though

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 16:24:11 -0400

but really though

shockingblankets: not dead masterpost, incase you wanted to see...

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 21:27:05 -0400

shockingblankets:

not dead masterpost, incase you wanted to see them all in one place. <3

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Sun, 07 Apr 2013 14:50:28 -0400

rtgrl: So many Javerts

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 21:38:37 -0400

rtgrl:

So many Javerts

Okay, so, I started off as Danny Tanner and now I feel like...

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 20:11:33 -0400

Okay, so, I started off as Danny Tanner and now I feel like worthless yet sexy Uncle Jesse. At least I got the 1/3 of the room that matters done!

About to go Danny Tanner on my gross pit of a bedroom while no...

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 17:05:00 -0400

About to go Danny Tanner on my gross pit of a bedroom while no one is home. My dog doesn’t know what to do with these moves.