I recently spoke with CNN International about online harassment. I have to say I was a little taken aback by how terrible the interviewer was. Predictably they tried to frame me as a “victim of trolls” but I did my best to try to re-direct the conversation to a more systemic big picture understanding of the problem.
Note: As always don’t read the comments on YouTube.
She is soo awesome.
Breaking Good
tv show idea: “breaking good”
a murderous drug lord is miraculously cured of cancer and decides to turn his life around. he uses his extensive knowledge of meth cookery to become a chemistry teacher and help young people discover the wonder of science
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Jane H. Hill, The Everyday Language of White Racism (via wretchedoftheearth)
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This is like when me and my white soon-to-be husband were looking for places. I’d call up and they’d say, “Come on down! Get an application!”. Because I don’t “sound” black.
Then I’d walk in 2 minutes later and they’d be all, “Oh. Sorry, we just rented it.”
Then I’d send him in and he’d get an application.
The best part? Walking back in while he was completing the application. “Oh, they gave you an application? But they told me it was just rented. ODD. THAT. I’m going to report them so let’s just skip this place, m’kay?” The looks on their faces and the pathetic apologies were just too much fun.
Used to deal with the same thing with road trips. Hotels would tell me that there were no vacancies, but my white roommate would go in and get us a room, usually cheaper than advertised.
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I do similar stuff at restauants and other places of business with my white bf. At least it makes it easier to know where not to go!
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Reblogging again for the commentary
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But we’re just supposed to *trust* and think everything is an *isolated* incident.
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Not so sophisticated scholars, were they? I mean this really, really shouldn’t be all that surprising.
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It shouldn’t be surprising, but I guarantee that most white people find it unbelievable
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I’m going to reblog this every time I see it on my dash. My parents pointed out how this phenomenon worked when we were moving to PA (they’d get steered to crummier neighborhoods and have to insist on being shown others). Housing discrimination is still pretty widespread and the gatekeepers? Tend to either intentionally or due to unchecked bias reinforce the status quo.
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Not long after the diagnosis [of ALS], my wife at the time and I were discussing my future with the neurologist. He began going over the disease progression in a matter of fact way. He said your breathing muscles will become paralyzed and you will go to sleep and die. He quickly added that some patients decide to go on a ventilator, but there is no quality of life living that way. I shook my head in agreement.
It is extremely easy for a healthy individual to say how they would not live. I am guilty myself. If someone had told me prior to the diagnosis that I would be totally paralyzed, fed by a feeding tube, communicate via computer with a voice synthesizer and tethered to a ventilator that I would find more meaning in life and living I am certain that person telling me such a tale was insane.
Yes, my life is very difficult and requires a lot of resources to keep me alive, human and financial. I have considered disconnecting from the ventilator several times, but the reason is never because I had lost my appreciation for life and living.
I was admitted into the hospital and scheduled for tracheotomy surgery the next morning. That night my now ex-wife told me how selfish I was for wanting to live. That my young children had suffered enough and it would cause them only more pain. It was a sickening sense of abandonment. I have absolutely no doubt if I did not have the ability to communicate my desires the surgery would have not taken place.
”David Jayne
See? The pressure to die is fucking everywhere. My experiences aren’t unique. Medical professionals tell you there’s no quality of life. Your own family calls you selfish. It’s everywhere. And for some reason feeding tubes are right about the first step along the way where you really start getting pressured to die rather than accept a medical device into your life. My experiences are the norm not the exception and disabled people are pressured into death constantly when otherwise we might choose to live.
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i love this so much
Subnormality is one of the very, very, very best comics on and off the internet.
Representation Visualization: Time to Wash Those Men Right out of our Hair
Mainly reblogging for the prime Broadway reference from the blogger who wrote this caption ^^^^
hi guys! this is a comic i made for a final in my comics in literature class. we had to do a research paper on a topic we’d discussed in class and then accompany it with a comic with a relevant subject. my paper was about hyper-sexualization of women in comic books, but i decided to broaden it out here as well as personalize it and make myself the subject and discuss something i’ve been subjected to in the convention circuit and on the internet as well as thousands of other women, as well as give a cue to thought about how the comic book industry as well as the video game industry and even just media in general (all of which are male dominated) push such ridiculous pressures onto girls and women.
also, it feels kind of silly to have to add this since i hope it’s obvious, but i am very aware that there are men that don’t subscribe to this attitude, and am incredibly grateful that these issues are brought to light to people other than the ones that are subjected to it.
anyway haha i have literally been staring at this for 9 hours i don’t even know which direction is up anymore. thanks for reading!!!
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Prince of Namek?
This was a triumph
I’m making a note here:It’s hard to overstate my
Aperture Science
We do what we must, becauseFor the good of all of us
Except theBut there’s no sense crying over
You just keep on trying
And the science gets done, and you make a
For the people who are still
Oh God, can’t breath…
Eastern indigo snake knocks it out of the park…
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Photos of Children From Around the World With Their Most Prized Possessions
I really like these kind of projects.
via featureshoot.com
Science!
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Actually, I was prepping that lamb for a sacrifice to Satan.
Why does everyone assume I’m this cute, little angel?
Also, back in the States I live nowhere near Harvard or Stanford - unless you count the Harvard of the Midwest *gag*.
Dude, why are you giving me your personal info right off the bat? I could be a serial killer.
If you were a serial killer why would you have a lamb? Didn’t think of that!
So sad.
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