boom.

"there is no intimacy like that between two women who have chosen to be sisters"

Thu, 23 May 2013 11:00:32 -0700

“there is no intimacy like that between two women who have chosen to be sisters”

- Warsan Shire (via bloomlotus)

this is beautiful

(via madeineightyeight)

since I can no longer reblog myself, I’m going to link an older post. I will always talk about...

Thu, 23 May 2013 01:02:01 -0700

since I can no longer reblog myself, I’m going to link an older post. I will always talk about Malayalam films I know about before Bollywood because other people talk about that all the time, so: http://indigocrayon.tumblr.com/post/30272381754/i-saw-this-with-my-mom-like-maybe-a-year-or-more

I don’t have any other recommendations for you because I don’t really watch anything also I haven’t saved any primer type sort of lists, but I’m sure they’re floating around.

Bridge to arts, UCI my campus is super pretty okay

Thu, 23 May 2013 00:48:12 -0700

Bridge to arts, UCI

my campus is super pretty okay

"Let no one be fooled by the fact that we may write in English, for we intend to do unheard of things..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:06:32 -0700

“Let no one be fooled by the fact that we may write in English, for we intend to do unheard of things with it.”

- Chinua Achebe in response to Ngugi Wa’Thiongo’s Decolonising the Mind (via browngirlinorange)

Bluestockings Book Bonanza | June 1-2

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:17:21 -0700

Bluestockings Book Bonanza | June 1-2:

marxvx:

Manhattan’s best radical bookstore is celebrating their 14th birthday with a weekend celebration and a huge sale of used books as low as $2

I really like hanging out with fleecy ;~; we had dinner with her parents for her birthday and she...

Wed, 22 May 2013 21:58:25 -0700

I really like hanging out with fleecy ;~;

we had dinner with her parents for her birthday and she and I both got a strawberry mojito and it was delicious and we brought chels some snacks earlier in the day and we took pictures and drew and it was a gr9 day

"The Oxford English Dictionary accepts both pronunciations. They are wrong. It is a soft ‘G,’..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 18:42:19 -0700

“The Oxford English Dictionary accepts both pronunciations. They are wrong. It is a soft ‘G,’ pronounced ‘jif.’ End of story.”

- Steve Wilhite, the creator of the GIF, chiming in on the pronunciation of the word. (As everyone knows, choosy memes choose “jif.”) Wilhite, a former CompuServe employee, created the format in 1987 and is to receive an award for his creation tonight. (via shortformblog)

Here’s a gif with a hard “g” to commemorate such an important announcement:

(via mohandasgandhi)

brief and lazy thoughts on bullshit marketing schemes from an angry Greek-Irooni girl

Tue, 21 May 2013 18:40:22 -0700

aloofshahbanou:

I listen to music on youtube at work and I just saw one of those fucking obnoxious ads for “Athenos: Made the Greek Way” (LOL KRAFT FOODS, INCORPORATED, LOL) and the ways in which these commercials pathologize elderly Greek women in the form of Crazy-Mean-and-Shrouded Yiayia™ really infuriate me because everyone and their goddamn brother is taught to lump Greeks into this bullshit Western European category — “Greeks are white bro!!1111 Like Italians, you know!!!111 They’re like Italians!11111 They live by the ocean ‘n shit???!!111111666 They’re European, bro!!!11111666 They’re ethnic white Europeans!!1111111666”*** — but then we are fucking inundated with images that Orientalize Greeks, thereby marking the ways they speak, their behaviors, their corporealities as Other. (This simultaneous denial and acknowledgement of Greeks’ subjugated positionality is imo very parallel to the Euro-American treatment of MENA folks who are conveniently deemed “white” on paper yet punished for their Brownness in their day-to-day lives.) This isn’t necessarily my field of expertise and I would strongly recommend visiting Evelyn’s extraordinary blog for more information on why Greece is more Middle Eastern than you would ever fucking think, but I do have a lot of lived experiences as someone who is part Greek and I just want to say that we all have some fucking major unlearning to do.

***Greece didn’t even join the European Union until 1981. Does Christos look “white” to you?

I feel weird reading about nature when it’s so explicitly gendered female. Obviously when it comes...

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:23:05 -0700

I feel weird reading about nature when it’s so explicitly gendered female. Obviously when it comes to language of controlling nature/woman, etc. But also when it’s done in ecofeminist work or talking about the earth respectfully (maybe that’s weird wording but idk how else to convey that succinctly).

Not to say that I don’t understand the importance of talking about the gendering of nature bc it is important and there’s a history, and in that way I see the importance of recognizing that nature has been equated with women.

things to do so I don’t forget: buy scantron readings for WS reading for vietnam war class +...

Tue, 21 May 2013 03:10:59 -0700

things to do so I don’t forget:

buy scantron
readings for WS
reading for vietnam war class + post on messageboard before discussion
readings for other WS class
stuff for human rights journal
apply for honors in sociol
look at those things i was thinking about for the summer
adfklajdfladkjfdsla f

but now, sleep

pls wake up on time pls wake up on time pls wake up on time

Dominic Dickinson Official Statement

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:57:37 -0700

godisgreat2016:

To: University of California, Irvine Administration, its affiliates, and the general public

My name is Dominic A. Dickinson and I am currently a first year at the University of California, Irvine. On January 18, 2013 the offenders by the name of Joseph Baek and Tracie Martinez committed an act of violence in the form of Racial Harassment. The Words “Nigger/Nigga” where said around me multiple times. I have asked both of the offenders to stop using the n word at one point, however it has continued for a whole quarter. As a result of this, I had to move out of my freshmen dorm in middle earth and have been tossed around by the UCI administration more than 30 times. I believe that every person regardless of gender, race, national origin, religion, age, marital status, sexual orientation or disability should feel safe and comfortable wherever they choose to live because we all should get the same opportunity to succeed without any acts of discrimination. I, Dominic Dickinson believe that the UC Irvine Student Housing be held accountable because these incidents happen every single year and they refer to these racial harassment incidents as “rare”. During winter quarter, several black freshman students had to move out of their dorms in both the Mesa and Middle Earth communities. Often times, freshman students have nowhere to go because their RA’s (Resident Advisors) have limited training. Resident Advisors are hired to carry out Chancellor Michael Drake Pillars of Excellence (academic excellence, research excellence, leadership excellence and character excellence). If racial harassment incidents are happening every year in the housing communities than it is the housing staffs responsibility to reslove these issues.The housing staff says that they are “investigating” these incidents; however they are swept under the rug. In conclusion, I Dominic Dickinson will continue to work with the Black Student Union at UC Irvine to help end Anti Blackness incidents on the UC Irvine Campus.

Respectfully Signed,

Dominic Dickinson (05/19/13)

“While there is Racism, We will not Rest.” (UC Irvine Black Student Union 12-13)

Doing the practice test for stats while listening to my instrumental pandora station (wow I...

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:55:32 -0700

Doing the practice test for stats while listening to my instrumental pandora station (wow I haven’t used pandora in forever!) and recalled a memory from one of my math classes (before I switched my major) and I really liked that prof, man.

Like I don’t care what anyone says, California will always be the best to me ;-;

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:59:18 -0700

Like I don’t care what anyone says, California will always be the best to me ;-;

Why Elementary is probably my favourite show on tv at the moment.

Mon, 20 May 2013 10:11:49 -0700

dreaming-of-a-fairytale:

Spoilers for pretty much the whole of season 1, obvs.

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sometimes i feel so thrown by everything bc I can’t understand or get on the level (and I...

Sun, 19 May 2013 12:07:13 -0700

sometimes i feel so thrown by everything bc I can’t understand or get on the level (and I never will be able to bc it’s not for me and I will never feel it) of like spirtiual-ness that some people I follow talk about. and i can’t see my activism or my life or anything through that angle. and I dont understand what they’re saying beyond a very superficial level because I can’t understand it enough to get to the real deep stuff they’re saying. bc i can’t feel it.

and then i feel false bc oh man ur brown u should be like that or smth but that’s some terrible internalized essentializing i’m doing so bluh. but I’m good at telling myself not to listen to that part of myself and that I’m wrong so it’s okay

I was so ready to write about how angry and tired I am but now that I’m back inside the house...

Sun, 19 May 2013 12:00:53 -0700

I was so ready to write about how angry and tired I am but now that I’m back inside the house and have changed back to house clothes and eaten some chocolate covered acai berries or whatever it’s hard to type out the anger. i don’t wanna go to work today tho. but it’s a sunday and people like to spend their money on expensive clothes so idk they’ll probably use my call in

laffbending: can we just remember that joan calling irene a ‘bitch’ comes directly after irene...

Sun, 19 May 2013 10:08:00 -0700

laffbending:

can we just remember that joan calling irene a ‘bitch’ comes directly after irene dehumanizes joan, a woman of color, as a ‘mascot’?

and yet i’ve seen twice as many complaints about joan’s misogyny than i have about irene’s racism (and hell, not even going to cut corners, racialized misogyny since it’s dehumanizing a woman of color as an object for a white man)?

wish some of y’all would take racism as seriously as you do misogyny =|

Me and fleecy being silly

Sat, 18 May 2013 22:12:59 -0700

Me and fleecy being silly

thegrandstonedblood: mybluedecember: princess-munchkin: How...

Sat, 18 May 2013 00:53:59 -0700

thegrandstonedblood:

mybluedecember:

princess-munchkin:

How the fuck does Bill Nye expect this to happen? What do you want to do, force women to enroll in science courses, regardless of whether or not they want to do it? Just for the sake of having “enough” women? Why the fuck do these fractions matter so much? It’s not like people are holding guns to our head and threatening to kill us if we become interested in science.

Maybe, just maybe, a lot of us DON’T FUCKING WANT to be scientists. Is that a crime?

Hi there, princess-munchkin. Female engineering student here.

Bill Nye is not saying that you HAVE to be a scientist, and you are right that no one is holding a gun to my head because I am interested in science, but let me tell you some of the struggles of being a woman in the STEM fields.

1) Because I am a woman, I am not expected these fields. I first fully realized this when I was in high school, on my robotics team. See, although my robotics team was about 50% female, most of the women were part of the “business administration” side of things: finance, marketting, PR, membership, etc. Was this a problem? Absolutely not. But I was there to be an engineer, and specifically, to be the robot programmer. This was met with a lot of hesitation at first from some of the other students (all of whom happened to be male. This is not necessarily a bad thing.) You see, all of the robot programmers before me were guys. Computer programming is just a thing that guys do, or so they thought. Even after I had proved myself to the mentors on the team, many of the students still underestimated my abilities. There were rumors going around that I wouldn’t have been able to program the robot at all if the lead software mentor wasn’t there to help me. This was just flat-out false, but it wasn’t until I won an award for the team that the other students actually saw my merit.

2) There is not a lot of encouragement for women to go into these fields. I first noticed this when I was in elementary school. I was always interested in math, science, you name it, but many of my teachers and family members pushed that to the side for a long time. When I asked for legos for christmas, I would get ballet slippers. In fact, for a long time, I was training to be a professional dancer. I loved to dance. I loved math more, but no one seemed to notice that about me. It wasn’t until I had a long conversation with one particular teacher in high school that I decided to look into engineering. I had never even considered it as an option before, because no one decided to encourage me to pursue my interest in science. If it hadn’t been for that teacher, I would probably not be at the school I am at right now.

3) For a long time, Engineering/Science/Math WAS a “boys only” club. Let me tell you when some of the top technical schools and societies started letting women in:

RPI, The oldest tech school in the country, founded in 1824. Started admitting women in 1942 to “replace men called to war.” Campus housing for women wasn’t constructed until 1966.

Tau Beta Pi, the Engineering Honors Society - Founded in 1885. Started admitting women in 1968.

Caltech - Currently rated #3 in undergraduate engineering. Founded in 1891. Started admitting women in 1970.

Georgia Tech - Currently rated #5 in undergraduate engineering. Founded in 1885. Started admitting women in 1952.

Do you see the implications of this? Engineering has been a part of our society since around the late 1800s (in the case of RPI, since the 1820s), but women weren’t even allowed in for the most part until the 1950s, regardless of their merit.

4) Because of the fact that it was a “boys only” club for such a long time, there are not a lot of women engineers and scientists to look up to. When you’re reading your physics, chemistry, and math text books, the majority of those theories were came up with by men. It is true that much of our history was written by White Men, but this does not mean that the fact that there are few women scientists to look up does not matter.

So, as you can hopefully see, princess-munckin, or anyone else that shares the opinions of princess-munchkin, Bill Nye was not arguing that women that are not interested in STEM should go into those fields anyway. But he IS arguing against all of the systematic barriers set up against women who ARE interested in engineering and science. There are several women out there who are just as good as the boys at math and science, but will never pursue their interests because it just doesn’t seem like an option. That was me for a long time. I am super grateful for the fact that I fought against that, and that I ended up where I am.

if you don’t like science, fine. Don’t be a scientist. But if one day you have a daughter and she shows interest in being a scientist, PLEASE encourage her. Because Bill Nye is right, there need to be more women scientists in the world.

bless u female engineering student, and fuck you princess munchkin. Honestly “I CANT BELIEVE BILL NYE IS SAYING WE SHOULD ALL HAVE TO BE SCIENTISTS GAH THE PATRIARCHY”

shut the fuck up

Haha, I’d probably make several posts on tumblr going...

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:36:51 -0700

Haha, I’d probably make several posts on tumblr going “omg idk if i should cut my haaaair” before I got a pixie cut (or any cut) so you’d all know early lolol