May 2013
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Why Do Men Keep Putting Me in the Girlfriend-Zone? →
You know how it is, right, ladies? You know a guy for a while. You hang out with him. You do fun things with him
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How Many People in Your County Receive Food... →
Since the turn of the millennium, participation in the food stamp program, known officially as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, has more than doubled to 15 percent of all U.S. residents in January. In some parts of the country, as few as 1 in 20 people receive food stamps. In…
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April 2013
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On the flip side, I remember hearing about a girl... →
To (All) the White Girls Who Didn’t Get Into The College Of Their Dreams:
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Why DO people hate thatcher? →
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african goon: My feminism doesn’t support women... →
maarnayeri:
My feminism doesn’t support women who go to immense lengths to cut services that directly help and benefit other women.
My feminism doesn’t support all women simply because they’re women.
My feminism doesn’t support women who use their power to plunder, steal and exacerbate class gaps.
My…
“Something within her refused to grow. Something endless, eternal. Something...”
– Patti Smith’s beautiful tribute to Virginia Woolf, who took her own life on March 28, 1941. (via explore-blog)
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Wellesley Underground: Harassment Part 2: My Part... →
wellesleyunderground:
I stopped being silent. March 2011.
Casually reading through McSweenies, which I did in my job regularly, I came across this hilarious piece about street harassment and self defense, and naturally this led me to pérouse www.ihollaback.org. This is a website which maps reports of…
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“What a shame that youth is wasted on young people.”
– J.B. Shaw
March 2013
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“Sadly, these days, most people know a gay or two, which clouds our ability to...”
– Stephen Colbert
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According to FRIDA: the term 'feminist' broadly to... →
I am a feminist.
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“Love is Love is Love.”
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Photos of Children From Around the World With... →
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“International institutions were crucial for the consolidation of US hegemony...”
– Nitsan Chorev and Sarah Baab. 2009
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the birds have been bred so large and deformed... →
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Watch
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Wellesley Underground: Harassment Part 1: My Mom... →
wellesleyunderground:
On a seemingly normal day filled with meetings on sustaining an anti-street harassment movement I founded in Istanbul, my mom’s gChat message “Hi Kacie” blinked before me. I had an hour between my next meeting and about 15 things on my to-do list before then. It was 4 a.m. her time, so I took…
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“In the United States, in contrast, drug purchases remained fragmented, and in...”
– Ethan Kapstein and Joshua Busby from “Making Markets for Merit Goods: The Political Economy of Antriretrovirals”
February 2013
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When individual care workers are tapped out, the... →
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“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for...”
– Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (via acideyedrops)
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There are plenty of talented performers in the... →
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“I guess I should also state that Karen and Sharon never hit on me in the...”
– Tina Fey in Bossy Pants
“But as the organization of labor is only another word for the forms of life in...”
– Polanyi, K. The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Times
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So, now that I’ve cleared up the question of who... →
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“The men’s status did not warrant ethical debate. They were subjects, not...”
– In defense of the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, 1972.
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Basically, I’m tired of the guy behind the camera... →
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