February 2012
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“This is not just about dishonoring the Koran, it is about disrespecting our dead...”
– Maruf Hotak, commenting about the recent protests in Afghanistan in reaction to its largest U.S. base burning Qur’ans and referring to an episode in Helmand Province when American Marines urinated on the dead bodies of men they described as insurgents and to a recent erroneous airstrike on...
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Me: *looking at my own art*
Me: *fetal position and weeps bitter tears*
Me: *cries a river*
Me: *drowns*
Me: *dead*
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List of things that are difficult:
1. Life.
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The Bechdel Test and Race in Popular Fiction
crystalsavestheday:
1. It has to have two POC in it.
2. Who talk to each other.
3. About something other than a white person.
No Joss Whedon show passes, neither does Supernatural, or Being Human.
Veronica Mars passes, but doesn’t pass the original Bechdel Test.
Check out a few more here.
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“The way for the creative community (and indeed, the entire world) to address...”
– Why Tom and Lorenzo are through with Glee
(via captain-sonic)
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French Socialist Party presidential candidate...
nilecrocodile:
gnimaerd:
nilecrocodile:
golden-zephyr:
In a February 12 interview on Canal Plus TV, François Hollande, Socialist Party candidate for president in the upcoming elections, proposed as a “solution” to the presence in France of Roma European Union (EU) citizens “the creation of camps … to accommodate them”.
The association of a “solution” in relation to specific racial groups...
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I managed not to buy Skyrim,
up until recently. The past 2 months were spent avoiding the game because I knew myself, and I would just waste a few weeks of my life on it. I mean look at it.
The Elder Scrolls series has always had this effect on me and I don’t know how to control it. Seeing as how I’m trying to be productive and take my life places, I can’t afford to waste any time excessively playing...
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“Society has a problem with female nudity when it is not … ”—Badu pauses to get...”
– Erykah Badu: June/July Cover Story [Pg 1] | VIBE (via sexisbeautiful)
Yes, perfect.
(via alienshexv)
BADU!
(via newwavefeminism)
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