Fictitious Reality
Blonde, Book Fiend, Psychology Student, Married, Transplanted Pacific Northwestern, ESTJ, Cat Adorer, Make Up Fanatic, Possibly Cyclothymic and Budding Feminist.
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Quote reblogged from new wave feminismPoverty is not simply having no money — it is isolation, vulnerability, humiliation and mistrust. It is not being able to differentiate between employers and exploiters and abusers. It is contempt for the simplistic illusion of meritocracy — the idea that what we get is what we work for. It is knowing that your mother, with her arthritic joints and her maddening insomnia and her post-traumatic stress disordered heart, goes to work until two in the morning waiting tables for less than minimum wage, or pushes a janitor’s cart and cleans the shit-filled toilets of polished professionals. It is entering a room full of people and seeing not only individual people, but violent systems and stark divisions. It is the violence of untreated mental illness exacerbated by the fact that reality, from some vantage points, really does resemble a psychotic nightmare. It is the violence of abuse and assault which is ignored or minimized by police officers, social services, and courts of law. Poverty is conflict. And for poor kids lucky enough to have the chance to “move up,” it is the conflict between remaining oppressed or collaborating with the oppressor.Megan Lee (via sociolab)
(Source: docs.google.com)
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I disagree, Mr. President. Mothering isn’t the hardest job. Parenting is. And if we’re ever going to get past the gender gap in this country, we need to shift our thinking about mothering vs. parenting.
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Photo reblogged from The Tumblr Dryer
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Photo reblogged from Occupation: Girl on tumblr
(via Avengers on Parade (RIP Maurice Sendak) by ~AgarthanGuide on deviantART)
Image description: the Avengers parade in the style of Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are,drawn sort of like children, I guess? Left to right: Captain America saluting; Iron Man (well, yes, obviously children have scruffy goatees) with Loki’s staff; Black Widow with a grey banner reading “Shield!”; Hawkeye looking kind of—suspiciously at Hulk behind him? Seriously, I don’t know what his deal is; Hulk drawn as one of the Wild Things, about twice as big as everyone else; a very cheerful Thor brandishing his hammer; and Loki, head bowed and mouth covered, on a leash that Thor is holding (seriously? I’m not a Loki fangirl but that is way harsh, Tai).
Thus concludes our morning of adorable Avengers fan art. Maybe.
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Photo reblogged from Getting Started Lads
After filming 2011’s Thor, director Kenneth Branagh noticed that the prop hammer -Mjolnir - had gone missing, distressing the famous director who had planned to keep it as a memento. Actor Tom Hiddleston, a longtime friend of Branagh’s, is reported to have taken the prop. He currently has no plans to return it, and is “not sorry.”
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Video reblogged from John Green's tumblr
A new video in which I discuss traditional marriage, religion, intersexuality, the idea of marriage as a covenant, and the legal rights of gay people to marry.
Thanks for being awesome, Mr Green.
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Photo reblogged from Getting Started Lads
Look at your man. Now back at Loki. Now back at your man. Now back to Loki. Sadly, he isn’t Loki. But if he stopped using lady-scented body wash and switched to Asgard Spice, he could smell like Loki. Look down. Back up. Where are you? You’re in Asgard with the god of mischief that your man could smell like. What’s in your hand? Back at Loki. He has it. It’s a casket from Jotunheim holding two tickets to that thing you love. Look again. The tickets are now diamonds. Anything is possible when your man smells like Asgard Spice and not a lady. Loki’s on a horse.
For Jackietastic and SlytherinMistress.
(Source: bartonesque)
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Quote reblogged from The Ginger FeministYou either like me or you don’t. It took me twenty-something years to learn how to love myself, I don’t have that kinda time to convince somebody else.
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Quote reblogged from The Ginger FeministSelf-care includes holding each other accountable because we are interconnected. Loving ourselves includes learning how not to harm each other. Loving ourselves includes disrupting violent patterns in our homes and community-building spaces.
Alexis Pauline Gumbs, quoted by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha in a transformative justice workshop at Hampshire earlier this year.
Stuff I’m finding as I “clean” my room.
(via verbalprivilege)
This, basically. I’m trying to figure out how to do this.
(via liquornspice)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
(via gingerfeminist)
Exactly.
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Photoset reblogged from The Ginger Feminist
Religion and Gay Marriage (x)
John Green is one of my heroes
FUN FACTS!
There were 11th century same-sex “brother-making” rites which were basically same-sex marriages. The Catholic rite was called the Ordo ad fratres faciendum.
And 4th century Saints Sergius and Bacchus are a well-known same-sex coupling united through the rite of Adelphopoiesis. Again, it was essentially same-sex marriage.
The Orthodox Church isn’t terribly keen on this interpretation these days, but the historical evidence is pretty solid. It is basically contested on the grounds of “Eww gay people, yucky!” I mean that literally. I had a debate with a very learned Antiochian Orthodox person and that was the heart of her argument.
This man is eloquent and right. Also he uses adorable stuffed creatures to illustrate things.
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Post reblogged from Back To The Motor League
So what you may not have realized is that the casting of Lucy Liu as “Joan” Watson in Elementary was just the first step in a plot by Hollywood to ruin ALL your bromances by inserting Lucy Liu.
Take White Collar, for instance. It’s well known for the slashy potential between the two male leads, even though both are canonically heterosexual. But wait!
IT’S LUCY LIU! WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO SHIP NOW?
It’s not just limited to TV, either. How about one of the classic ships, one that practically invented slash?
HA! COCKBLOCKED!
Suits is a show about two dudebro lawyers who are totally gay for each oth-
NOT ANYMORE THEY’RE NOT. GROSS, HETEROSEXUALITY!
Merlin and Arthur are sooo cute…
UGH! VAGINA IN MY SLASH SHIP!
But wait, you say. I’m a multishipper, how can you possibly-
THAT’S RIGHT.
hahahah bless this wonderful post
Ahaha yes this is truth!
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Photoset reblogged from To The O'Sheamobile
…. LORE.
Hedgehogs are part of what make life worth living. They’re just so cute!
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Quote reblogged from The Ginger FeministI have spoken to countless lawyers and they have yet to discover any cases in Florida where an African American was able to successfully use the “Stand Your Ground Law” defense in a hearing.” Another step I will take is to call for a study into racial disparities in the application of this law. What I didn’t see in the courtroom today is mercy or justice. The three year plea deal from Angela Corey is not mercy and a mandatory twenty year sentence is not justice. I hope that the people will come to Marissa’s defense as the system has so utterly failed her. This is just the beginning, not the end.
Congresswoman Corrine Brown on Marissa Alexander (Jacksonville, FL) Ruling (link)
sorry — really should have posted this earlier.
ALSO:
DONATE to her legal defense fund on WePay: https://www.wepay.com/donations/178785
TWITTER page: https://twitter.com/#!/FreeMarissa
2 PETITIONS:
- http://apps.facebook.com/petitions/503/600/056/dont-imprison-marissa-alexander-for-standing-her-ground
- http://www.change.org/petitions/free-marissa-alexander [WARNING for details of the attack]
this page has a phone call campaign & more: http://sisterslead.org/?page_id=89
[…] This a travesty of justice. Tell the Judge and State Attorney that a woman’s safety is not a criminal act.
Call Judge James Daniel at 904-630-7154 and ask for Marissa Alexander to be released now
Call State Attorney Angela Corey at 904-630-7075 ask for Marissa Alexander to be released now
Please also visit our sisterfriend Antonia Vann’s blog, on what you can do to help Marissa Alexander.
http://antonia-advocate.blogspot.com/2012/04/justice-for-marissa-alexander.html[warning for brief mention of details of the assault at that last link]
direct email addresses [from the petition in the above quote]:
- Angela Corey: acorey@coj.net; also a web form is here: http://www.sao4th.com/contact-the-state-attorneys-office/
- Judge Daniel: jprather@coj.net
(via numol)
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Photo reblogged from The Ginger Feminist
![theatlantic:
Yes, America, We Have Executed an Innocent Man
At 11 p.m Monday, the Columbia University Human Rights Review published and posted its Spring 2012 issue — devoted entirely to a single piece of work about the life and death of two troubled and troublesome South Texas men. In explaining to their readers why an entire issue would be devoted to just one story, the editors of the Review said straightly that the “gravity of the subject matter of the Article and the possible far-reaching policy ramifications of its publication necessitated this decision.” […]
The Review article is an astonishing blend of narrative journalism, legal research, and gumshoe detective work. And it ought to end all reasonable debate in this country about whether an innocent man or woman has yet been executed in America since the modern capital punishment regime was recognized by the Supreme Court in 1976. The article is also a clear and powerful retort to Justice Scalia in Kansas v. Marsh: Our capital cases don’t have nearly the procedural safeguards he wants to pretend they do.
Read more. [Image: Corpus Christi Police Department]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m42illHuOP1qcokc4o1_500.jpg)
Yes, America, We Have Executed an Innocent Man
At 11 p.m Monday, the Columbia University Human Rights Review published and posted its Spring 2012 issue — devoted entirely to a single piece of work about the life and death of two troubled and troublesome South Texas men. In explaining to their readers why an entire issue would be devoted to just one story, the editors of the Review said straightly that the “gravity of the subject matter of the Article and the possible far-reaching policy ramifications of its publication necessitated this decision.” […]
The Review article is an astonishing blend of narrative journalism, legal research, and gumshoe detective work. And it ought to end all reasonable debate in this country about whether an innocent man or woman has yet been executed in America since the modern capital punishment regime was recognized by the Supreme Court in 1976. The article is also a clear and powerful retort to Justice Scalia in Kansas v. Marsh: Our capital cases don’t have nearly the procedural safeguards he wants to pretend they do.
Read more. [Image: Corpus Christi Police Department]
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Photo reblogged from Confessions of a Crazy Person
