February 2012
26 posts
Rosa Parks was never a passive grandma who decided... →
brazenbitch:
Rosa Parks was never a passive grandma who decided one day to refuse to sit in the back of the bus.
She was a badass anti-whiteness radical who worked for years prior to the boycott as a secratary for the NAACP of Montgomery (1943) to investigate interracial sexualized violence of black women used by white supremacists in the south as a means to sustain racial hierarchy.
By the age...
Occupy All Streets: Race and incarceration in the... →
zeezeescorner:
Philip N. Cohen posted this chart comparing the rates of incarceration across racial groups in the USA (via Sociological Images). Cohen writes:
to understand the disparate impact of this change on Black men in young adulthood primarily — and secondarily, Latino men — here…
That time of year again
all the dummies with ashy foreheads.
“Tequila and ginger ale. One of the nicknames I have on the set is Hugh the Daddy...”
– Hugh Bonneville, the actor who plays the Earl of Grantham in Downton Abbey, on what he is drinking currently.
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Hey there
It’s been a while
September 2011
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July 2011
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May 2011
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sofuckingmetal:
Hiking with the Hulk is so fucking metal.
April 2011
36 posts
I may be a terrible person
but watching the futile spectacle of someone chasing after a departing bus brings me such joy. I think it encompasses the tragic hilarity of life, or whatever.
“For one, college itself tuned out to have a lot of moral hypocrisy about it,...”
– David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King
Fuck!
So, I lock my bike to the bike rack across the street from the school near my dad’s apartment. I hang out with my mom for about three hours, come back outside and my back wheel is gone. I hate to be melodramatic but fuck everything.