The Life and Times of A Lazy Panda

I block all porn blogs that follow me 

[rizahmad]

Typecast as a terrorist | Riz Ahmed | The Long Read

The Long Read: As my acting career developed, I was no longer cast as a radical Muslim – except at the airport

[…] The holding pen was filled with 20 slight variations of my own face, all staring at me – kind of like a Bollywood remake of Being John Malkovich. It was a reminder: you are a type, whose face says things before your mouth opens; you are a signifier before you are a person; you are back at stage one.

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u don’t believe in getting children vaccinated because vaccines “cause autism”

[summoningspark]

allistic people reblogging this makes me happy

[fyeahbangtaned]

this part is my favorite

[choazy]

congrats on graduating kim seokjin !! we’re so proud of you :’) 💐💖✨

[gopokethings]

[chibird]

Some days we are strong enough to fight. Some days we are not, and that’s okay. It’s really tough, really tiring to fight every day. Don’t feel bad for needing time to rest.

[weirdnessisgood]

[geminijunction]

https://sites.tufts.edu/gerrymandr/

[khealywu]

This is awesome! I.

[sanguinarysanguinity]

A 5-day summer school will be offered at Tufts University from August 7-11, 2017, with the principal purpose of training mathematicians to be expert witnesses for court cases on redistricting and gerrymandering.

Topics covered in the summer school will include:

the legal history of the Voting Rights Act and its subsequent renewals, extensions, and clarifications;

an explanation of “traditional districting principles,” especially compactness;

a course in metric geometry and mathematical ideas for perimeter-free compactness;

basic rudiments of GIS and the technical side of how shapefiles work;

training on being an expert witness;

ideas for incorporating voting and civil rights into mathematics teaching.

Some of the sessions in the summer school will be open to the public, and others will be limited to official participants.  Partial funding for participants’ expenses will be available. The summer school is aimed at, but not limited to, people with doctoral training in mathematics. Preference will be given to those who can stay for the full week.

Applications will be accepted from February 15 – March 31.

[blackness-by-your-side]

[russianspacegeckosexparty]

When a Native American/First Nations person tells you that you’re being appropriative by using spirit animals/power animals, that is NOT the time for you to try educating them about your “enlightened” spirituality and how “spirit/power animals aren’t just yours" 

[creativenative1981-deactivated2]

This is very important

[blackness-by-your-side]

Transgender rights are human rights! I #StandWithGavin.

Show your support for Gavin.

[nightlifemingus]

My ideal morning: I wake up, get out of bed, get into another bed that is warmer and softer, and fall asleep

[jigglypuffsvevo]

my kink is closing doors so that i am in complete solitude

[mashable]

Food for thought from one of the greatest living writers, Tori Morrison. 

[sauvamente]

Happy Birthday Mama Toni

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[archatlas]

Coming Home: Ballet Dancers in the Streets of Puerto Rico by Omar Z. Robles

Omar Z Robles is an Official Fujifilm X-Photographer based in NYC. His interest in storytelling began with one man: Marcel Marceau. The legendary mime actor taught him how to interpret the world through subtle but riveting movements. Those movements that he acquired as a student in Paris, he employs today in his photo series of ballet dancers.

In New York City, he transformed the aesthetic of his street photography by substituting the New Yorker with the New York dancer. Robles directed the dancers to tell stories with their bodies as he had learned from Marceau. The results were an army of miniature stories as told by the gentle flow of the dancers’ bodies.

Follow the Source Link for image sources and more information.

[thisisnotchina]

The Stir-Fried Tomatoes and Eggs My Chinese Mother Made

This dish of savory, sweet-tart tomato sauce folded around soft-scrambled eggs is a taste of home.

It’s the kind of dish that people say is the first thing they learned to cook, that fed them when they left home, that inspires sudden and irresistible cravings. But when my hunger struck, I had no idea how to make it. I looked in my Chinese cookbooks, but it appeared in exactly none of them. Calling up my mother to ask her, I knew, would be like asking her to describe how to tie shoelaces: almost impossible to articulate, buried so deep in her muscle memory. In Chinese cooking, this dish is like air, present and invisible.

I knew that I wasn’t going to figure out a recipe for it, because I realized that my not knowing how to make this dish was akin to my Cantonese getting rusty, to not knowing when Chinese New Year is every year. It’s because I’m not an immigrant, only a son of immigrants, and so I know only the frayed facsimile of the world that my parents grew up in. Being part of a culture without living in it is like being in a long-distance relationship. You can make it work with grand displays of affection and splendid visits, but you don’t get to have coffee together on a Sunday morning — the little things, the stuff daily life is built on. I knew that if I were to have this recipe, it would have to come to me through my people or not at all.