Black Holes & Black Hearts

The (often late night) ramblings of a theoretical physics student with fibromyalgia. Brace yourself for tea and swearing.

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It’s finished! Feel free to use this, just credit me please!

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http://www.unamccormack.com/

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Whenever I hear the “Women are paid $.78 for the man’s $1” I flip it around. Men make $1.22 for every woman’s $1. It interests me that even the most common simple measure of gender inequality is firmly based on male-as-normative …

bisexual activist and queer theory blogger Patrick RichardsFink 

this is an interesting point, although mathematically inaccurate: assuming the women:men, 0.78:1 ratio is correct, men make $1.28 for every woman’s $1

A white man makes $1.34 for every dollar that a black man makes

A white man makes $1.52 for every dollar that a latino man makes

A white man makes $1.24 for every dollar that a white woman makes

A white man makes $1.44 for every dollar that a black woman makes

A white man makes $1.67 for every dollar that a latina woman makes

That’s some bullshit right there.

Let’s take it a step further. For every hour a white man works, a black woman has to work 86 minutes to earn as much money. 57.6 hours a week compared to the white man’s 40.

Take it another step further. Assuming a Monday through Friday, 9 to 5 job, from Thursday 12:45pm through Friday end of business, a white man gets paid for his work, a black woman is, by comparison, working for free.

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despite.

with chronic illness, everything is “despite.”

today I feel good, despite the low-level migraine and the aching in my joints. I can go out and have fun, despite. I can dance, despite. I can love, despite. I will live, despite.

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Anglesey - Wales (by Matthew Savage) 

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when u used to be an overachiever but now ur barely running on enough energy to function and u dont know how to cope

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I remember first learning that you can cry from any emotion, that emotions are chemical levels in your brain and your body is constantly trying to maintain equilibrium. so if one emotion sky rockets, that chemical becomes flagged and signals the tear duct to open as an exit to release that emotion packaged neatly within a tear. Everything made sense after learning that. That sudden stability of your emotions after crying. How crying is often accompanied by the inability to feel any other emotion in that precise moment. And it is especially beautiful knowing that it is even possible to experience so much beauty or love or happiness that your body literally can’t hold on to all of it. So what I’ve learned is that crying signifies that you are feeling as much as humanely possible and that is living to the fullest extent. So keep feeling and cry often and as much as needed

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My gorgeous B&N edition of P&P.

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