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[micdotcom]

[blasianxbri]

BITCH THIS TEA IS PIPING FUCKING HOT. I BURNT MY MOUTH SIPPING ON THIS SHIT.

[riovidalll]

FUCKING ROASTED

[divine-noire]

YALL LEFT OUT THE ENDING THOUGH!!

“And ain’t that just like White Feminism? Always getting up on somebody else’s back!”

And plot twist, Rachel (this poet) is Black. Her dad is just light skin as all hell.

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GoFundMe Freezes $184K Donated To Homeless College Student After Woman Questions His Story : Ice Cream Convos

Casey Blaney, the woman who launched a GoFundMe to help Fred Barley, had a change of heart after he objected her plans for the money. Get the scoop.

Ya’ll seen this shit? This has me hot

Evil white bitch

[be-blackstar]

Wow

[eskingregal]

Sounds like somebody thought she could have her own Blindside moment...I don’t understand this. Especially being cagey about the “questions have come up”...talk about shady. 

[micdotcom]

6,000 Kenyans are going to be given a yearly salary just for being alive

GiveDirectly, a charity that sends cash to people in Kenya and Uganda, is raising $30 million to fund a program that will give 6,000 Kenyans a basic living wage, no matter what, for 10 years. The future of humanity could depend on what happens to these Kenyans. 

[seriesofnonsequiturs]

“6,000 Kenyans are going to be given a yearly salary just for being alive”?

C’mon, mic.com writers, I know you’re all about the clickbait, but there were so many better ways of phrasing that. The inflammatory way your wrote that headline sounds like you feel those 6,000 Kenyans are undeserving and that people don’t have a basic right to survival. Like…I don’t even know.

Not only that, but look at the picture you used, Mic.dom: 

The foreground is fine: man using a wheelbarrow to transport apples, maybe to market because he’s a small business owner or farmer or something, which is cool. 

Though he’s also looking down at the ground, seems kind of dispirited or something. 

But the background? a wall graffitti picture of a baby smoking marijuana with the words “rasta baby” painted right next to it? And “motherless child” painted under that?

Like, I don’t know the context of the art, but I do know that pairing a picture of a baby on drugs under the headline “Kenyans get money just for being alive” implies the worst of “welfare queen” racist stereotypes. or racist drug using stereotypes. Something pretty unsavory.

Check out the contrast with this headline from The Verge:

“Tech’s favorite policy, universal basic income, is about to get its first big test”

Pretty informative, naming a concept universal basic income which has garnered a lot of interest lately.

Paired with a picture of a smiling woman looking directly at the camera, holding up some technology, her cell phone. There’s a lot of positive energy in this picture.

Do you see the difference?

Mic.com writers, Jack Smith IV , editors, whoever

You folks really need to work on your sociological imagery and implications.

[yungcrybby-anonymousbosch666]

^^^ thank you, that was so well written

[eskingregal]

Yes. Thank you. 

[meladoodle]

OOP

[eskingregal]

Exactly.

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[eskingregal]

All of this. 

[angryartist113]

“Is This Healthy” is a comic that I made for an independent study in which I looked deeper into the idea of health, mental, physical, and emotional as it relates to myself.

This project was extremely personal and I thank any of you who take the time to read it

[rissaisangry]

The clay part…I’ve been thinking about that a lot

[be-blackstar]

that last part 

[eskingregal]

Yes. So much of this hit home. Hard.

[liquidlightandrunningtrees]

I detest the masculine point of view. I am bored by his heroism, virtue, and honour. I think the best these men can do is not talk about themselves anymore.

Virginia Woolf, The Pargiters (via liquidlightandrunningtrees)

[hairofthemovement-blog]

Photos from Baltimore photographer Devin Allen

[be-blackstar]

“the rise of the woman = the rise of the nation” 

[eamondaly]

[sandandglass]

Bryan Stevenson on The Daily Show.

[bowerycorp]

Spread this everywhere, because the man is 100% right.

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Licia Ronzulli, member of the European Parliament, has been taking her daughter Vittoria to the Parliament sessions for two years now.

[ceevee5]

Every time this is on my dash, it’s an automatic reblog.

[cultureshift]

Life. There’s always a way to make it work.

[awaiting-my-escape]

This woman runs PARLIAMENT with a baby in her lap and she’s CLEARLY doing an outstanding job because she’s still there being a total boss two years later, baby still in her lap.

"A baby will destroy your career-"

Really

Are you sure?

Because I’m pretty sure that Licia Ronzulli would laugh at that declaration.

[vxhtdkggyigb]

There is no unmarked woman. There is no woman’s hair style that can be called standard, that says nothing about her. The range of women’s hair styles is staggering, but a woman whose hair has no particular style is perceived as not caring about how she looks, which can disqualify her for many positions, and will subtly diminish her as a person in the eyes of some. Women must choose between attractive shoes and comfortable shoes. When our group made an unexpected trek, the woman who wore flat, laced shoes arrived first. Last to arrive was the woman in spike heels, shoes in hand and a handful of men around her. If a woman’s clothing is tight or revealing (in other words, sexy), it sends a message — an intended one of wanting to be attractive, but also a possibly unintended one of availability. If her clothes are not sexy, that too sends a message, lent meaning by the knowledge that they could have been. There are thousands of cosmetic products from which women can choose and myriad ways of applying them. Yet no makeup at all is anything but unmarked. Some men see it as a hostile refusal to please them. Women can’t even fill out a form without telling stories about themselves. Most forms give four titles to choose from. “Mr.” carries no meaning other than that the respondent is male. But a woman who checks “Mrs.” or “Miss” communicates not only whether she has been married but also whether she has conservative tastes in forms of address — and probably other conservative values as well. Checking “Ms.” declines to let on about marriage (checking “Mr.” declines nothing since nothing was asked), but it also marks her as either liberated or rebellious, depending on the observer’s attitudes and assumptions.

Wears Jump Suit. Sensible Shoes. Uses Husband’s Last Name. (originally titled “Marked Women, Unmarked Men”) by Deborah Tannen. (via ibt-w)

[dapussnboots]

[interpretivescreaming]

What every day of my life feels like

[eskingregal]

Word!

[erikacpataki]

All of this is typical girl-fear. Once you realize that The Exorcist is, essentially, the story of a 12-year-old who starts cussing, masturbating, and disobeying her mother—in other words, going through puberty—it becomes apparent to the feminist-minded viewer why two adult men are called in to slap her around for much of the third act. People are convinced that something spooky is going on with girls; that, once they reach a certain age, they lose their adorable innocence and start tapping into something powerful and forbidden. Little girls are sugar and spice, but women are just plain scary. And the moment a girl becomes a woman is the moment you fear her most. Which explains why the culture keeps telling this story.

salamandajane for you, friend...

Rookie, The Season of the Witch

For readings on the correlation in horror between puberty and the monstrous, see:

Barbara Creed’s The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism and Psychoanalysis (specifically, the chapter called “Woman As Possessed Monster”)

Aviva Briefel’s “Monster Pains: Masochism, Menstruation, and Identification in Horror Film”

“‘The Hair That Wasn’t There Before’: Demystifying Monstrosity and Menstruation in Ginger Snaps and Ginger Snaps Unleashed”

Bianca Nielson’s “Something’s Wrong, Like More Than You Being Female”: Transgressive Sexuality and Discourses of Reproduction in Ginger Snaps”

Shelley Stamp Lindsey’s “Horror, Femininity, and Carrie’s Monstrous Puberty”

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[idiotavant]

eskingregal Thankin bout u

[eskingregal]

idiotavant U R the BEST!

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[vintagegal]

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