Lauren Kelley

Not the romance novelist.

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(via 25 Beautiful Vintage Beverly Cleary Book Covers – Flavorwire)

I still have these paper dolls in one of my “childhood nostalgia” boxes. And I had several of these book covers. <333

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Broad City's Costume Designer on Crop Tops, 'Rihanna Moments'

"Greenbaum has no patience for Carrie Bradshaw levels of wardrobe-income disconnect." Yes. I love this about the show.

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“Grandma,” a film about a sassy grandmother trying to help her granddaughter find the money for abortion, comes down firmly for a woman’s right to choose. By aligning itself with the pro-choice movement, the indie comedy is part of a new string of art house releases taking up the Roe v. Wade mantle at a time when many states and legislators are trying to curb reproductive rights. Time and again the picture embraces the mantra, her body, her choice. “I hope it wasn’t a polemic of any kind, but I’m glad it says what it does,” star Lily Tomlin said when questioned about the film’s abortion rights stance during its Sundance premiere Friday.

‘Grandma,’ ‘Obvious Child’ Show Willingness to Tackle Abortion Issue | Variety Lily fuckin Tomlin.

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Abbi & Ilana as Thelma & Louise

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Everything.

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Fig (by Geoffrey Gilson)

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Nooooooooooooope.

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People always ask me: “are you the same as Blanche Devereaux?”, and I always say: “please, just look at the facts”

- Rue McClanahan

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Is that a vagina on her chest? Bless. Also, apparently the new album is coming out now, since it leaked?

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Dolly Parton: a musical career expressed through language statistic

Dolly + word nerdery = <333

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This is exactly how I feel when I talk to White people about race, racism, privilege, etc…It’s exhausting and confounding at the same damn time.

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"Maybe black people aren’t interested in my job." …….::Flips the table and walks out::

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haha yo she is to done

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Wagatwe!

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Click here or the image to donate! All donations made today, Tuesday, June 25th, 2013, will go to the people’s filibuster!

Don’t know what’s going on in Texas? Read about the filibuster here.

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Covering Texas politics as a feminist journalist, one of the things I hear a lot is: Why don’t you leave? What else do you expect … it’s Texas? To those people, I say this: I see your smugness. It is a sign of passivity and privilege. And it is dangerous.

Andrea Grimes, An Open Letter to Anyone Ready to Write Off Texas: Don’t, Because it’s *Your* Future at Stake (via rhrealitycheck)

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As David McCullough wrote in his book, The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge , "By and by it was common gossip that hers was the great mind behind the great work and that this, the most monumental engineering triumph of the age, was actually the doing of a woman, which as a general proposition was taken in some quarters to be both preposterous and calamitous. In truth, she had by then a thorough grasp of the engineering involved." As the project faced delays and cost increases, skepticism mounted that the bridge could be completed under Washington Roebling's guidance and it was proposed that he be removed as chief engineer. Emily Roebling wrote down her husband's statement, citing the reasons why he should not be displaced. She delivered it as an address before the American Society of Civil Engineers - a brave move on her part, as women who spoke in public often were not well-received in those days.

Roebling, Emily Warren

I've always been sort of obsessed with the Brooklyn Bridge, but I became more so last year after Cristian took me on a tour of it led by a woman from the Brooklyn Historical Society. She taught us about the bridge's largely unrecognized feminist history: Emily Roebling (the wife and daughter-in-law of the two dudes who always get credit for designing and building the bridge) totally built that shit!

Today the Brooklyn Bridge turns 130, so pour one out for Em.Roeb.

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After Big Kitty had his drink from the sink this morning, George got up there to... do whatever he's doing here.

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Spirit animal.