Livetweet The Revolution

There will be singing, there will be dancing, there will be socialist republics based on equality and respect.

[vam-van]

[sexorcismo]

Miam

[piragon-deactivated20151215]

Potatoes are proof God loves us and wants us to be happy

[deathbeforediet]

oh my god

[nihil--morari-deactivated201510]

x

[iridescent-tendencies]

Persephone is the goddess of flowers and is adorable and smart and she probably only wears pastels and at the same time she’s the queen of hell and if that’s not life goals I don’t know what is

[somebogwitch]

Battleground (International Women’s Day Poem)

This was about reproductive rights when I first starting writing it, but i hadn’t even finished before I could feel parallels with transgender recognition issues and even sexuality. It’s a poem about bodily autonomy first and foremost but self-determination and oppression in the media as well. Basically if you see yourself in this then it’s for you. I wrote this a while ago and performed it last week for the first time but today seemed like a good time to upload it.

[toddalquist]

Me and literallyprincecharming are the Harry and Hermione the world deserves

[fullpraxisnow]

1. Single moms are the problem. Only 9 percent of low-income, urban moms have been single throughout their child’s first five years. Thirty-five percent were married to, or in a relationship with, the child’s father for that entire time.

2. Absent dads are the problem. Sixty percent of low-income dads see at least one of their children daily. Another 16 percent see their children weekly.

3. Black dads are the problem. Among men who don’t live with their children, black fathers are more likely than white or Hispanic dads to have a daily presence in their kids’ lives.

4. Poor people are lazy. In 2004, there was at least one adult with a job in 60 percent of families on food stamps that had both kids and a nondisabled, working-age adult.

5. If you’re not officially poor, you’re doing okay. The federal poverty line for a family of two parents and two children in 2012 was $23,283. Basic needs cost at least twice that in 615 of America’s cities and regions.

6. Go to college, get out of poverty. In 2012, about 1.1 million people who made less than $25,000 a year, worked full time, and were heads of household had a bachelor’s degree.

7. We’re winning the war on poverty. The number of households with children living on less than $2 a day per person has grown 160 percent since 1996, to 1.65 million families in 2011.

8. The days of old ladies eating cat food are over. The share of elderly single women living in extreme poverty jumped 31 percent from 2011 to 2012.

9. The homeless are drunk street people. One in 45 kids in the United States experiences homelessness each year. In New York City alone, 22,000 children are homeless.

10. Handouts are bankrupting us. In 2012, total welfare funding was 0.47 percent of the federal budget.

[wilwheaton]

10 Poverty Myths, Busted | Mother Jones

[wildbeewitch]

Irish Kitchen Witch New Blog Giveaway

To celebrate having finally started this blog after talking about it for so long I am giving away two of my witch/pagan books.

A Year of Ritual by Sandra Kynes is a brilliantly structured set of rituals for every Sabbat and Esbat. 

The Study of Witchcraft by Deborah Lipp takes a very academic approach to learning about witchcraft with looks of further reading recommendations for specialist areas. 

For a chance to win both those books you just have to:

1. Follow irishkitchenwitch

2. Reblog this post. 

Good luck and blessed be.

[t4lkn3rdyt0m3]

This movie is the perfect example of why a bard and a rogue should never leave the party and go off on their own adventure.

[booksandteaandlifeandthings]

You guys know about vampires? You know, vampires have no reflections in a mirror? There’s this idea that monsters don’t have reflections in a mirror. And what I’ve always thought isn’t that monsters don’t have reflections in a mirror. It’s that if you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level, any reflection of themselves. And growing up, I felt like a monster in some ways. I didn’t see myself reflected at all. I was like, “Yo, is something wrong with me? That the whole society seems to think that people like me don’t exist? And part of what inspired me, was this deep desire that before I died, I would make a couple of mirrors. That I would make some mirrors so that kids like me might seem themselves reflected back and might not feel so monstrous for it.

From Junot Diaz’s talk at Bergen Community College, New Jersey. (via booksandteaandlifeandthings)

[universalequalityisinevitable]

Peter Joseph on structural violence, from this video.

[livetweettherevolution]

When the Avengers reunite

Tony: Sorry guys, I blew up all my suits

Steve: Sorry guys, I lost my shield

Thor: Sorry guys, I had the chance to be king of Asgard and have like infinite power but I said 'naw'

Natasha and Clint: Sorry guys, the huge organization that used to help us all out ended up being evil and corrupt

Fury: Haha who knows where the fuck I am

Bruce: What the fuck guys

[marvel-x-deactivated20200121]

I have yet to read a novel in which female characters have menstrual cycles

me, because badass girls taking down a vague yet menacing government agency or riding dragons to glory still get their periods (via darn-you-cumberbatch)

[bibaaaaaaas]

[cybergata]

[faethverity]

These are not owls.

[salparadisewasright-deactivated]

are you sure

[nolmenass]

It’s the music that we choose, Gorillaz 19-2000

[rainbowstufffuckyeah]

[wildbeewitch]

Butternut Squash and Red Pepper Soup (with some French rustic bread)

Prepare a good vegetable stock (onions, potato, celery are all good)

Quarter one or two squashes with two to three sweet red peppers (cored) brush on some olive oil, dust with paprika and garlic and roast in a hot oven for a least 20 minutes though use your judgement. 

Chop them up, put into you stock with an onion, a potato and seasoning. Simmer for 20-30 mins.

Allow to cool then blend with a hand blender before reheating to eat. 

Particularly nice with a little ground black pepper. 

[zreyta]

Marginalized sexual/romantic orientations represented as the real and very accurate mythical creatures they are.

This is based on a tumblr text post, but… I can’t find it anymore… 

You can drag them ! They are transparent !