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I stand with Standing Rock, and there are a number of ways you can too. From the ACLU:

“In below freezing weather last night, law enforcement deployed tear gas, water cannons, percussion grenades, and rubber bullets against hundreds protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline.

News reports confirm over 160 people have been injured.

This sovereign nation of the Standing Rock Sioux – one of many constantly threatened by environmental injustice – is fighting to keep its water safe and clean by means of an historic protest.

But law enforcement agencies are treating them like wartime enemies. Riot police raiding a protest camp even yanked indigenous people from prayer in sweat lodges.

North Dakota has received $3 million worth of military equipment from the federal government through the Defense Department’s 1033 program. On top of that, more than a half dozen states have sent equipment and officers to North Dakota.

Tell the DOJ to investigate possible constitutional violations and suspend police use of federally supplied military equipment.”

You can sign the ACLU’s petition to the Department of Justice (just a few thousand more signatures are needed) HERE.

You can sign the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s letter to President Obama to permanently stop the pipeline HERE.

You can donate directly to The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s DAPL fund HERE.

And you can buy these awesome official fundraiser t-shirts HERE.

Spread the word!

[bryankonietzko]

I stand with Standing Rock, and there are a number of ways you can too. From the ACLU:

“In below freezing weather last night, law enforcement deployed tear gas, water cannons, percussion grenades, and rubber bullets against hundreds protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline.

News reports confirm over 160 people have been injured.

This sovereign nation of the Standing Rock Sioux – one of many constantly threatened by environmental injustice – is fighting to keep its water safe and clean by means of an historic protest.

But law enforcement agencies are treating them like wartime enemies. Riot police raiding a protest camp even yanked indigenous people from prayer in sweat lodges.

North Dakota has received $3 million worth of military equipment from the federal government through the Defense Department’s 1033 program. On top of that, more than a half dozen states have sent equipment and officers to North Dakota.

Tell the DOJ to investigate possible constitutional violations and suspend police use of federally supplied military equipment.”

You can sign the ACLU’s petition to the Department of Justice (just a few thousand more signatures are needed) HERE.

You can sign the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s letter to President Obama to permanently stop the pipeline HERE.

You can donate directly to The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s DAPL fund HERE.

And you can buy these awesome official fundraiser t-shirts HERE.

Spread the word!

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Great plan Ross. Truly you are the Napoleon of assholes. FYI - Do NOT mess with Becky’s friends. 

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This is a highly-accurate trailer for the most recent (and outstanding) arc from Dumbing of Age. 

If you want to read this fabulous storyline, this is a good place to start. Be aware: this is not the start of the comic, so you may want to keep the DoA Cast page handy so you can fill in some of the blanks.

If (like me) you can’t start a new series without starting at the very beginning, here’s a link to Dumbing of Age’s first comic. You won’t be disappointed, I promise. 

[mollyawatson-blog]

I started a new blog called “Webcomic Appreciation”, which is about, well, web-posted art and comic appreciation. This is probably the only blog I’ll be posting to for the next few years (while I’m firmly caught in the jaws of higher education), just as an FYI.

Otherwise, I’ll be back in a few years! <3′s & XOXO!

[likelyhealthy]

Avalon Sexual Health Centre “I Don’t Owe You” Campaign

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Perfection.

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[digitalfrontiers]

I dont often reblog stuff, but when i do, its something like this.

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omfg

[kateordie]

I’ve watched this so many times

[mollyawatson-blog]

My favorite part of this is the deep inhale before all the ducks start yelling.

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Questions Black People Have For White People

Video

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Golden trio doodle! 

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Listen

There are a few posts going around tumblr that have hundreds of thousands of notes and talk about torrents that you can go to for textbooks.

My advice?

Don’t.

Those are illegal.

I hate to be the stick in the mud here, but yeah, those are illegal.

And seeing as how a lot of you will be logged onto your college server and they can see any website that you go on, I wouldn’t recommend it. You might have your internet privileges revoked. Or face disciplinary actions. Is it worth it?

Besides, a ton of those websites are filled with viruses.

So, you may have saved a few hundred dollars on a textbook but now you need to buy a new computer and are facing consequences from the school.

I know that textbooks are outrageously expensive. And I hate it. But it’s not worth the trouble to try and illegally obtain them.

So, what would I recommend?

Talk to your professor. They might have a few extra textbooks for you to use.

Go to your college library. I worked in the library at my old college for a year and we had an entire shelf of textbooks that students could rent for two hours.

Put up a bulletin board where students can sell their old books and see if someone’s selling the book that you need.

Ask your professor if you can get the an older edition of a book. They’re usually a lot cheaper.

Here are five LEGAL websites that I would recommend:

amazon.com - Not only do they rent books, they also sell used books. I’ve found some really great deals before.

textbookrush.com - Again, they sell used books. I once got a $300 book for $35.

chegg.com - I know a lot of students who use this.

bookbyte.com - I also know a lot of students who use this.

bigwords.com - This website compares prices for books.

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ALSO your university’s interlibrary loan system! Another library may have your textbook as an ebook you can download as well (which will expire eventually of course but it’s still free!).

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The Nightly Show, August 10, 2015

[kateordie]

Exactly! Everyone I know in the US keeps telling me haha, it’s so ridiculous, he’ll never get elected. From a country that has Harper in office and elected Rob Ford as a mayor… It’s not so funny. It could actually happen. This overcooked potato has a shot at running your country. That’s some scary, scary stuff.

[thatsgrace]

MY DRUNK KITCHEN: Jello!

[nocturnalvisionary]

Tips for Part-Time Wheelchair users.

Since I don’t see this all that often, but part-time wheelchair usage is a thing and these are things I learned as someone who uses a wheelchair part time. (Please add to it if you think of things!)

*Not as many people as you think are watching you get out of your car to walk to where your wheelchair is to get in it.

*Chances are you have only a manual one- this can be hard on your arms. It’s okay to ask for help from someone to push. But it’s just as okay to yell and make a big deal when they push without asking (Then asking them 4 minutes later to push you. Wheelchairs can be emotional things- it’s okay to be emotional.)

*It’s okay to get up from your chair occasional. You don’t have to “pretend” that you can’t get up from your wheelchair. Everyone is different. You don’t owe ANYONE an explanation.

*Don’t be embarrassed about telling family members or friends you need the wheelchair. Chances are they WILL forget. They won’t mean to- but this is new for them and even more part-time for them. It IS okay to insist on bringing the wheelchair. Even on short trips.

* This is an important one I had to learn. IF ITS HARD FOR SOMEONE TO PUSH YOU. Say a hill, or something. DON”T JUST SAY “I feel bad” AND GET UP AND WALK IT. IF ITS HARD FOR THEM TO PUSH YOU. THAT MEANS IT’LL BE JUST AS HARD TO WALK IT. You are in that wheelchair for a reason, don’t feel guilty.

*You are NOT faking. Part-Time wheelchair usage is OKAY to do. You are not exaggerating your symptoms, you are not pretending you are worse than you are. Everyone’s story is different. You do not owe anyone an explanation.

[fogwithwheels]

just one tiny note as a former part-time wheelchair user.  If you’re wondering why it hurts your arms so much/ why it’s tiring, it takes a looooot of time and constant use to build up those muscles, especially if you have other things to take into consideration (fatigue, pain, issues with your upper body as well, etc.)

so yeah, don’t be afraid to ask for help, and don’t worry if your approach to being in a chair is different than someone else’s.  Do what works best for you.  

[hoodoodyke]

Thank you, this was very helpful and validating.

[odinsblog]

The way I try to approach being an ally as a white cis person, what I find is helpful, is to just pretend you’re an intern. Like what would you do if you were an intern? You would hang out, take notes, listen, speak up when somebody asks you to, and get coffee.

Citizen Radio with perhaps one of the best analogies I’ve ever heard for how (cis) white people can be truly good allies (via odinsblog)

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Forrest by David Belliveau

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Illustration about Native American boys who have to cut off their braids to follow school dress codes.

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And black people have the same issue when it comes to finding jobs/careers.

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^^^^ yes but it ain’t about us right now

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this is actually really important and pardon me for doing the cliche reblogging with a caption thing but i want to talk about braids and just how significant they are

to native people (and of course i can’t talk about every native tribe as there are very specific sects and i only really am coming from the perspective of seneca) hair is extremely important as it represents the walking of the Sacred Path as the physical extension of thought and self, and holy men, women and two-spirits are identified through specific styles of dress and even if not holy, the hair shows what a person has participated in, their feelings, their age, whether they are married or not, whether they are in mourning and their tribe

my grandfather is seneca and he had to remove his braids at a very young age and it was an act of assimilation because his mother knew they had to try to be white in order to proceed and it’s a tool of oppression and humiliation to cut (or force to cut) a native american person’s hair for both religious and cultural preservationist reasons

my mom is half-seneca and her choice for me to not cut my hair until i was 13 and for it to be worn in traditional manner was because of this and when i cut my hair then, i cut it off at the base of my head for also this reason; i was diagnosed with depression and was going through therapy, i wanted my hair and my treatment to signify that i was becoming a new, better person– eventually i started dying my hair but that is for separate reasons of colour symbolism and it’s still an important thing to me

please do not invalidate the struggles of other POC, i understand that this happens and it’s horrific to not be able to wear your natural hair, these are also children whose culture and religion is being stripped away from them and they can’t even participate in something so important within their culture simply because of white patriarchal ideas of masculinity

[something-in-the-way-she-knows]

^^THIS

American Indian children (especially plains ndns) were forced to attend boarding schools where they were forbidden to speak their own language and had to cut off their hair and choose a “white” name from the bible. If you refused, the teacher would often ridicule you by ignoring you anytime you attempted to speak or participate in class, to the point of saying offensive, false things about your people to rile you up enough that you gave in and picked a white name so the teacher would let you speak and tell the truth. (This is shown in bury my heart at wounded knee). In fact, it is hard to trace records before the turn of the 19th to 20th centuries bc the govt considered the way native peoples often have several different names that they go by in different context and by different people to be too annoying to record them in a census, another reason they were forced to choose white names.

Being oppressed for your natural hair and the names you choose is a real thing other poc face and it’s wrong and it’s racist, but this specific post is about what it means to American Indians, and for them it was not only racist stereotyping, but forced assimilation and genocide of their cultures.

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Aziz after barely anyone clapped for feminism