Molly Black: A Firm Believer In The Oxford Comma.

Also: videos, photos, & stuff.

[mollyblack]

[fozmeadows]

dear white male writers: DO NOT DO THIS

These horrific, sexist, racist paragraphs - screenshotted and shared for posterity by James Smythe, to whom we are all indebted - are the work of one Liam O’Flynn, a writer and English teacher. Evidently, they come from his book Writing With Stardust: the Ultimate Descriptive Guide for students, parents, teachers, and lovers of English, and are intended as examples of good writing.

UM.

Dear white male writers: DO NOT DO THIS SHIT. IT IS SUPER GROSS AND FETISHISTIC AND ALSO TERRIBLE WRITING. THIS IS WHY WE CAN’T HAVE NICE THINGS. 

Like I just. “Her virility-brown eyes -” WHAT DOES THIS EVEN MEAN? How can you have an “Amazonian figure” ON a “wafer-thin body” when “figure” is a word that describe’s a body’s shape, and Amazonian means pretty much the DIRECT FUCKING OPPOSITE of “wafer-thin” in the first place?  What the shitting fuck does ANY of this mean, apart from “I am only nebulously familiar with the concept of women and completely at a loss if I can’t compare their various bodyparts to jewels, animals and footstuffs”?

STOP 

GO TO WRITING JAIL

GO DIRECTLY TO WRITING JAIL, DO NOT PASS GO, DO NOT COLLECT $200

[the-thorster]

tag yourself i’m the two beryl-green jewels in the snow

[count-di-luna]

if her ears frame her nose do they like, grow directly beside her nose? how does she see from them? 

*facepalm*

[captainlordauditor]

“ Writing With Stardust: the Ultimate Descriptive Guide for students, parents, teachers, and lovers of English “

lovers of english

oh my goddddddd

[captainlordauditor]

i can’t get over this fucking post

“I loved her nebulous, eden-green eyes which were a-sparkle with the ‘joie de vivre’. They were like two beryl-green jewels melted onto snow.”

1. what the fuck is joie de vivre

2. melted jewels?

3. beryl green

eden green:

WHICH ONE IS ITTTTTTTTT

[thatgirlonstage]

@laughlikesomethingbroken “Joie de vivre” is a French phrase that literally translates to “joy of living”, while it IS one of those phrases that gets used in English in this context it is SO EXTRA AND UNNECESSARY OH MY GOD. Don’t use French to make yourself sound sophisticated when you’re NOT I don’t know where to even START. Curvilinear waist? Sugar candy-sweet? What the FUCK are seraph’s ears? Voguish clothes? What the everloving fuck is “constellation blue” supposed to mean??? Like forget the objectification, this writing is horrifying enough before we even get to the embedded sexism

[captainlordauditor]

seraph’s ears are ears that you can’t see bc they’re hidden behind her 6 wings

[geekandmisandry]

Oyster white teeth?

[catsfeminismandatla]

holy purple prose batman

[emeraldmercury]

Female writers do this too. Have you read a Mills and Boon novel? Have you read high school girls’ yaoi fanfics?

[geekandmisandry]

Uh oh, we were focusing too much on how a grown man is selling this shit and not enough shitting on teenage girls. Egalitarians here to put an end to that shit.

[dizzy-redhead]

Guess what? I’ve read A LOT of Harlequin novels and a LOT of fanfic and I have never ever seen anything this horrible at description.

Also, none of those stories were trying to hold themselves up as high examples of the craft

[typhoidmeri]

[123-its-just-me]

You guys here is the description of the book on Amazon.

If this is the description I cannot think how bad the inside is.

[rookerstash-after-dark]

I never ever want to hear anyone make fun of fanfic writers again

NEVER EVER

[write-like-an-american]

Lord god almighty. I’ve been feeling really down about my writing lately, but this is a confidence boost. 8I

[thelittleblackfox]

“single but in a long term relationship”

[i-gwarth]

3.6/5 is entirely too high a Goodreads score for this book

[amaryllis-meridian]

… that second one is describing a dog.

[leepacey]

I say, jolly good show, chaps. And did I panic? I think not.

[zombeesknees]

#the comic relief who is genuinely comic  #and who makes the ‘incompetent bufoon’ trope actually work as an endearing quality as originally intended  #well played movie - well played  #john hannah  #WHAT A FOX

[antivillain]

#but! BUT!!!#THE GREAT THING ABOUT JONATHAN#IS HE’S NOT INCOMPETENT#he can read ancient Egyptian albeit not as well as his baby sister#he clearly has an interest in archaeology if only for treasure-related reasons#he had to go through intensive schooling to get the sort of permit required#to even have digs of his own#WHICH HE CLEARLY DOES#on a dig down in Thebes#he says and Evie believes him#Jonathan reads from the Book of the Living and he’s an excellent shot with a rifle and is clearly a boxer#Jonathan is SO COMPETENT and SO IMPORTANT#while simultaneously being plucky comic relief without JUST being plucky comic relief#u get me?

[star-anise]

Jonathan, like Phryne Fisher, clearly hasn’t taken anything seriously since 1918.

[jkthinkythoughts]

And, I would suspect, for similar reasons.

[thebluemeany]

^^^This. Jonathan being in World War I makes total sense. It’s almost impossible for him not to have been. Given his age and background, he probably volunteered in 1914.  

Of course he’s going to not take anything seriously. Of course he can shoot. The drinking, the skittishness, the recklessness, the sense of ‘keeping your head down’, the scepticism about traditional heroism….

The one with more actual experience of death, carnage and fighting is Jonathan. Not Rick. Not Ardeth Bey. Jonathan.

When Rick says ‘I’ve had worse (situation/odds)’ and Jonathan replies “ Me too”. That’s probably true. 

Drop The Mummy into the real world context and that’s a character who’s going to have seen a lot of his school friends die, along with the myths and tales of heroism they were raised on. Sort of makes the line where Evie’s scolding him for drinking/messing about a lot darker…

Evie: Have you no respect for the dead? Jonathan: Of course I do, but sometimes I’d rather like to join them.

[gingersnapwolves]

I HAVE SO MANY FEELINGS RIGHT NOW

[deadcatwithaflamethrower]

*record scratch*

Wait a minute. Why is it being assumed that Rick and Ardeth wouldn’t have fought in WWI, as well? Johnathan isn’t that much older than any of them–in fact, there is a good chance that he, Rick, and Ardeth are all of an age. Just because Johnathan’s hair is thinning doesn’t mean he’s a decade older.

It was a LOT easier to lie about your age back in the day. So much easier.

Johnathan is the soldier who fought in WWI and became disillusionsed with pretty much everything except wanting to live (most of the time) and live well–and where is the shame in that? He would have seen some of the darkest shit humanity has to offer, and he kept going. And the thing is, though, archaeological digs at that time were DANGEROUS. Not from curses (usually) but from assholes who would turn up with guns to try and steal anything you discovered. Johnathan never really STOPPED having to deal with dangerous pricks, it was just less dangerous than death raining down from the sky in bomb, bullet, and mustard gas form all the time.

Rick grew up in Egypt as an orphan. What paperwork? He joined the French Foreign Legion, which fought in World War I in some seriously critical battles on the Western Front in Europe. Rick is the soldier who quickly grew disillusioned with everything, but he didn’t know how to stop being a soldier. Johnathan had a career and schooling to fall back on. Rick had guns, the talent of not dying easily, and not much else. When the army finally left him behind because he was literally the only survivor of his last FFL battle, he literally didn’t know what to do. At all. “Looking for a good time” was code for “Please someone give me a fucking purpose.”

Ardeth grew up in the desert. He probably never enlisted…but if you think his people didn’t fight against invading forces during WWI, think again: that region of North Africa was swarming with soldiers on both sides, and they alll tried to claim everything they stumbled over even while in the midst of fighting each other. Ardeth spent his entire life fighting to protect what belonged to him, what belonged to his people, and trying to keep assholes from stealing things that didn’t belong to anyone (for good reason). By the time the war was over, Ardeth was disillisioned in everyone except his own people, and seriously fucking done with stupid idiots who stole in the name of archaeology. He is completely (justifiably) resigned to the worst when Rick the Magic Survivalist returns to Hamunaptra.

[serpentine-sorceror-deactivated]

This has been another episode of “Actual History adding context and depth to character behavior”

[filthybonnet]

I love when “The Mummy” fandom comes out to play. But it’s even better when the history side of tumblr is also in “The Mummy” fandom.

[knottingthewind]

Every time this post comes around I am compelled to watch The Mummy again.

[mollyblack]

Never watched The Mummy. Now I have to.

[just-shower-thoughts]

A werewolf film written by a woman wouldn’t be as interesting because they know how unrealistic it is to be caught by surprise by something that happens regularly every damn month.

[uswe]

#run right into queue#no no no no no the exact opposite#by this standard a werewolf film written by a woman would be much more interesting because it would be more /varied/#some werewolves who are prepared not only for their own shift but also for those of six of their closest packmates#some werewolves who wake up already covered in fur and look at their ruined clothes and think ‘oh /shit/ that was yesterday’#some werewolves who can’t be assed to figure out what day it is and therefore have an alert set in their phone#so that once a month they wake up not to a blinking ‘wake up’ message but to ‘wake up and Be Prepared’ and dramatic hyena music#(and then inevitably lose/break/forget to charge their phone the day before and spend hours humming uncomfortably#before suddenly remembering at the least convenient moment possible and rushing off stripping as they go)#not to mention the one werewolf who only transforms one night a month and then has to refrain from gloating#while they help their one packmate who’s been shifted for an entire goddamned week and has started dreaming of murder (via @ereborne)

[squirrelstone]

And then there’s that werewolf who goes three full moons without transforming, then transforms one night during a waxing crescent moon.

[fangirltothefullest]

Now I’m imagining some on the werewolf form of the pill and having to regularly keep up their schedule and one werewolf telling another that they used to have such irregular changes but the pill now makes things so much easier and the other werewolves being like oh man I should talk to my doctor about this.

[awellboiledicicle]

All i imagined is some poor fucker that’s like “you think you have it bad. I got my first change at 9 and change sporadically every 4 months or so. For 2 weeks. Sometimes it happens randomly so i just gave up.”

[nannyoggskitchen]

   #for days before the change you’re extra growly and constantly want to go for walkies  

[pedeka]

@writernotwaiting

[malicemismanager]

Why. Is this not a thing already. Why.

[angstriddentrashhuman]

Wake up pissed and agitated with a headache and slam some aspirin with no real thought to the matter because it must just be a shit day. Halfway through the day they just “…oh shit that explains so much fuck fuck fuck”

[hushpiper]

@teland

[papermonkeyism]

I don’t usually reblog stuff, but this is just golden.

[acountrygirlsfun]

#these tags come back to my dash every now and then and y'all I am so proud of them you don’t even /know/ #I was so tired that night I almost didn’t even write them but then I was like ‘no for real though we all know how this would go’ #wolves written by people who have actually dealt with these kinds of problems would be faaar more interesting #wolves who were malnourished as children and now don’t always shift when they should because sometimes their bodies can’t support it #wolves who make it to unreasonable ages without their bodies pulling the plug–their first century’s looming on the horizon #and still every month like clockwork they rip and rend and bleed and their grandchildren are terrified this is the future they’ll inherit #wolves who spend a day with their heads in a ghirardelli box trying just to inhale the scent #because they know if they eat the chocolates they’ll be sick but god they want them /so bad/ #wolves who splurge on steak and fresh spinach and glare at anyone who side-eyes them while they shovel it in #they need iron dammit and anyway you have no idea what they’ve gone through these past couple days buddy you wanna stare a little harder? #wolves who get hella irritable vs wolves who become unbearably anxious vs wolves who just wanna stay in bed and cuddle forever #I have so many thoughts about this and maybe I shouldn’t babble about it constantly but fuck it I refuse to let the boring werewolves stand (more tags via @ereborne )

[peaceheather]

This is priceless

[lordendsavior]

“The double agent for the patriarchy is basically just a woman who perhaps unknowingly is still putting the patriarchal narrative out into the world. Is still benefitting off, profiting off and selling a patriarchal narrative to other women. But it’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing. You know, just because you look like a woman, we trust you and we think you’re on our side, but you are selling us something that really doesn’t make us feel good. You’re selling us an ideal, a body shape, a problem with our wrinkles, a problem with ageing, a problem with gravity, a problem with any kind of body fat. You’re selling us self-consciousness. The same poison that made you clearly develop some sort of body dysmorphia or facial dysmorphia, you are now pouring back into the world. You’re like recycling hatred. I find that really dangerous and I think it’s unacceptable and I don’t care if you’re a woman. I think constructive criticism is needed for anyone to ever evolve. For our gender to evolve we need some sort of constructive criticism. As long as we do it in a somewhat careful way. (…) So many of the worst things in the world have happened motivated by greed. And I just don’t think that’s an acceptable excuse anymore. How much money do you need? Really how much money do you need? How much money do any of these huge influencers who are worth millions or billions sometimes… why are they still promoting appetite-suppressant lollipops to young girls? And it’s not a fight against obesity. They have young, already slim girls, in their adverts for Flat Tummy company, this company that are absolutely everywhere, and they’re even being advertised in some of the most mainstream magazines, women’s magazines, and they have a billboard in Times Square. The money is built on the blood and tears of young women who believe in them, who follow them, who look up to them like the big sister they never had. It’s so upsetting and it feels like such a betrayal against women.”

Jameela Jamil explains why she thinks the Kardashians are “double agents for the patriarchy”

[lushi-b]

Put the sound on ! 🔊 I animated a frog dance ! The music is In the Summertime of Mungo Jerry I had loads of fun animating this, but also very happy to be able to work on other things now. 

[a-french-guardsman]

when will people use the anon function to send passionate, homosexual anonymous love letters

[rlckygoldsworth]

reblog if you want a passionate, homosexual anonymous love letter

[problevvatic-deactivated2020112]

There’s this guy that sits in front of me who you would think is a conservative redneck bc his entire aesthetic is southern lumberjack w boots and denim and hats but he’s actually one of the most inclusive and anti trump guy I’ve ever met and today he wore this hat that sums up his entire personality and I’m screaming.

Don’t judge a book by its cover; make cornbread, not war.

[twistedingenue]

Hey, this is the  motto of the Southern Foodways Alliance, and among other things, they have an AMAZING podcast called Gravy, which ‘shares stories of the changing American South through the foods we eat’. You  like this hat. Listen to that podcast. You’ll be happy.

[ohcoolaslug]

Y'all need to stop being surprised by the radicalism in The South. The idea that Southerners are inherently more backwards is steeped in classism and ableism and erases all the awesome work marginalized folks are doing out there

[insurrectionary-frybreadism-dea]

Yeah if you’re from the south at all yall know theres that whole ass saying about 1/3rds of folks in the appalachias being communists, only liberal yuppies from the north are ever surprised by this lmao

[johnleavittlives]

It is well known some of the most radical civil rights, anti-racist and anti-capitalist groups are from the South and Appalachia. Hell the birth of the modern labor movement is from there. Y’allidarity.

[mollyblack]

My parents moved to southern Tennessee about 30 years ago (I had moved away two years (or so) before) and when I went down to help take care of my mom and the farm for ten weeks, my stepdad loved that he could tell me that one of his neighbors considers himself a socialist.

[mollyblack]

Google Reportedly Bought Your Banking Data in Secret, and That's Not Even the Bad News

In a post-capitalistic world that seems very specifically and violently designed to rip off the poor for the benefit of the rich, spending m

This is really bad.

[mollyblack]

Google Reportedly Bought Your Banking Data in Secret, and That's Not Even the Bad News

In a post-capitalistic world that seems very specifically and violently designed to rip off the poor for the benefit of the rich, spending m

This is really bad.

[sunwendyrain]

High Island , Texas

Spoonbill nest 

[mollyblack]

PINK!

[mediamattersforamerica]

On MSNBC, Zerlina Maxwell highlights the coverage disparity between the murders of Nia Wilson and Mollie Tibbetts: “Nia Wilson is also an American who was killed, tragically, for no apparent reason in Oakland, California recently. A Black teenager. And there wasn’t the same amount of coverage.”

[gxldslvgs-deactivated20130516]

[aurevoir-mes-amis-deactivated20]

why are people even questioning obesity in america

[merlinsbearditsthedoctor]

why is your tea liquidised?

[american-auror-story]

….. Where exactly do you live that the tea isn’t liquid?!?

[merlinsbearditsthedoctor]

ENGLAND. WHERE IT IS IN A BAG AND YOU MAKE IT YOURSELF.

like what do you do with already liquid tea? Microwave it?

[asmallvillageincanada]

No it’s sweet tea you drink it cold

[abbysrwk-deactivated20140508]

WHO DRINKS COLD TEA???

[randomthingieshere]

HAVE YOU NEVER HAD ICED/SWEET TEA BEFORE?!?

[prouwu-deactivated20190721]

so i reblogged this from a british person and i’ve been laughing at their tags for 600 years

[cloudyobsession]

England, you stole tea from China.  You’ve had it a mere 4 centuries compared to their 30+.  Don’t play like you’re some kind of authority.

[starkinglyhandsome-deactivated2]

[skeletons ooh-ing]

[saveoursestras]

Shots fired. World War Tea has officially begun.

[myfriendscallmemaury]

#INTO THE HARBOR

[theanimangagirl]

[prettyboyshyflizzy]

Englad doesn’t own anything

[dad-monster-deactivated20171222]

except that time we owned most of the world

[dangerbooze]

[that-artgirl-deactivated2019081]

If I stop reblogging this, I’ve gone to the other side.

[navybluenestea-deactivated20191]

I have only seen this legendary post in screenshots, so today is a blessed day.

[phlying-squirrel]

HAH

BOSTON TEA PARTY PART 2

[vampire-spit]

HOLY HELL I FOUND IT

[lilzodiac]

And this is why I love Tumblr

[dmzenog]

Drinking cold tea is like drinking cold hot chocolate. Sure, you *can* do it, but you *really shouldn’t*

[brownirisandcurls-deactivated20]

Behold concerned Brit. Chocolate Milk

[ladyloveandjustice]

ah this post again. I honestly feel sorry for anyone who’s too stuck up to enjoy sweet iced tea, it’s super yummy. One of my favorite drinks.

[explorerrowan]

Iced, sweet tea is a tradition from the American South. It has been as hot and sweaty as Satan’s ballsack here even before global warming began in earnest, and it’s only getting hotter. The last thing you want is a hot drink when it’s already over 100º F/38º C outside from May through mid October. I know y’all are just experiencing temperatures like these and the related droughts and fires, but trust us, to survive global warming which isn’t going away any time soon, sweeten the tea and then ice it. If you have a refrigerator, make a whole lot at once and then refrigerate it, so you don’t have your kettle heating your flat all the time. That’s why the tea is pre-made in a gallon jug. No, it won’t be as tasty as fresh. That’s why we fill it with sugar. The sugar also helps replace the sugars you sweat out on hot days.

[mollyblack]

This is a grand battle! I’m on side --- TEA.

PG Tips, Gunpowder, Sleepytime Extra, Indian, Chinese, British, Southern US, kombucha, and so forth. Mongrel lover of tea am I.

[pacificnorthwestdoodles]

My mom cried as a first year teacher when she realized many of her students were food insecure. She put a snack pantry in her class and has had one ever since.

My sister cried with anger as a first year teacher because of how few of her students grew up without being exposed to violence, poverty, and neglect.

My dad didn’t cry as a first year teacher, but was convinced he was the worst teacher ever for 4 years straight. (He wasn’t)

My aunt was exhausted for the first year because her students were convinced she’d only be at their school for one year and then move to a better paying school district like all of their other new teachers. She spent the entire time teaching, actively gaining trust, and calming anxieties.

Some of these things are not technically school related, but have an impact on students in the classroom. As new teachers, my relatives got varying levels of support. New teachers need better support.

3 quit at my old job because they didn’t feel like they were getting the pay or support that was appropriate for what they were doing in the classroom. All of the teachers I have encountered pay for many of their own supplies. Many take time before or after school to check up on students they feel are at risk.

There are teachers that have students live with them or end up fostering students. My mom fostered 2 students and had another 2 live with us.

What many teachers do on the job isn’t as supported as it could be. They aren’t paid like they should.

Did I mention that a lot of the first year teachers I have worked with qualify for SNAP benefits and/or WIC? :(

[pacificnorthwestdoodles]

This post has 2k notes.

Re: Why Teachers Provide Snacks (at my work)

ALL of the teachers I work with at my school provide snacks to students.

We’re a Title I school. This means almost all of our students are food insecure. It’s unreasonable to expect food insecure families to provide their own snacks to school.

ALL of the teachers and many of our other staff members provide snacks for their classrooms or offices. Our counselor has snacks in her office. Our health room assistant has snacks in her office.  Our principal has snacks in his office. Our vice principal has snacks in her office. The office professionals have small snacks available as well.

Our new teachers usually can’t afford to do this, so veteran teachers and support staff often chip in.

When students DON’T have access to snacks, they get tired. Our students can’t focus. Students get irritable. They’re feeling the effects of hunger and cannot focus on their work. We see escalated behaviors because kids are hungry.

Providing food not only prevents some problems from happening, but it’s The Right Thing To Do.

Many of our students’ Only Guaranteed Meals are at school. School meals are not designed to provide a child’s only source of nutrition.  The caloric value of school lunches isn’t enough.  So—Kids get snacks with lunch.  Kids get multiple ‘breaks’ (which they think are ‘‘regular breaks’‘) for snacks.

Anyone who wants a small snack will get one.

We have a Friday Weekend Bag Program, but many families HATE THOSE.  Those snack bags come from the Thurston County Food Bank. They only contain shelf stable food since many of our families don’t have a reliable way to cook things.  Most of the families decline the bags because the Instant Noodles, Dry Granola Bars, and Vegetable Soup aren’t what they’d eat anyway.

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A lot of the kids DO want fruit/vegetables. (Downside is if they can’t store those at home).  We have some kids who try to hoard milk. <—a problem since many kids don’t have access to reliable refrigeration at home! Our milk ‘‘collecting’‘ kids ALL don’t have reliable refrigeration since they’re in living situations that don’t have refrigerators or freezers.

We provide snacks for the kids because we need to.

My Personal Project this coming school year is connecting My School with local nonprofit Fairshare Food Share Resource. It’s a group of volunteers who harvest small amounts of fruit and vegetables and give them away.  They’re for smaller home gardeners who aren’t up for sending items directly to our food bank system due to time/health issues/etc.

The Thurston County Food Bank is expanding our school garden this year. I’m hoping that the garden will eventually be a nice Community You Pick for our students and the surrounding neighborhood.

[pacificnorthwestdoodles]

The last big ol’ update had links. I’ll add links to this because food insecurity TICKS ME OFF. It shouldn’t be a thing. We’re fighting food insecurity at my elementary school.

All of my coworkers and all of my now-retired relatives have paid for classroom snacks/pantries With Their Own Money.

Food insecurity is a big issue in the United States. When our kids aren’t eating enough they are tired, can’t focus, and are irritable. It’s difficult to get work done when you’re feeling the effects of hunger. 

I’ll post excerpts of some articles below.

Feeding the need: Expanding school lunch programs

 “Schools have always been the front line in the battle against childhood hunger. It started with the National School Lunch Act, signed by President Truman in 1946, which gave federal money to states to fund school lunches.

Today more than 30 million kids benefit. And yet, by some estimates at least one in six still doesn’t know where the next meal is coming from.

“School lunch is no longer this Brady Bunch convenience; it is a soup kitchen,” said Jennifer Ramo, of the New Mexico anti-poverty group Appleseed.

“It is a place where kids who haven’t eaten at night or haven’t eaten that weekend, go to get basic nutrition so they can function. I think we just have no idea how big the problem is and how many children are suffering. And the best thing to do is just must make sure they’re fed.”

Growing Hunger in Schools is a Growing Problem (2012)

“What do parents tell their kids on the first day of school – stay out of trouble, do your homework, and listen to your teachers,” Nelson said.

“That’s our message today: listen to your teachers. What are they telling us? Hunger needs to be a national priority.”

One in five children struggle with hunger nationwide and six out of ten teachers report students regularly coming to school hungry.  According to 80 percent of those teachers, the problem is only getting worse.

Educators realize the toll hunger takes on students. Nine in ten teachers consider breakfast to be “extremely important” to academic achievement. Fifty-three percent of teachers spend an average $26 of their own money each month providing snacks for their students.”

Reading, writing and hunger: More than 13 million kids in this country go to school hungry

“There is tremendous stigma of children going into a cafeteria before the bell,” said McAuliffe, “whereas with the alternative breakfast model, it normalizes it, creates community in the classroom around a meal, and starts the day off strong.”

Underscoring the crucial impact a healthy breakfast can have, a 2013 study done by Deloitte for No Kid Hungry found that kids who have regular access to breakfast score 17.5 percent higher on standardized math tests

.Breakfast and lunch programs in schools are making great strides in attacking childhood hunger, but a huge gap remains. According to No Kid Hungry, a quarter of all low-income parents worry their kids don’t have enough to eat between school lunch and breakfast the next day; and three out of four public school teachers say students regularly come to school hungry.

Increasingly, advocates are focusing on programs that ensure kids have enough to eat when they are not in school, and after school and summer meal programs are on the rise.”

[fyrasha]

Yep. My school is poor enough that it has all the kids on free breakfast and lunch, and nearly every teacher has a box of protein bars or fruit snacks or something to give to hungry kids in their classroom. We all buy them with our own money. How fucked are we as a society that this is pretty much normal at all the poorer schools?

[pacificnorthwestdoodles]

A lot of our school funding is through property taxes. Low income areas have lower taxes which means lower funding for their neighborhood schools. It sucks.

Schools in high poverty areas are Title I schools. Almost every school in my district is Title I.

ALL public schools should be properly funded and NO ONE should be food insecure. (my 2 cents)

Further reading for anyone interested:

Why America’s Schools Have A Money Problem  

Is It Time to Stop Funding Schools With Local Property Taxes?

School Funding Inequality Makes Education ‘Separate And Unequal,’ Arne Duncan Says

Schools with greater than 40% of families considered low-income are qualified to apply funding to school-wide programming 

Federal Title I Funding for Students who Struggle with Literacy

Title I: Rich School Districts Get Millions Meant for Poor Kids

Then there’s schools that are literally falling apart:

I work at one of America’s underfunded schools. It’s falling apart

It’s Not Just Freezing Classrooms in Baltimore. America’s Schools Are Physically Falling Apart

Detroit teachers fed up with shoddy school conditions

Leaking sewage, splintering walls: Parents complain Wake County school is falling apart

Without State Support, Michigan’s Schools Will Continue to Crumble

We’re dealing with students and families that are food insecure:

KIDS IN AMERICA ARE HUNGRY

Food for Thought: How Food Insecurity Affects a Child’s Education

Schools becoming the ‘last frontier’ for hungry kids

[boyishboyishboyish-blog]

wow! it costs 0$ to say

LGBT

instead of

QUEER

[feminismandmedia]

But why would I said LGBT when I mean queer? Queer is something different than LGBT. Also it costs 0$ to say lgbtq+ or LGBT+

[heartcoded-deactivated20210417]

But why would I say “LGBT+” when I mean LGBT and also have a brain?

[feminismandmedia]

I mean if you’re literally only talking about lesbian, gay, bi, and trans people sure. But the plus includes all of us? Like us queer and nonbinary people.

[angelvdevil]

Qu*er is, historically, a slur specifically used against the LGBs though. It’s fine to reclaim a word, but if not everyone in a community wants to be called it, just say LGBT

[feminismandmedia]

But I’m not LGBT, I’m queer and nonbinary. So I fall under the q+

[the-argumentative-viper]

Newsflash: if we refer to the queer community, we are referring to “the community composed of people who actively identify as queer.” I understand the confusion, since “gay” has become such an umbrella term, but newsflash, the rest of us aren’t actually doing that when we refer to our own communities.

[mollyblack]

How often do we (elders) need to show videos of people shouting, “We’re here, we’re queer, get used to it!” before we will be left alone with our term?

[thebibliosphere]

I was gone 3 hours and came back to 156 messages in my inbox, cause yes I counted them, 156 messages telling me I shouldn’t use straws to drink because it’s bad for the environment and I’m not being very eco-friendly if I don’t consider alternative methods.

Except here’s the thing, folks. I think more about my life than you do.

I think more about what I can and cannot do, than you ever will.

And this includes whether those eco-friendly straws are suitable for me or not. And you know what, most of them aren’t. They just aren’t.

And what’s really wild to me is, I can supply links, I can supply posts, I can supply video resources, from other disabled people, all saying the same thing. And then people say things like “okay but what about bamboo, what about glass what about”

“Did you read/watch/listen to any of the things I posted before?”

“No, but—”

And that’s where this conversation ends. Because I’m not here to perform for you. I do not have to justify my individual existence to you. If you cannot be bothered to read the things I post, I cannot be bothered engaging with you.

And that’s the end of that.

[sapphire-rosa]

FFS PEOPLE STOP LECTURING DISABLED/CHRONICALLY ILL PPL ABOUT STRAWS.

WE HAVE HEARD IT ALL.

It’s plain that in your eagerness to claim a self-righteous virtue in appearing to care about the environment (even though it’s been shown that plastic straws are by no means the worst thing happening to the planet right now) you are more than happy to throw us all under your holier-than-thou bus, and you don’t care about whether or not we get to eat and drink safely and comfortably. You may mean well, but once you show that you care more about appearing environment-conscious than the actual day to day wellbeing of disabled people, chronically ill people, and those with sensory processing disorders, any advice you give is tainted with a nasty flavour of ableism and hypocrisy - especially when you refuse to read countless exhaustive explanations of why your alternative suggestions won’t work.

KINDLY FUCK OFF.

[processintegrated]

[luidilovins]

I will reblog this until you’re all sick of me

[fairyqueenmercedes]

I will never grow sick of this

[dirty-mtn-hippie]

Ignorance honestly. Pay attention to the violence in the world and see how it’s not as one-sided as you really think it is. Being violent to just be violent is never the answer and blindly following others a.k.a the mob makes you part of the problem. We are the generations that refuse to grown up and it has hinder us to think like this post above. Take responsibility!

[explorerrowan]

Seems like we are taking responsibility. You know who isn’t taking responsibility? The corporations who have been very busy pillaging the world and setting it on fire since the Industrial Revolution. We’re going to teach them that all the money in the world doesn’t save them from the consequences of their actions. 5 people shouldn’t own half the wealth of the entire goddamn planet when there are over 7 billion of us.

[mollyblack]

I may not have children of my own but I am proud of this generation that is really trying to improve things. I love #antifa and I love the idea that millennials are the #deathdealerstodiamonds and I may not personally be a rabble rouser but I am fully with you.