[thetrippytrip]

hidden figures vol. 2

[sodhya-deactivated20181218]

🗣 Their names are Ritu Karidhal, Anuradha TK, Nandini Harinath 🗣

I’m sorry I can’t seem to find the names of other women in the picture but these 3 women were the main ones involved in the project 💖

[youngstero]

I’m at a wealthy middle-aged christmas party with my best friend a woman came up to me and said “you have to try the gouda” and I said “is it firm?” and she said “yes I wouldn’t have anything less” and we both threw our heads back and laughed and I’m still not sure why

[travalicious]

[megustamemes]

[justsomeantifas]

I confront [white guilt] every year, about a month into my course on racism, among [white] students who come to me in tears because they cannot deal with the racism that goes on in their families or their home towns or their student residences. Their tears are the result of genuine anguish, care, and a desire to learn and to change. I confront similar attitudes among my colleagues, and I am similarly gratified by their concern. But those who experience white guilt need to learn three things: 1. People of colour are generally not moved by their tears, and may even see those tears as a self-indulgent expression of white privilege. It is after all a great privilege to be able to express one’s emotion openly and to be confident that one is in a cultural context where one’s feelings will be understood. 2. Guilt is paralysing. It serves no purposes; it does no good. It is not a substitute for activism. 3. White guilt is often patronizing if it leads to pity for those of colour. Pity gets in the way of sincere and meaningful human relationships, and it forestalls the frankness that meaningful relationships demand. White guilt will not change the racialized environment; it will only make the guilty feel better.

Audrey Kobayashi, Women of Colour in Canadian Academia (via indigenous-caribbean)

[ellsari]

My bro has the cutest dog. I don’t know why she’s in the laundry basket and I don’t care because she is so freaking cute.

[omendes]

first year studying history: these are great and important people who spent their lives doing amazing things, and we should treat them only with the utmost respect

third+ year studying history: lmao did you hear what my bff cicero did the other day in 63 BC? what a wild dude, tone it down buddy, you're outta control

[mercury]

[popokko-deactivated20210315]

*plugs phone into computer to charge* yes my child, drain the life from your superior,

[bramblepatch]

from Passing English of the Victorian Era

I’m gonna bring this back if it’s the last thing I do

[seinfeld-daily]

[myworldisemptywithoutyou]

Frida Kahlo seated in her garden by Leo Matiz

[peace-out-pd-deactivated2017123]

This photo restored my inner peace

[awwww-cute]

[paintervalentine]

[onlinegrapes]

[basshaed-deactivated20170918]

[omendes]

What she says: I'm fine

What she means: In Legally Blonde, Elle only gets accepted because she's hot and sent a video, but she had a 4.0 and got a 179 (out of 180) on her LSATS. Sure, her major was in Fashion Merchandising but that's a business major, and the fake school she was at was supposed to be UCLA so she had a business degree from a major college, probably went to a great high school, had a 4.0, and a 179 on the LSATS and at that point she would have been automatically accepted so why did they make it sound like she was such a bad risk? She even had leadership experience as president of a major chapter of what is apparently a huge sorority, since Delta Nus are shown as everything from cheerleaders to senators. Harvard should have been desperate to take her. She should have been able to get in if she turned in a cocktail napkin with her name written on it. So why make up the bullshit excuse of "multiculturalism" to justify letting in an extremely qualified and highly driven candidate just for laughs? Elle Woods deserved to go to Harvard and she earned that place with academic excellence and not by being hot.