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I love travel, food, journalism, beer, music, graphic design, books, social justice, and the state of Vermont.

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We need to be better people

I just spoke with my mom and she was sharing with me that in her small, rural church one of their church members just came out as trans and is in the process of transitioning. The church is working really hard to make sure she feels welcomed and affirmed at a time when she is feeling vulnerable in her relationships, and I was so proud of them.

And then my mom adds that this person has also lost their housing because they came out to their landlord. And i just want to punch a hole in the wall because it makes me so upset. This is, in fact, illegal. In the great state of Vermont you cannot discriminate against someone on the basis of their gender identity, even though you TOTALLY CAN in many states. But besides being illegal, it is just so terribly unjust. Here is a person who is a major moment in their life, and on top of whatever else they might be feeling or facing they have decide whether to engage in a legal fight with the person who sets the terms of their housing or they have to leave their home. I know that discrimination is a problem everywhere but it just bugs me so much that this is happening  and that is happening in Vermont. Where I (naively) like to think people are better than this. (I actually do know that people are terrible everywhere but sometimes I like to imagine that they're not.)

We need to be better than this.

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The Oatmeal putting it perfectly. Christopher Columbus was a jerk. Not just ignorant, a big ole jerk. I like this Bartolome guy though. (via Christopher Columbus was awful (but this other guy was not) - The Oatmeal)

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(via Bad News Beards: The beards of baseball - Washington Post) Baseball is one hairy sport, and the Nationals are the hairiest of the bunch.

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Here’s why we need feminism, not just everyone-ism: One of the authors of this piece is much more likely to be paid significantly less for doing the same work as the other. One of us is much more likely to receive specific, gendered online harassment for writing the same words. One of us is much more likely to be the victim of violence—85 percent of domestic violence victims in the U.S. are women, and that violence is usually inflicted by men. Globally, women remain hugely underrepresented in positions of power and influence—just 7 out of 150 elected Heads of State in the world are women, and on average only 17 percent of parliamentary seats are held by women. And these statistics are an incomplete introduction to the problem: a woman’s race, gender expression, and sexual orientation can put her at even greater risk of discrimination and violence.

Listen to Joseph Gordon-Levitt: Stop trying to replace feminism with Humanism | Faitheist

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(via Last Night's Reading: Awesome Author Quote Illustrations (IMAGES))

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"The reasons, the feelings, the personal contexts — these we can also talk about, but only after we grant to each woman the right to make and do with her body what she will. Regardless of whether or not a compelling story is on offer."

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Any time we insist on helping only through one-on-one, voluntary activity, we make others dependent on the whims and fashions of charity. And we effectively write off everyone who lives where the charity (or volunteer) that is needed is not available, or whose conditions stem from something too big for one person, one volunteer to address.

So you want to make a difference by Nancy Amidei

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The tag on my jockstrap reads, "The Duke." "The Duke is the only thing I have on at the moment. I am jumping around on my bed with and invisible microphone in my hand and I'm singing "Helter Skelter" along with the Beatles. I pause to feel ridiculous now and then.

- Junk Court, Letting Loose the Hounds by Brady Udall I love the way this man writes. What a quirky idea. #Ipausetofeelridiculous

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Visitors play shuffleboard at a recreation center near Mirror Lake in St. Petersburg, Florida, 1929.Photograph by Clifton R. Adams, National Geographic Creative

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I could seriously get down with an afternoon of shuffle board. And I want that coat.

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Oregon is the coolest.

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If we can train ourselves to take regular vacations — true vacations without work — and to set aside time for naps and contemplation, we will be in a more powerful position to start solving some of the world’s big problems. And to be happier and well rested while we’re doing it.

Hit the Reset Button in Your Brain - NYTimes.com #BewareoftheFalseBreak

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I love this

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Even if someone makes something terrible—like the music the Insane Clown Posse makes—at least they’re doing something that speaks to them. And they kept going even though people told them it was terrible. And they found their audience, and now they built a community around their work. Look, you couldn’t pay me to listen to their music, but I still feel like I have more in common with the Insane Clown Posse than I do with someone who just sits on the sidelines and shits on other people’s work and who never puts themselves on the line.

Tom Scharpling in Mike Sacks’s Poking a Dead Frog  (via lauraolin)

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(via Next Time Someone Says Women Aren't Victims Of Harassment, Show Them This.) This is pretty excellent.

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Alejandro Cartagena captured Mexican workers on their way to job sites in Car Poolers. This is such an amazing and simple photo series. 

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A bridge too far.