Penn & Papers

Penn undergrad. Being a member of the 99% in America means that I'm a member of the 1% in the Ivies.

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Sandra Bland

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i’m seeing a lot of people reblogging suicide hotlines and this is just a reminder that this is a suicide help line that works like a text-based instant messenger for people who may need to talk to someone but have trouble/are uncomfortable making phone calls

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Never don’t reblog this. There are so many people who have such bad anxiety about phone calls. This can save so many lives

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Jackson State University’s Prancing J-settes at the Alabama State Game, 2013 (video)

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WORK!

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Jackson, MS! All day, everyday! #home

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The world's weakest Halloween costume #CforEffort #halloween #tiger

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"So are all y'all, like, American?" -@chancetherapper

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My "omg this is actually unbelievable" face, which about summarizes my experience thus far #vscocam #versailles #castle #france (at Château de Versailles)

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Everyday art. #paris #france #pointephemere #french #studyabroad (at Point Ephemère)

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Taking cliché pictures in cliché places #vscocam (at Le Louvre)

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Because man cannot live on wine and cheese alone

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Dinner w the Parents

My mom pronounces the a's in "Mohandas Gandhi" with a short vowel sound. Dad asks if he can eat the seaweed on his sushi. I think they sound uncultured. Then my mom proceeds to discuss Thomas Malthus and economic theories and dad explains Kantian ethics and I feel stupid. Silly rabbit, they're so much more cultured than I.

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Miami Nights (not really though)

It's spring break and I'm in Mississippi. I flew into Memphis with a friend of mine and spent a night with her family. We didn't do anything spectacular, but knowing that I made a friend that I'm close enough with to book a flight to her hometown, sleep in her house, meet her family, and stay up till 4 am holding conversations frequently punctuated with "I don't think I've ever told anyone that," made me not care about Panama or Orlando or Miami. Most of my friends are or will be in Florida for the break, but I think those Memphis-moments are what college is about. Not bikinis.

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My generation is so thoughtful and politically aware -_-

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^^^I sense the sarcasm in your post and that makes me wonder why our generation criticizes itself for not being aware, then brings itself down once awareness starts taking place in numbers. Why is it that when a celebrity dies, the first picture that gets posted is of some dying children in Africa or some child soldiers with the headline “A million die and no one cries,”? Why is it that when people are actually shifting their attention to those children you claimed to care about when Whitney Houston died that you criticize the masses yet again? I’m sick of the social activist hipsters acting like they’re above everyone else regardless of the issue at stake. Our generation cannibalizes itself at any given opportunity because everyone is so concerned with not being a part of a larger crowd and no one can swallow his or her pride and admit that he or she didn’t know everything about anything before everyone else.  

“Don’t go Occupy Wall Street, you’re just doing that to ride the wave.”

“You didn’t know about Troy Davis until last week, you just want to feel involved with something.”

“Yall wanna call your senators about SOPA just because everyone on Facebook is doing it.”

“Stop being a follower.”

Yeah, stop being a follower. Stop talking about politics and real world events because they’re popular tonight, for once. Stick to talking about the Jersey Shore. Keep eating your fast food, drinking your diet coke, watching the corporate news programming, taking out student loans, and working a 9-5 in your cubicle even though you can’t pay off your tuition debts. Go back to doing that and for the love of God stop being a follower. 

Fucking cynics and hypocrites, the lot of you. Generation zzzzzz is its own worst enemy. 

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I love Mike! And “Generation zzzzzz”?! Yesssss.

Your move, namaste-wanderlust-gypsy.

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Happy Valentine’s Day! ^_^

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<3

The following conversation took place last weekend.

My Boyfriend: Babe, are you planning on getting me a gift?

Me: Yes! 

BF: Could your gift to me be not asking me to get a gift for you?

-_-

Happy Valentine's Day y'all.

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Crazy how Gambino frames a track that ends in "I Rihanna that vagina," with an Adele ballad about unrequited love.

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Have you ever lost yourself in a kiss? I mean pure psychedelic inebriation. Not just lustful petting but transcendental metamorphosis when you became aware that the greatness of this being was breathing into you. Licking the sides and corners of your mouth, like sealing a thousand fleshy envelopes filled with the essence of your passionate being and then opened by the same mouth and delivered back to you, over and over again - the first kiss of the rest of your life. A kiss that confirms that the universe is aligned, that the world’s greatest resource is love, and maybe even that God is a woman. With or without a belief in God, all kisses are metaphors decipherable by allocations of time, circumstance, and understanding.

Saul Williams (via saudi-spice)

i have.

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My friend Brittany's ole gorgeous self.