you're the journalist of your own life, man.

cranky feminist/anti-racistjust doing my best idk

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Mmumechii on Instagram

[fotojournalismus]

Turkey, 1968.

Photographs by Fulvio Roiter

[soaveintermezzo]

[rocktheholygrail]

Michael Schur’s speech at The Good Place series finale table read

[politicalsci]

[hamletthedane]

“There are other forces at work in this world besides the will of evil.”

[squireofgeekdom]

U.S. folks: Use the time that is given you and get out and vote, and if you’ve already voted, reach out and help others vote: https://votesaveamerica.com/

[dayjajay]

sean brown.

[swanlake1998]

wanting zhao photographed by karolina kuras (source: 1 2 3 4 5)

[whitepeopletwitter]

[midnineties]

frida kahlo by imogen cunningham, 1931

[sitoutside]

[mysharona1987]

[dreadpiratekhan]

A Swedish woman hitting a neo-Nazi protester with her handbag. The woman was reportedly a concentration camp survivor. [1985]

Volunteers learn how to fight fires at Pearl Harbor [c. 1941 - 1945]

Maud Wagner, the first well-known female tattoo artist in the U.S. [1907]

A 106-year old Armenian woman protecting her home with an AK-47. [1990]

Komako Kimura, a prominent Japanese suffragist at a march in New York. [October 23, 1917]

Margaret Hamilton, lead software engineer of the Apollo Project, standing next to the code she wrote by hand that was used to take humanity to the moon. [1969]

Erika, a 15-year-old Hungarian fighter who fought for freedom against the Soviet Union. [October 1956]

Sarla Thakral, 21 years old, the first Indian woman to earn a pilot license. [1936]

Voting activist Annie Lumpkins at the Little Rock city jail. [1961]   (freakin’ immaculate)

[dreadpiratekhan]

Now with more awesomesauce!

Female pilots leaving their B-17, “Pistol Packin’ Mama” [c. 1941 - 1945]

The first basketball team from Smith college. [1902]

Filipino guerilla, Captain Nieves Fernandez, shows a US soldier how she killed Japanese soldiers during the occupation. [1944]

Afghani medical students. [1962]   (man, screw fundamentalism.)

A British sergeant training members of the ‘mum’s army’ Women’s Home Defence Corps during the Battle of Britain. [1940]

and just to wrap up…

Nina Simone, one of the most talented vocalists of the 20th century.

[having-it-all]

Melissa Launay (1979 - )  Marmalade on toast and an orange, 2012.  gouache

[lostjewishworld]

[imtooticky]

My coworkers complain when we can’t assign homework over Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. As if somehow this interferes with their ability to teach their classes.

My coworkers complain that our Muslim students get to leave class to pray Salat at noon. Like, we have maybe one Muslim student every two or three years - thus far, all extraordinarily respectful and lovely kids! - and they slip quietly out of class to pray.

My coworkers find all this infuriating. “Imagine,” they cry, “If a Christian kid asked to do that.”

I calmly explain, every single time, that a Christian kid would never HAVE to do that, because every single Christian holy day is a day off school. Good Friday. Easter Sunday. Christmas day. Our entire country interrupts its financial and educational systems - schedules its WEEKS - around the Christian prayer customs and seasons.

God forbid we temporarily unclip the rope barrier and leave an opening for someone whose religious traditions vary from our own.

[professorsparklepants]

Heck, the only holy day we DON’T get off is Ash Wednesday, and that only involves a church service if you’re Catholic.

[weemstar]

DING DING DING

[aristhought]

dystopian past times

[sisterthreads]

Oops it’s me

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