Not all kids are straight from the Lesbian Herstory Archives
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Not all kids are straight from the Lesbian Herstory Archives
Understanding consent is as easy as FRIES.
Consent is:
Freely given. Doing something sexual with someone is a decision that should be made without pressure, force, manipulation, or while drunk or high.
Reversible. Anyone can change their mind about what they want to do, at any time. Even if you’ve done it before or are in the middle of having sex.
Informed. Be honest. For example, if someone says they’ll use a condom and then they don’t, that’s not consent.
Enthusiastic. If someone isn’t excited, or really into it, that’s not consent.
Specific. Saying yes to one thing (like going to the bedroom to make out) doesn’t mean they’ve said yes to others (like oral sex).
We should be more pro-active or we’ll see more of such sad fates of honest people.
And the utterly ironic thing is I’ve seen repeated tumblr posts of that iconic photo absolutely slagging the shit out of Peter Norman as “lol white guy so uncomfortable” “Why the fuck isn’t he supporting them”, etc etc.
I literally couldn’t care less if we lose good bands and good movies if it means outing sexual predators. Let it all fall apart if that’s what it takes to stop allowing these disgusting people safe places to abuse their power. Fuck your favorite movies, fuck your favorite tv shows, fuck your favorite albums. Stop defending bad people because they make good content.
Viola Davis has spoken out about problems she had with The Help, the Civil Rights drama that won her an Oscar nomination in 2012, criticising the decision to sanitise the pain of the era in which it was set by leaving many of the film's tougher, more dramatic scenes on the cutting room floor.
Extremely important to read and consider, especially as The Help was so highly regarded as a progressive landmark in Hollywood for African-American women - though not necessarily by them.
“I absolutely love the premise,” she said. “I love the fact that [Emma Stone’s character] said ‘I am going to write a story from the maids’ perspective of what it feels like to work with these white women’. Operative term meaning the maids’ perspective. I don’t feel like it was from our perspective, that’s the problem I had with it. I had it from the very beginning.”
While she criticised aspects of the film she felt to be historically inaccurate (including the maids rejecting money for their stories, despite the film depicting them struggling to find scraps for food), she mostly condemned the sanitising of pain in order to make the film more palatable to mainstream audiences.
“The anger, the vitriol, and the hatred that they would have towards these white women if they were asked, if they were put in a situation where they were isolated, would have been vocalised. You didn’t see none of that!”
i love terry crews
The cosmetics giant dismissed Munroe Bergdorf over a Facebook post about structural racism.
educational youtube channels:
for when the burnout is real and all you really wanna do is lie in bed and watch things but you gotta at least try to study. these are mostly channels i’ve watched and subscribed to! (updated 17/12/2015)
sciences
veritasium
it’s okay to be smart
pbs space time
crash course: astronomy
crash course: ecology
crash course: biology
crash course: chemistry
crash course: anatomy and physiology
crash course: psychology
the school of life: sociology
the school of life: psychotherapy
scishow
scishow space
asapscience
minute physics
minute earth
khan academy
the brain scoop
sexplanations
healthcare triage
sixty symbols
periodic videos
deep sky videos
literature / art
crash course: literature
the school of life: literature
the school of life: art/architecture
art assignment
thug notes: shakespeare explained
thug notes: classic literature
history / geography / government
crash course: world history (season one)
crash course: world history (season two)
crash course: us history
it’s history: the industrial revolution
it’s history: the history of pirates
it’s history: battlefields (military history)
it’s history: the cold war
the school of life: history
alternate history hub
crash course: intellectual property
crash course: economics
crash course: u.s. government and politics
geography now
the school of life: political theory
it’s history: the history of china
it’s history: weapons of mass destruction
it’s history: the history of sex
extra credits: extra history
khan academy: history
khan academy: american civics
the great war
tom richey: ap euro review
tom richey: ap us history review
cgp grey
math
numberphile
khan academy
vihart
philosophy
the school of life: philosophy
the school of life: eastern philosophy
philosophy tube
8-bit philosophy
misc / no particular subject
crash course: big history
ted-ed
smarter every day
in a nutshell
vsauce
dnews
test tube news
test tube plus
seeker daily
the good stuff
thoughty2
how to adult
mental floss
youtube channels that give study advice [#studytube]
studyign
appsademia
nehrdist
leostudies
These are also great if you’re like me and are too sick to be in school right now but are looking for some intellectual stimulation. Or for anyone with a curious mind who is looking for a distraction
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(Facebook: It’s Okay To Be Childfree)
“Congratulations - you just made a conversation about salad and hamburgers about the struggle of childbirth.”
TBH Parentfriends, I’m probably tired of looking at pictures of your kid every other day, so I just hid you from my Newsfeed, because what’s important to you isn’t all that important to me. Sorry, not sorry, no one’s feelings got hurt.
But if you start mommyjacking my posts, I will 100% make you cry into your keyboard.
#how unsatisfied are these people with parenthood that they have to validate themselves like this
Flight attendant sees “I need help” written in bathroom, saves teen from human trafficking
written by Sophia Perez on July 7th, 2017
Flight attendant Shelia Frederick was making her rounds on an Alaska Airlines flight from Seattle to San Francisco when she noticed something strange: a blonde teenager wearing wrinkled, old clothing was seated by a window, next to a well-dressed older man. The girl had a large bruise on her leg. When Shelia noticed her, the girl looked up.
“Her eyes just pierced my soul,” remembered Fredrick. “They fixed on me and I knew something was wrong and I needed to help her.”
Source: Huffington Post
Fredrick went to the nearest lavatory and placed a note for the girl where she could find it. She also left a pen.
When she returned to the young girl, the man seated next to her was eyeing a menu. Fredrick looked at the girl and mouthed “go to the bathroom.”
The girl followed Fredrick’s instructions. Sure enough, when Fredrick checked the note, she had written back:
“I need help.”
Fredrick called the captain, who arranged for police to be waiting in the terminal when the plane arrived in San Francisco. The teen was a victim in an incident of human trafficking. She had been kidnapped for over two months by the time she and Fredrick locked eyes.
Source: Nancy Rivard
“Traffickers use commercial airlines all the time because it keeps them anonymous,” said Nancy Rivard. Rivard was an American Airlines flight attendant before she founded Airline Ambassadors International in 2009.
Rivard identified multiple trafficking victims before becoming frustrated by the lack of training that she and her coworkers received in the area. She founded Airline Ambassadors to teach crew members how to spot victims. Airline Ambassadors now works alongside US Customs and Border Protection to stop human trafficking in its tracks.
“It’s incredible this isn’t industry-wide yet,” Rivard asserted. That said, more and more airlines are starting to implement similar training.
Fredrick identified the teen back in 2011. Since then, Frederick has become an Airline Ambassadors member and has received training in how to identify human trafficking incidents.
“I tell people to be aware of their surroundings,” said Fredrick. “There are so many warning signs. Look closely.”
Source: WTSP
A few months after the incident occurred, Fredrick was surprised to receive a phone call from the young girl she rescued. She called to “say thank you and that she was back with her family, in therapy,” Fredrick remembered.
Fredrick and the girl still keep in touch every so often. According to Fredrick, the girl is now attending college, working towards a brighter future.
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On the one year anniversary of the tragic shooting at Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, we look back at our Queer Latina Essay Series: Our Pulse.
because it’s pride month, here’s a reminder that diana, wonder woman, is bisexual and also hates terfs