It's more about saying, than being heard

I'm Kaity. 22, art history grad. Mostly just a collection of art, feminism, & sass.

[hhermes]

bored at work so i made a compilation of my fave vines

[jturn]

The most comprehensive one yet

[flowersphil]

tonight’s mood is the deep desire to be held close in a dimly lit room, covered in blankets while rain is softly falling outside

[egberts]

also part of growing up is realizing that the embarrassing music you liked in your early teen years still goes hard as hell

[svveetrevenge]

bi culture is having a crush on Mulder AND Scully

[thehighpriestofreverseracism]

reblog or the gods of glo up will not bless you

[oye-yemaya]

I AINT TAKING NO CHANCES BITCH

[therepublicofletters]

Blue in paintings by Vincent van Gogh

[sorayachemaly]

Women scientists made up 25% of the Pluto fly-by New Horizon team. Make sure you share this, because erasing women’s achievements in science and history is a tradition. Happens every day.

. http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-Article.php?page=20150712

[sugarmoonaki]

[ak-draws]

*high-pitched screaming* aaAAAARTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!

[evilrashida]

[matissie]

[millennial-review-deactivated20]

[official-north-korea-blog]

Minimum wage: $7.25

$7.25 x 40 hour full time work week: $290

$290 x 4 weeks per month: $1,160

In every Southern state (didn’t have time to look at the rest of the country) you can find some sort of studio apartment for around $500 per month, sometimes less than that. Why bother lying about something so easily disproven? 

[father-of-hope-and-fury]

Because Bernie Sanders supporters aren’t going to fact check him, and they’ll ignore any contrary evidence that’s presented to them anyways.

[fartsandprayers]

Things like this really tick me off and It’s not political or anything but it’s the fact that you think all that money is there. Here’s what I mean;

That weekly check comes to, according to you, 290. Most places DO NOT pay for your half hour lunch that is required by law. So your beginning number was wrong. $7.25 x 7.5 hours a day x 5 days a week only gets you $271.88.  Most people in America get paid bi-weekly, so let’s double it to get the budget. $543.75. That’s GROSS, not NET. Out of that comes anywhere between 10% and 15% taxes depending on state so we’ll low ball it at 10%. Automatically down to $489.38 a pay check. Now health insurance. Usually anywhere from 70-100 a pay check for the cheapest plans. Again, we’ll low ball and go $70. So now we have $419.39 a paycheck. x 2  = $839. 

Eight hundred thirty nine dollars. A MONTH.

But again, you seem to think that’s fair. So let’s proceed. You say rent is $500? Okay. This person now has $339 left to buy groceries for the whole month, pay utilities, car payment, car insurance, and gas money to get to work. 

Those are the bare needs. You have to eat. You have to pay for heat, water, garbage removal, gas and or electricity because apartments do not always include things and rarely all of the above. Most cities in America do not have public transportation. Mine doesn’t despite the fact that our population is over 15,000 people, not counting a taxi. If you have a car, you have to pay that. If you have a car, legally you have to have car insurance. You have to pay that. You have to have gas in that car to get to work to make that money.

Now if you can tell me you can get all of that out of $339 you’re lying.

You are so focused on rent that you aren’t thinking about everything else people have to pay for. Rent was an example. This is a breakdown of the budget you gave me and it’s not possible to live off that in 2017 America. 

And BECAUSE this person makes over $800 a month, they probably won’t qualify for financial aid or food stamps. $800 is the line in my state where they won’t help you. No food stamps, financial aid, or government housing if you make more than $800 a month. 

Why does it bother you that people deserve to live above the poverty line?

[theleavesofchange]

Also, OP searched for studio rent prices which (as someone currently living in a studio coming from a 1 bedroom apt) is usually much smaller, hence the lower price. So the 1 bedroom part of this equation is actually being used as a standard measurement... Instead of trying to calculate how much ppl are "worth", maybe think about the corporations that make it possible to pay someone so little they can barely survive

[girlwithapomegranate-deactivate]

I think it’s really cruel to continue to hang around/ interact with people that have severely hurt your friends. im not talking about petty arguments but it really says something if your disregard the pain someone has caused a person close to you all for the sake of socializing and your image.

[virgoassbitch]

My kink is having absolutely no one from high school know anything about me or what I’m doin now lmao

[kelsium]

Honestly I’m not gonna survive the apocalypse. Y'all go on gathering berries and drinking cockroach milk (apparently) and forming barter economies and I’m gonna stay in my house until the last of my seltzer runs out and then I’m gonna put on an all cashmere outfit and lay down and die. Have fun fending off the coyotes and doomsday cults and living on expired canned goods in a world with no more Netflix. Pass.

[i124you]

me

[blackness-by-your-side]

parenting at its best ❤️

[easilyhookedwonderfullyweir-blog]

This is beautiful - a mother allowing her kid to explore who he is and giving him the chance to decide on his own, no judgement, just support.

If he grows up to do drag? Cool. If he grows up trans? Cool. If he grows up and never wears make up again? Cool.

This mother is allowing her kid to decide on his own without shaming him for exploring who he is. The horrible thing is that there will be judgemental fucks out there who will shame her for it.

At least this kid will grow up knowing that they’re unconditionally loved by their mother and not have to hide themselves away to be happy.