like a skeleton key.

artesany: Zapateando en la Milpa

Fri, 24 May 2013 22:18:34 -0700

artesany:

Zapateando en la Milpa

pizzavanguard: deathnoteforcutie: We’ve done it, we’ve reached...

Fri, 24 May 2013 22:15:49 -0700

pizzavanguard:

deathnoteforcutie:

We’ve done it, we’ve reached the pinnacle of human evolution

MY GOD

MY GOD

intersectionalityis4lovers: don’t trust men who have to insult other women in order to compliment...

Fri, 24 May 2013 22:15:22 -0700

intersectionalityis4lovers:

don’t trust men who have to insult other women in order to compliment you

a subset of this rule is don’t trust men who say ‘you’re pretty/smart/[adjective] for an indian/asian/[identity group]’

or ‘you’re not like other [identity group optional] girls’

youngblackandvegan: protect black women at all costs protect black men at all costs protect black...

Fri, 24 May 2013 22:13:08 -0700

youngblackandvegan:

protect black women at all costs
protect black men at all costs
protect black children and babies at all costs
protect black bodies at all costs

spaceplasma: Nine Views Nine Views (Croatian: Devet pogleda) is...

Fri, 24 May 2013 22:07:22 -0700

spaceplasma:

Nine Views
Nine Views (Croatian: Devet pogleda) is an ambiental installation in Zagreb, Croatia which, together with the sculpture Prizemljeno Sunce (The Grounded Sun), makes up a consistent model of solar system.

Prizemljeno Sunce by Ivan Kožarić was first displayed in 1971 by the building of the Croatian National Theatre, and since then changed location a few times. Since 1994 it has been situated in the Bogovićeva Street. It is simply a bronze sphere around 2 metres in diameter.

In 2004, artist Davor Preis had a two-week exhibition in the Josip Račić Exhibition Hall in Margaretska Street in Zagreb, and afterwards he placed 9 models of the planets of the solar system around Zagreb, to complete a model of the entire solar system. The models’ sizes as well as their distances from the Prizemljeno Sunce are all in the same scale as the Prizemljeno Sunce itself.

Preis did this installation with very little or no publicity, so his installation isn’t well known among citizens of Zagreb. On a few occasions individuals or small groups of people, particularly physics students, “discovered” that there was a model of the solar system in Zagreb. One of the earliest efforts to find all of the planets was started in November 2004 on the web forum of the student section of Croatian Physics Society.

The locations of the planets are as follows:

Mercury - 3 Margaretska Street

Venus - 3 Ban Josip Jelačić Square

Earth - 9 Varšavska Street

Mars - 21 Tkalčićeva Street

Jupiter - 71 Voćarska Street

Saturn - 1 Račićeva Street

Uranus - 9 Siget

Neptune - Kozari Way

Pluto - Bologna Alley (underpass) - included in the installation before being demoted to dwarf planet

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Fri, 24 May 2013 22:06:58 -0700

devils-trap: unimodus: heir-of-breasts: half of star trek the animated series is kirk’s face...

Fri, 24 May 2013 22:05:24 -0700

devils-trap:

unimodus:

heir-of-breasts:

half of star trek the animated series is kirk’s face being too close on the screen when he doesn’t need to be in the shot

i’m crying it’s true

whats annoying about saldana

Fri, 24 May 2013 22:05:06 -0700

native-detroiter:

strugglingtobeheard:

is she has said she identifies as a black woman. and yet now poc don’t exist and race isn’t a thing. then why do you identify as black? i don’t get it. and to be playing a role of a woman who wrote songs like young gifted and black and spoke about race and its saliency (which wasn’t too long ago) and saying this is just a smack to the role she is playing. disrespectful.

if Nina looked like Zoe she wouldn’t have had the troubles she had and that was the whole fucking point of her songs and career. its even more of a slap in the face because she talked about racism until the day she died not this colorblind shit.

kyaryarchy: satanic2chainz: Lauryn Hill described capitalism to a judge and he ordered she undergo...

Fri, 24 May 2013 22:04:56 -0700

kyaryarchy:

satanic2chainz:

Lauryn Hill described capitalism to a judge and he ordered she undergo counseling

This is the country we live in

eerieearthling: Are you sure, Bones?

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:56:42 -0700

eerieearthling:

Are you sure, Bones?

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Fri, 24 May 2013 21:46:48 -0700

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Fri, 24 May 2013 21:41:37 -0700

talaem: “don’t be shy” thanks u cured me

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:40:43 -0700

talaem:

“don’t be shy” thanks u cured me

thepeoplesrecord: Got this in my email today: Dear...

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:40:06 -0700

thepeoplesrecord:

Got this in my email today:

Dear friends,

We are elders of the Maasai from Tanzania, one of Africa’s oldest tribes. The government has just announced that it plans to kick thousands of our families off our lands so that wealthy tourists can use them to shoot lions and leopards.The evictions are to begin immediately.

Last year, when word first leaked about this plan, almost one million Avaaz members rallied to our aid. Your attention and the storm it created forced the government to deny the plan, and set them back months. But the President has waited for international attention to die down, and now he’s revived his plan to take our land. We need your help again, urgently.

President Kikwete may not care about us, but he has shown he’ll respond to global media and public pressure — to all of you! We may only have hours. Please stand with us to protect our land, our people and our world’s most majestic animals, and tell everyone before it is too late. This is our last hope:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/maasai_fb_dm_3/?bNDofcb&v=23793

Our people have lived off the land in Tanzania and Kenya for centuries. Our communities respect our fellow animals and protect and preserve the delicate ecosystem. But the government has for years sought to profit by giving rich princes and kings from the Middle East access to our land to kill. In 2009, when they tried to clear our land to make way for these hunting sprees, we resisted, and hundreds of us were arrested and beaten. Last year, rich princes shot at birds in trees from helicopters. This killing goes against everything in our culture.

Now the government has announced it will clear a huge swath of our land to make way for what it claims will be a wildlife corridor, but many suspect it’s just a ruse to give a foreign hunting corporation and the rich tourists it caters to easier access to shoot at majestic animals. The government claims this new arrangement is some sort of accommodation, but its effect on our people’s way of life will be disastrous. There are thousands of us who could have our lives uprooted, losing our homes, the land on which our animals graze, or both.

President Kikwete knows this deal would be controversial with Tanzania’s tourists - a critical source of national income - and does not want a big PR disaster. If we can urgently generate even more global outrage than we did before, and get the media writing about it, we know it can make him think twice. Stand with us now to call on Kikwete to stop the sell off:

This land grab could spell the end for the Maasai in this part of Tanzania and many of our community have said they would rather die than be forced from their homes. On behalf of our people and the animals who graze in these lands, please stand with us to change the mind of our President.

With hope and determination,

— The Maasai community of Ngorongoro District

Sources:

The Guardian: Maasai fury as plan to lure Arabian Gulf tourists threatens their ancestral land

allAfrica: Land Grab Could Spell ‘The End of the Maasai’

IPP Media: Maasai villagers frustrate efforts to vacate for Ortelo

The Guardian: Tanzania denies plan to evict Maasai for royal hunting ground

The Guardian: “Tourism is a curse to us”

New Internationalist Magazine: “Hunted down”

Society for Threatened People: Briefing on the eviction of the Loliondo Maasai

FEMACT: Report by 16 human rights investigators & media on violence in Loliondo

The Endorois people (also in Kenya) were removed from their sacred land in the 1970s under similar circumstances & for similar motives (the establishment of parks for colonial tourists.)

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Fri, 24 May 2013 21:39:05 -0700

thepeoplesrecord: California Domestic Workers Demand Bill of...

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:34:02 -0700

thepeoplesrecord:

California Domestic Workers Demand Bill of Rights

e-slut: things! not! to! say! to! asexuals!: ‘aren’t you just asexual becuase no one likes...

Fri, 24 May 2013 08:35:54 -0700

e-slut:

things! not! to! say! to! asexuals!:

‘aren’t you just asexual becuase no one likes you?’

‘asexuality isn’t even real’

‘you’ll grow out of it’

‘well do you masturbate?’

anything of or pertaining to amoebas

‘so does that mean you’re gonna die alone then?’

‘you don’t dress like an asexual’

vriska-ler: “women aren’t allowed to—” “women shouldn’t/can’t ___ because periods” “men are...

Fri, 24 May 2013 08:32:54 -0700

vriska-ler:

“women aren’t allowed to—”

“women shouldn’t/can’t ___ because periods”

“men are biologically better than women at—”

“only men can/should—”

“it’s not ladylike to—”

“you’re not a real woman if you don’t—”

“men are dominant and superior—”

“women have to—”

“she’s a slut/whore/trashy woman because she likes to have sex”

“she asked for it/it was her fault for—”

“women should wear—”

75-year-old Pakistani man killed by a white man with a machete in Birmingham two weeks ago. Barely any media coverage

Fri, 24 May 2013 08:31:28 -0700

75-year-old Pakistani man killed by a white man with a machete in Birmingham two weeks ago. Barely any media coverage :

Detectives appeal for witnesses after Mohammed Saleem, 75, was stabbed to death as he returned home from local mosque