perennial flight

May. 31, 2012 at 2:49pm with 320 notes

YAS!!!

3:48am

vancouver folks: last minute call to action

The Musqueam people and supporters will block the Arthur Lane Bridge during the morning rush hour. Enough is enough, and the Musqueam people deserve the attention of the masses. Show your support, bright and early!

https://www.facebook.com/events/433112563380033/

May. 29, 2012 at 2:17am

poetry egypt spoken word

Into Egypt - written and performed by Suheir Hammad

1:58am with 2,237 notes

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I don’t think it’s terribly controversial to note that women, from a young age, are required to consider the reality of the opposite gender’s consciousness in a way that men aren’t. This isn’t to say that women don’t often misunderstand, mistreat, and stereotype men, both in literature and in life. But on a basic level, functioning in society requires that women register that men are fully conscious; it is not really possible for a woman to throw up her hands and write men off as eternally unknowable space aliens — and even if she says she has, she cannot really behave as though she has. Every element of her life — from reading books about boys and men to writing papers about the motivations of male characters to being attentive to her own safety to navigating most any institutional or professional or economic sphere — demands an ironclad familiarity with, and belief in, the idea that men really are fully human entities. And no matter how many men come to the same conclusions about women, the structure of society simply does not demand so strenuously that they do so. If you didn’t really deep down believe that women were, in general, exactly as conscious as you, you could probably still get by in life. You could probably still get a book deal. You could probably still get elected to office.

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Jennifer duBois, Writing Across Gender

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1:55am with 231,352 notes

theowlintheappletree:

blurringlines:

Zac Efron lets Vanessa walk first so people know how amazing she is.

Will Smith does THIS.

gold.

I will forever reblog this photo. love it.

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1:52am with 148 notes

juliosalgado83:

We are citizens of the world.

May. 28, 2012 at 10:24pm with 1,427 notes

lolanbuhainsevilla:

IN HONOR OF MEMORIAL DAY: During World War II, President Franklin Roosevelt pledged that Filipinos who fight for the United States will be granted citizenship and military benefits. As a result, over 200,000 Filipinos fought side by side with American soldiers during World War II. Shortly after the war ended, that promise was taken back with the Recission Act of 1946. It was not until 2009 when President Obama signed a bill that would give Filipino World War II veterans a lump sum compensation of $15K ($9K for those living in the Philippines) to the less than 18,000 veterans who are still alive today. Yes, such an amount is not commensurate to the benefits they missed out on for over 50 years, but yet to this day a majority of them still have not received such meager compensation. So, LET US REMEMBER THE FILIPINO VETERANS WHO WERE NOT ONLY VICTIMS OF WORLD WAR II, BUT ALSO VICTIMS OF INSTITUTIONALIZED RACISM.

May. 27, 2012 at 6:01pm with 7 notes

bell hooks love