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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor

 

When we really see other people as they are without taking it personally, we can never be hurt by what they say or do. Even if others lie to you, it is okay. They are lying to you because they are afraid. They are afraid you will discover that they are not perfect. It is painful to take that social mask off.

Don Miguel Ruiz (via enlightened-insights)

(Source: thefreenomad)

Perhaps this is how girls fall - not in some crime of enchantment at the hands of wicked ne’er-do-well, a grand before and after in which they are innocent victims who have no say in the matter. Perhaps they simply are kissed and want to kiss back. Perhaps they even kiss first. And why should they not?

The Sweet Far Thing (The Gemma Doyle Trilogy), Libba Bray

Side note: Words cannot express how much I love this trilogy.

(via hugtheshutterbug)

You either like me or you don’t. It took me Twenty-something years to learn how to love myself, I don’t have that kinda time to convince somebody else.

Daniel Franzese (via creatingaquietmind)

(Source: overlysensitivestudent)

Why are you stingy with yourselves? Why are you holding back? What are you saving for—for another time? There are no other times. There is only now. Right now.

George Balanchine (via creatingaquietmind)

(Source: larmoyante)

shortformblog: breakingnews: Judge widens lawsuit against NYPD’s stop-and-frisk practice The New York Times reports: A federal judge has granted class-action status to a lawsuit accusing New York Police Department officers of using race as a factor in stopping people on the street. Photo: Robert Stolarik for The New York Times In which a controversial policy gets its comeuppance.

shortformblog:

breakingnews:

Judge widens lawsuit against NYPD’s stop-and-frisk practice

The New York Times reports: A federal judge has granted class-action status to a lawsuit accusing New York Police Department officers of using race as a factor in stopping people on the street.

Photo: Robert Stolarik for The New York Times

In which a controversial policy gets its comeuppance.

Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.

Audre Lorde, ‘Sexism: An American Disease in Blackface’, in Sister/Outsider, p. 63.  (via feministquotes)

STFU, Conservatives: Spending, Taxes, Deficit are All Lower Today

liberalsarecool:

Think Progress:

“In January 2009, before President Obama had even taken the oath of office, annual spending was set to total 24.9 percent of gross domestic product. Total spending this year, fiscal year 2012, is expected to top out at 23.4 percent of GDP.”

“Here’s…

(Source: hidingmypowerlevel)

I have spoken to countless lawyers and they have yet to discover any cases in Florida where an African American was able to successfully use the “Stand Your Ground Law” defense in a hearing.” Another step I will take is to call for a study into racial disparities in the application of this law. What I didn’t see in the courtroom today is mercy or justice. The three year plea deal from Angela Corey is not mercy and a mandatory twenty year sentence is not justice. I hope that the people will come to Marissa’s defense as the system has so utterly failed her. This is just the beginning, not the end.

Congresswoman Corrine Brown on Marissa Alexander (Jacksonville, FL) Ruling (link)

sorry — really should have posted this earlier.

ALSO:

DONATE to her legal defense fund on WePay: https://www.wepay.com/donations/178785

TWITTER page: https://twitter.com/#!/FreeMarissa

2 PETITIONS:

this page has a phone call campaign & more: http://sisterslead.org/?page_id=89

[…] This a travesty of justice. Tell the Judge and State Attorney that a woman’s safety is not a criminal act.

Call Judge James Daniel at 904-630-7154 and ask for Marissa Alexander to be released now

Call State Attorney Angela Corey at 904-630-7075 ask for Marissa Alexander to be released now

Please also visit our sisterfriend Antonia Vann’s blog, on what you can do to help Marissa Alexander.
http://antonia-advocate.blogspot.com/2012/04/justice-for-marissa-alexander.html

[warning for brief mention of details of the assault at that last link]

direct email addresses [from the petition in the above quote]:

(via numol)

thatisnotfeminism: What’s more annoying, racists or sexists? 

thatisnotfeminism:

What’s more annoying, racists or sexists?