May 2013
“There is no single jurisdiction in the U.S. where a minimum wage worker can...”
– National Low Income Housing Coalition (via presidentjonesco)
tintinthesolitude asked: All you need is love? you sure? I think you mean all you need is Mac n Cheese
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watching milk. don’t mind me. i fucking love this movie no matter how corny it is.
“When we were on the beach we shopped at Carolina Beach. It had an amusement...”
– Assata Shakur. 1987. Assata: An Autobiography. Lawrence Hill Books: p. 27-28. (via so-treu)
A Scottish nightclub has installed a two-way... →
boterocats:
The recently-opened Shimmy Club has installed the spyglass – normally associated with police interrogations – in two of its £800-a-time private function rooms.
A spokesman for the Glasgow venue, owned by millionaire entrepreneur Stefan King’s G1 Group, insists it does not allow male or mixed-sex groups to hire the rooms.
However, the Scottish Sunday Express has seen photos showing...
ShortFormBlog: To the people complaining that... →
seldo:
I am super bored of hearing this.
Could Yahoo have done a better job of managing Flickr? Absolutely.
In retrospect, if they’d been patient and poured money into it like Facebook did with their own photo-sharing features, Flickr might have been a lot bigger. (Facebook is by far the…
The Rhapsody Incidents: The Garden At World's End:... →
je-mappelle-michelle:
: irresistible-revolution: rillness: Seriously talk all your shit about…
irresistible-revolution:
rillness:
Seriously talk all your shit about “authenticity” and “real talent” but do you honestly think your cloying overdone White Guy music “legends” could…
Ianthe's Inferno: starllex: one time i saw a girls... →
starllex:
one time i saw a girls bra strap. that was it. i was gone. i just couldnt focus anymore throughout the whole day because i saw it. all i could think about was bra strap. i went to a restauraunt and they asked what i wanted and the only words that came out of my were were “bra…
Justice Denied: For Misdemeanor Cases, Trials Are... →
sinidentidades:
Francisco Zapata keeps a copy of the Constitution on his cellphone. So when the police stopped, frisked and charged him with misdemeanor marijuana possession, he wanted what that cellphone document promised.
“I was under the assumption,” he said, “that if I kept going back to court, eventually I would get my day in court.”
But this was the Bronx.
Court delays of as long as...
“Diet culture, even when it doesn’t involve surgeries or starvation or physical...”
– Fat acceptance: when kindness is activism — Feministe (via greaterthanlapsed)
“Politicians have a slightly different information diet. They spend more time...”
– Why Washington Saved the Economy, Then Permanently Destroyed the Labor Market (via azspot)
Everything You Need to Know to Apply for Financial...
univisionnews:
There are both federal and private loan options, as well as scholarships and work-study programs.
By EMILY DERUY
So you want to go to go college but have no idea how to pay for it. You’ve heard there are a million options when it comes to financial aid, but every time you try to research them you get overwhelmed and your eyes glaze over.
How about a chart, with...
What You Should Know About the Philly Student... →
afrofuturistaffair:
Running a massive deficit of hundreds of millions of dollars, Philadelphia’s school system is planning to eliminate all sports, extracurricular activities, counselors and libraries—beyond which, for schools eviscerated by austerity politics, there’s not much left to lose. At noon today, May 17, thousands of students are expected to walk out of class and flood downtown....
“The Republicans are going to do what they’re going to do. On these matters in...”
– How to Stop a Scandal (via azspot)
“Under the current ‘tyranny of slenderness’ women are forbidden to become large...”
– Sandra Lee Bartky, Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power (via sociophilia)
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travelingmadness:
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“The first time I read ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ I was sitting in 10th grade English...”
– Melissa Harris-Perry [x] (via mswyrr)
“My Brooklyn”—Prejudice, Policy and Gentrification →
fuckyeahfeminists:
In discussing two women who document a culturally and commercially vibrant community at risk, the author explores the racist policy and politics behind the onslaught of gentrification.
In a city like New York, if you have your eyes open and headphones tucked away, you can easily observe deepening inequality. Generally, New Yorkers perceive these changes as part of rampant...
