February 2012
Wellesley Underground: WU Class Notes of... →
wellesleyunderground:
Recently on FB community we saw the thread about class notes of your (un)accomplishments and we thought they were GREAT. Its important to know that our Wellesley siblings are thinking about wearing a bra tomorrow, or showered for the first time in five days, or are in a job that pays bills but…
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Loving Day →
June 12 is Loving Day. A day to celebrate the ruling of Loving v. Virginia and the interracial couples who have been able to marry legally since then. A day to celebrate multiculturalism. A day to celebrate love.
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“Surrounded as I am now by wonderful children and grandchildren, not a day goes...”
– Mildred Loving (from her 2007 statement for the 40th anniversary of Loving v. Virginia)
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“Marriage is one of the “basic civil rights of man,” fundamental to...”
– From Loving v. Virginia (1967); the Supreme Court Case that ruled anti-miscegenation laws unconstitutional
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“We loved each other and got married. We are not marrying the state. The law...”
– Mildred Loving
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Why do I watch documentaries on racism (or any...
“Some of my best friends are Negroes.” - says the white Southern man (I hate phrases like this so much. Just because you have “friends” who are black doesn’t mean you aren’t racist, especially if you believe you’re still superior to them).
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr…
I guess I watch them because they end with some kind of triumphant, we’ve still...
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Watching "The Loving Story"
I am so glad we don’t have miscegenation laws anymore or “racial integrity” acts.
Although, that didn’t stop a Louisiana judge from preventing an interracial couple from getting married about 3 years ago.
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Some thoughts on the rhetoric around sexuality &...
Have you ever noticed how we often discuss the idea of choice vs. an inherent “born this way” inner feeling only in terms of non-straight and non-cis identities? We always treat straight and cis as some kind of default, some kind of “natural,” some kind of built-in, innate identities while we tend to debate the innateness of any other kind of identity. I don’t think...
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Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede
suckitkindle:
I forgot how much I love this book! It’s so great. It addresses so many gender issues in very subtle awesome ways. There are spoilers ahead, so be forewarned.
First of all, there’s Cimorene, the protagonist. She doesn’t want to be a princess because princesses are expected to be silly, not too bright, and good at decorum and crafts. She finds she wants more to life than the...
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Alanna: The First Adventure
suckitkindle:
I just finished Alanna: the First Adventure this afternoon, and I absolutely loved it. I love Alanna’s stubbornness and all her flaws as well as her strengths. I love how she has doubts and occasionally lacks faith in her plan. It makes her real and relate-able.
I also love how she isn’t the only one who dislikes the plan society dictates for her. Thom hates the fighting arts...
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I just replaced my black cardigan & got my...
I’ve been looking at these things for months & had gift cards for both of them sitting around. Thanks to Abbey & Kiersten for indulging in my ridiculousness & “talking me into” buying them.
Although, I didn’t really buy the cardigan since there’s money left on my gift card (FIFTY-ONE CENTS!!!!).
But, the shoes…oh the shoes! They’re...
“Remember, my brothers? Remember that ten-year period when the mass media...”
– source (via evewithanapple)
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I got a Pinterest account 6 days ago...
I already have 20 boards, 285 pins, and 156 likes. I’d say that’s a little excessive for having this for less than a week (and not being on the internet for 3 days).
“If Nick outing Dave at his new school was so clearly seen as a dire and...”
– AfterElton Recap of On My Way (via morrisoutswagsyou)
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how far that story goes: The Confederate flag... →
iamateenagefeminist:
stfuconfederates:
After the Civil War, you pretty much got shot for having one.
Probably because it’s the symbol of a failed rebellion against the federal government, and the Stars and Bars was a fucking battle flag. It had no political symbolism. It was a …
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A new game to play:
cafehoop:
go through the course catalog and replace a word in a course title with “vagina”
examples:
“The Rise of an American Vagina” (originally The Rise of an American Empire)
“Applications of Mathematics without Vagina” (Applications of Mathematics w/o Calculus)
“Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Vagina” (Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature)
what classes are...
buttduchess:
i ain’t sayin’ she a gold-digger, but she did move west to california in 1849
“Now because the majority of abortions are performed in the first trimester, if...”
– JON STEWART, on Virginia’s inhumane, inhuman and shameful “personhood” law that requires women wanting to get an abortion to, in essence, be subject to rape, on The Daily Show (via inothernews)
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“Unlike the Earth, we’re intelligent, and we can actually manage things.”
– Rick Santorum, during a campaign stop in Ohio, criticizing liberals and environmentalists that he believes are putting “Earth above man.”
Santorum made similiar comments during a recent campaign stop in Colorado, in early February, where the candidate was quoted as saying, “we were put on this...
“Let’s talk about rape for a moment. Rape is not what George Lucas did to your...”
– Jeffrey Rowland (via fueledbylife)
We Are All Connected in the Great Circle of Life:... →
daily-disney:
up cover - here.
tangled flynn cover - here. Aladdin cover - here.
the hunckback of notre dame esmeralda cover - here.
peter pan and tink cover - here.
the beauty and the beast belle cover - here. tangled rapunzel…