Mountain Maiden

elkane: Jack Dawson… Penniless artist who wins a ticket onto...

Wed, 22 May 2013 21:50:05 -0500

Jack Dawson… Penniless artist who wins a ticket onto Titanic in 1912, attends a first class dinner, develops a taste for the finer things in life, pockets the Heart of the Ocean, survives the sinking, pawns the diamond, spends the following ten years building his wealth and in 1922 moves to West Egg as Jay Gatsby… Millionaire with a shady past and fear of swimming pools.

omg yes so much yes!!!!!

siddharthasmama: provocatoria: socialismartnature: Amazing 9...

Wed, 22 May 2013 06:39:10 -0500

siddharthasmama:

provocatoria:

socialismartnature:

Amazing 9 year old Asean Johnson brings the crowd to their feet at Chicago school closings rally

Asean (ah-Shawn) goes to Marcus Garvey Elementary School, slated for closure by the Chicago Public School administration, an un-elected board who’s members are appointed by Mayor Rahm Elmanuel, former Chief of Staff for President Barack Obama

More Info On School Closings Protests Here

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Daaaamn. Watch this 9-yr old student stand up and spit hot fire at a mass rally against the Chicago Mayor and Public School administration who are trying to close his and dozens of other schools in mostly non-white neighborhoods.

The future of social justice activism.

Crying. Black and brown children shouldn’t have to grow up so fast. This kid is absolutely amazing, but I wish we lived in a world where he could just play with his friends, hang out with his family or spend time worrying about if that girl down the street has a crush on him, instead of having to take on the responsibility of advocating for himself and other black, brown and low income childrens’ education. POC kids can never just be kids, man.

Bolded that last sentence for the cot damn truth.

some (possibly) important shit.: crackerhell: i honestly wish more people would use the term...

Wed, 22 May 2013 06:26:12 -0500

some (possibly) important shit.: crackerhell: i honestly wish more people would use the term...:

velmapippip:

princessneeshydoomcuddles:

velmapippip:

crackerhell:

i honestly wish more people would use the term heteroflexible

for example people who have never actually been in or seriously pursued (outside of that one time when you were 13) a queer relationship because being hetero is so much easier

like yes we know being hetero is much…

I thought about this a lot this fall when I started dating a hetero cisman as a queer ciswoman (polysexual is probs the best term.) I felt like my queer identity was being erased because I’m femme and was dating someone who very clearly is hetero & cis & a dude.

A dear friend reminded me that any relationship I’m in is QUEER because I’m QUEER, and that is really comforting for me, especially because I don’t read as queer and I live in a very heterocentric place.

Anyway, that’s part of my story, if it’s helpful to anyone figuring this shit out.

waitwaitwait

can you please explain to me, or have your friend explain to me

How you as a cis woman dating a hetero cis man equals a queer relationship?

Genuinely, I wanna know. That makes you queer, in a hetero relationship.

That doesn’t make you less queer, it doesn’t erase your queer identity. But it also doesn’t make your relationship queer.

Yeah, totally. For me, it makes sense to see it this way: I’m queer. I bring queerness to all of my relationships (family, romance, friendship, professional, etc). Queer to me is bigger than the gender and sexual identities of the people snogging each other: it’s a systematic & critical self examination, pledge, and brave ongoing act to engage with people (and especially partners) as human beings. In the process, we weed out heteronormativity, sexism, ascribed roles, etc.

I do reject the idea that hetero cis people engaged in a “feminist” relationship are in a queer relationship, much in the way that I think straight cis women cannot own Femme Identity, even though from the outside, these things might read similarly. I celebrate healthy/feminist relationships between people of all genders and sexualities, and I celebrate femininity in people of all genders and sexualities, but these things can be different from queer and femme because (among other things) these ideas are rooted in a departure from oppression.

I don’t know if I’ve put my thoughts out there very clearly. It’s a really personal and ongoing thing for me, and something I think about every day. My (now ex) boyfriend and I talked about the queer label for our relationship, and I was actually surprised when he totally agreed with me and said that that was how he had thought of our relationship too, in that being with me, as a queer person, is different than being with all of the other (hetero and cis) women he’s dated before me.

I guess I never felt like I “checked my queerness at the door” when I was with my last partner, if that makes sense.

Identity is hard, dude. And (duh) super personal. It’s a really hard process of maintaining (empowering) definitions and boundaries and not policing them at the exclusion of the legitimate experiences of other people in those groups.

In which Velma is articulate as shit.

searchingforknowledge: takealookatyourlife: ★ Who is your...

Tue, 21 May 2013 21:34:00 -0500

searchingforknowledge:

takealookatyourlife:

★ Who is your favourite villain?

YE :)

AHEM. In WHICH MR. CHO POINTS THE OBVIOUS

I see you, John Cho…I see what you did there :)

porcelain-horse-horselain: Not a god damn thing.

Tue, 21 May 2013 21:26:14 -0500

porcelain-horse-horselain:

Not a god damn thing.

seriouslyamerica: Meet the fourth-grader who has been dubbed...

Tue, 21 May 2013 21:25:10 -0500

seriouslyamerica:

Meet the fourth-grader who has been dubbed “The Michael Moore of the Grade-School Lunchroom” by the New York Times, Zachary Maxwell:

Like many things in the life of a fourth grader, Zachary’s movie started as a dispute with his parents. He told them that he wanted to start packing his own lunch, but they were skeptical. Lunch is free at his school, P.S. 130 Hernando De Soto in Little Italy, and his parents liked the look of the Department of Education’s online menus, which describe delicious meals, full of whole grains and fresh vegetables, some even designed by celebrity chefs.

…

In the film, Zachary, who is not above cheesy costumes and goofy special effects, makes a point that is under the radar of most conversations about the quality of school lunches: that despite the Education Department’s efforts to improve nutrition, there is a disconnect between the wholesome meals described on school menus and the soggy, deep-fried nuggets frequently dished up in the lunchrooms.

This kid is going places.

"Ang Lee must be kicking himself for not thinking of making Life of Pi an all-white affair with..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:59:00 -0500

“

Ang Lee must be kicking himself for not thinking of making Life of Pi an all-white affair with Freddie Highmore as its lead. Damn, and if only Slumdog Millionaire had been made with Josh Hutcherson in place of Dev Patel and Stanley Tucci in place of Anil Kapoor. Why stop there? Because Abrams obviously also wanted to s**t on one of the greatest roles ever played by a Latino actor. So why don’t we remake West Side Story with an all-white cast? And I can’t wait to see Chris Hemsworth play Zorro!”

“Nichelle Nichols’ Uhura was defined by her competence at her job, by the fact that she was the communications officer of the Federation’s flagship. Zoe Saldana’s Uhura is defined by her relationship to Spock. A franchise that even in the chauvinistic ’60s used to shatter the Bechdel test all the time in its depiction of Uhura now fails to meet it in this film made four decades later. How is this progress?

”

- STAR TREK SPOLERZ

Some gems from this nerd rage about Star Trek: Into Darkness.

Heartbreaking.

Mon, 20 May 2013 20:07:12 -0500

think-progress:

Even though the day was cancelled due to sequestration, a 5-year-old showed up to school because he was hungry.

And there are more devastating effects sequester budget cuts have had on kids and schools.

Sequestration is real people. The more you know.

dreamcatz92: tuerta: lalobalocaart: D.I.Y & LOCALLY MADE...

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:58:05 -0500

dreamcatz92:

tuerta:

lalobalocaart:

D.I.Y & LOCALLY MADE FOOD: What the hipsters din’t tell you

I got this patches from 1384 screenprinting at the last anarchist book fair in Los Angeles right after a horrible white fucking person yelled at a beautiful brown mama for selling chicken at the gathering. The horrible person, skin waste and excess population was so fucking violent towards the brown lady that her gorgeous chubby lil brown kid felt embarrassed and was telling her mama they should go home. This pisses me off A LOT, pero for reals whats up with the amnesia? Who the fuck are the people that create the most waste and use up the most resources in the world? Who da fuck is related to the people that own Monsanto and all that horrible shit? Who da FUCK are the people that colonized, rape and took over land and COLONIZE indigenous foods?GUESS! So yeah amnesia pisses me off.

Como si fueramos nosotrxs who made up the horrible meat industry, como se fueramos nosotrxs who own those fuking meat businesses. como si nosotrxs no supieramos lo que es comer real food. Fuk that shit! Our muxeres are the reason why this world still revolves, they are the ones that use plastic containers for pots, to pack lunch, to store their money, to keep their legumes….they are the ones that cross seeds from one country to another, LAS SEMILLAS NO TIENEN BARRERAS EUROPEAS. Our muxeres are the ones that make sure that the food is eaten to its last bite. Our muxeres are the ones that plant flowers and make homes and entire neighborhoods beautiful full with plants that attract colibris and birds and all that magical shit.

The lady selling the pupusas, tamales, tacos in the corner WITHOUT fucking permits, maybe without fucking papers are THE REAL FUCKING REVOLUTIONARIES, FUCKING RADICAL ASS BEEZHIES.

We are hella DIY, some of our people don’t even need dishes cause they wrap their food with leaves. Some of our people don’t even need to buy dipers cause they use those 100% cotton panales to re-use and re-use. Some of our mamas used reusable fucking pads before being an eco-feminist was “in”. Some of our people had almost ZERO negative effects on mother earth cause they lived up in las montanas y en el rancho. Some of our people eat meat in minimal quantities, and guess WHAT some of our people still kill their own food. Some of our people have never had cars pero have hella tight nice walking/running legs. GUESS WHAT ELSE! The colonial food system, that McShit, Wendy BS, Burger Caca ALL that white trash food that is killing our people and creating an epidemia of diabetes WAS NOT CREATED BY OUR PEOPLE. My people drink fucking REAL fruit juice with honey, bitch.

So yeah let’s eat local! Let’s pick fruits from the trees in our neighborhood, let’s support our local corner muxeres huslting, let’s TIP our muxeres. Let’s honor the REAL DIY queenz that make trash into magical useful things. Let’s honor our muxeres that use the little money they make in this patriarchal racist system to fill their children tummies with ancestral beans, corn, potatoes and all that beautiful foods that are truly BROWN and from this continent.

DECOLONIZE VEGAN, DECOLONIZE LOCALLY MADE FOODS, DECOLONIZE D.I.Y, DECOLONIZE EVERYTHING!

por La Loba Loca

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fuck yes!!!!

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I experimented with pasta this evening

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:52:00 -0500

I decided to make an almond milk-based shiitake and tomato cream sauce over penne tossed in blood-orange olive oil (trust me, this is all I had left in my kitchen this week).

The result, while good, tasted bizarrely like chicken mcnuggets. Like, exactly.

Also, I may have decided to make an after-work drink without thinking about having an empty stomach. So take this with a grain of tipsy.

spaceporndaily: benevolentstranger: morefunthanbeingsad: physi...

Sun, 19 May 2013 16:56:15 -0500

spaceporndaily:

benevolentstranger:

morefunthanbeingsad:

physicsphysics:

An interesting model of our solar system’s path as it travels through space in the Milky Way.

Certainly a departure from usual models that show the Sun as a static object, which it certainly isn’t

I had no idea this was happening. Where are we going?

The moon orbits us. We orbit the sun. The sun orbits the milky way. The milky way orbits whatever the fuck it wants (ok it has an orbit around a certain galaxy cluster but I guess it’s not a closed orbit).

look how pretty we are

queereyes-queerminds: lostruth: Power Structure of...

Sun, 19 May 2013 16:53:43 -0500

queereyes-queerminds:

lostruth:

Power Structure of Oppression

Yes. Yes. YES.

buzzfeed: George Takei responds to “traditional” marriage...

Sun, 19 May 2013 00:35:08 -0500

buzzfeed:

George Takei responds to “traditional” marriage fans.

He is wonderful in so many ways.

Watching JAWS and texting my mom

Sat, 18 May 2013 17:41:40 -0500

Mom: You will never swim in the ocean again
Me: You did
Mom: I don't believe in sharks

Dear Alaska: Please stop snowing, I really want to go hiking...

Sat, 18 May 2013 10:42:05 -0500

Dear Alaska: Please stop snowing, I really want to go hiking when I visit you in three weeks. Sincerely, Meghan

OK Personal PSA Time: Officially leaving tumblr until Friday

Mon, 13 May 2013 22:32:40 -0500

You know when there’s a movie coming out that you’re really excited to see…

…and then you see what you THINK might be a spoiler…

…but you don’t even want to finish reading whatever it is in order to see if it truly IS a spoiler because of the possibility that it might confirm your already-dashed sense of anticipation?

And then you spend the rest of the day like

Yes, I am 5 years old and, in this case, spoilers mean a lot to me. So until I see Star Trek: Into Darkness I am checking out of tumblr. Not worth risking even the possibility of spoiling the movie experience.

See you all Saturday :)

brightwalldarkroom: The Great Gatsby (1974) as The Great Gatsby...

Mon, 13 May 2013 17:06:36 -0500

brightwalldarkroom:

The Great Gatsby (1974) as The Great Gatsby (2013).

This. Is. Incredible.

samorchard: I did a comic about marriage equality…

Mon, 13 May 2013 16:40:58 -0500

samorchard:

I did a comic about marriage equality…

homosexualintellectual: Trans* rights in the United States. See...

Mon, 13 May 2013 16:39:51 -0500

homosexualintellectual:

Trans* rights in the United States. See a problem here?

hitrecordjoe: colchrishadfield: With deference to the genius...

Sun, 12 May 2013 22:22:25 -0500

hitrecordjoe:

colchrishadfield:

With deference to the genius of David Bowie, here’s Space Oddity, recorded on Station. A last glimpse of the World.

Huge thanks in the making of the video to the talented trio of Emm Gryner, Joe Corcoran and Andrew Tidby, plus Evan Hadfield and all at the CSA.

Wow! Well done, Commander. And, welcome home!

In case you had any doubt about the sheer awesomeness of Commander Chris Hadfield, here’s a video.