we have done the impossible

Guy: What do girls do at sleepovers?

Wed, 15 May 2013 01:09:39 -0400

Guy: What do girls do at sleepovers?
Me: Pass the Bechdel test.

hellscabanaboy: kismetjeska: #in which Bruce Banner finally...

Wed, 15 May 2013 01:08:10 -0400

kismetjeska:

#in which Bruce Banner finally finds somebody who isn’t afraid to kid around with him #because he has a sense of humour after all #’i’m sorry, that was mean’ anyone? #but everybody tiptoes around him because ‘oh sh*t, he’s a monster’ #but then he meets Tony #someone who’s not afraid to be around him #someone who might actually be a friend #and that means so much to him and permeates so deep that even when he’s the f——-g Hulk he still wants to save Tony’s ass #because by not treating the Hulk like a monster, Tony stopped him from being one

#SCIENCE BRO FEELS

#because by not treating the Hulk like a monster, Tony stopped him from being one

nethilia: janenx01: beanbunny: so-relatable: CAN SOMEONE...

Wed, 15 May 2013 01:07:12 -0400

nethilia:

janenx01:

beanbunny:

so-relatable:

CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN TO ME WHY THIS WAS FORCED UPON US

Sure, let’s go.

I’m your music teacher. I see what’s going on in the public schools — I see that your other teachers really only want you to learn math and reading, because that’s what’s tested under NCLB, and really even then if they could cut it to one of those subjects, they would.

But I’m different. I see that you’re an individual. I want you to understand the world, because you’ll be out in it some day, and I want you to understand the parts of it that aren’t explained by numbers or words. You need to understand how the world feels, how people feel, what they mean when they express themselves, or even what the greater universe at large means when it expresses itself through nature, or sounds, or any number of things too big to list in a Tumblr post.

That is the end goal of arts education.

To get there, from a musical perspective, you need to understand the basics first. You couldn’t read this if you didn’t understand letters, how would you understand that Brahms wrote four symphonies about the pain of not being with the woman he loved if you don’t know what a pitch is? Your music teacher understands better than anyone that learning happens through creation and imitation. The recorders are cheap (so your parents didn’t have to put down a couple thousand on a violin — do your parent’s have that? Mine didn’t) and easy (so that literally everyone in the classroom can master it, even the kids that might have problems in the regular classroom suddenly have a very easy tool that they can be successful with). Also, they sound quite beautiful if you’d quit blowing so hard.

But no, by reblogging this, apparently you’d rather lose the ability to understand art and the world around you. Fine, more for me.

Why I love Bean, in six paragraphs.

Love all the BEAN

but what does it say about us

Wed, 15 May 2013 01:05:03 -0400

crispycheezefriez:

that men believe they are entitled to “mourn” angelina jolie’s double mastectomy? how are we defined when we believe we own a woman - simply because she is a public figure - enough to discuss her fears, genetics, body, and decisions.

there’s more to this than “oh, brad’s gonna fuck the nanny.”

this is about men believing they own women and girls. it’s more than a mastectomy.

soulbrotherv2: Dark Girls: The Story of Color, Gender, and...

Wed, 15 May 2013 01:04:10 -0400

soulbrotherv2:

Dark Girls: The Story of Color, Gender, and Race

Has anything really changed since the days of American slavery when dark-skinned Blacks were made to suffer even greater indignities than their lighter skinned counterparts? Ask today’s dark Black woman.

Dual documentary Directors/Producers D. Channsin Berry (Urban Winter Entertainment) and Bill Duke (Duke Media) took their cameras into everyday America in search of pointed, unfiltered and penetrating interviews with Black women of the darkest hues for their emotional expose’, “Dark Girls”. Two years in the making and slated to premier at the Toronto International Film Festival, “Dark Girls” pulls back our country’s curtain to reveal that the deep seated biases and hatreds of racism – within and outside of the Black American culture – remain bitterly entrenched. [Visit Dark Girls movie site.]

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Photo

Wed, 15 May 2013 01:03:30 -0400

chubby-bunnies: How Slut Shaming Becomes Victim Blaming her...

Wed, 15 May 2013 01:02:45 -0400

chubby-bunnies:

How Slut Shaming Becomes Victim Blaming

her face in the last gif made me actually cry

selchieproductions: Proud to Be Indigenous Week starts Monday,...

Wed, 15 May 2013 01:02:02 -0400

selchieproductions:

Proud to Be Indigenous Week starts Monday, May 20th. Are you part of it yet?!

Indigenous Peoples from around the world will be descending on New York City for the United Nations’ Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII). While most of us can’t make it to New York, our voices need to be heard! Proud To Be Indigenous is an online campaign for Indigenous People to share their stories. The Proud To Be Indigenous coalition includes over 40 Indigenous and Indigenous-friendly organizations, large and small and from all over the world, that will be sharing photos, videos and stories about Indigenous, Native and Aboriginal people online during UNPFII (see the fill list of coalition members below).

But most importantly, Proud To Be Indigenous is about you, the Indigenous People from around the world, and sharing your story and voice. How? Throughout the week, we are encouraging people to share photos, videos and stories of themselves and why they are proud of their people and culture. We have already started receiving photos, videos and stories from Indigenous People in the Arctic, Amazon, and Central Africa! Join your Indigenous sisters and brothers and send us a photo of you holding a #Proud2BIndigenous sign so that next week, thousands of Indigenous people are showing their pride and sharing their voice. And make sure you are following us on Facebook and Twitter because during the week, we will be sharing Indigenous stories and news coming out of UNPFII.

How can you get involved? Its easy, no matter where you are.

TAKE A #PROUD2BINDIGENOUS PHOTO

Take a photo of yourself with your homemade #Proud2BIndigenous sign. See a few of the great examples we have already received below:

Then then post them on the Proud To Be Indigenous Facebook page with a message telling us your name, your People and where you are live.

If you are on Twitter, tweet your photo using the hashtag #Proud2BIndigenous or #P2BI and we will retweet it.

And if you only have email, just email us the photo to proud2bindigenous@firstpeoples.org and we will share it for you.

That’s it! Make sure you sign up and join the movement so we can update you throughout the week on what is going on. And check out the schedule below for the Proud To Be Indigenous events in New York during UNPFII.

PROUD TO BE INDIGENOUS WEEK

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE

Updated 5/14/2013

Annual Children’s Festival: “Aloha Days at the NMAI”
Saturday & Sunday, May 18 & 19, 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM EST
at National Museum of the American Indian
Celebrate the culture, traditions and values of Native Hawai’i through dance, storytelling, workshops and much more. Activities and workshops will be lead by Hālau O ‘Aulani.

First Peoples Worldwide Annual Board Meeting
Sunday, May 19 & Monday, May 20

Donor Breakfast
Tuesday, May 21 (Invitation only)
A chance for funders and First Peoples’ grantees to meet and explore future funding opportunities. Invitation only.
Contact nmorrison@firstpeoples.org for details.

Corporate Leadership & Indigenous Peoples
Tuesday, May 21, 12:30 – 2:30 PM EST
A workshop for companies establishing leadership roles within the growing global trajectory for Indigenous Peoples’ rights. RSVP is required.
Contact nelosi@firstpeoples.org for details.

Leadership Training for Indigenous Peoples
Tuesday, May 21, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM EST
A culturally appropriate leadership training for Indigenous Peoples. RSVP is required.
Contact jtiller@firstpeoples.org for details.

UN Global Compact Consultation
Thursday, May 23, 8:00 AM – 2:30 PM EST
Workshop for Indigenous Peoples to provide feedback and comments to the UN Global Compact’s Business Reference Guide to UNDRIP. RSVP is required.
Contact npelosi@firstpeoples.org for details.

Native Right to Water
Thursday, May 23, 6:00 PM EST
Diker Pavilion at National Museum of the American Indian
In conjunction with the U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII), the museum and the National Coalition of Concerned Legal Professionals presents a discussion of Native water rights with Cecelia Belone, (Diné) and Native activist/attorney James Zion. This program will also be broadcast live on the web at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nmai-ny

Ellen L. Lutz Indigenous Rights Award
Thursday, May 23, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST
at National Museum of the American Indian
Hosted by Cultural Survival
Contact agnes@culturalsurvival.org for details.

Cultural Survival Baazar
Friday May 24, 10:00 AM – 6PM EST
at Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza
833 1st Ave, New York, NY 10017
Hosted by Cultural Survival
For more information, visit: http://bazaar.culturalsurvival.org/may-24-new-york-city-ny

Free Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) Guidebook Meeting
Tuesday, May 28, 1:15PM – 2:45PM EST
An introduction to Indigenous Peoples Guidebook to FPIC & Corporation Standards developed in partnership with First Peoples Worldwide, the International Indian Treaty Council (IITC), and Trillium Asset Management.
Contact npelosi@firstpeoples.org for details.

Times are tentative and subject to change. All events wil take place in New York City. Sign-up to be alerted of additions and changes to the schedule.

fuckyeahbabyanimals: I don’t know that I could ever need more...

Wed, 15 May 2013 01:01:09 -0400

fuckyeahbabyanimals:

I don’t know that I could ever need more than this puppy and this hair dryer.

Just Another Black girl.: Seeing Naomi Campbell As We Do Not Usually See Her

Wed, 15 May 2013 01:00:54 -0400

Just Another Black girl.: Seeing Naomi Campbell As We Do Not Usually See Her:

nudiemuse:

derica:

1. Seeing the darker skin at Naomi Campbell’s joints is the reason for this post.

2. Here Naomi Campbell communicates some feeling / atmosphere / affect that fabulous and fierce Naomi Campbell is not usually invited to communicate.

3. This is skin usually…

militantbyexistence: vishual: noseasboba: I never get tired...

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:59:28 -0400

militantbyexistence:

vishual:

noseasboba:

I never get tired of this photo.

Ella Fitzgerald was not allowed to play at Mocambo because of her race. Then, one of Ella’s biggest fans made a telephone call that quite possibly changed the path of her career for good. Here, Ella tells the story of how Marilyn Monroe changed her life:

“I owe Marilyn Monroe a real debt… she personally called the owner of the Mocambo, and told him she wanted me booked immediately, and if he would do it, she would take a front table every night. She told him – and it was true, due to Marilyn’s superstar status – that the press would go wild. The owner said yes, and Marilyn was there, front table, every night. The press went overboard. After that, I never had to play a small jazz club again. She was an unusual woman – a little ahead of her times. And she didn’t know it.”

jesus christ this is so much better than all of the “you don’t have to be size zero!!!!!” and “i don’t mind living in a man’s world if i can be a woman!!!!!!!” bullshit related to marilyn monroe i see.

sisterhood yo….

napoleonbonerhard: napoleonbonerhard: i literally cannot convey how long I laughed after i...

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:58:19 -0400

napoleonbonerhard:

napoleonbonerhard:

i literally cannot convey how long I laughed after i realized that boobytrap backwards is partyboob

i really hope that this does not end up being the text post that defines my entire tumblr career

casanova-frankensteins-monster: So do colorblind folks ever try to convince White Supremacists that...

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:57:54 -0400

casanova-frankensteins-monster:

So do colorblind folks ever try to convince White Supremacists that race is just a social construct or do they only do it when POC have legitimate criticisms of race relations in various countries around the world?

rosalarian: Angelina Jolie had a double mastectomy, in case you...

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:57:20 -0400

rosalarian:

Angelina Jolie had a double mastectomy, in case you hadn’t heard. How dare she remove those ticking time bombs from her chest, amiright? Like, hasn’t she learned by now that her body is public domain and we all get to vote on what she does with it? Sheesh, how selfish can ya get.

graceebooks: men at large feel like they are being robbed of something when an attractive woman...

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:53:19 -0400

graceebooks:

men at large feel like they are being robbed of something when an attractive woman with a 90% chance of developing breast cancer gets a double mastectomy

what better illustration of the male sense of sexual entitlement do you need

sour-blue: Cooper Thompson has a very distinctive look, like...

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:52:18 -0400

sour-blue:

Cooper Thompson has a very distinctive look, like the lovechild of a porcelain doll and a Greek god statue.

mizbingley: IS THIS MY DREAM COMING TRUE AND THE BISEXUAL...

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:51:30 -0400

mizbingley:

IS THIS MY DREAM COMING TRUE AND THE BISEXUAL NUN-FUCKING SWORD WIELDING OPERA SINGER JULIE D’AUBIGNY BEING IMMORTALIZED IN A FILM BY NATALIE DORMER

"Indeed, the idea of ‘winning the girl’ – of overcoming female objections or resistance through..."

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:51:13 -0400

“Indeed, the idea of ‘winning the girl’ – of overcoming female objections or resistance through repeated and frequently escalating efforts – is central to most of our modern romantic narratives. (Female persistence, by contrast, is viewed as pathetic.) And the more I think about instances of creepiness, harassment and stalking that culminate in either the threat or actuality of sexual assault, the more I’m convinced that a massive part of the problem is this socially sanctioned idea that men are fundamentally entitled to persist. Because if men are meant to persist, then women who say no must only be rejecting the attempt, not the man himself, so that every separate attempt becomes one of a potentially infinite number of keys which might just fit the lock of the woman’s approval. She’s not the one who’s allowed to say no, not really; she should be silent and passive as a locked door, waiting patiently while the man runs through however many keys he can be bothered trying. And if he gets sick of this lengthy process and just breaks in? Well, frustration under those circumstances is only natural. Either the door shouldn’t have been there to impede him, or it shouldn’t have been locked.”

- The Creepiness Question (via zombiemovies)

this shit is fucked up
(via onceuponatimethereneverwas)

girljanitor: aragorn-sass: acheiropoietos: 4thmansionofthemoon...

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:49:44 -0400

girljanitor:

aragorn-sass:

acheiropoietos:

4thmansionofthemoon:

Woman Kills a Would-Be Rapist and is Presented with his Belongings, manuscript illumination, 12th c., Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional, MS Graecus Vitr. 26-2, fol. 208r.

According to the text of the Madrid manuscript of the “Synopsis historion,” a Byzantine chronicle written by John Skylitzes, “There were some Varangians dispersed in the Thrakesion theme for the winter. One of them coming across a woman of the region in the wilderness put the quality of her virtue to the test. When persuasion failed he resorted to violence, but she seized his Persian-type sword, struck him in the heart and promptly killed him. When the deed became known in the surrounding area, the Varangians held an assembly and crowned the woman, presenting her with all the possessions of her violator, whom they threw aside, unburied, according to the law concerning assassins.” In the image depicting these occurrences, the woman uses a spear to kill her attacker, and the other Varangian men approach her with armfuls of clothing.

Courtesy of Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index

hell yeah fuckin right

Brown/black as hell, lookatthem!

Quick reminder that history isn’t some kind of linear progression from “worse” to “better”

Everything here is shippable. Even I'm shippable; But that, dear children, is self insertion, and is in fact frowned upon in most fandoms.

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:48:09 -0400

whispersfromthestacks:

I must always reblog this.