Everyone's an Acronym

gaywrites:

And then there’s this.

I still catch myself feeling sad about things that don’t matter anymore.

Kurt Vonnegut (via endangerment)

(via faintfamiliarity)

cheesus that’s creepy

(via whiitiestwhiitegiirl)

callingoutbigotry:

christqueersandkarlmarx:

hey guess what *leans closer, whispers* our entire society is built to maintain the structures that support those in power and to justify their status at the top and the only way to end the tyranny of the ruling class is to rip it out of their miserable bleeding hands *kisses yr nose* :3

This is a rlly good post

(via teashells)

grrrlfever:

you keep saying “we’re all human” but all i hear is “i want to completely ignore institutionalised oppression and shut my eyes and pretend everyone is treated equally to escape the guilt of the numerous privileges i’m afforded”

(via upworthy)

kiss-my-aspergers:

foxstitches:

serasquatch:

berserkasfuckk:

Matilda

I was rewatching this movie the other day and got up to the point where she and Miss Honey meet for the first time in the classroom, and she mentions that her favorite author is Charles Dickens.

And, like, I always thought they namedropped him in order to make her sound intellectual, but it occurred to me really suddenly and violently that the reason she loves Dickens is because he writes about children who live in abusive systems and who’ve been orphaned or abandoned and she finds comfort and solidarity in it. Miss Honey’s reacts the way she does because Dickens is special to her, likely for the same exact reason. WOW DUH.

ONLY GETTING THIS LIKE 15 YEARS LATER. ALL ABOARD THE SLOW MOBILE.

omG

If it’s any consolation, I’m pretty sure 70% of the people reblogging this also didn’t realise this until you said it. Myself included.

I think I identify with Matilda more than any other movie or character.

what other story (for kids especially) makes it okay to find a new family? or that abuse isn’t only the obvious-physical kind, that emotional neglect is very real? that doesn’t suggest that you have to eventually make-up with bad family, as if you were equally at fault? and- while the parents are fucking awful, they are portrayed as very human- mom is genuinely sad when she has to say goodbye to Matilda at the end.

im actually crying now, thinking of Matilda making her own food at the beginning (I packed my own lunches, made breakfast, got the paper, and brewed coffee as early as kindergarten), or reading her books in seclusion, discovering her dad is an unscrupulous businessperson, the “im big, ur little, im smart, ur dumb” line, finding a special bond in a teacher (I’ve been close with many an English teacher).

if my parents were more kitsch and I was somehow a supergenius with telekinesis, this would’ve been my childhood.

(via kieranthehuman)

withquestionablewit:

Being queer doesn’t excuse you from privilege. You can be a white queer racist, a queer male misogynist, a cis queer trans*phobe, a wealthy queer classist, or any number of other oppressive things and the sooner you educate yourself to this the better off our whole community will be, because contrary to media depiction, queer people aren’t all white middle-class gay men!

intersectionality! yay!

(via riley-ferretboy-konor)

Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences. (Roy Ascott’s phrase.) That solves a lot of problems: we don’t have to argue whether photographs are art, or whether performances are art, or whether Carl Andre’s bricks or Andrew Serranos’s piss or Little Richard’s ‘Long Tall Sally’ are art, because we say, ‘Art is something that happens, a process, not a quality, and all sorts of things can make it happen.’ … [W]hat makes a work of art ‘good’ for you is not something that is already ‘inside’ it, but something that happens inside you — so the value of the work lies in the degree to which it can help you have the kind of experience that you call art.

Brian Eno (via jessiethatcher)

I could reblog/post this every day as a constant reminder.

(via notational)

And I’m sticking it up here for people who define the “good” in Make good art in ways that I definitely didn’t intend…

(via neil-gaiman)

BOOM.

seriously though, thanking the lord after a disaster like this- does that not imply that the dead deserved it? it’s called luck, folks

(via originalposter)

rjmckinnon:

frostedsammy:

i don’t normally post porn sorry

I do, and this is much better.

(via bludhavenbird)

hella clever

(via originalposter)

that’s like… a newborn

why would you put a newborn on a skateboard in the street?

(via awayteamzissou)

Trans inclusion will be a legislative priority over my dead body.

Elizabeth Birch, Human Rights Campaign Executive Director, 1995-2004

figured now would be a good time to remind everybody exactly who these people are and exactly how much they value trans people

(yes, I realize Birch is no longer with the organization, but this is not because they found her ideas repellant—it’s because she retired)

Hrc, trans inclusion

(via neoliberalismkills)

O_O this is really fucking important to be aware of

(via pewpewlasernipples)

is there a source? (not that this is completely believable, just, yanno, sources…)

(via projectqueer)

Be of service. You are taking your degree into a society dominated by concentrated poverty and a vulnerable middle class, a society where it is harder to pay for education, harder to find a job, harder to buy a house and harder to hold onto those things even if you manage to get them. You are entering adulthood during a period of mass incarceration and near constant war. There is a lot for you to do. Service is the rent you pay for the space you take up on the earth, and as a relatively privileged American you take up a lot of space. We are the most consuming, polluting, wasteful nation on earth. So your rent is steep. Pay it with service.

Dr. Melissa Harris-Perry’s advice to Class of 2013 (via bitchwhoisyou)

(via wilwheaton)

nevver:

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