April 2012
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March 2012
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Update: 11 year old trans girl lost appeal →
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The above article is an update. Her mother went to appeal to keep her out of the psychiatric ward and lost. She will be institutionalized because of her expression of her gender. She will be held until she conforms to male gender and then released to foster care, not her mother who was supporting her.
Please, if you haven’t signed the petition, sign it, reblog it, ask your friends to sign it. We’ve managed to get 40K signatures for a pageant model, we’ve only gotten 11K for a little girl about to have her life ruined. Lets get on the ball and spread the word.
“Your handwriting. The way you walk. Which china pattern you choose. It’s all giving you away. Everything you do shows your hand. Everything is a self portrait. Everything is a diary.”
—Chuck Palahniuk (via loveismyjudge)
Fuckin awesome. You are designing my next tattoo.
“When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That’s the message he is sending.”
—Thich Nhat Hanh (via shakethecobwebs)
Please Help! →
totheprinterstickers.storenvy.com
I’m stressing out. I’m finding myself short on money again and so I’m coming to you guys for help again.
If you could reblog this link to help me get my sticker business off the ground it would really mean a lot to me. I really would like to be able to pay my rent again this month (and I’m only a few dollars short so it wouldn’t take much.)
Thanks in advance for any reblogs. <3
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Listen, she needs help paying her rent. You help her out and you get cool stickers. Everybody wins! STICKERS MAKE GREAT PRESENTS FOR YOUR FRIENDS, WHO WILL LOVE YOU FOR GIVING THEM A PRESENT. And as a bonus, you’ll become a Genuinely Cool Human Being (unless you are in fact a pet using your owner’s computer)!
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The Curious Case of Trayvon Martin - NYTimes.com →
nytimes.com
Treyvon Martin was a 17-year-old black boy who was shot to death while walking home from a 7-Eleven for “looking suspicious”. He was shot by George Zimmerman, a 28-year-old neighborhood watch captain, who had called 911 regarding the boy, and pursued him with a gun despite 911 dispatchers telling him specifically to leave the boy alone. It was later found that Zimmerman had a history of reporting “suspicious” black people.
Please read and / or reblog. Not enough has been said about this case. Zimmerman should at least stand trial to account for the incident, instead of no-one being made to answer for the death of an innocent person. Trayvon deserves justice.
Also, please read this, the article where I actually learned about this tragedy.
You can sign an online petition calling for Zimmerman’s prosecution in this case here.
Like / reblog if you think Tumblr should have a "Lists" feature similar to Twitter's.
Seriously. It’s so hard to follow all of your posts!
“See good in everything and in everyone. But love only a few fiercely and determinately. Make them heroes. Find patterns among them. Stage hypothetical conversations, debates, between them. Have inspiration outside what you do. The way you do anything is the way you do everything. And if you want to be pushed, have heroes in anything, everywhere.”
—On heroes and the architecture of character. (via explore-blog)
Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs →
nytimes.com
I realize that two days later this is actually old news, but I think everybody needs to read it. The concepts and writing are extremely understandable even to someone who knows little about finance and trading.
In case you’re not clued in: Greg Smith, Goldman Sachs executive director and head of the firm’s United States equity derivatives business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, published an op-ed piece in the New York Times which served as his resignation letter. This letter has caused quite a stir in the last couple of days:
“I hope this can be a wake-up call to the board of directors. Make the client the focal point of your business again. Without clients you will not make money. In fact, you will not exist. Weed out the morally bankrupt people, no matter how much money they make for the firm. And get the culture right again, so people want to work here for the right reasons. People who care only about making money will not sustain this firm — or the trust of its clients — for very much longer.”
How is it that I can do this? I wanna do this!!!
This is my love letter to Tumblr.
I used to keep a LiveJournal a long time ago. It got me through some of the hardest times of my life. It let me be honest about my life and thoughts, I could keep it from my family, and my friends - who I loved and whose presence was sorely needed in my life - could read these posts and tell me that I was okay, and I was right for feeling that way, and who did that guy think he was anyway? It was validating for me, and cathartic. I felt understood.
I got older and wiser, changed my life, and put my LJ on private. I haven’t posted a new LJ post in probably, wow, six years or something like that. I keep it around because sometimes I want to look back and remember where and who I was. Sometimes I congratulate myself on saying something so clever, or funny, or deep. I sometimes am impressed with how smart I was. (Not to toot my own horn or anything, right?) In an earlier post I mentioned that I’m a private person and I don’t really talk much about myself. I care about my privacy online these days, and I grew to value discretion, and how a person’s private life and thoughts are one of their dearest and most valuable possessions. I could go off on a tangent about how amazing it was that it took the innovation of the Internet for us to realize the value of our selves, but we’ll save that for another day.
I really liked Twitter when it got popular because I loved the challenge of trying to say a lot without saying much. I love how Twitter always makes you get creative, like every time you have a thought you have to make a haiku out of it. You never have to say, “I wish I had written that down” when you have a mobile phone on you and you can just tweet it. Naturally though, just like with trying to remember to write your ideas down on a notebook, not every idea you have is a gem and sometimes it’s better if you didn’t get it down at all.
I liked using Facebook’s “share” feature to share links, photos, videos, and that sort of thing with my friends. When I quit Facebook a few years ago, I discovered I didn’t really want to join another social network. I realized what I wanted was just to be able to share things I liked with my friends without having to e-mail them. I had to actually search for Tumblr, since I didn’t know anything like it existed.
Tumblr is better even than LiveJournal ever was for me. I get to be understood, and my friends can see the things I like, or I think are important, or funny. Through my posts, people can get to really know me in a way that words actually put barriers to without our intention. By telling the world, “these are the things that matter to me”, people get to know your soul. The whole blog becomes this audiovisual poem or song about the soul of its curator(s). XKCD recently joked about the names of Tumblr blogs being similar to band names, and I totally agree. People are thinking deeply about how they want to be understood.
I think Tumblr is special because even people that might not especially be gifted with words - not limited by them or even the number of characters they can use - can in effect say, “this is me, this is who I am, these things I’m showing you represent some facet of my personality or values”. I feel I can be understood much more clearly and intimately this way than I ever could before, as though a person who looked at my Tumblr “got me”. I in turn understand more intimately the souls of others and what they’re about.
It’s nice to let people in on so much without ever saying anything much at all.
Please Help! →
totheprinterstickers.storenvy.com
HEY. My friend makes kickass stickers and YOU FUCKING WANT SOME. So go buy them! She’s really great and her stickers are great and if you help her you’ll be great, too.
I’m stressing out. I’m finding myself short on money again and so I’m coming to you guys for help again.
If you could reblog this link to help me get my sticker business off the ground it would really mean a lot to me. I really would like to be able to pay my rent again this month (and I’m only a few dollars short so it wouldn’t take much.)
Thanks in advance for any reblogs. <3
I love you. BUY HER STICKERS.
PS. She’s just announced that if you use the coupon code “tumblr” at checkout, you’ll get 10% off any order of $5 or more!
YAYEE!
What’s got two thumbs and is the newest [and first official] street team member for PORK Magazine?
THIS GIRL RIGHT HERE, WOOT!
GIT YOU SOME!
