I want to live in a loft.
Young. Political. Frequently feminist. Realist. Sarcastic. Anti-child and pro-pets. Dealing with my own personal demons. Trying to see the world as a burgeoning sociologist.
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OH MY GOD LOOKIT YOUR LITTLE STUBS, KITTY, YOU BARELY KNOW WHAT THEY DO, YOU ARE SO CUTE I’M GONNA HAVE TO KISS YOUR TUMMY NOW
Fucking cutest thing
(via sarcasmdrips)
“I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.”
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Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (via thelifeguardlibrarian)
fierce.
(via bitchyoudrunk)
Don’t know why this is a difficult concept for people to grasp.
(Source: anditslove, via avictoryxiv)
“The strongest people are not those who show strength in front of us but those who win battles we know nothing about.”
— Unknown (via onlinecounsellingcollege)
(via sociolab)
“Research shows the very sobering impact of discrimination. Investigators reviewed data on Medicare recipients who were age 65 or older and were hospitalized for heart attacks in 1994 and 1995. (Druss, Bradford, Rosenheck, Radford & Krumholz, 2000) More than 5,300 of these persons were also diagnosed with mental disorders such as schizophrenia, depression, and substance abuse. The researchers wanted to know the extent of service received by these persons with mental illness compared to the rest of the population. The results were staggering:
- 28% were less likely to undergo catheterization, the gold standard diagnostic test for heart disease
- 25% were less likely to undergo angioplasty (in which a small balloon is inflated inside an artery to clear away fatty buildup)
- 32% were less likely to have bypass surgery”
— “Challenging the Stigma of Mental Illness” Patrick Corrigan, David Roe, and Hector W. H. Tsang
“The other question everybody asks is, why doesn’t she just leave? Why didn’t I walk out? I could have left any time. To me, this is the saddest and most painful question that people ask, because we victims know something you usually don’t: It’s incredibly dangerous to leave an abuser. Because the final step in the domestic violence pattern is kill her. Over 70 percent of domestic violence murders happen after the victim has ended the relationship, after she’s gotten out, because then the abuser has nothing left to lose. Other outcomes include long-term stalking, even after the abuser remarries; denial of financial resources; and manipulation of the family court system to terrify the victim and her children, who are regularly forced by family court judges to spend unsupervised time with the man who beat their mother. And still we ask, why doesn’t she just leave?”
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“Why domestic violence victims don’t leave” - Leslie Morgan Steiner (via eaaao)
Read the comments on almost any story about a woman who was attacked/killed by partner, and I 100% guarantee you will see one that implies that the victim is at fault for not leaving or not leaving sooner. DON’T BLAME THE VICTIM.
(via stfuconservatives) Or “just get a restraining order.” What the hell is a piece of paper to an abuser? (via native-detroiter)
(Source: childofweakness, via socialformsandsocialtypes)
Birthday dog waiting so patiently for cake!
‘He might be only part of your life, but for him, you are his everything, the only person in his whole life.’
For more cute dogs and puppies
(via avictoryxiv)
Now imagine you’re an “objective” racist white scientist who decides to give a group of black men a STI and, instead of treating them for it, watch them slowly suffer from it so you can study it FOR SCIENCE.
Now imagine you’re the white supremacist sexist medical establishment that denies women the right to get their tubes tied unless they already have loads of kids and require them to get their husband’s permission while at the same time forcibly sterilising legions of native and black women.
Now imagine you’re an “objective” racist psychologist who decides that slaves wanting to escape is a psychological disorder called “drapetomania” and the “cure” for that is lashings and cutting off toes.
Now imagine that you’re the “objective” and “scientific” medical establishment that deems queerness a disorder and decides that electroshock treatments or lobotomies are the effective solution or feels the need to “intervene” by surgically altering the bodies of intersex infants to fit your perceptions of what genitalia should look like.
Religion has done a lot of fucked up shit. But I’m sick and tired of people acting like SCIENCE hasn’t been involved in wars, death, and genocide either. And it’s the assumptive bullshit notion that ALL religions are somehow stupid and not worth your consideration that perpetuates this colonialist bullshit approach that white people have now upon Native and other individuals when tribes fight for the right to their sacred lands of, “Oh you’re religion is just hooey!”
First they “civilised” us with religion and now it’s science and repatriation. Stealing native lands and native artefacts and native bodies FOR SCIENCE so you can profit off of them.
If you’re going to lay in on the death religion causes, IMO you better realize that there’s a difference between the bastion of white supremacist cisheteropatriarchy that is modern Christianity and other religions which have little in the way of social power in comparison. AND you better recognise that science can be just another extention of white supremacist cisheteropartiarchy too and FURTHER the goals of that power structure rather than being as “objective” as they claim and countering it.
Haha. Imagine that.
Also, Ricky Gervais is a jerk.
(via aliveforalittlewhile)
who has a crush on me. this is very important i need this for research i am a scientist
its for science
(via sociolab)
