ALL MY CREYS.
(Source: three-cumberpatch-problem)
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well, I just want it the way I want it.
"oh, you're the worst kind ... you're high maintenance but you THINK you're low maintenance."
I like social justice, Bruce Springsteen, cinema, navel-gazing, and books.
I like social justice, Bruce Springsteen, cinema, navel-gazing, and books.
~ Monday, July 18 ~
~ Sunday, July 3 ~
On question mark children and unsolicited suicides
Read this. Now. For real.
Kim Voynar over at Movie City News has defended Roger Ebert from charges of glibness in his recent commentary on assisted suicide. The short version is that Steven Drake of Not Dead Yet finds Ebert’s endorsement of the HBO-produced Jack Kevorkian biopic You Don’t Know Jack an insult to the disabled community — singular? — he ostensibly represents, as our (?) appointed Most Valuable Cripple. The charge: Ebert thoughtlessly proposes that the only real opposition to assisted suicide is from wonky religious special interest groups who still uphold the union of church and state. “What a shithead,” Drake writes, in his best comment-trolling voice. Mission accomplished, and comments successfully trolled. Probably he would have better served his point about the objection from nonreligious disabled rights activists — which is that in the case of parents euthanizing their disabled children, the question of will that is essential to “death with dignity” discourse is glossed over, and disability itself is deemed a plea for death — without the “shithead,” but no matter: Ebert responded graciously and linked to his criticisms.
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~ Sunday, June 5 ~
“ Just like there are some people who are able to use cocaine regularly without jeopardizing their careers, some people who are able to drink and drive without causing an accident, some people who are able to fight in a war without suffering from PTSD, there are people in the sex industry who may not have suffered any harm. But just because an individual experience has not been difficult, painful, or disempowering, doesn’t make it true for millions of women and children around the world. The sex industry isn’t about choice, it’s about lack of choices. It’s critical for children and youth. and even for many adult women within the sex industry, that we use language that frames it accurately.
— Rachel Lloyd, “Girls Like Us: Fighting for a World Where Girls Are Not for Sale, an Activist Finds Her Calling and Heals Herself” … Rachel is the founder and executive director of GEMS, Girls Educational and Mentoring Services and she’s a HEROINE.
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“ Constantly reframing the issue and changing the language has been imperative in changing public perception and sympathies. It’s been a battle particularly with people in the media who feel that using the term commercially sexually exploited will confuse their audience. One reporter refused to change his terminology, saying that he felt the term was “euphemistic.” We debated for a while on how sexually exploited could possibly be considered euphemistic when it accurately described what actually happened to children and youth, whereas child prostitute seemed to denote who the child was as opposed to what was being done to her. In her article, he went ahead and called them “teen prostitutes” anyway, failing perhaps to understand that it wasn’t a question of semantics, that words, names, terminology really do matter.
— Rachel Lloyd, “Girls Like Us: Fighting for a World Where Girls Are Not for Sale, an Activist Finds Her Calling and Heals Herself”
~ Thursday, April 21 ~
one sharp broad: Problem solving
I love this so much. Who HASN’T had a night just like this?
I am having the kind of crippling, paralyzing insomnia I get about once a week when none of the tricks work, and I just have to wait.
In case you can’t tell, I suck at waiting.
What happens now is what the shrinks call ‘racing thoughts.’ over and over again, at hundreds of miles per minute, I go…
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~ Monday, April 18 ~
“Microsoft”
I’m being completely serious when I tell you if I had to sum up why Jesse Eisenberg should’ve won the Oscar in one .gif: this would be that .gif. I hope you know why.
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~ Tuesday, April 12 ~
bitch, be cool!
And what’s Fonzie like? C’mon, Yolanda! What’s Fonzie like?
He’s cool.
What?
Cool.
Correct-a-mundo! And that’s what we’re gonna be! We’re gonna be cool!
REPEAT THIS TO YOURSELF FOR THE NEXT MONTH AND A HALF, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, WOMAN.
~ Monday, April 11 ~
a faraway island…
life, like painting, is about the mistakes you make
I went back to Mississippi … I met a man … a famous man … we flirted until I ached from it and we almost almost almost almost almost … and it was head-achy and heart-racy and not a big deal and a huge deal and fun and agonizing and awesome, basically awesome, and I was his painter’s assistant and - and - and -
I’ll see him again in two months.
Life sure can surprise you sometimes.
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