January 2011
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How A Rapper's Brain Works →
wildunicornherd:
guerrillamamamedicine:
Limb’s hip-hop study is still ongoing so he has not yet revealed any data, but in a talk he delivered at TEDx Mid Atlantic in November 2010, he showed some of the brain scans, which showed that the verbal and — more surprisingly — visual areas of the musicians’ brains show activity during improvisation, even when the volunteers had their eyes...
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[ i am the welder. / i understand the capacity of...
brownroundboi:
i am the welder.
I understand the capacity of heat to change the shape of things.
I am suited to work within the realm of sparks
out of control. I am the welder.
I am taking the power
into my own hands.
-Cherrie Moraga, “The Welder”
-voices from the gaps
-full poem
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Smash the White Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchy:... →
damekatharsis:
mizjenkins:
thecranium:
She is the black mother who was convicted of a felony and sentenced to jail time and probation for sending her two daughters to a school in a different district. As you have probably guessed, the school they attended is safer and whiter than…
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Champagne Problems: lookuplookup on football... →
champagneproblems:
I didn’t want to reblog another picture of Roethlisburger, but you can see the rest of the relevant reblogs/replies here. Still need that discussions of rape trigger warning.
lookuplookup wrote:
(Sorry my response is a jumbled mess! It’s hard for me to organize my thoughts around this…
our football times seem so similar, champagneproblems. me &my beau end up...
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“A Native American boy was talking with his grandfather.
“What do you think...”
– Native American Proverb (via soulwarrior)
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A Banjo on Her Knee—Part I: Appalachian Women... →
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buffleheadcabin:
The fact that so many well-known old-time male musicians have been inspired and influenced by a female in the family should force us to rethink the ways in which banjo music in Appalachia has been promulgated and preserved. While this might strike a sour note with some, the evidence suggests that it was women who have historically kept old-time...
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“The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate...”
– Noam Chomsky (via mohandasgandhi)
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“- the part of your life when you were going through such darkness you thought...”
– Miranda July (via Warsan Shire)
wow.
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too real for me right now.
(via robinpark)
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“- the part of your life when you were going through such darkness you thought...”
– Miranda July (via Warsan Shire)
wow.
(via oddballsdontbounce)
too real for me right now.
(via robinpark)
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: dancingonembers: Chinese sex workers protest... →
dancingonembers:
Chinese sex workers protest against crackdown | World news | The Guardian
A crackdown on China’s fast-growing sex industry has prompted a backlash, with sex workers demonstrating for the legalisation of prostitution and an outcry about the treatment of women…
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Activist in women of Juarez cases slain in Mexico →
healingsakina:
TRIGGER WARNING for graphic description of murder etc.
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico – A poet who led protests against the unsolved killings of women in the violent border city of Ciudad Juarez has herself become the victim of a bizarre slaying, her body found strangled and her left hand severed after a night of partying with three teens.
The body of Susana Chavez, 36, was left last...
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