Wanderlustful

animalstalkinginallcaps:

EVER SINCE I STARTED TAKING HERBIVORE STUDIES COURSES AT THE LOCAL UNIVERSITY IT’S BECOME MORE AND MORE DIFFICULT TO ENJOY A WIDE RANGE OF WHAT I ALWAYS ASSUMED WERE NORMAL AND BENIGN ACTIVITIES. I’VE BEEN MADE TO REALIZE THE ENTIRE ECOSYSTEM IS DESIGNED TO OPPRESS AND MARGINALIZE ALL BUT A SELECT FEW CREATURES, AND EVEN MY ATTEMPTS TO OFFER POSSIBLE ALTERNATIVE EXPLANATIONS TO SOME OF THE MORE SPECULATIVE THEORIES ARE SIMPLY PERPETUATIONS OF THE DOMINANT HEIRARCHY.
I NEVER REALIZED HOW MUCH I NEED TO CHECK MY PREDATOR PRIVILEGE.

EVER SINCE I STARTED TAKING HERBIVORE STUDIES COURSES AT THE LOCAL UNIVERSITY IT’S BECOME MORE AND MORE DIFFICULT TO ENJOY A WIDE RANGE OF WHAT I ALWAYS ASSUMED WERE NORMAL AND BENIGN ACTIVITIES. I’VE BEEN MADE TO REALIZE THE ENTIRE ECOSYSTEM IS DESIGNED TO OPPRESS AND MARGINALIZE ALL BUT A SELECT FEW CREATURES, AND EVEN MY ATTEMPTS TO OFFER POSSIBLE ALTERNATIVE EXPLANATIONS TO SOME OF THE MORE SPECULATIVE THEORIES ARE SIMPLY PERPETUATIONS OF THE DOMINANT HEIRARCHY.

I NEVER REALIZED HOW MUCH I NEED TO CHECK MY PREDATOR PRIVILEGE.

Cat: *squishes himself into a too-small box*
Me: Nice, cat. Is that comfy?
Britt: "If I fits, I sits", right buddy?
Me: You sounded like a Newfoundlander just then.
Britt: Newfoundlanders sound like lolcats?
Me: ...oh. Apparently?

I can’t make this shit up, y’all. I just can’t.

mom: “what are you doing?”
me: “I’m on tumblr.”
mom: “the feminist cat website?”

the feminist cat website.

the feminist cat website

the feminist cat website

the feminist cat website

THE FEMINIST CAT WEBSITE

wallcott:

Meet Irena Sendler (1910-2008)

She was a 98 year-old Polish woman at her time of death. During World War II, Irena worked in the Warsaw Ghetto as a plumbing/sewer specialist. She dedicated herself to smuggling Jewish children out. Infants were carried in the bottom of the tool box she used and older children in a burlap sack she had in the back of her truck.

She also had a dog in the back that she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers let her in and out of the ghetto. The soldiers wanted nothing to do with the dog and the barking covered the kids’ and infants’ noises. Irena managed to smuggle out and save 2500 children during this time

She eventually was caught and the Nazis broke both her legs, arms and beat her severely. Irena kept a record of the names of all the kids she smuggled out and in a glass jar buried under a tree in her backyard. After the war, she tried to locate any parents that may have survived and reunited some of the families but most had been killed. She then helped those children get placement into foster family homes or adopted.

In 2007, Irena was up for the Nobel Peace Prize. She was not selected.

Al Gore won for presenting a slide show on Global Warming.

Watching the Avengers

Captain America: Take away that suit of armor, and what are you?

Some guy in the theater: SHERLOCK HOLMES

The problem isn’t that cultures intermingle, it’s the terms on which they do so and the part that plays in the power relations between cultures. The problem isn’t “taking” or “borrowing”, the problem is racism, imperialism, white supremacy, and colonialism. The problem is how elements of culture get taken up in disempowering, unequal ways that deny oppressed people autonomy and dignity. Cultural appropriation only occurs in the context of the domination of one society over another, otherwise known as imperialism. Cultural appropriation is an act of domination, which is distinct from ‘borrowing’, syncretism, hybrid cultures, the cultures of assimilated/integrated populations, and the reappropriation of dominant cultures by oppressed peoples.

What’s being appropriated in *cultural appropriation* isn’t the things themselves — the images, stories, artefacts, themes, etc. — it’s the capacity of people of oppressed groups to determine the meaning, scope, usage, and future of those things. Cultural appropriation involves taking over peoples’ control over representations of themselves. Cultural appropriation is an attack on cultural autonomy and self-determination, backed up by historically constructed domination.

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—	I find this definition useful. (via madamedechevre)

donottouchmychicken:

I feel you, bro.

Yup. That’s about what I did this morning. *flops over*

hoursago:

crowley receives a commendation just for starting all the book vs. e-reader fights that make everyone mad

We don’t need to justify ourselves to anyone. We don’t need a reason to be queer. Maybe we were born this way, maybe we weren’t. Maybe sexuality is fluid for some people and not for others. It’s totally irrelevant either way. The message we need to send to heterosexists is not that our sexuality was foisted upon us and that they should be “tolerant” and “understanding”. The message is: our sexuality is perfectly valid and none of your business, we offer you no excuses, and we are never going away.

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—	Social Justice League: Fauxgress Watch: “Born This Way”. (via feminismduh) This. Same goes for gender identity. (via christina-taylor)

Caesar: Katniss Everdeen, girl on fire!
Peeta: I was on fire too.
Caesar: No.
Snow: Here's your crown, Katniss.
Peeta: I won the games too.
Snow: No.

Literal Harry Potter Book Titles

Philosopher’s Stone: Harry Potter and the guy with the creepy turban.

Chamber of Secrets: Harry Potter and the REALLY BIG SNAKE.

Prisoner of Azkaban: Harry Potter and his father’s weird friends.

Goblet of Fire: Harry Potter and the year shit got real.

Order of the Phoenix: Harry Potter and the crazy cat lady.

Half-Blood Prince: Harry Potter and the hormones kick in.

Deathly Hallows: Harry Potter and the extended camping trip.

neil-gaiman:

alreadypre-knownknowledge:

So I made this because of this.

Feel free to use if you are planning on seducing a writer. Or writer-like person. Or anyone, really.

I thought, I wonder if anyone’s made one, yet. So I looked, and there it was. I love it when things move at the speed of internet.

I needed one of these about…oh, five or six months ago. ;)

The same Hebrew word that is used in Genesis 2:24 to describe how Adam felt about Eve (and how spouses are supposed to feel toward each other) is used in Ruth 1:14 to describe how Ruth felt about Naomi. Her feelings are celebrated, not condemned.

And throughout Christian history, Ruth’s vow to Naomi has been used to illustrate the nature of the marriage covenant. These words are often read at Christian wedding ceremonies and used in sermons to illustrate the ideal love that spouses should have for one another. The fact that these words were originally spoken by one woman to another tells us a lot about how God feels about same-gender relationships.

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—	Ruth loved Naomi as Adam loved Eve (via apiphile) YEP. Right in the Bible, y’all. (via reason-says)

Ruth loved Naomi as Adam loved Eve