December 2011
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Dec 30th
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Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
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“We are unlikely to cease makings gods or inventing ceremonies to please them for...”
– The Portable Atheist by Christopher Hitchens
Dec 26th
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Dec 25th
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“There is no attribute of God which is not either borrowed from the passions and...”
– A Refutation of Deism by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1814)
Dec 24th
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Dec 23rd
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One teacher's approach to preventing gender...
togetherforjacksoncountykids: “It’s Okay to be Neither,” By Melissa Bollow Tempel Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got in line for art, and I noticed that she still had not removed her hood. When we arrived at the art room, I said:...
Dec 21st
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Dec 20th
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I love books. And I'm not going to come up with...
Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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Dec 19th
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“Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the...”
– John Ciardi (via moronicbeauty)
Dec 18th
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“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
– William James (via girlwithoutwings)
Dec 17th
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Dec 17th
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Dec 16th
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“People who have misgendered anyone with trans history often take the defensive...”
– Char C - Why Misgendering is Bad (via iragray )
Dec 15th
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Done with Fall, one semester left till graduation,...
This is in addition to the 800 other things that consistently make my life wonderful, :D
Dec 14th
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Dec 13th
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Dec 13th
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Dec 13th
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“I am fortunate in that I am apparently reasonably undersexed or...”
– Interview with (the wonderfully asexy) Edward Gorey, <3
Dec 13th
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Finals.
Me: I just don't know if I can finish this [15-page prevention plan] paper tonight...
Pandora: -plays Journey's Don't Stop Believin'-
Me: OKAY, WORLD. OKAY.
Dec 13th
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“It’s also why I’ve paid in full- with added penalties with interest-...”
– The Girl Must Die: A Monster Girl Memoir by Erika Lopez
Dec 9th
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Dec 9th
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Dec 9th
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Dec 8th
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Dec 7th
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What if I told you that being queer means living...
Hyper-awareness that holds hands with fear. Because eight times out of ten, I will deliver a pizza to a hotel room and everything will go smoothly, quickly, and wonderfully. And then the other two times someone will grab my arm and say, “Woah- are you a dude or a chick?” Or they will see the bumper stickers on my car and say “Move that gay piece of shit out of the way!” Or...
Dec 7th
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“But it’s hard to stay mad when there’s so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I...”
– American Beauty (via roscoe-)
Dec 2nd
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Dec 1st
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Dec 1st
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Dec 1st
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UNAIDS World AIDS Day Report- 2011 →
“The world faces a clear choice: maintain current efforts and make incremental progress, or invest smartly and achieve rapid success in the AIDS response.”
Dec 1st
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