December 2011
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We are unlikely to cease makings gods or inventing ceremonies to please them for...
– The Portable Atheist by Christopher Hitchens
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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)
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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:...
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I love books. And I'm not going to come up with...
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Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the...
– John Ciardi (via moronicbeauty)
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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
– William James (via girlwithoutwings)
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People who have misgendered anyone with trans history often take the defensive...
– Char C - Why Misgendering is Bad (via iragray
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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
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I am fortunate in that I am apparently reasonably undersexed or...
– Interview with (the wonderfully asexy) Edward Gorey, <3
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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.
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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
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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...
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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-)
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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.”