December 2009
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What message would you want to put in a fortune cookie?
Don’t eat the cookie.
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If you had access to a time machine, where and when would be the first place you travel to?
Wherever Zora Neale Hurston was when she was writing Their Eyes Were Watching God. Not to talk. Just to bask in her brilliance.
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What TV show makes you laugh the loudest?
Glee. Because Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch) is a riot. “And that’s how Sue C’s it…”
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Watch[Thanks for the submission Tiara!]
I am Tiara the Merch Girl, a South Asian burlesque/circus/improv emerging performer based in Brisbane, Australia (and originally from Malaysia).
I got fed up of people asking me if I’m Sri Lankan (and having their faces fall when I say No), of being introduced as a Bollywood Princess at burlesque revues no matter what I’m performing, of having my...
“And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is...”
– (via jewela)
“I get that you would like to live in an endgame world where a victim’s violence...”
– (via wannablessedbereturns) (via marnalicious) (via sarahmc)
"I'm the blues in your left thigh, trying to...
(via bonita-applebum)
is that alrighhht? (aww that’s alright baby, that’s FINE!)
“We, collectively, find that we are often in the role of the prey, to a predator...”
– Anishinaabekwe: Quote: Winona LaDuke (via guerrillamamamedicine) (via seaponies)
Zora Neale Hurston - Jump at the Sun | American... →
“You are right in assuming that I am indifferent to the pattern of things. I am. I have never liked stale phrases and bodyless courage. I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions….” Zora Neale Hurston (yes!)
Facebook | Videos Posted by Stacey Muhammad: Out... →
Out of Our Right Minds - Trauma, Depression and the Black Woman
A Lexicon of Tumblr
poisonthemonkey:
inothernews:
This will be updated as needed.
COFFEE: The opiate of the Tumblr masses. See also: “Lady Gaga”, “Star Trek”, and “Putting Punctuation Inside The Quotation Marks”. :-)
FOLLOWERS: People who would be your friends IRL if you bought each of them a Tumblr t-shirt.
HIPSTERS: The type of person that is not to be found at Tumblr.
LIKE: What you do when you feel...
“For those of us in faith who have always loved the black church, the defining...”
– Pastor Joseph Tolton of Rehoboth Temple in response to Donnie McClurkin’s homophobic, hurtful comments (via Rod 2.0) (via thegang)
This is hard.
nudiemuse:
I’m working on a new essay about reading about Emmett Till as a child and how it affected me and still does. Shit this is fucking hard. A snippet-
The first thing I want you to realize is that unlike what people who believe that we (America) are far from our awful communal history, this happened less than a century ago. Fifty-four years ago. This is the age of some of our parents;...
“The feminization of poverty, for instance, is a much bigger and more pressing...”
– pandagon.net - Well, okay, but it’s still so tone deaf (via notemily) (via ilovefat) (via tiredofbeingignored)
Watchvia @professorf
“Yeah, it could be worse. I could be my black Jewish friend who went to West Side...”
– Memoirs of a Jewminicana: Aliza Hausman: One more stupid comment, one more stupid question and I’m slapping someone! (via clingtomymouth)
The Roots & Erykah Badu, “Where You Are (Michael... →
Butchlalis de Panochtitlan Dissect Gender Identity... →
