May 2013
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The effects of unchecked criminalization: Teen... →
scienceyoucanlove:
stfuconservatives:
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fuckyeahfeminists:
This is what the school-to-prison pipeline looks like. This is how black youth criminalized.
She was doing a science experiment
She’s being charged as an ADULT
She’s being charged with a FELONY
If this all goes the way the prosecution wants, this young woman will be LEGALLY discriminated against for the...
April 2013
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"No!" and Other Things You Ignore
Yesterday was the closing party for the Zombie Museum at the Monroeville Mall. My friend worked her final shift, and I spent the day with her to keep her company and have fun with the people who showed up in zombie costumes.
Two teenage girls approached the counter in the late afternoon to ask us when the events would start and what they would be. We told them a few games and a costume contest...
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nodus tollens
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. the realization that the plot of your life doesn’t make sense to you anymore—that although you thought you were following the arc of the story, you keep finding yourself immersed in passages you don’t understand, that don’t even seem to belong in the same genre—which requires you to go back and reread the chapters that you had originally skimmed through to get to...
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365daysofhalloween:
tishh submitted:
The Purple Man
When I was 3 years old I had (what my mom thought at the time was) an invisible friend I called The Purple Man. Every night after my mom would put me to bed and close the door she would hear me having conversations with The Purple Man.
One night about 30 minutes after she had put me to bed I went out to the living room with a backpack full...
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When a book is going along great until the very...
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pahnem:
mercuriesrising:
aparticularlygoodfinder:
Go to Starbucks. Order coffee for “Prisoner 24601”
When they call out your order, jump up and yell “My name is Jean Valjean!”
And if the barista replies with “AND I’M JAVERT,” you tip that motherfucker so hard
you tip them right over the edge of a bridge
you fucking didn’t
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What I hope people say about me behind my back
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smouldered:
i dont want to know the future but i would just like to know at what point i get to have sex in a library
None of my former partners appreciated this when I proposed it.
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"Random Passion": This is for everyone who writes... →
thisisthinprivilege:
In the academic community on the topic of oppression, there is wide-spread agreement that mistreatment or negative characterization of a privileged group is not oppression. Reverse racism isn’t a thing. Reverse classism is not a thing. The things you say are not heard in…
What I wish could happen when I fall in love with...
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March 2013
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