That scene was a really, really tough scene to film. They didn’t tell me they were going to do this but Phil told Jon to hold on to my hand and not let it go. And then he did and I really sort of lost it… and I will say that every single one of those tears was actually absolutely real.
— Elisabeth Moss, Inside Episode 511
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Look, if you see a post where someone is questioning why white people do racist shit and the only damn thing you can think to say is “but I’m not like that”, you’re part of the god damn problem. Why? Because you have just successfully derailed the conversation and made it all about you and your feelings. By saying “but I’m not like that” and declaring how “hurt” your feelings are, you’re signifying that your feelings are more important than the whole race of people who are hurt and degraded by white people who choose to do racist ass shit. Instead of saying “do I do that” or “hey, maybe I should take this as a warning not to do that”, you chose to launch into a diatribe about how hurt you are and how that completely invalidates the original post. That is fucked up and it makes you part of the problem.
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To be honest, compiling this list was an embarrassingly painstaking process. Some works that I originally wanted to read this summer had to get cut, like Mark Twain’s Puddn’head Wilson, but I think we can all agree that Twain is clearly more of a fall read anyway. This list isn’t definitive; I’m sure I’ll read other stuff in addition to these titles, but these are all books that I want to have read by the end of August/beginning of September. So here it is in all of its glory anal-retentive nerdiness:
The Fault in Our Stars - John Green
The Color of Violence: The Incite! Anthology - edited by INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
Runaways, Volume 2: Teenage Wasteland - Brian K. Vaughan, Adrian Alphona
Volumes 8, 9, and 10 of Brian K. Vaughan’s Y: The Last Man series
The Same River Twice - Alice Walker
Most Talkative: Stories From the Front Lines of Pop Culture - Andy Cohen (Whatever don’t judge me you probably read Twilight and liked it)
A Great and Terrible Beauty - Libba Bray
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Coast Trail - Cheryl Strayed
Bastard Out of Carolina - Dorothy Allison
The War For Late Night - Bill Carter
The House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Green River Killer: A True Detective Story - Jeff Jensen, Jonathan Case
Bay Area librarian P.C. Sweeney has written an excellent post on not only choosing an MLIS program, but what to do while you’re in one — a treasure trove of good advice for early-career information professionals.
P.C. Sweeney was also an esteemed traveler on LJ’s Great Library Roadshow.
This post has come to me at the exact right time and is super encouraging.
Job interview jitters ugggghhhhhh
Susan Cain, Quiet (via expresstophresh)
haha! Expose me why don’t you!
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*clutches heart* They know me. THEY KNOW ME!!!!
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The hubs and I just returned from spending a week in Florida, our home state, where we hung out with family and clocked in some much needed beach time. It was wonderful and rejuvenating and beautiful, as evidenced above, but I was so happy to come home to my dogs and my beloved city, and now I’m ready for summer in Denver, which will include:
riding my bicycle everywhere
playing softball in the park
beautiful weather all day err’ day
drinking local brews on patios
hiking up mountains
Rockies games
Venus de Miles, an all-women’s bike ride through the mountains in August - I’m doing the 51-miler with my pal Lacy
readingreadingreading (summer reading list to come)
grilling in the backyard
wearing dresses every day
Moscow Mules
running
picnics in parks
Denver Comic Com (with Georges Jeanty and Rebekah Isaacs and James Marsters!)
vegan food cart noms
farmers’ markets
Breaking Bad season 5 omg
generally having no fucks to give
Cheers!
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FASCISTS, MAN. PASSING ALL THEIR LITTLE LAWS. LAYING DOWN THEIR LITTLE RULES. RESTRICTING MY FREEDOMS.
“YOU CAN’T SMOKE POT IN FRONT OF A DAY CARE CENTER.”
“YOU CAN’T ROLL A JOINT AT 7-11.”
“YOU NEED TO GET A JOB IF YOU’RE GOING TO LIVE IN MY HOUSE. AND STOP SMOKING WEED IN THE SHED. YOU’RE 28.”
“DON’T LIGHT THAT RIGHT NEXT TO THE PROPANE TANKS. YOU’LL KILL US ALL.”
I BET YOU DIDN’T TAKE THE POOL INTO ACCOUNT WHEN YOU WERE PLANNING YOUR LITTLE OPPRESSIONS.
IT’S CALLED MARITIME LAW, MY FRIENDS. YOU CAN’T TELL ME WHAT TO DO HERE.
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Did Wil Wheaton seriously just reblog this? Is he for real? Since he reblogged it without commentary I can only assume he agrees with its message.
Wil Wheaton, you are a straight white cis dude. It’s not okay for you to tell members of marginalized groups to which you do not belong how discrimination works, or how they should feel about, react to, or relate their own oppression. It’s not okay for you to compare forms of discrimination (none of which you experience yourself) like it’s the fucking oppression olympics.
I support gay marriage, obviously, and I think everyone should. But this meme is ignorant, tone deaf, stupid, irrelevant, unhelpful, and straight up icky.
Ugh I love them SO. MUCH.
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MSNBC host Tamron Hall drops the mic on a conservative journalist for refusing to answer her questions.
The ThinkProgress team actually paused what we were doing to watch this throwdown (quite rare).
HOT DAMN. What a badass.
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Let’s just turn the racist logic around for a second:
According to racists, in order to be racist one must:
- Hate all Black people. You must never have met even one Black person that you even sorta kinda liked. You must never have smiled at any Black person, ever. Why Black people specifically? I don’t really know, but racists always seem to defend claims against racism with some version “I don’t hate Black people, my [anything ever] is Black”.
- Have no Black family. Your second cousin’s new wife is Black? Congratulations, you are officially incapable of being racist ever again.
- Be 100% white. Oh, you heard somewhere that your family might be “a little bit Native American”? Well done, it is now impossible for anything you do to ever be racist.
- Have the explicit intention of being offensive and racist when doing something offensive and racist. If you were “just joking around”, you’re home free, nobody gets to be offended about it and you are definitely not a racist.
- Actively not want equality. You must be against racial equality in all it’s forms. If you think anything except “Hell no, those colored people shouldn’t have anything. Fuck those lazy bastards!” when you hear the phrase “separate but equal” there’s no way you could be a racist.
- Be from a family that arrived in the U.S. before it became the U.S., owned slaves, went on frequent indian-killing sprees, rounded up Japanese-Americans during WWII, and never ever ever did anything to help any Person of Color, ever.
- Not be Irish or Jewish. What’s that, you’re Irish AND Jewish? You just won not-a-racist bingo, my friend.
- Consciously think of all People of Color as inherently different and less than you. If it’s subconscious or has been culturally-ingrained in you, rest assured, it’s not your responsibility to do anything about that and you are certainly not a racist.
If you do not fit all criteria on this list, you CANNOT be a racist.
(But, remember, that’s according to racists.)
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Can’t. Wait.
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