ThePrettiestOne

actjustly:

Two teenage girls have been found dead on the Interstate in New Orleans just one week apart.

Jasilas Wright was found at 5am on Wednesday after apparently been driven over by multiple cars.

She was spotted when drivers called authorities saying they thought a dog was lying on the I-10, west of Veterans Memorial Boulevard.

Detectives are now working to determine whether the case bears any connection with the death of 16-year-old Kaylan Ward, who died in similar circumstances on June 4 in New Orleans.

Wright, from the Metairie district of New Orleans, Louisiana, is survived by her nine-month-old son, mother, grandmother and three sisters.

It is not yet clear what led to Wright’s death and how she reached the I-10.

Gerry Cvitanovich, the coroner in Jefferson Parish, told Nola.com: ‘She was obviously hit and run over several times.

There was no evidence of a stabbing that we could see. There was no evidence of strangulation. There was no evidence that we could see of a gunshot. The injuries were consistent with being hit and run over by cars at a high speed.’

This shit is sketchy y’all. These two black teens were found on the same interstate with the same injuries within a week of each other. These girls are receiving hardly any airtime. Black girls matter y’all. If something is going on they better get to the bottom of this. 

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Courtney shared this story from Super Opinionated.

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thegeekyblonde:

welcome to the FEMINIST CULT, today we’ll talk about terrifying topics such as BEING NICE TO YOURSELF and PROPER SEX EDUCATION

What people think self-diagnosis is: "Wow that is sure one funny disorder, claiming to have that would surely give me a lot of attention on tumblr."
What self-diagnosis actually is: "Wow, there's a name for this... There are terms for the things I do and experience and a community of people with similar experiences. There are coping methods and advice written for people like me. Maybe I'm not exaggerating, maybe I'm not making stuff up, maybe I'm not a failure... Maybe my experiences are completely valid."

partlystarsmostlyvoid:

asgardreid:

aestheticoftheday:

For the record, I had always thought that if magic needed a rhyming verbal component to work, hip hop/rap artists would probably be the most powerful wizards.

Imagine.

Kanye West building entire cities.

Iggy wouldn’t be able to make a sand castle.

Grand High Priestess Nicki Minaj, her empire sprawling across two continents, benevolent and just, all shall love her and despair

vaspider:

gastroparesissucks:

Saw these two tweets about gastroparesis tonight, and they really hit home for me. 
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If I had a dollar for every time I had someone tell me that they would without a doubt illegally buy painkillers if they knew where to get them – and I’m not talking like oxycontin or oxycodone, but simple things like Ultram, stuff that lets you function without getting you really doped up – I could pay for my prescriptions.

Heh.

The criminalization of pain is one of the most horrible things America does to the chronically ill. We are so very ‘concerned’ about addiction that we criminalize it (to keep the jails full) and then don’t let people actually get relief when they’re in horrible pain.

It’s sick.

commandvrclarke:

1. You fucking live here

2. You fucking live here

3. You fucking live here

4. You fucking live here

5. You fucking live here

Tianzi Mountains, China


Fly Geyser, Nevada, Usa


Dragonblood Trees, Socotra, Yemen


Pamukkale, Turkey


Glowworms Cave, New Zealand


Abraham Lake, Canada


Monte Roraima - Venezuela


Dallol Volcano, Ethiopia


Son Doong Cave, Vietnam


Giants Causeway In Northern Ireland

jedavu:

Unbelievable Places That Look Like They’re From Another Planet

Unbelievable Places That Look Like They’re From The Mushroom Kingdom

“Telling women they don’t “need” makeup doesn’t account for the fact that women are less likely to be employed when we don’t wear makeup, a fact that disproportionately affects black women. While it’s illegal to establish gender-specific dress codes, many women have come forward with lawsuits after their employers fired them for not wearing makeup, or for wearing their hair natural. Trans women who need to “pass” as cis, are accused of “lying” through their appearance, an accusation which often presents itself violently, and sometimes fatally.
Sticking to gendered norms is crucial to our ability to work and live, and yet the work we put in to meet those norms is as undervalued as women’s work in general. Looking at those memes, it seems like makeup is a problem when women appear to be dedicating time to themselves in ways that don’t directly benefit men. Getting up early to look “presentable” for work? Required. Spending hours on your face just to go to school, Starbucks and the gym? Vain, and probably stupid. Apparently, wearing makeup for yourself, because it brings you joy or makes you feel beautiful or happy or creative is a waste of time.”

- Rookie » Super Natural (via brutereason)

shieldwitch:

beggars-opera:

kuttithevangu:

Barbara Tuchman says the widespread apparently juvenile behavior of medieval Europe should be considered in light of the fact that most of active society was in fact people in their teens and twenties

Which on the one hand is like one of those things that’s obvious once it’s pointed out

But also its funny to think there was a whole historians’ tradition of being like “why were medieval kings so overemotional” until Tuchman clears her throat and goes… “Ahem… Have you ever met an eighteen year old boy” and then everyone’s like “oooooh”

See also: revolutionary Boston

“Okay listen realistically I’m going to die of pox, plague, or The French Disease by the time I’m 25 if I’m not poisoned. It’s a miracle that I’m even standing here today. I’ve got a team of bishops paid to pray for my soul in shifts so I’ve got heavenly insurance in the likely occurrence I am stabbed as soon as I leave this chamber. So you know what? I’m gonna fuck shit up. The neighboring duke looked at me weird last feast day; let’s start with him.”

captainpunkrogers:

life hack: be best friends with a slytherin. they will steal cupcakes for you from work and tell you to drop toxic people from your life with no reservations. they will be the ones ordering you to stop and breathe and call in sick, to screw your commitments if they see you’re sacrificing your mental health. they’re the ones to say “don’t you dare settle” and “you deserve better” in a ruthless, matter-of-fact tone. they’ll be the ones saying it’s okay to put yourself first, the voice you need to hear after a long day or week or month. trust me, be best friends with a slytherin.

talkearlietome:

cartel:

hotboysofficial:

the future is now

are people that lazy to need this

While I’m sure there are people too lazy to spin a fork, keep in mind people like this person who may be suffering from arthritis or a neurological disease or nerve damage or a thousand other conditions that might impair their ability to do things as simple as spin a fork to eat spaghetti. 

These are used with people who can’t grip well: 

This is for Parkinsons’s: 

For people who can’t even bend their joints: 

Here’s a product that guides your hand from your plate to your mouth 

This one holds a sandwich 

Like I get it. I used to see things like the fork and think “that’s fuckin’ lazy” or that product that holds a gallon and you just tip it and pour. But then I started working around the disabled and impaired and found out that these products aren’t meant for lazy people, they’re meant for people who need help. 

So maybe next time you see something, instead of thinking “Wow, are people that lazy?” just be grateful that you’re able to do the things you do every day and take for granted, like being able to feed yourself and wipe your own ass because you have enough coordination and bendy joints to do it. 

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Still, [Junot] Diaz admits that writing in a woman’s voice comes with certain risks. “The one thing about being a dude and writing from a female perspective is that the baseline is, you suck,” he told me. “The baseline is it takes so long for you to work those atrophied muscles—for you to get on parity with what women’s representations of men are. For me, I always want to do better. I wish I had another 10 years to work those muscles so that I can write better women characters. I wring my hands because I know that as a dude, my privilege, my long-term deficiencies work against me in writing women, no matter how hard I try and how talented I am.”

For one of the most lauded writers of his generation to say he needs another decade of practice to write better women is no small thing. But Diaz told me that he’s often appalled by the portrayals of women in celebrated novels.

“I know from my long experience of reading,” he said, “that the women characters that dudes [write] make no fucking sense for the most part. Not only do they make no sense, they’re introduced just for sexual function.”

He gave a high-profile example, though he wouldn’t name names.

“There’s a book that came out recently from a writer I admire enormously. A woman character gets introduced. I said, ‘I promise you, this girl is just here to throw herself at the dude, even though the dude has done nothing, nothing, to merit or warrant a woman throwing herself at him.’ And lo and behold. This brilliant young American writer, that everybody sort of considers the god of American writing, turns around and does exactly that. When I asked my female friends, we all had a little gathering, and I was chatting. I was like, ‘Have you heard of a woman doing this?’ They’re like, ‘Are you fucking nuts?’”

On the other hand, Diaz said, “I think the average woman writes men just exceptionally well.” He cited Anne Enright, Maile Meloy, and Jesmyn Ward as examples of younger writers who write great male characters—and pointed to two of his idols, Jamaica Kincaid and Toni Morrison, as timeless masters. But he also detects an across-the-board improvement even in woman-penned books that are less than high-brow, especially in Young Adult fiction. “Look how well the boys are rendered in The Hunger Games,” he said.

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this quote is complete magic to me (from this article). (via nailure)

This is one of those things that’s so obviously the case that it blows my mind people can still manage not to notice it.

(via warmbrightwings)

rosalindrobertson:

So, our federal health minister spent the better part of the day flipping out over how people who take medical marijuana take medical marijuana. Some people don’t want to smoke it, and our supreme court recognized that… And you KNOW what that means… baked goods.

Full disclosure: yes, I’m a pain patient but no, I don’t use marijuana. Not that I wouldn’t like to.  It’s not a moral thing - my drug reactions are just next level. Something metabolically with me does not line up. And cannibinoids make me sicker than my pain and don’t provide me any pain relief. No one knows why.

Most narcotics make me sicker than my pain - something a bunch of people think is lucky - but prescription drugs are really all our family doctors have to help us.

If you manage to get believed that you genuinely have chronic pain, which is really difficult because everyone thinks you’re a faker and a drug seeker, the only thing most doctors are able to do is whomp you onto an opioid. That is literally the sum total of their medical training around non-acute chronic pain - to treat it like acute pain.

Yes -hospital based pain clinics are great for providing quality care and support for patients - it takes almost a year and a half to get seen at mine.

Good luck with that.

I fully support rational opioid use - but as a long-term treatment for a chronic disease, they’re riddled with issues. They have bad side effects, including major depression and liver damage. They lose efficacy over a fairly short period of time, and people often take more to no effect, or seek out other self medicating alternatives. They can be very dangerous - my friend died from a fentanyl overdose - and you need to have all sorts of education in using them appropriately.

It would be dumb to have something as ineffective over the long term as a painkiller be the only tool in your kit to manage severe pain, right? And yet this is the only thing most doctors are trained to do. Treat pain with a painkiller.

Further, most of the supports for chronic pain - physio, physical supports and specific physical training, hydrotherapy, massage, accupuncture, prolotherapy - none of these things are covered by the heath care system.

It costs me $1200 a month out of pocket for these supports.

Without them, I can’t work. If I can’t work, I can’t afford the supports.

You see the issue. Ourosbouros. The snake is eating its tail. But I earn a decent wage and have benefits. This is what the government relies on, your insurance company is expected to pick up a bunch of the slack.

Ironically, to have extended benefits, you need to work. And most pain patients cannot work, do not work, because workplaces are fairly inflexible about sitting at a desk or being on your feet from 9 to 5. Or require you to not be zoned out on meds.

And so they can’t afford the very treatments that would allow them to stay working.

No work. No money. That cuts out your social supports first, it marginalizes you, and then it chews away at things like your housing and your food. You go back to the doctor, you get more drugs.

Opioids are dirt cheap. What I spend in one month on all my physical medical interventions will keep you in percocet for two years.

So, for many, the cheap opioid is the only thing they have to survive.

Behold: a perfect storm for drug abuse, for addiction. Also a perfect storm for all sorts of other diseases piling on a person who is not being properly treated (cardiac problems, blood pressure problems, diabetes, liver problems) - diseases that *will* cost the health system in the long run - and cost far more than just funding some physio.

And you wonder why we have no money for health care. 

So forgive me if I’m angry that the federal health minister is having a case of the vapours about some baked goods while doing absolutely nothing to improve the situation for people living in pain. 

Pot brownies aren’t the problem. And be honest, everyone - the rage is because the leader of the third party supports decriminalization and this plays to the base.

The problem is politicians are so afraid of doing anything that will lose them elections that they forget what they were elected to do - and that is *govern*.  In some ways, having a tantrum about edible medical marijuana while ignoring other major issues is unethical and negligent.

You want fewer drugs on the street? Fewer addicts? More people working? Then *act* on the problem of there being no care for pain patients. Solve the problem. Do your job. GOVERN.

the-nap-king:

iamthegreeneyedmonster:

fierceisnotenough:

topherkeysausage:

egoer:

mrs-420:

New favorite tumblr post of all time.

This post has made me so happy.

This is fucking legendary

Yessssss

Perfect

Fuck yes

“which bring us to the part of the story that I want to have bottled so i can enjoy a little sip of it over and over again forever”

God fucking bless Rachel Maddow and this show.

gradientlair:

christel-thoughts:

When you see me show me your bachelors, show me your masters. That’s the best thing you can do for me, as my fan.

YAAAAASS NICKI. YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSS

i haven’t found the source video yet.

I love the way Nicki encourages people with education. I’ve seen her ask about report cards on Twitter and tell young people to bring their C’s up to B’s and B’s up to A’s. And this quote is too This is beautiful I love to see Black women lifting each other up and encouraging one another. I hope everyone that says she is a bad role model gets to see this

She put it next to her 'didn't ask a Chinese guy about kung fu' medal.

having people constantly mistake you for either a much older or a much younger person

boredpanda:

Beautiful Same Sex Wedding Photos Show That Love Knows No Boundaries

radfemale:

i’m really sick of the ‘male/female’ natural interest dichotomy. growing up, males are asked to go help fix cars and mow lawns etc. and females aren’t. then, as you get older, men laugh like ‘lol u don’t even know what a radiator is’ and it’s like no we weren’t socialised to ‘like’ that stuff. it’s not because we’re naturally bad at mechanics or physical labour - it’s because we were never taught. they don’t teach us as children but patronize us when, as adults, we don’t know much about it. 

fatuglygeek:

I was originally going to type up a review of Mad Max: Fury Road, but lots of people have already said the main stuff, and said it better than I could. However, one line from the movie kept stirring in the back of my mind; I felt that I should understand it, but didn’t. 

“If you can’t fix what’s broken, you’ll go insane.”

Max has almost no real dialogue in the film, so if he’s given a full line, I’m gonna assume that that line is important. 

What does he mean by “insane”? Well, frankly, he means his own condition. Max knows he is insane (it’s in the opening lines of the movie, as well as the name Mad Max.) He understand this about himself, but knowing it doesn’t help him escape his ghosts.

Max is trying to tell Furiosa that she shouldn’t make the choices he made. He couldn’t fix the brokenness in his own life, and he went insane. He spends his life driving around alone in the wasteland, just trying to survive. That’s how Furiosa will end up if she and the Wives and the Vuvalini go into the salts. 

Escaping Immortan Joe won’t fix anything. He’ll still brutalize the people who rely on him for water. He’ll still have his Milking Mothers and Warboys and he’ll find new women to enslave. It’s not enough for the women to get away; they have to fix what’s broken. Their society is broken, and the only way to escape madness is to go back and fix it. 

This is why Nux’s story arc is so important. Nux is the proof that change can happen, that even those who have dedicated their lives to destruction and objectification can make new choices and find humanity.

Escape is not enough. Survival is not enough. You have to fix what’s broken. The only way out is redemption, and redemption isn’t found in isolation. Either we all fix what’s broken together, or we all go insane.

toopunktogiveafuck:

rootbeersweetheart:

fucknosexistcostumes:

Here’s Proof That Tween Girl Halloween Costumes Are Way Too Sexed-Up [x]

This is starting to worry me.

Don’t forget that these are Tweens. They aren’t teens or adults. They’re 9-12 year olds. These are kids that are still in elementary school. A good majority of them haven’t even hit puberty yet. If that doesn’t bother you, There’s a problem.

thedatingfeminist:

blackfairypresident:

so theres an app that apparently lets you find out who your bf/gf is texting and i just wanna remind everyone that theres laws against that

that’s honestly super gross and abusive and controlling as well as illegal

like, if you’re not sure if your partner is cheating you need to sit down and talk about it. if you can’t trust your partner you need to end the relationship

it’s not okay to spy on your partner

it’s not okay to try to control who your partner talks to

this is abuse

thunderboltsortofapenny:

superherofeed:

CHIWETEL EJIOFOR Cast As BARON MORDO In ‘DOCTOR STRANGE’ Via http://t.co/VOkxZOZv6I

Marvel:

*Casts White Bread Cucumber for lead that could easily be given to an Asian actor, and then avoid the problematic backstory of ‘white guy learns “mystical asian powers”*

*Casts white actress in CANON Asian mentor role in shitty attempt to get fans clamoring for more female roles in MCU to sit up while also being “edgy”*

*Casts one minority actor in main cast as the presumed villain*

Me: *stares into camera.gif*

waltdisneyconfessionsrage:

It’s so normalized, they teach it to us from birth. Some people live their entire lives never seeing an issue with the images above.

-ren

lovelyandbrown:

thisiseverydayracism:

The prison-industrial complex is just a myth…right?

Jesus he didn’t even have us do the damn math. He just said it.