Five Years Next November

George R.R. Martin on writing women:

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:30:26 -0400

Interviewer: There's one thing that's interesting about your books. I noticed that you write women really well and really different. Where does that come from?
George R.R. Martin: You know, I've always considered women to be people.

todayinhistory: May 17th 1954: Brown v. Board of EducationOn...

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:16:54 -0400

A woman and her daughter on the steps of the Supreme Court

The Warren Court (1953)

Thurgood Marshall (1908 - 1993)

todayinhistory:

May 17th 1954: Brown v. Board of Education

On this day in 1954, the US Supreme Court handed down its unanimous decision in the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. The decision declared segregation on grounds of race in schools unconstitutional. The ruling overturned the 1896 decision Plessy v. Ferguson which allowed segregation under the doctrine ‘separate but equal’. The case had been bought by African-American parents, including Oliver L. Brown, against Topeka’s educational segregation. It was argued before the Court by the chief legal counsel of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP): Thurgood Marshall, who became the first African-American Supreme Court justice in 1967. The Court, led by Chief Justice Earl Warren, declared that segregation violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. The landmark decision is considered the start of the Civil Rights Movement which led to racial integration and full legal rights for African-Americans.

“We conclude that, in the field of public education, the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal”
- Warren’s opinion for the Court

lothiriels: The Magic Begins | 6 - favourite quotes (part...

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:15:13 -0400

lothiriels:

The Magic Begins | 6 - favourite quotes (part 6/6)

“We could have been killed - or worse, expelled.”

“It is our choices that show who we truly are, far more than our abilities.”

“Make way for the heir of Slytherin, seriously evil wizard coming through!”

“Percy wouldn’t recognize a joke if it danced naked in front of him wearing Dobby’s tea cozy.”

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mohandasgandhi: sad-teeth: So today Angelina Jolie had double...

Wed, 15 May 2013 20:02:03 -0400

mohandasgandhi:

sad-teeth:

So today Angelina Jolie had double mastectomy, which is the removal of one’s breasts, to prevent Breast cancer. So instead of praising Angelina on her bravery, men on Twitter decided to ridicule her, even calling her stupid for removing her breasts. For those of you on Tumblr that are attacking Feminists for being delusional about sexism against women and misogyny here’s your fucking proof that sexism and misogyny exists.

Our celebrity obsessed culture may be a joke but breast cancer definitely isn’t - nearly 500,000 people die from it every year. Angelina Jolie’s doctors estimated she had an 87% risk of developing breast cancer and a 50% risk of developing ovarian cancer because she carries the common gene mutation that causes both. Her mother died at the age of 56 after a long battle with cancer as well. My own mother had both breast and ovarian cancer within a couple short years and let me tell you, it’s about the least funny thing in the world to watch someone suffer from.

Valuing someone’s body parts you sexualized over their life and humanity goes beyond sexism, it’s sub-human.

"Whenever I start feeling too arrogant about myself, I always make a trip to America. The immigration..."

Wed, 15 May 2013 19:55:21 -0400

““Whenever I start feeling too arrogant about myself, I always make a trip to America. The immigration guys kick the star out of stardom. They always ask me how tall I am and I always lie and say 5 feet 10 inches. Next time, I am going to get more adventurous. If they ask me ‘what color are you?’ I am going to say white.””

- Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan on being detained at the U.S. Airport—twice. (Once, he was detained while promoting a film called “My Name is Khan” which was ironically about a person with the last name Khan suffering from repeated racial profiling.)

Multiple actors and other prominent individuals in the film industry with the last name “Khan” have been detained when entering the country. Irrfan Khan (The Life of Pi, Slumdog Millionaire, Spider-man) described the three times he was stopped—while on the way to receive honors for his roles in films such as The Namesake—as “humiliating.” Actor Aamir Khan was stopped and stripped searched in 2002. Director Kabir Khan, was reportedly detained at least three times in 2008 while filming in the United States. The New York Times ended up remarking on The Dangers of Fying While Khan

This much is clear:

Despite being an incredibly common surname, in the United States, Khan is a racialized last name and those who carry it suffer from additional, insulting, stigma and scrutiny.

There is no shortage of talented actors of South Asian descent whether from within the United States, from the UK, or Bollywood—and many of them even have the last name of Khan.

With Star Trek Into Darkness the name “Khan” is once again stigmatized as antagonistic, but the actors named Khan, the Khans of the world, and those who look like Khans once again have no voice about how they are represented in American media.

If you’re an award winning actor named Khan, you will still get stopped and humiliated at the airport. When that rare character in American media finally shows up sharing your name, he will be played by a white British man. That actor will wear your name for one movie and sneer and strut to great critical acclaim. You will wear your racialized name, your skin color, and hope you don’t get detained another time.

(via racebending)

U.S. domestic security forces can do in just a few minutes what some people pay thousands of dollars every year for therapy to accomplish: keep non-white superstars humble and grounded. Thanks, TSA.

(via mohandasgandhi)

Half of my family clan has the surname Khan.

(via deafmuslimpunx)

treadmill-to-oblivion: At midnight on May 8, 1945 the war in...

Wed, 08 May 2013 15:56:40 -0400

treadmill-to-oblivion:

At midnight on May 8, 1945 the war in Europe officially ended. What Churchill had dubbed “The long night of barbarism” had finally ended…

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Literature is Literally Life (see dat alliteration? yea das right)

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 01:09:35 -0400

Literature is Literally Life (see dat alliteration? yea das right):

Have you noticed that? Whatever you’re reading, if it’s good, seems to actually encapsule what you feel about life at the moment. It could be that you just extract a certain interpretation that per…

phenobarbiedull: halloweenjackconnell: littledallilasbookshelf:...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 00:29:54 -0400

phenobarbiedull:

halloweenjackconnell:

littledallilasbookshelf:

Who says heaven is not on the earth; for a book lovers like me its right here :))

I WANT TO GO TO THERE.

oh my minor orgasms

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"It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream—making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream..."

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 01:52:03 -0400

“It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream—making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of being captured by the incredible which is of the very essence of dreams…No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one’s existence—that which makes its truth, its meaning—its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream-alone…”

- Joseph Conrad (Heart of Darkness )

"… it was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice."

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 01:51:51 -0400

“… it was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.”

- Joseph Conrad (Heart of Darkness )

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ravenskyewalker: felicityredbarrow: notjustabook: Exile by...

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:39:09 -0400

ravenskyewalker:

felicityredbarrow:

notjustabook:

Exile by ~gnasler

Three is dreaming of space while stuck in exile on Earth.

D’awwwwww! *pats Three on the head*

I’ve often imagined him sitting outside at night during his exile, staring up at the stars.