ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ELEMENTARY AU wait do they look too old shitMIDDLE SCHOOL ELEMENTARY AUif you can’t see, holmes’ shirt says ~BEE YOURSELF
edit: shit forgot her freckles again, y’all saw nothing
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Haitian farmers call for 'food sovereignty' ›
Hundreds of small farmers have converged on the central Haitian city of Hinche to demand more space to grow their own crops in a country that imports more than half of its food.
“Yes to land reform. Yes to environmentally-friendly agriculture,” chanted the 300-some farmers gathered for the 40th anniversary of the Papaye Peasant Movement, a group aiming to promote “food sovereignty for the people.”
“Forty years of struggle for social change. We want true land reform.”
The high point of the summit is a march expected to see 40,000 farmers protest to air their grievances Friday.
MPP leader Chavannes Jean-Baptiste strongly opposed the introduction of hybrid and genetically modified seeds from American giant Monsanto after the devastating 2010 earthquake that leveled much of Haiti.
“Farmers need to get the same consideration as all other Haitians. They must be respected and included in national decisions,” he said.
“We have to show that we are a force in Haiti.”
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…the very process of constructing a narrative for oneself— of telling a story— imposes a certain linearity and coherence that is never truly there. That is the lesson, perhaps, especially for us immigrants and migrants: that home, community, and identity all fit somewhere between the histories and experiences we inherit and the political choices we make through alliances, solidarities, and friendships
“Community, Home, and Nation,” Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Feminism, Practicing Solidarity. Chandra Talpade Mohanty (via betwixtthevoids)
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You academics never want to get your hands dirty. Think about it, if you gave back every stolen artifact from a museum you’d be left with an empty building.
Commander Rourke, Atlantis: The Lost Empire
The thing is, the reason this movie flopped isn’t because it was bad. It was actually good, although it was heavy on the white-savior side; it’s because it painted a very ugly truth about how archeology works, especially against cultures of people of color. Atlantis’ denizen were very obviously based on a variety of African cultures/tribes and were visibly of African descent (hence why it didn’t sell well to “mainstream” audiences), and you essentially have a group of white people who want to steal their entire lives for them to sell and put on display.
Also, I like how the Heart of Atlantis always chooses a woman of the royal family to be the Protector.
Atlantis was such an underrated movie with so much potential to expand on its mythology.
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- Cis Academic: I have an opinion about your gender identity
- Me: can you not
Further, though, the TOMS campaign — like the million shirts — misses the fundamental point that not having a pair of shoes (or a shirt, christmas toy, etc.) is not a problem about not having shoes. It’s a problem of poverty. Shoelessness, such as it is, is a symptom of a much bigger and more complex problem. And while donating a pair of shoes helps shoelessness, it does not help poverty.
Things like jobs help poverty. Jobs making things like shoes, for example. But TOMS doesn’t make its shoes in Africa, it makes them in China where it’s presumably cheaper to make two pairs of shoes and give one away than it is to get people in a needier community to make one pair of shoes.
The result of this setup, as Zizek explains most succinctly, is that on a big-picture level, TOMS (and other buy-my-product-and-donate companies) are busy building the exploitative global structure that produces economic inequality, while on the other hand pretending that supporting them actually does something to fix it.
It doesn’t. It just gives people shoes.
WELCOME TO MY LAIR: apparently I have to school some people's asses on being poor again ›
Listen up, Tumblr. There are some cold hard facts about being poor that you need to know before you try to talk to me or my family or any other poor person about anything involving money, food, jobs, housing or healthcare.
- Being poor is…
when i was younger i was in mcdonalds and i had my tamagotchi with me and i was playing with it and there was another girl about my age with a tamagotchi too and we kept looking over to eachother and after a while she went to the bathroom and i followed a few minutes after and she had been waiting for me and we connected our tamagotchis and we made them have tamababies and it was the most scandalous thing i have ever done in my life to this day
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TO EVERYONE WHO THINKS WE ARE LIVING IN A POSTRACIAL WORLD. FUCKING READ THIS. CITED FROM REAL PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH.
To everyone who says they “don’t see color.” Open your fucking eyes and READ.
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We all have bullets beneath our skin we pray our lovers won’t flinch at when they find.
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