Because things are funny.

Including farts.
amazonfeminist: In her own words, Audre Lorde was a “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet.” Lorde began writing poetry at age 12 and published her first poem in Seventeen magazine at age 15. She helped found Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, the world’s first publisher run by women of color, in 1980. Her poetry was published regularly throughout her life and she served as the State Poet of New York from 1991 to 1992. Lorde explored issues of class, race, age, sex, and – after a series of cancer diagnoses — health, as being fundamental to the female experience. She died of liver cancer in 1992.

amazonfeminist:

In her own words, Audre Lorde was a “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet.” Lorde began writing poetry at age 12 and published her first poem in Seventeen magazine at age 15. She helped found Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, the world’s first publisher run by women of color, in 1980. Her poetry was published regularly throughout her life and she served as the State Poet of New York from 1991 to 1992. Lorde explored issues of class, race, age, sex, and – after a series of cancer diagnoses — health, as being fundamental to the female experience. She died of liver cancer in 1992.

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sandwichday:

oh hey! French Cassettes have a new video! it’s adorable and should be watched many, many times. 

like what you see? who wouldn’t! head over to their kickstarter page so they can continue to make more things that make me smile. 

everything she said. :)

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If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floor if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.

— Anthony Bourdain (via vitaminhobo)

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hellxia:

GENERALIZASIANs via Trina

lol I was wearing the exact same outfit when Trina gave me these photos

The wonderful people who worked on an incredibly moving art show!

deadliestsnatch: brosephstalin: Alabama Senate Doubles Down on Nation’s Most Draconian Anti-Immigration Law The Alabama State Senate voted 20-7 today on changes to HB 56, the nation’s harshest immigration law. Unlike the replacement bill passed by the House, the Senate billpreserves most of the law, including a provision that requires schools to check theimmigration status of their students. That provision led to 7% of the Hispanic students in Alabama public schools to miss school the day after the law went into effect for fear that the parents of undocumented students would be deported. Because the bill has scared so many students away from school, Alabama schools may lose funding that is dependent on attendance. The provision scaring children away from schools is not the only harsh provision left intact by the new bill leaves. Unchanged provisions include one that bars undocumented aliens from renting property and another that allows law enforcement to check immigration status based on a “reasonable suspicion.” It also preserves a section that proscribes a variety of penalties, including permanent loss of license, for businesses that hire undocumented workers. Plus, the new bill piles on by adding another harsh provision requiring the state Department of Homeland Security “to post a quarterly list of the names of any undocumented alien who appears in court for a violation of state law, regardless of whether they were convicted.” The one bright side of the bill is that it clarifies which “business transactions” undocumented immigrants are prevented from entering into with the state. The new bill only requires proof of citizenship for getting car tags and driver’s, business, and commercial licenses — a change that clarifies a provision that has been used to deny water to immigrants in their homes. Because the regular session of the Senate ends at midnight tonight, the House and Senate much reach a compromise today for these changes to go into effect. Opponents of the law protested before and after the vote by the Senate, and protests are expected to continue. Four of seven protestors who blocked a Senate hallway were led away in handcuffs. Sometimes I get so speechless when I hear about states such as Arizona or Alabama and their racist bills. Because really, how can this be going on right now? How can society be evolving into this, regressing on small and pivotal progressive moves it has been able to make in the past. Sighhh.

deadliestsnatch:

brosephstalin:

Alabama Senate Doubles Down on Nation’s Most Draconian Anti-Immigration Law

The Alabama State Senate voted 20-7 today on changes to HB 56, the nation’s harshest immigration law. Unlike the replacement bill passed by the House, the Senate billpreserves most of the law, including a provision that requires schools to check theimmigration status of their students. That provision led to 7% of the Hispanic students in Alabama public schools to miss school the day after the law went into effect for fear that the parents of undocumented students would be deported. Because the bill has scared so many students away from school, Alabama schools may lose funding that is dependent on attendance.

The provision scaring children away from schools is not the only harsh provision left intact by the new bill leaves. Unchanged provisions include one that bars undocumented aliens from renting property and another that allows law enforcement to check immigration status based on a “reasonable suspicion.” It also preserves a section that proscribes a variety of penalties, including permanent loss of license, for businesses that hire undocumented workers. Plus, the new bill piles on by adding another harsh provision requiring the state Department of Homeland Security “to post a quarterly list of the names of any undocumented alien who appears in court for a violation of state law, regardless of whether they were convicted.”

The one bright side of the bill is that it clarifies which “business transactions” undocumented immigrants are prevented from entering into with the state. The new bill only requires proof of citizenship for getting car tags and driver’s, business, and commercial licenses — a change that clarifies a provision that has been used to deny water to immigrants in their homes.

Because the regular session of the Senate ends at midnight tonight, the House and Senate much reach a compromise today for these changes to go into effect. Opponents of the law protested before and after the vote by the Senate, and protests are expected to continue. Four of seven protestors who blocked a Senate hallway were led away in handcuffs.

Sometimes I get so speechless when I hear about states such as Arizona or Alabama and their racist bills. Because really, how can this be going on right now? How can society be evolving into this, regressing on small and pivotal progressive moves it has been able to make in the past.

Sighhh.

estosoloempieza: ollin-atl: NO!, JUST NO!!! You think it’s funny that millions of people have risked their lives coming here, and hundreds of thousands of people have died crossing over here? Do you think it’s funny that families are torn apart when one or even both parents die on journeys crossing that man made border? When mothers and fathers never see their children who die crossing over here? Do you think it’s funny that my people risk EVERYTHING to home here to work back breaking jobs, live in the shadows, become political scape-goats, all in the hopes of living better lives? Please tell me on what planet this is humorous, because I fail to see ANY humor in this image. Me yelling FUCK YOU CABRON wouldn’t even be worth it right now. ^ agree.

estosoloempieza:

ollin-atl:

NO!, JUST NO!!! You think it’s funny that millions of people have risked their lives coming here, and hundreds of thousands of people have died crossing over here? Do you think it’s funny that families are torn apart when one or even both parents die on journeys crossing that man made border? When mothers and fathers never see their children who die crossing over here? Do you think it’s funny that my people risk EVERYTHING to home here to work back breaking jobs, live in the shadows, become political scape-goats, all in the hopes of living better lives? Please tell me on what planet this is humorous, because I fail to see ANY humor in this image. Me yelling FUCK YOU CABRON wouldn’t even be worth it right now.

^ agree.

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