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Ughhhhh fuck Vassar.
So the VSA Concil votes in favor of Kicking Coke, and people go fucking ape shit and start making really fucking racist remarks about those damn minority groups screwing up their lives.
SERIOUSLY?
SERIOUSLY???!!!???!!!
I'm finally actually seeing the "hidden" racism that people have told me exists here. Not that I didn't believe ( Read more... ) -
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This afternoon, I'm off to New Jersey and then Pittsburgh to see Dave Matthews with my dear Katie. But first I just had to leave all you male loving friends with this image:
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BABIES EVERYWHERE
I keep having dreams of motherhood. Usually I'm just pregnant in them, but this time I gave birth ( Read more... ) -
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So today I heard about one of the bravest girls ever.
Crystal (then 15) was raped by her 23 year old boyfriend. Regardless of what some people (like Phylis Schlafly) think, giving consent once does not mean you can never be raped. This case is rape for two reasons. One, she did not consent. Two, under Florida law, she was not of legal age to consent ( Read more... ) -
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Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something. If this seems so clearly the case with grief, it is only because it was already the case with desire. One does not always stay intact. It may be that one wants to, or does, but it may also be that despite one's best efforts, one is undone, in the face of the other ( Read more... ) -
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I had a particularly frustrating final US Foreign Policy Class. The frustration came from it being a class on immigration filled with people who had never examined their internalized racism.
People were full of fears of assimilation, until one brave soul said the R word. He said, you know, that's really racist to assume that white American culture ( Read more... ) -
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I've been struggling lately with how to deal with my feminist rage.
I don't want to silence it. Anger is powerful, it gives us the strength to speak up with a resounding NO. Without anger, a recognition of injustice that is deeply felt, how is there to be resistance?
I want to be angry when a Vassar student publicly jokes about the rape of another. I ( Read more... ) -
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My plate is full like one at a Chinese buffet.
It all looks good, but all of it combined? Guaranteed food poisoning.
Also this is clearly the kind of buffet where they hold a gun to your head until you finish all of it.
hmmm flawed simile.