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she hangs like a star in the dew of our song
really lovely piece of art; wish i could have found it without text superposed. made me think of browngirl.
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singly none, singly none
Female staffers adopted a meeting strategy they called "amplification": When a woman made a key point, other women would repeat it, giving credit to its author. This forced the men in the room to recognize the contribution - and denied them the chance to claim the idea as their own.
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mythsbegotten
"I know he feels that, in some instances, the books his readers are asking for him to write are really someone else’s story to tell," Lurie said ( Read more... ) -
"i don't tip white servers"
tw: lots of racist backlash quoted in the piece
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heroes for today
Indian grocery store-owner Rajesh Kumar Sharma has an unusual but inspiring side gig-providing free lessons for hundreds of New Delhi’s poorest children in an open-air school beneath a Metro bridge. Sharma, whose philanthropic story went viral on the Internet in 2012, founded the “Free School: Under the Bridge” where he teaches basic Hindi and ( Read more... ) -
not a lot to say beside
FOR MY NIECES
Phyllis Schlafly's dead at ninety-two.
She worked outside the home for fifty years,
An editor and lawyer, so that you
Could not. Don't bother shedding any tears.
- Marcus Bales
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fail shark
When the Utah Government website goes down, this is what you see, and it is amazing.
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clued in
Thursday’s GENDER FLUID puzzle may be just as noteworthy. “I think that people are going to enjoy this puzzle because it’s sort of a monument to how far queerness has come,” Tausig told me in an interview. “And ideas about gender identity that weren’t mainstream 20 years ago or even five years ago ( Read more... ) -
long time no song!
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