I need someone to come over here and yell "DO YOUR WORK! STOP BEING LAZY! PRESSING THE REFRESH BUTTON ON FACEBOOK IS A LITTLE BIT ON THE PATHETIC SIDE. RESIST RESIST!" at me. Or something along those lines...I even have this urge to put on some ladytron or lady sovereign and clean my apt...in the nude. Okay, that's an obvious lie since right now I' ( Read more... )

I've been reading some critical race theory and issues about white privilege lately and stumbled across a man named tim wise. He's American, though a lot of what he says is still very relevent and I think he's worth checking out:

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"we stretched out side by side on the bed and began. By pretending, of course. Forced laughter. Laughable laughter. Laughter so laughable that it made us laugh. Then it came, real laughter, total laughter, taking us into its immense tide. Bursts of repeated, rushing, unleashed laughter, magnificent laughter, sumptuous and mad...And we laugh our ( Read more... )

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Creepiest Dream of the Year Award goes to last night's Freddy Kruger adventure ( Read more... )

Okay Immune System, listen up: You're going to have to start pulling up your socks, so to speak, and start helping me fight off gross sick germs. I'm over this cough/cold/achy body business. Our one week love affair is through. It gave everything it had and we had some good times laying in bed together and bonding over chamomile tea with honey, but ( Read more... )

the past few days i've been thinking and writing about identity/ies, oppression(s) and privilege(s) and how these all intersect and sometimes conflict, and how nothing is fixed or static but rather fluid and constantly in flux and shaped by power and discourse and the like. and it's all swirling around in my head and starting to all blur so that i ( Read more... )

I'm well aware that these quizzes are super silly and may be looked upon as a waste of space, effort and time, BUT no one can deny that they have an amusing quality! I like to find out more about myself in a superficial way. Without further hesitation, i present my results! (under an lj cut in consideration for those with quizphobia)

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