I'll get back to Southwestern if it kills me. I have just as much right to be there as the fucking trust fund babies do, and no one is going to tell me otherwise.

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The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression."
-CLR James, "The Black Jacobins"

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This Asian art shit is driving me insane. It's due in less than 12 hours, and I'm still not finished. Why the fuck does there have to be a German class meeting tomorrow? I'm almost done, but I can't seem to finish, I can't remember the titles of different pieces I have to refer to, and my paper is already over the page limit. I also can't remember ( Read more... )

Holy shit I don't feel like writing my paper. It's for Modern Europe, about socialism and liberalism, and how their definitions of "rights" (political, like free speech, or socioeconomic, like food, water, or shelter) converged in the current "human rights" discourse ( Read more... )

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