February 2012
things i seem to have to repeat
deluxvivens:
neetainari:
YES, I am criticizing a system that privileges white, male, cisgendered, heterosexual, Christian, able-bodied people, and a few other categories I may forget. And class. Class is what counts.
NO, I am not hating on white people. I pass as white. I benefit from the skin privilege and let me tell you: the liberty to choose if I’m going to give myself away or not at my...
Tongue stud device uses iPod to drive wheelchair →
singularitarian:
Engineers are developing a wireless device that enables people with spinal cord injuries to operate a computer and maneuver a wheelchair simply by moving their tongues.
majorityfemmmme:
13 Year Old Jada Williams Persecuted by the Rochester City School District Over her essay on Frederick Douglass.
beautifulbrwn:
“On Saturday, February 18, 2012, the Frederick Douglass Foundation of New York presented the first Spirit of Freedom award to Jada Williams, a 13-year old city of Rochester student. Miss Williams wrote an essay on her impressions of Frederick...
sunra:
مآ أجمّل أنْ تصمتْ .. فيْ ؤجهْ منْ ينتظرْ منِك الخِصَام .. ! وما أجمل أنْ تضحك فيْ وجهْ منْ يُنتظرْ منك البكـاءْ ..!
How beautiful is it to stay silent When someone expects you to be enraged from them. And how beautiful it is to laugh When someone thinks you are going to shed tears.
“No one I know has any specific memories. Just a vague, vestigial knowledge of a...”
– Warm Bodies|Isaac Marion (via youngadultbookquotes)
“I’m not gonna sit around and waste my precious divine energy trying to explain...”
– Esperanza Spalding (via daughtersofdilla)
“When your mother hits you, do not strike back. When the boys call asking your...”
– “Unsolicited Advice to Adolescent Girls With Crooked Teeth and Pink Hair,” Jeanann Verlee (via azelie)
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the...”
– Helen Keller (via moreofamore)
jonfuckingsnow:
If you think any man is ever honor-bound to murder his wife i’m honor-bound to hate your fucking guts
And have an overwhelming urge to castrate you so you can’t spread your ignorance to future generations.
Memory Formation Triggered by Stem Cell...
neurosciencestuff:
February 23rd, 2012
Researchers at the RIKEN-MIT Center for Neural Circuit Genetics have discovered an answer to the long-standing mystery of how brain cells can both remember new memories while also maintaining older ones.
They found that specific neurons in a brain region called the dentate gyrus serve distinct roles in memory formation depending on whether the neural...
The Iraq war killed approximately 66,000 civilians...
“Male domination has not destroyed the longing men and women have to love one...”
– bell hooks
I love feminist theory.
(via luciabanthony)
