The Storm Is Breaking

visionmakermedia: Download These Slides and Take Your Picture...

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:48:57 -0800

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rhamphotheca: How Does a Lynx Cross a Fence? Rare images of...

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:48:50 -0800

How Does a Lynx Cross a Fence?

Rare images of lynx family in Banff National ParkFebruary 2013.

Alex Taylor, a human-wildlife conflict specialist who works for Parks Canada, was sent to intervene to help keep a lynx and her kitten off the highway near Canada’s Lake Louise in Banff National Park.

While on the scene, Alex snapped an incredibly rare sequence of images of the animals as they crossed highway fencing.

“As the pictures clearly portray, lynx are incredibly agile and flexible animals - this sequence is nothing short of stunning,” said Omar McDadi, a Parks Canada Communications Officer.

“We believe this is the first time lynx have been captured on film crossing highway fencing in this fashion.

“Lynx sightings in Banff National Park are rare, though last March a lynx was snapped using one of the park’s wildlife overpasses…

(read more: Wildlife Extra) (photos: Parks Canada/Alex Taylor)

Stop CAS (Copyright Alert System)

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:48:17 -0800

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Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:47:48 -0800

Stop CAS - if you want fanfiction, screencaps, gifs, etc. to still be alive and well, sign this shit.

lovewashername: mehreenkasana: Desi babe Priyanka Chopra doing...

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:41:25 -0800

lovewashername:

mehreenkasana:

Desi babe Priyanka Chopra doing it right.

doing it all the way right.

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Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:34:52 -0800

"Well, I am an Oscar nominee. But more to the point, my film, 5 Broken Cameras — which chronicles my..."

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:32:47 -0800

“

Well, I am an Oscar nominee. But more to the point, my film, 5 Broken Cameras — which chronicles my village Bil’in’s nonviolent struggle to resist Israeli occupation — is about precisely the kind of humiliation my family and I experienced at Los Angeles International Airport. The only difference is that the victims where I come from number in the millions, and our stories have become so routine that what happened to my family and me yesterday pales by comparison.

That’s because, on any given day, there are more than 500 Israeli checkpoints, roadblocks, and other obstacles to movement throughout the West Bank — an area less than 2 percent the size of California on which some 2.5 million Palestinians live under a ubiquitous system of repression.

”

- Emad Burnat, director of the Oscar-nominated documentary 5 Broken Cameras on his detainment at LAX last Tuesday. The doc didn’t win, but you can watch it on Netflix - it’s incredible. (via thepeoplesrecord)

"Not one single hurtful thing ever got changed by someone grinning and bearing it. Hurtful things..."

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:32:07 -0800

“

Not one single hurtful thing ever got changed by someone grinning and bearing it.

Hurtful things changed because people have said ‘That hurts me. Stop.’

And every time you try to silence someone and tell them that they shouldn’t be hurt, shouldn’t be offended, shouldn’t choose this battle, that this isn’t important and that other things are more important - you are serving the hurtful rather than the hurt.

”

- (via moniquill)

When you tell me that I shouldn’t be offended, you become my enemy. You are saying it’s okay to hurt me. And thus you need to be eradicated from my life.

(via sourcedumal)

We’re trying to say :”Grin and bear it because it ain’t gonna stop.”

My HR manager frequently says things to me that are hurtful and nasty and rather spiteful. And I have to grin and bear it. Everyone who works there has had to grin and bear it. Because she is in a position where she can do such things, without fear of retribution or gainsay of Any Kind.

You can’t change other people, you can change how you carry yourself.

(via motodrachen)

That’s incredibly sad, that you feel that you have no recourse other than ‘Grin and bear it’.

But that’s exactly what I’m saying here.

If you grin and bear it, you’re right in thinking that you can’t change it. Because it will not change as long as you grin and bear it.
(via moniquill)

fuckyeahsubversivekawaii: i didn’t watch the oscars but trust...

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:31:03 -0800

fuckyeahsubversivekawaii:

i didn’t watch the oscars but trust me i heard enough

"Cunt again? It was odd how men … used that word to demean women when it was the only part of a woman..."

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:30:00 -0800

“Cunt again? It was odd how men … used that word to demean women when it was the only part of a woman they valued.”

- Asha Greyjoy, A Dance With Dragons (via pax-caelestis)

digimentals: ずっと、君を待ってたんだ | 里奈 [pixiv]

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:29:25 -0800

digimentals:

ずっと、君を待ってたんだ | 里奈 [pixiv]

Please stop scrolling for a minute.

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:29:13 -0800

mielegrey:

This is Mary Anne Alexie, my cousin, and she has gone missing in Anchorage, Alaska. If you have any information or helpful information, please let me know. Please reblog this.

to-destroy-you: shenaniganations: This, though. Fucking...

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:28:22 -0800

to-destroy-you:

shenaniganations:

This, though.

Fucking this!! ^^^^

almondskeyes: grimybear: the best thing about taking exams in college is that once you’re done you...

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:27:44 -0800

almondskeyes:

grimybear:

the best thing about taking exams in college is that once you’re done you can leave right away to go cry

just happened~

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Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:25:14 -0800

thepeoplesrecord: Indian feminists/activists respond to Harvard...

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:24:58 -0800

thepeoplesrecord:

Indian feminists/activists respond to Harvard kids attempting to help the less fortunate ‘third world’ feminists
February 25, 2013

Globally, from the U.S. to the developing world, rape and other forms of violence against women remain at shockingly high levels. Focusing on the horrifying case of a 23-year-old Indian student who was gang-raped and beaten to death in Delhi in December, the Harvard College Women’s Center announced it would create a Beyond Gender Equality task force, “convened to offer recommendations to India and other South Asian countries in the wake of the New Delhi gang rape and murder.”

The group ignored the long history of Indian activists themselves fighting to end rape and sexual violence—including recent mass protests of South Asian women and men calling for a systemic fight against rape. And the Harvardites had nothing to say about the ample evidence of the problem of rape in the U.S.—from the sickening gang rape and subsequent cover-up at Steubenville High School in Ohio, to the systematic downplaying of rape and sexual assault at Amherst College and other universities.

In response to this “white (wo)man’s burden” take on the issue of sexual violence in South Asia, a group Indian feminists wrote the following response, first published at Kafila.org, detailing their own years of work fighting to end rape and gain justice sexual assault victims.

— — — — — — —

Dear sisters (and brothers?) at Harvard,
WE’RE A group of Indian feminists and we are delighted to learn that the Harvard community—without doubt one of the most learned in the world—has seen fit to set up a policy task force entitled “Beyond Gender Equality” and that you are preparing to offer recommendations to India (and other South Asian countries) in the wake of the New Delhi gang rape and murder.

Not since the days of Katherine Mayo have American women—and American feminists—felt such a concern for their less privileged Third World sisters. Mayo’s concern, at that time, was to ensure that the Indian state (then the colonial state) did not leave Indian women in the lurch, at the mercy of their men, and that it retained power and the rule of the just.

Yours, we see, is to work towards ensuring that steps are put in place that can help the Indian state in its implementation of the recommendations of the Justice Verma Committee, a responsibility the Indian state must take up.

This is clearly something that we, Indian feminists and activists who have been involved in the women’s movement here for several decades, are incapable of doing, and it was with a sense of overwhelming relief that we read of your intention to step into this breach.

You might be pleased to know that one of us, a lawyer who led the initiative to put pressure on the Justice Verma Committee to have a public hearing with women’s groups, even said in relief, when she heard of your plans, that she would now go on holiday and take a plane ride to see the Everest.

Indeed, we are all relieved, for now we know that our efforts will not have been in vain: the oral evidence provided by 82 activists and organizations to the Justice Verma Committee—and which we believe substantially contributed to the framing of their report—will now be in safe American hands!

Perhaps you are aware that the Indian state has put in place an “Ordinance on Sexual Assault” that ignores many recommendations of the Justice Verma Committee? If not, we would be pleased to furnish you a copy of the Ordinance, as well as a chart prepared by us, which details which recommendations have been accepted and which not.

This may be useful in your efforts to advise our government. One of the greatest things about sisterhood is that it is so global—feminism has built such strong international connections, such that whenever our First World sisters see that we are incapable of dealing with problems in our countries, they immediately step in to help us out and provide us with much needed guidance and support. We are truly grateful for this.

Perhaps you will allow us to repay the favor, and next time President Obama wants to put in place legislation to do with abortion or the Equal Rights Amendment, we can step in and help, and, from our small bit of experience in these fields, recommend what the United States can do.

Source (with signatures)

Tangled Up In Blue: kidquip: Not only do DC and Marvel not have a single Black writer...

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 12:54:02 -0800

Tangled Up In Blue: kidquip: Not only do DC and Marvel not have a single Black writer...:

fyeahlilbit2point0:

kidquip:

Not only do DC and Marvel not have a single Black writer currently writing a monthly (as in not a mini-series or tie-in series) comic book series, but apparently Marvel hasn’t had a Black writer on a monthly series since 2009 (Something I had no clue of and that’s… not good at all…

And if you ever think there isn’t a reason the industry is in this way, I’d like to direct you to the comments Dwayne McDuffie got while writing Justice League and Fantastic Four.

People claimed he was a “reverse racist” for having Icon punch Superman (even though it turned out they were faking a fight and Superman allowed himself to get hit) . And they claimed he had an “agenda” because editorial Dr. Light, Firestorm, and John Stewart were added to the team during his run.

So because he was a black writer and he had two black characters and an Asian character join the team during his run (hell Firestorm and John Stewart were actually editorial mandates) people claimed he had an agenda.

I ain’t ever seen someone claim Rick Remender had a white agenda for putting Hawkeye, the Human Torch and Giant Man on the Secret Avengers or anything like that.

That’s the shit you gotta put up with being a black writer in the industry.

heaterz: Grammy Awards 2013 - Red carpet arrivals. you all...

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 12:53:13 -0800

Kelly Rowland

Rihanna

Solange

Chrissy Teigein

Alicia keys

Beyoncé

Estelle

Ashanti

Janelle Monae

Jennifer Lopez

heaterz:

Grammy Awards 2013 - Red carpet arrivals.

you all are doing great

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Mon, 11 Feb 2013 12:52:05 -0800

thou shall not fuck with raw me.: pussyharvest: i think what fucks me up the most about tina fey’s...

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 12:51:35 -0800

thou shall not fuck with raw me.: pussyharvest: i think what fucks me up the most about tina fey’s...:

pussyharvest:

i think what fucks me up the most about tina fey’s “JENNIFER LOPEZ/BEYONCE MADE SHIT HARDER FOR WOMEN WITH THEIR VOLUPTUOUS BODIES” comment is that fey just kind of assumes the wrong thing about jennifer lopez’s body?

i can’t tell you heads or tails if j.lo and beyonce…