"Role models give kids tangible examples of possibilities. And as cultural critic bell hooks has noted, “oppression means the absence of choices.” LGBT representation on television has come a long way since “Will and Grace,” but everybody isn’t going to identify with Chris Colfer or Neil Patrick Harris. The “It Gets Better” videos are great, but have you noticed how few black men appear in them? The fewer choices queer youth have for role models, the more vulnerable they are to the idea that being a successful and proud black, gay male is not a possibility."
Yes, It Matters That Jason Collins Is Black And Gay by Rumpus contributor and Buzzfeed LGBT editor Saeed Jones. (via therumpus)
Exactly.
(via therumpus)
Globalization is complete.
I’m very into my Rumblr horoscope for this week.
The Rumblr’s in-house astrologer, Madame Clairevoyant, presents her latest dispatch from the stars:
Sagittarius: Listen to your body, this week, even when you’re deep inside your head, all absorbed in moody songs and messy thoughts. You’ll to feel hollow and cold and stale if you don’t remember that you have a body that lives in the world, that needs to see the sun, that needs to move around in the sweet April air, that needs to be touched. Get up, sit down, take a shower, eat something. Eat ice cream and watch tv shows about animals, about plants, about rain.
Today’s image was made specially for Madame Clairevoyant by Jen May.
Behind
Jack: youre so behind
iPhone policy
Jack: I don’t have a case on my phone
my policy is just
dont drop your phone
"They went to a Chinese restaurant. They could still eat. They read the astrology on the placemats and ordered green beans in garlic sauce and cold sesame noodles and then read the placemats again, out loud to each other. They were horses, both of them, thirty-eight years old. They were in perpetual motion, moved with electric fluidity, possessed unconquered spirits. They were impulsive and stubborn and lacked discretion. They were a perfect match."
Cheryl Strayed - Torch
"
Things will be far worse
than they are now.
And far better.
I wait.
"Charles Bukowski (via hellanne)
(via loveinbabylon)
"What makes CNN’s coverage doubly amazing is that teenagers get taken off the path of “promising” every day for behaviors that are exponentially less anti-social than terrorizing girls with sexual abuse. The country is full of nonrapist D students, teen moms, high-school drop-outs, and dim but well-meaning people who have severely limited opportunities to become the sort of community leaders these boys were clearly slated to be. I’d have any one of them be my boss rather than a guy who raped someone and then reportedly texted a naked photo of the victim with the caption, “Bitches is bitches. Fuck ‘em,” to his friends later. A system that takes rapists out of the running for certain opportunities so nonrapists have a better shot is a system that is working. After the Penn State scandal, you’d think people would understand the importance of keeping sexual predators out of positions of power."
The Steubenville Rapists Are Not Tragic Heroes by Amanda Marcotte | Slate
(Source: mr-nice-watch, via loveinbabylon)
