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Please understand the difference between "happy" and "healthy". When you've got the flu you probably feel miserable with it, but I've been sick for years. I can't be miserable all the time, in fact I work hard at not being miserable. So if you're talking to me and I sound happy, it means I'm happy. That's all. I may be tired. I may be in pain. I may be sicker that ever. Please, don't say, "Oh, you're sounding better!". I am not sounding better, I am sounding happy. If you want to comment on that, you're welcome.
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Doing badly
on an audition sucks. But it does not suck as much as sexual assault, something that happens every two minutes in America.
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Endlessly having to deal with cis people’s demands to explain and justify ourselves is an energy-suck and a humungous time-waster. Because cis people can wander off thinking how fascinating the insights they’ve gained are, or how they’ve proved to themselves that their pet theories are right – and still don’t make the connection between those things, and how we still have to live our lives in their world. And the first thing we ask ourselves, after you’ve all gone on your merry way is why we always have to give these trans 101 lessons to you.
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I am so fucking sick and tired of “feminist” rhetoric being used to oppress certain women. I am sick of women actively oppressing women.
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"We've had this very misleading view of babies," says Alison Gopnik, a psychologist at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of the forthcoming book, "The Philosophical Baby." "The baby brain is perfectly designed for what it needs to do, which is learn about the world. There are times when having a fully developed brain can almost seem like an impediment."
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The recession means, perhaps counterintuitively, that the incremental economic effect of a pandemic may be less dramatic than it would be in normal times.
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A new influenza virus is spreading across the globe. Our first article asks whether the world is ready for the next pandemic.
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End result: people who think science (especially physics) is boring, or dull, or for “smart people only.” People whose imaginations are unmoved by Saturn’s Rings, quadratic equations or the implications of the special theory of relativity. People to whom gravity is something to be taken for granted rather than something amazing.
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The couple—who met in 2005 and have been living together since Mazursky was evicted from his apartment—have not always had it so easy. In the beginning, their interpersonal style still contained many troubling elements of a mature relationship, including periodic moments of independence, mutual equality, and even occasional sexual contact.
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In my mind, saying you don’t see my color is actually just as bad as making a big deal about my color. Saying you don’t see my color is a clear indication that you do see my color—and for whatever reason, you’re not completely comfortable. With it or with yourself or with the state of the world. I don’t know. But it’s a tell-tale sign that something ain’t right.
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For 400 years, the standard of beauty in America has been the white woman, the aquiline nose, flat hinnie, light-porceline skin. She has been the untouchable prize. Black men have been murdered on her word, for looking in her direction, for not moving into the street and allowing her the
entire sidewalk. Meanwhile, the rest of America has moved forward and we in Oklahoma are still in the18th century. The perception that any white woman – a toothless crackhead with 5 kids is better than a morally upright black woman with no children, but with dreds.
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The effects of slavery permeate our society to this day. I say this not to indict the dominant culture; it is only to say that the subtle (and in some cases, not so subtle) racism is so ingrained that people on both sides of the color line react and act on it without thinking. I relate this to the terrible self-loathing many black women have about their hair texture. Light skinned house slaves with straight hair, were favored, and for some, they were even able to "pass." The whole "good hair/bad hair" pathology was handed down from generation to generation, as a sign of favorable treatment that one would receive for having straight hair — you were closer to white. White is Right. The whole brown paper bag test of the black upper class. All legacies of slavery that just will not die.
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Here’s my bibliography for learning about international development. It’s not exhaustive – more the very basics as a starting point. Overall, I like books for theory and background, articles for technical information and detail, and blogs for the on the ground perspective and a peek into the industry of development. I don’t think theory helps with a sense of how development work actually gets done (that’s my major critique of Easterly, in fact) and I don’t think you can actually do this work well without some kind of background on the picture of what development is and what its goals are.
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There has been a small outbreak of “zombism” in London due to mutation of the H1N1 virus into new strain: H1Z1.
Thanks for linking!
Helen