Parasites and Illiteracites
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Sharing this poem in honor of Martin Luther King Jr., who was assassinated on this day in 1968. Today marks the 50th anniversary of his death.
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Typed copy of poem “I Woke Up One Morning,” dedicated to Rev. Martin Luther King by Leo Simon, undated. Loren Miller papers. The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
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Your social justice should be founded on love for others, not on a desire to be the most visibly enlightened.
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dePass the happy!
💛 When you get this, reply with 5 things that make you happy and send this to the last 10 people in your notifications! 💛
tagged by @buddyblanc
- Surprisingly cooking something so well that when I take the first bite, I actually go, “damn, this is good!”
- Phone conversations with faraway friends that neither one of us want to end
- First hugs with loved ones I haven’t seen in a long while
- Watching my kids and our friends hang out together
- Getting a text message from my favorite lovers in the middle of a work day
Not tagging the last ten in my notes because it will be the same people who have already received this.
- Surprisingly cooking something so well that when I take the first bite, I actually go, “damn, this is good!”
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Did you know that after they switched to blind auditions, major symphony orchestras hired women between 30% to 55% more? Before bringing in “blind auditions” with a screen to conceal the the candidate, women in the top 5 major orchestras made up less than 5% of the musicians performing.so I believe it was actually more complicated than that, in interesting ways. Because at first, when they did blind auditions, they were STILL hiring more men.
…Then they put down a carpet, so that high heels didn’t clack on the floor, and BOOM women were suddenly getting hired.
The testers didn’t even know that’s what they were picking up on, which just goes to show how tiny of a cue it takes for misogyny to kick in.
The case of blind auditions for orchestras and how it dramatically changed the gender makeup of orchestras is a very illuminating example of gender bias, and an interesting possible way of countering it.
just goes to show how tiny of a cue it takes for misogyny to kick in
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Acting like the crows won’t try to cheat the system.
Acting like the crows won’t snatch cigarettes outta people’s mouths.
Acting like murders won’t fight viciously for terf.
You fool
For you think you can place a yoke on the neck of the raven,
And a harness on the back of the crow
But you know not of that with which you tamper
Your hands grope blindly in the dark
All your plans will be foiled
Though you lay out seven schemes, eight will come to ruin
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I am stunned.
Alabama elected it’s first Democratic senator since 1978. And, it’s all due to African American voter turn out and the efforts of volunteers who fought voter suppression. Something good happened in 2017. We all really needed this. I am so proud of my home state.
