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What is the purpose of Tumblr more than to show us that others share our passions, that our ideas and convictions inspire and are inspired by others, that we are more than isolated islands unto ourselves.
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“You’d think the US government had bigger priorities than treating honors students like criminals, yet here we are”
this is an amazing message and i fully support that our country needs to dramatically alter our immigration laws, but there is a small amount of bullshit in this. like these parents came to the us prematurely without citizenship and knew that shit like this could happen. of course its terrible for the kids but you can’t put all the blame on the government when parents knowingly bring their children into a country without legalizing them.
That is true. The parents do have to take some responsibility for their kids being in a bad situation, but coming from an immigrant family, I’d say that that is not the biggest thing on most parents minds at the time they decide to illegally enter. If they are desperate enough to come into the country illegally, then it’s because the prospects in the home country aren’t good. It could be a great number of things, most often employment related. So, between the kids starving in the home country and being in a shitty situation with possibly no future in the US, well, what would you pick?
Regardless of all of that, I’ve personally gone through immigration myself and had to help my mom/sister get their green cards, and I’ll tell you that it’s a really shitty process they have in place right now. They need to reform the immigration process because the inadequacies of the current process is why more people don’t come into the country legally. It’s not that all immigrants are lazy to go through the process or wait in line, it’s that the process is so ridiculously expensive and the ”wait” is insane. I’m sure some people will still choose to enter illegally, but a better process will really go a long way to help a lot of people and reduce illegal immigration.
I’m thankful every day that my family has our papers, but I really feel for those kids. They have no home really. They’re illegal in the only country they’ve ever known. It breaks my heart.
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People will kill you over time, and how they’ll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like: ‘be realistic.’
— Dylan Moran (via redwoodcollective)
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When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions carved in it. “This is often considered to be man’s first attempt at a calendar,” she explained. She paused as we dutifully wrote this down. “My question to you is this – what man needs to mark 28 days? I would suggest to you that this is woman’s first attempt at a calendar.”
It was a moment that changed my life. In that second I stopped to question almost everything I had been taught about the past. How often had I overlooked women’s contributions? How often had I sped past them as I learned of male achievement and men’s place in the history books? Then I read Rosalind Miles’s book “The Women’s History of the World” (recently republished as “Who Cooked the Last Supper?”) and I knew I needed to look again. History is full of fabulous females who have been systematically ignored, forgotten or simply written out of the records. They’re not all saints, they’re not all geniuses, but they do deserve remembering.
It was a moment that changed my life. In that second I stopped to question almost everything I had been taught about the past. How often had I overlooked women’s contributions? How often had I sped past them as I learned of male achievement and men’s place in the history books? Then I read Rosalind Miles’s book “The Women’s History of the World” (recently republished as “Who Cooked the Last Supper?”) and I knew I needed to look again. History is full of fabulous females who have been systematically ignored, forgotten or simply written out of the records. They’re not all saints, they’re not all geniuses, but they do deserve remembering.
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Sandi Toksvig, ‘Top 10 unsung heroines’ (via ninestories)
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If you’re a woman, if you’re a person of color, if you’re gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you’re a person of size, a person of intelligence, a person of integrity, then you’re considered a minority in this world. And it’s going to be really hard to find messages of self-love and support anywhere. It’s all about how you have to look a certain way or else you’re worthless. For us to have self-esteem is truly an act of revolution and our revolution is long overdue.
— Margaret Cho (via ricebowls)
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They always show the guys shouting “Death to America!!” Just once I wish the media would show us, I don’t know, baking a cookie. I’ve been to Iran, we have cookies, I swear. Just once, I want the media to be like, “Okay, we’re going to go to Mohammed in Iran” and then a guy would appear like “Hello, I’m Mohammed… and I’m just baking a cookie.
— Maz Jobrani, an Iranian-American, on the way Middle Easterners are depicted in mainstream media. (via yourfriendlycomrade)
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I took a 7 week coast to coast road trip after being laid off from Boeing. I didn’t have a camper but realized that being able to pull off the road at a rest or truck stop was the way to go to make the trip affordable. With a few sheets of 1/2” plywood and misc. hardware this is what I came up with. The effort was well worth the time and materials.
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