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Trini & Texan. MSc (comp info sys & security). Dog-mom. Artist. INTJ. ♉🌙, ♌ ☀️, and ♍ ⬆️.

when you find an academic source that’s perfect for your paper but it’s behind a pay wall

Deciding to cite it anyway base on the abstract, knowing your professor probably won’t go through and look up every source in works cited

if you guys want to read academic papers but they’re behind a paywall, get the chrome extension Unpaywall. when you visit a site that requires you pay for their journal to view the article, the extension will look for other open access sites that will show you the article for free, and it’s all completely legal. all that money goes to the publisher, the writer of the paper gets none of it. https://unpaywall.org

If you can find out an author’s name, contact them. They may be willing to email it to you.For free. 

I contacted a few authors back in my college days and they were all willing to share with me directly. AFAIK academic journals don’t pay the people they publish, so the authors won’t lose their shirts over helping out students.

‪Honest, raw, real communication changes everything. Get it out. Unburden yourself. Say what you feel.‬

YESS

Sometimes children won’t tell you someone makes them uncomfortable so you also have to watch their behavior around certain people, or if they avoid certain people.

“Let them judge you. Let them misunderstand you. Let them gossip about you. Their opinions aren’t your problems. You stay kind, committed to love, and free in your authenticity. No matter what they do or say, don’t you dare doubt your worth or the beauty of your truth. Just keep shining like you do.”

— Scott Stabile (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

The problem with black people teaching their little boys that they’re “kings” is that often we don’t define what a “king” is, and all too often we raise sons who feel entitled to power and fulfillment. All too often that power is denied to them by America, so they demand it from black women, and all too often our definitions of “queenness” includes servility and dependency to a “king”. All too often that “king’s” demand turns to abuse, resentment, and cruelty.

Its true and you should say more