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A lot of people have asked me to explain the whole “stock market” thing to them, and I’ll explain it, and they’ll be like “I still don’t get it,” and I just wanna, like, make it clear: The problem isn’t you. The problem is that you’re trying to use your smart rational human brain to understand something which is, on a fundamental level, deeply irrational and incredibly fucking stupid.
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“Natalie this still doesn’t make any sense” yes
This is absolutely true and I’m never gonna not be mad about it. For anyone who wants more details: in the United States, single, widowed, and divorced women were legally required to have a man present to sign for a new line of credit at a bank until 1975.
A woman born in 1975 will celebrate her 46th birthday this year.
every single social interaction i've ever had has been complete guesswork
every time i have a conversation i spend the next 30 minutes after grading myself
Works by Angela Davis
- “Racism, Birth Control and Reproductive Rights” in Women, Race and Class, 1981
- “Race and Criminalization; Black Americans and the Punishment Industry” in The House that Race Built, ed. Wahneema Lubiano, 1997
- “Political Prisoners, Prisons and Black Liberation”, originally from If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance, ed. Angela Davis & Betty Aptheker, 1971
- “Rape, Racism and the Myth of the Black Rapist” in Women, Race and Class, 1981
- “I Used to be Your Sweet Mama: Ideology, Sexuality and Domesticity” in Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday, 1999
- “From the Prison of Slavery to the Slavery of Prison: Frederick Douglass and the Convict Lease System” in The Angela Y. Davis Reader, ed. Joy James, 1998
- Angela Davis: An Autobiography, 1974 [reprinted in 1988]
- “Racialized Punishment and Prison Abolition” in The Angela Y. Davis Reader, ed. Joy James, 1998
- “Reflections on the Black Woman’s Role in the Community of Slaves” in The Massachusetts Review , 1972
- “Globalism and the Prison-Industrial Complex: An Interview with Angela Davis”, conducted by Avery F. Gordon, 1999
- “Class and Race in the Early Women’s Rights Campaign” in Women, Race and Class, 1981
- Are Prisons Obsolete, 2003
- Alternatively, all of this can be found in my Angela Davis dropbox
When people try to tell you that women are just as abusive as men, show them this excerpt.
p. 45 Bancroft, Lundy. Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men. New York: Berkley, 2003. 45
This book is terrific.
*learns basic social skills well into my 20s that most people know by the time theyre like 11*
The breakthrough for these men (and The Man writ large) is to have influenced a signification and vocal part of mainstream culture to the extent that it now agrees that women in these situations are somehow liberated and so being ‘the other woman’ or a man’s sexual whipping toy is somehow empowering.
just once in my life i wanna get up in the morning without going through the full seven stages of grief first
What are the extra two?
Denial 2 and Astral Projection
