Orange Is The New Black is beautiful.

So they have realized that the Blacks and Latinas stole the show

No. They keep giving that white chick lines.

She is becoming more and more a joke, though.

Like the first few episodes of s1, it was obvious that it was supposed to be about Piper. There’s been quite a shift since then I think.

Seriously though. This season was basically 20% “lol piper goes to the dark side and becomes a crime because because she was always an awful person” and 80% character development and emotional moments for all those characters you actually care about.

Cindy, Leanne, Suzanne and Pennsatucky were so interesting this season.

The writers said Piper was their trojan horse. That’s how they got the show accepted by producers and audiences alike, by telling them it’s a fish out of water story about a nice educated white lady. But their actual story was always about the other women in the show. 

Piper does have an important role in the show though. She’s the comparison point. She’s here to embody privilege. You can never dismiss the injustice of what happens to the others by saying “well they’re criminals”, because Piper is there to show that they don’t all get treated the same way. That’s the whole point of her character. Piper is also a criminal. But she’s also white, upper class and educated.

Piper is a mirror held to that section of the audience that enjoys the same privileges she does. She thinks of herself as a good person who cares about others. And for the most part she actually is. But she’s also much more selfish than she thinks she is. And while she thinks of herself as educated, she lacks immensely in awareness of the world around her. She may care about others, but for the most part she’s oblivious to the injustice done to others and the privileges she herself enjoys and her being oblivious has serious consequences for others. Janae, Tucky, Flores, even Alex (though she deserves most of what she gets) are a few of the women who have suffered solely because of Piper’s selfishness, insensitivity and self-righteousness.

Orange is the New Black is brilliant writing. Every single part of it, every single character is relevant. Saying the writers just suddenly realised/didn’t realise yet the POC women “stole” the show is doing them injustice. They knew exactly what they were doing.

say it with me

1) minimum wage was originally intended to be a living wage

2) most people making minimum wage are NOT teenagers looking for spending money

3) real world application shows higher minimum wage does not cause super inflation

4) every human being deserves food and shelter

Muggles are not able to REBLOG this.

I did it in the first try.

OH YEAH

OH MY GOD.

MY COMPUTER BROWSER FROZE AND I DIDN’T REALIZE IT. I COULDN’T BREATHE.

JESUS.

But the lack of notes truly worries me

WORK, DAMNIT!

IT DIDN’T WORK FOR A MOMENT AND I HAD A MINI HEART ATTACK

reblogging because Muggles cant

Lols 😂

THE TOP DAMMIT I COULDNT TYPE

honestly I hate when white people visit the caribbean and treat it as a place where everyone is chill and everyone just relaxes and sits on the beach and everything runs on “island time” whatever the fuck that means. 

living in the islands is fucking hard and poverty is real and tourism isn’t doing enough to really help fix the endemic problems that plague the caribbean

like y’alls money is going to big resorts instead of into the local economies usually, and meanwhile these people whose lives you exotify and idealize bc you dont understand what it truly means to live in the caribbean literally have to serve you in order to survive

what kinda neo-colonialist bullshit

This is a very serious problem and anyone interested in the subject should read A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid!!! It’s an excellent look at how colonialism persists through the tourism industry. 

I saw something on Facebook, I felt a way about it. Additionally, said two year old also says; “Don’t touch.” and “That’s mine.” clearly enough to be understood immediately. So there should be no excuse.

Respect children, shockingly, they’re *actually* people.

Adultism.

To all the men on tumblr

If your girlfriend tells you that you are inherently misogynist, she is not good for you.

If your girlfriend makes you insecure about your appearance, she is not good for you.

If your girlfriend hits or slaps you out of anger, she is not good for you.

If your girlfriend makes you feel that you are beneath her, she is not good for you.

If your girlfriend pressures you into sex acts you don’t want to do and say you don’t want to do, she is not good for you.

If your girlfriend makes common sexist jokes against men but takes offense at jokes against women, she’s a hypocrite.  She’s also not good for you.

If your girlfriend makes you afraid of making her mad, she’s not good for you.

If your girlfriend tampers with her birth control or protection and doesn’t tell you, she’s not good for you.

This has been a PSA.  Girls, we’re worth it, but men are worth it, too.

“I can’t be politically correct” says a man running as a politician for a political office.

When Cops Get Caught Sanitizing And Flat-Out Lying About Brutality

Few aspects of policing attract more scrutiny than an officer’s use of force. And as people around the nation continue to voice concerns about the sometimes contentious relationship between citizens and law enforcement, it’s become clear that police and the policed often have drastically different interpretations of the same incidents.

In some cases, this disagreement may stem from an honest difference of opinion. Police violence – and violence in general – typically looks repulsive, whether you’re watching it unfold in person or on video. It regularly leads to questions about whether a situation truly called for the level of force used, and whether anyone’s civil rights were violated in the process. But when the question of what’s “excessive” is left to an internal review process that tends to give officers a great deal of leeway, what might appear improper to the average citizen is often found to be justified in the eyes of the law.

[This full story includes videos that contain explicit language and graphic depictions of violence. They may be upsetting for some readers.]

Yep.

This is the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale Test.

Level of social anxiety isn’t a competition - but this is a useful tool for getting an idea for yourself, and for others to get a glimmer of what social anxiety disorder means in day to day life.

Has anyone made a videogame where you’re a princess locked at the top of a tower and have to fight your way down to ground level? Because dang.

Like, think about it: you’re given this nice little room and no objectives at all and when you open the door the guard says ‘stay in there’ so you wait and nothing happens and you open the door again and try and walk out and the guard pushes you back in and says things like ‘you’re our prisoner’ and ‘where are you going, you’re stuck here’ and ‘are you trying to meet your prince? he won’t ever get up THIS high’ and ‘get back inside before I get mad’. But you can pick up a vase of flowers, and you can swing it around. And the thing is all the guards are expecting the hero to be battling his way up, and all this one wimpy little guard at the top is posted to your room for is to push you back into your room, so you can smash him over the head because he’s just not expecting it, and then steal his weapons. And after that you find that the guards are always bigger and stronger than you—and they get bigger and stronger every level down—but you can generally manage to get the first shot in because they’re waiting for the hero, and you’re the princess. And maybe there’s puzzles and stuff too, but you have to solve them backwards, working your way along from end to start, because they’re all set up for the hero. And when you get the bottom and you have the fight of your life because the guards are massed up waiting for the hero, tons of them with awesome weapons and armor and spells and you think it’s the boss battle, but when they’re all dead and the final ground-level door is free to open the credits don’t roll.  And you realize there must be one more fight outside the doors, too, before you’re free, so you equip the best armor and weapons and potions you can find and go outside and you fight this one huge lone badass man on a badass horse in the sunlight. Then he’s finally defeated, and lying in the grass, and his horse is yours, and the credits still aren’t rolling. And you look at his corpse and you see he’s got a locket on, and in that locket is a picture of your face. 

And then you realize that that was the hero. 

And then the credits roll. 

what the fucking shit

someone who doesnt listen to nsp explain whats going on here

Jens Rushing (via accidentalambience)

good bands with ladies in them:

ADD UR FAVES i love ladies

the runaways, mixtapes

the sounds, versaemerge

dead sara, chumped, now now, mansions

the colourist (girl drummer + singer), bat for lashes, mother mother, plumtree (all young teen girls formed in the nineties very criminally underrated)

the naked and famous, misterwives, chvrches, candy hearts

the grumps fandom choir

if you like music and the game grumps, check out our new fan project! the plan is to get as many lovelies as possible to sing songs by the northern hues, skyhill, ninja sex party and starbomb. so if you like singing or can play an instrument, come sign up! it doesn’t matter how much experience you have, it’s all about having fun and making something cool that everyone can come together to enjoy.

it’s easy to get involved, just fill out this form HERE to tell us about yourself, and you can be apart of this amazing new project! but hurry, all registrations MUST be in by Monday September 7th at 11:59pm (BST) in order to be added. After that date, we’ll decide on which song to try first and start organising rehearsals. You have just one month to get involved if you want, so what are you waiting for?!

and don’t forget to also follow our blog to keep updated on the project!

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OKAY MY FRIENDS, LISTEN UP

DOES YOUR PHONE OR CAMERA OR ELECTRONIC DEVICE DIE SUPER QUICKLY ESPECIALLY AT THE WORST TIMES OR WHEN YOU NEED IT THE MOST? 

I HAVE A SOLUTION TO ALL OF YOUR PROBLEMS

THIS LITTLE FUCKER 

IT LITERALLY IS A LIFE SAVER. ITS SO SMALL. LIKE. THE SMALLEST PORTABLE BATTERY I HAVE EVER SEEN. AND IT CHARGES YOUR PHONE BACK TO 100% TWO. TIMES. 

ALL YOU DO IT CHARGE IT, WHICH TAKES 3 HOURS. JUST PLUG IT IN OVERNIGHT OR WHEN YOU’RE NOT USING IT. IT WILL CHARGE YOUR PHONE BACK TO 100% TWICE. 

THATS RIGHT. 

AND THATS NOT EVEN THE BEST PART.

IT ONLY COSTS $4.88 AT WALMART. FIVE. DOLLARS. FOR THIS THING. YOU DONT HAVE TO SPEND $90 ON SOME CHARGING CASE THAT BREAKS IN A WEEK. 

IT CAN FIT IN YOUR POCKET, YOUR PURSE, YOUR SHIRT, YOUR BAG, YOUR HAND. YOU NAME IT. ITS SO SMOL. 

AND IT  CAN BE YOURS. AND I PROMISE ITS THE BEST INVESTMENT YOU WILL EVER MAKE. 

JUST GO TO WALMART AND BUY IT FOR $4.88 AND IT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE. YOU’RE WELCOME IN ADVANCE.

REBLOG THIS TO HELP SOME FOLLOWERS WHO MAY HAVE LONG WORK DAYS, OR LONG DAYS OF TRAVELING, SCHOOL, SPORTS OR CONCERTS OR VACATION. OR EVEN JUST A DAY OUT. 

SUMMERHILL SCHOOL!!! ENGLAND!!!! 

My teacher told me about this in high school. As humans we have a natural thirst for knowledge. While naturally kids did their own thing for the first few weeks they eventually started going to class. It teaches them to want to go to class. You’re not forced to learn and because of that you want to learn.

THAT’S BRILLIANT 

It sounds stupid but it’s almost like reverse psychology. Kids hate people forcing them to go to school. But as soon as that is lifted, they suddenly want to. And it’s not surprising.

People like learning, people hate being forced to learn

This should be an example to every school around the world, i just think it’s brilliant!

Here’s the official trailer.

I hope this makes you excited for the full series (six 10-minute episodes), which is due to begin airing in October, online for free.

We’re still fundraising to finish post-production. Give if you can, and help us spread the word. Every view is an endorsement and a signal to potential platforms that there is a demand for queer & trans content.

Thanks! 

By the way, not only is Her Story about trans women, and stars two trans women, it was also co-written by one, and directed by another.

And this trailer was edited by yet another trans woman (the amazing Mari Walker), AND the music (”Got Monsters”) is by Mina Caputo, also a trans woman.

See what we can do when given the chance? :)