“To be nobody-but-yourself – in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.”

- e.e. cummings

crying because harry’s most savage lines came when others had provoked or goaded him in some way and that’s a trait he gets from lily

not only that but their respective best lines were delivered to the same greasy potions prof, just 20 years apart

Yes!! How I wish we could read someone - mcgonagall for example, before offering a biscuit, saying “you have your mother’s…”

“eyes, yeah, I’ve been told that many times-”

“I was going to say your mother’s cheeky side. James was a troublemaker but how many times I’ve seen your mother delivering some cheeky answers for teachers”

“please tell me more about my mother”

“Carol falls down all the time, but she always gets back up — we say that about Captain America as well, but Captain America gets back up because it’s the right thing to do. Carol gets back up because ‘Fuck you.’“ - Kelly Sue DeConnick on Carol Danvers (x)

Black man who was denied the right to vote for half of his life lives to see his daughter become the first black mayor of his city

How can I reblog this a million times?  The 1% are master manipulators.

The existence of another poor person is not why you’re poor.

Difficult times may lie ahead but that doesn’t mean we cannot lose hope. #DAFightsBack is our answer to the need for joyful connection and resistance in these dark days. We’re stronger together than we are divided. Are you ready to join us? Link (x)

thrift for your weekend

Your right to abortion shouldn’t depend on your zip code. Despite the fact that 1 in 4 will have an abortion before age 45, accessing in-clinic abortion care in the United States is often difficult - if not impossible. With less than 1,000 abortion clinics left in the United States, it’s estimated that 90% of counties in the United States do not have access to abortion care.

Art by Liberal Jane Illustration

There’s a lot going on in the world right now, and sometimes it’s hard to know how to start difficult conversations with your friends. Luckily, there is always the mutual love of fandom to get the ball rolling. Our Black Panther Fandom Forward Toolkit is a wonderful resource for starting conversations about racial justice, immigrant justice, and colonialism.  

As children wait for their morning bus to school, photographer Greg Miller is there, too, capturing their solitude.

Miller says he used to see his daughter’s school day as “another lifetime,” beginning at the end of his driveway and ending on her return home. Now, he says, as he watches her bus disappear down the road, he hopes her life doesn’t end between those hours.

His recent series, Morning Bus, explores that terrible hope through capturing the quiet of children as they wait for their bus.

Where The Driveway Ends, Photographer Dad Sees Hopes And Fears

Photos by Greg Miller

— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables         (via listentothestories)

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True story: guys online are actually complaining that Captain Marvel doesn’t smile in the trailer.

Update: Brie Larson’s response:

“She who laughs last, laughs best.”

another study

dancing James and Sirius

i spent hella loooots of time making this look good and want to spend again, because it’s also in progress and i really want to finish it

Study shows Millennial Men do not think of women as their equals

A majority of millennial men failed to see women as equals, according to the study, which looked at how college biology students viewed their classmates’ intelligence and achievements, the Harvard Business Review reported.

Among the findings:

The National Institutes of Health researchers pointed out that female STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) majors drop out at significantly higher rates than their male counterparts.

“The reasons for this difference are complex, and one possible contributing factor is the social environment women experience in the classroom,” they wrote.

Still, scores of men are under the impression that they’ve become the target of reverse sexism. Conservative columnist John Hawkins ranted in Town Hall last year:

“Men have it rougher in America than most people realize. In part, that’s because they’re one of the few groups (along with white people, conservatives, and Christians) it’s cool to crap on at every opportunity. In case you haven’t noticed, there’s a nonstop assault on masculinity in America.”

But research has confirmed the reality of gender bias against women. A staggering 90 percent of women reported experiencing gender harassment in the workplace, a 2010 University of Michigan study found. The results suggest that such harassment had the purpose of driving women out of jobs and not the generally assumed motivation of trying to draw women into relationships.

“One could argue that, in these instances, ‘sexual harassment is used both to police and discipline the gender outlaw: the woman who dares to do a man’s job is made to pay,’” the researchers wrote, quoting an article by Katherine M. Franke, an associate professor of law at the University of Arizona College of Law.

As for millennial men specifically, they have been less accepting of female leaders than their older male counterparts, according to a 2014 survey of more than 2,000 adults residing in the United States, the Harvard Business Review reports.

Half of Millenial men said their careers would take priority over their partners’. 

Three-fourths of women, on the other hand, said their careers would be at least as important as their husbands’.

oh look its the shit women have been saying all the damn time and antifeminists stamp their feet and cry about

Yikes

Scientific studies confirming these issues aren’t new or rare yet said issues are still denied most fiercely by people who claim to just be “logical.”

quelle surprise