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A year in selfies.

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2 SECONDS TO REBLOG COULD SAVE A LIFE

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Ghazal, an Indian writer and aspiring filmmaker, shares her experience of transitioning on Satyamev Jayate

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Okay everyone’s doin this and so I kind of want to now. 

So here’s a year of selfies from 2014. :3

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Surprisingly enough (Cincinnati tends be rather conservative) Leelah Alcorn was front page news in the Enquirer today. She was not misnamed or misgendered. The article was very sympathetic and included trans- and suicide prevention resources.

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In light of the news about Leelah Alcorn, I wanted to make this. From Peshawar to Israel and Palestine to Ferguson and beyond, let’s carry the memory on of those we lost. 

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I used to watch Meerkat Manor. Avidly. I was dead serious about those meerkats. I shipped meerkats.

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because i know how good tumblr is at raising awareness, i’m putting up a case. i haven’t seen much about tuğçe albayrak on tumblr recently however, and believe her case needs to be heard. she was a close friend of my cousins, and was there for her through a rough time. for privacy reasons, this is all i will disclose. 

this is tuğçe albayrak.

she was a german student of turkish decedent who aspired to be an english elementary school teacher.

on the morning of the 15th november 2014, tuğçe albayrak was fatally beaten in a parking lot outside a mcdonalds restaurant. 

the incident happened in offenbach, germany.

why?

tuğçe intervened in a situation between three men and two women, aged 13 and 16, after hearing the women screaming in a toilet.

she was followed to her car and sustained fatal head injuries by an eighteen year old man identified as sanel m by german police.

on the 28th november, tuğçe’s parents decided to turn off her life support machine after she was proclaimed brain dead. she died on her 23rd birthday.

this woman was violently beaten to death for helping two girls being harassed. don’t tell me women have ‘nothing to be scared about.’

please, tuğçe’s case deserves to be known. she’s a hero. 

danke tuğçe.

r.i.p angel.

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i’ve been seeing a lot of posts about Rooney Mara as Tiger Lily and that’s a really terrible thing, so i’d like to bring attention to NBC’s Peter Pan Live, which seems like a really awesome thing and airs December 4th

NBC actually actively sought out Native American actresses to play Tiger Lily and cast Alanna Saunders of Cherokee descent for the role, which is a lot better than what Pan is doing with casting Rooney Mara

and it looks like just a really enjoyable production?? i mean, it’s a musical that went with the stage tradition of casting a woman as Peter Pan that also stars Christopher Walken as Captain Hook (Christopher Walken?? in a musical???? as a flamboyant pirate??????) and an actual Native American girl playing Tiger Lily

please give this the ratings it deserves, please watch this production, it looks to be so much better than Pan could ever hope to be

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stage 1 of friendship: what’s up ily so much!

stage 2 of friendship: oh god i hope i’m not being too clingy or bothering them

stage 3 of friendship: hey dickhead fucking answer me

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Are Nasty Comments Like These Keeping Women Out Of Science?

"It’s death by a thousand cuts. Every day you’re faced with some comment, some snide remark, some inability to get a name on a research paper. And with an accumulation of those experiences, women tend to walk with their feet."

Go here to read more infuriating stories about women in science. 

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Guys, but what about politically active vampires.

"Bitch I’ve been fighting for this shit for 200 fucking years, you think you know more than me?"

"I’ve been with my wife for 173 years and we’re ruining marriage?”

"This was bullshit when I was born and it’s just as bullshit now."

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