If your critiques of monsanto dont include consideration for poor folks who cant afford whole foods and poor folks who have to spray monsanto crops you can miss me!
18/6/2013
28 notes
This interactive map visually plots global outbreaks of measles, mumps, whooping cough, polio, rubella, and other diseases that are easily preventable by inexpensive and effective vaccines. The Global Health Program at the Council on Foreign Relations has been tracking news reports on these outbreaks since the fall of 2008. This project aims to promote awareness of a global health problem that is easily preventable.
This post was reblogged from Public Health.
17/6/2013
15,064 notes
Quick, messy graphic to explain a concept that seems obvious to me:
We shouldn’t be helping women because they’re related to someone else. We shouldn’t be helping women because someone else cares about them. We should be helping women because they are people.
We should be helping women for their own sake.
Why is that a hard concept for people to grasp?
This post was reblogged from useless imagistic bullshit.
7:21
6,623 notes
“You can totally be a feminist who has insecurities. Feminism isn’t about pretending we all feel like Wonder Woman, it’s about being honest when we don’t, and having the conversation on why that is.”
— Tavi Gevinson (via virginite)
This post was reblogged from Starry Dynamo in the Machinery of Night.
13/6/2013
37,561 notes
(Source: pleasestopbeingsad)
This post was reblogged from Let's Talk About ED.
7:25
139 notes
Neither my mother nor I can remember which of us stitched this. Either way, it was at least 25 years ago. Subversive cross stitch before it was even a thing.
This post was reblogged from Cajun Mama.
09/6/2013
410 notes
This post was reblogged from tiara of barbie doll heads.
6:26
2,614 notes
if there is one thing radicals/progressives/liberals have failed to get right in the new age
its the notion of boycotts
you wanna know why the bus boycotts of the civil rights movement were so successful?
because an alternative black run transportation system was created for those who couldn’t walk to work or whatever they had to go
they didn’t just tell people “oh the bus enforces racist policies so don’t take it and FUCK if you can’t get to work on time or where you need to be!”
they said “hey you’re paying to get on the bus and not even being given a seat let alone being ejected if a white passenger needs your seat. here’s a potentially better alternative where you pay to sit down and get to where you need to go”
all this “boycott Target, Walmart, Monsanto owned companies” comes from a notion of boycott located in the politic of privileged white people
and that’s why they are largely unsuccessful
its why Obama just gave Monsanto the green light to commit even more fuckery to your food
its the reason why cooperation are considered people
its the reason why Walmart is allowed to usurp safety and labor regulations in their factories, and underpay their American workers
because you say “don’t spend your money there” and that’s the end of the story
you expect people to locate their survival in a politic of “abstaining from unethical choices”
and then from there those unethical choices are somehow supposed to magically disappear. when really only a small percentage of people are able to boycott so many things
there wouldn’t be a movement located around the “99%” if 99% of people could really afford to stop shopping at the unethical places and stop buying the unethical brands
good luck with your hocus pocus activist logic
hocus pocus lol. but this shit is hella real.
It’s the fact that people ignore that the Civil Rights Movement would involve months of planning and prepping before hand - alternate methods to get to work/school, lawyers to press the demands for change of laws, etc.
But all you see is the marches and protests. The “exciting” part. Which is why a lot of modern activism suffers from lots of effort for little payoff. (There’s also a good portion of anti-blackness in the unwillingness to pay attention to the level of intelligence and planning that the CR movement had to do and to talk to people who were involved).
Yep. To repeat one of my favorite refrains: the meaningful work isn’t glamorous, it’s gritty and everyday.
This post was reblogged from tiara of barbie doll heads.
08/6/2013
13,463 notes
“The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea.”
— Isak Dinesen (via valleybythesea)
← Older Entries Page 1 of 208
