January 2012
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“While minor offences such as soliciting are still pursued, the police shifted...”
– The Guardian: Merseyside police: ‘Sex workers are vulnerable. We want to protect them’ (via sexworkerproblems)
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In Italy, you basically cannot be raped if you're... →
faineemae:
alwaysdream:
“The Supreme Court of Appeal in Rome on Wednesday overturned a rape conviction, saying that the supposed victim must have agreed to sex because her jeans could not have been removed without her consent”
Victim blaming and slut-shaming need to come to and end. Now.
Basically, the argument is that “Jeans are too difficult to take off, therefore a woman obviously had...
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I FEEL LIKE I MISSED SOME KIND OF CRUCIAL MEETING WHERE THIS WAS ALL EXPLAINED, NEARLY EVERYONE ELSE SEEMS TO HAVE ATTENDED AND I’M LEFT STANDING IN THE MIDDLE OF A GOD AWFUL CLUB FULL OF TWELVE YEAR OLDS WITH NOISE AND DOUBT PUNCHING ME IN THE CHEST QUESTIONING WHAT THE POINT OF ANYTHING IS. I DON’T FEEL SORRY FOR MYSELF, I JUST FEEL DEEPLY CONFUSED, WAITING FOR THINGS THAT NEVER HAPPEN,...
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“The Sciences Sing a Lullaby” by Albert Goldbrath
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Physics says: go to sleep. Of course you’re tired. Every atom in you has been dancing the shimmy in silver shoes nonstop from mitosis to now. Quit tapping your feet. They’ll dance inside themselves without you. Go to sleep. Geology says: it will be all right. Slow inch by inch America is giving itself to the ocean. Go to sleep. Let darkness lap at your sides. Give darkness an inch. You...
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finished my essay a whole three hours before the...
“There’s a plane leaving for anywhere you want right now, and in an hour, and in...”
– Sick Sad World (via bloodisthenewblackk)
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Interviewer: How are you?
Thom: Yes.
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“Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator; but among...”
– W.H. Auden (via wolflarsen)
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BBC News - iPad apps revolutionising autism... →
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