Earlier in this pregnancy, I filled out my “Initial Health History” form for prenatal and birth care. You know: check the box if you’ve experienced severe headaches, diabetes, all sorts of things. After the usual “Emotional abuse,” “Physical abuse,” “Sexual abuse,” I got to this very interesting item: ”ANY unwanted/undesired physical or sexual contact.”
read the link. so spot on.
this is important.
(via robot-heart-politics)
No Strings Attached.
and i don’t hate it! lots of typical sexist romcom shit but its entertaining
i really really liked this movie. and Netflix thought I would only give it 2 stars, ha!
next on the list: Friends with Benefits! they’re really trying to make this “Justin Timberlake is an actor” thing happen and I’ve got my doubts…
Chrono-shredder – a poetic calendar device by artist Susanna Hertrich to capture the irrevocable loss of time, which can never be retrieved. (via)
“I might have tacos when I get home,” said East Haven, CT mayor Joe Maturo on Wednesday when asked what he was doing for the Latino community.
On Thursday, Mayor Maturo received 2,000 tacos.
The send-the-mayor-a-taco campaign, which took off via tweets, cellphone texts and social-media shares, was organized by Reform Immigration for America, a group that advocates comprehensive immigration reform.
A bulk order of 500 tacos was hand-delivered to the mayor’s office by members of Junta for Progressive Action, a Latino nonprofit in New Haven, Conn. Others texted in individual orders.
In a letter accompanying the bulk delivery, Junta for Progressive Action said:
“These are serious allegations against the state of civic affairs in your community – yet when asked what you personally would be doing to address racial discrimination in East Haven, you made a mockery of the crisis by suggesting that eating tacos is enough to help the Latino community in the wake of this tragedy.
Your subsequent apology isn’t enough to make up for allowing institutionalized racism in a police force and city government.”
[Photo: Dixon Jimenez, right, delivers tacos to Mayor Joseph Maturo Jr. Credit: Jessica Hill/AP]
so many reasons why this is upsetting! i guess he wasn’t technically lying but neither Witt nor Yale was forthcoming about the fact that his candidacy for the Rhodes was suspended when he said he’d rather play in The Game. real classy.
another highlight:
Connecticut law does not require colleges to report suspected sex offenses, and experts say the vast majority of campus sexual assaults are not reported, either to college authorities or to the police.
how refreshing!
i know that’s not a problem confined just to Yale, but damn it is an awful thing to realize that your college doesn’t have a responsibility to inform the authorities when you come forward and say you’ve been sexually assaulted. damn.
the company i work for laid off 700 people this week. 200 in my area and more across the country. something about a changing market for one of the products.
real life is tough, and i dunno how i’ve lucked out.
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- ralph waldo emerson (abridged)
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![pantslessprogressive:
“I might have tacos when I get home,” said East Haven, CT mayor Joe Maturo on Wednesday when asked what he was doing for the Latino community.
On Thursday, Mayor Maturo received 2,000 tacos.
From MSNBC:
The send-the-mayor-a-taco campaign, which took off via tweets, cellphone texts and social-media shares, was organized by Reform Immigration for America, a group that advocates comprehensive immigration reform.
A bulk order of 500 tacos was hand-delivered to the mayor’s office by members of Junta for Progressive Action, a Latino nonprofit in New Haven, Conn. Others texted in individual orders.
In a letter accompanying the bulk delivery, Junta for Progressive Action said:
“These are serious allegations against the state of civic affairs in your community – yet when asked what you personally would be doing to address racial discrimination in East Haven, you made a mockery of the crisis by suggesting that eating tacos is enough to help the Latino community in the wake of this tragedy.
Your subsequent apology isn’t enough to make up for allowing institutionalized racism in a police force and city government.”
[Photo: Dixon Jimenez, right, delivers tacos to Mayor Joseph Maturo Jr. Credit: Jessica Hill/AP]](http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyhif3VSJN1qzr73ro1_500.jpg)
