The rules are simple: Read, Write, or Study

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde (link updated 1/14)

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Babies are strapped into airplane seats enroute to LAX during “Operation Babylift” with airlifted orphans from Vietnam to the US. April 12, 1975.

Operation Reunite is an amazing nonprofit run by Babylift victims which seeks to use DNA testing to find and reconnect with their real families back home in Vietnam.

Throughout Travels Into the Inland Parts of Africa: Containing a Description of the Several Nations for the Space of Six Hundred Miles Up the River Gambia (1738). Original from the Bavarian State Library. Digitized May 4, 2010.

Survivors of sexual assault have enough things to contend with - preventing an unintended pregnancy shouldn’t have to be one of them. Thanks to Senator Patty Murray who recently introduced a bill to make sure that emergency room staff provide education to survivors about emergency contraception and make it available to them.

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TUESDAY 8/19: Ferguson PD presented a table full of fabricated evidence at this morning’s press conference - allegedly seized from protestors and stopped cars. The Colt 45 Molotov with a white bandana was the crowning glory, turns out you can’t even buy glass 40’s in Missouri. Stay classy, FPD

Ladies and Gentleman, the man that will be in history books. He was throwing the burning tear gas. Not to the cops but away from the children protesting. In his American Shirt and bag of chips. Check his twitter.

“Not to the cops but away from the children protesting”

If You’ve Ever Looked At A Person Who Is Trans And Thought ‘Wow, I Can Barely Tell,’ Watch This.

Untitled, 2012.