White privilege is your history being taught as a core class and mine being taught as an elective.
please let them know.
white privilege is your history being taught as a core class, and mine being banned because it would promote “the overthrow of the U.S. government, foster racial resentment, and advocate ethnic solidarity.”
(via 21leblog)
Last month, the National Film Board of Canada launched Indigenous cinema, an extensive online library of over 200 films by Indigenous directors — part of a three-year Indigenous Action Plan to “redefine” the NFB’s relationship with Indigenous peoples.
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“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we’re reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”— Franz Kafka
The teeth arrangement of the lamprea marina sea creature follow the fibonacci growth sequence with overlapping spirals.
(Source: colineta.com, via geometrymatters)
We don’t know how much the epic flooding from Tropical Storm Harvey in Texas has been influenced by human pollution of the atmosphere, but the storm has likely been worse than it would’ve been generations ago, before we started pumping massive amounts of carbon into the air.
“Harvey was almost certainly more intense than it would have been in the absence of human-caused [global] warming,” writes leading atmospheric scientist Michael Mann, of Penn State University.
(via dearcarlsagan)
14 girls have been reported as missing in the last 24 hours in DC.This is alarming. What is not surprising me is that I cannot find any articles by major news media about this.
Please reblog and let’s get these girls home.
(Source: brownnesscrew, via artbabygrace)
My thoughts are with the innocent victims in #Aleppo who are currently enduring a full blown genocidal war. I’m extremely angry to see the media blackout that’s happening with the utter lack of coverage of this situation. Imagine if this were your home ?
When the Paris attacks happened, the Western world had a social media meltdown. Where is the outcry for Aleppo ? Genocide is happening as we speak… where’s the corny Facebook flag filters ? Where is the call to arms ? If this were happening in a Eurocentric city it would be all we would be seeing on the news… all we’d be reading about in our feeds. It would be impossible to ignore.
This type of media blackout/selective coverage is its own form of terrorism & it’s up to us to call it out when we see it. Think about this media blackout we’re inside of, and how much other information we are being shielded from without even knowing it. If the media isn’t going to cover these stories, it’s up to us to shed light on the darkness.
(via artbabygrace)