February 2012
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January 2012
46 posts
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Feminist Disney: As sad as it sounds, I’m... →
feministdisney:
As sad as it sounds, I’m preparing myself for the possibility that the US will go back on roe v. wade. Which will just be bad for all sides. Like… unless you find a way to radically rewrite our constitution so that no one can do internet searches, self-abortions are going to skyrocket 5000%. And…
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my thoughts while watching "Whip It":
A neophyte skater makes the team after her first tryout? Oh, please, Austin’s gotta have a more organized league than that.
Chyeah, like she’d have really gotten away with not using a mouth guard until her very first bout.
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My relationship with L.A.: an update
I hate Los Angeles a lot less now! Yay, roller derby! Yay, public transit! Huzzah! Let’s go do cool things in the city!
ETA: I have taken public transit twelve times in the ten days I’ve been back at school and I have a TAP card now and everything so please kindly fuck off William Hellwarth thank you very much
I hate Los Angeles
but I would hate it less if I felt like I had a life in L.A. beyond the confines of the USC area. Does anybody know of cool stuff to do (whether geared toward creative types or not) during which I might meet other nifty Angelenos aged 18-25?
I basically just want to found Borderline Films-meets-Daria. Who’s d?
The Riot: Why The Washington Post's new lady blog... →
psychotropicpolitics:
jessicavalenti:
Here’s the thing: I will always want more women’s (and feminist) voices in the mainstream media, particularly in politics. There’s an overwhelming byline gender gap and that needs to change. But The Washington Post’s new lady blog, “She the People,” is not a step in…
Ugh this is the worst
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I never want to leave New York ever
maybe I can write a script about how badly I don’t want to leave New York and it can be my Tiny Furniture and make me famous
only unlike Tiny Furniture it wouldn’t suck
“Boys are told from a young age that whatever they do will be excused under the...”
– http://yesmeansyesblog.wordpress.com/2011/01/03/the-nonexistent-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-consequences-of-enthusiastic-consent/ (via zoemelisa)
Truth.
(via edman)
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cold-call life until it agrees to meet you for...
“My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures,...”
– Mary Wollstonecraft in Vindication of the Rights of Women (via transcendhate)
Happy New Year.
Are we still doing New Year’s resolutions, or is that passé these days? Whatevs, here are mine.
finish one screenplay and one TV spec (in addition to any and all writing I do for school)
direct a short film
put together a pitch packet for the vidjeegame I started conceptualizing last semester
TOTSIE HIGGINS
be able to bench press a bear or the approximate modern-urban-world equivalent
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