May 2013
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Captive Audience: The Music Business in America's...
May 9 2013, 8:45 AM ET by David Peisner Illustration by Michael Hirshon Until very recently the country’s incarcerated were still living in a world of Walkmans, radios, and cassette tapes. But finally, things are changing. SPIN goes behind bars to investigate how music makes its way inside prisons, who puts it there, and what it means to inmates.
May 23rd
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Illicit Nightclub in a Water Tower in Chelsea...
A trapdoor in the water tower opened when the guests approached. Thumping live music, candlelight, chatter and the sound of clinking glasses emerged, as well as a helping hand. Slide Show Inside was a round wooden space no bigger than a freight elevator, filled with about a dozen people sipping whiskey cocktails. Couples sat at five petite tables built into the cedar paneling. A young...
May 23rd
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sogandzakerhaghighi: “Agha Khan is quoted to having said, ‘If a father has two children, one a son and the other a daughter and if he can educate only one of them, such parents, if they were to consult me, I would advise them to educate the daughter first.’ Such a statement reflects the thinking that by educating a man one educates one individual and by educating a woman one educates a family.”
May 15th
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“If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out...”
– Aga Khan IV (via wikiquotes)
May 15th
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Resource: the Queer Ismaili  →
queermuslims: from the About page:  The Shia Ismaili Muslims are a community of ethnically and culturally diverse peoples living in over 25 countries around the world, united in their allegiance to His Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan (known to the Ismailis as Mawlana Hazar Imam) as the 49th hereditary Imam (spiritual leader), and direct descendant of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him and his...
May 15th
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Dr. Paul Farmer on Rwanda€™s Health Leap,... →
Dr. Paul Farmer, an infectious diseases expert and a medical anthropologist, is known worldwide for helping to bring quality healthcare to some of the most impoverished areas of the globe. More than 25 years ago, Farmer helped found the charity Partners in Health to provide free medical care in central Haiti. Today, Partners in Health teams up with local groups to treat people with HIV/AIDS,...
May 14th
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Scientists have unearthed a 600-year-old Chinese...
angryasiangirlsunited: queergiftedblack: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/03/130313131900.htm Scientists have unearthed a 600-year-old Chinese coin on the Kenyan island of Manda that shows trade existed between China and east Africa decades before European explorers set sail and changed the map of the world. (Credit: John Weinstein/The Field Museum) Free history class of the day! 
May 14th
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Japan mayor says wartime sex slaves necessary →
Toru Hashimoto’s remarks that soldiers needed prostitutes to “maintain discipline” during World War II spark anger. Toru Hashimoto’s remarks that soldiers needed prostitutes to “maintain discipline” during World War II spark anger.
May 14th
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May 12th
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Listencalgaries: Rolling Clouds - Paul Baribeau
May 11th
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May 8th
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Become Fluent in American Culture: This crazy... →
RE-BLOGGING FOR THIS ADORABLE PICTURE OF BABY ZUZU <3   Rochester misses you! 
May 7th
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May 6th
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Fuck Yeah, Poetry!: "You Bring Out The Mexican In... →
“You Bring Out The Mexican In Me” by Sandra Cisneros You bring out the Mexican in me. The hunkered thick dark spiral. The core of a heart howl. The bitter bile. The tequila lágrimas on Saturday all through next weekend Sunday. You are the one I’d let go the other loves for, surrender my one-woman house. Allow you red wine in bed, even with my vintage lace linens. Maybe. Maybe. For you. You bring...
May 3rd
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May 1st
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“Learn to use what you feel to move you toward action. Change, personal and...”
– Audre Lorde, “Commencement Address, Oberlin College, May 29, 1989” published for the first time in I am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde, from the Audre Lorde Papers, Spelman College Archives (via tgstonebutch)
May 1st
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April 2013
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“Hiphop listeners and creators at their best are really archivists of all music...”
– from an interview with mike finito who produced heems’ nehru jackets
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Up And Rise: Circles, violent circles, and... →
Read this.  Wise words.   upandrise: We experience terrible things, unimaginable things, things that are a slice of something larger. The terrible things are sliced out of other things, more violent things, more corrupt things carried out by entire institutions, by people who are voted into power, by people who have power, by people…
Apr 29th
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Apr 23rd
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“You guys know about vampires? … You know, vampires have no reflections in a...”
– Junot Diaz 
Apr 23rd
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Apr 23rd
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Mexicans Begin Jogging by Gary Soto
At the factory I worked In the fleck of rubber, under the press Of an oven yellow with flame, Until the border patrol opened  Their vans and my boss waved for us to run. “Over the fence, Soto,” he shouted, And I shouted that I was American. “No time for lies,” he said, and pressed A dollar in my palm, hurrying me Through the black door. Since I was on his time, I ran And became the wag to a...
Apr 22nd
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bclikesyou: secret song! dope
Apr 22nd
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Apr 20th
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Spent my Thursday night at the Bug Jar, glad I got to see Declan play before he heads off on tour.  Follow his tumblr, and cop the album!  Safe travels dude! declanryanmusic: Huge thanks to everyone who came out to the show last night. We had a blast. Also, update! The Richmond and Roanoke shows have switched dates. The venues are the same, but we’re now doing Roanoke on Friday 4/26 and...
Apr 20th
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Apr 15th
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Accidental Racism is still Racism by Alykhan Alani...
 Accidental Racism, Pop Culture, and White Supremacy by Alykhan Alani (link to this article: bit.ly/16NGEi8 ) [ Streaming Link to the song & Link to the lyrics ] By now, I am sure you’ve heard the new country-pop record that’s just been released by country heavyweight Brad Paisley, featuring one of hip-hop’s most venerable dookie-chain rocking, Kangol-cap wearing hip-hop icons who...
Apr 9th
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March 2013
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“For a long time I grew up understanding the urgency for women’s rights without...”
– - Ayesha A. Siddiqi What Got Us Into Feminism On the anniversary of Betty Friedan’s Feminine Mystique Hazlitt Mag asked a wonderfully diverse range of women what got them into feminism. The above is my answer, click through for beautiful responses from the others (via pushinghoopswithsticks)
Mar 31st
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February 2013
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January 2013
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nehru jackets: RIDE THE WAVES →
nehrujackets: And so we grew up sort of outside the realm of all the protections that that society chose to offer its members. So from a very young age, one was aware of the fact that you were not going to be given those protections. You had to constantly try to understand what was going on and how to survive…
Jan 7th
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“When you look at Roots, nothing about it rings true in the storytelling, and...”
– #YIKES
Jan 7th
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