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Retor Vintage Motivational Quotes by Vintage Vectors Studio

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Join #MyInternetIs and tweet about why Net Neutrality and internet freedom is important! July 31 at 12PM EST/9AM PST

Vanessa Teck from projectavaorg, Reappropriate, and I will be trying to trend #MyInternetIs on Thursday at 9AM PST/12PM EST to discuss why Net Neutrality and a free internet is important. We’ll be tweeting with the hashtag #MyInternetIs!

ie #MyInternetIs a free library on all the information I was never taught in schools.

#MyInternetIs an open discussion space where I learn and grow from folks I would have otherwise never met.

We’d love for you all to join us!

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From Shit People Say to People with Disabilities

I’ve noticed that ableism tends to be one of the lesser discussed isms on Tumblr, particularly in regard to physical/visible disabilities. While we usually associate the isms with hate and discrimination, ableism can be much harder to pinpoint because a lot of it is seen as attempts to help or empathize with disabled people.

A few tips:

Noticing that someone is disabled or thinking that they might have a disability is not an open invitation to interrogate them.

Similarly, it’s not okay to allow your children to endlessly ask us questions. We are not a convenient way to “teach them diversity” on the fly. We are not obligated to educate anyone. I don’t care if you think it’s cute or precocious, it’s rude and very awkward.

Please avoid making any connection between disability and religion. It’s almost always offensive, no matter what your faith. Telling me that I can be healed through prayer also automatically assumes that I want or need my life to be changed.

Do not appropriate someone else’s experiences as a way of showing solidarity with their community. Being injured for a few weeks is not the same as being disabled. If you really wanted to be my ally, you wouldn’t need to find a way to shoehorn yourself into my perspective to get yourself to care.

I don’t really want to be your inspiration if your definition of inspiration is “thanks for making me feel better about my life because I think your life looks incredibly shitty by comparison.” 

On that note, don’t make presumptions about our quality of life. When people say things like “I couldn’t live like that,” you’re basically implying that you would rather be dead than disabled. That doesn’t feel very good.

Physical disability does not always indicate cognitive delays. Even if the individual in question does happen to have cognitive disabilities, what gives you the authority to determine how much they’re able to process and understand? Talk to a disabled person the same way you would talk to any other person.

If you’re that fascinated with how and whether or not we can have sex, why don’t you find out for yourself? (With consent, of course) ;)

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In the end, who do we mean by “us”? For me, if I choose to belong to a coalition, a community, an “us,” it must mean, we who remember the past; we who care about the future; we who are compassionate, generous, patient, and committed deeply to the welfare of others; we who agree that naming ourselves as an “us” is not an end, but a beginning.

Vijay Iyer, “Complicity With Excess” (via 18mr)

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The Last Semester Before Graduation

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Taking inspiration from fruity prints!

Shop our assortment of freshly picked styles here.

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I begin this post hesitant and a little scared. Wait, me? Scared? I know I flaunt how I’m a fierce and fearless feminist online, especially here and on Angry Asian Girls United, but I’m hoping most of you realize there’s a human behind this blog. I haven’t been very active in the past few months,...

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Joining a cappella was the best thing to ever happen to me.

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Student Affairs- Empowering and Supporting Students Daily

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If you only listen to one thing today, let it be this. A message from Desmond Tutu that we can’t hear enough in this life.

There’s no question about the reality of evil, of injustice, of suffering, but at the center of this existence is a heart beating with love.

That you and I and all of us are incredible. I mean, we really are remarkable things. That we are, as a matter of fact, made for goodness.