February 2011
125 posts
Well Liz and I got all settled in and then I got called out for the peer victim advocate team. I’m in the waiting room while the client has her kit done.
There’s an ice storm brewing so hopefully I don’t get stuck at the hospital.
Liz and I will answer questions tomorrow, if we haven’t all frozen to death.
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There’s a hella bad ice storm hitting Indiana right now, and Liz is coming over for hot chocolate and movies and general dicking around on the internet.
So ask me anything, followers, and Liz and I will write you a suitably snarky answer. Also it’s almost tmi tuesday, so there you go.
Ready, go!
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“Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should...”
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Andrea Dworkin (via katloaf)
Say what you will about Andrea Dworkin, but sometimes she’s spot on.
princeofablueboy asked: Ha that's awesome!
I have a question about the freshmeat clinic.
Is CFDD like drafting new members at the clinic or is it just to help people get more familiar with skating and derby?
I have a question about the freshmeat clinic.
Is CFDD like drafting new members at the clinic or is it just to help people get more familiar with skating and derby?
January 2011
130 posts
princeofablueboy asked: So one of my friends just sent me this video about derby zombies and I thought it was pretty sweet and that you should see it if you haven't already.lol.
Here's the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50_VenShOyo
Here's the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50_VenShOyo
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My top 7 tips for fresh meat →
derbygirl:
twinkletits:
1. Take off that garter-belt-tutu-thing and pay your fuckin’ dues. Lay track, keep score, haul water, stamp hands. There will be a time for semi-nudity and obnoxious self-promotion. And that time is after you’ve actually proven yourself on the track.
Amen. And once you’ve proven yourself on the track, you will actually have very little interest in the stripper-garb...
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STFU, Conservatives: I'm starting to get really... →
thehumorlessfeminist:
rabblevolunteer:
greenstate:
tiaramerchgirl:
…mainly because it seems a little too easy.
Instead of engaging with points of view that are challenging to yours (or just even working from a very different perspective), instead of looking within yourself to see how you’re…
THANK FUCKING HEAVENS. This shit needed to be said a while ago, and I am not nearly eloquent...
Anonymous asked: That would be Stef on the uke and A;ex dancing in the background.
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“Pace around the kitchen and say that you are unhappy.
But I love you, he will...”
– How from Self-Help: Stories by Lorrie Moore
I’m only a few stories in, but these stories are really heart breaking and beautiful.
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Jewel - I’m Sensitive
Please be careful with me...
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For the anon who asked me to post pictures of my...
Freshman year of high school. I went with my friend’s brother, mostly so that I could go to prom with all my older friends, and spent most of the night avoiding him. I see him out occasionally and he’s still claims (playfully, somewhat) to be offended by it. Sorry, Thomas. Also look at how tan I was, good lord.
Sophomore year, with my long-term boyfriend at the time. RIDICULOUS...
Today was ridiculously inconvenient in a number of ways.
One of which being, my phone (iphone, at&t service) has no service for calls or texts. Anywhere I went today, nothing. Blargh.
So, since I can’t get ahold of anyone I was supposed to hang out with tonight, staying in it is.
I’ll be online all night, so go ahead and ask me anything. Entertain me, Tumblr.
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“Do not flashlight heart. Do not risk what you cannot promise on me. Do not wear...”
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Carrie Rudzinski, “Elbows”
Tonight I think I’ll listen to some slam poetry and cut pictures out of magazines to collage my writing notebook.
The Whip: The Roller Derby Tumblr Listing has been... →
Sorry it took me so long to update, I often wait until a couple of requests gather up before I update it. Here is our newest version. I promise that one day I will go through each of this links to see if the tumblrs are still alive and to categorize better our listing, thanks for your patience.
Thanks for listing me! <3
God, this week. What is wrong with me?
I had to sit myself down and have a LOOK AT YOUR LIFE, LOOK AT YOUR CHOICES discussion with myself.
I wish that relating to other people in ways that are healthy was easy for me.
And that I had some vague semblance of personal boundaries.
And that I wasn’t so goddamn (self-)destructive.
It’s just, when the dust settles, I’m always the...
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Maiden America 35 point jam
thewhip:
Maiden America (She broke her own and Naptown’s record for most points scored in a jam by getting a 35 point jam! Oddly enough, last time she broke the record was vs Sioux Falls when she scored 28 points in a jam.)
Photo: Tom Klubens
Submitted by wompa
I was there for her 28 point jam against Sioux Falls. Definitely my favorite derby spectator moment ever. She’s a fantastic...
Liz: I know how you are, and you need to get your...
File this one under: cryptic advice Liz sometimes gives me.
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Today I feel like forgotten cups of tea gone cold...
fatzliqour asked: Yo. Tell me something I might find awesome.
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This is where I knew it was worth it.
mcdonaldcommaliz:
Shameless plug time cause it’s late and I have feelings about this.
I took a class last year about social media, and the objective was to create a site that others can participate in and contribute to. I created a site based on meaningful and important places for us. One place that’s important to me is the Grand Canyon. Why? I thought I’d hate it. Really. I went over fall...
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“Today marks the 38th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that...”
– President Obama’s statement on Roe v. Wade (via rabbleprochoice)
thehumorlessfeminist-deactivate asked: 1) The Beatles or The Rolling Stones?
2) If you HAD TO CHOOSE, which would you rather eat--cat poop or dog poop?
3) Am I weird?
4) What do you consider Tumblr famous?
aaaaaand 5) Do you wear socks to bed?
2) If you HAD TO CHOOSE, which would you rather eat--cat poop or dog poop?
3) Am I weird?
4) What do you consider Tumblr famous?
aaaaaand 5) Do you wear socks to bed?
thismakesmeanxious asked: followers. how does one get them?
i am bad at the internet. and/or popularity.
i am bad at the internet. and/or popularity.
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Why hello, new followers!
It seems many of you have found me through my pro-choice flyer.
If you liked that, you’re probably going to like the pictures I’m going to post of tomorrow’s demonstration. I don’t want to give too much away, but let’s just say there’s going to be a cardboard uterus involved.
Oh, and feel free to introduce yourselves, or ask me anything. Let’s say words...
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Send health care hypocrites the form to repeal... →
femmefeminist:
Fill out this form on Credo to send your rep a form to repeal his/her own health insurance.
Who would have the audacity to vote for repealing affordable health care for 32 million Americans while gladly accepting generous, federally subsidized insurance for themselves? 237 congressional health care hypocrites!
Call out this hypocrisy by sending your Representative who...
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“I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the...”
– —Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five
My creative writing prof read the passage containing this line aloud in class and I thought, oh god, I have that. Or at least I did Tuesday night. Leaving weepy incomprehensible voicemails was the name of the game, but it’s a game nobody wins.
But I...
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“The AP Stylebook dictates that journalists should always use a trans person’s...”
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Autostraddle — Kate Moss & Lea T’s LOVE Mag Cover Brings Out Media’s Inner Transphobe (via autostraddle)
Perfect perfect article from Rachel about being trans being the new “it thing” in fashion and how that sucks a bunch and the media coverage of it is astonishingly transphobic...
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I know I'm gay and I'm fine with it but I always...
autostraddle:
nothing is wrong with you. will you all please cut that out and paste that to your heartface? nothing nothing is wrong with you. nothing. so you know you’re gay and you’re fine with it, but also you read anti-gay things and feel like shit. i think we all do this in one way or another via reading any mainstream anything. sometimes i read magazines written for straight women who...
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“Women will know that white feminist activists have begun to confront racism in a...”
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bell hooks, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (via feminismistheshit)
<3
bell hooks was my first intro to theory (I read Feminism is for Everybody, then From Margin to Center) and her easily accessible prose will always have a special place in my heart.
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How You Shop When You Are Poor →
jemimaaslana:
elfstaranymore:
I had to put this behind a cut because it’s way long for Tumblr, but I really hope you’ll read it because I think it’s a very important post.
I started discussing this a little bit here, but I wanted to expand on the idea of how shopping on a very tight budget works, because obviously some people have no idea. I will add the caveat that this is how shopping was...
Anonymous asked: I'm a shy teenage girl who has very strong feminist leanings and opinions, but who can't express them properly because everyone around me seems to disregard women's issues. I want to make my voice heard and be involved in a feminist organisation or something but without the support of friends or family I don't know how to go about doing it. I feel like an outcast and a freak...
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