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8 year old girl of color gets a humiliating award from her teacher.

republiccitysanctuary:

seriouslyamerica:

ladyatheist:

dumbthingswhitepplsay:

This is how children of color are treated in schools, people, especially brown children. How will this child trust teachers actually care about her again? Huh? Tell me that.

The teacher tried to brush this shit off and say it was “just a joke.” Yeah… because humiliating a child in a classroom full of her peers is just fucking hilarious. I’m willing to put money on the fact that she’d never do this shit to a nice little white child.

Motherfucking Arizona.

After reading the story, I think both the teacher and the mother of the little girl are at fault here, and I’m surprised that no one is calling out the mother for not keeping tabs on her daughter’s school performance. She states in the article that she was not aware her daughter had a problem with homework, and that the girl had been enrolled in an after-school homework assistance program. She knows her daughter is enrolled in a homework assistance program yet she didn’t know ehr kid had a homework problem? Well which is it?

The teacher shouldn’t have singled out one of her students like that. There was a far more mature way of dealing with the problem, like taking the girl aside and have a private conversation with her about not turning in her homework. The academic progress of student is nobody’s business but the student’s and the parents of that student. The teacher should have kept it that way. If the teacher had such a problem with it, why not call the girl’s mother and discuss it with her?

The mother is wrong for not doing more to help her daughter get her homework done. My mother raised me and my sister as a single parent. She didn’t have any help from anyone and worked from 6 in the morning to 7 at night. She still made time to make sure my sister and I got all our homework done and even requested that my sister’s teacher send weekly reports about her school progress since she too had issues with turning in homework. If there was a problem, my mother took off from work even though she needed the money, and went up the school personally and discussed it with the teacher. I don’t understand parents who don’t keep up with their child’s school performance. As wrong as the teacher was, the mother should be ashamed of herself. She knows her daughter has a problem, she must know because the girl was enrolled in  homework assistance program. Yet, she didn’t take the necessary steps to ensure that the homework was getting done. That is lazy parenting and the girl suffered for it.

This is just another sad example of children suffering for adults who don’t do their jobs.

Pretty sure the mom was saying that her child’s teacher was too busy making up embarrassing awards for this student to tell her mom that the kid was falling behind and needed some extra help. Now that the mom knows, she enrolled the kid in homework help.

sooolondon:

FUCK MODESTY!: is that really self-care?

fromonesurvivortoanother:

femme-ily:

filipinafemme:

taking a day off does not automatically mean you’re taking a self-care day.

if the energy spent on that day off is negative, and if you spend the time beating yourself up about taking the day off, and if there isn’t active energy spent on taking care of yourself and building your self-love, it’s not a self-care day.

the only reason i’m taking issue with semantics like this is because taking that kind of day off but somehow mentally categorizing it as self-care

1. associates self-care with negative feelings
2. gives the impression that self-care just happens passively, rather than through active thought and action
3. causes you to begin internalizing the idea that self-care is something negative and selfish

sometimes you take a day, an afternoon, an hour off. that’s totally fine. but if it’s not spent builting yourself up and making you feel good, it’s not self-care! how we perceive and internalize concept changes our outlook, y’know?

self-care should always make you feel good. otherwise it’s just not self-care!

really really feeling this post. i spent a lot of the last year thinking that i was practicing “self care” when i was really just having a pity party. self care must be deliberately in the name of feeling good!

i need to remember this.

I have vaguely considered writing a thesis called “WHAT THE FUCK IS SELF-CARE?!?!”

Because I can turn self-care into a panic-inducing anxiety fest, like, fast.

[Image: A screen shot of a package tracking page showing a package leaving China. Two days later, it reaches Louisville, KY, the status is: “There is an inadequate description of the merchandise.” Then,
“UPS is processing shipment for future submission to the Food/Drug Admin and/or dept of AG PPQ.” Then,
“UPS has obtained documentation and submitted to Food & Drug Administration and/or department of AG/PPQ;awaiting response.” Then,
“This shipment is warehoused until it is released by Clearing Agency.”]

GUYS. HOW MANY TIMES DID SOMEONE HAVE TO OPEN THIS PACKAGE AND SAY, “YUP, IT’S A VIBRATOR?”

AND HOW MANY TIMES DID THEY TELL THE US GOVERNMENT THAT IT’S A VIBRATOR?

GUYSSSSSS. It took less time to get half-way around the world.

I’m pretty sure kimjongillookingatthings is what sold me on Tumblr. Like, oh. This is where the weirdos are.

[I want people to realize, it’s okay to make mistakes, it’s okay to fall down, get up. Look sick’ning, and make them EAT IT.]

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20 Questions for Kate Bornstein

I’d like them all to remember me as having been a good auntie, or a good teacher — a Hogwarts professor type, perhaps Sybill Trelawney. She taught divination but could never divine very much herself, except every now and then when it was important.
That’s what I hope all my books do for all my kids — shine a light on a future bright enough that they don’t want to kill themselves.

Fucking sobbing.

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UGHHHH. UGHHHH.

If you’re fat, and you hate your body for being fat, and you feel shame about your body being fat, and you want to be less fat because when you are less fat, you will be ready to feel good about your body, may I suggest to you that you may benefit from some dimensions of fat studies? Namely the part that is like “OMG, I totally get where you are coming from, it’s so hard to have a body when people are crapping all over you for trying to walk down the street, but I just want you to know that you don’t have to lose weight to be a worthwhile human being; you’re real and important today.”

I literally cannot even right now, crying, brain fog, the works. If you know what I’m referring to and disagree, please don’t bring it up right now and please understand my reasons for taking it to another site. Thanks.

[An absurdly hot Asian man, Godfrey Gao, wearing a loose-knit cardigan and silky top looking at the camera with his mouth slightly open.]

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pockyfox:

*dabs ‘67 Chevy Impala on wrist*

*sniffs*

SWEET JESUS HAVE MERCY

(Ok, ok- proper description? Spicy-earthy-musky. I can definitely pick out the gunpowder and graveyard dirt notes. The leather’s not very prominent but it’s definitely there, like an old worn leather jacket. Altogether it’s fucking delicious. If this is what a Winchester smells like, they need to get in my bed now.)

I’m going to need more information here.

I want to start a movement as a counterpart to the Health At Every Size movement called Fuck You, I’m Fat where people are fat and everyone else fucking deals with it.

[An image of Dove ClearTone deodorant, which “helps restore skin to its natural tone.”]

I would like to apologize to every woman I know if I have ever given you the impression your armpits are too dark.

jesus christ, how many ways can we give women to hate themselves?

Holy shit. This person creates their own wind.

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Don’t nod and smile unless you are happy and agree. —Dr. Melissa Harris-Perry (via fieldoflilys)
I don’t… can you really do that? And I’m going to eliminate some programs that I think are duplicative and unnecessary…(such as) Amtrak subsidies, subsidies to PBS, subsidies to the endowment for the arts, to the endowment for the humanities. I’ve laid out eliminating Obamacare…and…reducing the federal payroll, linking pay to government, government workers. —

New interview with Mitt Romney (via climateadaptation)

My real reaction was to shout “get away from that!”

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