The Rest is Still Unwritten

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thespacegoat:

• Accidentally close a tab? Ctrl+Shift+T reopens it.
• Bananas release dopamine, eat them when you’re sad.
• CTRL+SHIFT+ESC is the one handed version of CTRL+ALT+DEL
• Don’t brush your teeth hard, it makes them sensitive and removes enamel.
• Don’t like spiders? Put citronella oil on your walls and they will not go there.
• Drink one glass of water for every alcoholic drink you have, you’ll get drunk without getting a hangover.
• Get clear ice cubes by boiling water before freezing it
• Heal paper cuts and immediately stop the pain with chapstick.
• If you accidentally write on your dry erase board with a permanent marker, scribble over it with a dry eraser marker to remove it.
• If your shoes smell, put them in the freezer overnight, it will kill the bacteria. 
• Make bug bites stop itching with a banana peel.
• Make a paper longer with 12-point text, but 14-point periods and commas.
• Need to get around a blocked website at work? Try replacing the http:// with https://
• Never send your resume as a word file (unless asked) Instead, print it to a pdf file, it’s much cleaner and professional looking.
• Pick a flavor of gum you don’t normally chew, and chew it while studying during a test.
• Place a piece of bread in a container with your homemade cookies and  they will stay soft.
• Put a dry towel into a dryer with wet clothes, they will dry faster.
• Put toothpaste on a pimple and it will dry out.
• Practise fake smiling in the mirror every day before going to work/school, you’ll genuinely start to feel happier.
• Rub canola/olive oil on knives before cutting onions, you won’t cry, alternatively chew gum and you won’t either.
• Short on time with a wrinkled dress shirt? Hang it up in the bathroom to steam it flat.
• The night before, place things you don’t want to forget the next morning on top of your shoes.
• Use hydrogen peroxide to remove blood stains from clothing.
• When cleaning windows use newspapers or coffee filters instead of paper towels, they will not leave streaks.
• When microwaving bread products/pizza put a glass of water in with it, it will keep your bread for going spongy.
• When you move into a new place you’re renting, take pictures of any and all damage, then post them on facebook (privately if preferred) so you can use the reference date as proof you didn’t do it.
• When searching plane tickets online delete your cookies prior, prices go up when you visit a site multiple times. <sma

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Oh Gosh I can’t take the cuteness!!!

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indigoshakti:

Damn Snoop..I see you…she could get it either way though…lol.

I don’t know how to feel about this….

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weareallafricans:

My favorite poet thus far. When i first discovered her on you tube I was mesmerized and captivated for hours literally. 

Sunni Patterson…she is truly amazing and her words are so powerful.

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gradientlair:

8 awesome Black women in political media. Gwen Ifill, Melissa Harris-Perry, Goldie Taylor, Tamron Hall, Anthea Butler, Donna Brazile, Zerlina Maxwell, and Joy Reid. They’re smart, educated, accomplished, and insightful. Some have previous media experience and writing/publishing experience as well as activist work. I appreciate their voices, whether their particular views on a topic matches mine or not—their voices are important.

Gwen Ifill, Melissa Harris-Perry and Tamron Hall have their own shows; Washington Week, The Melissa Harris-Perry Show and NewsNation, respectively. Donna Brazile is a CNN commentator and political strategist/analyst. Goldie Taylor frequents MSNBC shows for cultural criticism and political commentary. Anthea Butler is a frequent political analyst guest on The Melissa Harris-Perry Show and Joy Reid frequents MSNBC shows and was recently on an episode of Meet The Press.

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Smith, Barbara. “Introduction.” Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology. Ed. Barbara Smith. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2000. xxi-lviii. Print.

In this introduction, Barbara Smith disproves five myths that are told to black women to keep them from participating in the women’s movement: (1) The Black woman is already liberated, (2) Racism is the primary (or only) oppression Black women have to confront, (3) Feminism is nothing but man-hating, (4) Women’s issues are narrow, apolitical concerns. People of color need to deal with the “larger struggle,” and (5) Those feminists are nothing but Lesbians. She does this in order to argue that “Black feminism is, on every level, organic to the Black experience” (xxv). She asserts that systems of oppression are interlocking–we can’t fight sexism without considerations of race, and we can’t fight racism without considerations of gender. In order to create a successful women’s movement, then, we must learn to acknowledge our prejudices, negotiate our differences, and engage in open dialogue with one another.

• womanist - (according to Alice Walker) “A black feminist or feminist of color…Usually referring to outrageous, audacious, courageous or willful behavior” (xxvi).
• racial separatism – the refusal to deal with those of other races (generally those who oppress you). “Separatism as a strategy often takes a ‘to hell with it’ stance as opposed to a directly confrontational one. Instead of working to challenge the system and to transform it, many separatists wash their hands of it and the system continues on its merry way” (xliii).
• home – “a place to be ourselves,” generally of great importance “to people who are ostracized as racial outsiders in the public sphere” (liii).

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