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homoarigato:

siriuslydeep:

genderqueer:

Argentina makes sex-change surgery a legal right

An article in English about Argentina’s new gender identity bill, passed earlier tonight.

“Any adult will now be able to officially change his or her gender, image and birth name without having to get approval from doctors or judges — and without having to undergo physical changes beforehand, as many U.S. jurisdictions require.”

YES!

I will continue to reblog news about this and not blog about Obamaaaaa.

guess what the only thing I’m going to reblog all damn day is

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2:53 pm  •  10 May 2012  •  814 notes

“You know, Malia and Sasha, they have friends whose parents are same-sex couples. There have been times where Michelle and I have been sitting around the dinner table and we’re talking about their friends and their parents and Malia and Sasha, it wouldn’t dawn on them that somehow their friends’ parents would be treated differently. It doesn’t make sense to them and frankly, that’s the kind of thing that prompts a change in perspective.”

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Our President, ladies and gents. (via pantslessprogressive).

Reminds me of another leader. 

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#BlackGirlsAreFromTheFuture #BlackGirlsChangeTheWorld

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10:23 pm  •  9 May 2012  •  1,209 notes

afternoonsnoozebutton:

Hillary, my favorite HBIC, addresses the media coverage of photos taken of her in Bangladesh with glasses and without makeup. 

“I feel so relieved to be at the stage I’m at in my life right now. Because you know if I want to wear my glasses I’m wearing my glasses. If I want to wear my hair back I’m pulling my hair back. You know at some point it’s just not something that deserves a lot of time and attention. And if others want to worry about it, I let them do the worrying for a change.”

tl;dr I was too busy running the world to put mascara on today. Deal with it.

Or, in the style of Drake: “Pantsuit, hair down, chilling with no makeup on./That’s when you’re the prettiest, I hope that you don’t take it wrong.”

11:41 am  •  9 May 2012  •  589 notes

“April ended and May came along, but May was even worse than April. In the deepening spring of May, I had no choice but to recognize the trembling of my heart. It usually happened as the sun was going down. In the pale evening gloom, when the soft fragrance of magnolias hung in the air, my heart would swell without warning, and tremble, and lurch with a stab of pain. I would try clamping my eyes shut and gritting my teeth, and wait for it to pass. And it would pass….but slowly, taking its own time, and leaving a dull ache behind.”

— Haruki Murakami. Norwegian Wood. (via afternoonsnoozebutton)

11:38 am  •  9 May 2012  •  71 notes

It’s nice to see where exactly I quit caring about statistics.

11:45 pm  •  3 May 2012

inothernews:

mightyflynn:

Baseball Has Been Very, Very Good to Me: The Minnie Minoso Story

Kickstarter

ABOUT THIS PROJECT

Orestes Saturnino Armas Arietta (Minnie) Minoso … A hero to generations of baseball fans and thousands of others:

Born in Cuba, he’s 89+ and going strong. Like Jackie Robinson, Minoso was a baseball pioneer as the first Black Latin American star in the major leagues. Minnie broke the color line and was the first Black to wear a uniform in Chicago in 1951. The only player ever in professional ball to play in 7 different decades, he was an 8-time All Star, and had a lifetime .298 average. He missed being elected to Baseball Hall of Fame by three votes in December, 2011.

No documentary has ever been made about Minnie Minoso. He’s still sharp and active as an ambassador for the White Sox. NOW is the time to recognize his lifetime achievements. 

More than a year in production, we need money now to finish the documentary. The only way Minnie’s story can be told is with your contribution.

I have produced more than 500 documentary programs and have won 4 Emmy awards and many other prizes. Nobody has commissioned this one—I just know we have to finish it. I’ve been shooting videos with Minnie since 1976.  This documentary is candid, personal, and uses footage that no one else in the world could have.  

Wow.  If you love baseball and want to help tell the world a great baseball story, let’s help kick-start this documentary, y’all.

10:44 pm  •  3 May 2012  •  129 notes

skylineprophet:

I’m tired of seeing posts about people who are allegedly transphobic because they won’t date trans* people. I don’t particularly want to have sex with men, but does that make me homophobic? No. Let people like what they like, and unless they’re being dicks about it, let…

10:43 pm  •  3 May 2012  •  11 notes

“One of the big deals that ExxonMobil has announced in the past year involves access to the Russian Arctic, where it is partnered with a Russian firm to access many billions of dollars worth of reserves involving big investments ExxonMobil would make north of the Arctic Circle. Why is that oil accessible? It’s because sea ice is melting in the Arctic. Global warming may, in fact, unlock enormous opportunities for oil companies.”

— As ExxonMobil attacked global warming publicly, geologists working within ExxonMobil were examining how a warmer Earth — resulting from global warming — could create new business opportunities for ExxonMobil. (via nprfreshair)

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10:40 pm  •  3 May 2012  •  400 notes

tobey:

twodollars:

Can I just say how excited I am about an upcoming film starring Idris Elba, Michael K. Williams, Giancarlo Esposito, and Erykah Badu? There is no way this won’t be amazing.

Shooting will begin soon on what promises to be the okayplayer answer to a spaghetti western epic They Die By Dawn, a black cowboy opera conceived and directed by Jeymes Samuel AKA The Bullitts–maker of Jay Elec beats and writer of Estelle songs, in addition to his own prolific musical and cinematic output. The film is based on the real lives of four African American cowboys and the all-star, all-black ensemble cast is slated to includeThe Wire co-stars Idris Elba and Michael K. Williams as well as Giancarlo Esposito, Rosario Dawson and Erykah Badu! Filming begins in early May on location at the famous western town Melody Ranch in L.A. and I’m told some more big names will be confirmed in the next few days.

yesyesyesyesyes!!

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9:43 pm  •  1 May 2012  •  768 notes

“

We’ve been hearing a lot about the war on women, which is real enough. But there’s also a war on the young, which is just as real even if it’s better disguised. And it’s doing immense harm, not just to the young, but to the nation’s future.

Let’s start with some advice Mitt Romney gave to college students during an appearance last week. After denouncing President Obama’s “divisiveness,” the candidate told his audience, “Take a shot, go for it, take a risk, get the education, borrow money if you have to from your parents, start a business.”

The first thing you notice here is, of course, the Romney touch — the distinctive lack of empathy for those who weren’t born into affluent families, who can’t rely on the Bank of Mom and Dad to finance their ambitions. But the rest of the remark is just as bad in its own way.

I mean, “get the education”? And pay for it how? Tuition at public colleges and universities has soared, in part thanks to sharp reductions in state aid. Mr. Romney isn’t proposing anything that would fix that; he is, however, a strong supporter of the Ryan budget plan, which would drastically cut federal student aid, causing roughly a million students to lose their Pell grants.

So how, exactly, are young people from cash-strapped families supposed to “get the education”? Back in March Mr. Romney had the answer: Find the college “that has a little lower price where you can get a good education.” Good luck with that. But I guess it’s divisive to point out that Mr. Romney’s prescriptions are useless for Americans who weren’t born with his advantages.

… What should we do to help America’s young? Basically, the opposite of what Mr. Romney and his friends want. We should be expanding student aid, not slashing it. And we should reverse the de facto austerity policies that are holding back the U.S. economy — the unprecedented cutbacks at the state and local level, which have been hitting education especially hard.

Yes, such a policy reversal would cost money. But refusing to spend that money is foolish and shortsighted even in purely fiscal terms. Remember, the young aren’t just America’s future; they’re the future of the tax base, too.

A mind is a terrible thing to waste; wasting the minds of a whole generation is even more terrible. Let’s stop doing it.

”

—

Paul Krugman, The New York Times, “Wasting Our Minds.”

Go read the whole damned thing.

5:24 pm  •  1 May 2012  •  5,682 notes