零 (ling)/30s (THEY/THEM/佢)
art tag: #a pile of bread
twitterart bloginsp blogao3

supey

remember: if you’re attending a school that gives you a .edu email address, you can upgrade your amazon.com account to prime for free by going on and choosing the college/student membership. that means you get the prime 2-day shipping and even some textbook discounts (not to mention AFAIK you enjoy the amazon instant access for free for the duration of your edu email being active)

Anonymous sent
hey i just saw that there's more stuff at your s6 but i wanted to ask if you could maybe make that tenzo print also available as a phone case/skin?

yup, done!!

baeddelshinsgirl:
“ thinksquad:
“ Welcome to Alabama, the state of the never-ending seat belt ticket.
Hali Wood is 17. She’s applied to work at several grocery stores in her home town of Columbiana, but none are hiring. A few months back, cops...
thinksquad

Welcome to Alabama, the state of the never-ending seat belt ticket.

Hali Wood is 17. She’s applied to work at several grocery stores in her home town of Columbiana, but none are hiring. A few months back, cops ticketed Hali for not wearing a seat belt. The fine: $41. Hali has paid $41 and then some, but she’s still hundreds of dollars in debt. Why? Because the court contracts with JCS, a for-profit probation company that forces Hali to choose between paying their exorbitant fees or going to jail.

Here’s how the scheme works:
Borrowing from the payday lender playbook, companies like JCS often sign contracts in cities and counties strapped for cash. For the county, the deal seems like a sweet one: The company will collect outstanding court debts for free and make all their profits from charging probationers fees. But the problem is that many of these people were put on probation because they were too poor to pay their fine in the first place and for them, the additional fees are huge. People find themselves scrambling for money they don’t have and forgoing basic necessities to avoid being thrown behind bars for missing a payment. The impact on communities, especially low-income communities of color, is devastating.

- See more at: http://thecontributor.com/civil-rights/alabama-poor-teenager-being-charged-85-percent-interest-41-seat-belt-ticket-thanks#sthash.Rl90z24g.dpuf

baeddelshinsgirl

Conservatives are keen on privatizing functions of government. What they don’t tell you is that they only want to privatize the profitable ones, and let the private sector pocket the revenue from them.

The only reason you say that race was not an issue is because you wish it was not. We all wish it was not. But it’s a lie. I came from a country where race was not an issue; I did not think of myself as black and I only became black when I came to America. When you are black and fall in love with a white person, race doesn’t matter when you’re alone together because it’s just you and your love. But the minute you step outside, race matters. But we don’t talk about it. We don’t even tell our white partners the small things that piss us off and the things we wish they understood better, because we’re worried they will say we’re overreacting, or we’re being too sensitive. And we don’t want them to say, Look how far we’ve come, just forty years ago it would have been illegal for us to even be a couple blah blah blah, because you know what we’re thinking when they say that? We’re thinking why the fuck should it ever have been illegal anyway? But we don’t say any of this stuff. We let it pile up inside our heads and when we come to nice liberal dinners like this, we say that race doesn’t matter because that’s what we’re supposed to say, to keep our nice liberal friends comfortable.

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (via wafflesforleslie)

I am writing this down somewhere.

Don’t tell me how far we’ve come.  We shouldn’t have had to walk in the first place.

(via gutterowl)

earth-dad

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (via wafflesforleslie)

I am writing this down somewhere.

Don’t tell me how far we’ve come.  We shouldn’t have had to walk in the first place.

(via gutterowl)

#