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On March 13, a Category 5 cyclone devastated the island nation of Vanuatu, in the South Pacific. Our friends at ChildFund Australia report that entire villages have been blown away and that as many as 60,000 children may have been affected. Cyclone Pam has been compared to Typhoon Haiyan, a fresh memory, so our hearts are with the children and families of Vanuatu, knowing they have an enormously difficult road ahead.

ChildFund Australia is working with Live & Learn Vanuatu, a child-focused organization that has been operating in Vanuatu for many years, to respond to this disaster and ensure that children are protected in the wake of the storm. ChildFund International supports Australia in its efforts. 

You can lend a hand to the people of Vanuatu by making a donation through our Vanuatu Response Fund.

Victims of police brutality… Art by Ashley A. Woods.

This is my submission for the APB - Artists Against Police Brutality book - with John Jennings and Bill Campbell. Please take the time to read about the victims in the subsequent posts.

That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore (via proximaa-centauri)

That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

I read and I write to put my brain in places I cannot take my body.

@everyonelovesraptors

An Appalachian Picnic by Beth Kirby

VALENTINO Pre-Fall 2015 — Galaxy details

SPOTLIGHT: Selected Street Art Pieces by Pejac

Spanish street artist Pejac is a genius. As skilled on canvas inside as he is on the walls and streets outside, Pejac’s work ranges from playful to serious, like a map of the world slipping away down a drain - always cleverly integrating his art into actual real life features of the streets he’s tagging.

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Vimes maintained three trays: In, Out and Shake It All About; the last one was where he put everything he was too busy, angry, tired or bewildered to do anything about.

Thud! by Terry Pratchett (via crazypangolinlady)

I learn so much from him

New Generation of Colombian Beauty

People of visible African ancestry are all but invisible in the Colombian media, despite them making up at least a quarter of the country’s entire population. This photo-shoot was made to promote models from the city of Quibdó; the capital of Chocó, which is the Colombian province with the highest population of Afro-descendants per capita.

"My mother died a few years back and I was wreck for while. I drank heavy and made a lot of mistakes. It was hard after she passed to do anything really. I floated through a couple of relationships and made some music. The music was pretty popular and got a me plenty of attention but in that same time I got married and had child. I would give up all the music for my mother to have met my daughter."

Gents of Houston meets Vinh Luong

Photographed by: Vinh Luong

This is so metal

thundercloud plum & callery pear

Black and grey Saturday.

ART: Poetic Photography by Alice Litwin

Alice Litwin is a young German photographer who distinguishes herself from the others by her incredible makeshift stagings. 

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"I don’t photograph life as it is, but life as I would like it to be."  

Robert Doisneau

When I’m walking past people that don’t like me

A perfect example of how IMPORTANT it is for makeup companies to show their products on various skin tones!!!!!!!! This is the same lipstick looking entirely different on a dark skinned person than a light skinned person. (Source)

Truly wish I'd had this a while ago when some asshole on facebook tried to explain how awful reverse racism is.

As if reverse racism is a real thing that actually exists

On arguing with the upper class

The other day I was talking to a dude I went to high school with on Facebook. This is a white upper class kid, going to Cornell. We both commented on a friend’s post on the Cleveland shooting of a young black boy holding a toy gun. I stated how it was unjust that this cop took two seconds before unloading, especially in a state with legal open carry. I then made a statement on how this reflects the systemic oppression of black people by this country’s police force. My high school friend replied that this “systemic oppression was bull,” “There’s no universal directive for cops to kill black people,” and that I essentially had nothing of value to say on the matter. I replied, kinda angry at this point, on the numerous stories of white cop killings of black men and women and how this is not the case for whites, and then to cement my point I added that no one can ignore the 400 years of systemic oppression black people have faced, no directive but a strong correlation. Then he replied “sins of the father are not the sins of the son.” Like what the fuck is that? How do I respond to something like that? Isn’t that just some idiomatic bullshit? Like, I feel like I won’t change this moron’s mind, but I wish I knew what to say.

That kind of thing is what’s known as a thought terminating cliché. Feel free to point that out to him. Also feel free to point out that the sins of the father do quite often become the sins of the son, especially where being an asshole is concerned.

Your upper-class white kid at Cornell is suffering from a world view that simply won’t allow him to believe in things like white privilege and systemic racism. He can’t believe in them, because to acknowledge their existence would shatter the delusions he maintains in order to justify his identity.

You see, this kid believes he deserves to go to Cornell. He earned it through his own hard work. Whatever wealth or high station his family holds is something they deserve too. Again, they earned it through their own hard work, and even if they didn’t, then they still deserve it because they are simply better than everyone else. The little shit believes these things to his very core. He has to, because the alternative would be unbearable.

If you want to win arguments like this, you have to understand what your opponent is really arguing about. This kid wasn’t defending systemic oppression. He was defending his own identity by denying systemic oppression. You can’t change his mind without destroying his entire world view, and he’s not going to let you do that on Facebook. That’s why people like him always start throwing up thought terminating clichés when their logic inevitably begins to fail. They’re trying to end the conversation and simultaneously quell their own cognitive dissonance. He’s essentially retreating from the argument. Take that as a win, move on with your day, and go do something more important, like trimming your fucking toenails.

I have actually had this thought. Numerous times. Damn right I'm scared

Why should I apologize for the monster I’ve become? No one ever apologized for making me this way. (x)