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Being involved in fandom is truly an education in insidious racism and microaggressions. If there’s one thing fandom doesn’t lack, it’s the abundance of coded language. 

People will do prize-winning mental gymnastics to justify not liking characters of colour and/or eliminating them as love interests. We’re literally witnessing the evolution of the racist, because as long as you’re not saying the n-word, you’re not doing anything bigoted by simply stating your personal preference. As long as you’re not spewing outright hatred, your racial biases can’t possibly be influencing your perception of characters of colour as undesirable protagonists. The way some of you have learned to adapt social justice concepts and the struggles of oppressed people to finesse racism is fascinating. 

“I don’t ship Rey with Finn because he held her hand and she obviously hates physical contact. He did it again even though she told him not to, so that’s a violation of her personhood. On the flip side, the other guy (who tried to kill her and her friends) respects her because at least he didn’t try to hold her hand.” 

“Black Hermione was fine when she was confined to fanon, but now that she’s canon, you’re oppressing white people by erasing their beloved white Hermione and this violation is totally comparable to whitewashing female characters of colour (who only get to be leads about 2% of the time and are already operating at a large deficit).” 

The level of bullshittery is inspiring, really. 

NASA Celebrates Earth Day With 20 Mind-Blowing Photographs Of Our Planet

Each year Earth Day reminds us of the beauty and magic of our planet. It is also a gentle push serve to propel us to find new ways to preserve it. This year NASA has compiled a wide range of their favorite photographs of Mother Earth from space. Taken by astronauts and several spacecrafts, they capture the immensity and invite beauty many of its inhabitants are unable to witness.

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#GirlsWithToys hashtag - part 35

What is this hashtag about? In short: the hashtag was born out of casual sexism by a male scientist. To read more about what spurred this response, read Kate Clancy’s (creator of the hashtag) article below:

Girls With Toys: This is what real scientists look like.

View my other posts here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, part 9, part 10, part 11, part 12, part 13, part 14, part 15, part 16, part 17, part 18, part 19, part 20, part 21, part 22, part 23, part 24, part 25, part 26, part 27, part 28, part 29, part 30, part 31, part 32, part 33 and part 34.

This is very cool and a pretty big deal. Find out why.