Posted 3 days ago
‎Close your eyes & imagine the best version of you possible. That’s who you really are, let go of any part of you that doesn’t believe it.
C. Assaad (via paintmefiftyshadesofgreen)

(Source: pigcharmer)

Posted 4 days ago
Posted 4 days ago

divascreech:

i refuse to respect other people’s views if they oppress me and so should you

do not let people tell you that you should respect oppressive or intolerant views and do not let them make you feel guilty when you don’t

fuck them

Posted 4 days ago

kingdizzy88:

dabaryah:

I tested Walmart’s brand of bottled water and I was shocked to see they sell the most toxic water ever. I tested for Total Dissolved Solids using a TDS meter and the number I got was 271. THAT IS THE MOST TOXIC WATER I HAVE EVER SEEN. Even NYC tap water TDS score is 39. Poland Spring is 42. The water is not even drinkable. I think it’s Criminal to even make profits from selling this water filled with sodium fluoride and who knows what else is in that. 500 ppm (parts per million) is the EPA Maximum but even though the FDA is corrupt their recommended is 000, which is pure.

THE ONLY BOTTLED WATER THAT READS 000 IS DUANEreade/Walgreens ‘NICE’ branded water.


PLEASE SHARE THIS INFO ALONG.

- anonymous

Damn wally mart… Damn… :/

Posted 5 days ago

#sebastianzurita super buena onda

Posted 1 week ago

Cha Cha Chapina: CHAPINA 2.0: REFLECTIONS OF A CENTRAL AMERICAN SOLIDARITY BABY

mayachapina:

www.mayachapina.com

Read the entire essay here

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CHAPINA 2.0: REFLECTIONS OF A CENTRAL AMERICAN SOLIDARITY BABY

BY Maya Chinchilla
“Knowing the truth may be painful, but it is without any doubt, highly healthy and liberating” –Slain Guatemalan Bishop Juan Gerardi, 1998

In the…

Posted 1 week ago

Life on the Border

I have been touched by so many souls this past week, I met a young man that works at a mexican gas station the famous “Pemex.” My friend and I the stupid estadounidenses que somos, we got lost, and we didnt know how to make it to the border to cross back to Cali. We stopped my at a pemex, and I was curious to see how he liked or disliked his job. He said, “Yo tengo un gran amor a mi pais, tengo una visa y visito a san diego en mi tiempo libre pero solo para comprar ropa” “Trabajo las noches en Pemex, en la manana voy a clase y en las tardes estudio y hago mi tarea” I asked him, what are you studying he said “industrial engineering, I want to fix my countries problems, we are rich in so many things, crops, oil, minerals yet everything circulates otherwise, I have learned a lot through working at Pemex and it helps me with my thesis.” “I really love my country, and my country needs a lot of help, and I will fix it” 

The passion this young man has is so beautiful, he touched me, he inspired me. He does not crave to live in the U.S. he craves and yearns and is fighting for a better Mexico. I admire him so much, I wish I could have exchanged numbers, I really want to return to that Pemex just to talk to him again, and tell him what he is doing is powerful. 

It makes me reflect on working across borders, I want to hear the stories on the other side.

I also met 2 men who recently got deported, they were selling gum and cleaning cars to make some money to eat or find a cheap hotel. They look so young fluent in english and they got to the states when they were infants, it is such an injustice. 

Mexico is such a beautiful country with amazing history, rich cultures, passionate beautiful souls, but all their politicians full of shit… I saw the fucking governor from rosarito first hand, I wish I woulda talked to his ass… I saw all the BS PRI posters all over the poor areas in Rosarito. I hate that it is such a touristy spot, most of the income depends on all these assholes americans that go there to party. It like breaks me….

All in all, I am glad the young man from the gas station is determined to keep fighting for his country, that is so powerful.\

Posted 1 week ago

ilianation:

kararikue:

56 - El Divo

Few may recognize the name Alberto Aguilera Valadez. But almost everyone in the Spanish speaking world know Juan Gabriel.

Although he has never publicly outed himself as gay (deflecting all questions around the topic in typical Juan Gabriel flair with “lo que se ve no se pregunta”), he has done more for queer visibility in Latin America than any other musician or performer.

A talented songwriter and beloved singer, Juan Gabriel continues to charm audiences with his voice and of course his unrepentant penchant for theatrics.

Como Juan Gabriel, nadie.

Mmmm yes.

Posted 1 week ago
I love butch girls. Girls with slick, shiny, barbershop haircuts, trimmed so short your fingertips can barely grip it. Girls with shirts that button the other way. Girls that swagger… Girls who get stared at in the ladies’ room, girls who shop in the boys department, girls who live every moment looking like they weren’t supposed to. Girls with hands that touch me like they have been exploring my body their entire lives… It is the girls that get called sir every day who make me catch my breath, the girls with strong jaws who buckle my knees, the girls who are a different gender who make me want to lay down for them.
Tristan Taormino (via jude-ith)

(Source: blueskyes115)

Posted 1 week ago

Happy Mother’s Day <3 #loveyoumomma

Posted 2 weeks ago

Goodbye #rosarito

Posted 2 weeks ago
Posted 2 weeks ago

thepeoplesrecord:

Children killed by US drone strikes in Pakistan & Yemen

PAKISTAN
Name | Age | Gender
Noor Aziz | 8 | male
Abdul Wasit | 17 | male
Noor Syed | 8 | male
Wajid Noor | 9 | male
Syed Wali Shah | 7 | male
Ayeesha | 3 | female
Qari Alamzeb | 14| male
Shoaib | 8 | male
Hayatullah KhaMohammad | 16 | male
Tariq Aziz | 16 | male
Sanaullah Jan | 17 | male
Maezol Khan | 8 | female
Nasir Khan | male
Naeem Khan | male
Naeemullah | male
Mohammad Tahir | 16 | male
Azizul Wahab | 15 | male
Fazal Wahab | 16 | male
Ziauddin | 16 | male
Mohammad Yunus | 16 | male
Fazal Hakim | 19 | male
Ilyas | 13 | male
Sohail | 7 | male
Asadullah | 9 | male
khalilullah | 9 | male
Noor Mohammad | 8 | male
Khalid | 12 | male
Saifullah | 9 | male
Mashooq Jan | 15 | male
Nawab | 17 | male
Sultanat Khan | 16 | male
Ziaur Rahman | 13 | male
Noor Mohammad | 15 | male
Mohammad Yaas Khan | 16 | male
Qari Alamzeb | 14 | male
Ziaur Rahman | 17 | male
Abdullah | 18 | male
Ikramullah Zada | 17 | male
Inayatur Rehman | 16 | male
Shahbuddin | 15 | male
Yahya Khan | 16 |male
Rahatullah |17 | male
Mohammad Salim | 11 | male
Shahjehan | 15 | male
Gul Sher Khan | 15 | male
Bakht Muneer | 14 | male
Numair | 14 | male
Mashooq Khan | 16 | male
Ihsanullah | 16 | male
Luqman | 12 | male
Jannatullah | 13 | male
Ismail | 12 | male
Taseel Khan | 18 | male
Zaheeruddin | 16 | male
Qari Ishaq | 19 | male
Jamshed Khan | 14 | male
Alam Nabi | 11 | male
Qari Abdul Karim | 19 | male
Rahmatullah | 14 | male
Abdus Samad | 17 | male
Siraj | 16 | male
Saeedullah | 17 | male
Abdul Waris | 16 | male
Darvesh | 13 | male
Ameer Said | 15 | male
Shaukat | 14 | male
Inayatur Rahman | 17 | male
Salman | 12 | male
Fazal Wahab | 18 | male
Baacha Rahman | 13 | male
Wali-ur-Rahman | 17 | male
Iftikhar | 17 | male
Inayatullah | 15 | male
Mashooq Khan | 16 | male
Ihsanullah | 16 | male
Luqman | 12 | male
Jannatullah | 13 | male
Ismail | 12 | male
Abdul Waris | 16 | male
Darvesh | 13 | male
Ameer Said | 15 | male
Shaukat | 14 | male
Inayatur Rahman | 17 | male
Adnan | 16 | male
Najibullah | 13 | male
Naeemullah | 17 | male
Hizbullah | 10 | male
Kitab Gul | 12 | male
Wilayat Khan | 11 | male
Zabihullah | 16 | male
Shehzad Gul | 11 | male
Shabir | 15 | male
Qari Sharifullah | 17 | male
Shafiullah | 16 | male
Nimatullah | 14 | male
Shakirullah | 16 | male
Talha | 8 | male

YEMEN
Afrah Ali Mohammed Nasser | 9 | female
Zayda Ali Mohammed Nasser | 7 | female
Hoda Ali Mohammed Nasser | 5 | female
Sheikha Ali Mohammed Nasser | 4 | female
Ibrahim Abdullah Mokbel Salem Louqye | 13 | male
Asmaa Abdullah Mokbel Salem Louqye | 9 | male
Salma Abdullah Mokbel Salem Louqye | 4 | female
Fatima Abdullah Mokbel Salem Louqye | 3 | female
Khadije Ali Mokbel Louqye | 1 | female
Hanaa Ali Mokbel Louqye | 6 | female
Mohammed Ali Mokbel Salem Louqye | 4 | male
Jawass Mokbel Salem Louqye | 15 | female
Maryam Hussein Abdullah Awad | 2 | female
Shafiq Hussein Abdullah Awad | 1 | female
Sheikha Nasser Mahdi Ahmad Bouh | 3 | female
Maha Mohammed Saleh Mohammed | 12 | male
Soumaya Mohammed Saleh Mohammed | 9 | female
Shafika Mohammed Saleh Mohammed | 4 | female
Shafiq Mohammed Saleh Mohammed | 2 | male
Mabrook Mouqbal Al Qadari | 13 | male
Daolah Nasser 10 years | 10 | female
AbedalGhani Mohammed Mabkhout | 12 | male
Abdel- Rahman Anwar al Awlaki | 16 | male
Abdel-Rahman al-Awlaki | 17 | male
Nasser Salim | 19

Obviously, these figures don’t include children killed in Somalia & Afghanistan.

If ever these strikes are reported in the MSM, many of these children are listed as “militants,” a word redefined by President Obama to mean any male of military age in a strike zone, so as to disguise the number of children killed by his drone policy. Under this abuse of presidential power with lack of judicial oversight, Obama has escalated George W. Bush’s drone program more than five times over. 

Not only are children & civilians caught in strike zones, but drones are killing rescuers & family members with the “double tap” method, a second strike in the same zone. The “double tap” is considered to be a war crime under international law. 

Not okay!

Posted 2 weeks ago
Posted 2 weeks ago
Men and women are misogynistic for different reasons: men to marginalize women, and women to ingratiate themselves with the men trying to marginalize them. Neither one is justifiable, but one is oppressive and the other is a (bad) strategy to deal with that oppression. One thus sees that if the men who are misogynists weren’t, the women who are misogynists wouldn’t have any reason to be. Ergo, exhorting women to stop being misogynists so that men will stop gets it precisely backwards.