“I’m Italian, so…”
—Lady Gaga on her way of doing anything (via pauladeensbutter)
November 2011
101 posts
For the first time in U.S. history, the single largest group of poor children is not white →
equity.lsnc.net
According to a Pew Hispanic Center report, for the first time in U.S. history, the single largest group of poor children is not white. According to the study and 2010 U.S. Census Bureau data, more Latino children are living in poverty (6.1 million) than children of any other racial or ethnic group. As of 2010, 37.3% of the nation’s poor children were Latino, 30.5% were white and 26.6% were black.
Between 2007 and 2010, poverty rates among Latino children increased (6.4%) at a greater rate than the rates of black children (4.6%) and white children (2.3%).
Although the largest group of poor children is Latino children, the nation’s highest child poverty rate is among black children. 39.1% of black children live in poverty compared to 35% of Latino children and 12.4% of white children.
Tikka Masala Day
Thanksgiving this year will consist of the Madrid branch of The Super Fancy Classy Social Club (For Classy Broads Abroad) wearing pretty dresses, long gloves, and tiaras. Then, we will be getting drunk on tinto/cava/claras, and going to our favorite Indian place in Lavapies.
We may have to make this into a tradition.
This sounds so fucking fantastic. Ahhh nostalgia. I was a big fan of Chueca and Malasaña and my piso was right between the Noviciado and Tribunal metro stops. ¡Te echo de menos, Madrid!!!
How did I go to college for four years and never use "It's the final(s) coundown" as my status on facebook?
MY MOM JUST BOUGHT ME AN ONLINE SUBSCRIPTION TO THE NYT FOR CHRISTMAS!!!
MY MOM IS THE BEST MOM EVER.
Okay, time to leave work. Bye, tumblrverse!
I just love journalism so much sometimes it makes me ache inside. I feel so attached to the entire process, ethos, everything. Journalism is like a kid, it’s always learning new things and sometimes it struggles with new toys like social media and really overdoes it and makes a mess (ahem, CNN) or picks fights with its friends or just really fucks shit up by not covering like the absence of WMDs in Iraq or something but I still love it anywayyy.
#journerdism
#love
#this is an example of a collection of terrible sentences
#i just want to go to j-school ok
Estoy tan triste que 18 meses despues de salir de Madrid, ya no sueño en español. Tampoco me grito a los objetos inanimados en español, ni dice joder cada dìa de mi vida.
the feminist librarian reads: my issue with modern-day atheist politics →
feministlibrarian.tumblr.com
Amanda Marcotte @ Pandagon | Atheism is an idea more than an identity:
It’s important to understand that atheists scare religious people not because we’re different, in other words, but because our beliefs do literally threaten their own. We don’t simply present ourselves as another religious group whose beliefs can be kept to ourselves. We openly and unabashedly argue that religion is toxic and we’d like to see it end, just as we believe sexism and racism are toxic and should end.
This is, I think, what I find most troublesome about modern-day atheist politics. The notion that “religion is toxic” as an umbrella determination. Not: “religious ideas can be toxic when they contradict human rights” but “religion is toxic” as a way of looking at the world.
I don’t adhere to any religious tradition, though I grew up among incredibly thoughtful and discerning Christians whose religious beliefs, faith, and practice was what motivated them to support human rights and pursue social justice work. I can’t support a way of seeing religion that writes those people off as “toxic” in their theory and practice.
This. Totally agree.
Things I need to do tonight:
Come up with a proposal and thesis for a final paper
Prep for a meeting with a professor
Read Hamlet
Come up with some insightful shit to say about Hamlet
Prep for a conference call at work tomorrow
Come up with a media outreach strategy for work
Write overdue stories and press releases for work
Study for my fucking comprehensive exams
Outline my work/study schedule through February
Outline my work/study schedule through forever
Things I probably will do tonight:
Be impressed with myself for writing this list
Go to a screening of a documentary about female orgasm
Shop for Christmas presents online
Complain about all the work I have to do
Repaint my nails
Watch five episodes of American Horror Story
Go to bed
Tuesdays are such a huge relief for me because they mean it's no longer Monday.
Works cited
“JSTOR: An Error Occurred Setting Your User Cookie.” JSTOR: An Error Occurred Setting Your User Cookie. N.p., n.d. Web. 4 Nov. 2011
DYING.
The combination of this veggie lasagna and not knowing where my life is going is making me depressed.
