a handfull of button quails
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OH DEAR GOD
Update: 11 year old trans girl lost appeal
The above article is an update. Her mother went to appeal to keep her out of the psychiatric ward and lost. She will be institutionalized because of her expression of her gender. She will be held until she conforms to male gender and then released to foster care, not her mother who was supporting her.
Please, if you haven’t signed the petition, sign it, reblog it, ask your friends to sign it. We’ve managed to get 40K signatures for a pageant model, we’ve only gotten 11K for a little girl about to have her life ruined. Lets get on the ball and spread the word.
In honor of International Women’s Day, I’d like to highlight Rigoberta Menchú Tum, an indigenous Guatemalan woman who won the Nobel Peace prize in 1992 for raising awareness of the genocide in Guatemala and helping Guatemalans (especially indigenous Mayans) to defend themselves.
It’s important to point out that according to the United Nations’ Historical Clarifications Committee, the United States and several U.S. corporations (most notably United Fruit and Coca-Cola) were complicit in the killings of over 200,000 native Guatemalans. U.S. agencies were found to have lent direct financial support to the state-sponsored killings, as well as arms support and training.
In the mid-1950’s, both United Fruit and Coca Cola pressured the U.S. government to stage a ClA-directed coup that overthrew President Jacobo Arbenz. This action put an end to the first democratically elected president in Guatemalan history and set in motion the civil war that followed.Despite the rhetoric, not everything that the U.S. does abroad is in the efforts of promoting peace, freedom, and democracy. It is our responsibility to criticize the things we most cherish, including and especially our government, in order to first: recognize the darker moments of our history for what they were (and are, as discourses), second: demand that we justify the things we do, and third (thank you, Luis): amend our wrongs.
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Lifehacks: 10 Tips To Make Life Easier
- Pump up the volume by placing your iPhone & iPod in a bowl - the concave shape amplifies the music.
- Bake cupcakes directly in ice-cream cones, so much more fun and easier to eat.
- Freeze Aloe Vera in ice-cube trays for soothing sunburn relief.
- Stop cut apples browning in your child’s lunch box by securing with a rubber band.
- Turn your muffin pan upside down, bake cookie-dough over the top and you have cookie bowls for ice-cream.
- Store bed linen sets inside one of their own pillowcases mean no more hunting through piles for a match.
- Pack shoes inside shower caps to stop dirty soles rubbing on your clothes - you can find them for free in just about every hotel.
- Baby powder gets sand off your skin easily - add it to your beach bag for a quick clean up!
- Find tiny lost items like earrings by putting a stocking over the vacuum hose.
- Make an instant cupcake carrier by cutting crosses into a box lid.
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- 11:51 pm - Wed, Feb 8, 2012
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- Elijah: Speaking of game-making, what was the name of the fake game y’all tried to get me into? Tig! Oh my god.
- Billy: Tig, it was when we were filming Weathertop, and myself and Dom just started tagging each other, ya know, touching each other and going “tig! tig!” just for no reason. And then Sean came over and started doing it as well. And then we’d say “Tig tig, tig tag,” like, for no reason! And then Elijah came over and said ‘What are you guys doing?’ And we said, ‘oh, we’re playing a game called tig.’ And he says ‘oh, how do you play?’ And then we spent the next two hours making up rules.
- Elijah: And trying to teach me, and of course I was getting everything wrong.
- Sean: The three of us were ever frustrated that he wasn’t follwing these new rules that we were continuing to make up.
- Dom: So we would play and the three of us we constantly getting it right. Every time Elijah tried a new way of tigging someone we’d say ‘No, Elijah, you can’t tig on a tog, you can’t tag on a tig, you have to do an elephant impression if you’re going to tig Billy, if Billy’s going to tig you back you have to get on your knees and take your trousers down.’
- Billy: How many times Elijah, you can’t double tig a tag!
- Dom: And for like 3 weeks he kept saying how much he enjoyed playing tig.
- Billy: Do you remember we forgot to say it was a wind up? And it was like a year later he says ‘Why do we never play tig?’
- Elijah: And they finally let the cat out of the bag. My whole world came shattering down on me when they told me that was a lie. For a whole year I believed that was a real game.
Moriarty; Lessiarty. HAR.
I just love this fandom…
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