February 2012
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Fascinating mugshots of women prisoners from 1920s... →
“Murderers, bigamists, cocaine dealers and back street abortionists, all manner of vampish villain and fallen floozy scooped off the streets and photographed for police files. Their blank expressions hiding a catalogue of appalling crimes.
The incredible pictures - part of a collection of 2500 mugshots taken by New South Wales Police Department photographers between 1910 and 1930 - give a...
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“I’ve had librarians say to me, “People in my school don’t agree with...”
– David Levithan - Supporting Gay Teen Literature (via cake-light)
SERIOUSLY! I’m sick of LGBTQ culture being treated as just some political issue. Queer people aren’t just a handful of people who want to get married, okay? We’re real, and we’re fucking important, and we need to be represented...
What you said: I'm from Australia
What they heard: G'day mate, crikey this weather's crazy. I'll put another shrimp on the Barbie after I ride my kangaroo, stone the flamin crows mate I think a dingo ate my baby.
“But then, the truth was never really the point. Thin women don’t tell their fat...”
– Kate Harding (via rhiannon-random)
Imagine a guy beating the shit out of your...
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*this is Chris Brown related
“Whether you’re a teacher, or a small businesswoman, or a nurse, or a janitor, no...”
– President Obama (via iamdrtiller)
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“Even people you trust with your life can’t be trusted with making you vegemite...”
– @definatalie Plus Size Butt Model and all-round Fancy Lady. (via erinaree)
“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only...”
– Rebecca West, 1913 (via lisalinguica)
"To My Old Master" →
sourcedumal:
This letter is one of THE BEST THINGS I HAVE EVER READ!
This is the response letter to a white man asking his former slave to return and work for him….
Dayton, Ohio, August 7, 1865 To My Old Master, Colonel P.H. Anderson, Big Spring, Tennessee Sir: I got your letter, and was glad to find that you had not forgotten Jourdon, and that you wanted me to come back and live with you...