"Others imply that they know what it is like to be depressed because they have gone through a divorce, lost a job, or broken up with someone. But these experiences carry with them feelings. Depression, instead, is flat, hollow, and unendurable. It is also tiresome. People cannot abide being around you when you are depressed. They might think that they ought to, and they might even try, but you know and they know that you are tedious beyond belief: you are irritable and paranoid and humorless and lifeless and critical and demanding and no reassurance is ever enough. You’re frightened, and you’re frightening, and you’re “not at all like yourself but will be soon,” but you know you won’t."

-An Unquiet Mind, Kay Redfield Jamison (via anonymousfia)

I remember reading Jamison’s stuff being a really important thing to me before I got medical help with my depression

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So I’m getting kind of annoyed at the Ke$ha post I see everyone on my dash reblogging.

socialistexan:

I think y’all might need a reminder about why I, and other, have a very valid reason to dislike her. It honestly has nothing to do with her music (which just isn’t in my wheelhouse) or her intelligence (she is actually really intelligent). No use in having much more exposition so let’s get into it:

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"15 of 16 Rapists Will Walk Free
61% of rapes/sexual assaults are not reported to the police. Those rapists, of course, never serve a day in prison.
If the rape is reported to police, there is a 50.8% chance that an arrest will be made.
If an arrest is made, there is an 80% chance of prosecution. If there is a prosecution, there is a 58% chance of a felony conviction.
If there is a felony conviction, there is a 69% chance the convict will spend time in jail.
So, even in those 39% of rapes that are reported to police, there is only a 16.3% chance the rapist will end up in prison.
Factoring in unreported rapes, about 6% - 1 out of 16 - of rapists will ever spend a day in jail. 15 out of 16 will walk free."

http://www.sarsonline.org/resources-stats/reports-laws-statics (via survivorsupport)

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"

The following statistics are from “The Sexual Victimization of College Women,” U.S. Department of Justice, 2000:

1 in 4 college women will be raped during their collegiate career

Of the incidents categorized as a completed rape, 46.5% felt they were raped, 48.8% felt they were NOT raped, and 4.7% did not know

In 94% of the completed and attempted rape cases, the offenders were known to the victim (classmate, friend, boyfriend/ex, acquaintance)

59% of completed rapes occurred in the victim’s residence, 31% occurred in other living quarters, and 10% took place in a fraternity house

1 in 5 rape and attempted rape incidents resulted in “bruises, black-eyes, cuts, scratches, swelling, or chipped teeth”

Less than 5% of completed and attempted rapes were reported to law enforcement officials; however 2/3’s told another person about the incident (mainly a friend, not family or a college official)

13.1% of females reported being stalked since the school year began (an incidence rate of 156.5 per 1,000 female students)

"

http://www.sarsonline.org/resources-stats/reports-laws-statics (via survivorsupport)

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thisisrapeculture:

queerfabulousmermaid:

pocproblems:

n4di4:

freshmouthgoddess:

Good Secret Bad Secret - Girls Handclapping Song! (by createfuturegood)

Protect girls against abuse

Get it girls! Let em know.

Go on girls. If this ain’t revolutionary then idk what is!

*Cries* my heart

This is a great source for all children, so glad to see it :)

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npr:

“The real fashion victims are not celebrities, but anonymous workers in poor conditions, in polluted countries.”

Spanish artist Yolanda Dominguez makes a statement on the garment industry, staging live art with “dead” models, symbolizing the 1,129 workers who perished in a Bangladeshi garment factory in April. Dominguez’s show, on Madrid’s posh Gran Via, lie in direct competition with the flagship stores of many global discount brands like H&M and Zara. 

Read more and listen to the story on Morning Edition.

murderous-mermaid:

racial fetishization is racism.

it is not a compliment.

stop pretending that you are ~appreciating the culture~, and being respectful.

reducing the many varied people within a culture to the parts that you think are cute is not being appreciative. racism is not respectful. 

stop.

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"There are some pretty grim consequences to the trope of highlighting ”friends and family” of the mentally ill at the expense of actual people with mental illness. I mean, aside from otherization and erasure (HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, like those aren’t grim consequences in and of themselves, oh, I do make myself laugh).

Ahem.

First, it adds to an already-potent cultural myth that people with mental illnesses are so addled and deranged that they can’t possible voice their own experiences, or participate in discussions about their own illnesses.By choosing to highlight the “friends and family” (and actor-portrayers) of the mentally ill rather than the mentally ill themselves, the conference reinforced the idea that people with mental illnesses are incapable of advocating for themselves. They are incapable of speaking for themselves. They are incapable of solving their own problems, or of being responsible for wider social change. They are problems to be solved (by sane people), not problem-solvers.

There’s a long history of giving families and governments the power to control the lives of people with mental illnesses, because we assume that people with mental illnesses are irrational and incapable of making intelligent decisions. Reinforcing that trope is dangerous as fuck.

Second, the “friends and family” approach makes it seem like people with mental illnesses are only important in the context of their relationships. In the President’s speech, we are defined not as individuals, but within the structure of relationships with “sane” people – the “family member, friend, neighbor” who knows us. This makes us secondary players in our own illnesses: our conditions are important not because they’re destroying our lives, or making every day a struggle, but because they’re making our loved ones miserable.

If you’re going to try to improve the state of mental illness in the USA, please, don’t do it because you want to spare my parents, my family, my friends, my neighbors. Do it because you care about how it affects people with mental illnesses."

The “Family Members, Friends, Neighbors” approach to Mental Illness: Analysis of 2013′s National Conference on Mental Health | Culturally Disoriented (via brute-reason)

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Teacher in MI Cuts Little Girls Natural Hair Off, Throws Away In Front Of Her →

blackfoxx:

searchingforknowledge:

racismschool:

This teacher needs to be terminated immediately….at LEAST.

This bitch needs physical violence. LOTS OF IT.

but notice how they humanize the teacher by constantly calling her frustrated. Notice how they put her frustration on the same level as the violence enacted upon this little girl. Lets talk about how deeply an act of violence it is to cut off and throw away a little black girl’s hair to the laughter of the classroom. Or about how the teacher shows the little girl that her mother has no power and cant do anything to protect her by asking “What are you going to tell your mother?” And about how cutting her hair was just as much a message to her mother for sending her child to school with a hairstyle that she deems disruptive and frustrating. And how as a teacher, if you dont have constructive ways of discipline that dont involve terrorizing children then you are unfit for the job. but o she is frustrated and is receiving a small fine as opposed to being fired. Lets talk about what would happen if you terrorized and cut some white child’s hair in a school district with some means, whose parents have a higher property tax….

(Source: pedazitosfightsback, via misandristscum)

virtualbatgirl:

jawbreakerjett:

ihatepeacocks:

Remember the Stuebnville Rape Case? Well, we certainly do as we have been following it from day one. The Anonymous member who gathered and released the social media evidence against the rapists could face up to 10 years in prison for doing so. The 2 rapists that were convicted only got 2 years each. That is bullshit.
Read up on this and if you find it as appalling as we do, please see what you can do to help KYAnonymous.

Article on Gawker

Article on PolicyMic.com

The KYAnonymous Fan/Support page on Facebook

The Whistle Blower Defense League Fund

Most Importantly, do whatever you can, whenever you can to put an end to Rape, to fight against Rape Culture, stand up for the rights of Rape Victims and put an end to Victim Shaming.

 

SO fucked up

That this guy is at risk for going to prison for longer than the men whose true actions and mindset he revealed?

Ridiculous.

(via fuckyeahwomenprotesting2)