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Eclier - Boxon Say Hello
Text

i like my body when it is with your
body. It is so quite a new thing.
Muscles better and nerves more.
i like your body. i like what it does,
i like its hows. i like to feel the spine
of your body and its bones, and the trembling
-firm-smooth ness and which i will
again and again and again
kiss, i like kissing this and that of you,
i like, slowly stroking the, shocking fuzz
of your electric fur, and what-is-it comes
over parting flesh … . And eyes big love-crumbs,

and possibly i like the thrill

of under me you quite so new

-e.e. cummings

QUOTE
“the GI bill passed with overwhelming margin of 256 votes in the House, including 32 Republicans. It included a war surtax of one half of one percent on people making over $500k a year to pay for the GI bill, at the behest of Blue Dogs. This might actually be the most remarkable piece of the votes today; conservative Democrats agreeing to raise taxes on the wealthy to pay for educational benefits for veterans.“
—

Matt Stoller

via Eschaton

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“Drawing from human rights and social justice principles, women of color activists have re-defined “reproductive rights” into what they now call “reproductive justice.” Reproductive justice is not just about the individualistic right to have an abortion (i.e., the right not to have children) but to include the right to have children and to raise them in healthy and stable families. Accordingly, these activists have broadened reproductive rights and freedom beyond abortion rights, the rights to privacy and “choice” which are normally associated with the movement. In sum, reproductive justice encompasses many other issues such as economic justice, immigration rights, housing rights, and access to health care.“
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Kimala Price

via Racialicious

VIDEO
Singin’ in the Rain - Good Mornin’
QUOTE
“As I have learned quite thoroughly, men do not like it when you get angry at them.“
— M. LeBlanc on the advice in Catcalling: creepy or a compliment? to be nice and explain why you don’t like being harassed on the street.
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“Some faces are windows, others are masks.“
—

David Mitchell

via The Exposure Project: A Comment On Contemporary Portraiture

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Dawoud Bey - Christopher, South Shore High School, 2003 The Chicago Project

Dawoud Bey - Christopher, South Shore High School, 2003

The Chicago Project

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“Just like the series, the film will be populated by a mix of human characters and Fraggle Rock puppets. TWC co-chair Harvey Weinstein, who has been steering his company more aggressively into the family film arena, made the marriage with Lisa Henson, who runs JHC with her co-CEO brother, Brian Henson.“
— Weinsteins roll with ‘Fraggle Rock’ - Entertainment News, Film News, Media - Variety
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“The Polio Vaccine is younger than John McCain.“
— Things younger than Republican Presidential candidate (oh, and did I forget to mention “war hero”?) John McCain » The Polio Vaccine.
VIDEO

Leonard Cohen - The Stranger Song, 1967

via Merry Swankster

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Even
after
all this time
the sun never says to the earth,

“You owe me.”

Look
what happens with a love like that,
It lights the
whole
sky.

- Hafiz (translated by Daniel Ladinsky)

QUOTE
“This is one of the oldest states, one of the whitest states, and one of the least-educated states,” said Robert DiClerico, a professor of political science at West Virginia University. “Those are all demographics with which she has done very well up to this point.“
— In W. Va., Obama concedes to Clinton but looks to Nov. - The Boston Globe
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In W. Va., Obama concedes to Clinton but looks to Nov. - The Boston Globe
In W. Va., Obama concedes to Clinton but looks to Nov. - The Boston Globe
VIDEO
Klaus Nomi - Nomi Song