May 2013
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The way we try to recruit girls into STEM fields is all wrong. We typically...
– Tim Holt on why we still see the number of females in STEM fields fall way behind their male counterparts. Also see how geography paved the way for women in science.
(↬ gender and science)
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Sometimes people have nothing to say because they’re too empty.
And sometimes...
– Yasmin Mogahed (via moleculess)
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So you plant your own garden and
decorate your own soul, instead of waiting...
– Jorge Luis Borges (via Swanfeather Songs)
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Angelina Jolie’s Surgery
newyorker:
Jolie’s medical decision says again what shouldn’t need re-saying: that a woman’s body is hers, that breasts are for something other than ogling, and that hard choices are made for strong reasons. Her decision to make her choice public is bold and brave and admirable. It is what celebrity is for.
—Rebecca Mead on Angelina Jolie’s decision to make her mastectomy...
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fictitiousfake:
J.K Rowling said that her inspiration for Hagrid came from when she was 19 in a pub in the west country and this terrifying looking guy came in with these other biker guys and the only thing he talked to J.K about was how his cabbages were getting on
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A catcall is entirely about reminding you that you are not yours. The purity...
– “Female ‘Purity’ is Bullshit”, by Lindy West (at jezebel.com)
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cosmo tip #675
expertcosmotips:
seductively eat all the food in his house
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I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
– John Steinbeck (via aurelle)
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They tell us that the prisons are overpopulated. But what if it were the...
– Michel Foucault (via lacanno)