(Courtesy Mary Gonzalez)
Mary Gonzalez told them she was the best candidate to represent them and El Paso voters agreed, but along the way, the 28-year-old doctoral student at the University of Texas at Austin broke her share of barriers.
Openly gay Latina wins Texas congressional seat
Real women have curves” was a marketing slogan thought up to sell people overpriced, ill-fitting pants. It does NOT promote body positivity – it only perpetuates body policing by turning the tables on people who don’t fit into yet another arbitrary ideal.
The job is to BUST THE FUCKING PARADIGM APART, not shift it a little bit toward the fat side. The job is to remind people, bodies are not public property and your opinion about an individual’s body is only an opinion, not a valid judgment of their worth as a human being. The JOB is to destroy systemic oppression of nonconforming, rebellious bodies no matter what those bodies look like.
— (via blck-grrl)
May 29, 2012
Vegan crunchwrap supreme! Ricky really wanted a crunchwrap, so I made him one. Also, by the way, these tasted EXACTLY how we remember them. I also made “cheesy” fiesta potatoes in keeping with the Taco Bell theme.
If you read this blog regularly, you know this is NOT my typical style of cooking, but I’ll admit these were pretty awesome.
Here’s what you need:
- Giant flour tortillas
- tostada shells
- vegan “ground beef” style taco filling
- vegan sour cream
- vegan nacho cheese (which I made using flour, almond milk, nutritional yeast, salt, garlic and onion powder, paprika, cumin, shredded Follow Your Heart cheddar, and some Daiya cheddar (because FYH didn’t work as well as I had remembered).
- diced tomatoes
- shredded lettuce
Here’s how you layer it in the tortilla: taco filling, nacho cheese, tostada, lettuce, tomatoes, sour cream. Then fold it up and toss it face down onto a VERY hot skillet. The longer it’s on there, the less crunchy the tostada shell will be. Flip it and do the other side for a minute too.
Too bad Taco Bell doesn’t serve kale as a side. Then theirs might be almost as good as mine.
“On Craigslist, Coal Lobby Offers $50 To Wear Pro-Coal T-Shirts At Regulatory Meeting.”
Bringing out the fake supporters, since they apparently can’t find real ones.
Scumbags.
No matter what it’s for, paying people to attend a meeting and voice their opinion is absurdly corrupt. I don’t care whether it’s for liberal causes, or for the environment, it’s just plain unethical.
Men Can Stop Rape’s new College Bystander Intervention campaign.
Actual good anti rape campaign posters! They don’t shame victims, they ask people to examine their own actions and inactions and protect their friends. And not in a gross excuse for chivalry either, just as people keeping people safe.
I like this.
Yep I agree. I also like how it’s not tying a man taking action around rape to some imaginary alpha male/hypermasculine sort of thing. Like a real man would do such and such.
Hey look! It’s an anti-rape campaign based on being a decent human being! In all seriousness, this is marvelous. I bolded the above for emphasis.
This picture got me thinking - are high heels a “Western”, modern-day analog to Chinese foot-binding? Both are ways to oppress women and tie them down by forcing them to become physically less capable, so that men can effectively dictate the direction of their motion. And all under the guise of “fashion” and “taste”? And furthermore, the notion that the higher the heels are, or the more the foot is bound, the more beautiful the woman. So essentially, there’s an inverse relationship between the freedom of a woman, and how much she’s worth - the more bound to men a woman is, the more attractive they are to society.
Anyone else have any ideas on this? I’m no expert on women’s issues, so if anyone sees anything problematic, please point it out.
- Katniss: Wake up in the morning feeling like a tribute
- Gale: Hey, what up girl?
- Katniss: Grab my arrows, I'm out the door, I'm gonna hit the woods
- Gale: Let's go!
- Haymitch: Before we leave, brush my teeth with a bottle of Jack
- Katniss: 'Cause when I leave for the Capitol, I ain't coming back
- The Prep Team: I'm talking pedicure on her toes, toes
- Cinna: Trying on all my clothes, clothes
- Rebels: Snow blowing up our homes, homes
- Johanna: Dress dropping, I hate being a tree
- Johanna: Showing up some breasts to Katniss
- Katniss: This is all making me a little bit tipsy
- Plutarch Heavensbee: Don't stop, make it pop
- The Victors: We'll blow the arena up
- Katniss: Tonight I'mma fight
- Peeta: 'Til we see the sun light
- Wiress: TICK TOCK, this is clock!
- The Victors: But the canons don't stop, no
- Snow: oh oh oh, uh oh, oh oh uh oh
*applause*Perfect post is perfect.
