Day: August 23, 2017

npr:

An Arizona law banning ethnic studies violated students’ constitutional rights, a federal judge said Tuesday. His ruling made clear that the state showed discriminatory intent when it essentially shut down a Mexican-American Studies program at Tucson Unified School District.

“Both enactment and enforcement were motivated by racial animus,” Federal Judge A. Wallace Tashima said in the ruling.

With this news, a portion of the law, prohibiting classes designed for students of certain ethnic groups, has been struck down, but the federal judge has yet to issue a final judgment and redress for the violation.

Despite this decade-long debate in Arizona, ethnic studies programs have grown in popularity throughout the country.

Federal Judge Finds Racism Behind Arizona Law Banning Ethnic Studies

Illustration: LA Johnson/NPR

Source: NPR

i-peed-so-hard-i-laughed:

continuants:

invisiblespork:

tognir-inainn:

You’re welcome

[Narrator: A scientist in Peru [pause for peep] captured this, escaping from the tiny body [pause for peep] of a sleeping hummingbird. [pause for peep] A high-pitched [pause for peep] but unmistakable snore. [pause for peep] Hummingbirds are loved for their beauty and speed [pause for peep] but this one was behaving a little bit like a human. [pause for peep] The perfect cute-response trigger.]

[pause for peep]

IT PEEP WHEN IT SLEEP!!!!!!!!!!!!

darkersolstice:

smartass-stripper:

matociquala:

ariaste:

Relationships are scary and complicated ONLY when you start thinking of your partner as some kind of adversary. 

You know how to stop being scared of relationships? Remember that it’s got a goddamn buddy system *built in*. That’s all a relationship IS: “Let’s approach life with the buddy system.”

Check on your buddy. Make sure your buddy doesn’t forget their lunch box on the schoolbus. Hold hands with your buddy so you don’t get lost. If your buddy wants to look at the monkey cage, look at the goddamn monkey cage with them. If you are the one looking at the monkey cage, ask your buddy what they want to do next, and when they want to feed the giraffe, help them find a quarter for the little food dispenser. Be a good buddy, and if your buddy isn’t a good one too, tell the teacher and ask for a new one.

This isn’t fucking rocket science, people. 

I have reblogged this before. I will reblog it again. And it’s not just romantic relationships: it’s family members and friends as well.

This kind of woke my ass up because of the amount of times I’ve had a buddy who didn’t check on me, didn’t want me to check on them, but didn’t want me to leave.

@comrade-side-eyes

Regarding your hair dresser post. My nan accidentally went to a barbers because she didn’t realise it had changed and she just wanted short hair, so the bloke just did her hair and brought her tea and was so lovely, now she always goes there! Anyway I just wanted to share cause I thought that barber was fab and didn’t try and embarrass her out of the shop like I know some have done to females :)

lizardtitties:

That’s the sweetest fucking thing, I love it!

pluckychicken:

crick3tknight:

lakidaa:

bi-polar-oid:

dinners ready

( ._.)./ an explanation: 

The dog has an issue where his esophagus doesn’t work right; it doesn’t get food in there right because it’s all stretched out and stuff. So what dog owners (and cat owners and I guarantee you the cat ones look goofier) do is make a highchair and feed them upright so gravity can be a hero. It’s also really cute. 

The disorder is called Megaesophagus. 

Cat with Megaesophagus

Here is a cat with the same disorder in his eatin’ sock. 

EATIN’ SOCK

ALWAYS REBLOG THE EATIN’ SOCK

Source: bipolaroid

Don’t buy into the false binary of verbal/nonverbal.

angryqueerautie:

Some autistics are 100% verbal.

Some autistics are 100% nonverbal.

But plenty of us are semiverbal. Plenty of us are varying degrees of verbal. Some of us are mostly verbal, with periods of being nonverbal, or specific circumstances that will cause us to become nonverbal for a while. Some of us are mostly nonverbal, but will be verbal from time to time.

If you want to be a good ally to autistic people, understand that verbal status is not set in stone, and is not merely a dichotomy of verbal autistics versus nonverbal autistics.

Understand that verbal status does not indicate intelligence or willingness to communicate. Understand that verbal status can be very fluid. Understand that verbal status has no bearing on hearing status.

Every autistic person is different. Be wary of putting us into neat boxes.