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Just opened a client’s .psd, and the layers all had logical names. Awwww yeah.
haha I’m totally that other client…. with nonsensical layer names
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Illuminati Zozo: On cultural appropriation and the fetishization and use of black bodies for profit: Why this shit is WRONG.COM
I’m sure that many of you have recently come across this photoshopped image of Willow Smith wearing this shirt: Watching this circulate on tumblr and FB was/is painful and enraging for reasons that I will get into shortly. But before I do, I want to clarify that my point… (via merajaybird)
How to Be a "Woman Programmer"
There is always that moment when you are alone with the prejudice: the joke, the leer, the disregard, the fact that the moment you walk through the door you are seen as lesser.
New Grad Guide on The Muse
career resources for new grads on The Muse
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A catcall is entirely about reminding you that you are not yours. The purity myth is entirely about reminding you that you are not yours. The fetishization of female purity in a world where catcalls are an acceptable form of communication telegraphs one thing very clearly:
“Women, stop sexualizing yourselves—that’s our job, and you’re taking all the fun out of it.”
"Lindy West, “Female ‘Purity’ is Bullshit” (via perfect)
(Source: fictional-clue, via merajaybird)
(Source: lisafrankfurtschool)
attitude
“The example of patriarchy provides an illustration of how the concept of “minority” is used: while there may be more women than men numerically, in Deleuze and Guattari’s terms, which are sensitive to relations of power, men still constitute the majority whereas women form a minority. Thus the concept of “becoming-minor” converges with that of “becoming-woman” (as they say, “everyone has to ‘become-woman’, even women…”),”becoming-animal”, “becoming-molecular”, “becoming-imperceptible” and ultimately, “becoming-revolutionary”. Each type of affective becoming marks a new phase of a larger process that Deleuze and Guattari call deterritorialization.”
(Wikipedia).
Just yesterday I brought up Durkheim in a meeting about the Whovian response to the accidental DVD leak.
At least in my life, theory and pop culture are merging.
(via notational)
"Every Every Every Generation Has Been the Me Me Me Generation"
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/05/me-generation-time/65054/
