Lisa's Musings and Perusings

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Mon, 29 Apr 2013 01:04:56 -0400

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ikenbot: chauvinistsushi: thumbcramps: hi guys! this is a...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:44:02 -0400

chauvinistsushi:

thumbcramps:

hi guys! this is a comic i made for a final in my comics in literature class. we had to do a research paper on a topic we’d discussed in class and then accompany it with a comic with a relevant subject. my paper was about hyper-sexualization of women in comic books, but i decided to broaden it out here as well as personalize it and make myself the subject and discuss something i’ve been subjected to in the convention circuit and on the internet as well as thousands of other women, as well as give a cue to thought about how the comic book industry as well as the video game industry and even just media in general (all of which are male dominated) push such ridiculous pressures onto girls and women.

also, it feels kind of silly to have to add this since i hope it’s obvious, but i am very aware that there are men that don’t subscribe to this attitude, and am incredibly grateful that these issues are brought to light to people other than the ones that are subjected to it.

anyway haha i have literally been staring at this for 9 hours i don’t even know which direction is up anymore. thanks for reading!!!

lemme just crawl over here and sob

no im perfectly fine

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Wed, 24 Apr 2013 11:56:38 -0400

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ikenbot: Albert Einstein, Civil Rights Activist Here’s...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 11:56:13 -0400

ikenbot:

Albert Einstein, Civil Rights Activist

Here’s something you probably don’t know about Albert Einstein.

Image:Einstein with the children of Lincoln University Faculty, May 3, 1946

In 1946, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist traveled to Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, the alma mater of Langston Hughes and Thurgood Marshall and the first school in America to grant college degrees to blacks. At Lincoln, Einstein gave a speech in which he called racism “a disease of white people,” and added, “I do not intend to be quiet about it.” He also received an honorary degree and gave a lecture on relativity to Lincoln students.

The reason Einstein’s visit to Lincoln is not better known is that it was virtually ignored by the mainstream press, which regularly covered Einstein’s speeches and activities. (Only the black press gave extensive coverage to the event.) Nor is there mention of the Lincoln visit in any of the major Einstein biographies or archives.

In fact, many significant details are missing from the numerous studies of Einstein’s life and work, most of them having to do with Einstein’s opposition to racism and his relationships with African Americans.

That these omissions need to be recognized and corrected is the contention of Fred Jerome and Rodger Taylor, authors of “Einstein on Race and Racism” (Rutgers University Press, 2006). Jerome and Taylor spoke April 3 at an event sponsored by the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research. The event also featured remarks by Sylvester James Gates Jr., the John S. Toll Professor of Physics, University of Maryland.

According to Jerome and Taylor, Einstein’s statements at Lincoln were by no means an isolated case. Einstein, who was Jewish, was sensitized to racism by the years of Nazi-inspired threats and harassment he suffered during his tenure at the University of Berlin. Einstein was in the United States when the Nazis came to power in 1933, and, fearful that a return to Germany would place him in mortal danger, he decided to stay, accepting a position at the recently founded Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J. He became an American citizen in 1940.

But while Einstein may have been grateful to have found a safe haven, his gratitude did not prevent him from criticizing the ethical shortcomings of his new home.

“Einstein realized that African Americans in Princeton were treated like Jews in Germany,” said Taylor. “The town was strictly segregated. There was no high school that blacks could go to until the 1940s.”

Einstein’s response to the racism and segregation he found in Princeton (Paul Robeson, who was born in Princeton, called it “the northernmost town in the South”) was to cultivate relationships in the town’s African-American community. Jerome and Taylor interviewed members of that community who still remember the white-haired, disheveled figure of Einstein strolling through their streets, stopping to chat with the inhabitants, and handing out candy to local children.

One woman remembered that Einstein paid the college tuition of a young man from the community. Another said that he invited Marian Anderson to stay at his home when the singer was refused a room at the Nassau Inn.

Einstein met Paul Robeson when the famous singer and actor came to perform at Princeton’s McCarter Theatre in 1935. The two found they had much in common. Both were concerned about the rise of fascism, and both gave their support to efforts to defend the democratically elected government of Spain against the fascist forces of Francisco Franco. Einstein and Robeson also worked together on the American Crusade to End Lynching, in response to an upsurge in racial murders as black soldiers returned home in the aftermath of World War II.

The 20-year friendship between Einstein and Robeson is another story that has not been told, Jerome said, but that omission may soon be rectified. A movie is in the works about the relationship, with Danny Glover slated to play Robeson and Ben Kingsley as Einstein.

Einstein continued to support progressive causes through the 1950s, when the pressure of anti-Communist witch hunts made it dangerous to do so. Another example of Einstein using his prestige to help a prominent African American occurred in 1951, when the 83-year-old W.E.B. Du Bois, a founder of the NAACP, was indicted by the federal government for failing to register as a “foreign agent” as a consequence of circulating the pro-Soviet Stockholm Peace Petition. Einstein offered to appear as a character witness for Du Bois, which convinced the judge to drop the case.

Gates, an African-American physicist who has appeared on the PBS show Nova, said that Einstein had been a hero of his since he learned about the theory of relativity as a teenager, but that he was unaware of Einstein’s ideas on civil rights until fairly recently.

Einstein’s approach to problems in physics was to begin by asking very simple, almost childlike questions, such as, “What would the world look like if I could drive along a beam of light?” Gates said.

“He must have developed his ideas about race through a similar process. He was capable of asking the question, ‘What would my life be like if I were black?’”

Gates said that thinking about Einstein’s involvement with civil rights has prompted him to speculate on the value of affirmative action and the goal of diversity it seeks to bring about. There are many instances in which the presence of strength and resilience in a system can be attributed to diversity.

“In the natural world, for example, when a population is under the influence of a stressful environment, diversity ensures its survival,” Gates said.

On a cultural level, the global influence of American popular music might be attributed to the fact that it is an amalgam of musical traditions from Europe and Africa.

These examples have led him to conclude that “diversity actually matters, independent of the moral argument.” Gates said he believes “there is a science of diversity out there waiting for scholars to discover it.”

syriaonmymind: From Syria to Boston From Boston to...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 11:46:21 -0400

syriaonmymind:

From Syria to Boston

From Boston to Syria

<3

tehgriz: mixedupqueen: notthehellyourwhales: alaricsaltzbuns: ...

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 23:16:30 -0400

tehgriz:

mixedupqueen:

notthehellyourwhales:

alaricsaltzbuns:

tomhiddlesbitch:

cancerously:

superblys:

anti-shipper:

the-greatest-companion:

castaneacreations:

thegoodlannister:

schwarzweis:

thegoodlannister:

My sister got me a Thor bobblehead.

This is what I did with it.

since I’m a serious grown adult, I have a reply for you

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I AM CRYING

legitimately crying

My Yoda bobble-head has something to say…

it got better

IT GOT SO MUCH BETTER

Oh,.its on my dash again.

Reblog.

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Mon, 22 Apr 2013 23:10:13 -0400

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bernardin: Reminder: This woman is 47 years old. I blame black...

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 23:08:58 -0400

bernardin:

Reminder: This woman is 47 years old. I blame black magic.

Love how some consecutive posts kinda align.

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 23:27:29 -0400

Love how some consecutive posts kinda align.

cellophaneflower: geekyvamp: leoshour: Jon stewart is fast...

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 16:39:56 -0400

cellophaneflower:

geekyvamp:

leoshour:

Jon stewart is fast becoming the smartest guy alive period. He is too damn smart.

I am so thankful for the existence of Jon Stewart and his sharp, rational wit.

Oh my sweet jesus.

kissing-whiskey: Solidarity with Boston

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 12:46:55 -0400

kissing-whiskey:

Solidarity with Boston

bernardin: Someone needs to convince Christopher Lee to write...

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 21:15:24 -0400

bernardin:

Someone needs to convince Christopher Lee to write his autobiography, right bloody now.

nudityandnerdery:

casteilnovak:

I think we need to clone him for future generations.

Why? I’m pretty sure that when Death comes for him, Christopher Lee will be waiting with a knife, and I’m not betting on Death in that fight.

Photo

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 21:42:47 -0400

jirasol: it’s called AAVE, you FUCKTRUCK I hate how people...

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 21:42:27 -0400

jirasol:

it’s called AAVE, you FUCKTRUCK

I hate how people here think that “proper general English” is the only way to speak English and all the others are considered “idiocy” like if language has anything to do with intelligence. I’m not even from the U.S. and I know this better than most of you.

Below is a list of all English dialects in North America:

American English - Standard American English is the general form

Cultural
African-American Vernacular English (AAVE)

Chicano English

New York Latino English

Pennsylvania Dutch English

Yeshivish

Yinglish

Regional
New England English
Boston accent

Boston Brahmin accent

Hudson Valley English

Lake Dialect or Lake Talk

Vermont English

Inland Northern American English (includes western and central upstate New York)
Northeast Pennsylvania English

Mid-Atlantic dialects
Baltimore dialect

Philadelphia dialect

Pittsburgh English

New York dialect

New Jersey English dialects

Inland Northern American English (Lower peninsula of Michigan, northern Ohio and Indiana, Chicago, part of eastern Wisconsin and upstate New York)

North–Central American English (primarily Minnesota, but also most of Wisconsin, the Upper peninsula of Michigan, and parts of North Dakota, South Dakota, and Iowa)
Yooper dialect (Upper Peninsula of Michigan and some neighboring areas)

Midland American English
North Midlands English (thin swath from Nebraska to Ohio)

St. Louis

South Midland (thin swath from Oklahoma to Pennsylvania)

Southern English
Appalachian English

Tidewater accent

Virginia Piedmont

Virginia Tidewater
Coastal Southeastern (Charleston, South Carolina, Savannah, Georgia area)

Cajun English

Harkers Island English (North Carolina)

Ozark English

Southern Highland English

Gullah or Geechee

Texan

Yat dialect (New Orleans)

Ocracoke

Western English
California English

Boontling

Pacific Northwest English

Hawaiian Pidgin

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Tue, 16 Apr 2013 21:34:08 -0400

the-absolute-funniest-posts:

estebanjulioricardodelarosa:

so you can still look fabulous while stabbing your enemies.

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Life Hacks.

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 20:16:05 -0400

Life Hacks.:

stillqw1:

peity:

alqdgs:

swqale:

lnary:

sagg:

pr2s:

These are really useful!

Read more

I HAVE BEEN DOING EVERYTHING WRONG MY ENTIRE LIFE

y no one told me about dis.

Tumblr: teaches you anything from cat gifs to actual useful shit

I know about 4 of these

^ that doesnt even make any sense

the-absolute-funniest-posts: dstroym: Bras we have...

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 20:13:07 -0400

the-absolute-funniest-posts:

dstroym:

Bras we have known.

(via LOL, DAMN!)

LMAO. Heavy lifter is the BEST

I’M DYinG!

**tears**

TeaRS DoWN my FAcE

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marissa-mars: makes sense

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 13:39:54 -0400

marissa-mars:

makes sense

Chris Rock on bullet control

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 13:36:39 -0400

Chris Rock on bullet control

laughingsquid: Cat Signal

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 21:48:45 -0400

laughingsquid:

Cat Signal