More implications of being a woman in America.
(via fuckyeahfeminists)
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living life with no regrets.
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Dancing In The Flames.
living life with no regrets.
finding beauty in the dark.
THIS BLOG IS queer positive, body positive, sex positive, trans*friendly/positive
THIS BLOG AIMS TO smash patriarchy, sexism, racism, poverty, socialized tools of oppression, ableism, class warfare, rape culture, disillusionment and HIGHLIGHT female* artists/female* centered art, decadence, fashion, literature, film and pop culture that I find inspiring.
• Me.
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Dancing In The Flames.
The Lost Decade.
npr:
The researchers at Pew Social & Demographic Trends aren’t holding back in their new report on the middle class. It calls the last 11 years, “the lost decade” for the country’s middle class. The highlight from the report issued today is that the middle class is poorer, earning less and shrinking.
via Pew: Middle Class Poorer, Earning Less And Shrinking : The Two-Way
The People's Record: 1 in 4 Texas children live in poverty
July 29, 2012
Texas ranks 44th among states in overall children’s health and well-being, the Annie E. Casey Foundation reports in its annual Kids Count Data Book. Texas’ child poverty rate is higher than the national rate, with one-in-four children living in poverty; the state ranks 49th in the…
I’m Sure It’s Just A Coincidence…
(via thepeoplesrecord)
I’m Sure It’s Just A Coincidence…
(via thepeoplesrecord)
the cycle
- introduce drugs into a low income community
- build liquor stores in a low income community
- don’t build community centers or job centers
- don’t build playgrounds or youth centers
- wait for youth to be rejected for jobs because of background/race
- wait for youth to become…
As part of its 2012 report on rent affordability, the National Low Income Housing Coalition released a chart that’s been floating around the Internet. It shows that there isn’t a single state in the country where it’s possible to work 40 hours per week at minimum wage and afford a two-bedroom apartment at Fair Market Rent. In West Virginia and Arkansas, you’d need to work at least a 63-hour week, and that’s as good as it gets. In California, Maryland, D.C., New Jersey and New York you’d need to work 130 hours or more. Hawaii comes in last place: 175 hours. (via NYTimes)
in case you were wondering, this is why there aren’t thousands of people in the streets like every other country right now. we’ve got the most advanced system of oppression around- people are literally too busy working their asses off to revolt.
(via everythingisproblematic)
Women perform 66 percent of the world’s work, produce 50 percent of the food, but earn 10 percent of the income and own 1 percent of the property (UNICEF, ‘Gender Equality – The Big Picture’, 2007.)
Women perform 66 percent of the world’s work, produce 50 percent of the food, but earn 10 percent of the income and own 1 percent of the property.
Women perform 66 percent of the world’s work, produce 50 percent of the food, but earn 10 percent of the income and own 1 percent of the property.
Women perform 66 percent of the world’s work, produce 50 percent of the food, but earn 10 percent of the income and own 1 percent of the property.
(via genderfuckandsecrets)
$28 cabbage, $65 chicken, and other insane food prices in Northern Canada
June 11, 2012It’s not just food, either — necessary sundries like diapers and sanitary napkins are also outrageously expensive. According to one comment on the Facebook group, it’s often more cost-effective to fly to Edmonton, Alberta, do your shopping there, and fly home. (That alone is a pretty good indication that shipping costs are not exclusively to blame.) Meanwhile, a family of four on social assistance in Nunavut would get about $275 to $325 a week for food.
Nunavut residents protested outside their local stores on Saturday, and some are reporting price changes as stores have been shamed into cutting back on their price gouging — at least temporarily. One resident reports on Facebook: “Bought an avocado for 1.99,(was 5.99 for one) green onions 2.19, cranberry juice 4.99 from 18.99.” We’ll see how long that lasts.
There’s a Change.org petition about addressing food insecurity in Nunavut, if you need something to do with your impotent rage, and the Iqaluit food bank is probably taking donations.
