May 2012
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April 2012
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Change The Ratio
techladymafia:
The extraordinary success of Instagram is a tale about the culture of the Bay Area tech scene, driven by a tightly woven web of entrepreneurs and investors who nurture one another’s projects with money, advice and introductions to the right people. By and large, it is a network of young men, many who attended Stanford and had the attention of the world’s biggest venture...
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“My master used to read prayers in public to the ship’s crew every Sabbath day,...”
– James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, from his 1722 autobiography, the first slave narrative to be published in English (via laphamsquarterly)
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March 2012
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Dream Journal 3/23/2012
Twin Peaks-era Kyle MacLachlan is the host of a food show on the Travel Channel. He’s shooting an episode in a diner, in which he taste-tests American pot brownies vs. British pot brownies. He’s taken a bite of each and is giggling a lot, describing what he’s experiencing for the cameras. In walks Portlandia-era Kyle MacLachlan (the estranged father of Twin Peaks-era Kyle...
WatchPretty Vacant
33 min., 16mm, 1996
dir. Jim Mendiola
thanks Chris Vargas!
I Could Be Trayvon: Taking a walk on a Day off of... →
My friend and coworker Dom just launched this Tumblr to collect “Trayvon stories,” stories from black and brown men (and anyone who’s subject to the prejudice that black and brown men face). The story below, submitted anonymously, has some achingly familiar elements.
It’s one thing to know that racial profiling is alive and well. But it’s another to understand that...
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Yesterday at the bubble tea place, as I was waiting for my matcha latté, a tiny girl at the next table stared at me REALLY INTENSELY for a very long time. Eventually she walked over and handed me half a birthday card.
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Watchwhat? no i’m not crying, i just have something in my eye
