Showing posts with label activism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label activism. Show all posts

29 October 2007

Unbought and Unbossed

Shirley Chisholm!

"I've always met more discrimination being a woman than being black."

"The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: 'It's a girl.'"

"One distressing thing is the way men react to women who assert their equality: their ultimate weapon is to call them unfeminine. They think she is anti-male; they even whisper that she's probably a lesbian."

The quotes are from here.

The awesome is from here.

10 October 2007

Eyes Adjust

Now Serving Celestial Seasonings Coconut Chai Tea

What does the opinion "no one has a good system of government [my emphasis]" reveal about our education system?

(a) Senior pranks cause world disasters
(b) We have an overpopulation of llamas
(c) There are too many multiple-choice questions
(d) It is full of lies about the world

Are you a freshman? RTFM

Aaron Carter was in my class wearing a Darfur shirt, but I wonder if this will last longer than four years. Live Earth was a goofy college fling, a memory of wilder days that will get stored in the global attic and hidden from the kids.