February 2012
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Why is it, do you think, children are always too young to hear the truth, but...
– Ward Churchill
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Sometimes I wish that there were two or three Sundays each week. Then I’d have an excuse to sit in my living while watching the ones I love play Skyrim, and just read the Hunger Games trilogy all day while eating spring rolls.
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4th Annual Memorial March for Missing and Murdered... →
etiquette-etc:
Signal boost for Victoria folks!
January 2012
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Wish me luck!
Just sent off an application to work at an alternative school for high school girls. I would work as a teacher’s assistant, but nonetheless, I want the job so badly!! Eeeee!
Hi-C Educates the Masses: Coquitlam RCMP on... →
cheekie:
Coquitlam RCMP on lookout for missing girl, 14
niibish-tart:
Coquitlam RCMP is asking for the public’s assistance to locate a missing teenage girl.
Lorna Nelmes was last seen by her father on Jan. 13 when he dropped her off at a drop-in center near the Lougheed Mall area in Burnaby. When Nelmes did not go home, the family contacted the Coquitlam RCMP on Jan. 15 to report her...
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When someone with the authority of a teacher, say, describes the world and you...
– Adrienne Rich, Invisibility in the Academe.
You must bring the light you are to everything you do. Whether that means...
– (via stumblingstones)
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Feeling like I’m starting to miss community today. The kind that embraces you. The kind the challenges you. The kind that loves and values you.
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Remember This Everyday :: Thoughts for a New...
excerpt from Teaching Tolerance, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center
Teaching is even more rewarding than you imagined. It is also more exhausting. Rest when you can and take time for yourself each and every day. You will be a better teacher (and human being) for it.
Take the time to not only get to know your students and allow them to get to know you, but also to create opportunities...
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I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge...
– Dalai Lama
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a month of things to be grateful for
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Today I have been...
- unemployed (still) - weepy - yelled at by the president of the strata council of my building - consoled by the best friends I could ever ask for - reminded that there are always things to be thankful for…
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I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does...
– Maya Angelou
veganfemme:
This excellent documentary on LGBT aging, Gen Silent, is streaming free online from January 1-8. Go here to watch it.
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AIDS ACTION NOW: FUCK POSITIVE WOMEN – Allyson... →
ruthdesouza:
FUCK POSITIVE WOMEN poster, made by Allyson Mitchell and Jessica Whitbread of the International Community of Women Living with HIV (ICW).
Allyson Mitchell:
“When Jessica and I first met to think about this project, we considered the kinds of representations of positive women that were are very familiar, with HIV-positive women as mothers, as victims, as not from or living...
Don’t be afraid of your fears. They’re not there to scare you. They’re there to...
– ― C. JoyBell C.
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Turns out, I learned a lot from not being able to go France. Turns out, those...
– Dear Sugar on student loans and working your way through school.
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As always...
1) Be kind and gentle (with yourself and others). 2) Do no harm.
Oh, and… 3) Treat your family more tenderly. Everyone needs a little tenderness now and then. 4) Give thanks for those you love and who love you back.
December 2011
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Beginning now and ending at the end of Jan 2 is...
teamteachers:
Here’s how Teacher Dare Day works!
Don’t forget to use the Teacher Dare Day tag!
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Reasons why I love my family #37
Christmas means getting drunk and slow dancing to Phil Collins. This is my Aunt and my cousin Jaime grooving to Hold On. I have the best family ever.
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Top 25 Significant Queer Women of 2011 →
A seriously good list.
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For those of us who write, it is necessary to scrutinize not only the truth of...
– Audre Lorde in Sister Outsider
Love redeems. Despite all the lovelessness that surrounds us, nothing has been...
– bell hooks in all about love
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Ummm
Arriving home from my family Christmas party at 3:30am. What up.
Don’t you dare, for one more second, surround yourself with people who are not...
– Jo Blackwell-Preston