Edit 5/22/12 - added many links upon request
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Giving away a brand new Monoprice tablet! It has been opened to see if everything was there and for a quick 5 minute test run (the battery it came with is in the pen already). I liked the tablet but changed my mind - So I’d love to give it a new home to someone who is in need!
RULES
- You do NOT have to follow me
- Reblog to enter - likes and multiple reblogs don’t count. Just one. (If you
don’t want the tablet and would like to reblog for signal boost then please say so, when rebloging it, so that I know to exclude you in the final drawing)- I will ship anywhere world wide
- Make sure you ask box is open so I can let you know if you’ve won!
- Contest ends June 3rd at 11:30pm CST
- The winner will be picked with a random number generator
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Olivia Penpraze.
19 years old.
Died from a Suicide attempt that left her brain dead. Her parents made the hardest decision of their lives by turning off her life support.
She had a Tumblr account with over 900 posts sharing her emotional turmoil, dealings with depression, loneliness & thoughts about her wanting to take her own life.
The only response she got, was insensitive assholes, like the majority of people on Tumblr, encouraging her to do it. She was bullied consistently.
Olivia attempted to kill herself every year in May 1st since 2008.In May 2012, her short life came to an end.
I know most people can’t tolerate posts like Olivia’s, whom find it attention seeking.
My point to you people is…EXACTLY!!
Of course it’s attention seeking what else it?! People share that part of themselves over the Internet because they obviously feel they can’t talk to anyone they know nor do they think anyone would care.
All I want is for people to cut out the bullying & talk to people like Olivia.
A conversation to someone in desperation could save their life.If people can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all.
You never know…
What you say could be used to decide whether they live or die.Even if youre a b&w blog, reblog this.
Please, please be good to each other on Tumblr. And in life. How unbelievably heart-breaking that her life was cut short.
-Jess
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Again! Again!
All of the books are in MOBI or AZW format for Kindle. If you want to convert the files to PDF or ePub I recommend Calibre or online-converter. If you have any problems with downloads or formatting please let me know and I will fix it asap.
- Myths of Gender by Anne Fausto-Sterling [X]
- The Second Shift by Arlie Hochschild [X]
- Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich [X]
- Feminism Is For Everybody by bell hooks [X]
- The Sociological Imagination by C. Wright Mills [X]
- Dude, You’re A Fag by C.J. Pascoe [X]
- Sociology and Modern Social Problems by Charles A. Ellwood [X]
- The Goffman Reader by Charles Lemert [X]
- The Cambridge Companion To Simone de Beauvoir by Claudia Card [X]
- Genders by David Glover [X]
- Cultural Geography by David Sibley [X]
- Critical Theory After Habermas by Dieter Freunlieb [X]
- Punishment For Sale by Donna Delman [X]
- Everything Is Obvious by Duncan J. Watts [X]
- Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch by Dwight A. McBride [X]
- Encyclopedia of Sociology by Edgar F. Borgatta [X]
- Bodily Citations by Ellen Armour [X]
- Suicide by Emile Durkheim [X]
- The Rules of the Sociological Method by Emile Durkheim [X]
- Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser [X]
- Handbook of Social Theory by George Ritzer [X]
- The Blackwell Companion To Major Classical Social Theorists by George Ritzer [X]
- Between XX and XY by Gerald N. Callahan [X]
- How To Observe Morals and Manners by Harriet Martineau [X]
- Habermas and Contemporary Society by John F. Sitton [X]
- Critical Pedagogy For Social Justice by John Smyth [X]
- The Power of Labeling by Joy Moncrieffe [X]
- Gendered Lives by Julia T. Wood [X]
- Gender Trouble by Judith Butler [X]
- Undoing Gender by Judith Butler [X]
- The Spirit Level by Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson [X]
- The Myth of Choice by Kent Greenfield [X]
- Essentials of Social Research by Linda Kalof [X]
- Food Politics by Marion Nestle [X]
- The Digital Divide by Mark Bauerlein [X]
- The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber [X]
- Sister Citizen by Melissa Harris-Perry [X]
- Brandwashed by Martin Lindstrom [X]
- August Comte by Mike Gane [X]
- The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf [X]
- Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire [X]
- The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo [X]
- The Sociology of Culture and Cultural Studies by Pierre Bourdieu [X]
- Drift by Rachel Maddow [X]
- The Marx & Engels Reader by Robert C. Tucker [X]
- Let Them Eat Junk by Robert Albritton [X]
- Consumer Culture by Roberta Sassatelli [X]
- The Legacy of Pierre Bourdieu by Simon Susen [X]
- Gang Leader For A Day by Sudhir Venkatesh [X]
- Quiet by Susan Cain [X]
- From Marriage To the Market by Susan Thistle [X]
- The Cambridge Companion to Marx by Terrell Carver [X]
- Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen [X]
- White Like Me by Tim Wise [X]
- Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness by Toure [X]
- Building A Housewife’s Paradise by Tracey Deutsch [X]
- The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore [X]
Books to read for leisure or if you’re trying to figure what you should study/major in
I wish this came up on my dash before I rushed off to buy Rachel Maddows book. Not that I don’t love supporting her but I could have used that money to get books I would use in grad school..
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Like, I wish I could get the friends back that I lost due to secluding myself during the darkest points of my eating disorder. I wish I could explain to them that I didn’t mean to ignore them and become friendless, I just became terrified of social situations. I wish I could go back and go to the…
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Fuck I look like?No, really, fuck I look like?I look like you got me fucked up is what I look like.You lookin at me like I’m not supposed to be standing here next to you,like we in the same class but your idea of advance is too advanced and my mind can’t match you.I think its my vernacular,how I got half the consonants and twice the apostrophes so my philosophy can’t be valid.Like I speak slave and you speak slave master.This isn’t a plantation, it’s a classroom. White people think they run shit because they got money to buy a thesaurus.You say gargantuan,I say big as shit.Its still big as shit it don’t really matter i guess AP stands for asshole pretentiousness.And If you don’t know what that means look it up, find a synonym. You like doing that shit.And you also like judging a book by the color of its author because apparently Maya Angelou was inferior due to her grammatical errors,but white man Mark Twain can write a whole novel in nothing but grammatical errors and that shit is a literary masterpiece.Well i can’t help but to pardon my people’s slang cuz “real niggas ain’t real niggas if they don’t got a twang”I wanna apologize for mean muggin from the back of the classroom.Talking about existentialism like a muthafuckin boss!It’s not ya floss buy me, niggas can’t bide for me either cuz as soon as i raise my hand for anything other than a bathroom break i become a weirdo.And God forbid I excel.A 4.0 means i’m four shades lighter because apparently intelligence is a white trait.Aleast that’s what i’ve gathered.This one girl asked me: “Why would i use big words, so i can sound like you?” You know what i sound like?Like i’ve read a book before.According to my people, I act smart, so I act white.So I can’t be black and be smart because black people are dumb?All this is is self hate!And to them that’s acceptable because white people told us niggas not to read 300 years ago and now niggas telling other niggas not to read.What are we afraid of?Its like we think giving 100 percent means giving 100 lashes and my people don’t even know that we are working with our oppressors.Just passing on the torch but we can’t pass the bar.Because the bar has been set so low that we are crushing under the weight. You expect me to cut class and get an F just to perpetuate the stereotype thats been instilled in this bullshit curriculum?Fuck I look like?I will never equate stupidity with my melanin nor will I ever sacrifice my skin for the white mans standards.So never ask that I speak for anyone but me,Represent anything but what i stand for in lifeAnd if anybody ever expects me to be anybody but myself they got me fucked up.Kai Davis Spoken Word: Fuck I Look Like!
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