merahwolf
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I wonder. I was watching this documentary on a serial killer who, as a 15 year old, killed his grandparents because he “wanted to see what it was like to kill grandma” and then didn’t want his grandfather to be alone and murdered him. He was tried as a child and had his record expunged.
But a young black girl can be tried as an adult for killing her rapist.
I wonder what I would find if I looked up statistics of being tried as an adult and race. Given how often poc children are treated with inherently less empathy and seen as adults.
Zero plot twist.
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Younger generations failing to pick up where parents left off when it comes to charitable giving 
They probably didn’t even look at crowdfunding considering it’s talking about organizations.
Hey uhhhhh…. this just isn’t true. Millennial actually OUTGIVE their previous two generations percentage wise, they just give differently than the last two gens. We spread out our money instead of doing multiple big donations throughout the year. For one of my masters classes I did my final paper on millennial giving and here is my fav source that breaks it down: “In 2014, 84 percent of millennial employees gave to charity and 70 percent of them donated more than an hour to a charitable cause, according to the Case Foundation’s Millennial Impact Report: 2015 (download required). Sure, boomers and Gen Xers are giving more in terms of dollars ($732 and $1,212 per year, respectively), but at an average of $481 given each year, millennials are quickly gaining influence over the philanthropic space (source: The Next Generation of American Giving, 2018). Considering that millennials earn less than their counterparts did and are often riddled with student debt, years away from owning a car or a home, these numbers are significant. If people become more generous over their lives and are more likely to give if their parents give, millennials will become the most generous generation in history. One can easily imagine this reaching 95 or even 100 percent by the time they reach midlife. As millennials double as a working population, their share of charitable donations is likely to reflect that growth. Organizations should be doubling down on their efforts to connect with and reach millennials.” (Forbes, “How Millennials Are Changing Philanthropy, Justin Wheeler)
In conclusion: If nonprofits are hurting it is because they refuse to engage with millennials and their communities, not because millennials “aren’t giving”.
Sincerely,
An MSW student in Nonprofit Management
Did this stat include peer-to-peer’s like GoFund? Considering all the fuckery & shenanigans big Charitable Orgs often tend to get caught up in, maybe Millinials just don’t TRUST the muthafuka’s, huh?… Could be.
(via bilt2tumble)
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10 Latinx Icons You Didn’t Learn About in School
American history has been whitewashed. Thumb through any history book and you’re lucky if you find the names of civil rights activist César Chávez, or even Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. It seems the Latinx community has been erased from American history’s pages, starting with its colonial existence and continuing into modern day. Many textbooks do not mention the 1975 extension of the 1965 Voting Rights Actthat finally gave many in the Latinx community the right to vote, or include any text dedicated to the Chicanx movement that took place in the 1960s.
Rather than wait for more outdated textbooks to get written, take time to educate yourself about historical Latinx figures that helped shape American history. From astronauts to activists, below are just a handful of the many Latinx icons that should be featured in every U.S. history book.
Alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s fight for civil rights in the 1960s was Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzales’s Chicanx movement in the American Southwest. He dedicated his life to the movement for Mexican-American rights, helped register the most Chicanx voters in Colorado history, founded a cultural center that aimed to end poverty and racial injustice, fronted the Chicanx portion of the Poor People’s March on Washington, and even established a contract school in Denver for Chicanx students. Of course, Gonzales had many other impressive life achievements, and his contributions as the father of the Chicanx movement must be remembered.
The gay liberation movement of the 1960s would have been much less powerful without Sylvia Rivera. Advocating for trans people and people of color within the movement, Rivera is perhaps best known for throwing one of the first bottles during the Stonewall riots and fighting against the exclusion of trans people from the Sexual Orientation Non-Discrimination Act. Rivera also started a home dedicated to providing shelter to homeless queer youth via her organization, Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR).
Though she is most often associated with César Chávez and her work with the National Farm Workers Association, Dolores Huerta’s history of activism started long before and continued well after the famed “Si se puede” demonstrations. In her 20s, Huerta was a leader in the Community Services Organization (CSO) and founded the Agricultural Workers Association. She played an instrumental part in securing Aid for Dependent Families and disability insurance for California farmworkers in the early 1960s, and she saw to it that the Agricultural Labor Relations Act of 1975 was enacted in California. In addition to directing the national boycott of California grapes, Huerta was a women’s rights advocate and voice for Latinas for office. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her life’s work by President Barack Obama in 2012.
In 1942, when Japanese and Japanese-Americans were unjustly being forced into internment camps, Mexican-American teen Ralph Lazo voluntarily entered one of these camps as an act of solidarity. Lazo spent two years living in the Manzanar internment camp and is said to be the only non-Japanese person who wasn’t the spouse of a detainee to live in the camps. Though he had to leave the internment camp because he was drafted by the Army, Lazo continued to be an outspoken advocate for the Japanese-American community until his death in 1992.
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Me: okay, so do we like girls?
My sexuality: uuuuuuuuuhhh yeah probably maybe probably kinda maybe
Me: do we like guys?
My sexuality: sbbsvsnakshsnsb uummmmm no I don’t think so but maybe but look but babsbsbajdjsje
Me: um, then do we like non-binary people?
My sexuality: Uuuuhhhhh yeah probably maybe but uuuhh maybe probably maybe maybe
Me: do we even want any romantic relationships????
My sexuality: uuuuuuuhhhm maybe maybe not uugshsnakkwa probably but not but yeah but hsbsbqnskkdosksn
Me: well do you know if we want any sexual relationships?
My sexuality: weeellllll uuuhhhh yeahhh but definitely not but probably maybe but no but anbsbsnkaka
Me: fantastic, thank you you have been absolutely useless
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A New Hampshire Republican State Representative anonymously created the “Red Pill” subreddit.
Wow.
these aren’t just bullshitter dweebs in their mom’s basements trolling the internet, these are men who formulate the way we implement laws and who govern the way we live our lives.^^^ Hello, yes, everyone needs to see this. It’s not always a bunch of nobodies trolling around on 4chan. It’s, doctors, lawyers, judges, businessmen, bankers, law enforcement, etc. People who have pulls on society. They literally don’t see other groups besides themselves as human or equal
They need to criminally investigate him because I can guarantee this guy is a rapist based on what he’s said about rape.
And hopefully as a sexist as our society is the comment about 15 year old girls should at least raise alarm bells for statutory rape.
(via theroguefeminist)
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Does anyone remember a post circulating back in April about an LGBTQ bookstore in Ann Arbor? They posted a status on Facebook about how they didn’t have any books sales that day?
The post circulated tumblr for a couple of days and their Facebook page was swarmed with likes and support, suddenly they had more online orders than they ever had before. They announced that had roughly 700 online orders with only a staff of three people and a dog to fill them, and even with the deluge of orders they would still be struggling to stay open.
Unfortunately, that’s how the story is winding up for them. They recently announced that they would be closing and I thought it’d be nice to send them off with one last hoorah!
If you have the available funds, then maybe consider helping them out. Here’s a link to their website. It may not be a great start to the New Year, but it may make it easier for them,
(via fandomsandfeminism)
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