Tumblr is a magical land full of gifs and fandoms and a lot of grassroots activists. Here are the best things that crossed my dashboard this week that made me laugh and think.
What I love about Tumblr is that there are so many different ways to communicate. You can use images, gifs, articles, stories, journal posts, etc., to get your point across to a whole lot of folks! Let’s start with the images and go from there.
Too apt a picture to show up on Tumblr because too often, I leave things for tomorrow because of that website.
And then here we have a comic by Tumblr blogger Sailor Swayze on loyalties and gaming consoles:
Teachers are often unaware of the gender distribution of talk in their classrooms. They usually consider that they give equal amounts of attention to girls and boys, and it is only when they make a tape recording that they realize that boys are dominating the interactions.
So if you’ve ever felt overlooked in class, this is probably why. Now if only more teachers were aware of this study.
And finally, from Feminist Disney, the following quote drew my attention and made me think long and hard about what it means to be a woman who also calls herself a feminist:
The buzz word in popular feminism today is empowerment. When I became a feminist many years ago, the word we used was liberation. Unlike empowerment, liberation is a collective concept which means that even if my life is all rosy and ’empowered,’ it doesn’t mean shit for those women who are doing low paid jobs while trying to raise families. In fact, there is a very good chance that elite women’s empowerment is built on the backs of other women whose exploited labor provides the goods and services that enable a good career and a comfortable lifestyle. The low pay of nannies, cooks, cleaners, sweat shop workers, and day care providers means that wealthier women are freed up to make a salary that no doubt does feel empowering. -Gail Dines
So what did you find on Tumblr last week?
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Wow, your Tumblr finds are so high brow. My dashboard exists out of West Wing, Marvel women, Red Pants Monday and ..more unsafe for work things. La la la alaaa.
Hahaha! I have PLENTY of stuff on my dash that didn’t end up here. I also follow a lot of comic book, gaming, and superhero tumblrs…
University of Montana! Woo! I went there!
For, like, a year and a half and then they broke up with me for being, um, “distant,” BUT STILL.
“Distant?” Or should I not ask?
No, it’s fine! haha. What I mean is I was technically still enrolled but quit turning up to class, so I failed those classes and then they said, “This isn’t working out,” and unless I wanted to state my case on why they should still let me be enrolled, I no longer was.
There were a lot of reasons why I quit going, but one of the main ones was I was a creative writing major with no $$ and no desire to rack up a bajillion dollars in loans for a major that I technically didn’t have to have to do what I wanted to do.
I was wondering if that’s what you meant by “distant.” :)
This is brilliant, and the best possible way to start our new column.
My favorite is the little girl on her bike. TINY BADASSES FTW.
Thanks, Selena! :)
PS. I’m totes jealous of the little girl’s biking skills. If I were to try that, I would definitely wipe out…
it helps that she has training wheels…
That’s a good point, and the gif cuts off, so she may have still toppled into the wall. Even so, it looks cool! :)
EEEEE I’m so Glad you mentioned Emily! I have a nerd crush on her (As well as a regular crush) and The Brain Scoop is super fun. (I also watch Sci Show, whose field trip is what got brain scoop started.) A friend of mine calls it the dead animal channel. I’m considering trying out re-articulation now, actually, and maybe having a colony of dermestid beetles at some point.
Mad props and good luck with the beetle colony! I admire beetles from a distance. ;)
I think I’ll actually end up doing it more towards the fall, as that’s when hunting season is and you have to make sure you can legally own certain animal remains. If it’s a legal hunt kill, then there’s no issue with it. Otherwise I’ll have to call the Game Commission here- which might happen anyways. My mother has some land and they sometimes find natural falls.
I’m so excited about the beetles you have no idea.
Between now and then, though, we are planning on doing Kombucha as a mother-daughter thing. (My mother has no interest in the dead animals.) Which is similarly bio fun- it’s a specific culture of fungus and bacteria! Me might do Kefir too, but that would be for my mum more than me.
Very cool! A couple of my friends make kombucha at home, and I’ve bounced around the idea of trying it out myself. Let me know how it goes? I’d love to get some tips on it!