September 2009
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The Avett Brothers / Living of Love
I’m currently looking for publications to include in material packets for a Sexuality Education Advocacy Training program and was led toward this. The following are from In Their Own Words: What Abstinence Only Until Marriage Programs Say, from SIECUS.
“The first player spins the cylinder, points the gun to his/her head, and pulls the trigger. He/she has only one in six chances of...
“The Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday night approved an amendment providing...”
– The Washington Independent » Senate Finance Committee Approves Amendment Providing Millions for Abstinence Education
That’s $50 million per year for programs that deliberately mislead children and are ineffective at their stated goal of reducing teen sex.
via Washington Monthly
(via...
dtronics:
KINDNESS by Naomi Shihab Nye
Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth. What you held in your hand, what you counted and carefully saved, all this must go so you know how desolate the landscape can be between the regions of kindness. How you ride and ride thinking the bus will never stop, ...
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syntheticpubes:
The Mountain Goats — “The Sign”...
Vincent D'Onofrio leaving "Law & Order: Criminal... →
notemily:
noooooooooooooooooo
not possible. denying this as reality.
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“I can’t go back into the past and change it, but I have noticed that the future...”
– Jeanette Winterson (via libraries) (via booklover)
“People don’t like to hear that their heroes can also be rapists, and that...”
– Rape Apologism and the Response to Mackenzie Phillips : The Curvature (via notemily) (via amberlrhea)
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“I learned to love myself, because I sleep with myself every night and I wake up...”
– Gabourey Sidibe (via NYMag) (via heyfatchick)
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“The goal is to live in such a way that our lives will prove worth dying for…The...”
– Rev. Dr. Forrest Church, who was amazing. He passed away this past week.
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my name is nicole, but who the fuck am i?
i can’t stand writing about myself pages on the internet. it feels ridiculous and always fake, forced. but knowing me doesn’t work the same way on here. i feel i have to say something, so here goes. it isn’t eloquent or thought about for much longer than the next few moments, but this is what comes from me.
-i am a seventeen year old...
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The Frames / Seven Day Mile
Your will changes...