The breath before the phrase

April 23, 2012 • 1,270 notes • mywritingmysociety

“The U.S. locks up children at more than six times the rate of all other developed nations. The over 60,000 average daily juvenile lockups, a figure estimated by the Annie E. Casey Foundation (AECF), are also disproportionately young people of color. With an average cost of $80,000 per year to lock up a child, the U.S. spends more than $5 billion annually on youth detention.” - Pete Brook, Wired.com (click through for source article)
For comparison, the annual spending for k-12 education (per child) is less than $8000 (source) - it costs 10x less to educate than incarcerate.

“The U.S. locks up children at more than six times the rate of all other developed nations. The over 60,000 average daily juvenile lockups, a figure estimated by the Annie E. Casey Foundation (AECF), are also disproportionately young people of color. With an average cost of $80,000 per year to lock up a child, the U.S. spends more than $5 billion annually on youth detention.” - Pete Brook, Wired.com (click through for source article)

For comparison, the annual spending for k-12 education (per child) is less than $8000 (source) - it costs 10x less to educate than incarcerate.

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April 23, 2012 • 1,779 notes • mythicalasexual

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April 21, 2012 • 114,072 notes • pusheen

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April 18, 2012 • 6,716 notes • whenafteranswers

tslillykat:

whenafteranswers:

And another <3

http://www.redbubble.com/people/no1fanmcr/works/8704918-some-women-have-penises

Rebloging this again cause it only has like 180 notes but the “Men have Vagina’s” has almost 1,700 notes. WTF?? What about us girls?

Please Love & Support ALL trans people! Us girls matter too & we get a lot more hate & hate crimes against us, so please remember, all of us struggle.

p.s. This is NOT a stab at trans men, I LOVE & RESPECT TRANS MEN & have rebloged the other one myself.

Just pointing out the deference in the way people treat & support us.

Thanks, I love you ALL! <3

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April 17, 2012 • 47 notes • burning-soul

April 15, 2012 • 25,872 notes • theletteredcottage.net

thepinkster:

Do want.

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April 11, 2012 • 1,787 notes • brittnyelise

This is how I will behave when you live here :D <3

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April 11, 2012 • 6,875 notes • dejiprincess

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April 7, 2012 • 136,433 notes • youarewhatyoumake

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April 5, 2012

Day 2: 30 Day Genderqueer Challenge!

How did you grow up with your gender?

As a child, I always assumed I was a girl. It didn’t occur to me that I could possibly be anything else. I did however challenge what it meant to be a girl. For pretty much all my prepubescent years I was a big tomboy: short hair, no pink, no dresses or skirts. I liked to play rough and always thought of myself as an adventurer or warrior or animal (think wolves and dinosaurs) and never a princess.

When I entered middle school things changed. I honestly don’t know if the change happened because I wanted it to or because I felt I needed to in order to fit in. It was probably a bit of both. I grew my hair, wore make-up and girly clothes, and became preoccupied with being perceived as nice.

I didn’t settle into a happy medium until I was 16 or 17. Then, as now, I can be sort of girly and sort of boyish and sort of everything else. That was also when I started to feel more comfortable as a queer person and to read Kate Bornstein (it was “My Gender Workbook” that awoke in me the knowledge that maybe I wasn’t a boy or a girl).

The 30 day genderqueer challenge was made by gender-queer (see here for the whole thing).