cometinthesky:

Amy Winehouse after hearing she has just won her first Grammy (2008)

Not going to lie, I just kind of teared up when I saw this

RIP bby! <3

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daenerystaygaryen:

To just sleep in a car like this, with your best friend or boyfriend and not worry because its just you two and tomorrow you’re just going to climb out of bed and into the front of the car where you’ll drive off. Another day on your road trip together, living, laughing, loving.

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I don’t mean to be a pain or to solicit here, but I’m cleaning out my closet and selling some of my favorite pieces (either because they don’t fit well or I’m just not getting any use out of them) on Ebay. 
A lot of really popular names including Juicy Couture, Jeffrey Campbell, Vivienne Westwood, Miu Miu, J. Crew, Black Milk, Free People and A LOT more! 
Go check it out! Bidding ends in 2 days, so don’t miss out! 

http://www.ebay.com/sch/thecabaretdolly/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=25&_trksid=p3686

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canisfamiliaris:

Is Junk Food Really Cheaper?

The answer is NO.

The “fact” that junk food is cheaper than real food has become a reflexive part of how we explain why so many Americans are overweight, particularly those with lower incomes. I frequently read confident statements like, “when a bag of chips is cheaper than a head of broccoli …” or “it’s more affordable to feed a family of four at McDonald’s than to cook a healthy meal for them at home.”

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this bullshit fills me with a very specific kind of rage. so, TIME TO DEBUNK!

1. that meal from mcdonalds takes virtually no time to acquire AND is available almost anywhere.
2. the second meal? that “salad” is lettuce … with nothing else, not even dressing unless its just olive oil or some milk i guess? gross.
3. also thats the price of each serving, not an entire loaf of bread, a bottle of olive oil, etc. that stuff adds up which means you have to have a lot of money at one time to buy it all.
4. that meal probably took an hour and a half to make, which is a long fucking time when you work multiple jobs or are caring for a lot of people or dont have help! seriously, if you are a single parent of three who works, is spending an hour and a half every night preparing a meal a likely option?
5. same with beans and rice! also, you know whats a fucking bummer? eating beans and rice every night because you are poor. ask any person who has done it and they will tell you (you can start with me).
6. there is a “nutrition” argument here that lacks a follow up: poor people are more likely to be doing physical labor and need more than 571 calories per meal.
7. you know who is less likely to know how to bake or prepare a chicken? people without access to the internet, or libraries, or who werent taught how to by their parents because their parents worked all the time. access to healthy foods is a classist issue and classism is cyclical, you fucking morons.
8. seriously, these sorts of infographics make me want to fucking flip tables. do you know why people don’t eat more fresh fruits and vegetables? because fresh fruits and vegetables are expensive, because they take a long time to prepare, because they dont live near a grocery store that has a decent produce section, because they dont have reliable transportation to get groceries to and from the grocery store, because they dont have the energy to plan all of the shit that is involved in making healthy, intentional, filling, balanced meals. basically: poor people get fucked, and then we get BLAMED for being lazy.
9. eating “healthy”, aka access to fresh fruits and vegetables, is a privilege, first, foremost, always. so fuck you new york times and your ignorant goddamn infographic.
10. there are SYSTEMATIC REASONS that we do not have equal access to fresh fruits and vegetables. they are very REAL problems. besides, you know, systematic poverty in america, the total mis-distribution of farm subsidies is a perfect place to start. read about that, then either get bent or start working on the actual problem.

This angry lecture is so beautiful. I love lectures on the cycle of poverty! It makes me want to reread my sociology notes and contribute some freaking facts on poverty. Did you know that the line of poverty is measured by an equation developed in 1955? A new one has been developed and applied but all government policies are written for the old version. And with a federal minimum wage of only 7.25, it’s basically impossible to be able to afford to live in some areas. The minimum hourly wage for a family to get by in a two bedroom apartment is 22.83 in DC. That’s over three times federal minimum wage, and still over double the state minimum wage of 8.25. So with a single breadwinner working two minimum wage jobs, or two breadwinners working one minimum wage job each, the family may still not be able to eek out a meager existence.

Thank you sweet baby jesus, this argument. 
RECOGNIZE YOUR PRIVILEGE BITCHES. 

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