[insert cliché blog title]: Sophomore Year

chandreaaa:

This has been the most tumultuous year I’ve had at this school so far. There was so much going on and there were so many high expectations and shitty moments, and I’m almost too scared to try to sum it all up and reflect. I told myself that I would publish a post about the conclusion of my…

So I hope OP doesn’t mind that I’m reblogging this… I’m a fellow soph with a sorta different persepctive. Unlike her, I am walking away from our school.

A lot changed this year. It sucked. I wasn’t happy. It was more than a ‘sophomore slump’ — I wasn’t just disillusioned or concerned about/struggling with my academics, I wanted out for basically all of spring semester and some of fall.

I kinda thought things would work themselves out by the end of the semester. I could apply to a few schools to transfer, and when I got myself through my rough spot I could politely turn down offers of admission and go to Vienna in the fall and everything would be fine. But actually, the more time passed the better this idea seemed. I’m very glad I went to Bryn Mawr, and I think I’m a better woman now than I was when I arrived. But it’s not what I need anymore.

I know what I’m giving up, and I’m certain I’ll miss it very much. But for the first time all year I’m excited about school again. I’m most likely going to Boston University, and I’ll meet lots of new people and learn lots of new things and have lots more opportunities to get some real experience in my field, I think. And I’ll be close to home.

I will carry my lantern for the rest of my life. I’ll light a candle for Step Sings. I’ll come back when I can (May Day 2014, I’m looking at you). And I’ll always be a green class owlet. As the old saying goes, you can take the woman out of the Mawr, but you’ll never get the Mawr out of her.

“No goodbyes, only ‘See ya later.’” Bryn Mawr, you haven’t seen the last of me.

  • Depression: Don't tell me you understand because you get sad sometimes.
  • Insomnia: Don't tell me you're an insomniac because you missed a few nights of sleep.
  • Eating Disorder: Don't tell me you have an eating disorder because you missed a meal.
  • Bipolar: Don't tell me you're bipolar because you get mood swings on your period.
  • Anxiety: Don't tell me you have anxiety because you got nervous before an exam.
  • ADHD: Don't tell me you have ADHD because you're hyper sometimes
  • Schizophrenic: Don't tell me you're a schizo because you sometimes see shadows and hear sounds at night.
  • Just don't.

Source: teenaqeshitdisturber

sweethardpunk:

sweethardpunk:

psa: masculinity and femininity are not some spectrum. they are not opposites and do not belong at opposite ends of a pole, so that you lie x place between them.

no man is emasculated and thus effeminate. no woman becomes defeminized and thus masculine.

not only is this a false idea of the gender/sex binary that erases identities and experiences, it is especially harmful to trans*/genderqueer people whose identities are typically more heavily placed on concepts of masculinity and femininity.

  • spanish and italian: So THESE words are feminine and THESE words are masculine, and you ALWAYS put an adjective AFTER the noun.
  • french: haha i dont fuckin know man just do whatever
  • german: LET'S ADD A NEUTRAL NOUN HAHA
  • english: *shooting up in the bathroom*
  • gaelic: the pronounciation changes depending on the gender and what letter the word starts and ends with and hahah i dont even know good fucking luck
  • polish: here have all of these consonants have fun
  • japanese: subject article noun article verb. too bad there's three fucking alphabets lmao hope your first language isn't western
  • welsh: sneeze, and chances are you've got it right. idfk
  • chinese: here's a picture. draw it. it means something. it can be pronounced three different ways. these twenty other pictures are pronounced the same but have very different meanings. godspeed.
  • Arabic: so here's this one word. it actually translates to three words. also pronouns don't really exist. the gender is all in the verb. have fun!
  • Latin: here memorize 500 charts and then you still dont know what the fuck is happening

Source: espeonchan

this thing’s been bugging me

irresistible-revolution:

how the voices of POC get pitted against each other all the time, and it’s usually done to 

  • affirm some kind of racist/ culturally appropriative act
  • affirm the idea that POC are a monolith

Like during The Great Bindi Debate on Tumblr, there were so many ppl going ‘but I talked to someone who lives in India and they said it was ok!’. There were even desis from the homeland chiming in to tell us diasporic desis that we’re making too much of it and that they don’t care if white people wear bindis and so neither should we.

Let me be clear: these are not conversations in which white people have any prerogative. The concerns of our activism and identity are ‘family’ conversations that POC have with each other, so stop appropriating the differences in our perspectives to further silence and disenfranchise us.

And secondly, I’m tired of the voices of POC in the homelands being used to discredit diasporic voices. The issue of western privilege is real, and I know that many times POCs in the global north speak over our brothers and sisters in the global south. But, it’s never ok to tell me that my activism is not valid because you it doesn’t affect you. Sure, when I’m in Sri Lanka talking to my friends and reading the news, I don’t care as much about some white girls wearing bindis. I care about issues like the genocide of Tamil folks and the issue of IDPs and resettlement and gender violence at the structural and personal level and shadeism etc. I’m capable of having multiple avenues of activism!

I’m capable of thinking in multiplicity, according to how I’m positioned by social and political forces, according to how I’m connected to the communities I’m immersed in.

So like…can we just broaden this conversation and stop invalidating different forms of POC activism? White supremacy and imperialism are chimerical and they manifest differently according to a host of other factors. Our responses need to be equally diverse and versatile

IDK i’m possibly talking out of my ass here, so check me if you think so

(via feministdisney)

Source: irresistible-revolution