→ Jan 2012
undergrad library: just because i'm in the library doesn't mean i can't talk and skype and oh look a cafe i shall get a smoothie and sometimes there are therapy dogs! tv screens and roll-y chairs everything is great-
grad library: DID YOU BREATHE???
undergrad library: just because i'm in the library doesn't mean i can't talk and skype and oh look a cafe i shall get a smoothie and sometimes there are therapy dogs! tv screens and roll-y chairs everything is great-
grad library: DID YOU BREATHE???
→ Jan 2012 "A sociologist looks at daily life differently. Walking through a market with melon in hand, we see interrelationships, economic realities, injustices, and a world that “could be” or “might be” if we stopped buying into the “that’s just the way it is” mentality of “normal” life. Revolutionary? No. In a way it is deeply ironic. Engineers, chemists, even physicists work hard to improve the things that matter to them and nobody questions that. Is it so strange then that sociologists might aspire to ask questions, point out contradictions, and contribute towards a better future? It’s only strange, I feel, that more people don’t listen."
— One World in 60 Seconds - The Socjournal (via sociolab)
(via fyeahsociology)
→ Jan 2012
NO ONE has any right to tell a woman that she has to stay pregnant if she doesn’t want to be. Especially if you’re a man, because you’ll never have any idea what it’s like to be pregnant. Stop pushing your stupid fucking book down people’s throats.
→ Jan 2012 "Our research shows that blacks comprise 62.7 percent and whites 36.7 percent of all drug offenders admitted to state prison, even though federal surveys and other data detailed in this report show clearly that this racial disparity bears scant relation to racial differences in drug offending. There are, for example, five times more white drug users than black. Relative to population, black men are admitted to state prison on drug charges at a rate that is 13.4 times greater than that of white men. In large part because of the extraordinary racial disparities in incarceration for drug offenses, blacks are incarcerated for all offenses at 8.2 times the rate of whites. One in every 20 black men over the age of 18 in the United States is in state or federal prison, compared to one in 180 white men."
— Human Rights Watch - “Racial Disparities in the War on Drugs” (via fuckyeahdrugpolicy)
(via fyeahsociology)
