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House Women: We bleed but do not die
(Source: victorianhooker, via hamletstragicflaw)
"A woman from the audience asks: ‘Why were there so few women among the Beat writers?’ and [Gregory] Corso, suddenly utterly serious, leans forward and says: “There were women, they were there, I knew them, their families put them in institutions, they were given electric shock. In the ’50s if you were male you could be a rebel, but if you were female your families had you locked up."
Stephen Scobie, on the Naropa Institute’s 1994 tribute to Allen Ginsberg (via thisisendless)
FUCK
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I’m just frozen. Absences of women in history don’t “just happen,” they are made.
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the cardigan librarian: responses to seeking advice, 1 
So, last week I asked the tumblarian community how they handle workshop enrollment, after I had a lot of no-shows. I got a lot of helpful responses, which I thought I’d share here.
So, I do adult programming. Most of our programs are open, but on occasion we’ve had to limit. I…
This is why I don’t do sign-ups. I occasionally have a program where I’ll publicize that there are a specific number of spots and the first 12 (or 20, or whatever) get to attend.
I buy a lot of individually wrapped snacks. It’s more wasteful when it comes to packaging, but less wasteful when it comes to food.
Using facebook for events seems to help to remind people that fun things are coming up soon.
Never ones to be outdone, Crossett Library is rolling out some pet therapy for our patrons. Of course, after a quick call to PETA it turned out that renting kangaroos and elephants is not easy OR humane (or legal, I’m not sure, I hung up when they started talking about lawsuits.)
But our patrons deserve the best, so they got the best that we got! From left to right, our Animal All-Stars:
Horton Who
George Monkey
Reindeer
KangarooRabbitSleepy Boy
Camel
Bearry
Hungry Caterpillar
If you’re in the area (on campus) feel free to come by this afternoon and Pet A Pet. (Best if you steer clear of the camel, fur is a little funky from spending most of its life inside the mouth of a golden retriever.)
ohhhhhhhhhhhhh, I might have to borrow this one next year when ACT and AP testing comes around
(via laura-in-libraryland)
this was shared by a friend on facebook in reference to the heroic acts of Charles Ramsey and the way he quickly became a meme
Charles Ramsey and the troubling viral trend of the ‘hilarious’ black neighbor
“Charles Ramsey, the man who helped rescue three Cleveland women presumed dead after going missing a decade ago, has become an instant Internet meme. It’s hardly surprising—the interviews he gave yesterday provide plenty of fodder for a viral video, including memorable soundbites (“I was eatin’ my McDonald’s”) and lots of enthusiastic gestures. But as Miles Klee and Connor Simpson have noted, Ramsey’s heroism is quickly being overshadowed by the public’s desire to laugh at and autotune his story, and that’s a shame.Ramsey has become the latest in a fairly recent trend of “hilarious” black neighbors, unwitting Internet celebrities whose appeal seems rooted in a “colorful” style that is always immediately recognizable as poor or working-class.”
(via erstwhilegirl)
