Schoolwork, advocacy place strain on student activists at Brown University

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“There are people breaking down, dropping out of classes and failing classes because of the activism work they are taking on,” said David.

Schoolwork, advocacy place strain on student activists

An article more sympathetic to the students.

…Which I am. I just think they need to learn how to balance out work and passion to succeed in either. …And that isn’t a point of view that seems to pervade higher education right now. I think the students are missing out on some life skills and perspective which might enable them to accomplish more and that is shame.

I understand the need to want to follow your heart but there is nothing dishonorable in getting more mundane things done as well.

Students at Brown Failing Classes Due To The Stress of Activism 

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…And these are the Ivy League kids.

Brown Students Failing Classes Due To Activism, Details

<facepalm on the original title>

It is wonderful that they want to change the world. IT’s wonderful that they care but it seems like they are missing a does of perspective to balance out their passions. How do these student expect accomplish change and balance in the world around them if they can’t maintain balance in their own lives? It seems like keeping your own shit together would better enable you to have more energy to put into the cause. What’s the phrase, live to fight another day?

The New Gender Binary

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In the new gender binary, he has no home. Cisgender vs. transgender. He’s neither.

In the old gender binary, he has no home. Male vs. female. He’s neither.

So, still, I find myself fighting a gender binary while explaining my son’s gender identity and expression.

…When I saw transgender education and acceptance coming to the forefront, I expected things to be different.

I thought that if society could see, start to understand and accept transgender people (which some consider to be at the very extreme end of the cisgender-transgender gender binary), that they would have no problem at all accepting all of the people who are “just” gender nonconforming.

We have to get beyond trans. Let’s make that the next social movement. Let’s get to the point where we say, “Hey, I don’t know if that person is male or female or both or neither, so I’m just going to treat them like a person” or “My brain tells me to use female pronouns for that person but the person tells me to use masculine pronouns, so I’m going to masculine pronouns because what the hell does it matter to me?!” or “That guy likes to wear skirts. Cool.”

Let’s respect every person’s unique gender journey by not believing in any binary. Let’s bust the binary. Once and for all.

The New Gender Binary

A-fucking-men, sister. A-fucking-humen.

Donald Trump is a fraud: Report confirms the billionaire’s presidential bid is a long and calculated con job 

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Everything Trump has done during the campaign is designed to dupe the media into funding his marketing strategy

Donald Trump is a fraud: Report confirms the billionaire’s presidential bid is a long and calculated con job – Salon.com

Oh, Salon…. Can you go a day without making the huge leap from theory to fact with nothing to support you?

Dolores Huerta says she was shouted down with ‘English-only’ chants from a Sanders crowd 

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This article isn’t as fascinating as watching posts ‘defending and pretending’ about it from Bernie supporters on facebook. The absolutely visceral and hating rants are a jambalaya of obnoxiousness. There’s the spite, the persecution complex, the underlying belief that anyone else is evil outside of Bernie. Long story short, Bernie supporters and their comments on Hillary are why I fucking loathe progressives. They are the most close-minded, hateful, paranoid, and bigoted people ever and their affection for outrageous conspiracy theory doesn’t make them any appealing.

It’s like they think Hillary is the opponent, and not the GOP. It reminds me of how much I hated Obama’s ridiculously smalled-minded, tunnel-vision, impractical, holier-than-thou, and cognitively challenged supporters in ’08. Either group provides a damn good reason to block out anything their candidate is saying.

The prejudice against the mainstream isn’t nearly as striking as the tacit misogyny that none of them seem to notice they are all to willing to employ in their nasty put downs. If the best argument you have is to be snide and hostile to the other side, well you don’t have anything worthy of being supported in the first place.

It’s clear none of the obnoxious hipsters will be around in the General, it’d be nice if their snobby, bigoted asses went home, sat down, and shut the fuck up already, sooner than later.

Dolores Huerta says she was shouted down with ‘English-only’ chants from a Sanders crowd – The Washington Post