There's Always Community Theater
"Norman is an island. That is so true. That is what the bells told." (Ivy. 20. Eastern seaboard.)
Damon’s a character who’s been driven by feeling like he’s not worthy of love.
HIS FACE EVERY SINGLE TIME
While walking home from a shopping trip this morning, I started thinking. I had stopped at the farmer’s market stand that sets up down the street from my apartment and the local bodega. I was pleased with all of the goodies I picked up. The pint of…
“I can’t take you seriously if you care more about the trees than the people who need the air from them.”
Yes. I couldn’t agree more. I was just listening to my brother talk earlier today about how polar bears will be extinct by 2040 and then my other brother chimed in with, “it’s not just them that will be in trouble, it’s us too,” and then proceeded to draw a pretty coherent picture of the whole ice cap/sea level rise problem. He’s eleven. It blew my mind and made me so sad that they already have to think about things like that, but at the same time, we’re not going to get anywhere by deriding people who have no other options. At the end of the day, I’m a humanist first and an environmentalist second, because I believe that in order to do right by the planet, we first have to do right by each other.
talking to my dad about Tumblr just made me realize how much I actually love this stupid website like it’s really all about community and celebrating commonalities between people instead of that ridiculous thing where something is only cool as long as no one else likes it ugh I just honestly did not realize how many feelings I had about this and wow I am overcome
Moriarty is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. She is the organizer of half that is evil and nearly all that is undetected in this great city. She is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. She has a brain of the first order.
^ IN LOVE
SO IN LOVE WITH THIS WOMAN :D
(Source: ameliatully)
I like taking science and math classes but I can’t take them cause I end up failing them cause I’m shit at science and math.
Every time I think of the black market, I actually imagine a market, with little stalls selling illegal things like nuclear weapons and organs.
(via precociouselephant)
Raven understood what being a teenager was really like.
The last one killed me
(via humourous-misadventures)
![fuckyeahsexeducation:
alittlecoconuttart:
[Article excerpt]
The U.S.’ Teen Birth Rate Continues To Plummet, But Remains Stubbornly Higher In The South
By Tara Culp-Ressler on May 23, 2013 at 12:00 pm
The CDC’s research builds on previous data that showed the United States’ teen pregnancy rate has plunged to record lows since 1991, largely because of adolescents’ expanded access to contraception. “Credit goes to teens themselves who are clearly making better decisions about sex, contraception, and their future,” Bill Albert, the chief program officer of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, told the Associated Press.
But those type of preventative health resources aren’t equally available to teens in every part of the country. Over the past decade, teen pregnancy rates have consistently been higher in Southern states that don’t provide students with adequate sexual health instruction. Since abstinence-only courses often present misleading information about contraception, a full 60 percent of young adults underestimate birth control’s effectiveness and are more likely to skip it because they don’t believe it will make a difference. And teens in rural areas still struggle to access contraception, partly because there are fewer health clinics in less populous places and partly because a societal stigma surrounding teen sexuality still pervades conservative communities.
Unfortunately, this correlation isn’t limited to teen pregnancy and teen births. Southern states that don’t offer comprehensive sex ed classes also have the highest rates of STDs.
Brought to you by someone who lives in one of the “less than 20% decline” which I can say with certainty is because we still only have abstinence only education, which I plan to change as soon as I finish training.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/082dcf76b9a332b6aa1ea15b6ad922c2/tumblr_mn9pqa211Z1qkx16go1_250.jpg)
[Article excerpt]
The U.S.’ Teen Birth Rate Continues To Plummet, But Remains Stubbornly Higher In The South
The CDC’s research builds on previous data that showed the United States’ teen pregnancy rate has plunged to record lows since 1991, largely because of adolescents’ expanded access to contraception. “Credit goes to teens themselves who are clearly making better decisions about sex, contraception, and their future,” Bill Albert, the chief program officer of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, told the Associated Press.
But those type of preventative health resources aren’t equally available to teens in every part of the country. Over the past decade, teen pregnancy rates have consistently been higher in Southern states that don’t provide students with adequate sexual health instruction. Since abstinence-only courses often present misleading information about contraception, a full 60 percent of young adults underestimate birth control’s effectiveness and are more likely to skip it because they don’t believe it will make a difference. And teens in rural areas still struggle to access contraception, partly because there are fewer health clinics in less populous places and partly because a societal stigma surrounding teen sexuality still pervades conservative communities.
Unfortunately, this correlation isn’t limited to teen pregnancy and teen births. Southern states that don’t offer comprehensive sex ed classes also have the highest rates of STDs.
Brought to you by someone who lives in one of the “less than 20% decline” which I can say with certainty is because we still only have abstinence only education, which I plan to change as soon as I finish training.
