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Hi, I'm Alison Griffin Vingiano! I have lived & worked on 5 continents, but right now I live in Brooklyn. I was gluten-free before it was cool.

I write about feminism, politics, media & comedy.

"Ladies is pimps too" - Beyonce's husband

twitter.com/agvnotes:

    newsweek:

    kreayshawn:

    Yeah, I’m pregnant! It sucks. If your not pregnant don’t get pregnant for a while because there’s all these symptoms that make you feel weird and hurt and are uncomfortable and 9 months is really really long especially towards the end. You have to pack away all your slutty crop tops and high waisted shorts. Your stressed all the time and in pain and bored on top of that because, at the end of the day if your friends cant smoke with you or even around you they will find something better to do. And when you do ge to go out with some friends your feet and back usually hurt within an hour. Hopefully I will be doing the post in a few months saying how it was all worth it but, I am sure I will be dead from lack of sleep and breastfeeding and changing poopie diapers that I won’t have time to post that. So holla.

    Best PSA we’ve read in a while. Condoms! Use them, youngins. 

    — 3 days ago with 1162 notes
    I LOVE THIS. IT IS SO FUNNY. 10000 POINTS KURT BRAUNOHLER.

    I LOVE THIS. IT IS SO FUNNY. 10000 POINTS KURT BRAUNOHLER.

    (Source: thekhooll, via cptnsexy)

    — 3 days ago with 349 notes
    onaissues:

The New Yorker has introduced Strongbox, a tool for users to submit documents and correspondence without fear of being traced. Amy Davidson notes in her description of the tool that readers and sources have sent materials to the New Yorker for decades, but now, more than ever, it’s easier to trace where they came from. She writes, “[A]s it’s set up, even we won’t be able to figure out where files sent to us come from. If anyone asks us, we won’t be able to tell them.” 
The tool was created by Aaron Swartz and Kevin Poulsen. The image above, created by the New Yorker, demonstrates how it works. 
Read more: Introducing Strongbox, a Tool for Anonymous Document-Sharing : The New Yorker

    onaissues:

    The New Yorker has introduced Strongbox, a tool for users to submit documents and correspondence without fear of being traced. Amy Davidson notes in her description of the tool that readers and sources have sent materials to the New Yorker for decades, but now, more than ever, it’s easier to trace where they came from. She writes, “[A]s it’s set up, even we won’t be able to figure out where files sent to us come from. If anyone asks us, we won’t be able to tell them.”

    The tool was created by Aaron Swartz and Kevin Poulsen. The image above, created by the New Yorker, demonstrates how it works. 

    Read more: Introducing Strongbox, a Tool for Anonymous Document-Sharing : The New Yorker

    (via gracebello)

    — 3 days ago with 17 notes
    What Does ‘Sexual Coercion’ Say About A Society?

    Fascinating social science research study from NPR.

    Such research cannot, of course, definitively explain the recent case in Cleveland involving Ariel Castro, who has been charged with abducting and raping three women over many years. But it does suggest avenues through which, on a societal level, sexual coercion – attempts to get sex by force — might be reduced in the United States and other countries.

    Some biologists have argued that the proclivity for sexual coercion among men is merely a hand-me-down of human evolutionary history: They point to widespread sexual coercion among orangutans, a near cousin to humans on the tree of evolution. Other biologists, however, point out that sexual coercion is by no means universal in the animal kingdom. Even among other primates, male and female bonobos have much more egalitarian sexual relationships than do oranguta.”…. 

    — 1 week ago with 4 notes

    Here are some tips on losing weight for the summer. 

    — 1 week ago with 4 notes

    This is my vlog from last week about taking road trips! I’m posting one tomorrow about how to get in shape for the summer!

    — 1 week ago with 1 note

    “We need adult men with power to start prioritizing these issues”

    Jackson Katz’s TED Talk about sexual violence and the problematic term “women’s issue” could make any man a feminist. I hope. I wish he dug a little deeper into these issues, because he can! He’s Jackson Katz! But it’s still important. Rhetorically, it’s fantastic; he nails the framing: “People say ‘if 85% of rapes are committed against women, it’s a women’s issue!’ and I’m like ‘well, almost 100% of rapes are committed BY men, so isn’t that a men’s issue?’” 

    — 1 week ago with 20 notes
    #feminism  #ted talk  #jackson katz  #gender  #women's issues 
    amanda brooke. hi.: This is what happened to me. →

    amandabrookeperrin:

    HI. I am Amanda and I am a stand up comedian living in Toronto, Ontario. I have been doing stand up for over five years and I am madly in love with it. I have experienced my fair share of sexism in my career, much like many of my fellow female comics have. I had gotten really good at turning a…

    — 1 week ago with 45 notes
    Follow the fear. via this

    Follow the fear. via this

    — 2 weeks ago with 9 notes

    stephanietely:

    hankpeters:

    Hank Peters - Twin Peaks’ New Booty

    this is a mashup i made a long time ago that i’m re-uploading due to popular demand

    I’m vomiting rainbows

    For all you Twin Peaks/awful Hip Hop fans 

    — 3 weeks ago with 571 notes

    VLOG #2: THEY ARE GETTING WEIRDER

    — 3 weeks ago with 5 notes