Welcome! I'm Dawn, 49, a stepmom, a sister, and a loving friend! I am also an unashamed fangirl. I'm a voracious reader, have eclectic tastes in music and adore cooking for the ones that I love. I have become a reviewer at http:www.lovetoreadforfun.com. Reading and reviewing=win/win. I write fan fiction for Chlollie and Morgan/Garcia.

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23
May
9:23pm
Government assistance in America is invisible until black people receive it. Then it becomes racialized, demonized and stigmatized.
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Melissa Harris-Perry and Karen Finney (paraphrased), commenting on a recent New York Times editorial wherein black farmers were all but vilified as ‘lazy takers’ who gamed the system —for winning an historic discrimination lawsuit against the USDA: Pigford v. Glickman (via odinsblog)

So true. In fact, the entire capitalist system — all banking, all corporate operations, all military industry — is built on and based upon government assistance; or rather, much more than “assistance”, more like extreme government largesse by granting public funds from taxes and public resources to private interests.

Private banking relies entirely on credit, loans, underwriting, insurance, and political-military protection from the government. All corporate merchandise in the USA is moved and distributed on highways and roads built and maintained using public money. The telecom companies sell you mobile phone service using radio spectrum which belongs to the public and is granted to them by the government. Agribusiness is well-known to be subsidized. Big pharma relies on publicly funded research to isolate its private profit makers. There are no major areas of corporate America which are not entirely reliant on government assistance. And that’s not even getting into corporate tax breaks.

Yet god forbid Black people get any benefit from the government whatsoever, amounting in total to the tiniest trickle in relation to the government largesse extended to corporate America. Suddenly that is seen, within the prevailing racist US political discourse, as a burden upon society and sign of an imaginary racial pathology of laziness and dependency. Good one, white America.

(via zuky)

23
May
9:22pm

To Erin Strauss

23
May
9:21pm

bigmamag:

Because you are my friend.

23
May
9:20pm
23
May
8:58pm

searchingforknowledge:

heirofmedusa:

kynodontas:

jhameia:

kynodontas:

tangledaxon:

Cover reveal for Ascension. It’s gorgeous and I couldn’t be happier with it. I hope you love it too!

Art by Scott Grimando, cover design by Sherin Nicole.

#QUEER #POC #POLYAMORY

:’)

sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet

Alana Quick is the best damned sky surgeon in Heliodor City, but repairing starship engines barely pays the bills. When the desperate crew of a cargo vessel stops by her shipyard looking for her spiritually-advanced sister Nova, Alana stows away. Maybe her boldness will land her a long-term gig on the crew. But the Tangled Axon proves to be more than star-watching and plasma coils. The chief engineer thinks he’s a wolf. The pilot fades in and out of existence. The captain is all blond hair, boots, and ego … and Alana can’t keep her eyes off her. But there’s little time for romance: Nova’s in danger and someone will do anything-even destroying planets-to get their hands on her.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NEED

WANT

MUST

HAVE

MUMMY!!!!!!! I MUST… oh dear why oh why is there a blonde hair lady at as the love interest a fucking gain holy shit i am so fucking tired of that trope. I’ll  add it to my list tho. sigh.

23
May
8:56pm
23
May
8:55pm
23
May
8:54pm

cryinodonoghue:

I love captain hook so much isn’t that embarrassing

Never embarrassing to admit Hook love!

23
May
8:53pm

daddycharming:

Captain Hook » And Straight On ‘Til Morning

23
May
8:46pm

meangameofpoliticalchess:

Olivia x Harrison (Part 2 of 2)

Harrison: You know what I think about when I look at Olivia? 

A bookkeeping degree. 

That’s what you do right? When you’re spending eight years in federal prison. That’s what I was facing for insider trading.

Eight years of my life (Pshew!) wasted if she hadn’t saved me.

So, the way I see it Liv’s a good person. And if a good person has to do something bad for the right reasons?

I’m. Down. With. That.

So, I don’t want to know the how’s. I don’t want to know the why’s.

I just come to work every day thankful as all hell, I didn’t have to earn a bookkeeping degree.