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we need more black teen movies
and i dont want to hear no shit about “relatability” because that’s code word for “let’s not make white people antsy” i want to watch a black movie that’s not about slavery…. that’s not about some white person coming in to save the world.and that didnt have to come out in the 80s and the 90s. that’s not too much to ask for
Our innumeracy isn’t inevitable. In the 1970s and the 1980s, cognitive scientists studied a population known as the unschooled, people with little or no formal education. Observing workers at a Baltimore dairy factory in the ‘80s, the psychologist Sylvia Scribner noted that even basic tasks required an extensive amount of math. For instance, many of the workers charged with loading quarts and gallons of milk into crates had no more than a sixth-grade education. But they were able to do math, in order to assemble their loads efficiently, that was “equivalent to shifting between different base systems of numbers.” Throughout these mental calculations, errors were “virtually nonexistent.” And yet when these workers were out sick and the dairy’s better-educated office workers filled in for them, productivity declined.
The unschooled may have been more capable of complex math than people who were specifically taught it, but in the context of school, they were stymied by math they already knew. Studies of children in Brazil, who helped support their families by roaming the streets selling roasted peanuts and coconuts, showed that the children routinely solved complex problems in their heads to calculate a bill or make change. When cognitive scientists presented the children with the very same problem, however, this time with pen and paper, they stumbled. A 12-year-old boy who accurately computed the price of four coconuts at 35 cruzeiros each was later given the problem on paper. Incorrectly using the multiplication method he was taught in school, he came up with the wrong answer. Similarly, when Scribner gave her dairy workers tests using the language of math class, their scores averaged around 64 percent. The cognitive-science research suggested a startling cause of Americans’ innumeracy: school.
Isn’t it something when people talk of the 1800s, like it’s so distant, that we have no relation to it? Many people in their 80s today had parents who were born in the late 1800s, so it’s not as far back as you think. Your grandparents had grandparents. Think of when they were born. Exactly.
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Best vintage memes: O rly owl, numa numa, hamsterdance, caramelldansen, sparta remixes (the peak of this one was definitely “no, this is patrick), weegee, cdi zelda, over 9000, and, of course, longcat
its incredible that these are now vintage memes
Sometimes I really don’t feel like existing like not in a suicidal way but I just wish there was a way of pausing life so that I could sleep for a few weeks and figure some stuff out and then not have to feel guilty for missing loads of stuff because really no time had passed at all
ITS IN WORDS
Yes hello this is part of depression and as my psychologist phrased it, feeling like this is often an indication that you’d like to not exist, but you’re too depressed to actually do it. SO! If you feel like this for a period of time around or longer than two weeks, SEEK HELP.
2 weeks??? I’m well past due
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I hope that authors of color know that their work doesn’t always have to focus on social activism/justice. This isn’t to say that you cannot write about those things, but as an author of color you don’t have to feel inclined to write about those things all the time. I think that’s what a lot of white people expect, and it can sometimes put pressure on what authors of color write. In the light of the Jordan Peele’s new movie US, i hope it’s okay for writers of color to understand that not everything they right has to be activism centered.
I’m writing three stories and while one of mine is centered around social justice in a fantasy realm—the others aren’t. One of them is centered around Irish Fairytales (though the main character is a Japanese orphan who is taken to Ireland as a child, and he does deal with racism after he inherits his father’s land/title—but the majority is just fantasy and faerie stuff), another one is about experiments.
I just don’t think that—authors of color should feel forced to write stuff about racism and social activism if they don’t want to. Write about something that has nothing to do with your heritage or background (a good example of non-white author who did this is diana gabaldon who writes outlander and who is my inspiration as a young author of color).
So like, write what you wanna write about . if you’re a black kid and you wanna write about faeries go for it.
Also, this isn’t to say that you cannot write about social activism. And this post isn’t at all for you to use if you are trying to shame authors of color who DO write only social justice stuff. that is admirable and I think it’s amazing and important that authors of color who stick to activism in their writing exist. This isn’t a callout to them or anything like that.
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