currentlyinapickle:

Evelyn Nesbit 1884-1967

Chorus girl, model, and “the lethal beauty” who is rumored to have been the muse for the sculpture of “Diana,” commissioned by architect Standford White, that once sat atop Madison Square Garden.

(via madhistory)

 Meet City Councilmember LaWana Mayfield 

https://twitter.com/lawanamayfield

http://www.votelawanamayfield.com/

DONATE TO HER CAMPAIGN HERE

LaWana Mayfield, a Democrat, represents District 3 on Charlotte City Council. She was elected in 2011 and is serving her first term on Council. 
 
Mayfield formerly chaired the youth and gang violence subcommittee of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Community Relations Committee, is a steering committee volunteer with the Mecklenburg Political Action Committee, and is a community advocate with the Charlotte Community Justice Coalition. She is grants committee chair and a former board member of the Charlotte Lesbian and Gay Fund and serves as board co-chair of the Ujamaa Institute, which focuses on philanthropy in the African-American community.

Previous public service included serving on the board of governors and as national female diversity co-chair for the Human Rights Campaign and as a client casework supervisor of disaster services with the Carolina’s Chapter of the American Red Cross. 
  
Mayfield received the Community Award from the North Carolina Black Pride Movement, the Diversity Outreach and Volunteer of the Year awards from the Human Rights Campaign, the Woman of Achievement Award from the YWCA, and the Harvey B. Gantt Award from the Young Democrats.

source: http://charmeck.org/city/charlotte/citycouncil/meetthecouncil/pages/district%203%20lawana%20mayfield.aspx

fuckyeahfeminists:

Costco CEO Craig Jelinek supports raising the minimum wage.

Costco announced record profits today, averaging $10,000 in profit per employee compared to $7,400 at Walmart. 
The secret to Costco’s success is paying employees well, providing benefits, and giving them an opportunity to unionize.

So large corporations’ excuses that treating & paying workers well would damage profits are all a crock of shit.

(Source: facebook.com, via stfuconservatives)

(Source: thejamaicankid, via running-until-i-hit-the-wall)

angrybisexual:

sonofbaldwin:

Source.

(H/T Moses Seenarine)

Muslims (and also atheists) seem to be doing well in the violence is wrong department.

notyrqueer:

punkcub:

gaywrites:

Courtesy of The Stigma Project. 

Reblogging again because I’d like this to get some more exposure.

This infographic is helpful, but it seems to be from the perspective of old friends and a new diagnosis. I’d be interested to hear from folks who have been living with HIV for longer periods (5+years). I imagine both the common responses and the preferable responses might be different.

(via angrybisexual)