uchicagoadmissions:
“One of my favorite parts about my College experience was the student body: an eclectic, brilliant, rowdy, aware crowd that really seemed to have one enjoyment in common—they were at the University of Chicago.”
- H. Alfred Ryan, AB’72
(leesnodgrass)
ikenbot:
Southern Cliff in the Lagoon
Undulating bright ridges and dusty clouds cross this close-up of the nearby star forming region M8, also known as the Lagoon Nebula.
A sharp, false-color composite of narrow band visible and broad band near-infrared data from the 8-meter Gemini South Telescope, the entire view spans about 20 light-years through a region of the nebula sometimes called the Southern Cliff.
(via loveyourchaos)
“People of color, women, and gays — who now have greater access to the centers of influence that ever before — are under pressure to be well-behaved when talking about their struggles. There is an expectation that we can talk about sins but no one must be identified as a sinner: newspapers love to describe words or deeds as “racially charged” even in those cases when it would be more honest to say “racist”; we agree that there is rampant misogyny, but misogynists are nowhere to be found; homophobia is a problem but no one is homophobic. One cumulative effect of this policed language is that when someone dares to point out something as obvious as white privilege, it is seen as unduly provocative. Marginalized voices in America have fewer and fewer avenues to speak plainly about what they suffer; the effect of this enforced civility is that those voices are falsified or blocked entirely from the discourse.”
Excerpt from Teju Cole’s essay “The White Savior Industrial Complex”.
(via jalwhite)(via loveyourchaos)
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