Via

“I was traveling through Europe with my boyfriend over the Christmas holidays. At the Prague castle, a ticket agent spoke English with my white boyfriend, and then turned and tried his Japanese with me. When I didn’t respond, he asked my boyfriend standing right next to me, “What does the lady speak?” His English wasn’t great, his accent heavy, and my boyfriend didn’t hear him at first over the buzz, so he tried again, “Japanese?” This time, I spoke up, “No, Chinese.” He then tries a few lines of his limited Chinese with me. I just wanted to get past him as quickly as possible, so I obliged sparingly, as it had become clear to me that he was going to hold on to our ticket until I had given him some indication of my ethnicity. Pretending to not hear him hadn’t worked.”

fattiesinlove:

repede:

cakemeister:

Today in Useful Fucking Things That No One Tells You About: the Prescription Assistance Program (PAP) offers a discount drug card to uninsured Americans. The card is accepted at over 56,000 pharmacies nationwide, including CVS, RiteAid, Walgreens, and Safeway, and offers a discount of up to 75%.

I was fired a few years ago and was afraid I would have to give up my antidepressants, but my dad told me about the drug card. With it, I paid $30 instead of $60. Still kinda pricey, but I was able to afford them until I found a new job (and since they were for my social anxiety, I have no doubt they helped during interviews).

Share this. I’m sure there are a ton of unemployed and uninsured people who don’t know about this.

So important, definitely spread this.

That one time I wasn’t on psych meds because I couldn’t afford them.

LIFE SAVING INFORMATION, PEOPLE

genderconfusion:

motherjones:

If you haven’t read the old police report lately or seen Brown’s tweets from Grammy night, you owe it to yourself to check this out.

Read it… and weep.

thegoddamazon:

Some of my fellow Africans seem to think that we should separate ourselves from our American kin because you all “lack culture” and have a negative stigma attached to your very identity.

I call bullshit.

Africans taken from the Continent and brought here have managed to have more influence on…

lesbiancrimesquad:

dumbthingswhitepplsay:

dank-potion:

• Not getting followed around in a store.
• Not getting stopped by the police without probable cause.
• Not getting your credentials and college standing delegitimized by affirmative action.
• People not assuming you’re on welfare.
• People not instantly…

Not to forget.. “Not being asked what your race/ethnict background is.”