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#NowPlaying Queen Of Hearts by Fucked Up

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All the songs I played to filth in 2016. Still jammin' hard to all of them. #NowPlaying Your Top Songs 2016 by Spotify

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Hey All! I’m currently working on my research project for senior seminar and would love for those who can to fill out this survey for me. Women of Color between the ages of 18-29 and who are currently enrolled college or university. Give me 10-15 min of your life (maybe be less time!) #sociologymajor #seniorseminar #sociologystudent #survey #collegewoes #sociology #womenofcolor #blackgirlmagic #latinx #helpmegraduate #dsgetdegrees #collegelife #fallsemester

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Most High ♀

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#tbt when the kittens were teeny tiny and still relied on my sister and I. 😭 @carolaaa._ #moxiekinte #hikarikunta #kittens #throwbackthursday #throwback

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We’re not going to bury the lead here: Bob Ross’ hair was actually straight. Just ask his longtime business partner Annette Kowalski, who knew Ross better than anyone — he had just gotten out of the Air Force, and was unsuccessfully trying to make a living as a painter, she says.

“He got this bright idea that he could save money on haircuts. So he let his hair grow, he got a perm, and decided he would never need a haircut again,” Kowalski explains.

Before he could change it back, though, the perm became his company’s logo — Ross hated it. “He could never, ever, ever change his hair, and he was so mad about that,” Kowalski says. “He got tired of that curly hair.”

But viewers never got tired of Ross or his show The Joy of Painting. With his soft, hypnotic voice, he’d bring his viewers in close as he created 30-minute masterpieces — distant mountain ranges, seascapes, forest scenes, always with those happy little trees. He’d sling his palette around, blend the titanium white paint, whisper about his life in Alaska, then gently tap his fan brush to create a canvas full of fluffy clouds. With his partly unbuttoned chambray shirt, his halo of tight curls and his soothing demeanor, Ross was a fixture on PBS.

Re-watching the show decades later — it’s now streaming on Netflix — The Joy of Painting still feels like a personal art lesson. And yet the oil painter we spent so many hours with remains a mystery. Ross led a private life and did only a few interviews during his career.

The Real Bob Ross: Meet The Meticulous Artist Behind Those Happy Trees

Photos: Bob Ross Inc.

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First day of my last semester as an undergrad. I'm more of a Durkheim girl though. #sociology #sociologymajor #collegelife #saveme #illbeinschoolforever (at Brooklyn College)

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#grungy love Jean-Michel Basquiat and Suzanne Mallouk

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me tonight.

[Picture: Background: 6 piece pie style colour split with beige and woodland green alternating. Foreground: a head-on photo of a disgruntled looking white sheep. Top text: “NEARLY AT END OF 4-YEAR SOCIOLOGY DEGREE” Bottom text: “HAVE ONLY JUST DISCOVERED THIS MEME :[”]

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In the sequel to our sleeper hit which prompted a few to ask “Where are the women?” we decided to take matters seriously and address the blatant (but unintentional) inequalities. The fact that the big four classical theorists in sociology were all men is telling. Although social theorist Harriet Martineau was writing before Durkeim and Weber were even born, those were dark times for egalitarianism. Even up to the 40s or 50s, when the likes of Beauvoir started writing, a woman’s objective was still to marry into a good family. There were huge constraints on education, and Beauvoir herself caused conflict within her family when she wanted to become a teacher rather than marry.

We challenge anyone to question the intellect of the second sex after reading all of these following. [Note: i) sharing does not imply endorsement, ii) while some of the following are not typically labeled sociologists, their efforts in contributing to the scientific study of society renders them worthy.]

Ayn Rand (1957), Atlas Shrugged

Ayn Rand (1943), The Fountainhead

Ayn Rand (1964), The Virtue of Selflessness

Hannah Arendt (1958), The Human Condition

Hannah Arendt, The Portable Hannah Arendt

Judith Butler (1987), Subjects of Desire

Judith Butler (1997), The Psychic Life of Power

Judith Butler, Critical Thinker

Julia Kristeva (1993), Proust and the Sense of Time

Julia Kristeva (2001), The Feminine and the Sacred

Luce Irigaray (2000), Democracy Begins Between Two

Luce Irigaray (1985), Speculum of the Other Woman

Luce Irigaray (1985), This Sex Which is Not One

Mary Douglas (1966) - Purity and Danger

Naomi Klein (2000), No Logo

Naomi Klein (2007), The Shock Doctrine

Saskia Sassen (2007), Sociology of Globalization

Saskia Sassen (1991), The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo

Simone de Beauvoir (1947), The Ethics of Ambiguity

Simone de Beauvoir (1949), The Second Sex

In case anybody is wondering, our favourite contemporary sociologist is Sharon Zukin, who happens to be a woman. And while we are at the name-dropping, we are very fond of Arlie Hochschild as well. We highly recommend that you locate their works on JSTOR, or go out to buy their books.

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I made a first move now its ur turn

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😍😍😍😍😍 you're welcome!!!!! #NowPlaying Drive by Deftones

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am i a tumblr girl yet

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At the end of this month, it will mark a year since my mother passed away from Follicular Carcinoma. Last year, I couldn't enjoy the holidays because of her condition, but this christmas, I will listen to Christmas tunes and think of all the amazing memories I have of her because no one loved christmas the way she did.

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my boo!

Reporting live! NPP Photoshoot with @yesikastarr. New shirt coming out. (at The Echo)

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Frands! Post @belize.t' improv show!!!! #thelibrary #nyc #tgif (at The Library Bar)

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Last night was real! We all rode for our loves ones that have passed and that are still with us, to good health and to life itself! I love you @mrcommish and @carolaaa._ for assisting me in the cycle and i love the gorgeous @tasha_basha and @passaperatattoos for being amaze balls cheerleaders. Love you betches! #cycleforsurvival #cancersucks #fuckcancer #nyc #teamgeronimo #jointhecause