Taynbowswift - A Display Of Color

DRESS

OMG..

“Your buzzcut and my hair bleached”

Taylor was talking about Karlie’s dress at the MET GALA 2016! Remember when Karlie had to cut her dress because there was spilled red wine on its hem?

She was literally saying buzz (hurry, quickly) cut people!

AND IT’S STILL PERTAINING TO THAT DRESS BECAUSE THE CHORUS WAS KARLIE’S POV

Say my name and everything just stops I don’t want you like a best friend Only bought this dress so you could take it off I ALMOST CRIED WHEN I REALIZED THIS! DAMN! @taylorswift IS FREAKING GENIUS!TELL ME I’M DELUSIONAL!

I’m sure many of you are wondering how Taylor is going to end her Era’s Tour in the Emerald City of Oz — I mean Vancouver (which has also been named the Emerald City).

In my quest to discover more Gaylor Koincidences hidden in the Wizard of Oz themes, I learned something interesting about our friend Dorothy.

It appears that Dorothy was very much in love with a woman, as told in one of Frank L. Baum’s original novels, The Road to Oz. It is here that we learn of Dorothy’s greatest love, the Princess of Oz, Ozma.

The entire woodland fairy vibe of folklore fits Ozma’s style perfectly. Her dress feels an awful lot like this:

Something else to note is that Ozma helps Dorothy escape from a mental hospital where machines made patients brain dead.

Which of course feels Fortnight coded

Their love is familiar. Ozma and Dorothy escaping the constraints of repressed identity, echoes Taylor’s description of a celebration of being free with her love.

Camera flashes, welcome bashes

Get the matches, toss the ashes off the ledge

As I said in my letters, now that I know better

I will never lose my baby again

Happily, finally free in the Emerald City filled with color and light. She’s left sepia-toned Kansas, where all they wanted was gray for her. (Kansas… Chiefs). Running down a yellow Brick Road (just like Elton John did on his farewell tour when he came out as gay), she will finally be able to love her.

You should make zionists uncomfortable btw

Keep talking and bringing up Palestine

Advertise that you and everything about you is pro Palestine

Make sure nobody can even entertain the idea of ignoring Palestine

Are you part of a fandom? Draw pro palestinian fanart (and link resources)

Go to protests and wear pro Palestine pins (if it's safe for you to do so)

Buy and wear a keffiyah

Do not let genocide supporters find safe and comfortable spaces

Do not be a safe space for war criminals

Do not let people take comfort in your assumed neutrality

Do not allow people ignore genocide

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Edit: this is getting traction again so I wanna add a few resources to help you turn your anger into change

Daily click:

arab.org

Home – 2020

arab.org aims to empower every person & every organization to do Good.

Free documentary about Gaza's Fight For Freedom:

means.tv

Gaza Fights for Freedom

Gaza Fights for Freedom

I'm only going to link two since that's the limit for most people before they just scroll down and ignore it. Please give the documentary a watch whenever you have time

You go girls 🌈😊 Proud

She Came Prepared The Daily Politics presenter was chatting to Charlotte and Henrietta about banning unhealthy food in schools.

What the fuck is happening

What the fuck do we do

Don’t give up 🌈 🌈 🌈

VIDEO: Living Under Israel’s Missiles

Four boys of the Bakr family were killed by a missile strike during last year’s incursion. Their surviving family members are still scarred from the attack.

More than anyone, children bear the brunt of regular Israeli military assaults on the Gaza Strip. During the 51-day war in the summer of 2014, 551 children were killed and 3,436 were injured. But these gruesome figures say little about the psychological state of the nearly 800,000 children who have survived the periodic bombing campaigns. After the final cease-fire that ended Israel’s Operation Protective Edge on August 26 of last year, UNICEF estimated that at least 425,000 Palestinian children in the besieged Gaza Strip require “immediate psychosocial and child protection support.”

[ The physical wounds of Gaza children might have healed, but they live with enduring psychological trauma ]

Just realized in inthaf during the first verse where they’re kids, one of the lyrics is “sleeping in tents, it’s nice to have a friend.” There’s no way her parents were letting her sleep in tents with boys when she was a kid? She’s FOR SURE talking about a girl.

I thought about that too. You know Andrea don’t play around like that...

refseek.com

www.worldcat.org/

link.springer.com

http://bioline.org.br/

repec.org

science.gov

pdfdrive.com

A Twitter Thread from David Bowles:

[Text transcript at the end of the screenshots]

I'll let you in on a secret. I have a doctorate in education, but the field’s basically just a 100 years old. We don’t really know what we’re doing. Our scholarly understanding of how learning happens is like astronomy 2000 years ago.

Most classroom practice is astrology.

Before the late 19th century, no human society had ever attempted to formally educate the entire populace. It was either aristocracy, meritocracy, or a blend. And always male.

We’re still smack-dab in the middle of the largest experiment on children ever done.

Most teachers perpetuate the “banking” model (Freire) used on them by their teachers, who likewise inherited it from theirs, etc.

Thus the elite “Lyceum” style of instruction continues even though it’s ineffectual with most kids.

What’s worse, the key strategies we’ve discovered, driven by cognitive science & child psychology, are quite regularly dismissed by pencil-pushing, test-driven administrators. Much like Trump ignores science, the majority of principals & superintendents I’ve known flout research.

Some definitions:

Banking model --> kids are like piggy banks: empty till you fill them with knowledge that you're the expert in.

Lyceum --> originally Aristotle's school, where the sons of land-owning citizens learned through lectures and research.

Things we (scholars) DO know:

-Homework doesn't really help, especially younger kids.

-Students don't learn a thing from testing. Most teachers don't either (it's supposed to help them tweak instruction, but that rarely happens).

-Spending too much time on weak subjects HURTS.

Do you want kids to learn? Here's something we've discovered: kids learn things that matter to them, either because the knowledge and skills are "cool," or because .... they give the kids tools to liberate themselves and their communities.

Maintaining the status quo? Nope.

Kids are acutely aware of injustice and by nature rebellious against the systems of authority that keep autonomy away from them.

If you're perpetuating those systems, teachers, you've already freaking lost.

They won't be learning much from you. Except what not to become. Sure, you can wear them down. That's what happened to most of you, isn't it? You saw the hideous flaw in the world and wanted to heal it. But year after numbing year, they made you learn their dogma by rote.

And now many of you are breaking the souls of children, too.

For what?

It's all smoke and mirrors. All the carefully crafted objectives, units and exams.

WE. DON'T. KNOW. HOW. PEOPLE. LEARN.

We barely understand the physical mechanisms behind MEMORY. But we DO know kids aren't empty piggy banks. They are BRIMMING with thought.

The last and most disgusting reality? The thing I hear in classroom after freaking classroom?

Education is all about capitalism.

"You need to learn these skills to get a good job." To be a good laborer. To help the wealthy generate more wealth, while you get scraps.

THAT is why modern education is a failure.

Its basic premise is monstrous.

"Why should I learn to read, Dr. Bowles?"

Because reading is magical. It makes life worth living. And being able to read, you can decode the strategies of your oppressors & stop them w/ their own words.

Reminder that capitalism is the death of art