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My favorite thing about this picture of the Monkey King in line for rail tickets in Beijing is the guy behind him who literally can’t.

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Happy 70th birthday, Angela Davis!

There are a lot of reasons why I love this. Not least of which is that artists in Edo-era Japan seem to have pre-empted that scene in Monty Python & the Holy Grail with the French knight who says “I fart in your general direction!”
Juxtapoz has a...

There are a lot of reasons why I love this. Not least of which is that artists in Edo-era Japan seem to have pre-empted that scene in Monty Python & the Holy Grail with the French knight who says “I fart in your general direction!”

Juxtapoz has a whole collection of them.

So this is from last Mother’s Day but OMG.

You might want to get some tissues before you click play.

If You Want To Fit In At This Public School Just Become Christian

Like many people I have encountered who were raised in a Christian environment, I was indifferent to what I felt were minor infractions of the law that protects the separation of church and state. What’s the big deal if teachers promote God in public schools? I didn’t see any danger in o…

I can’t imagine being bullied by my teachers. I just can’t. Ugh.

Paul C. Lo (above, in a suit in Colorado, age 11) made history last week as the first Hmong American judge. He talks to PRI’s The World about coming to America, shame about his cultural heritage, and what he did to fit in as a kid.

Some news outlets are saying the “language barrier” is to blame in the case of Yuxiang Chen, who was pepper sprayed after a confusing encounter with campus police at Ohio State University.

But the language barrier didn’t tackle him and mace him twice. Ask OSU to investigate!

Rabbi Angela Buchdahl is the first Asian American rabbi, and one of only a handful of women rabbis in the U.S. She was voted last week to succeed Rabbi Peter Rubenstein as the leader of Manhattan’s Central Synagogue. She takes over leadership of the congregation on July 1.

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So, uh, “community policing,” huh? Beating non-English speakers up for jaywalking and not understanding commands isn’t exactly community-oriented. We demand better for our communities, from an end to police violence to an end to racial profiling of South Asian an Muslim communities.

Tell Bill de Blasio to get on top of police reform now.

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Rocket Kapre – Fantastic Filipino Speculative Fiction » Open Call For Submissions–Science Fiction: Filipino Fiction For Young Adults
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Open Call For Submissions–Science Fiction: Filipino Fiction For Young Adults
Editors Dean Francis Alfar (publisher of the Philippine Speculative Fiction anthologies) and Kenneth Yu (publisher of Philippine Genre Stories), and co-editors for Horror: Filipino Fiction For Young Adults, announce an open call for short fiction submissions for Science Fiction: Filipino Fiction for Young Adults.
The Filipino Fiction for Young Adults is a new annual anthology series, with the first volume focused on horror, and launched in mid-2013. The second in the series is Science Fiction: Filipino Fiction for Young Adults.
Submissions must be:
1. in the science fiction genre or contain strong science fiction elements
2. written with the Young Adult reader in mind (from 10 – 18 years old) and feature a young adult character (or characters)
3. cognizant of the themes and concerns of Young Adult fiction (coming of age, identity, belonging, a sense of wonder, a love for adventure, angst, concerns over school, challenges of youth, family issues, relationships to authority figures, sexuality, experimentation, peer pressure, bullying, among many others) – without being didactic and/or boring.
4. written in English
5. authored by Filipinos or those of Philippine ancestry
Submissions are preferred to be:
1. original and unpublished
2. no shorter than 1,000 words and no longer than 7,500
In the case of previously-published work—if accepted, the author will be expected to secure permission to reprint, if necessary, from the original publishing entity, and to provide relevant publication information.
Submission details:
1. No multiple or simultaneous submissions—i.e., submit only one story, and do not submit that story to any other market until you have received a letter of regret from us.
2. All submissions should be in Rich Text Format (saved under the file extension ‘.rtf’), and emailed todean(at)kestrelddm(dot)com with the subject line ‘FFSF: title (word count)’, where ‘title’ is the title of your submission and ‘(word count)’ is the number of words the submission comes up to, rounded up to the nearest hundred (use the “tools” function of your word processor to find out.
3. Do not use fancy formatting.
4. Include a brief bio and publishing history (if applicable).
5. The deadline for submissions is midnight, Manila time, June 24, 2014. Letters of acceptance or regret will be sent out no later than one month after the deadline.
6. First-time authors are more than welcome to submit; good stories trump literary credentials any time.
Compensation will be Php500 for selected stories. We are still deciding whether to go digital or print (or even both). In the event that we publish a print version, each author will be provided with a contributor’s copy of the book. If the anthology is published in digital form, each author will be given a formatted e-copy of the anthology.
Thanks,
Dean Francis Alfar & Kenneth Yu
Editors

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