Need To Breathe, Atlanta, Georgia.
Need To Breathe, Atlanta, Georgia.
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A Black and White Photo Of The Water Fountain At The SunTrust...
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wahh I hate I’m not going to see him Sunday:/ buttt SUPER ready to see what the announcement is?
Well, to introduce myself, My name is Amber. I am 17 years old and I live in Georgia. I created this blog to document my ‘hair care journey’. Pretty much all my life i have haphazardly taken care of my hair. Just the simple stuff like washing frequently, kinda moisturizing it, blah blah blah.
I never really got it cut actually, i got it trimmed when i was 9, and again when i was 13.
My hair was long and natural until i was 13, then i got a relaxer. I guess once i got a relaxer, my hair kinda went bleh after that.
Being that i got it at the start of the summer, and its HOT in the summer in the south, i was sweating through this relaxer faster than… well just fast. And in my mind, i envisioned that once I got a perm(relaxer), my hair would just be straight and flawless all day errday, just like the lady on the box and commercial. BUT NO! my hair was frizzy and poofy.
In my home, we own a hotcomb ( the old fashioned one you heat on the stove), however i was unwiling to use that to straighten my hair due to some slightly traumatic childhood memories with it( NOT child abuse, ok). I did not own a flat iron until the next summer, so in order to try and straighten my hair before the 1st day of 8th grade, i used a curling iron. This was probably a big mistake because it was hella cheap and it sometimes ripped out some hairs.
Yup. I also didnt really wear a ‘proper’ scarf i guess. i mean i wore a cotton scarf that usually came off my head before morning, and sometimes, i just straight up didnt wear anything on my head at all, even when my mom reminded me. Oops.
Anyways, my point is, my hair is kinda, sorta, damaged in all types of ways, in all types of places, and i finally want my hair to be healthy again. Strong and Healthy. So this lovely tumblr will be the documentation, and hopefully i can get some answers for my various from the tumblrairians on this site.
Yay Hair!
Everyone travels to the beach for summer vacation and bring along a friend or family vacation whatever, and I, living approximately 45 minutes away from the beach, have to go to georgia for the entire summer. Complete opposite direction of the beach, where I have 0 friends and get to babysit all the time.
Tango in Mukhrani, a real man. JR
The Georgia Bulldogs will start off the 2013 and 2014 season against the Clemson Tigers. This will be the first matchup between the two schools since 2003.
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Savannah, GA.
If a gay politician comes out but many gay leaders never hear about it, is he really out?
In the last two weeks, Georgia’s gay political landscape got its own version of that oft-quoted question: If a tree falls in the forest and nobody hears it, does it make a sound?
Within days, our state’s short list of known openly gay elected officials jumped by two. Any way you look at it, that’s progress.
But the ensuing reaction raised interesting questions about what it means to be “out,” especially in metro Atlanta in 2011, where gay people are more mainstream than ever, but many still fear discrimination both within their families and the community at large.
One of these politicians, State Rep. Rashad Taylor (D-Atlanta), came out in an instantly recognizable way. He called a press conference where, standing in front of a banner for state LGBT group Georgia Equality, he denounced an attempt to smear him and acknowledged, “I am a gay man.” The pronouncement was widely reported in both the LGBT and mainstream press.
To some, that made Taylor immediately more “out” as an elected official than Milton City Councilmember Alan Tart. Until he spoke with the GA Voice last week, Tart had never given an interview to the LGBT press, and he has never sought an endorsement or reached out to Georgia Equality.
That lack of outreach was cited June 1 in stories about Tart published in The Beacon, an online Fulton publication, and gay blog Project Q Atlanta.
The Project Q story said in its headline that Tart “plays hard to get” and noted he had canceled interviews, and “is gay, but not all that open about it.”
Tart spoke to GA Voice only after we reached out to him in the wake of those stories. He also never reached out to the now-defunct gay newspaper where many of our staff worked when he first ran for office in 2007.
Yet to say that Taylor is now more “out” than Tart fails the test of logic.
While Taylor has a boyfriend, he did not come out to his mother and others until the 24 hours leading up to his May 27 press conference. And he acknowledged that he would not have made the move if not for an email campaign by his current boyfriend’s ex, which attempted to out him and accuse him of misusing his office.
In contrast, while Tart has never called a press conference to say “I’m gay,” he had discussed his sexual orientation on his campaign website as far back as 2007.
More importantly, his official biography on the City of Milton website notes, “Tart, his partner David, and his daughter Madison… have been residents of the Northwest Fulton area since 2005.”
And interestingly, Tart’s approach is not without precedent in Georgia politics.
Decatur City Commissioner Kecia Cunningham is now heralded as the state’s first openly gay, African-American elected official, and she has been endorsed by local and national LGBT groups.
Not so in her first race. Cunningham didn’t reach out to gay media or gay political groups during her first bid for office, and her campaign was only reported after she won.
Still, to say that Cunningham was not “out” in her first race would not be accurate. Like Tart, Cunningham and her partner are well-known in their small town, and campaigned together.
In fact, they were out where it matters most, in their own communities, where young LGBT people who may not already be connected with gay organizations can see them and know they are not alone.
So my point isn’t to say that either Taylor or Tart’s approaches were wrong — or that any media stories, or the discussions related to them, were wrong. Instead, I’m interested in what the reaction says about the way the meaning of “out” or “openly gay” is changing.
There are politicians on ballots in Georgia now who are widely thought or even known to be gay, but they don’t or won’t discuss it publicly.
Alan Tart was not one of those politicians.
It used to be that “coming out” meant a specific moment (or moments) of breaking with a past history of hiding one’s sexual orientation.
But you can’t come “out” if you aren’t “in,” and Alan Tart was never in — at least in his political life on the Milton City Council.
And the fact that he didn’t have to be, even in the conservative political climate of Milton, should be celebrated.
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Yo it is raining cats and dogs outside here in Georgia ….
…and Georgia is good for flooding too smh … lol If I’m not on tumblr later, yall know why now lmao
And fuck you too. I don’t need anyone but myself and at least I have my own back. I’m about to leave and not come back. South Georgia better get ready for me.
Seems like a festival you’d hear about more in the press.
Rain’s a comin’.
FSA photo of cropper family chopping the weeds from cotton near White Plans, in Georgia, USA (1941)
Tango in Mukhrani, a real man. JR
Savannah, GA. The color of this wall piqued my interest x1000
And now for something totally different… teaching English in Georgia! (The other Georgia). Footprints Recruiting has paid opportunities to teach English in Georgia. They are well-known, reputable placement company with teaching opportunities throughout Asia. You don’t pay a fee to be placed in a position.
Not feeling Georgia? They have positions in Korea, China and Japan too.
Savannah, GA.
“Florida and Georgia are the only states where this is like a thing that happens on a regular basis because there are awesome people in those states but they’re also centralized places of stupid people.”
http://youtu.be/QYH6FpH-blU
Constitutional Amendment - Allow competitive contracts To Be enforced In Georgia Courts **Yes (NP) -...
A visit to the Open-Air Ethnography Museum in Tbilisi.
Which one of these is not like the others?
Well glad to know Mike is on our side. The propeller hat was a nice touch in my personal opinion.
Who knows what Deal would do now with all the needed farm jobs. I know for sure the white Americans are not going to withstand full-day-under-the-sun labor with no benefits what so ever. I mean they did already send “investigators” down there to see the impact. But if you have read the report, it has been totally white-washed.
sigh Georgia, get your acts together!
Sincerely,
The Undocumented, Unafraid, Unashamed and Unapologetic
The World of Coca-Cola
Atlanta, GA
Savannah, GA. The color of this wall piqued my interest x1000