February 2012
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Tumblr Staff: A New Policy Against Self-Harm Blogs →
staff:
One of the great things about Tumblr is that people use it for just about every conceivable kind of expression. People being people, though, that means that Tumblr sometimes gets used for things that are just wrong. We are deeply committed to supporting and defending our users’ freedom of speech,…
“No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dreams that...”
– Cinderella
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“All of my family and my boyfriend said basically the same thing: ‘It was...”
– A brave teen writer opens up to us about what it’s like to get a panic attack. Have you ever had one before?
January 2012
36 posts
“Why is it that guys get so turned off by girls with their own sense of style?...”
– Emma, 16, from her blog post “Do Fashion And High School Boys Mix?”
“My experiences have shown me that I probably can’t ever escape race entirely....”
– teen writer Nesshell Rainford, from her powerful personal
essay “I’m not ‘Oreo’ or ‘Ghetto’ — I’m just being me.”
Ian Somerhalder for Finnick in The Hunger Games?
We’ve been re-reading Mockingjay today and we have to admit: we’ve been mentally casting Damon Ian Somerhalder for the role! Hot in a ‘mentally unstable’ kind of way? Check. Obsessed with 1 girl he can never have? Check. Constantly making inappropriate jokes? Check. Lots of shirtlessness? Check.
Some of our twitter followers are team #ArmieHammer, though. What do you...
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Hilarious and amazing discovery of the day:
The world toilet-paper folding record has apparently just been
broken by a group of Massachusetts students.
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“Has America lived out its heyday? Is it time for America to step away from the...”
– Matthew Maron, 16, from his blog post,
“A Country In Decline?”
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“‘We have completed our Early Action review of your application and have...”
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David Boone, 17, from his blog post “A Dream Deferred.”
“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.”
– T.H. Huxley (via matthewresnick)
“We’re all fabulous. Everyone. Even the bullies, although they might not...”
– Ariana Grande in her blog post “Even Performers Like Me Get Bullied.”
“For the first time, I can see myself doing something for ‘the rest of my...”
–
Jack Davis, 17, in his blog post “My Accidental Love Affair-Turned-‘Aha Moment’ With Journalism.”
Mohandas Gandhi: Dear Customer who stuck up for... →
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you thought I didn’t really notice. But I did. I wanted to high-five you.
Yesterday I had a pair of brothers in my store. One was maybe between 15-17. He was a wrestler at the local high school. Kind of tall, stocky and handsome. He had a younger brother, who was maybe about…
“People take the privilege of hearing for granted, not realizing how special it...”
–
Brent Marieb, 14, from his Huffington Post High School blog post “The Gift Of Hearing.”
“No matter how hard I tried, I just couldn’t bring myself to believe in...”
– Margaret Weinberg, 17, from her Huffington Post High School blog “Is God in Our Genes?”
“But, how long is actually fashionably late? 15 minutes? 20? 30? When did it...”
– Haley Sherif, 18, from her Huffington Post High School blog “Fashionable Late, or Rude?”
“I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.”
–
Katniss Everdeen
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“The U.S. public education system has overlooked a golden opportunity to...”
– Matthew Resnick, a Junior at Eleanor Roosevelt High School in NYC, from his blog post ”Changing Education in an Ever-Changing World.”
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“Sometimes I get anxiety about not staying up late enough. I’m not the one...”
– Jennifer Lawrence from Teen Vogue.
December 2011
17 posts
“It’s a very common occurrence to ask, “So what are your New...”
– Rachel Schwartzmann, 18, from her HuffPost High School blog “New Year, Same Girl.”
(Check out Rachel’s amazing Tumblr about all things fashion, The Style Line.)
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“The power of social media itself is probably greater than the power of any...”
– Susannah Meyer, 15, from her HuffPost High School blog “Is Social Media a Blessing or a Curse?”