February 2012
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“May God bless you with discomfort
at easy answers, half truths, and superficial...”
– Franciscan benediction
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my5tic41andshit:
my cover of i’ll try anything...
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“We all need one another; much and often. Just as every human creature needs a...”
– Charlotte Perkins Gilman (via wandery)
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“As we have so recently and publicly discussed, girls and women have “anger...”
– Soraya L. Chemaly, Stop Telling Girls They’re Hysterical (via sparkamovement)
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Cop spends weeks to trick an 18-year-old into... →
shedsumlight:
More fun from the self-loathing society: This American Life had a show about how young female undercover cops infiltrated a high school and flirted with boys to entrap them into selling pot, so they could charge them with felonies and destroy their lives at an early age.
Last year in three high schools in Florida, several undercover police officers posed as students. The...
#117
ohthesefools:
theatre and red wine. oh why didn’t i start loving my life earlier?
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“As you walk, cultivate a sense of ease. There’s no hurry to get anywhere, no...”
– Peter Doobinin, “Awakening, Step by Step” (Thank you, tinytruths)
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You Didn’t Thank Me For Punching You In The Face →
theladyafterwards:
Last year, one little boy stole [my daughter’s] Silly Bandz from her. He just grabbed her and yanked a handful of them off of her wrist. When I went to the school to address the incident, the teacher smiled and explained it away to her, in front of me, “He probably has a crush on you.”
Okay, the boy walked up to my daughter, grabbed and held her by the arm and forcibly...
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I'm Not a Hipstuh.: I just read some Andrea... →
anarchistsoup:
thebooshislooseandalittlebitraw:
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*Vomits*
NEVER. AGAIN.
I think i just found a reason to commit genocide :)
Which reason is that?
“Men are…
the irony of men being ignorant and violent as a reaction to being told they are ignorant and violent…
i...
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“…[I]t was crucial that most of my companions were women for a reason I...”
– Carol Flinders
At the Root of This Longing
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“The path of renunciation described by certain mystics is women’s daily...”
– Luce Irigaray
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“Reason why men cannot see ‘beyond their own noses’ is because men only see and...”
– Hecuba (via thruflowheater)
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Meryl Streep: The Fresh Air Interview : NPR →
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Thick Dumpling Skin: Kindness →
thickdumplingskin:
Sui reached out to us a while back and asked me and Lynn to contribute to Kindness Sprouts: a collaborative book of kindness + self care. All proceeds from this book go directly to Sprout Yoga, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping those who are healing from eating disorders by providing…
I contributed to this too. :)
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“…how curious it is that in a society where women presumably have full...”
– Carol Lee Flinders
At the Root of this Longing
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“When you meet someone whose spirit is not aligned with yours, send them love and...”
– (via irie-vibes)
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“Most of my love stories end with me feeling like I put a whole lot of energy...”
– Occupy Valentine’s Day | The F Word
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“Oh, and that title — “Marriage Suits Educated Women”? It...”
– Penny Sociologist
Junkland: Gender Junk: About That Coontz Article on the M.R.S. and the Ph.D.
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“The left has a long history of fighting capitalist ownership of the media. From...”
– Moral panic? No. We are resisting the pornification of women. Don’t mix up feminists fighting the the corporate media with rightwing attempts to police sex
(via cultureofresistance)
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Man Finally Put In Charge Of Struggling Feminist... →
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“The Sunlight on the Garden
The sunlight on the garden
Hardens and grows cold,...”
– Louis MacNeice
definitely one to read aloud.
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“Women are grateful to men when they label us ‘good women,’ for such...”
– Dee Graham
Postscript (Good girls/Bad Girls) « Cherryblossomlife
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“The recent increase in those claiming that…prostitution [is] ‘just...”
– Prostitution: pop culture vs historical reality | liberation is life
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anarchistsoup replied to your post: Is that Andrea Dworkin quote from Intercourse? Should I read it?
Intercourse/Pornography/Right-Wing Women/Woman Hating/Scapegoat are all fantastic. If interested in one of those topics I’d start there. Or go with a collection like Our Blood/Letters from a War Zone or Life & Death. radfem.org/dworkin
pinging fray!
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