January 2012
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“In the grander scheme of patriarchy, individual actions don’t really matter, but...”
– Joy (via thruflowheater)
December 2011
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“I see (I can’t help it)
buffalo faces in the gloomy white
people of...”
– Judy Grahn
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“a woman dances
by herself
against adversity
at the wood’s heart
to quicken...”
– Osvaldo Sauma
“A Woman Dances”
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“African-American women experience the pain of never being able to live up to...”
– Patricia Hill Collins (Mammies, Matriarchs, and Other Controlling Images: Color, Hair Texture, and Standards of Beauty, 98) (via wearethedescendantsofstars)
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“(Elegy for his Hands)
It was late, I was drunk, you were warm
to my hand, I...”
– Robyn Art, Notes About His Hands, Part 4 (via grammatolatry)
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"I Dream I’m the Death of Orpheus" →
amyofdoom:
I Dream I’m the Death of Orpheus I am walking rapidly through striations of light and dark thrown under an arcade. I am a woman in the prime of life, with certain powers and those powers severly limited by authorities whose faces I rarely see. I am a woman in the prime of life driving her dead poet in a black Rolls-Royce through a landscape of twilight and thorns. A woman with a...
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“The colonized are truly colonized when the only path they can see out of their...”
– D.A. Clarke
gray horse woman
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This is a good way to find credit for uncredited...
http://jarred.github.com/src-img/
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“It may seem strange how we used to wait for letters to arrive / But what’s...”
– Arcade Fire
“We Used to Wait”
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Why "Choice Feminism" Is an Illusion →
neetainari:
lasluchasdelcorazon:
Choice feminism gets one thing right: You should be able to make the choices that are right for you. And yes, of course that should include the choice to be ogled by strangers, or have your body used as a recruitment poster to bait guys into caring about important causes. Where choice feminism falls down, though, is in assuming that any of those things are...
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@msqueenly →
msqueenly:
eclecticspectrum:
msqueenly replied to your post: @msqueenly
Your fortitude is admirable, I wish it was more my nature. On the best days, I’m like a very, very slowly heating kettle. Always warm and when I get to boiling-rattling on the stove, its over. But thank you for clarifying.
Girl, it…
I wanted to put a little more out there: Many of the people I’ve looked to as mentors...
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misserinmarie:
benkling:
I don’t know if...
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Apologies. →
agradschoolbreakup:
Alright, because I’m annoyed this is what it is:
When people say ignorant, messed up shit but then they quickly realize that what they said was fucked up, and then they apologize and thank you for calling them out…MOTHERFUCKING LISTEN TO THEM. For fucks sake, people make mistakes. And it is entirely appropriate to let people know when they make mistakes. Criticism is...
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whatiremembered asked: What is a "Men's rights activist"?
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“Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do...”
– Sojourner Truth (via wearethedescendantsofstars)
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“There are moments of insight — the feminist identifying of institutional...”
– Adrienne Rich
“Reflections on ‘Compulsory Heterosexuality’” (2004)
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“One of the most commonly overlooked spiritual practices is daring to be...”
– -Matt Kahn (via cocothinkshefancy)
Well, I feel challenged.
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“Under Germany’s welfare reforms, any woman under 55 who has been out of...”
– ‘If you don’t take a job as a prostitute, we can stop your benefits’ - Telegraph
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Bold What Applies to You →
emmycecilia:
Bold What Applies to You
I am a girl
I am shorter than 5’4.
I have many scars.
I tan easily.
I wish my hair was a different color.
I have friends who have never seen my natural hair color.
I have a tattoo.
I want a tattoo.
I am self-conscious about my body.
I’ve been told I’m…
This list 1) makes me feel worldly 2) actually paints just enough of a portrait to make...
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banishing thinspiration from dash yet again / really guys the pursuit of weight loss has to be the boringest fucking thing on this great and glorious planet
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“During the process of my healing, I had hoped that I would be able to skip the...”
– Abra Fortune Chernik, “The Body Politic”
Thanks Holly for sending this to me. It’s making waves and changing lives. I sent it to Olive and he told me he wanted to send it to ASCE staff and show it to every person who “talks” about their body.
Finally at home in my body, I recognize...
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“…the very anonymity that made church-hopping appealing has begun to wear...”
– Lauren Winner
Girl Meets God
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“You have to look at what you have right in front of you, at what it could be,...”
– Jonathan Tropper (This Is Where I leave You)
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“im not a feminist ( yeah, i said it…shrug). but i dont understand people who...”
– shorter, cuter, more honest people — Feministe
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[trigger warning for violence] →
ekkoriver:
s-e-x:
“Two cameras recording from different positions, one inside the small tiled elevator and another in a hallway, show the doors open and the man with the canister approach. The man, who appeared to be in his 40s, first sprays the woman in the face, then douses her methodically from head to toe with what a city official said was an accelerant as she turned and cowered, raising...
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“You don’t want to start setting up another rule book, like: “This is how you’re...”
– Kathleen Hanna (via cataplectickitty)
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Black History eBooks Pack 58: The Black Panther... →
black-culture:
Black History eBooks Packs 58: The Black Panther Party pt.1
The-Genius-of-Huey-P-Newton
War-Against-the-Black-Panthers
The-Black-Panther-Party-and-the-Case-of-the-New-York-21
Sieze the Time-The Story of the BlackPanthers
Revolutionary Suicide
afeni shakur evolution of a revolutionary
Assata-An-Autobiography
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