February 2012
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“So, when men do femininity they feel ridiculous and when women do masculinity...”
– Sexy Femininity and Gender Inequality » Sociological Images (via sociolab)
January 2012
5 posts
“The world today doesn’t make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?”
– Pablo Picasso (via stellablu)
“Maybe you don’t know what the nights are like
for people who can’t sleep.
They...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke (via waveofwords)
“What’s past lies still ahead,
and the future is finished.”
yes.
(via fumblingtowardshappiness)
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“Gamers get hella uncomfortable over male sexuality too. Can you imagine a “good...”
– a forum post I read recently, trying to give a solid example of what ‘male objectification in gaming ’ would actually look like if it was anything equivalent to current female objectification in gaming. (via nothingbutsurrender)
I would actually love to see this
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December 2011
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fumblingtowardshappiness:
‘Yes we know it’s Christmas’ say African musicians as they finally record a response to Band Aid
b-sama:
CAPE TOWN. After 28 years of silently tolerating it, a group of unemployed local musicians have joined forces to release a Christmas single, entitled ‘Yes we do,’ in response to the Bob Geldof inspired Band Aid song, ‘Do they know it’s Christmas?’.
Speaking at...
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Reblog if you're willing to answer anything that...
Please yes! I’m bored k…send me some love via questions
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Reblog if you've ever shovelled down Kraft Dinner...
a-verypotter-christmas:
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“I imagine that one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is...”
– James Baldwin (Notes of a Native Son)
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“My wife and I are thinking of adopting and shockingly found in Texas, the cost...”
– The price of babies, by color | Chris Blattman (via abbyjean)
This sickens me. Capitalism, do you know no bounds?
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People of Color Organize: Why I Am Not Protesting... →
peopleofcolor:
For those who have known me, my keen interest in the Occupy movement comes as no surprise. For those whom I have met only recently know me as the researcher, freelance journalist and blogger who has been making it a strong point to let everyone know that I am merely observing protests…
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“Langston Hughes didn’t write the poem “A Dream Deferred” just because he thought...”
– Poor Black Kids Need To Learn To Read, Use Diigo Sez White Dude In Forbes (via thetart)
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“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be...”
– bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
Absafuckinglutely. This is also stated by Henri Nouwen in his book Reaching Out: The Three Movements of the Spiritual Life.
(via peoplespolitik)
needed to see this. Awesome :)
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chandni-o-meri-chandni:
One issue I have with the Occupy movement that was discussed for maybe like five minutes is its name. Occupy. I’m totally for a more equitable distribution of income and stricter regulation of the financial sector and all that. But I never understood why this movement is named after an act of violence. Occupation is violence. Occupation is what is going on in the West...
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“So come, drown yourself in forbidden libations while you deliver a machismo...”
– Seema Jilani nails it in “The expat drinking scene of journalists and diplomats in Afghanistan’s capital is the height of disrespectful colonialism” for The Guardian.
Every. Single. Word.
(via mehreenkasana)
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This is so true!
womenoccupy:
Women in Occupy Denver
I asked Liberty Shellman, also a member of Occupy Denver’s GA Procedures Committee, about how this movement can be made sustainable. She speaks of the “need to address the systemic problem of oppression.” Liberty says she is presently focused on “women and other gender marginalized communities of the movement,” because, she said, “numerous women...
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Thin Privilege Checklist
heyfatchick:
For those that didn’t know what I was talking in my last post, here is the thin privilege checklist in its entirety:
sugaredvenom:
I can be sure that people aren’t embarrassed to be seen with me because of the size of my body.
If I pick up a magazine or watch T.V. I will see bodies that look like mine that aren’t being lampooned, desexualized, or used to signify laziness,...
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submisterious:
Unspoken Rules For Women In The United States
letstalkabouted:
Today, after reading the news that the House passed a bill that would allow hospitals to let women to die rather than perform a life-saving abortion, commenter mcstabbypants came up with an idea, “Rules For Women In The United States.” Here they are. Pass ‘em on.
“Welcome to the USA, little girl! We are so glad...
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dear cracker ass white people who hate immigrants
unknowablewoman:
weexist-weresist:
THERE IS NOTHING
YOU HAVE DONE
TO DESERVE CITIZENSHIP
WALTZING OUT OF YOUR MAMA’S WOMB ONTO AMERICAN SOIL DOES NOT MEAN YOU ARE DESERVING OF JACK SHIT
LOOK AT THE PERSON TO YOUR LEFT WHO IS A CITIZEN
THERE IS NO REASON WHY YOU BITCH ABOUT THIS PERSON DESERVING MORE ACCESS TO JOBS, OPPORTUNITIES, RESOURCES, AND RIGHTS THAN THE IMMIGRANT WHO HAS BUSTED...
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Since you didn't ask...An intro :D
progressive-insanities:
Hi I’m Cassie
I mostly blog funnies that I make, reblog or find and credit by click-through link. I also post my writing, whether it be poetry or prose. Sometimes I blog just to see the words of my own post. < Like that last sentence there
I’m a laid-back kinda person who has seen too much seriousness in life. I’ve battled my own mind wanting to kill myself > I...
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progressive-insanities:
If hierarchies were dicks, I’d Lorena Bobbit that shit.
^^ True shit. I really hate hierarchies.
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HARLEY DAVIDSON sung by Michelle Simpson →
progressive-insanities:
This is one of many awesome songs off of her debut album. I love this woman because she can rock!
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“In twenty-first-century America, “rights” are increasingly meant for those who...”
– Tom Engelhardt (via theamericanbear)
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Why I can't be plugged in
Round here, we talk like lions but we sacrifice like lambs
- counting crows
I don’t like to be plugged into the system for too long. The feeling of pressure, of great anxiety—-> and then you have those fuckers in TIME magazine trying to convince the American people that anxiety is good for them. Well ya, fight or flight is there for a reason but really? We shouldn’t be stressed to the max...
“Washing one’s hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means...”
– Paulo Freire (via thechocolatebrigade
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“Women who are fat are said to have ‘let themselves go.’ The very phrase connotes...”
– “Letting Ourselves Go: Making Room for the Fat Body in Feminist Scholarship,” by Cecilia Hartley (via esperanzaj)
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List of changes in my life after becoming involved...
If I didn’t believe in serendipity before Oct. 15, 2011, then I sure do now. Here is the titled list:
Kicked my years long addiction to sugar. Ice cream, pop, convenience store runs are a thing of the past! (I obv still partake but not in an “addict” way)
Quit school. I was in my 4th year of the Bachelor of Science in Nursing program (attempting to complete for the 3rd time,...
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“You control our world. You’ve poisoned the air we breath, contaminated the water...”
– If anyone asks yet again, why the occupiers all over the county are protesting, direct them to this. (via mistersilverio)
“It is December 6th, and I remember.
I was 13 years old when Marc Lépine opened...”
– Anna, Je me souviens on the École Polytechnique massacre. Read the entire entry; I had a really hard time picking one piece to quote here. (via slothbrothel)
There really aren’t words for this piece, it’s incredibly moving.
(via stfusexists)
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