May 2013
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There is no intimacy like that between two women who have chosen to be sisters.
– Warsan Shire (via themindislimitless)
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âpihtawikosisân: What I will teach my boys: →
reactionism:
Never talk to or touch a drunk woman. I don’t want you in jail for a crime you did not commit.
Never use a condom given to you by a woman. Always bring your own, and make sure they are “fresh”.
Never trust a woman who says she is on the pill.
Never stay with a woman who…
YES yesyes
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The most significant differences between those who smoked marijuana and those...
– The Atlantic’s Lindsay Abrams, reporting on the results of a recent study on the health effects of marijuana. In addition, regular pot smokers were skinnier than those who abstained, “even after adjusting for factors like age, sex, tobacco and alcohol use, and physical activity levels,” and had...
Veilotics: Notes on patriarchy and feminist... →
hashtag-beirut:
Patriarchy is neither a person nor a gender. It is the tense and intimate reproduction of existing dynamics that regulate the shifting relationship between normative gender expressions and privilege. Our value, as human beings, as well as the respect and rewards we earn,…
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maarnayeri:
solange is such a goddessss. how can one person be so beautiful?? </3
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socialistunicorn:
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I think it would be SO FUCKING COOOOOL if Shit Harper Did got to air their ad during an NHL playoff game. The Canadian government is fucking us all over and we need to gather people and FIGHT BACK.
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You mean the generation that paid three times as much for college to enter a job...
– When comments are better than the article, Atlantic edition (“The Cheapest Generation: Why Millennials arent’ buying cars or houses, and what that means for the economy”)
Normally I skip the comments section- it’s a dark whole of racism, bigotry, etc. etc. Just plain hate. But these comments...
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Everybody Samba
I’m fairly certain that if everyone on the planet was constantly listening to Songza’s playlist, “Everybody Samba”, we would all implode from reaching inner peace almost immediately.
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Since the notion that we should all forsake attachment to race and/or cultural...
– bell hooks | killing rage: Ending Racism (via sinidentidades)
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If you look back at what happens since that time there have been a lot of...
– Noam Chomsky (via azspot)
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Inspiration Station: Cate Parr
theskinny-muse:
Watercolor Illustrations by Cate Parr. Cate is a fashion illustrator born and educated in England.
She’s amazing. I wish I had that talent.
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People can fall into the trap of blaming the poor of developing countries for...
– Steve Hallett and John Wright, Life Without Oil: Why We Must Shift to a New Energy Future (via therecipe)
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April 2013
7 posts
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tristamateer:
please tell me which part of yourself you hate the most so I know exactly where to plant my lips every time I see you
It is fair to say that India is deplorably behind the curve when it comes to...
– The Sacred and the Profane by Anita Felicelli
(via therumpus)
[on women] each of us in some way has been both oppressed and the oppressor. We...
– Cherrie Moraga, ‘La Guera’, in Cherrie Moraga and Glora Anzadua (eds.),This Bridge called my Back: Writings by Radical Women if Color (New York: Kitchen Table Press, 1981), p. 33, (via feministquotes)
March 2013
7 posts
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When a man says no in this culture, it’s the end of the discussion. When a woman...
– Gavin De Becker (via -mayday)
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You can’t make homes out of human beings. Someone should have already told you...
– Warsan Shire (via bitterbun)
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There were no sex classes. No friendship classes. No classes on how to navigate...
– William Upski Wimsatt (via radicalginger)
thank you.
(via stratifiedsquamousepithelium)
I think that the issue here isn’t that these skills are not taught in schools, because I question whether or not if schools are the right location for these learnings. Even if we re-imagined schools, is...
February 2013
10 posts
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WE’RE A group of Indian feminists and we are delighted to learn that the Harvard...
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Indian feminists respond to Harvard’s establishing a task force to provide recommendations about sexual violence in India.
This is quite possibly the greatest thing that has ever been written about the Western feminist imperialist complex ever.
Let me just say, Indian feminism has been...
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