May 2013
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oh-annie:
The other day, a boy in my form asked me “Don’t you think feminists are a bit annoying?” No. What’s annoying is that women all over the world are still having to fight to be treated like human beings.
This sums up how it felt to teach Women’s Studies at a rural state university in the Midwest. I had a student who constantly challenged me so I made him read bell hook’s definition of...
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“I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me.”
– George Orwell (via beatboxgoesthump)
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grrlyman:
Shout out to everyone who had to be their own mother/parent.
Just because your parents weren’t capable doesn’t mean you didn’t deserve love and security.
I’m proud of us, of the amazing humans we’ve raised.
props to ya’ll!!!
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“The colour blue - that is my colour - and the colour blue means you have left...”
– Louise Bourgeois, Drawings & Observations
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cuntext:
plasmodiocarp:
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sorry i was going to just like this but i mean i just keep sputtering with laughter and delight and glee again.
This one is for you Atlee.
xoxo
G
“My sense of a poem—my notion of how you revise—is: you get yourself into a state...”
– Philip Levine (via mttbll)
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“Inclusivity” and “intersectionality” are not just...
A must read:
Understanding Reproductive Justice: A Response to O’Brien
Having a broad, intersectional analysis does not mean that every organization has to fight on all fronts all the time. Achieving reproductive justice does require countering an opposition that is itself broad and intersectional, as it pursues an anti-woman, pro-patriarchal, and racist agenda. No one organization can possibly...
hugecockprivilege:
if you think ppls opinions don’t matter because they haven’t read enough ~theory~ you need to sit down
“Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.”
– Yousuf Karsh (via likeafieldmouse)
“Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them.”
– Paramahansa Yogananda (via beatboxgoesthump)
