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Fri, 24 May 2013 04:44:11 -0400

slaglady: ♡☾†☾ Follow for more Soft Thug ☾†☾♡

Fri, 24 May 2013 04:33:16 -0400

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i have no problem with pointing out that anyone of any gender can be an abuser, rapist, pedophile...

Fri, 24 May 2013 04:31:55 -0400

i have no problem with pointing out that anyone of any gender can be an abuser, rapist, pedophile etc because that’s absolutely true.

but the problem with always emphasizing “yes but it happens to everyone, not just women (or people of colour, or trans* people, etc)!” is that it depoliticizes the issue.

violence is not an accident, it is reflective of social power relations that permeate society at every level

mirrormaskcamera: (via PiRANOIAS: SELECCIÓN FOTOGRÁFICA… Xuño)

Fri, 24 May 2013 04:29:44 -0400

mirrormaskcamera:

(via PiRANOIAS: SELECCIÓN FOTOGRÁFICA… Xuño)

"Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you."

Fri, 24 May 2013 04:28:59 -0400

“Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.”

- Unknown (via broken-dreams-club)

"Women have always been healers. They were the unlicensed doctors and anatomists. They were..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 03:50:17 -0400

“Women have always been healers. They were the unlicensed doctors and anatomists. They were abortionists, nurses and counselors. They were the pharmacists, cultivating healing herbs, and exchanging the secrets of their uses. They were midwives, traveling from home to home and village to village. For centuries women were doctors without degrees, barred from books and lectures, learning from each other, and passing on experience from neighbor to neighbor and mother to daughter. They were called “wise women” by the people, witches or charlatans by the authorities. Medicine is part of our heritage as women, our history, our birthright.”

- Barbara Ehrenreich & Deirdre English, “Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers” (via sister-bell)

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Thu, 23 May 2013 03:42:25 -0400

friendlyangryfeminist: just because coming out is brave, doesn’t mean being in the closet is...

Thu, 23 May 2013 03:40:37 -0400

friendlyangryfeminist:

just because coming out is brave, doesn’t mean being in the closet is cowardly.

queer existence, queer survival is brave.

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Thu, 23 May 2013 03:40:24 -0400

"The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while,..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 04:53:07 -0400

“The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.”

- Assata Shakur: An Autobiography (via sister-bell)

verluste: Tao Kurihara - November 2007

Wed, 22 May 2013 04:49:26 -0400

verluste:

Tao Kurihara - November 2007

"Vulnerability is the only authentic state. Being vulnerable means being open, for wounding, but also..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 04:21:28 -0400

“Vulnerability is the only authentic state. Being vulnerable means being open, for wounding, but also for pleasure. Being open to the wounds of life means also being open to the bounty and beauty. Don’t mask or deny your vulnerability: it is your greatest asset. Be vulnerable: quake and shake in your boots with it. The new goodness that is coming to you, in the form of people, situations, and things can only come to you when you are vulnerable and open.”

- Stephen Russell (via thatkindofwoman)

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Tue, 21 May 2013 04:21:07 -0400

"Be of service. You are taking your degree into a society dominated by concentrated poverty and a..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 03:59:39 -0400

“Be of service. You are taking your degree into a society dominated by concentrated poverty and a vulnerable middle class, a society where it is harder to pay for education, harder to find a job, harder to buy a house and harder to hold onto those things even if you manage to get them. You are entering adulthood during a period of mass incarceration and near constant war. There is a lot for you to do. Service is the rent you pay for the space you take up on the earth, and as a relatively privileged American you take up a lot of space. We are the most consuming, polluting, wasteful nation on earth. So your rent is steep. Pay it with service.”

- Dr. Melissa Harris-Perry’s advice to Class of 2013 (via bitchwhoisyou)

ladyfresh: May 12, 2013. A girl presents an Afro-Colombian...

Tue, 21 May 2013 03:58:09 -0400

ladyfresh:

May 12, 2013. A girl presents an Afro-Colombian hairstyle during the 9th contest of Afro-hairdressers, in Cali, Valle del Cauca departament, Colombia.| Luis Robayo—AFP/Getty Images

tranqualizer: stop supporting the myth that poor people don’t deserve to have “nice” things....

Tue, 21 May 2013 03:57:39 -0400

tranqualizer:

stop supporting the myth that poor people don’t deserve to have “nice” things. because that sort of narrative continues to ignore the complexities of capitalism and struggle and takes us away from examining why it’s easier for someone living below the poverty line to get a smart phone than to get sustainable support for housing, employment at a livable wage, healthcare services, etc.

poesiegrenadine: nevver: What a thrill Hey look, it’s my...

Tue, 21 May 2013 03:57:03 -0400

poesiegrenadine:

nevver:

What a thrill

Hey look, it’s my work! :)

"The image I have made once is no longer new to me, so you could say that the goal is not be found in..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 03:52:19 -0400

“The image I have made once is no longer new to me, so you could say that the goal is not be found in eternity.”

- Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons on newness (via erichcanvogue)

valyoushouldtravel: http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork...

Tue, 21 May 2013 03:51:54 -0400

valyoushouldtravel:

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/184209

"did our mothers invent loneliness or did it make them our mothers? were we fathered by silence or..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 03:57:13 -0400

“did our mothers invent loneliness or did it make them our mothers? were we fathered by silence or just looking to explain away this gaping quiet? is it wasteful or wistful to pray for our brothers in a language they never learned? whose daughters are we if we grow old before our mothers, or for their sake? they called our grandfathers the january children, lined up by the colonizer and assigned birth years by height. there is no answer because we come from men who do not know when they were born, because they married women shown to them in photographs, because their children left the country and tried for romance and had daughters full of all the wrong language.”

- Safia Elhillo, poet (via llapen)

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