May 2012
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reminders & reverberations: lettherebecramp: if... →
lettherebecramp:
if your feminism does not actively advocate for and with women of color, your feminism is shit
if your feminism does not actively advocate for and with trans* women, your feminism is shit
if your feminism does not actively advocate for and with disabled women, your…
“Those who perpetrated this atrocity must be identified and held to account, and...”
– Again, with no apparent sense of irony, Hillary Clinton condemns Syria massacre: Assad’s ‘rule by murder’ must end.
This is a random sampling of the last few months of the USG not ‘ruling by murder’ (honestly, it took a 3 minute search through my Instapaper).
NATO Airstrike Kills Six Afghan...
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“I want very badly to tell him how I’m entranced by his mind and his body; to...”
– Sylvia Plath (via transformfeminism)
“Your 20’s are your ‘selfish’ years. It’s a decade to immerse yourself in every...”
– Kyoko Escamilla (via sarab34r)
“If a survivor of domestic violence uses a gun to warn an attacker, not kill him,...”
– Melissa Harris-Perry on the case of Marissa Alexander, a mother of three, who fired a warning shot into her kitchen ceiling trying to keep her abusive husband away. No one was hurt, but she now faces up to twenty years in prison. (via thelifetimenetwork)
cultural appropriation vs cultural exchange
blackcurator:
eating a polish food at a polish restaurant ran by a polish owners = cultural exchange.
wearing ceremonial japanese robes for a fashion shoot and calling it an asian dress = cultural appropriation.
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fulkpunk:
People II: The Reckoning - Andrew...
“If you laugh, let the laughter shake your very foundations. If you cry, become...”
– Osho (via transformfeminism)
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“Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful...”
– Frank O’Hara, Meditations in an Emergency (via cartographe)
“she stuck a bookmark
in my heart
and walked away”
– saul williams (via transformfeminism)
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“And I’m going to eliminate some programs that I think are duplicative and...”
– New interview with Mitt Romney (via climateadaptation)
OH, ok
(via gop-circus)
“i hate cops, pigs, and law enforcement”
– the local 2nd graders (via basednigel)
pineapplepoop:
Hurt - Johnny Cash
transformfeminism:
Love Me or Leave Me - Billie...
“Your head is a living forest full of song birds.”
– e.e. cummings (via tastemybraincandy)
“What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the...”
– Lacan (via nevver)