May 2012
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I can go to school and be ‘the feminist’ and explain things really technically...
– Tavi Gevinson (2010)
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[[MORE]]Idk you guise I ditched on AUSLAN class to look after myself and enjoy uni work but as usual sank into a thought cycle about how horrific the world is and how horrific I am and how a horrifying thing to do would be to send emails or record my voice talking (things I need to do) because then the horror would be exposed and stuff. I’ve talked a lot of smack about self care but sense...
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Self-care includes holding each other accountable because we are interconnected....
– Alexis Pauline Gumbs, quoted by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha in a transformative justice workshop at Hampshire earlier this year.
Stuff I’m finding as I “clean” my room.
(via verbalprivilege)
Word.
(via jessiedress)
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KARL MARX
departmentofomnishambles:
All that is solid melts into air. They’ve taken, by dead of night, my printer. Today I found myself queuing for 90 minutes to print course notes using the centralised printer system… only to have it crash (NB: centralised economy concept - perhaps to be rethought?) Utter despair led me to a half-formed insight: something about time, and labour, and excess value,...
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What counts as activism? Why didn’t the kind of emotional self-care me and my...
– Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, “A Time to Hole Up And a Time to Kick Ass” in We Don’t Need Another Wave (via glitterencrustedbunghole)
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Disability and Normative Language (Dear James...
fuckthedisabled:
Why I am crippled and not (dis)Abled, differently abled, or handicapable:
When you say that we are not disabled, when you say that we are “better than that”; that instead we are “handicapable”, simply “differently” abled, or when you haphazardly throw a parenthesis around an unsuspecting prefix, what you are really saying is that you are afraid. You are afraid of acknowledging...
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…the female narcissist is dangerous to patriarchy because she obviates the...
– amelia jones, body art: performing the subject (via karaj)
fuck yeah cutting out up the middle man.
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Ancient moon priestesses were called virgins. ‘Virgin’ meant not married, not...
– Monica Sjoo and Barbara Mor in the book “The Great Cosmic Mother -Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth” (via lesvoyageursperdus)
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Contribute to my New Queer Feminist Zine Thing...
catladysoul:
garconniere:
catladysoul:
So there are several feminist publications out there right now — I even contribute to some of them! But none of them are very specifically queer and feminist and talk about fashion, specifically, and not in that ‘groundbreaking’ way that discusses how fashion can be feminist. I know it can be, there are lots of people I know who know it can be, and it...
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Someone design me a tattoo of Dobby with the...
Okay go!
If you want to witness the collision of poverty in America, sexual health...
– Jessica Mack
from What One Week on an Abortion Fund Hotline Taught Me About the Economics of Stigma (via conundrumous)
For we have always known that the socially constructed image of innocent white...
– bell hooks (via wretchedoftheearth)
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Languages are created by the poor, who then go on renewing them forever. The...
– Letter to a Teacher from the Schoolboys of Barbiana (via cedars)
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We’ll probably never know how many women inventors there were. That’s because in...
– FactMonster.com (via stfuconservatives)
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"What? Racism? I've never seen any racism in my...
mia-the-wonder-slut:
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It’s not voyeurism, it’s exhibitionism, don’t get it twisted, no one cares about...
– Calloutqueen.tumblr.com (via anotherhookerblog)
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What if gay white dudes stopped pretending their...
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I also want to take another second to just marvel...
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…it is better to speak/remembering/we were never meant to survive.
– audre lorde
(via paralysister: “i’ve never felt like my words were so clumsy as they have been over this past week. been thinking a lot about mark aguhar. been thinking about death and about suicide. feeling like what happened is not for me to understand or to not understand…”)
(via b8ncstr8)
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With the Margaret Olley, I was interested in the fact that all of our experience...
– Kate Middleton, the inaugural Sydney City Poet in Residence
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rgr-pop:
i need feminism because i’m tired of the man always shuttin’ us down, tired of my old man ‘cause he’s never around
rgr-pop thank you this series is perfect.