September 2012
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“Perhaps the most basic thing we can do is end once and for all the indulgent...”
– The Real Reason for the Upsurge in ‘Hidden Camera’ Perverts (via brute-reason)
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August 2012
201 posts
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“All girls continue to be taught when they are young, if not by their parents...”
– bell hooks in Communion: Female Search for Love (via monkeyknifefight)
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“The white fathers told us, I think therefore I am, and the black mother within...”
– Audre Lorde (via sister-bell)
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“I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do...”
– Octavia E. Butler (via expositively)
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Returning to Tumblr after a few days
solemnxrequiem:
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“I do not believe that just because you’re opposed to abortion, that that makes...”
– Sister Joan Chittister, Catholic Nun (via timehasflewn)
holy shit i love this quote
(via glitter-femin1sts)
I’ve always been amazed (and deeply troubled) by how many pro-life people are anti-welfare and anti-health care reform.
(via invisiblelad)
That’s because they don’t see that child being...
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“As Black women, we do not have the privilege or the space to call ourselves...”
– An Open Letter from Black Women to SlutWalk Organizers (via blck-grrl)
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“We do not publish “reverse discrimination” stories. ”Reverse discrimination”...”
– excerpt from the submission guidelines for Expanded Horizons, a magazine that has the goal of expanding diversity in speculative fiction.
The editor of the magazine writes:
“I’ve been REGULARLY getting plots pretty much like this in the Expanded Horizons slush pile for the four years we’ve...
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Immigrants
wrap their babies in the American flag, feed them mashed hotdogs and apple pie, name them Bill and Daisy, buy them blonde dolls that blink blue eyes or a football and tiny cleats before the baby can even walk, speak to them in thick English,
hallo, babee, hallo,
whisper in Spanish or Polish when the babies sleep, whisper in a dark parent bed, that dark parent fear, “Will they like our boy, our...
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Oh No! Rush Limbaugh discovered our president's...
talldarkbishoujo:
yukidama:
whittemore-teller:
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kirstinthereckless:
He’s actually the love child of Storm and Thor and was born in Asgard!
It all makes sense.
One superhero to save us all…from Mitt Romney.
i believe
headcanon accepted
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“On too many occasions, gay men and women of color have been told not to muddy...”
– Chong-suk Han, “Darker Shades of Queer” (via wretchedoftheearth)
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“2) White privilege conditions white people not to see white rage. However, it...”
– Crunktastic, White Women’s Rage: 5 Thoughts On Why Jan Brewer Should Keep Her Fingers to Herself, Crunk Feminist Collective 1/27/12 (via racialicious)
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Racism Still Exists: Representations of Black... →
racismstillexists:
One day in 1967, Audre Lorde, a Black woman who was a noted poet, writer and activist, was out shopping at the supermarket. Her two-year old daughter was along for the ride in the shopping cart, like many other children with their parents. A young White girl in her mother’s shopping cart…
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what the fuck did i just watch.
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“Do not chase people. Be you and do your own thing and work hard. The right...”
– Wu Tang (via everythingyoulovetohate)
word
(via earthtoroxy)
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“Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to...”
– Hypatia of Alexandria (via anthonyisnotinrightnow)
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“a white male writer is never asked to be a spokesman for anything; he has...”
– Zadie Smith
You can read the full interview here
(via comelivewithmeangel)
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“Her beauty cannot be measured with standards of a colonized mind.”
– Michelle NdegeOcello (via grrrlstudies)
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Watchdeliciouskaek:
#i’m crying i feel so old
chile please
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“Let’s talk about Amy Pond. She’s feisty! And sexy! And she wears short skirts...”
– Emily Monaghan (via quigonejinn)