May 2013
sandandglass:
Source
Thank you to lapincoeur.tumblr.com for showing me this.
“When Hindu women in the United States wear the bindi, people love to make fun of...”
– Fatima Farha,
Why “Bindis” Should Not Be a Fashion Trend
(via indiancrownaffair)
“Since the notion that we should all forsake attachment to race and/or cultural...”
– bell hooks | killing rage: Ending Racism (via sinidentidades)
“The non-Indigenous desire to “play Indian” may seem like a passing trend, but it...”
– “Decolonizing Feminism: Challenging Connections between Settler Colonialism and Heteropatriarchy.” Maile Arvin, Eve Tuck, and Angie Morrill (via nepantlastrategies)
White People & their Inability to Handle having...
witchsistah:
thegoddamazon:
White people, let me explain you a thing:
1) My hair is not open for touching (and I don’t give a fuck if we’re ‘friends’ either). Because:
I don’t know where the fuck your hands have been.
I take great care in styling and moisturizing my hair and keeping it clean and well-groomed.
Invasion of my personal space with your racialized fascination with the shit that...
“On Periods: Let’s put this shit to bed right now: Women don’t lose their minds...”
– Shakesville: Feminism 101 (via andotherdoublemeanings)
BOOM
(via lagertha-lodbrok)
“You’re still going to get criticized, so you might as well do whatever the fuck...”
– Kathleen Hanna (via fluffynips)
If media covered America the way we cover foreign...
jahanzebjz:
Yet another massacre has occurred in the historically war-torn region of the Southern United States – and so soon after the religious festival of Easter.
Brian McConkey, 27, a Christian fundamentalist militiaman living in the formerly occupied territory of Alabama, gunned down three men from an opposing tribe in the village square near Mobile, the capitol, over a discussion that may...
fffcuk:
what doesn’t kill you fucks you up mentally and affects your ability to have stable relationships with other human beings
“Identity is not a bunch of little cubbyholes stuffed respectively with...”
– Gloria Anzaldúa (via megamindinhd)
“Like Ida B. Wells-Barnett, my experience as a Black woman in the academy has...”
– Duchess Harris, “Your Feminism Ain’t Like Ours Because We Are Raising Quvenzhané,” The Feminist Wire 4/23/13 (via racialicious)
“When people refuse to buy something, or buy product B instead of product A for...”
– Why I Will Never Tell Anyone to “Vote With Your Dollars” (via sparkamovement)
Another reason why people need to stop acting like product (Red) or individual consumer choices can make substantive changes to greater structures of global power. It doesn’t make sense. They. Just. Want. Your. Money.
...
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Insomnia and painful anxiety attack tonight.
Waiting this out by reading news and watching that Kitchen Nightmares episode at Amy’s Baking Company on HuluPlus.
Feel like maybe a migraine is building, too, but there’s not much I can do about it.
kristenmastora7:
gallium-knight:
Here’s a test:
I’m holding a baby in one hand and a petri dish holding a fetus in the other.
I’m going to drop one. You chose which.
If you really truly believe a fetus is the same thing as a baby, it should be impossible for you to decide. You should have to flip a coin, that’s how impossible the decision should be.
Shot in the dark, you saved the baby.
...
twigwise:
asuka-sohryu:
next time you’re feeling like shit
remember the sloths
they don’t do anything ever
and they haven’t gone extinct
you can afford to take a nap
This
Is literally the most uplifting and comforting thing I’ve read all day
thisgingerisback:
i sincerely hope every single man mourning the “loss” of angelina jolie’s breasts trips and falls on a butcher knife
Breaking the Barrier: On Race, Gender, and Junot... →
blancateli:
This had to be written because last month the New York Observer ran a piece on why Junot Díaz doesn’t deserve all the praise and awards that included things like:
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao didn’t captivate me, but that’s because I’m not inclined to care that much about tubby science fiction geeks with girl issues, even when limned in the admirably deft and much-praised...
mrmdprncss:
i’m always weirdly proud when my pee is clear because it’s like fuck yeah i’m so hydrated
thisgingerisback:
Angelina Jolie announces a double mastectomy to save her life, people get fucking pissed and act like she’s lost everything that’s made her worthwhile in the first place, AND YOU WONDER WHY I FUCKING HATE THE “SAVE THE BOOBIES” TROPE.
BECAUSE NO ONE ACTUALLY GIVES A FUCK ABOUT THE WOMAN’S LIFE. WOMEN JUST HAPPEN TO BE ATTACHED TO A PAIR OF BREASTS. WOMEN AREN’T WORTH...
“Poor people used to live in slums. Now the ‘economically disadvantaged’ occupy...”
– George Carlin, Euphemistic Language (via kabinessence) i skimmed this entire rant thinking that the first paragraph was a rant about the occupy movement because i thought the apostrophes went around “occupy” (via nightlifemingus)
scarlettsexual:
colonialism is knowing that your ancestors died so that you could be here but knowing none of their names, or the words that died with them.
