May 2012
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“It’s also important to note that punishing women for complying with cultural...”
– Social Justice League: Leave Kim Kardasian Alone (via grrrlstudies)
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so-treu:
“Today I learned that Michael Bullerdick, the latest managing editor of Essence Magazine–a highly influential publication whose first issue published in 1970–inadvertently outted himself on social media recently by expressing extreme right-wing beliefs that counter the history and long-standing values of the organization where he was hired last summer. What’s notable about this story is...
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“…Dying
Is an art, like everything else.
I do it exceptionally...”
– Sylvia Plath “Lady Lazarus”
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“Republicans approve of the American farmer, but they are willing to help him go...”
– Harry S. Truman (via silas216)
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“The miseducation of all underprivileged black groups strengthens the class power...”
– bell hooks (via wretchedoftheearth)
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“The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.”
– James Baldwin, “On Language, Race, and the Black Writer” (via ethiopienne)
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re: to all the people who seem to really want to let me know that I cant be a feminist because I like rap, watch tv, enjoy pop culture, etc…
origamicyclone:
did you know you can like things and be critical of them
did you know that liking a thing doesn’t mean you have to defend it when people point out its flaws
and that liking something does not have to mean you think it’s perfect
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“Call me old fashion, but I believe in a beautiful black world unpremised on the...”
– Ta-Nehisi Coates in The Atlantic ‘Girls’ Through the Veil
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White people were in the movie Precious
THIS.
yo this is exactly what I was thinking when I heard about that tweet from the Girls writer
howtobeterrell:
They were stage left otherwise known as the oppressive welfare system, the housing projects where Precious lives, the food system she consumed, the harmful beauty standards she could never live up to that robbed her of her self worth…
White people viewed the movie exactly how I...
“One of the best guides to how to be self-loving is to give ourselves the love we...”
– bell hooks (via slaterwashere)
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“For the first eight years of our marriage, [Michelle and I] were paying more in...”
– —President Obama in North Carolina today on why Congress has to act to prevent interest rates on student loans from doubling (via barackobama)
Tell it!
(via sequinsandsideeye)
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“Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so...”
– Audre Lorde, ‘Sexism: An American Disease in Blackface’, in Sister/Outsider, p. 63. (via feministquotes)
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it may be time for me to get rid of a few value...
fromonesurvivortoanother:
I’ve seen several posts by different people (and had others reblog my own posts disagreeing with some things I said) that have made me think on this.
For example, “strength”. It is an entirely subjective thing. Some people think it’s all about physical strength, other people think of emotional strength, and others still just don’t like the idea at all. I’ve found that...
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“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply,...”
– Pablo Neruda - 100 Love Sonnets
(via blackerotica)
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derica:
We are all dependent on others to varying degrees. A language that denies this fact fuels a system that obscures the ways in which other people care for us. Words such as independence, self-reliance and self-made help create, and are created by, a dynamic within which people are ignored and devalued. Joan Tronto reminds us that by “not noticing how pervasive and central care is to human...
“To be or not to be. That’s not really a question.”
– Jean-Luc Godard.
and the week begins. (via bbook)
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What does objectification mean beyond just “treat...
becauseiamawoman:
What does objectification mean beyond just “treat someone like an object”?
wolfennights
Here is a helpful tidbit on objectification according to feminist theory, which I found here. It gives a pretty comprehensive overview of different kinds of objectification.
Objectification is a notion central to feminist theory. It can be roughly defined as the seeing and/or treating a...
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“What we didn’t hear about was a how an African-American women who in the course...”
– As We Watch the Trayvon Martin Case, All of Us Should Know Marissa Alexander « Davey D’s Hip Hop Corner-(The Blog)
Oh, boy.
(via thehuskybro)
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Meet Madison Moore, Ph.D. Candidate in Critical... →
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“It is not so much that I miss you
as the remembering
which I suppose is a form...”
– Dorothea Grossman, from “[It is not so much that I miss you]” (via proustitute)
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“Racists never want to believe that they are racist. They are constantly...”
– Son of Baldwin (via sonofbaldwin)
i believe the same could be said about sexists.
(via ashleymisfit)
And misogynists. And homophobes. And transphobes. And ableists.
(via sonofbaldwin)
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“A crude way to put the whole thing is that our present culture is, both...”
– David Foster Wallace; Some Remarks on Kafka’s Funniness from Which Probably Not Enough Has Been Removed (via xlovescream)
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“It’s not that students don’t “get” Kafka’s humor but that we’ve taught them to...”
– David Foster Wallace (via apt-essere)
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“The next real literary “rebels” in this country might well emerge as some weird...”
– David Foster Wallace (via wiredthoughts)
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“Usage is always political, of course, but it’s complexly political. With...”
– David Foster Wallace in “Tense Present” or “Authority and American Usage”
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“To me, at least in retrospect, the really interesting question is why dullness...”
– The Pale King, p. 85. Now in paperback. Some David Foster Wallace for your Tax Day hangover. (via nocoastofnebraska)
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