May 2012
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xvxavier:
If you’re a “nice guy” to a girl up until you realize she doesn’t want to date you, then go on about how she’s a cold shrew that friendzoned you and how no girls date nice guys, like, nah mate, girls do date nice guys. You just aren’t a nice guy. You’re a passive aggressive beta with internalized misogyny and a serious victim complex.
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Life is purposeless. Don’t be shocked. The whole idea of purpose is wrong—it...
– Osho (via humanformat)
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When feminists ‘call-out’ other feminists for their racism, transphobia,...
– Shaunga Tagore, a contributor to Feminism for Real, a REALLY FUCKING IMPORTANT BOOK for allfeminists,allies, PEOPLE interested in social justice and changing the world.
More on this written in a DOPE article by Jessica Yee over at Racialicious.
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I need this book. NEEEED.
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My biggest problem is that there is simply no creativity in movies with black...
– A commenter on “Why I’m Just Saying No to ‘The Help’” (via atrapforfools)
FUCKING THIS. (via so-treu)
Pretty much. (via kyssthis16)
SO. MUCH. THIS. TIMES. INFINITY. (via squeetothegee)
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Liberated women did not ‘fall in love,’ we chose to love - that was different...
– bell hooks, Communion: The Female Search for Love (via lakitalki)
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Ladies & gentlemen,
What a strange time to be an artist…
In this time...
– Guillermo Gómez Peña, Excerpt from “Philosophical Tantrum”, 2005 (via dusttracksonaroad)
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You won’t allow me to go to school.
I won’t become a doctor.
Remember this:...
– A young girl’s poem to the Taliban via NYTimes piece Why Afghan Women Risk Death to Write Poetry http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/magazine/why-afghan-women-risk-death-to-write-poetry.html?_r=4
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The Importance of Checking In
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communityandresistance:
Checking in with yourself is an act of self-affirmation, a way of reminding yourself that your inner being matters. It is also a way of giving yourself credit for all your efforts. Some good times to check in with yourself include: when you are being triggered, right after talking about what you’ve experienced, right after a therapy session, etc.
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ourcatastrophe:
probably my most unpopular opinion is that I just don’t care whether men learn to cry or whatever. like, at all. not even if I like them, really. I used to but I’ve burnt out completely. when I say this it really horrifies people. but I see the injunction to care about whether men learn to get in touch with their emotions as just another extension of some emotional caretaker...
Anonymous asked: feminism in the autobiography of my mother
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When you love someone, you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same...
– “Gift from the Sea” by Anne Morrow Lindbergh (via adri-elle)