May 2012
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May 8th
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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.
May 8th
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“Life is purposeless. Don’t be shocked. The whole idea of purpose is wrong—it...”
– Osho (via humanformat)
May 8th
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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. (via androgynius) I need this book. NEEEED. (via...
May 8th
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May 7th
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May 7th
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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)
May 7th
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May 7th
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May 7th
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May 6th
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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)
May 6th
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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)
May 6th
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May 6th
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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
May 6th
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May 6th
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The Importance of Checking In
mmmajestic: 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.  ...
May 5th
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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...
May 5th
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Anonymous asked: feminism in the autobiography of my mother
May 5th
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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)
May 5th
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