May 2012
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“You might be polite about hiding the pain of it but I won’t, I can’t. I’m tired,...”
– My friend just emailed me. My heart has broken into a thousand pieces. Every single word of this hits so, so hard in the core. (via mehreenkasana)
May 14th
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“I think because we are so used to an embattled position with folks who wield...”
–   —Moya Bailey (via theredtree)
May 14th
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New Blog!: In Community & In Resistance →
manifestfreedom: New Blog!: In Community & In Resistance communityandresistance: http://communityandresistance.tumblr.com/ This blog will serve as a community and safe space for womyn, trans and intersex people of color who have experienced sexual violence. Womyn of color are isolated and marginalized in spaces that are supposed to be for healing, safety, and justice. We understand sexual...
May 14th
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May 13th
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thinking that i might
marshmallowmegamama: sit down and try to remember all the books that i read growing up—as many of them as I possibly can—and start rereading them. i feel like i left a little parts of myself in all of those books because that’s the only way i could survive. i wonder if i can find the parts and pull them back into me. now that i know i survived. and everything turned out ok.
May 13th
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May 13th
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Why I Blog - The Atlantic #longreads →
For centuries, writers have experimented with forms that evoke the imperfection of thought, the inconstancy of human affairs, and the chastening passage of time. But as blogging evolves as a literary form, it is generating a new and quintessentially postmodern idiom that’s enabling writers to express themselves in ways that have never been seen or understood before. Its truths are provisional,...
May 13th
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Gentle Curse to Racists
A glass of warm gingerale every evining. Wish you calmest sex, deliberate in t-shirts. Your mid-life-bran eating asap. Bad grades and bad fingernails when you go out to eat and all your clothes feel like leather. When you take a picture, arm’s length: red-eye and your chin dissolves. Hid your DVD remote but am also willing to negotiate, how weak. Anger’s still mine. Can’t...
May 13th
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May 13th
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The Revolution Will Not Be Polite: The Issue of... →
May 13th
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May 13th
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May 13th
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dadie-akoma: Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes. We can put a stop to this. Please reblog.
May 12th
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May 12th
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“Mothers looking for employment are less likely to be hired, are offered lower...”
– Motherhood penalty remains a pervasive problem in the workplace | The Clayman Institute for Gender Research (via robot-heart-politics)
May 12th
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What's So Funny About The John Travolta Sexual... →
May 12th
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baddominicana: that awkward moment when you talk about widespread prejudices and people wanna chime in w their rare ass isolated incidents where shits flipped, talmbout “see, we get shit too” as if thats gonna somehow quell the fact theyre preferred over everyone else. GOODBYE
May 12th
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“Social justice is about destroying systematic marginalisation and privilege....”
– » The Revolution Will Not Be Polite: The Issue of Nice versus Good Social Justice League (via lookoutsideyourself)
May 12th
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For Ultra-Orthodox in Abuse Cases, Prosecutor Has... →
wow. (trigger warning for conversation about child sexual abuse and rape)
May 12th
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