February 2012
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“Your hurt. Your anger. Your pain. Your sorrow. Your frustrations. These are all...”
– I Wrote This For You: The Gift (via mymindinrealtime)
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“In the end, you feel that your much-vaunted, inexhaustible fantasy is growing...”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights (via aurevoirmelpomene)
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One Town's War on Gay Teens | Rolling Stone →
queersrus:
Like many 13-year-olds, Brittany knew seventh grade was a living hell. But what she didn’t know was that she was caught in the crossfire of a culture war being waged by local evangelicals inspired by their high-profile congressional representative Michele Bachmann, who graduated from Anoka High School and, until recently, was a member of one of the most conservative churches in the...
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“To protest a bill that would require women to undergo an ultrasound before...”
– Huff Po (via rachelfershleiser)
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“Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your...”
– Franz Kafka (via andrewharlow)
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“If you don’t like it here then why don’t you just move somewhere else?”
– My White classmate suggested I leave the US because of all the social problems. I’m Native American. (via microaggressions)
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"Die Slowly" by Pablo Neruda
hyvhuynh:
Die Slowly
He who becomes the slave of habit, who follows the same routes every day, who never changes pace, who does not risk and change the color of his clothes, who does not speak and does not experience, dies slowly. He or she who shuns passion, who prefers black on white, dotting ones “it’s” rather than a bundle of emotions, the kind that make your eyes glimmer, that turn a...
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incendie:
People are people.
People are neither above nor below other people. They share an equal need for food, water, and shelter and a natural propensity for love and reason. Differences in appearance or personality should not be a major factor in discernment or segregation between individuals. Whatever differences such people exhibit, he or she should be entitled to equal treatment and...
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“When you are attracted to people, it’s because of the details. Their kindness....”
– Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home (via danmariethekoala)
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“Free yourself from negative people. Spend time with nice people who are smart,...”
– Marc and Angel (via littlemiss)
January 2012
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“The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.”
– Juliette Lewis (via cultureofresistance)
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You can't say shit to me until you have:
thegoddamazon:
Lived in a country where the color of skin excludes you from moving up to the upper echelons of your career choice.
When someone can call you a racial slur and when you react back, you get expelled and they get a minor warning.
When your teacher purposely skips an entire unit on your continent’s history claiming that it’s not necessary to learn.
When your friends use racist...
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I'm getting infernally SICK of the white whiners...
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thegoddamazon:
Look, I’m going to explain this as clearly as possible.
The exercise was to teach white people/white passing people about the daily racism that POC face by putting them in a position to be discriminated against constantly. This was the point of the “A Class Divided” exercise.
Now, these students were all required to sign waivers saying that...
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On White Woman's Tears & Black Woman's Anger
karnythia:
I know people will claim that labels like White Woman’s Tears are misogynistic or whatever, but there is a phenomenon that is unique to middle class white women in discussions of race, wherein the moment the conversation gets hard they make it all about them, their feelings, and their tears. And it is so Scarlett O’Hara of them to expect Mammy to drop everything and dry the eyes of...
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13-year-old self-aborts using pencil →
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pro-choiceorfuckoff:
The girl had no legal access to abortion in Pennsylvania, where her parents must consent. This is the direct consequence of anti-choice zealots: taking away what dignity, respect, and alternatives left were left to a 13 year old who is being controlled, manipulated, and raped by someone more than twice her age. Way to go “pro-lifers”, what...
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"Asian Americans: The 'Reticent' Minority and...
of-praxis:
Asian Americans are a “reticent” minority group. Compared to the other major ethnic groups in this country, for instance, Asian Americans are less politically organized and vocal. Their reticence, combined with other cultural factors, has made it difficult for all Americans—whites, Asian Americans and other minority groups—to understand who Asian Americans are.
Instead, Americans...
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“When a person is craving weight loss, they are never craving weight loss. Weight...”
– http://www.bigfatblog.com/desire-weight-loss-never-about-weight-loss (via wut4)
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microaggressions:
I’m in a Master of Social Work program at an Ivy League university, and my professors and administrators consistently tell me that I have a different background than my clients. They don’t know that I am from a working poor family, and I am a survivor of incest.
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“I want to defend the children that we still are inside, the fragile sensitive...”
– Margaret Cho (via feministdisney)
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“I’m so fucking sick of people being all offended at fatness. I am sick of people...”
– 2012: The Year of Living Fatly « Fat Heffalump (via feministsbakecupcakestoo)
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“In the instances when POC say shit like ‘Oh I can’t stand white folk’ or ‘Damn...”
– Briana (via absinthedisco)
Reblogging every time I see it.
(via dr—grumbles)
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Now, THESE questions are a little bit more...
A. Why my last relationship ended. B. Favourite band. C. Who I like and why I like them. D. Hardest thing I’ve ever been through. E. My best friend. F. My favourite movie. G. Sexual orientation. H. Do I smoke/drink? I. Have any tattoos or piercings? J. What I want to be when I get older. K. Relationship with my parents. L. One of my insecurities. M. Virgin or not? Sexually active or...
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pica
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. [abbr. picayune] the smallest measurable unit of human connection, typically exchanged between passing strangers—a flirtatious glance, a sympathetic nod, a shared laugh about some odd coincidence—moments that are fleeting and random but still contain powerful emotional nutrients that can alleviate the symptoms of feeling alone.
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“Being awake during these long, hidden hours is like taking the subway during the...”
– Elizabeth Gumport, “The World Invented” (via leopoldgursky)
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“All women speak two languages:
the language of men
and the language of silent...”
– Mohja Kahf, “The Marvelous Women,” a poem in E-mails from Scheherazad (via heartofa5thlion)
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“One of the basic tenants of being a decent fucking person is being conscious...”
– newwavefeminism on the n-word (via newwavefeminism)
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“You talk white.”
– As a young latina, this was expressed to me numerous times after displaying an ‘extensive’ vocabulary or my use of grammatically correct english. It also usually went hand in hand with “you’re not like the rest of them.” I felt angry, sad, despondent. I would go talk to my mom afterwards in my...
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“As we mark the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, we must remember that this...”
– President Obama’s statement on the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade (via barackobama)
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microaggressions:
A girl in my English class described president Obama as ‘Black.’ I mentioned that he had a White mother and therefore this side of his heritage should be acknowledged too as it’s just as much a part of him. The response: “Yeah, but he still has Black heritage, so he’s Black, isn’t he? Doesn’t matter what vagina he came out from.” Made me angry, frustrated at the ignorance,...