October 2012
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“Prison is the only form of public housing the government has truly invested in”
– Marc Lumont Hill at the talk ‘End Mass Incarceration’ - Riverside Church, Harlem New York 2012. (via icecreamritual)
September 2012
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“All girls continue to be taught when they are young, if not by their parents...”
– bell hooks in Communion: Female Search for Love (via bhargette)
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A Stitch, and Cultural Healing, in Time | HandEye →
a really wonderful article about my landlady and her embroidery collective…
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August 2012
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aboutmaleprivilege:
(Cis?) Male privilege is being able to say “I don’t agree with their social policy, but I vote on economic issues because they are more important to me.” Male privilege is knowing that even if the part that gains power enacts reprehensible policies, you won’t be directly affected.
i have literally never understood people who say things like this. probably because to me, as...
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“In order to rise
From its own ashes
A phoenix
First
Must
Burn.”
– Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents (via postmodernismruinedme)
“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own...”
– George Orwell (via humanformat)
Which means North America is populated by destroyed people.
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but most importantly each other’s (his)tories, and how their oppression is different, but in some ways interconnected
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“Women who are fat are said to have ‘let themselves go.’ The very phrase connotes...”
– Letting Ourselves Go: Making Room for the Fat Body in Feminist Scholarship, by Cecilia Hartley
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GOP Logic
32,000+ pregnancies from rape every year: "Really rare"
10 cases of voter fraud over 12 years: An epidemic that must be stopped by any means necessary, constitution be damned!
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thisisthinprivilege:
Thin Pagan privilege is not being told that you’re a bad Pagan for your body shape, or that your body isn’t as sacred as other people’s, or that you don’t have Right Relationship with your body.
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thisisthinprivilege:
Thin Pagan privilege is not being told that you’re a bad Pagan for your body shape, or that your body isn’t as sacred as other people’s, or that you don’t have Right Relationship with your body.
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Rape exceptions: Even if Todd Akin believed in... →
“Believing that rape is a “legitimate” reason to abort may make you slightly less horrible than Todd Akin, but you’re still a misogynist who thinks that having sex requires forced childbirth as punishment.”
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Rape exceptions aren’t legitimate - Salon.com →
“I think there is no reason that a woman should have to justify to some outside party, including a politician, why she no longer wants to be pregnant.”
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“Despite the fact that sexual harassment is shown to have a more damaging impact...”
– The Equality Illusion, Kat Banyard (via petitefeministe)
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This is Thin Privilege: whatwouldmommywear:... →
thisisthinprivilege:
activistblogofm:
whatwouldmommywear:
thisisthinprivilege:
Thin privilege is structural, it doesn’t care why people are thin. Getting called names for being thin isn’t comparable to what fat people have to face. At the very least, being very thin isn’t seen as some kind of moral failing. Being very fat…
This is honestly my problem with the conversations surrounding...
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“I met your father when he cat called me while I was walking down the street...”
– No one, ever. (via chubby-bunnies)
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“Within a year of his election, Clinton made his first real strike against...”
– Elaine Brown, The Condemnation of Little B
Black people need to stop stanning for Clinton.
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if you haven’t read this book, you should put down whatever less important thing you’re doing right now and read it.
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“Even if Sikh Temple episode isn’t a hate crime (though it probably is), can we...”
– Ishaan Tharoor, Staff Writer @time, Co-editor @timeworld on the recent shooting at a Sikh Temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. (via fuckyeahsouthasia)
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“Not being racist is not some default starting position. You don’t simply get to...”
– PostBourgie
Yes yes yes a thousand times yes. Seriously.
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Bless this quote.
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YES THIS
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“Implicit in the English usage of the ‘master-slave’ concept is ownership of the...”
– David R. Burgest, “The Racist Use of the English Language” (via wretchedoftheearth)
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person: she--
me: it's he.
person: *condescending smile* well, on your birth certificate--
me: yeah, it also says ' 8lbs, 6 oz '-- a lot has changed over the years
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I just want to go dance.
most of my friends know that i’d generally rather set myself on fire than go clubbing. i hate clubbing like children hate broccoli, like rush limbaugh hates women, like mitt romney hates poor people. get it? a lot.
but here’s the dirty little secret: i don’t hate clubbing because i hate dancing. i love dancing. i would love nothing more than to go to a place and drink a...
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“If haven’t heard this story, the mayor has suggested that hospitals should lock...”
– What’s Wrong With Breastfeeding? « The E is for Erin (via whenrobotsreproduce)
BLOOMBERG.
Stop trying to make decisions for everyone. Especially about food/drink stuff. First sodas, now formula? Back off, dude.
Holy shit. This is so far beyond the soda bullshit I can’t even. I don’t agree...
July 2012
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IHS: Stop Blocking Native Women's Access to... →
fuckyeahsexpositivity:
In the US, women age 17 and over have the legal right to get emergency contraception — sometimes called Plan B or “the morning after pill — over the counter and without a prescription at their pharmacy.
But not, it seems, if you’re Native like me. I live on a reservation in South Dakota and when I went to get emergency contraception, the IHS workers told me I’d need to...
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chubby-bunnies:
You can be body-positive and still have preferences.
You can be a feminist and still love men. You can be sex-positive without being interested in casual sex. People seem to forget that the core principle of all of these is as simple as not being an asshole.
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“Liberty without socialism is privilege, injustice; socialism without liberty is...”
– Mikhail Bakunin
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All About Male Privilege: We have a problem.... →
aboutmaleprivilege:
jhenne-bean:
aboutmaleprivilege:
I’ll just quote Teen Voices’ website (http://www.teenvoices.com/:
Teen Voices need your help. Because of a recent decrease in funding, we’re at a crisis. We must raise $300,000 by August 1. Yes, it’s that bad. For…
