January 2012
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Go READ: Polyphonic Feminisms: Acting in Concert →
Beautiful collection of texts and videos with contributions by Sara Ahmed, Nuala Cabral and and and.
Very beautiful.
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“Well, I would say that I grew up inherently nationalistic. I truly believe that...”
– Talib Kweli: Appropriate or Appreciate? | JLove Calderon (via adailyriot)
“Every story I creat”
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“even in friendly conversation
I get the bell hooks-ian urge
to kill...”
– Staceyann Chin- All Oppression is Connected (via daughtersofdilla)
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FYI: Another Blackface "incident" in a German... →
criticalwitness1:
Hello everybody,
as some of you might have already seen on yo, is this racist? there is - once again I must say - another theater production in a Berlin based german theater company where they use Blackface instead of Black actors!
As if that wasn´t stupid enough, no the theater…
“I do not want to be tolerated, or misnamed. I want to be recognized.”
– Audre Lorde (via tobia)
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guerrilla mama medicine: White folks I'm gonna... →
thegoddamazon:
Africans had slaves, but as part of a workforce. Most if not all slaves were prisoners of war, and even then, the slaves assimilated to the tribe in which they were held, and had a chance to marry and have children and earn a place among the tribe given a chance. Also, in…
15 Interesting Things About Vaginas and the... →
It’s amazing how much misinformation is out there about the vagina, and the entire vulva in general. Given how fascinated our society is with the “female” body, you’d think we’d be a little more informed. But from what I discovered while soliciting questions for my book What’s Up Down There? Questions You’d Only Ask Your Gynecologist If She Was Your Best Friend, many of us still have a lot to...
December 2011
11 posts
10 Ways to Love Others →
daniellescruggs:
caitsmeissner:
thelittlesea:
Some guidelines for loving:
1. Tell them about their brilliance. They likely can’t see it and they don’t know its immensity, but you can see it, and you can illuminate it for them.
2. Be authentic, and give others the gift of the real you and a real relationship. Ask your real questions. Share your real beliefs. Go for your real dreams. Tell your...
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“- master your craft. understand its root. your intention. the process. the...”
– Warsan Shire
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“You can’t make homes out of human beings.”
– Warsan Shire (via thefreenomad)
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A healthy dose of WTF: Poem Eleven: For Women Who... →
and-it-was-written:
you are a horse running alone and he tries to tame you compares you to an impossible highway to a burning house says you are blinding him that he could never leave you forget you want anything but you you dizzy him, you are unbearable every woman before or after you is doused in your name you…
I posted this before and it never gets old, never…
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“If you understood everything I said, you’d be me.”
– MILES DAVIS (via tobia)
November 2011
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“Kiss me, and you will see how important I am”
– Sylvia Plath (via zizzzy)
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“We’re not even two people.
Even before we met,
we were just…
these two...”
– Sylvia. (via boneembers)
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“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born...”
– Sylvia Plath (via sesquipedalianswelcome)
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happinesspart2:
“I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.”
-Sylvia Plath
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“I like people too much or not at all.”
– Sylvia Plath (via throughpaincomesgrowth)
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“We should meet in another life, we should meet in air. Me and you.”
– Sylvia Plath (via missstroup)
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“Here I am, a bundle of past recollections and future dreams, knotted up in a...”
– Sylvia Plath (via fmegentlywithachainsaw)
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