February 2012
113 posts
“Gay people wanna get married. I just wanna be able to use the public restroom...”
– What about Trans rights? (via trans-doc)
“The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence...”
– bell hooks (via feminishblog)
“Intersectionality is not optional. It is not something you can take off and put...”
– Intersectionality Is Not Optional (via satifice)
.OneLove.: you don't grow upward →
loosehipssinkships:
its not vertical, its not one swift motion. You grow in all directions, you learn to stretch out and be everything all at once. A child, an adult, responsible, tired. Everything changes. The house you grew up in isn’t yours anymore. the places you considered home are only places. Home is a place in your head, a place you can only visit in your memories. It will never be how...
“When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and...”
– Andy Warhol (via lovableraincloud)
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“You are a bad idea
An exit wound.
A word I cannot translate.
A name I cannot...”
– Jeanann Verlee (via loverofstories)
“I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does...”
– Maya Angelou (via kari-shma)
“Your 20’s are your selfish years. It’s a decade to immerse yourself in...”
– (via trishpham)
Liberals Are Cool: 8 Reasons Young Americans Don't... →
newwavefeminism:
Hit the link for the details - but more about why I doubt there can be a successful uprising with America’s youth.
1. Student-Loan Debt.
2. Psychopathologizing and Medicating Noncompliance.
3. Schools That Educate for Compliance and Not for Democracy.
4. “No Child Left Behind” and “Race to the Top.”
5. Shaming Young People Who Take Education—But Not Their...
“If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time,...”
–
Sylvia Plath
(via emotionsareoverwhelming)
“I don’t want to be a feminist anymore. Like a five-year-old, I want to close my...”
– I don’t want to be a feminist anymore.
(via notafraidofruins)
“We have to create. It is the only thing louder than destruction.”
– Andrea Gibson (via catchafirefly)
“Rape culture is telling girls and women to be careful about what you wear, how...”
– I might just copy and paste this so I can have this perfect answer ready when people say things like “but how does this “rape culture” actually affect women?” (via ohimgay)
