April 2012
“In a nation with the racial history of the United States I am baffled by the...”
– Melissa Harris-Perry, The Epistemology of Race Talk (via mswyrr) 0h shit i just got truth all down my shirt (via muckrakingiswomenswork) My ultimate goal is to just be in the same room with this woman. She doesn’t even have to speak to me, I just want to be in her presence. (via...
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learned 3 things this weekend
getwititorgetlostbuddy: always in fucking 3’s what is with that.. 1. I missed my friends A LOT 2. Dancing for approx. 2 hours results in my near death the next morning due to over use of said “dancing” muscles 3. </3 good night guys reblogging because you’re awesome.
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“I think part of the reason we have trouble drawing the line “it’s not okay to...”
– The Pervocracy: Consent culture. (via lookoutsideyourself)
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“But most of all, stop thinking that what people so loathingly refer to as the...”
– Taylor Callobre, The “Good Guy” Myth  (via albinwonderland)
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“Poor women, working-class women, Latinas, Asian American women, Native American...”
– Dr. Sarah Jackson, y’all. Bravo. (via keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus)
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“As all advocates of feminist politics know most people do not understand sexism...”
– bell hooks (via sonofbaldwin)
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“It’s the action, not the fruit of the action, that’s important. You have to do...”
– Mahatma Gandhi  (via feministreader)
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“As a society, we encourage girls and women to be emotionally accessible, and in...”
– Tori Amos (via dr-clear-heels) So accurate. (via devawning) forever reblog (via onmostsurfaces)
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“Please torture me in the old way … Here they destroy people mentally and...”
– Letters From Guantanamo. Shaker Aamer has been detained in Guantanamo for the past ten years without committing a single offence. “Fears are growing for the welfare of Mr Aamer, from south London, who is now 45 and has a wife and four children. He has never met his youngest son. His lawyers are...
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“Instead of saying, ‘Asexuality doesn’t exist,’ try saying, ‘Asexuality is a...”
– Asexual Awareness Week’s advice to the Trevor project, from the two-page document drafted by Sara Beth Brooks (pearlsfromthewest). (via lunasspecto)
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“The ill-conceived, misbegotten, politically-inspired H.R. 3396 [Defense of...”
– Nebraska State Senator Ernie Chambers, (D-Omaha) in a prepared statement to the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee on H.R. 3396, May 16, 1996. H.R. 3396 would later become the Defense of Marriage Act. Chambers made national headlines when he sued God in 2007 for causing death and...
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Who Will Revere Us? (Black LGTBQ People, Straight... →
aliahatch: “The reality is this: when Black straight men and boys are beaten, brutalized, and/or murdered as a result of state-sanctioned and/or white supremacist violence, it becomes (as well it should be) a national issue in the Black community and in a few, definitely not all, instances, the outrage moves beyond the Black community. Yet, when Black straight women, girls, and LGBTQ people are...
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“I will give you an example of how race affects my life. I live in a place called...”
– Chris Rock see, this is something that aforementioned idiot should listen to. if you think racial equality exists because we have the same purported opportunity to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps, ask if we even started at the same point, when people of color didn’t even have the same...
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“You either like me or you don’t. It took me Twenty-something years to learn how...”
– Daniel Franzese (via sailorxjupiter)
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“When I want to know what misogyny is, I don’t ask a man. When I want to know...”
– Son of Baldwin (via deadlycamille) Check your privilege: learn from someone who knows first hand, because unless you’re part of the oppressed group, you can’t know or empathize. (via bitchesandtheirprivilege)
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“I don’t know if rape jokes encourage rape culture. I don’t care. You still...”
– An Addendum, On Rape Jokes.  (via transformfeminism)
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Pizza Planet Truck →
wowfunniestposts: Toy Story: Toy Story 2: Toy Story 3: Bugs Life: Monsters Inc: Finding Nemo: Cars: Ratatouille: WALL-E UP:  MINDF_CK! OMFG. LOVELOVELOVE THIS. (:  love it <3 they do this with a lot of stuff other character hidden cameos in movies.. like: lotso and the luxo jr ball in up jack jack with the luxo jr ball in the incredibles boo with nemo. jessie...
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“What we didn’t hear about was a how an African-American women who in the course...”
– As We Watch the Trayvon Martin Case, All of Us Should Know Marissa Alexander « Davey D’s Hip Hop Corner-(The Blog)
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“Of course, many Americans who cite Christianity to justify their economic...”
– David Sirota, America’s Christian hypocrisy (via absurdlakefront)
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“Among my male and female friends, there are a few who are of either a completely...”
– Emma Goldman, queer and trans positive in 1934. Eighty years later some in the feminist movement are still catching up … (via nothingisholy)
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“We talk about employment or staying home as a matter of choice, which obscures...”
– Katha Pollitt in the Nation  (via thefemcritique)
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