May 2013
2 posts
“Why Society Still Needs Feminism
Because to men, a key is a device to open...”
– Caitlin O’Donnell, Drake University. (via on-another-note)
April 2013
35 posts
Also
blackamazon:
If hip hop damn near FORTY FUCKING YEARS OLD is the siren call for dissidents around the world
Can we talk about what it says that the UNDERLYING CONDITIONS OF ITS DISCONTENT ARE STILL UNADRESSED IF NOT WORSE?!!
If the negroes telling the world they are unhappy makes normally complacent white folks awful aberrations maybe making the negroes happier rather than repeatedly...
White Out: Media Heap Suspicion On Brown People In... →
sourcedumal:
verbalresistance:
WASHINGTON — Hours after the Boston Marathon bombing, there was alreadyInternet chatter that a “Saudi national” was the suspect. Police raided the apartment of Abdulrahman Ali Alharbi, a 22-year-old student from Saudi Arabia, as he was recovering from the blasts in a Boston hospital.
Next, CNN’s John King raised the alarm about a more elusive “dark-skinned male”...
Get to the Source: Remember y'all →
ardatli:
sourcedumal:
White folks can accept zombies, aliens, dragons, fairies, elves, dwarves and hobbits, but the minute POC show up outside of being maids and slaves, it’s not ‘accurate’
And it’s not like POC in positions of power were at all mythical, even in medieval & early…
“I’d say it is high time to up the anti-racist ante. In the end, what actually is...”
– Word to the Wise: Unpacking the White Privilege of Tim Wise (via brashblacknonbeliever)
When in doubt...
misswynn:
jerk it and take a nap.
Joe The Blogger: Fucking Sewing Machines →
missworded:
joetheblogger:
vggeebrgr:
joetheblogger:
So recently Jess and I took a fun hipstery sewing class in Echo Park. We had a blast and I’ll be damned if using a sewing machine doesn’t feel really satisfying. The class was only 2 hours so we mainly just got the basics.
At this point I’m reasonably interested in dicking around with this. For…
HSN! Not that you want to sit around...
“A woman’s worst nightmare? That’s pretty easy. Novelist Margaret Atwood writes...”
– http://www.pbs.org/kued/nosafeplace/articles/nightmare.html (via alullaby)
That sums it up
[trigger warning for the commentary below]
(via erikawithac)
This reminds me of a discussion we had in school, and one girl was talking about living in fear of her safety because she is a girl, and this...
“I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if...”
– Sylvia Plath
for the past yr tho
(via slugkittens)
For forever.
Get to the Source: Why Dove's "Real Beauty... →
sourcedumal:
jazzylittledrops:
So this video started going around my facebook today, with about a dozen of my female friends sharing the link with comments like, and “Everyone needs to see this”, and “All girls should watch this,” and “This made me cry.” And I’m not trying to shame those girls! I definitely understand why they would do so. And I don’t want to be a killjoy. But as I clicked...
i have a habit named Aries.
wontloversrevoltnow:
april 6th april 9th april 11th
ugh.
Girl, welcome to the club. #pisceshabit
March 2013
4 posts
Words: Things I want to tell people, that I wish... →
smidgetz:
mumblingsage:
sehnsuchttraum:
You don’t have to achieve great things by the time you’re 25
You have intrinsic value above and beyond your perceived utility to other people and society at large.
You don’t have to have sex, or have sex in any way that you find uncomfortable or unpleasant, to keep anyone’s love or good opinion of you. They didn’t love you or think very well of you...
February 2013
6 posts
Unplugging
tomyhusband:
Are you a doctor on call? Didn’t think so. No texting, twittering, or tumblring during couple time.
seriously, don’t even fucking think about it.
bad-dominicana:
Atheists always wanna talk about religions with human sacrifice, Okay. What say you of science based on infecting black people w deadly diseases and splicing and dicing woc’s bodies in cold blood? How is that not human sacrifice? Crickets. Thats why you aint about shit but claiming false intellectual superiority and can go fuck yourselves.
“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)
Thank you.
(via mehreenkasana)
(via quelinda-anijinha)
REMINDERS!
January 2013
60 posts
ellesugars:
I NEED to have a word with u sir
the word is sex
