February 2012
63 posts
Book List Challenge: My Feminist Bookshelf →
feministhemes:
babydoughnut:
feministhemes:
These are (in alphabetical order) the books that are either already on my feminist bookshelf, or have a place reserved there. Not all of these books necessarily have my endorsement, but they all contributed to my feminist self-education in some way:
1. The Edible Woman, by Margaret Atwood
2. The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood
3. ...
Don't ever hesitate. Reblog this. This should be...
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“Get out of the uterus, people. Start creating jobs.”
– Pam Spaulding - Lactating boobies in the workplace will kill job creation (and other signs of the womanapocalypse) | Pam’s House Blend
“..furthermore, wine drinking is a sin. If you wish to commit a sin it should at...”
– Kaikāvūs Ibn Iskander Ibn Qābūs, Qābūs -Nāma, 11th century
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I want a beer.
I want to talk to my Grandma..
I want to watch a Bollywood movie…
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“Cuando llegaron Ellos tenían la Biblia y nosotros teníamos la tierra. Y nos...”
– Eduardo Galeano
Pacific Center for Sex and Society - Sex and... →
I found this… and it made me soo happy. This is the kind of stuff that I loved to read while in university. Loved it to death.
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Jacket, Pocket.: On Teardrop guy, and my stupid... →
marxisforbros:
So I’ve been discussing the surprisingly nuanced musings of a guy in my security course that is covered in tattoos, including a teadrop beneath his eye. The key quote was him telling the other students in the course that people aren’t just male or female, and that there’s ‘more than male or female…
Based on Foucalt’s “History of Sexuality”, there are more...
Thinking out loud
mysweetlittlesunshine:
Have you ever had some thoughts in your head, and then thought that you might have said it out loud because you were thinking too loud to yourself? Happens to me all the time.
My God… it is the story of my life. My friends therefore think I am super random… Yikes!
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As President Obama said in his State of the Union...
There ia an incredible feeling when a student passes the exam to go to their dream university because of the help of teachers… makes you feel happy and most of all makes you want to pat yourself on the back. As a teacher you see them grow and become so much more. That is when I realize as a teacher I have made a change in the world. A change in these students who will later on become the...
Venezuela giving Danny Glover $18m to direct film... →
newwavefeminism:
lawsonry:
fuckyeahlatinamericanhistory:
Venezuela is to give the American actor Danny Glover almost $18m (£9m) to make a film about a slave uprising in Haiti, with President Hugo Chávez hoping the historical epic will sprinkle Hollywood stardust on his effort to mobilise world public opinion against imperialism and western oppression.
The Venezuelan congress said it...
Theres is Nothing Wrong with Dark Skin
daydreamingaimlessly:
vanachexfortune:
You don’t have to come from Africa to have dark skin. You can come from any part of the world and be born with a darker shade of skin.
Instead of demonizing dark skin. Understand the beauty in color.
Reblogging this for the message and also for people who don’t know what actual dark skin is. When a writer writes a character as having “dark skin” this...
“”Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
– ― Oscar Wilde
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“The snow had begun in the gloaming,
And busily all the night
Had been heaping...”
– James Russell Lowell The Magic of Snow: Seven Poems by Cummings, Frost, Housman, Lampman, Lowell, Rossetti
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Park Information | The High Line →
When I go back to NY I must go here!
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“We are not put on this earth to see through one another, we are put on this...”
– Gloria Vanderbilt
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“Follow Bliss”
– Gloria Vanderbilt
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Things that New Yorkers say
trinneh:
coldbloodwarmheart:
certifieddimepiece:
lostinthemood:
invisibleinvincible:
deadass
no lie
tell me how
no doubt
son
yo
guap
bird
grimey
peep this
tight (upset)
bet
nahmean
it’s brick outside
mad
good looks
widdit
you buggin
No matter if you’re hood or scene or a hipster or whatever, you probably say all these things if you’re from NYC. And that’s a...
I couldn’t do it… someone texted me the results… mang.. Still going to the Super Bowl party tonight!
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“I define my sexuality, it does not define me.”
– a friend on facebook
“Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.”
– C.S. Lewis (via jerrodellis)
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Lin-Manuel Miranda Helps Unveil Artist Barter... →
This seems pretty epic if I do say so myself.
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