February 2012
80 posts
Emotional justice is about working with this... →
ancestryinprogress:
Amazing article on emotional justice and activist organizations, written by Yolo Aikili
what do factory assembly lines have to do with...
fromonesurvivortoanother:
Michel Foucalt, Discipline and Punish
an entire book on that, with comparisons to the military and prison industrial complex. it’s pretty scary, actually.
“Only hang around people that are positive and make you feel good. Anybody who...”
– Amy Poehler (via bornthisbrown)
“It’s Not My Birthday, & I Don’t Want Cake”:On... →
This touches upon a lot of ideas and issues I have been thinking a lot about, especially thinking about transformative justice which changes the system we operate in which allows for all parties to transform and heal while still condemning the violent acts perpetrated.
Immigrant Stories: How did you come to US?: Books:... →
immigrantstories:
Juarez: The Laboratory of Our Time challenges the propaganda and the realities of the current relationship between the United States and Mexico, focusing on the more intimate connection between the border towns of El Paso and Juarez. Charles Bowden, who first brought attention to the…
“A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home”
– Rumi (via dreamhampton1)
Slut-Bitch Sisterhood: Things You Shouldn’t Say... →
journeytoanewcreation:
People suffering from depression:
“Stop being so negative!” “You choose to be sad” “You don’t even have anything to be sad about” “There are millions worse off than you, just get a grip!”
People struggling with self-harm:
“You’re just doing it for attention!” …
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Thinking about ways to challenge and discuss latina stereotypical roles of virgin, mother, whore and incorporate the feminist memes using Ryan Gosling, Gael Garcia Bernal and Rihanna. Let's see how it goes. Any other suggestions for images or challenging these tropes?
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“Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect...”
– bell hooks (via thepurpleballoons)
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“When conflict arises within us or between us and other individuals when we walk...”
– bell hooks, all about love: new visions (via thehighlovesthejunkie)
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“I have wanted them to have an answer to the question ‘what is feminism?’ that is...”
– bell hooks (via wanderlustandtethers)
A Message To Women From A Man: You Are Not "Crazy" →
batmanvoice:
You’re so sensitive. You’re so emotional. You’re defensive. You’re overreacting. Calm down. Relax. Stop freaking out! You’re crazy! I was just joking, don’t you have a sense of humor? You’re so dramatic. Just get over it already!
Sound familiar?
If you’re a woman, it probably does.
Do you ever hear any of these comments from your spouse, partner, boss, friends, colleagues, or...
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Yosimar Reyes: Frustrations, Queerness and... →
yosimar:
Sometimes I wonder what I am doing in this country. Why somehow no matter how much I tell myself that I should not be afraid there is still this fear of deportation? No one can possibly understand the life of undocumented immigrants in this country unless you are one. No matter if you are an…
Watchhellabreezys:
I can’t wait for this film to be out, Mosquita y Mari… the homegirl Aurora Guerrero wrote and directed it, we need more women of color doing their thing in the film industry, she’s representing for sure!!!
“The drama queens are a little more dangerous, because sooner or later you’ll...”
– - the best part of Choire Sicha’s Advice For Young People (via pushinghoopswithsticks)
Quoted For Truth.
(via vsthepomegranate)
“The colonizer’s falsified stories have become universal truths to mainstream...”
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Howard Adams, “A Tortured People: The Politics of Colonization (1995).”
(via nockknock)
“Why is it so difficult for many white folks to understand that racism is...”
– bell hooks (via zesticola) I will never not reblog this. (via ethiopienne)
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I know soon people are going to start shaming us for feeling the loss of a famous person but I think we are also sad for our own humanity our own faults and what she represents in terms of incredible talent and illness that is ultimately a metaphor for the way we treat other humans in our societies and the way sensitive humans respond to what ails us in the world.
Pobrecita la Whitney. I used to jam out to your hits in my car, my living room,in the grocery store, in my stretchy pants, with a hairbrush or an imaginary microphone… And when I say used to I mean yesterday. :( saying a prayer with every heartbeat.
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“I swear to god I will lose my mind if I hear the “sex sells” fallacy one more...”
– Unknown (via feminishblog)
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“Don’t wish me happiness. I don’t expect to be happy all the time… It’s gotten...”
– Anne Morrow Lindbergh (via saddest-summer)
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“If you are a white woman and you want to call yourself a feminist, you must...”
– ladyatheist (via mamaatheist)
come on up to the house: Brilliance Remastered:... →
kemee:
blackfeminismlives:
Calling all community accountable scholars and visionary under-represented grad students!
Hey there bright thunder!
Do you ever feel isolated and misunderstood in your department? Do you ever feel that the passions that motivated you to get your degree are…
<3 <3 So much need for this.
For all would-be academics. Please reblog widely. →
phdork:
This may well be the best use of the internet ever: crowd-sourcing adjunct working conditions as way to introduce transparency to and positive pressure on institutions that exploit the holy hell out of their highly skilled and dedicated workers.
Get on it.
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“Intellectual alienation is a creation of middle-class society. What I call...”
– Frantz Fanon/ Black Skin, White Masks (via jnamakkal)
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