My beautiful terrarium! Summer project one completed :)
2 weeks ago on May 04, 2012 at 08:25pm
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"But I don't want comfort... I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin."
The findings of an art history student with a love of art, feminism, equality, opera, music in general, religion, mythology, sociology, medieval manuscripts, books, the body, and human love of all sorts.
The findings of an art history student with a love of art, feminism, equality, opera, music in general, religion, mythology, sociology, medieval manuscripts, books, the body, and human love of all sorts.
“The more they told me: you’re a girl, you can’t paint graffiti, you can’t go to subways, because you’re a girl, you’re a mere female; I had to stand up and just shut them up.” —Lady Pink
(via anotherfeminist)
1 month ago on April 16, 2012 at 02:01am
Henri
1 month ago on April 16, 2012 at 12:06am
It’s a damned shame I don’t know more Black graffiti artists, but that speaks volumes about who gets their graffiti deemed “art” and who’s just “vandalising”. Banksy gets to sell his art to Angelina Jolie and the whole of Los Angeles, and they call it a revolution anti-anti-anti-everything, while the most widely known Black artist, Michael Stewart, gets killed by the hands of the cops who arrested him when they caught him “scrawling graffiti”. exactly when POC do it, its vandalizing, suburban white boys do it and they’re hot shit.
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1 month ago on April 04, 2012 at 03:58pm
The History of the Vibrator
I was feeling very exhausted and decided to skip out on the lab portion of my class today, so I’m spending the time with some sexual education instead. I was watching some carlincherrybomb (Betty Dodson and Carlin Ross’ YouTube channel) and came across this lovely video. We’ve come a long way from the Barbershop Scalp Massagers :)
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1 month ago on April 02, 2012 at 10:27am
Gloria Steinem [x]
This is completely true. If people have the option to decide WHEN to have children it changes EVERYTHING we are capable of doing in the world. And that scares the shit out of republicans because it means old, white, cis-men aren’t going to have as much power as they used to. That’s why republicans don’t like people of color and would rather ignore systemic racism than try to fix it.
Love,
Rabble
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1 month ago on April 01, 2012 at 11:45am
[W]hen a man is my date to a gay rights event there is an uncomfortable and restless feeling of undeniable guilt that rests inside me. I feel like a traitor, I feel like I took the easy way out, I feel like I’m not relating and might, therefore, not be able to represent the queer community. In reality I know that those judgments come from the outside. When I’m dating a man the truth is that I fell in love or in like and it happened to be with a man. In gay rights we fight for the freedom to love and the freedom to express our desire without shame.
Emily Dievendorf: Bisexual Invisibility Has Dangerous Consequences (via sexisnottheenemy)
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1 month ago on March 27, 2012 at 12:29am
I really want to see this!Film: Pumzi is a Kenyan science fiction short film written and directed by Wanuri Kahiu. It was screened at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival as part of its New African Cinema program.
Pumzi, imagines a dystopian future 35 years after water wars have torn the world apart. East African survivors of the ecological devastation remain locked away in contained communities, but a young woman in possession of a germinating seed struggles against the governing council to bring the plant to Earth’s ruined surface.
(via theafricatheynevershowyou)
2 months ago on March 26, 2012 at 01:09am
There are the occasions that men—intellectual men, clever men, engaged men—insist on playing devil’s advocate, desirous of a debate on some aspect of feminist theory or reproductive rights or some other subject generally filed under the heading: Women’s Issues. These intellectual, clever, engaged men want to endlessly probe my argument for weaknesses, want to wrestle over details, want to argue just for fun—and they wonder, these intellectual, clever, engaged men, why my voice keeps raising and why my face is flushed and why, after an hour of fighting my corner, hot tears burn the corners of my eyes. Why do you have to take this stuff so personally? ask the intellectual, clever, and engaged men, who have never considered that the content of the abstract exercise that’s so much fun for them is the stuff of my life.
Melissa McEwan, of course, on the terrible bargain. My life as a woman, as a queer person, as a fat person, is not your thought experiment. (via sanitywatchers)
This really struck a chord. Even my boyfriend, feminist that he is, can have this reaction when I’m in tears after an NPR story. This is my fucking life. Excuse me if I can’t remove the personal.
(via curiousgeorgiana)
I reblogged this before, but I like it a lot so I’m reblogging it again.
This whole thing is the reason why confrontations with people that I consider friends always leaves me crying. Like, I get so angry and so flustered because it’s not just some stupid game to me, like it is to them. It’s something that’s real and personal.
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I will always reblog this.
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Oh gosh, this.
(via rambunctiously)
Which is why I don’t argue with my family anymore. Same-sex marriage, abortion, reproductive rights, equal pay, etc. are not just some political talking point, they affect my life.
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goddamn truth bomb
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sanitywatchers
2 months ago on March 25, 2012 at 02:48pm
Slut-shaming collapses the complexity of another person onto a single dimension. But even more so, given how slut-shaming is used to control and shame all women regardless of their sexual practices or desires, it conflicts directly with respecting them. If you say that you respect women, then you need to respect all women, no matter how many sexual partners she has, her relationship choices, or how she enjoys sex. Otherwise, you’re saying that that your respect is something that someone has to buy. I don’t think that that’s really respect at all.
If You Don’t Respect Sluts, You Don’t Respect Women, Charlie Glickman (via thenewwomensmovement)
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2 months ago on March 21, 2012 at 07:52pm
HAPPENING NOW: EVACUATION OF THE KAYAPÓ TRIBE for a HYDROELECTRIC DAM
This picture is to go around the world.
Last week, the evacuation of the Kayapó tribe - an Indian people of the Amazon region in Brazil’s Mato Grosso has started.
The construction of the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam is released, despite numerous protests and more than 600,000 signatures were collected.This is ethnic cleansing and brutal environmental injustice. RESPECT EXISTENCE OR EXPECT RESISTANCE!
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butterflyrevolt
2 months ago on March 19, 2012 at 03:14pm
Feminist snark, 1915 style
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anarchistsoup
2 months ago on March 18, 2012 at 12:59pm
It’s certainly true that physical attraction is important. And it’s also true that our society has standards of beauty that affect whom we deem attractive to some degree. However, the kinds of people we actually want to fuck tend to deviate pretty widely from these standards — and the same is true for those who want to fuck us.
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2 months ago on March 09, 2012 at 12:51am
