February 2012
4 posts
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“just had a dream i went on a date with black feminist Ryan Gosling. IT WAS...”
January 2012
147 posts
“I learned to fish on my own
stopped
Now I’m learning to weave nets”
– Chrystos in This Bridge Called My Back
“my heart is capable of holding so many cracks these days”
“crying crying crying”
“Rape is an underreported crime overall, but 20 percent of rape victims in the...”
– http://dartcenter.org/content/covering-campus-sexual-assault
“Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more...”
– Toni Morrison, The Nobel Lecture in Literature
WatchSwitched At Birth-Episode 1, Season 1: “This is Not a Pipe”
I highly recommend this well written show with a great cast that tackles cultural clashes—race, class, and ability, in the aftermath of finding out the hospital made a mistake and two girls were switched at birth.
“I really feel like Bay and Emmett are a Romeo and Juliet from very different worlds. There are so...
TW: RAPE IS MORE COMMON THAN SMOKING IN THE U.S. →
spookeasy:
dear every reedie: think about how many smokers you see on campus every day.
yeah.
BOOM.
“It is illegal for women to go topless in most cities, yet you can buy a magazine...”
– Violet Rose, in Three Steps to Better Sex
touché
fuckyeahfemmes:
We Are All Subversives: Femme Strength and Queer Solidarity
Can’t there be more than one way of challenging power?
A friend of mine and I who both identify as femme were chatting the other day about the different ways our identities are understood in our various communities. She, who identifies herself as a queer woman, moves in predominately queer female and trans...
