February 2012
“What is the goal toward which we are heading? The peaceful enjoyment of liberty...”
– Maximilien Robespierre, speech to the Convention of 5 Feb 1794 (via cobblerofmessina)
“I cut you out because I couldn’t stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my...”
– The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (July-Sept 1950). (via tenementhalls)
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I wouldn't call what I've made for myself to eat...
“In Arabic, the word “bayt” translates literally as house, but its connotations...”
– An excerpt from Anthony Shadid’s House of Stone, his forthcoming memoir excerpted on the New York Times. Beautiful, beautiful writing. (via thepoliticalnotebook
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“True gender equality is actually perceived as inequality. A group that is made...”
– - Lucy, When Worlds Collide: Fandom and Male Privilege. (via seaofbadstories)
I might have reblogged this already but it’s so good I don’t care.
(via stfufauxminists)
Kyriarchy in action.
(via transstingray)
Also the study where they had women and men talking in a discussion and when women...
“When you don’t have many friends and you don’t have a social life you’re kind of...”
– Tim Burton (via gottabefresshh)
“I don’t want to be a feminist anymore. Like a five-year-old, I want to close my...”
– I don’t want to be a feminist anymore.
(via notafraidofruins)
pussytooth:
1612th:
in 4th grade there was this girl who had a collection of furbies and one day she brought like 12 in to class and she was sitting in the back licking them and biting their hair off and i asked her what she was doing and she was like “im feeling them enter me” and then she got sent to the office
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What.
Pat Buchanan was fired from MSNBC, and he blames... →
anticapitalist:
In a lengthy screed published to his personal website, Buchanan tore into his former employer of 10 years for what he called “an undeniable victory for the blacklisters,” in which the former Nixon aide calls out MSNBC for caving to organizations like the African-American advocacy group Color of Change, LGBT advocates with Human Rights Campaign, Jewish advocates at The...
“But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and...”
– The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (via umerus)
“The force that allows white feminist authors to make no reference to racial...”
– bell hooks, Ain’t I A Woman, pg 138 (via butcheredmentality)
Fund for Troy Davis's family →
numol:
[via Dread Times (link to post)]
AFAICT the new deadline is the 28th [of February]. they’re only at 69% of their goal as of now, please pass this around and donate if possible.
The Davis family has had to bury three warriors for justice in the past seven months. Virginia Davis, the matriarch of the family, passed in April, just two weeks after the US Supreme Court denied Troy’s...
