April 2011
47 posts
monolindo-deactivated20110511 asked: This is a beautiful blog/tumblr/whatever, ehm, that's all I guess xD keep going
7 tags
microaggressions:
I walk into the ninth grade English classroom with a short haircut, the day before I had cut off my braids. The teacher looks me up and down and says, “Good morning, butch.”
Freshman year of high school, 1997 & made me feel angry & ashamed.
5 tags
“‘If I had it to do all over again … I wouldn’t change a...”
– Steve Erickson
1 tag
After Nine Years of Pressure, DHS Finally Drops... →
Good riddance to a racist law.
2 tags
“This readiness to assume the guilt for the threats to our environment is...”
– Slavoj Žižek
2 tags
5 tags
“I didn’t understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never...”
– Haruki Murakami
6 tags
Convenient
undrape:
autassassinophilia:
Society doesn’t think you’re ugly. You do.
Society doesn’t care what size your jeans are. You do.
Society doesn’t care who you love. You do.
Society doesn’t care what you wear. You do.
Society doesn’t need to change. You do.
Please take a moment to consider your privilege.
We would all love for this to be true. But it isn’t, and pretending it is just...
6 tags
“Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
– The Catcher in the Rye | JD Salinger
6 tags
6 tags
6 tags
“Articulacy of finger, the language of the deaf and dumb, signing on the body of...”
– Written on the Body
Jeanette Winterson
3 tags
3 tags
5 tags
“I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them.”
– Jeanette Winterson, Lighthousekeeping (via wordsfrombooks)
3 tags
“It was all too urgent being human.
You ordered drinks, gestured
with your...”
– Kate Northrop, excerpt from Affair with Various Endings
2 tags
7 tags
5 tags
“Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have...”
– Tom Stoppard, “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead” (via awritersruminations)
2 tags
8 tags
“The myth that the safety of sex workers lies in their taking better precautions...”
– Getting Away with Murder on Long Island (via robot-heart-politics)
2 tags
“I hear the drizzle of the rain
Like a memory it falls
Soft and warm continuing...”
– Kathy’s Song | Simon and Garfunkel
2 tags
5 tags
5 tags
“Everything in the world began with a yes.”
– Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star (first line)
3 tags
“If your ancestors cut down all the trees, it’s not your fault, but you still...”
– Pam Oliver, a professor in the UW-Madison sociology department, explaining the historical roots of racism in the United States to her undergraduate students (mostly middle-class and White). I try to use this when I teach race now, too, to get past the defensive “but why are you BLAMING ME”...
3 tags
2 tags
4 tags
Conversations about cricket.
Me: Do you remember Shane Lee?
Person: Who?
Me: Brett Lee's brother, Shane.
Person: What does he do?
Me: He used to play cricket for Australia! Shane Lee!
Person: Do you mean Shane Warne?
Me: NO! Brett Lee's brother, Shane Lee. He was a kind of allrounder.
Person: I've never heard of him.
Me: Well, Brett Lee has a brother called Shane who used to play cricket for Australia.
Person: Are you sure you're not making him up?
GRR!!!
“The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love.”
– Joyce Carol Oates (via libraryland)
3 tags
As American as Appropriation
mycultureisnotatrend:
…aaand American Apparel jumps on the racist bandwagon with its own interpretation of the Hipster Headdress — a sacred array of $14 twist scarves? Oh, look, you can even take fifteen dollars off the entire costume if you enter the code “NativeAmerican15” upon payment.
Anticipating the reaction, they shoot the “token” w.o.c for this outfit. Right.
8 tags
“Feminism has fought no wars. It has killed no opponents. It has set up no...”
– Dale Spender (via earlyfrost)
1 tag
1 tag
“What did you watch before the war?” I ask her.
“Cartoons,” Lina replies softly,...”
– Taking the pulse of the revolution, Part One: With school closed during the war, Benghazi’s kids are learning emergency first aid « revolutionology
5 tags
10 tags
“I want people to know that when I choose to cover this way it’s because I am...”
– Hebah Ahmed on CNN
5 tags
5 tags
The Call
It started out as a feeling Which then grew into a hope Which then turned into a quiet thought Which then turned into a quiet word And then that word grew louder and louder ‘Til it was a battle cry I’ll come back when you call me No need to say goodbye Just because everything’s changing Doesn’t mean it’s never been this way before All you can do is try to know who...
3 tags
“A truth should exist,
it should not be used
like this. If I love you
is that...”
– Margaret Atwood
2 tags
“Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,
Tears from the depths of some...”
– Alfred Lord Tennyson
2 tags
“Of all people, it was Woody Allen who not so long ago, on the ball, observed:...”
– Ardeshir Cowasjee.
This man wins my heart every other day.
(via mehreenkasana)
3 tags
3 tags
4 tags
