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Fri, 24 May 2013 16:01:39 -0400

"If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:41:00 -0400

“If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather. Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.”

- Stephen Fry (via precioushorrors)

queerfatfemme: It’s obvious by her amazing art that Cristy is...

Thu, 16 May 2013 16:57:00 -0400

queerfatfemme:

It’s obvious by her amazing art that Cristy is an incredible illustrator. She has such a distinct style that’s both real and wild. But I often forget what a profound writer she is. I never thought I’d be underlining passages in a graphic novel, but then there I was on the B65 bus clutching my purple pen marking this, “Casual homophobia. It’s the social acceptance of gay jokes, slurs, and homophobic remarks when in the presence of a feminine man or a masculine woman. I saw it as a side effect of money and power destroying spirituality.” (via Book Review and Excerpt: Cristy C. Road’s Spit and Passion)

rookiemag: gabifresh: AHHHHH! My swim collection is AVAILABLE...

Thu, 16 May 2013 14:36:10 -0400

rookiemag:

gabifresh:

AHHHHH! My swim collection is AVAILABLE NOW! BUY IT HERE!
go to gabifresh.com for more pics and important info about sizing/fit before buying!

LOOK AT THESE DELICIOUS SWIMSUITS THAT OUR OWN GIRL GABI DESIGNED OMGGGGG

xAA

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Thu, 16 May 2013 12:40:00 -0400

#SHE IS NOT EVEN ANYWHERE NEAR THE GENERAL AREA OF FUCKING...

Thu, 16 May 2013 12:39:00 -0400

#SHE IS NOT EVEN ANYWHERE NEAR THE GENERAL AREA OF FUCKING AROUND GODDAMN

FUCK YEAH ANNE HATHAWAY

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Thu, 16 May 2013 10:35:00 -0400

"Let it pass in bursts like bursts of music, until there is some quiet after, quiet and heat and..."

Tue, 14 May 2013 14:20:00 -0400

“Let it pass in bursts like bursts of music, until there is some quiet after, quiet and heat and speed to wave over one, tide that waves over a woman lying on sand under a cliff, a cliff like the one here of white and green and cypress, heat like this heat that one can put the hand into, speed like this speed, a train flying south, quiet like this quiet, now that this train has come to final rest.”

- via Savage Coast- Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics (via guernicamag)

"The problem is that you don’t just choose recovery. You have to keep choosing recovery, over and..."

Tue, 14 May 2013 13:31:00 -0400

“The problem is that you don’t just choose recovery. You have to keep choosing recovery, over and over and over again. You have to make that choice 5-6 times each day. You have to make that choice even when you really don’t want to. It’s not a single choice, and it’s not easy.”

- Carrie’s Blog Post (via oddi-tea)

queerability: Gender Be a trans* ally & help fight...

Tue, 14 May 2013 13:30:00 -0400

queerability:

Gender

Be a trans* ally & help fight transphobia & cissexism

1. Use the term ‘cisgender’ when referring to non-trans* individuals, rather than transphobic words like “normal,” which imply that trans* individuals are abnormal, weird, ill, or broken.

2. Do not use transphobic slurs, such as “tra-ny” or “shemale.” These words are intended to insult and harm trans* individuals.

3. Always use the name any individual gives you. Do not ask someone what their “real” name is. (Their desired name is their real name.)

4. Always use the desired pronouns of an individual. If you are unsure which pronoun to use, politely and privately ask the individual what their preferred pronouns are.

5. Do not claim someone’s gender identity as false, nonexistent, immoral, or a result of an illness or trauma.

6. Do not ask questions regarding someone’s anatomy, or question if they have transitioned or will be transitioning in the future.

7. Do not ask to see the photographs of a person before they transitioned. Likewise, do not ask invasive, personal questions of a person regarding their life before they transitioned.

8. Never out a trans* individual to others. Likewise, do not ask others if “so-and-so is transgender.”

9. Do not assume an individual’s sexual orientation due to their trans* identity.

From asexual-not-a-sexual.tumblr.com

"The tense, desperate stroke of the train relieved all the passengers: no responsibility, no world,..."

Tue, 14 May 2013 13:22:00 -0400

“The tense, desperate stroke of the train relieved all the passengers: no responsibility, no world, only sleep, sleep and speed in the black, the calm night falling, preserving speed, opening up the shadows, drawing away to morning.”

- via Savage Coast - Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics (via guernicamag)

muffdiver: kawaiinchesters: really old vintage photos of...

Tue, 14 May 2013 13:21:00 -0400

muffdiver:

kawaiinchesters:

really old vintage photos of homosexual couples

See the rest, they’re all amazing.

lgbtlaughs: shawnlevy: Pride not prejudice #rctid Portland...

Tue, 14 May 2013 13:20:00 -0400

lgbtlaughs:

shawnlevy:

Pride not prejudice #rctid

Portland Timber Soccer Fans Take Colorful Stand Against Homophobia

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Mon, 13 May 2013 16:55:00 -0400

Disney gives Braves Merida a princess make-over

Mon, 13 May 2013 16:52:00 -0400

Disney gives Braves Merida a princess make-over:

The saddest part is that someone at Disney is so convinced that a bigger bust and smaller waist is necessary to sell more product.

"But Rukeyser wrote enough to leave her artistic legacy mixed. While there is certainly no native..."

Thu, 09 May 2013 14:55:00 -0400

“But Rukeyser wrote enough to leave her artistic legacy mixed. While there is certainly no native opposition between poetry and politics, Rukeyser’s passion for radical social causes left a good part of her poetry feeling stilted and forced. Especially as the Cold War unfolded, Rukeyser’s worker-centered social protest cast a shadow over her career. She was monitored by the federal government until the 1970s. But her ecstatic love for the fundamental good in human beings, and her faith in the making of a better world, breathes through her work. Her humor gives it buoyancy. “O for God’s sake,” she wrote in a poem called “Islands,” “they are connected underneath…””

- At Guernica, Anna Clark writes on the rediscovery of Muriel Rukeyser’s lost novel, Savage Coast. (via millionsmillions)

johannafateman: Join my BFFs Lisa Darms, Kathleen Hanna,...

Thu, 09 May 2013 12:32:00 -0400

johannafateman:

Join my BFFs Lisa Darms, Kathleen Hanna, Ramdasha Bikceem and me to celebrate the publication of The Riot Grrrl Collection, a new book published by the Feminist Press. May 29th at the Fales Library, NYU, 7PM.

Facebook Event

Above: Front cover of the legendary New Jersey skate punk zine GUNK, issue #4, 1993 (?), by Ramdasha Bikceem.

whoneedsfeminism: I need feminism because guys can walk in...

Wed, 08 May 2013 10:50:00 -0400

whoneedsfeminism:

I need feminism because guys can walk in public in tight, thin white t-shirts and “wife-beaters”, with their asses hanging out, and not have to fear for their life, their safety, or harrassment

Rape culture: the fact that the best solution men can come up with for women not to get assulted, is for women to give up wearing certain clothes.

thelyonrampant: How To Tell If A Toy Is For Boys or Girls

Wed, 08 May 2013 10:38:00 -0400

thelyonrampant:

How To Tell If A Toy Is For Boys or Girls

poetrysince1912: —Muriel Rukeyser, Poetry, October 1941Learn...

Tue, 07 May 2013 12:23:00 -0400

poetrysince1912:

—Muriel Rukeyser, Poetry, October 1941

Learn more about Rukeyser’s experience at Moncada and her long-lost novel at Guernica:

It was Rukeyser’s first trip abroad. After a month in London, where she got the magazine assignment from the British editor, she left for Spain. But her train to Barcelona, carrying many People’s Olympiad athletes, was among the last to cross the border. It was stopped in the Catalonian town of Moncada. Rumors ran through the train until the town’s mayor appeared on a platform wearing a black ribbon of mourning, and solemnly informed all those listening that there had been the “deaths of men in this town today.”