February 2012
32 posts
“This tribe called “Women of Color” is not an ethnicity. It is one of the...”
– - Aurora Levins Morales, My Name is This Story from Telling to Live Latina Feminist Testimonios.
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“All white women in this nation know that their status is different from that of...”
– bell hooks (via partypropagandaprofessional)
“In popular culture, Middle Eastern women are rarely depicted as such — willful...”
– The Politics of Art: Middle Eastern Women in Fiction and Film by Selin Gulgoz (via millionsmillions)
“If you are a white woman and you want to call yourself a feminist, you must...”
– ladyatheist (via mamaatheist)
BOOM.
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Always reblog!
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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 subconciousevolution)
Also in a mixed-gender group, when women talk 25% of the time or less, it’s seen as being equally balanced. If women talk between 25% and 50% of the time, they are seen as “dominating the conversation.” One of the...
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“It is not known if those
who warred and hunted on the plains
chanted and hexed...”
– Native American lesbian author Paula Gunn Allen, from her poem “Beloved Women” (1980)
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“Sitting with Ricki, talking with Ricki, I made a vow to her: that I would use...”
– Andrea Dworkin, Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant (2002)
“On a somewhat serious note today because of a conversation the other day:
I...”
– You Didn’t Thank Me For Punching You in the Face « Views from the Couch (via muddlet)
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“He’ll be all right” I said, “we could
have hit the guy as...”
– Judy Grahn, from her poem “A Woman is Talking to Death” (1974)
“I’m fat positive because I’m a feminist, and I refuse to acknowledge in the...”
– You’re Welcome - Why I’m Fat Positive (via adrowningwoman)
“Many reproductive advocates have attempted to expand the definitions of either...”
– Andrea Smith (via femmenoire)
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“ANYA: I, Anya, promise to … love you, to cherish you, …to honor you,...”
– Buffy the Vampire Slayer, “Hell’s Bells”, Season 6
“i found god in myself,
and i loved her.
i loved her fiercely”
– Ntozake Shange (via transformfeminism)
“Today, with the defeat of ERA, the tightening economy, and increased...”
– -audre lorde, age, race, class and sex, 1980 (via opheliadoris
)
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“and god help you if you are an ugly girl
course too pretty is also your doom...”
– Ani Difranco, from the song “32 Flavors”, off the album Not a Pretty Girl (1995)
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“There was a garden
in the beginning
Before the fall
Before Genesis
There...”
– Tori Amos, from the song “Original Sinsuality”, off the album The Beekeeper.
“Reduced to its biological preconditions, the insular structure of the producer’s...”
– Angela Davis, “Women and Capitalism: Dialectics of Oppression and Liberation”
Angela Davis, y’all. If more Feminists read Angela Davis, Feminism wouldn’t annoy me so much. This was in 1977, when she was in jail.
Anyway, this passage may be dense and hard to get through but last night it almost...
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“There is a sound
they don’t want you to own
arrest every word
that...”
– Sleater-Kinney, from the song “The Professional”, off the album All Hands on the Bad One (2000)
“If a heroine is especially good at anything, even if it’s just one thing and...”
– Marie Brennan, “Who Mary Sue Isn’t” (via nonisland)
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“The stain of racism and sexism, is not just for people of color or women, it’s...”
– Viola Davis (via beautiful-ambition)
January 2012
80 posts
“I swear to god I will lose my mind if I hear the “sex sells” fallacy one more...”
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“There is beauty as well as hatred in [Henry Miller’s ‘Tropic of Cancer’], and it...”
– Jeanette Winterson brings the heat in The New York Times’ Sunday book review. (via millionsmillions)
“Westerners are fond of the saying ‘Life isn’t fair.’ Then, they end in snide...”
– Barbara Alice Mann, Iroquois woman (via cultureofresistance)
How many fucking times did I/we hear this as a child?
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my father (European by birth) said this to me hundreds of times.
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“A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a...”
– Andrea Dworkin, from her Speech at Queen’s College, City University of New York (March 12, 1975). “The Sexual Politics of Fear and Courage”, ch. 5, published in Our Blood (1976)
“For a woman to be a lesbian in a male-supremacist, capitalist, misogynist,...”
– Cheryl Clarke, Lesbianism: an Act of Resistance
Found in the book by Cherríe Moraga, and Gloria Anzaldúa: This Bridge Called My Back: Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. Watertown, MA: Persephone, 1981. (via pambana)
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“And I dreamed that the world’s womanline rose up
to occupy Rockefeller center...”
– Clare Coss, from her poem “Emma”, 1976
“So I have arrived at what for me is at the heart of what’s the matter. Much of...”
– Ann duCille (1994) ‘The Occult of True Black Womanhood: Critical Demeanor and Black Feminist Studies.’ Signs 19.3. p. 603. (via james-bliss)
marxisforbros:
Strong woman: Bitch. Weak man: Bitch.
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Adrienne Rich - addressing white feminists
False rebellion is to varying degrees in varying places acceptable to the white fathers. True rebellion is something that, with each step we take, cuts us further off from identification with racist patriarchy, which has rewarded us for our loyalty and which will punish us for becoming disloyal. It does not matter how we change our names or what music we listen to, or whether we celebrate...
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Don't Need You
Don’t need you to say we’re cute Don’t need you to say we’re alright Don’t need your atti-fuckin-tude boy Don’t need your kiss goodnight We don’t need you, we don’t need you Us girls don’t need you Don’t need you to tell us we’re good Don’t need you to say we suck Don’t need your protection Don’t need your...
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“I am the wall at the lip of the water
I am the rock that refused to be battered...”
– Judy Grahn
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“She had stayed a virgin so she wouldn’t be called a tramp or a slut; had married...”
– Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (via anuraglahiri)
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“why is it so lonely
in between a boy and a girl
they’re so glued down...”
– Bitch and Animal, from the track “Boy Girl Wonder”, off the album Eternally Hard
thetbrpile:
Doctor Faraday: “Yes, I’ve often thought it must be exhausting to be a woman.” Caroline: “It is, if you do it properly. Which is why I seldom do…”
~ from The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
“Society has a problem with female nudity when it is not … ”—Badu pauses to get...”
– Erykah Badu: June/July Cover Story [Pg 1] | VIBE (via shemumbledsomething)
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“here’s a toast to all those nurses and doctors
who daily provide women...”
– Ani Difranco, from her poem “Self-Evident”, off the album So Much Shouting, So Much Laughter (2002)
“Some problems we share as women, some we do not. You fear your children will...”
– Audre Lorde, “Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference” (via arewomenhuman)
Exactly.
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Just got done reading this for WS. This was one of my favorite quotes.
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“The force that allows white feminist authors to make no reference to racial...”
– bell hooks, Ain’t I A Woman, pg 138 (via butcheredmentality)