December 2011
53 posts
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“i looked through all of those magazines
i found not one picture of me
i found...”
– Bitch and Animal, from the song “Dog Grab Dog”, off the album Sour Juice and Rhyme
“I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.”
– Mary Wollstonecraft (via a-vindication)
I played her in a role-play dinner for AP Euro once. Best class ever.
(via pearlsandasweaterset)
“Nobody tells an actor, “you’re playing a strong-minded man”. We assume that men...”
– Meryl Streep, on being told that she often plays “strong-minded women”
WHO LOVES MERYL?
MEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEEEE
(via leahblaine)
“I can’t touch you when your ignorance keep dismembering every piece of patience...”
– Andrea Gibson (via mirrorsinawkwardplaces)
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“i was born to two immigrants
who knew why they were here
they were happy to...”
– Ani Difranco, from the song “Paradigm”, off the album Knuckle Down
arikaftermath:
“It is the height of irony that women are valued for our looks, encouraged to make ourselves beautiful and ornamental and are then derided as shallow and vain for doing so.”
— Greta Christina
“Like most women, I currently live in a society where violence, harassment and...”
– Tiger Beatdown (via pnasty)
My life
(via blushandbloom)
this this this this this this this FOREVER
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“I had a chance to read a copy of The Well of Loneliness that had been translated...”
– A Jewish woman, in a conversation at the Lesbian Herstory Archives, quoted by Joan Nestle, in the Lesbian Herstory Archives Newsletter, June 1992. (from Lesbian Quotations, Rosemary Silva)
“Radical men simply do not understand the importance of our struggle… All around...”
– Ellen Willis (via bookmarrow)
“I do not want to be tolerated, or misnamed. I want to be recognized.”
– Audre Lorde
(via inbetweenlove)
“The insistence of Black women’s self-definitions reframes the entire dialogue...”
– Patricia Hill Collins (via ohhsequin)
“My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it’s very open-ended: every woman...”
– Ani DiFranco (via sanfranciscochic)
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“My baby loves me
I’m so angry
Anger makes me
A modern girl
I took my...”
– “Modern Girl”, by Sleater-Kinney, off the album The Woods
“What I say to women of color and other young feminists or womanists is this:...”
– — Helen Xia, feminist, Asian American, racial justice advocate. all around badass
(via rebj)
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“Head bent, walking through snow
I see you Seboulisa
printed inside the back of...”
– Audre Lorde, from her poem “125th and Abomey”, 1974
“This pattern — women can dress like men, but men don’t dress like women —...”
– via Sociological Images (via ellielamothe)
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“The mannerisms that help define gender - the way in which people walk,swing...”
– Eli Clare, Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation
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“..i know my words are weapons, full of danger, full of death.
I am stern,...”
– Daphne Gottlieb, Whitman’s sampler: killing the father of free verse (via rockwriteon)
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“Feminism is the political theory and practice that struggles to free _all_...”
– Barbara Smith (via fyeahwomenshistory)
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“Anti-feminists are incapable of making a distinction between being critically...”
– Barbara Smith, Introduction to Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology, (1983)
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“Called Matriarch, Emasculator and Hot Momma. Sometimes Sister, Pretty Baby,...”
– Trudier Harris 1982, 4 (taken from Chapter 4: “Mammies, Matriarchs, and Other Controlling Images” in Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins)
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“When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth...”
– Adrienne Rich (via indietunes)
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“When feminism exploded in my life, it gave me a vision of the world totally...”
– Dorothy Allison (via fivedollarradio)
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“Rape is on the increase, reported and unreported, and rape is not aggressive...”
– Women Redefining Difference
Audre Lorde
(via omnivincitamor)
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Nadine, Resting On Her Neighbor's Stoop
She holds things together, collects bail, makes the landlord patch the largest holes. At the Sunday social she would spike every drink, and offer you half of what she knows, which is plenty. She pokes at the ruins of the city like an armored tank; but she thinks of herself as a ripsaw cutting through knots in wood. Her sentences come out like thick pine shanks and her big hands fill the...
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“March 15, 1957…Alyse, enquiring on about to what purpose does one strive against...”
– Sylvia Townsend Warner, The Diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner, edited by Claire Harman
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“JOYCE: Principal Snyder said you were a troublemaker. And I could care less. I...”
– Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 2, “School Hard”
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“Well look look look they’re selling her body for beer
Saying look look...”
– Bitch and Animal, from the track “Dog Grab Dog”, off the album Sour Juice and Rhyme
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“All of this is typical girl-fear. Once you realize that The Exorcist is,...”
– Rookie, The Season of the Witch (via azelie)
wow, mind blown. never going to look at the exorcist the same way ever a-fucking-gain.
(via witchnymph)
whoa.
(via loveyourchaos)
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“And certainly there are very real differences between us, of race, sex, age,...”
– Audre Lorde, “Difference and Survival: An Address at Hunter College” Undated address printed for the first time from the Audre Lorde Paper at Spelman College, in I am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde
(via tgstonebutch)
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“You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.”
– -Maya Angelou (via thatkindofwoman)
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“Whenever a man stands up for the basic human rights of a woman, his act...”
– One man’s modest plea for womankind’s right to nonviolence (via sociolab)
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“As the violent face of sexism, the threat of rape will continue to exist as long...”
– Angela Davis, Women, Race and Class (1982), p. 201.
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“One of racism’s salient historical features has always been the assumption...”
– Angela Davis, Women, Race and Class (1982), p. 175.
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“But why are there so many anonymous rapists in the first place? Might not this...”
– Angela Davis, Women, Race and Class (1982), p. 199 - 200.
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“Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I would rather go naked...”
– Dorothy Allison, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure (1996), p. 71
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“I took my sex back, my body. I claimed myself and remade my life. Only when I...”
– Dorothy Allison, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure (1996), p. 70.
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“The process begins with the individual woman’s acceptance that American women,...”
– Bell Hooks, Ain’t I A Woman (via newanddifferentsun)
I think all people are socialized to be racist, classist, and sexist, but yes, this.
(via sanityscraps)
don’t capitalize her name, that’s just rude and seriously unacceptable. she chose to have her name be in all lower case for a reason and...
“The thing is, it’s patriarchy that says men are stupid and monolithic and...”
– On claiming to be a stupid man who doesn’t know anything « Zero at the Bone (via grrlyboy)
Yes.
(via utopiaisbanished)
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“What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be...”
– Toni Morrison (via restoried)
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“I don’t know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned...”
– Maya Angelou (via arreter)
Oh, I haven’t seen “If I’d known better I’d have done better” in context before…thank you!!
(via quixotess)
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“i had to leave the house of fashion
go forth naked from its doors
cuz women...”
– Ani Difranco, from her song “Shroud”, off the album Reprieve
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“guilt is NOT a feeling. it is an intellectual mask to a feeling. fear is a...”
– gloria anzaldua, cherrie moraga
this is the quote that kind of hit me in the face about my own whiteness, and how “white guilt” operates…i also think of this quote when reading conversations about the suffix “phobia” being abelist……(“it’s not fear, it’s hate!!!!”)
(via swell138)
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“Women who are too sexual aren’t taken seriously, and women who aren’t sexual...”
– (via thecryingame)
Yay horribly crippling societal standards of femininity!
(via private-revolution)
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“The hypervisibility of black women academics means that visibility, too, can be...”
– Evelynn M. Hammonds “Towards a Genealogy of Black Female Sexuality: The Problematic of Silence” (via abolitionista)
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“Women of today are still being called upon to stretch across the gap of male...”
–
The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House, by Audre Lorde (1979)
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“If people really believed that rape made lesbians, and brutal fathers made...”
– Dorothy Allison, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure, p. 46.