February 2012
35 posts
“You are what is female
You shall be called Eve.
And what is masculine shall be...”
– Judy Grahn (via americatop)
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“i always wanted to be
commander in chief
of my one woman army”
– Ani Difranco, from her poem “Not So Soft”, off the album Not So Soft (1991)
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I Like to Think of Harriet Tubman
I like to think of Harriet Tubman. Harriet Tubman who carried a revolver, who had a scar on her head from a rock thrown by a slave-master (because she talked back) , and who had a ransom on her head of thousands of dollars and who was never caught, and who had no use for the law when the law was wrong, who defied the law. I like to think of her. I like to think of her especially when...
“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.
(via mujerinterrumpida)
“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)