trans*gendersporadic
vegan environmentalist
love-core/NVDA feminist
anglo-romanian jewish dykeboigrrrl
from the land of OZ & ISRA-HELL
Arundhati Roy (via theseasonofthewitch)
(Source: jahanzebjz, via squaresome)
When, as happened recently in France, an attempt is made to coerce women out of the burqa rather than creating a situation in which a woman can choose what she wishes to do, it’s not about liberating her, but about unclothing her. It becomes an act of humiliation and cultural imperialism. It’s not about the burqa. It’s about the coercion. Coercing a woman out of a burqa is as bad as coercing her into one. Viewing gender in this way, shorn of social, political and economic context, makes it an issue of identity, a battle of props and costumes. It is what allowed the US government to use western feminist groups as moral cover when it invaded Afghanistan in 2001. Afghan women were (and are) in terrible trouble under the Taliban. But dropping daisy-cutters on them was not going to solve their problems.
2Pac
(Source: inkedpath)
And since we all came from a woman
Got our name from a woman and our game from a woman
I wonder why we take from our women
Why we rape our women, do we hate our women?
I think it’s time to kill for our women
Time to heal our women, be real to our women
And if we don’t we’ll have a race of babies
That will hate the ladies, that make the babies
And since a man can’t make one
He has no right to tell a woman when and where to create one
So will the real men get up
I know you’re fed up ladies, but keep your head up
bell hooks
(Source: vegetable)
Imagine how much easier it would be for us to learn how to love if we began with a shared definition.
Judith Herman in Trauma and Recovery (via psychologicalsnippets)
(via plunder)
Trauma impels people both to withdraw from close relationships and to seek them desperately. The profound disruption in basic trust, the common feelings of shame, guilt, and inferiority, and the need to avoid reminders of the trauma that might be found in social life, all foster withdrawal from close relationships. But the terror of the traumatic event intensifies the need for protective attachments. The traumatized person therefore frequently alternates between isolation and anxious clinging to others. […] It results in the formation of intense, unstable relationships that fluctuate between extremes.
My friend Pandie introduced me to this AMAZING band TheeSatisfaction. They are so so good. This is their song “Do you have the time” <3
(Source: theesatisfaction.com)
Astronauts on the International Space Station captured these views of the aurora australis (“southern lights”) and wildfires in Australia in mid-September 2011.
WOAH.
“….Sexual braggadicio? Check? And hold on…did she just check Diplo and his I’m-not-an-cultural-appropriator-because-I-date-the-women-of-color-I-take-credit-for ass (and any other white person who thinks they get a Racism Pass because they sex it up with folks outside their race)? Totes check.
Banks herself says though she understands why the media are comparing her to Nicki Minaj–or bestowing her some weird “hipster” cred, like she’s “not like those ‘other’ rap artists”–she says Destiny’s Child, Aaliyah, Remy Ma, Lil Kim, Eve, M.I.A., Santigold–along with Interpol, Futureheads, and Bloc Party–influence her style more than Minaj.
Like I said, Banks–and quite a few of us–live in a far more diverse place than the media–be it a fictive universe or the real world–would want us to believe or give us credit for. And I love her for keeping that real.”