April 2012
7 posts
“It’s also important to note that punishing women for complying with cultural...”
– Social Justice League: Leave Kim Kardasian Alone (via feminismduh)
“Many men who harass women say their intent is to compliment them, but why do...”
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Stop Street Harassment: Holly Kearl (via completelymoribund)
“It’s not too much to ask men and boys to “look, but don’t touch.” A young woman...”
– Sexy Halloween Costumes for Girls Don’t Cause Rape — The Good Men Project (via sexisnottheenemy)
“When I ask my students at the beginning of my Men and Masculinity course about...”
– (via hugoschwyzer)
“Digital news is broken. Actually, news itself is broken. Almost all news...”
– Andy Rutledge | Design View [h/t: Shane] (via kateoplis)
March 2012
4 posts
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Hunger Games & Racism
In the order I read them:
Jezebel: Racist Fans Disappointed, published today - article on the (racist) reactions of fans to the film
Publishers’ Weekly, published today - article on racism, related to the book
Tweets, started at the beginning of this month - a Tumblr collecting “all of the idiotic tweets,” and particularly focusing on the ““shock” that many Tweeters are...
Books banned in Arizona: a reading list
I checked off the ones I’ve read in the past. I’d like to have read all of these this year or next year.
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High School Course Texts and Reading Lists Table 20: American Government/Social Justice Education Project 1, 2 - Texts and Reading Lists √ Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years (1998), by B. Bigelow and B. Peterson The Latino Condition: A Critical Reader (1998), by...
February 2012
21 posts
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WatchI consider this to be one of the most important films of our time.
I was just at a screening. The filmmaker was also there. She’s the mother of a former student in the Raza Studies program (the one that was silenced in Tucson).
No History is Illegal.
This is stark racism, endorsed and encouraged in the halls of power.
Banned books and some responses by authors. HAVE WE LEARNED NOTHING.
...
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Anatomy of an unsafe abortion →
This is terrifying and heartbreaking.
It also made me think of this - “The Only Moral Abortion is My Abortion,” an article from 2000. Quote: “I have done several abortions on women who have regularly picketed my clinics, including a 16 year old schoolgirl who came back to picket the day after her abortion, about three years...
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I’m Not Okay with Chris Brown Performing at the... →
“We should be furious.
Why aren’t we?”
READ THIS READ ALL OF THIS
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Kill ACTA. →
What is ACTA? It’s “an international trade agreement negotiated by the European Union, the United States, Japan, Canada, South Korea, Australia, Mexico, Morocco, Singapore as well as a few other countries, whose aim is to enforce copyright and tackle counterfeited goods.”
The United States signed ACTA in October.
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FORGOT TO TELL RACHEL: Cooking with Zoë →
forgottotellrachel:
First I think to myself oh maybe I will make some cookies. Then I get out this recipe. Then I manipulate it so it calls for a half cup of butter (20 cookies).
I do it. But I use unsalted butter.
Then it tastes not as good as usual. I think it’s maybe because there’s not enough salt.
So I add…
My god these cookies are delicious
Also Lisa you give me mantras
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WHY CAN’T I WRITE IN IAMBS TODAY
WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME
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Caroline asked me today how I start writing poems.
This is what the inside of my head sounded like tonight as I walked home:
The blue night No… with the moon it’s more… green gold The green gold rind of night The green gold rind of night over the huge-eyed moon The green gold rind of night over the huge-pupiled moon behind? The green gold rind of night behind a huge-pupiled moon the huge pupil of the moon sounds too much like...
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Oh hello. →
“Researchers are continuing to sound the alarm on the growing threat of multi-drug resistant gonorrhea in the United States.”
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Puttin it on my log
Joe: Stfu you're hotta than lava 8:58 PM
Me: HAHHAAH 8:59 PM
Joe: Don't laugh, put it on your log. 8:59 PM
Me: My log? 8:59 PM
Joe: *blog 8:59 PM
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"One Thing" by Stephen Dixon →
This begins:
“I told her I only had one thing on my mind to say. She didn’t ask what, sat there, reading, looking over her shoulder out the window, I didn’t know at what, then at her hand—the way she was holding it, in what I’d call a relaxed fist, probably at her nails—shut her eyes, seemed to be drifting into thought, then when her face tightened, deep...
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We don't know anything about heterosexuality →
Quote: Blank spends almost two hundred pages to make clear just how unclear our conception of heterosexuality really is. “Despite the fact that most of us use the term ‘heterosexual’ with enormous (and cavalier!) certainty,” she writes, “there seems to be no aspect of ‘heterosexual’ for which a truly iron-clad definition has been established.”
I think I might be kind of depressed again but I don’t really know who to tell or what to do.
January 2012
9 posts
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Sometimes there’s only one person you want to talk to and you can’t have them.
So I made this other blog →
I think it’s kind of funny
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Here is what I am doing right now:
sitting in the library
in my coat
hungry
just adjusted my posture to be healthy after 30 minutes of sitting hunched over
doing nothing on the internet
I was productive earlier
I have class across town at 2pm
I don’t want to be 1.5 hours early
but I’m not sure where it is so I need to be some early
did I mention that I’m hungry
you...
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"It's time to end the failed war on drugs" →
Here:
Listen
Writing blog is alive again. →
December 2011
1 post
STUDY: More Than Half Of Black Girls Are Sexually... →
Uhhhhh what. This. ????
so-treu:
Sixty percent of black girls have experienced sexual abuse at the hands of black men before reaching the age of 18, according to an ongoing study conducted by Black Women’s Blueprint.
More than 300 black women nationwide participated in the study and 700 more are being sought to take in the survey by March 2012.
Farah Tanis, Co-Founder of the New...
November 2011
4 posts
“I hate how the phrase ‘have some self respect’ is used to shame women who are...”
– -Unknown (via suburbanangst)
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LOL @ anyone who attempts to defend something... →
neverthehurricane:
An incomplete list of why that argument is flawed:
Art can be racist. We wouldn’t have a western canon, or any art canon for that matter, if we hadn’t already acknowledged that years ago. Racism doesn’t negate something from being art and art doesn’t negate something from being racist. This is not a platform worth arguing on.
Art has the power and scope to affect society in...
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October 2011
2 posts
asked my roommate how terrible it would be if i...
moreglitter:
strictlybecca:
she looked at me uncertainly and said
“well, i always go to class.”
so basically you are a terrible person
so basically i am a terrible person
September 2011
20 posts
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“It took me 18 years to learn that sex could be on my own terms.
Until then, my...”
– Carmen Rios, SlutWalk D.C. (via consentual)