February 2012
62 posts
What Lot's Wife Would Have Said (If She Wasn't A...
eating-poetry:
Do you remember when we met in Gomorrah? When you were still beardless, and I would oil my hair in the lamp light before seeing you, when we were young, and blushed with youth like bruised fruit. Did we care then what our neighbors did in the dark?
When our first daughter was born on the River Jordan, when our second cracked her pink head from my body like a promise, did...
“Thousands of children are deprived of birth in this state every year because of...”
– Democratic women in GA seek a state ban on vasectomies.
This is an actual bill they are proposing to point out the wrongness of the constant stream of abortion restrictions and bans being proposed. Mostly it highlights the hypocrisy of forcing restrictions on women “for the babeez” but not doing...
i'll give you wut4: Albert Goldbarth, "The... →
unknowablewoman:
sharingpoetry:
Physics says: go to sleep. Of course you’re tired. Every atom in you has been dancing the shimmy in silver shoes nonstop from mitosis to now. Quit tapping your feet. They’ll dance inside themselves without you. Go to sleep. Geology says: it will be…
so much joy it hurts: The Women are Ordered to... →
kathleenjoy:
This is how I betrayed my country— with each almond I fed them, with each grape’s red blister. After the war began, there were years of hunger and fear and our bodies unheld. When the suitors arrived, they wore weapons in order to sleep, and I stroked their backs. I will not defend myself. Bees…
very filled with dreams: on physically punishing... →
nezua:
being hit as a child teaches you many things, i’d guess. mostly, it teaches you that might makes right. and as a child, you will have no argument against that. and so it is likely that you will learn it well.
being hit as a child may teach other things. but below and beyond…
“We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.”
– Audre Lorde (via nezua)
“A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child...”
– Marie Curie (via quotationalquotes)
“I see protest as a genuine means of encouraging people to feel the...”
– Audre Lorde
(Thank you tinymuses)
My throat is so filled with unsaid words it is hard to breathe.
“Admit something:
Everyone you see, you say to them, “Love me.”
Of course you...”
– Hafiz (via prayer-without-ceasing)
Love is Fluid: A Reminder to Those Who Gained... →
loveisfluid:
I know, your body looks different. It has changed, along with your life, and your jeans fit a little more snuggly than you had anticipated. Maybe more than you like. Maybe you hate it. You were a size X for such a long time, so comfortable in your skin, and suddenly, you are 10, 20, 50 pounds…
Things fall apart
Things fall apart.
Things fall apart.
Things fall apart.
Things fall
a
part
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kathleenjoy:
There is no once bitten. There is only the juicy peach of my throat until you find yourself stoned at the centre of me, a pit, a reason to leave.
“You sit down and count the zeros from damages caused to the multinationals in...”
– I was looking For You In The Night And I Was Burning « Cuntrastamu! (via kathleenjoy)
Redefining Body Image: Big Fat List of... →
redefiningbodyimage:
This is Redefining Body Image’s go-to list of resources, articles, research, videos, etc. providing facts and information regarding health and body image, especially dedicated to debunking the everyone’s favorite myth that fat = unhealthy.
If you have something to add, please submit! The…
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Bean is pretty interested in both genitals and babies and so we’ve been talking about them a fair bit.
She recently heard that her friend’s mum is pregnant with a girl. She said, ‘how do they know the baby in her tummy is a girl baby?’
I said, ‘well, I guess they saw a vulva on an ultrasound; that’s a kind of picture they take of inside your tummy.’...
Mariette DiChristina at Scientific American: What... →
Kids form cultural impressions early, deciding where and how they’ll fit into the world. Unfortunately, they don’t see science in their future often enough. Children as young as kindergarteners, when asked to draw a scientist, are likely to make a picture of a white man in a white lab coat (See Start Science Sooner—and they don’t see themselves that way.
But what if they saw that scientists...
“Love has a right to be spoken. And you have a right to know that somebody loves...”
– Ursula K. Le Guin
(via internal-acceptance-movement)
“I watch movies and I don’t care who is the protagonist, I feel what that guy is...”
– Meryl Streep
“men don’t live through the female characters” - the realities of living in a andro-centric society…
(via newwavefeminism)
kathleenjoy:
i am in the business of you not loving me
Stress Impacts Good Parenting →
Good parenting requires psychic resources. Complex decisions must be made. Sacrifices must be made in the moment. This is hard for anyone, whatever their income: we all have limited reserves of self-control, and attention and other psychic resources. In that moment, fretting about the deadline, your psychic resources were depleted. Facing pressure at work, you did not have the freedom of mind...
Occupy Valentine's Day: occupy valentine's day... →
No woman who chooses to be self-loving ever regrets her choice. Self-love brings her greater power and freedom. It improves her relationships with everyone. But most especially it allows her to live in community with other women, to stand in solidarity and sisterhood…While the self-loving woman…
“Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope...”
– David Quaimen (via prettybooks)
“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via wantthepharaohs)
Girls at greater risk of suicide since... →
leonineantiheroine:
This is horrific.
The Children’s Commissioner, Bath is in absolute denial about the impacts of the Northern Territory Intervention on Aboriginal young people.
The idea that publicising the number of Aboriginal suicides will witness copycat suicides is a lie to hinder accountability.
I think the height of dehumanisation or perhaps close to it is when people muck about with...
“Affection is only one ingredient of love. To truly love we must learn to mix...”
– bell hooks - all about love, 2000 [*M. Scott Peck - The Road Less Travled, 1978] (via jenniferbundock)
“Love has a right to be spoken. And you have a right to know that somebody loves...”
– Ursula K. Le Guin
(via internal-acceptance-movement)
