December 2011
77 posts
“What you seek is seeking you.”
– Rumi (via mazakali)
kind of reminds me of what my mentor says “Look for the people who are looking for you” Saving precious energy for those interested in mutual growth, in exchanging energy not just receiving it.
(via azaadiart)
NattieNell: One teachers approach to preventing... →
togetherforjacksoncountykids:
“It’s Okay to be Neither,” By Melissa Bollow Tempel
Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got…
“It should never be forgotten that while colonization, with its techniques and...”
– Foucault, “Society Must Be Defended” (via illllllllllllli)
30 Things to Stop Doing to Yourself →
“Don’t you dare, for one more second, surround yourself with people who are not...”
– Jo Blackwell-Preston (via sleepydumpling)
Researcher reveals how “Computer Geeks” replaced... →
leonineantiheroine:
So much misogyny and the article gets worse—but good to know too.
“As historian Nathan Ensmenger explained to a Stanford audience, as late as the 1960s many people perceived computer programming as a natural career choice for savvy young women. Even the trend-spotters at Cosmopolitan Magazine urged their fashionable female readership to consider careers in programming. In...
“And I want to be held down. I don’t know what to do with the horrifying freedom...”
– Clarice Lispector, The passion according to G.H. (via thewww)
“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)
“Any idiot can face a crisis; it’s this day-to-day living that wears you out.”
– Anton Chekhov (via silentsigh57
)
Relevant
I'm so incredibly tired of seeing feminists hate...
radicallane:
One of the things most integral to my own ideas and experiences of being a woman, and of identifying as a feminist, is that I very much want to be a mother someday. It makes me incredibly angry, both for all the amazing mothers I know and for myself, when I see feminists talking about “breeders” with sneering disdain, or complaining about children daring to be children in public...
“When a person is craving weight loss, they are never craving weight loss. Weight...”
– http://www.bigfatblog.com/desire-weight-loss-never-about-weight-loss (via wut4)
Just what I needed.
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“It’s bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They’re...”
– David levithan and Rachel Cohn, Naomi & ely’s no-kiss list. (via isabelthespy)
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Today my friend’s four year old son looked at me and said, ‘do you have a baby in your tummy?’
‘No, I don’t,’ I answered, laughing. I’ve been asked this before by plenty of little kids, it’s no big deal.
‘Your tummy is big,’ he told me solemnly.
‘Yes,’ I said. ‘That’s true, it is big.’ He seemed satisfied,...
Feminism FOR REAL: Deconstructing the Academic... →
radicallane:
I want to HIGHLY recommend this book. I think I’d count it in the top ten best non-fiction books I’ve read in the last couple of years. Incredibly powerful, eye-opening, and I
believe super important especially for white feminists to read. These are voices we NEED to be listening to if we want feminism to actually be a movement that truly strives to dismantle all systems of...
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ouyangdan:
diddlesandaprostates:
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the-tevinter-fugitive:
the-smartass:
I do anyways but still.
Well, of course. :)
Yesssssssss….
hell why not
Pfft. OK. Anon is also on if you’re shy. My leg quit working, so I’m not going anywhere.
FAT LATTE: verybusyandimportant: sometimes I... →
verybusyandimportant:
sometimes I wonder how thin people dress themselves. because like I would simply be overwhelmed by the choices. HOW DO YOU MAKE UP YOUR MIND WHEN PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING IS MADE IN YOUR SIZE?! it just doesn’t seem like something I’d ever be able to do. I’d never leave…
“The Universe is all that is, or ever was, or ever will be.
Our contemplations...”
– Carl Sagan (via ulakulpa)
“Ableism must be included in our analysis of oppression and in our conversations...”
– Mia Mingus, Moving Toward the Ugly: A Politic Beyond Desirability (via classycoochie)
This is one of my fav quotes from her speech.
(via liquornspice)
Because this is will always be relevant.
(via quelola)
kathleenjoy:
glue war on me
glue change we can believe in on me
rip it all off
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it....”
– Howard Thurman (via silentsigh57)
I’m gonna reblog this until it sinks in.
Extracts from Emma Thompson’s diaries while... →
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cheapandjuicy:
thequietworld | cheia | frauleindrosselmeyer
Extracts from Emma Thompson’s diaries while shooting Sense and Sensibility, from ‘The
Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries,’ a rather wonderful book I just happened to find - in English - at the back of a second-hand shop near Rorschach.
Okay I know it’s possibly my favourite book and...
“The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work,...”
– Mary Oliver (via creativedreadhead)
“You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.”
– -Maya Angelou (via thatkindofwoman)
so much joy it hurts: tphd: Interesting to note... →
tphd:
Interesting to note that people don’t understand fiction as magic. A piece of fiction is a spell. I hear people expressing their understanding (or parroting other’s understanding) of fiction as “transportive” but you must all secretly know that it isn’t true. It’s not you who is…
“Anyone who has had any dealings with children knows that they’re curious and...”
– Propaganda and the Public Mind - Noam Chomsky (via noam-chomsky)
“Hidden away in the Money section of today’s Guardian is this article containing...”
– Free state childcare more than affordable (via ghostlove)
THAT'S SO MAJESTIC: FAT SOLIDARITY: THE BASICS →
innerfatgirl:
** Fat experiences are complicated and vary from fatty to fatty. The following are some personal guidelines on how people can opt out of fat hate and challenge the objectification of fat bodies. This list is incomplete, won’t be the same for everyone, and was written by…
