February 2012
10 posts
1 tag
liberal activism
of-praxis:
how can i do things to help people worse off than me without compromising the convenience afforded to me by their oppression
January 2012
21 posts
Settlement
thenightwood:
Into pasture land I came just after night had fallen, smelling the scars in the meadows and the wind before it rose. Love no longer grazed, and the bells had faded away and the sheaves stood bent and ragged. A horn had been stuck in the earth, stubbornly by the herd’s leader, rammed into the darkness. I drew it from the earth, I lifted it to the sky with all my might. Wanting to...
“But now I shall sit beside you for a while and give your eyes kisses.”
– Ingeborg Bachmann to Paul Celan, Munich, 22 November 1957, in Correspondence. (via sketchofthepast)
“I am writing with my burnt hand about the nature of fire.”
– Ingeborg Bachmann (via thingsandschemes)
“stfuconservatives: Abortion is wrong. A baby doesn’t deserve to die because of...”
– Fuck yeah, feminists!: A fanmail I received:
“WE PETITION THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO:
Ensure that every child in America has...”
– The librarians need 11,000 more signatures on this petition…
wh.gov/Wgd
(via neil-gaiman)
Because.
Libraries.
(via note-a-bear)
“Though no longer pregnant, she continues, at times, to mix Rice Krispies and...”
– Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake (via whylovememylove)
December 2011
93 posts
imnevergoingbackagain:
Pearl Jam-Alive
Very in...
Real Girl Bellies
THIS
http://www.xojane.com/fun/gallery/xojane-real-girl-belly-project-part-two
Notice how by “real girl” they don’t mean what a lot of these kinds of articles do: “socially unacceptably fat girl” which presumes that skinny girls are somehow not ‘real’, cannot possibly be plagued with body issues. The bellies showcased here come in ALL shapes and sizes....
racism 101
http://www.xojane.com/issues/sometimes-i-worry-boston-making-me-racist
This site is really hit-and-miss. Sometimes it’s just your typical makeup-pushing, celebrity-worshiping, brandname-idolizing “women’s magazine”. But sometimes articles like this come along and articulate something important.
“Unfortunately, I participate in racism to an extent simply because I...
