March 2012
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“Women and men do not receive an equal education because outside of the classroom...”
– Adrienne Rich, feminist writer who recently passed away. It is from a chapter called, “Taking Women Students Seriously” from her book called, On Lies, Secrets and Silence.
(via theselam)
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The Black Panthers are recruiting ...
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luvyourselfsomeesteem:
yo this really ain’t no joke son.
the new ones or the old ones? isn’t the new crew antisemitic?
Let’s be REAL clear, The New Black Panthers get NO RESPECT! Bobby Seale (co-founder of the real BPP) has spoken out against them. They have no discipline and don’t care about education or justice. They aren’t doing anything but riding the...
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The week after Barack Obama was elected gun sales...
newwavefeminism:
Can’t believe this was just said on MSNBC.
America the beautiful, right?
She read white fear for how delusional and irrational it truly is…
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In Response To Proposed Pre-Abortion Ultrasound... →
“Under Farnese’s proposal, male patients seeking treatment for ED would be required to undergo a full prostate exam and cardiac stress test, submit a signed affidavit from a sexual partner that confirms the patient suffers from ED, participate in sex therapy, and watch a video that describes the side effects of medication used to treat erectile dysfunction.”
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I wish bell hooks, Angela Davis & Melissa Harris-Perry would sit down with Steve Harvey and read him and his ‘dating’ book for the trash that it is
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the colored other: Excusing Racism and Murder →
pensiveadagio:
On March 15, 2012, Robert Zimmerman, father of George Zimmerman wrote a letter to local media attempting to clarify what he felt was an unfair media characterization of his son, George Zimmerman -who admitted to killing a Black, unarmed 17-year-old boy in Sanford, FL on February 26, 2012….
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"There's No Safe Place to be Black"
With the recent murder of Trayvon Martin and the non-arrest of his white privileged murderer, it’s made me face something I’ve always subconsciously chosen to ignore. There’s no safe place in the United States of America to be Black. Nowhere. None. We worked hard and when able, fled inner cities for some place quieter, cleaner, and safer. The suburbs. Or so we thought.
Reckless killings...
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"Hey, I don't have the experience you asked for...
…now how exactly does one go about conveying this in a CV/Resume?
“My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of...”
– Maya Angelou (via aonaran)
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“It is the height of irony that women are valued for our looks, encouraged to...”
– Greta Christina (via feminishblog)
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يضيع جمال الحياة عندما تنظر بعينيك فقط
& the beauty of life is lost when you only look with your eyes.
Arizona Senate Passes Bill Allowing Doctors To Not... →
legitimatehypnotist:
What the fuck? Why is so inconceivable that a woman can make a decision regarding her own damn body?!
Imagine if a doctor knew your unborn child had a serious problem, like CP or Down’s Syndrome and REFUSED to tell you. Disgusting.
Imagine if your doctor knew your fetus would not survive because of descended kidneys or any other number of fetal anomalies and did not tell...
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I’d buy 365 candles for her to blow out…
So I could spend the next 365 days making all of her wishes come true…
“In a paradoxical sense, once I accepted my position as different from the larger...”
– Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of my Name, p. 181 (via agradschoolbreakup)
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