December 2011
“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)
“I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the...”
– Anaïs Nin (via loveishellpartone)
“What is a non-bitch anyway? She is like the unicorn: a myth, a fantasy that some...”
– - Ellen Snortland
“Katy: Do you think the broad public has a fascination with seeing creative,...”
– — Katy Otto interviews Sabrina Chap for Sadie Magazine.
“One of the student leaders of this effort would later ask me if I’d be willing...”
– Ewuare Xola Osayande
“[Noel Ignatiev has called for the outright abolition of whiteness in the face...”
– Ewuare Xola Osayande
[Hugo Schwyzer] Why I Resigned from The Good Men... →
sexgenderbody:
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Last night, I resigned from the Good Men Project. I am no longer an editor nor a contributing writer to the site.
Last week, founder Tom Matlack wrote several pieces which were highly critical of feminism. A series of highly publicized Twitter exchanges took place with a number of well-known progressive women. Tom seemed to harden his position, complaining of...
“Eight U.S. soldiers have been charged in the death of a fellow GI who...”
– 8 U.S. soldiers charged in death of fellow GI - San Jose Mercury News (via bluntlyblue
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An Indian Inventor Disrupts The Period Industry →
jhameia:
When Arunachalam Muruganantham decided he was going to do something about the fact that women in India can’t afford sanitary napkins, he went the extra mile: He wore his own for a week to figure out the best design.
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Analyzing branded napkins at laboratories led to Muruganantham’s first breakthrough. “I found out that these napkins were made of cellulose derived from the bark of a...
“I wasn’t a week into my job before I, too, had undergone the completely...”
– Amid PolitiFact’s “lie of the year” controversy, Mac McClelland gives a shout-out to what it takes to get your facts straight. (via motherjones
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“The wound is the place where the light enters you.”
– Rumi
“You could be walking down Fullerton Avenue at 3 in the morning, drunk and...”
– Chicago Rape Crisis Hotline (via a-blog-called-everything
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“Just so we’re clear, this week, a leading presidential candidate articulated his...”
– Steve Benen (via cultureofresistance)
“We don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are.” —Anais Nin
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“Can we just accept that fact that being poor, and being on public assistance,...”
– You can just… — Feministe (via lemdi)
It’s kind of sad that wanting people, regardless of their financial situation, to be able to enjoy life in some small way opens yourself up to being called a communist. Not that it is really an insult, it’s just sad that being decent is such an anomaly.
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“I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does...”
– Maya Angelou (via memorieswerenot
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“I remember how painful it was to me when my feminist friends (basically) told me...”
– W. Kamau Bell
What About Poor White Kids? →
Our insistence on equating “poor” with “black” has undermined the success of anti-poverty programs.
Recent discussions of poverty have revealed themselves to be, in fact, coded conversations about race. When Newt Gingrich talks about poor kids having no work ethic and Donald Trump agrees, they discuss poor kids interchangeably with black or inner-city youths. For years...
“Lisbeth’s dealings with Bjurman include a vicious rape and a correspondingly...”
– ‘The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo’ - A.O. Scott -NYTimes.com
THIS
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Report: Plan B Unavailable a Third of the Time →
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“I’m loud, I’m vulgar and I wear the pants in the house because somebody’s got...”
– Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf
“We should be worried about the infantilization of women for two reasons:
...”
– Lisa Wade, “Baby Lips”: Thanks for the Infantilization, Maybelline » Sociological Images (via eddieatthegov
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“Radical men simply do not understand the importance of our struggle… All around...”
– Ellen Willis
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hella relevant. so much it hurts.
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“One of the most commonly overlooked spiritual practices is daring to be...”
– Matt Kahn
Crimson Tide Diaries: Luna Pads: Coco Papy →
persephonemag:
Oh bleeding. Here you are again with your cramps and your shedding of uterine lining that makes me want to beat the shit out of whoever created tampon advertising. It’s easy to have negative feelings towards your period, especially as it seems that is the common theme aimed at those who bleed (fyi:fuck y’all). But the shame thing is really wearing thin and I’m tired of the same...
Regarding Christopher- Katha Pollit →
So many people have praised Christopher so effusively, I want to complicate the picture even at the risk of seeming churlish. His drinking was not something to admire, and it was not a charming foible. Maybe sometimes it made him warm and expansive, but I never saw that side of it. What I saw was that drinking made him angry and combative and bullying, often toward people who were way out of his...
“getting all Gene Marksy up in here” is the new ” Im getting Kerouac-ed”
“So I started going through the comments and it’s typical stuff, like you, know:...”
– Wyatt Cenac is watching a cute video of a cat jumping in and out of a box when one comment bewilders him. (via janedoe225
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5 Signs You’re Acting Like a White Guy (Or, How To... →
When I read Gene Marks’s Forbes piece, “If I Was A Poor Black Kid,” it literally made me woozy with anger. Actually that’s not true. That was how I felt when I read the title and saw Gene’s smiling (white) face shining back at me. I wanted to grab him and shake him like you would a victim of shock. I wanted to yell at him, “STOP ACTING LIKE A WHITE GUY!”
That’s what my friends and I call it when...
“Last year, the N.Y.P.D. recorded more than 600,000 stops; 84 percent of those...”
– Young, Black and Frisked by the N.Y.P.D. - NYTimes.com (via nickdouglas
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“Funny. Asking the top 1 percent to pay their share is considered class warfare....”
– Newt Gingrich Doesn’t Like Poor Children
Elon James White
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