November 2011
Strange Days: Women of Color vs "Colored" Women... →
notyourkinddear:
jaredtheleader:
notyourkinddear:
The word “colored” is a loaded term based in racism. DON’T USE IT.
The word “colored” does have different context in different countries, but the end result seems to be always based in racism/affirming the value of whiteness and societal stratification based on shadeism…
Can’t we just say that race doesn’t matter to completely avoid...
October 2011
“[W]hen you teach adults and children sex-negative messages, sex becomes an...”
– Sex-Negative Education and the Spectre of Rape « Sex Positive Activism (via sexisnottheenemy)
(via rabbleprochoice)
My Sleepy Mix →
Spend less time staring at the ceiling and more time dreaming :)
I love Tazo tea
I start every morning with Awake or Organic Chai (with cane sugar and soymilk).
During the day I have Calm, Zen, or China Green Tips.
And I relax at night and sip Cucumber White.
“Women who are fat are said to have ‘let themselves go.’ The very phrase connotes...”
– “Letting Ourselves Go: Making Room for the Fat Body in Feminist Scholarship,” by Cecilia Hartley (via clairvoyants)
“WOMANIST (As coined and defined by Alice Walker from ‘In Search of Our Mothers’...”
– Alice Walker’s definition of “Womanist” from In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose copyright 1983.
SUPPORT the completion of: ALICE WALKER: BEAUTY IN TRUTH
(via afrolez)
feminist slut: Dear anti-choicers: →
d-e-a-n-winchester:
nessfraserloves:
You can say “killing a life” and “murdering a child” a million times until you’re blue in the face, but your emotionally charged buzz-words aren’t going to suddenly make me go “OH, YOU KNOW WHAT, I DON’T REALLY WANT CONTROL OVER MY BODY.”
Call it…
