July 2012
“Be in love with your life. Every detail of it.”
– Jack Kerouac
“We tell people they are “strong” when we are uncomfortable with their pain and...”
– Captain Awkward, “The lie of ‘strength.’”
June 2012
“Thus, Latina/o is not simply brown, but a hybrid negotiation of browns that move...”
– Shane T. Moreman and Dawn Marie McIntosh (Brown Scriptings and Rescriptings: A Critical Performance Ethnography of Latina Drag Queens)
“People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams because they feel that...”
– Paulo Coelho
CandidlyCara: What women* will gain from the... →
stfuconservatives:
bibliofeminista:
Some 32 million people (a majority women) will gain access to health care insurance coverage including 16 million people (also a majority women) who will gain access through Medicaid.
Subsidies to purchase coverage
About three-fourths of…
“Feminism should, by default, include trans women. I’d go so far as to say that,...”
– Why Cis Attendees of Reclaim the Night are Letting Trans Women Down
“The experience of being raped has touched every aspect of my life. People like...”
– anonymous, “The R Word”
rollawayyourstone428:
I’m so tired of hearing about how many people there are in this world and how I’ll meet someone new and better. Because I’ve met a lot of people. And a lot of them - most of them - are so boring to me; they are cookie-cutter human beings that just move through life that I can compare to others without much difference.
There are few individuals that I’ve gotten the...
“When you live in a poor neighborhood, you are living in an area where you have...”
– Malcolm X
“You don’t need to explain your dreams. They belong to you.”
– Paulo Coelho
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“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used...”
– Arundhati Roy
“When life gives you limes… squeeze them on your enemies eyes.”
“Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things...”
– Julian Barnes, Flaubert’s Parrot
“The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within -...”
– Ruby Dee
When I tell my friends "I hate people" and they...
