February 2011
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January 2011
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“The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be...”
– Armistead Maupin (via kari-shma)
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“In self-defense, you are a sacred being on the planet and you have every right...”
– I don’t love all of the new Inga Muscio? (Rose: Love in a Time of Violence.) I think her concepts are usually sound, but she has a lot and just doesn’t always organize them well. Environmentalism, anti-corporate activism, anti-war activism, feminism, anti-racism, queer activism, and everything else...
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“I’m trying to do something good for myself this year… I’m trying to eradicate...”
– Vivian Chin, my ethnic studies professor at mills college. (via dressupbox)
i’ve been confused about things like this lately. mainly around the notion that power = owning, ownership. a few people have told me that they think a lot of my personally issues stem from my lack of self-worth, and i...
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applecoresandpeachpits asked: Woah! I am so into your blog. Thank you for being someone behind this awesomeness. I saw you reblogged a thing i posted -- which is badassery in the highest, cuz we've gotta all overcome that shit and learn how to love ourselves and our insecurities and be okay with it and work on that. And yea -- totally friends, family, hell, even co-workers. Anyone.
I'm really excited to get...
I'm really excited to get...
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“Support ‘N Destroy! Is a health skills and reflection zine. It is a space...”
– I’m gonna have a huge crush on this zine/tumblr. I can just tell. Follow supportndestroy right here.
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# 1 →
itsthefirstday:
readnfight:
supportndestroy:
the .pdf file for # 1 posted up on zinelibrary.info
public files for the win! :) :) :)
My excellent friend made an excellent zine called Support n Destroy, about self-care, mental health, a little bit about other things like meditation, giving yourself massages, staying warm in the winter, lots of great things and I love it and this is a...
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How to Manage Jealousy
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Based on Redefining our Relationships: Guidelines for Responsible Open Relationships by Wedny-O-Matik
Acknowledge your feeling of jealousy rather than trying to stifle or deny them.
Consider this an opportunity to understand yourself better. Harsh (self-)criticisms or blame will not help to address discomfort or upset.
Try opening up to a...
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A Sad Child, by Margaret Atwood
You’re sad because you’re sad. It’s psychic. It’s the age. It’s chemical. Go see a shrink or take a pill, or hug your sadness like an eyeless doll you need to sleep. Well, all children are sad but some get over it. Count your blessings. Better than that, buy a hat. Buy a coat or pet. Take up dancing to forget. Forget what? Your sadness, your shadow, whatever it was...
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Smash the White Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchy:... →
readnfight:
applecoresandpeachpits:
Based on Redefining our Relationships: Guidelines for Responsible Open Relationships by Wedny-O-Matik
Acknowledge your feeling of jealousy rather than trying to stifle or deny them.
Consider this an opportunity to understand yourself better….
Equally important for friends/family relationships as relationships with lovers, I’d wager.
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“Because there’s no real affirming alternative, and turning poison into cure is...”
– Re-watching movies at Questioning Transphobia
a good critique of priscilla, queen of the desert applies to almost all trans-ish movies out there
(via transartorialism)
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bell hooks week @ MS. Magazine →
This is from september, but bh herself just posted the link on her twitter feed, so I figure now is an okay time for a revisit. It’s filled with wonderful hooks-related things.
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“we all need to rid ourselves of misguided notions about self-love. We need to...”
– bell hooks, all about love. (via tenderheart)
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When it hurts too much to take deep, long breaths
xicanagrrrl:
it’s as valid to take little shallow ones, to gasp and cough until breath comes again
survival is survival
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the blow - parentheses
If something in the deli...
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doesyourmamaknow:
“‘Young folk, don’t ever become well-adjusted to injustice,’ he said. ‘I don’t care about how much knowledge you have in your head. Become maladjusted to injustice. Don’t become well-adapted to indifference. Become maladapted to indifference. Care about people. Be sensitive.’”
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Cornel West says poor are ignored (via caraobrien)
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TRIGGER WARNING - We're Telling: Anonymous →
TRIGGER WARNING: We’re telling is a tumblr where survivors discuss their experiences of sexual assault and rape. It has been an important and helpful resource for me, but I know it will not be for everyone. The post below is about the impulse to minimize and/or compare your own experiences with those of others.
weretelling:
Hi, I really appreciate this project, but I just wanted to point...
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“There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle, because we do not live...”
– Audre Lorde (via xthread)
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glitterpolitic:
“I am so sick and effing tired of people telling fat girls that our “confidence” is sexy. You wanna know what’s fucking sexy? MY ASS! Wanna know what else is sexy? MY THIGHS! How about this, MY FUCKING BELLY! It’s sexy that I can take your fist in 30 seconds. It’s sexy that you can hold handfuls of me at a time. It’s sexy that my skin raises up in welts that suit my roundness when...
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harm reduction principles in survivor advocacy
avry:
Harm Reduction Principles in Survivor Advocacy
by Emi Koyama
Accepts, for better and for worse, that survivors learn to cope in whatever ways that reduce their pain and increase their sense of control, including those traditionally viewed as “unhealthy” (e.g. staying or maintaining contacts with the abuser, alcohol and drug use, wrist cutting and other self-harm, survival sex...
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“The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.”
– Audre Lorde (via dressupbox)
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“I sometimes do before and after pages [in my journal] about things I am...”
– a friend’s suggestion for treating anxiety
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Smash the White Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchy:... →
xicanagrrrl:
Because people I follow aren’t afraid to call bullshit when they see it.
It’s important that we know what’s going on in the world…
just make sure that as much as you analyze hatred… study love.
Ever notice how to news tells you what goes on, but doesn’t tell you how to get…
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“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be...”
– bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions (via outsidewarmafghans)
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“That’s what you do with Depression, you mask the symptoms. The symptoms of...”
– Craig Ferguson on Tom Cruise attacking Brooke Shields for using anti-depressants to fight Post-Partum Depression. (via themarriageofadeadblogsing)
I really like the crutch analogy.
(via kiriamaya)
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FREEDOM IS NOT IMMEDIATE GRATIFICATION.
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IT IS A CONTRIBUTION TO AN ETERNAL MARCH.
- Kwame Toure
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letter to myself from five years ago
iris, the best places to be are the ones where you can be yourself. where one can be oneself. there are no places where “we” can be anything. you need to stop being yourself so resolutely so that other people can be themselves, that’s how you start to learn things. it’s okay to be the background sometimes. it’s okay to be somewhere around the horizon....
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A Writer’s Ruminations: Virginia Woolf’s New... →
elyseexplodes:
A Writer’s Ruminations: Virginia Woolf’s New Year’s Resolutions
awritersruminations:
January 2, 1931: Here are my resolutions for the next 3 months; the next lap of the year. To have none. Not to be tied. To be free & kindly with myself, not goading it to…
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“I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of...”
– Anaïs Nin (via twice1day)
Trufax.
(via therotund)