October 2010
“Tragically, we are witnessing a resurgence of harmful misogynist assumptions...”
– bell hooks, Feminism Is For Everybody (via lipsbetweenthehips)
“We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.”
– Angela Davis (via revolutionnow)
Profile: Renée →
genderfork:
You can call me… Renée.
I identify as… Recently as queer, before that as lesbian, and before I began grade school and had to give up superman boy’s briefs I was Ken, just one of the…
God damn. What a stone cold fox.
“The revolution and women’s liberation go together. We do not talk of women’s...”
– Thomas Sankara, often called the “Che Guevara of Africa.” Marxist revolutionary, Pan-Africanist, Guerilla and the first president of Burkina Faso. (via deafmuslimpunk)
“Let me put it to you this way. Rape culture is a culture in which people who...”
– —Shaker everstar, in comments, on troll-watch in the wee hours, hitting the nail on the head like whoa. (via sisterhoodispowerful)
For fucking real, though.
“The only rule that ever made sense to me I learned from a history, not an...”
– Max Brooks (via 500daysofkissingmypillow)
“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples...”
– Maya Angelou (via pascolito)
Julia Serano: Bisexuality does not reinforce the... →
chunkymilk:
genderqueer:
An extract:
“The reason why I identify as bisexual is two-fold.
First, on a physical level, the attraction that I feel toward male-bodied people feels very different to me on a visceral level than the attraction that I feel toward female-bodied people. And having sex with a female partner feels very different to me than having sex with a male partner.
Such...
“Before our white brothers arrived to make us civilized men, we didn’t have any...”
– John Lame Deer, Native American “holy man” (via fairuzaa) (via rangeenhaseena) (via cuntymint) (via hannabis) (via touchmybodayyy) (via theslowcollapseofsociety) (via therecipe) (via fuckyeahradicalquotes)
“I often wish I had the strength to commit suicide, but on the other hand, if I had, I probably wouldn’t feel the need…. If life were merely a habit, I should commit suicide; but even now, more or less desperate, I cannot but think, ‘Something wonderful may happen.’ It is not optimism, it is a rejection of self-pity (I hope) which leaves a loophole for life…. I merely choose to...
“You Don’t Have to Be Pretty. You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your...”
– Erin, “A Dress a Day” (via lollaloves)
