February 2012
67 posts
“Right now, 88% of women in India resort to using dirty rags, newspapers, dried...”
– An Indian Inventor Disrupts The Period Industry | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation (via clitorisesandsnorlaxes)
I can’t stop eating. Or falling asleep on my homework.
“Socializing is as exhausting as giving blood. People assume we loners are...”
– Anneli Rufus (via ohbabyitsnatalie)
“True gender equality is actually perceived as inequality. A group that is made...”
– - Lucy, When Worlds Collide: Fandom and Male Privilege. (via seaofbadstories)
I might have reblogged this already but it’s so good I don’t care.
(via stfufauxminists)
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“Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to...”
– Lemony Snicket (via blua)
“I think some part of being human is to seek other levels of consciousness. It’s...”
– Jerry Garcia, 1989.
This is important.
(via fuckyesgratefuldead)
w4ts0n:
when people say “this doesnt fit on my blog but im reblogging it anyway because i have a heart”
you saint
thank you so much for coming down from your heavenly throne and walking amongst us commoners
“I have lost more money to creative accounting, and American workers have lost...”
– Wil Wheaton, quoted by Parker Higgins in Dear Hollywood: An Open Letter to the Hardworking Men and Women in the Entertainment Industries | Electronic Frontier Foundation (via quotingthecrisis)
“Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness.”
– Allen Ginsberg (via ocelott)
#advice I should follow
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If I were famous, I would never let Terry...
Mitt Romney Profits Handsomely from Premarital... →
veggielezzyfemmie:
Mitt Romney’s unleashed some pretty tough anti-birth control talk this campaign season. He’s stated repeatedly that he believes that life begins at conception, and that the morning after pill is murder. Interestingly enough, Mitt Romney’s gigantic stock portfolio contains a fair amount of money actually invested in companies that manufacture birth control and the morning after...
On why it's okay to feel your feelings.
dearcoketalk:
Dear Coquette,
Whenever I work hard for something and succeed, I feel like I don’t deserve it. It took a lot of work to even accept that this reaction is irrational, but how do I let go of that feeling completely?
By all means, work hard and succeed. That’s great. Just don’t get caught up in whether you deserve success or not, because guess what? You don’t.
No one deserves...
“We all fear death and question our place in the universe. The artist’s job is...”
– Midnight in Paris (via cantgobacknow)
Passive Agression Toward the Self →
psychotherapy:
via Psychology Today:
Are you—unawares—a mental and emotional masochist?
In self-sabotage you “act out” internal conflicts by first moving toward a goal—then retreating from it. “I can do it” is offset by “I can’t do it.” “I want it” is overridden by “No, I don’t want it.” “I deserve it” countermanded by “I don’t deserve it.” The net result of such an ambivalent—or...
“The outrage is tiresome and deeply hypocritical, in all the tiresome ways you’ve...”
– Sasha Frere-Jones on MIA’s middle finger and everyone else’s panties being in a bunch over it. (via iwantnothingless)
So good.
(via zurik)
“So, when men do femininity they feel ridiculous and when women do masculinity...”
– Sexy Femininity and Gender Inequality » Sociological Images (via sociolab)
To be fair, when I’ve actually “done” masculinity… dressing up for Halloween, and when I dressed up as a “gangsta” male for some team thing for work - I’ve felt completely...