December 2011
54 posts
“Sometimes, loving your body is not an option. Sometimes, the best we can do is...”
– Lesley Kinzel (via twrg)
Holy shit.
My computer crashed while I was typing mid-sentence and I lost my senior thesis proposal. I’m supposed to bring a draft to my advisor at 10a.m.
Days and days of work just gone. I’ve seriously looked up everything I can think of to recover the file and have had no luck. Fuck fuck fuck fuck.
I fucking hate technology.
“The feeling I have reminds me of New Year’s Eve, when the countdown is coming...”
– Emily Giffin (via decemberwrists)
“In sum, Sociology majors do lots of things. In my experience as a Sociology...”
– Creative Sociology: To Parents of Sociology Majors (via sociolab)
“Sex-negative messages don’t keep people from having sex. They keep people from...”
– Sex-Negative Education and the Spectre of Rape « Sex Positive Activism (via anorable)
The Top 15 Companies That Make, Patent, And Serve...
glasscoffin:
Campbell Soup
Coca-Cola
Frito-Lay
General Mills
Heinz
Hershey’s
Kellogg’s
Kraft/Nabisco
McDonald’s
Nestlé
Procter & Gamble
Quaker Oats
Safeway
Shaw’s
Starbucks
“I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much...”
– Audre Lorde (via oppressmenot)
“I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone...”
– Oscar Wilde (via cultureofresistance)
“I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and...”
– Kahlil Gibran (via oppressmenot)
“Like being a woman, like being a racial, religious, tribal, or ethnic minority,...”
– Hillary Clinton, in an appearance at the United Nations yesterday, declared that it is a “violation of human rights” to commit violence or discrimination against people because of their sexual orientation. WATCH. (via theatlantic)
“I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.”
– Mary Wollstonecraft (via a-vindication)
“http://www.tumblr.com/reblog/13863240104/cO5foFKl?redirect_to=%2Fdashboard%2F8%2F...”
– Seven Types of Ambiguity by Elliot Perlman (via thechocolatebrigade)
“And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the...”
– John Steinbeck, from East of Eden (via revoltintheranks)
“The thing is, it’s patriarchy that says men are stupid and monolithic and...”
– (via zachw56)
WatchJust me and my friends. :)
The Purity Myth movie is here!
jessicavalenti:
Hey y’all - the Media Education Foundation just released the latest trailer for The Purity Myth movie, now available on DVD! Please tell your school or organization to pick up a copy…
The Purity Myth Trailer from Media Education Foundation on Vimeo.
PS. Be on the lookout for an announcement from me on upcoming screenings!
“If you are a woman, if you’re a person of colour, if you are gay, lesbian,...”
– Margaret Cho (via thechocolatebrigade)
I’ve read this a hundred times and reblogged it before, but who cares - let’s start today with this in mind.
(via kateordie)
“I am a feminist, and because I’m a feminist I critique every medium of media I...”
– Courtesy of fuckyeahsexeducation (via girl-farts)
“In China, the sexist term “leftover woman,” sheng nu, is widely used to describe...”
– China’s “Leftover” Women : Ms Magazine Blog (via npr)
“So, now I shall talk every night. To myself. To the moon… I talk to myself and...”
– Sylvia Plath (via audreylostinparis)
“Someone once told me “you don’t look like a feminist, you were heels and make...”
– Angelene Norman why I am a feminist and proud (via oppressmenot)
“Feminism is not simply a struggle to end male chauvinism or a movement to ensure...”
– bell hooks (via subconciousevolution)