June 2013
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Somehow, my back hurts more when I swallow.
HOW EVEN IS THAT?!
Heating pads and Aleve are the absolute best.
So. Ummm. I yoga’d last night. And now my back is spasming. And it’s painful and scary to move.
“If sexism is a gun, men hold it. And sometimes it recoils and hits them and that HURTS…but not as much as getting hit with the bullet.”
—Laura, my perfect goddess friend (via eyesslightlyopened)
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Critical Thinking as Transformation
Diasporic Culture
Transgression
Otherness
Difference
Also. Those poor dogs are probably going to be impounded or worse now.
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Just spotted some basic bitch in a Smart Car zooming down a (protected!) bike lane on 1st Avenue. Not sure whether I’m outraged by her blatant recklessness or in awe of her unconventional methods.
MEETING MY NEW SUMMER STUDENT
credit: shitvivisays
Basically. This will be me later this month.
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“The sexualization of women is only appealing if it’s nonconsensual. Otherwise it’s “sluttiness,”….”
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Lindy West, “Female ‘Purity’ Is Bullshit” (via goldenphoenixgirl)
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May 2013
“I suspect it’s difficult for men to imagine a world in which their bodies have long been inextricably linked to their value as an individual, and that no matter how encouraging your parents were or how many positive female role models you had or how self-confident you feel, there is an ever-present pressure that creeps in from all sides, whispering in your ear that you are your body and your body defines you. A world where, from the time of pubescence on, you can feel the constant and palpable weight of the male gaze, and not just from your male peers but from teachers and sports coaches and the fathers of the children you baby-sit, people you’re supposed to respect and trust and look up to, and that first realization that you are being looked at in that way is the beginning of a self-consciousness that you will be unable to shake for the rest of your life. Even if they are never verbalized, the rules of bodily conduct for females become clear early on: when school administrators reprimand you for the inch of midriff that shows when you lift your hands straight in the air or youth group leaders tell you that the sight of your unintentional cleavage is what causes godly young men to fall, you learn that your body is dangerous and shameful and that it’s your responsibility to cloister it in a way that is acceptable to everyone else. You learn that your body is a topic of public debate that everyone is entitled to weigh in on, from a male classmate telling you that those jeans make your ass look huge to the male-dominated United States Congress dictating the parameters that rape must fall within to be considered legitimate. To be a woman, and to live life in a woman’s body, is to be held to a set of comically paradoxical standards that make you constantly second-guess yourself and jump through a million hoops in pursuit of an impossible perfection.”
—Unknown (via nationway)
