February 2012
9 posts
December 2011
2 posts
“Slut-bashing is a cheap and easy way to feel powerful. If you feel insecure or...”
– [Leora Tanenbaum (Harper Paperbacks, 2000.): Slut! Growing Up Female with a Bad Reputation, p. 238.] (via church-mouth
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November 2011
2 posts
“When you peel back the layers of the anti-choice motivation, it always comes...”
– GLORIA FELDT, attributed, Huffington Post (via klondikebar123)
i think i miss myself the most.
April 2011
14 posts
“Society has a problem with female nudity when it is not … ”—Badu pauses to get...”
– Erykah Badu: June/July Cover Story [Pg 1] | VIBE (via sexisbeautiful)
Yes, perfect.
(via alienshexv)
BADU!
(via newwavefeminism)
Cops Bust Homeless Woman for Sending Child to... →
lostgrrrls:
A homeless woman from Bridgeport has been arrested for enrolling her 6-year-old son at a Norwalk elementary school.
Tonya McDowell, 33, is accused of stealing $15,000 — the cost of her son’s public education — from the Norwalk School District, according to the Stamford Advocate. She was arrested Thursday.
McDowell, whose last known address was Priscilla Street in Bridgeport, is...
“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr. (via superfluidity)
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“When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind...”
– Abraham Joshua Heschel (via mohandasgandhi)
February 2011
48 posts
1 tag
rather die hard, than die hollow
Vatican confirms report of sexual abuse and rape... →
drinkthe-koolaid:
The Vatican reports cited countless cases of nuns forced to have sex with priests. Some were obliged to take the pill, others became pregnant and were encouraged to have abortions. In one case in which an African sister was forced to have an abortion, she died during the operation and her aggressor led the funeral mass.
Disgusting.
i’m going to throw up
“People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.”
– Bob Dylan (via pandacake)
“Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from conception to nine...”
– George Carlin (via chill-bro, dougstumblr) (via sustainable-sam)
“Rape isn’t a ‘natural hazard’ like a cliff edge that women must be careful to...”
– The Equality Illusion, Kat Banyard (via petitefeministe)
A THOUSAND TIMES THIS
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ALWAYS reblog.
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I need to keep this quote on me at all times
I used to be a pro-life Republican. →
reverend-green:
ephiesays:
I had a favorite line, in high school, when debating people on the subject of abortion. It was “Hey, that thing in your stomach’s not gonna come out a toaster, right? It’s a baby!”
Oh, I thought I was really, super clever with that one. Because I loved talking about the babies. I talked about the babies at the high school Young Republicans Club–not only was...
“Why not fuck up the government instead of fucking up your body?”
– Kathleen Hanna (via jettavegas)
“I know older men in comedy who can barely feed and clean themselves, and they...”
– that new Tina Fey article in the New Yorker which I obviously need to read IMMEDIATELY (via tersaudades)
“No way around it — female soldiers deal with issues men don’t even think about....”
– SERGEANT STEPHANIE JAMES
This is really, really a story worth reading. Please click on the link and read the full story:
I rarely hear the stories of female veterans (a very, very new phenomenon in our society), but “since 2002, 165,000 female U.S. soldiers have served in the Middle East.”
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