February 2012
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May 19, 2011 →
Anonymous asked: If you had a daughter and she was going to go out to a party with guys drinking would you let her go out looking like a slut?
If the next generation has sons that are as repulsed by rape as they should be then we won’t need to worry about our daughter’s clothing. Hell, if we just make our generation shift the blame from the victim to the perpetrator and recognize rape as an act...
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“I think I’ve all but given up on trying to organize around something so annoying...”
– CALLOUTQUEEN (via mmmajestic)
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“JERICHO BROWN
Now, I have a...”
– http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/article/243400
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“The best part of having a relationship is getting to call the person or lay down...”
– Tegan Quin (via make-belief)
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Uh oh.
You’re both invited to take my belly dancing class at conference in May/June, should the Femme Programming powers-that-be accept my workshop. Other than that, my best offer is a Fu Wah Market tofu hoagie at the tiny park at 46/Cedar & Baltimore Ave.
oxxenfree:
“Can I predict that whatever lovers you take while we’re open will be people who worship you on Twitter?”
—my partner, who...
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Your boundaries are beautiful.
oxxenfree: your boundaries are beautiful.
me: thank you. so are yours. i was just thinking so moments ago.
oxxenfree: let's do a photography portraiture project of our boundaries.
oxxenfree: and how beautiful they are.
me: i think mine would be a photograph of a fall tree with all the leaves tied back on with string.
oxxenfree: i think mine would be an x-ray of a tiger that showed it had swallowed its own cage.
me: this is the most poet-to-poet conversation i've ever had.
oxxenfree: I KNOW.
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January 2012
45 posts
“[What is sex?]
It is awesome. It’s older and more powerful than we are....”
– Dan Savage
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rubyjoule:
I’m not naked, I’m completely covered in a pink spotlight!
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“Discipline is remembering what you want.”
– David Campbell, the founder of Saks Fifth Avenue (seen on a Portland, Oregon roadside motel sign, photographed by someone)
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“10 million people contacted Congress, Wales said. “That’s not an abuse of power,...”
– Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, responding to MPAA chairman Christopher Dodd’s claim that SOPA blackout was “an abuse of power.” (via wilwheaton)
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Noted gender theorist Inigo Montoya →
Best argument to alter our parlance yet: invocation of Princess Bride quotes.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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“Realize that anyone who tries to put you down about your appearance is assuming...”
– Skeptifem (in this interview: link )
“Not only isn’t gender an either/or, it’s not even on a spectrum. The spectrum...”
– Fag Bashing & Slut Shaming: It’s About Policing Gender Roles | Charlie Glickman
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Girly bits
Slate’s article on (dun Dun DUN) the truth about epidurals (not linked) jogged some vein of rantiness within me. And talk about XX innards, mamahood, estrogen/progestin/oxytocin etc is femme, right? Anyway.
I tuned out of this article as soon as they stressed the “gosh pushing and crowning hurts a lot” aspect of childbirth pain, when it’s earlier transitional contractions...
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Marilyn was tiny AND curvy →
Fatphobia warning.
“Elegance is [also] a form of control.”
– The original mother monster, annoyingly insightful Anne Rice (Exit to Eden, 240)
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Pump up the volume
tangledupinlace:
two fat people just tried to take a bath together. man an inch of water sure will go a long way if you don’t give it a lot of spaaace
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