January 2012
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rubyjoule: I’m not naked, I’m completely covered in a pink spotlight!
Jan 26th
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Jan 26th
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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)
Jan 26th
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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)
Jan 25th
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Jan 25th
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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.
Jan 23rd
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Jan 21st
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Jan 21st
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“Realize that anyone who tries to put you down about your appearance is assuming...”
– Skeptifem (in this interview: link )
Jan 20th
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Jan 19th
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“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
Jan 19th
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Jan 19th
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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...
Jan 18th
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Marilyn was tiny AND curvy →
Fatphobia warning.
Jan 17th
“Elegance is [also] a form of control.”
– The original mother monster, annoyingly insightful Anne Rice (Exit to Eden, 240)
Jan 17th
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Jan 17th
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Jan 14th
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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
Jan 13th
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Jan 13th
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Jan 13th
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Jan 12th
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Jan 10th
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Jan 10th
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Jan 10th
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Jan 9th
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“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anaïs Nin (via thatqueeryoungbuck)
Jan 8th
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Jan 8th
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Jan 7th
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Jan 5th
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“…This is Ohio. I mean, if you don’t have a brewski in your hand, you...”
– Heathers (1988) [IMDB]
Jan 5th
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Nurse Reveals Top 5 Regrets of the Dying →
kellyoxford: From Arise India Forum: “For many years I worked in palliative care. My patients were those who had gone home to die. Some incredibly special times were shared. I was with them for the last three to twelve weeks of their lives People grow a lot when they are faced with their own…
Jan 5th
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Jan 3rd
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“Power is being told you are not loved and not being destroyed by it.”
– -Madonna MINDTRAPPA
Jan 2nd
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Pregnant butch →
Jan 2nd
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Jan 1st
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Jan 1st
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“who says kids don’t know their sexual orientation as toddlers. i knew by the age...”
– www.ladykier.com (via notesladykier)
Jan 1st
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December 2011
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“Never had Madame Bovary been so beautiful as now. She had that indefinable...”
– Moustache. Quoted from Madame Bovary within a speech for the prosecution in Flaubert’s obscenity trial.
Dec 30th
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“If I could take all my parts with me when I go somewhere, and not have to say to...”
– Pat Parker, from “Movement in Black” via this amazing coming out story of Jean Melesaine (via queerfatfemme)
Dec 30th
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“The difference is privileging in literature a hero as opposed to a heroine. The...”
– If I may interject a text: Erica Jong’s subjectivity in Fear of Flying. And Alison Bechdel. Woolf. I bet there is a lot of scholarly work on what it means to fictionalize a personal/political reality and fashion “role models” for young (and not young) women. -beetnik Reblogging...
Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
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Dec 29th
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what happens if the only pronoun that makes sense...
Dec 29th
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Dec 28th
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