colours like goddesses

karldavies: Silhouette & Photogram

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:36:31 -0700

Silhouette & Photogram

Anything Could Happen - Ellie Goulding That was the yearI knew...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:54:40 -0700

Anything Could Happen - Ellie Goulding

That was the year
I knew the panic was over

Yet since we found out
that anything could happen

I know it’s gonna be/ I know it’s gonna be

But I don’t think I need you.

"if the ocean can calm itself, so can you. we are both salt water mixed with air."

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:13:17 -0700

“if
the ocean
can calm itself,
so can you.
we
are both
salt water
mixed
with
air.”

- meditation, nayyirah waheed (via skeletongarden)

"Light is more important than the lantern, The poem more important than the notebook, And the kiss..."

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 11:06:00 -0700

“Light is more important than the lantern,
The poem more important than the notebook,
And the kiss more important than the lips.
My letters to you
Are greater and more important than both of us.
They are the only documents
Where people will discover
Your beauty
And my madness.”

- Nizar Qabbani

Photos, Illustrations By Federico Bebber

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 13:40:56 -0700

Photos, Illustrations By Federico Bebber

crown-and-glory: myth - muriel rukeyser

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 22:30:21 -0700

crown-and-glory:

myth - muriel rukeyser

Photo

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:01:09 -0700

You need her, as she needs you.

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 16:17:10 -0700

You need her, as she needs you.

"We are the generation of nostalgia. We grew up in the age of transition. From hand-written letters..."

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 13:53:19 -0700

“We are the generation of nostalgia. We grew up in the age of transition. From hand-written letters to electronic mails. From film to digital. We were fascinated by new things, neglecting the way we spend our afternoons. Cupcakes and tea. Play-Doh and Polly Pockets. Young and naive. Technology completely changed the way we waited and we grew up too fast. The simple things in life seems more meaningful now. We grew up in the age of transition and have become the generation of nostalgia.”

- This is the best/truest thing I’ve read in so long (via thesleepingfawn)

But this explains the 90s kids

(via thebbcisslowlykillingme)

But it also explains the late 80’s kids…

(via sunriserooftops)

You seek that which will bestow upon you the right to rule. The...

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 13:50:49 -0700

_{You seek that which will bestow upon you the right to rule. The quest to reclaim a homeland and slay a dragon.}

Thuli Zuma, 90trillion You are miracle. a quilt of...

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 01:36:00 -0700

Thuli Zuma, 90trillion

You are miracle.

a quilt of dreams stitched together with blood, bone and limb
and even on those dark days,
though the voices in your head will not agree;
you are not defect
you are not damaged
you are not default
you are not sorry
and you should not be.

you are miracle,
you are harmony
you are ninety-trillion cells weaving new tapestry,
each one testifies to the mystery

that even on the worst day,
even at your worst
you are still your best
you are miracle

you are miracle

Why is it you insist on walking through this life
as though you are any less?

hiddlestondowney: JOSS WHEDON WROTE TOY STORY

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 01:18:26 -0700

hiddlestondowney:

JOSS WHEDON WROTE TOY STORY

We are not southerners.

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 16:04:27 -0700

We are not southerners.

thymoss: syriaslyradical: Lets keep in mind criticisms of feminism have long been theorized by WOC...

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 22:53:11 -0700

thymoss:

syriaslyradical:

Lets keep in mind criticisms of feminism have long been theorized by WOC since the 18th century with little regard from mainstream feminists …… that there are COUNTLESS woc who have devoted their lives to making feminism a more inclusive space. In fact, here’s a crash course explaining how feminist theory in the past has dealt with these issues:

—-FEMINIST THEORY CRASH COURSE—-

Feminism moves in between these branches (not a mutually exclusive list, just listed most prominently recognized theorists by each)in order to directly oppose mainstream feminist discourses loaded with eurocentrism, phallocentrism, orientalism, imperialism, racialized colonialism, capitalism (which goes hand in hand with feminist movements as commodification of a so called revolutionary struggle!), white supremacy, ethocentrism, transphobia, ableism and much much more:

post colonial theory - undoes the victimization discourse of western feminists/their metonymic blurring of different forms of oppression through an essentialist explanation
indigenous feminism - Andrea Smith
transnational feminism - Chandra Mohanty

global feminism/”third world feminism”- disrupts idea that feminism is an inherently “western” ideology
African feminism - Ama Ata Aidoo
Islamic feminism - Huda Shaarawi

Women of color feminism - emerged to counter cultural hegemony of white western feminism
black feminism - Audre Lorde, Combahee River Collective
Afrocentric feminism - Patricia McFadden
Chicana feminism - Anzuldua
womanism (check out Alice Walker and Layli Phillips to find out more why this isn’t a subcolumn or branch of feminism completely)

critical race theory - comes from radical POC law professors who acknowledge feminism’s lack of tools in making visible the ways racial supremacy is embedded in the law system. Check Kimberle Crenshaw, Barbara Smith, Patricia Hill Collins, Susan Schechter

Black nationalist feminism - opposes anti-blackness in feminist movements
Africana womanism (different from African feminism and womanism)

Feminist hermeneutics - analyzes religious studies as a source of feminist theory

Feminist Science studies - disrupts biological determinism. Check out Ruth Hubbard’s “Fact Making and Feminism” as an intro to why science needs to be included in discussions of feminist discipline

Queer theory-holy shit i can’t even start on the ways its disrupted mainstream feminism but HEY:
Flower crown feminism is in no way a reflection of the deeply rooted radical work Women of color, transnational, zapatista, chicana, african-american, “third world” (global south), indigenous and native, queer, dis*abled and post-colonial feminisms have carved out.

When Ida B. Wells called out the racism of progressive feminist leaders in 1894 IE suffragist Frances Williard of Christian temperance union who publically represented black women voters as a threat to modern society, Wells was not about that “abandoning feminism” life

When Paula Gunn Allen pointed out that white American feminism ripped off gynocentric Iroquois nations, who held their own feminist rebellions as early and before the 1600’s, she wasn’t about that “abandoning feminism” life

When Linda La Rue, the Combahee River Collective, Barbara Smith Claudia Jones, Audre Lorde and counless others called out the heterosexist, classist racist shitfield that was the women’s liberation movement, they weren’t abt that “abandoning feminism” life

When Beverly Guy Sheftall, Rudolph Byrd, and Johnetta B. Cole anthologize unpublished works of queer poc thinkers in I Am Your Sister, Still Brave, Traps,and Gender Talk, they aren’t about accepting white feminism as the dead-end truth.

WE CAN’T DISREGARD THESE CENTURIES OF WORK SUBVERTING DOMINANT PARADIGMS AND CREATING SPACES FOR CHANGE BECAUSE A WAVE OF PASTEL COLORED “GRRRLS” REEMERGE AS THE PRIVILEGED SUBURBAN GRANDDAUGHTERS OF THE SAME RACIST FEMINIST WHO STORMED THE POLITICAL SCENE LOUDER AND WHITER THAN ALL THE REST, FIRST IN THE 1870’s, 1920’s, 1970’s, AND THEN 1990’s

Instead let’s make this a fight to continue the legacy of these radical visionaries

in reclaiming our spaces,

reaffirming our rights to tell our own stories freely, to live in the security of our own bodies, and to rewrite histories of social movements that replicate hierarchy within.

Shamelessly adding a link to some Islamic feminism resources to this post.

heatherbat: stunningpicture: ‘Cause people seem to only post...

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 12:37:10 -0700

heatherbat:

stunningpicture:

‘Cause people seem to only post the 20-something Audrey Hepburn.

Audrey Hepburn was the granddaughter of a baron, the daughter of a nazi sympathizer, spent her teens doing ballet to secretly raise money for the dutch resistance against the nazis, and spent her post-film career as a goodwill ambassador of UNICEF, winning the presidential medal of freedom for her efforts.

…and history remembers her as pretty.

fariedesign: “Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere...

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 23:12:34 -0700

fariedesign:

“Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.” - George Orwell.

fairytalemood: “Steampunk: Beauty and the Beast” by fishcapades

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 21:24:04 -0700

fairytalemood:

“Steampunk: Beauty and the Beast” by fishcapades

the-writers-ramblings: THE HUMANS ARE DEAD | » a playlist...

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 21:21:33 -0700

the-writers-ramblings:

THE HUMANS ARE DEAD | » a playlist for the superior beings comprised of circuits, wires, and metal. [ listen ]

1. human - the killers / 2. i am not a robot - marina & the diamonds / 3. robots - flight of the conchords / 4. machine - the used / 5. machine - regina spektor / 6. star scat - caravan palace / 7. i am a machine - meat puppets / 8. circuits and wires - motion city soundtrack / 9. titanium (stereotronique remix) - david guetta ft. sia / 10. radioactive - imagine dragons /

giveaway winners: for cruelmagic

"The millennials are the people who’ve inherited the hangover from the baby boomers’ party: a warming..."

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 16:53:54 -0700

“The millennials are the people who’ve inherited the hangover from the baby boomers’ party: a warming planet, a dysfunctional global financial system that rewards the rich and screws the poor, a polarized political class that’s moved so far to the right that a centrist like Barack Obama can be described with a straight face as “a socialist.” Millennials may be “narcissistic, materialistic and addicted to technology,” as Stein alleges early in his article; they’re also drowning in college debt, slaves to an internship “system” that demands ever-increasing work for no pay, and entrants into a job market that’s replaced employment rights with the “flexibility” of never being able to afford health insurance.”

- Why Time’s Millennials Cover Story Says More About Joel Stein Than It Does About Millennials (via babecrew)

"Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly..."

Thu, 30 May 2013 00:27:52 -0700

“Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”

- The Old Astronomer - Sarah Williams