Solitude is Bliss.

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"“As soon as teenage girls start to profess love for something, everyone else becomes totally..."

Wed, 15 May 2013 21:22:30 -0400

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“As soon as teenage girls start to profess love for something, everyone else becomes totally dismissive of it. Teenage girls are open season for the cruelest bullying that our society can dream up. Everyone’s vicious to them. They’re vicious to each other. Hell, they’re even vicious to themselves. It’s terrible.

“So if teenage girls have something that they love, isn’t that a good thing? Isn’t it better for them to find some words they believe in, words like the ‘fire-proof and fearless’ lyrics that Jacqui wrote? Isn’t it better for them to put those words on their arm in a tattoo than for them to cut gashes in that same skin? Shouldn’t we be grateful when teenage girls love our work? Shouldn’t that be a fucking honor?

“It’s used as the cheapest, easiest test of crap, isn’t it? If teenage girls love a movie, a book, a band, then it’s immediately classified as mediocre shit. Well, I’m not going to stand for that. Someone needs to treat them like they’re precious, and if nobody else is ready to step up, I guess it’s up to us to put them on the path to recognizing that about themselves.”

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- a character from The Devil’s Mixtape. (via valjeans)

Every now and then, something comes along on your dash that opens your eyes and makes you question assumptions you didn’t even realize you were making.

This former teenage girl fell in love with Rush, RPGs, Russian literature, ancient history, sci fi flicks, and Led Zeppelin. I’d say she had pretty good taste. So why have I always defaulted to marginalizing or dismissing the tastes of other teenage girls? Why have I always counted the large teenage female presence in fandom as a black mark against it, or at least something that needs to be explained or surmounted for older fans to participate or engage? Why have I assumed that teenage girls as a whole are incapable of critical analysis or meaningful engagement with the same media that I enjoy, when it was the critical analysis and meaningful engagement of a teenage girl that got me into much of the same media I enjoy now?

Wow. Talk about not even recognizing the patriarchy at work.

(via sabrea)

seriously, this just made me feel like a fucking asshole, which is always a sign that i’ve learned something important.

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I think I like the commentary above more than even the quote itself. It’s cool when just a quote can make people really rethink their positions.

(via feministdisney)

this is why stanning for Taylor Swift is important revolutionary praxis

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chubbyfashion: rosalarian: Angelina Jolie had a double...

Wed, 15 May 2013 19:31:24 -0400

chubbyfashion:

rosalarian:

Angelina Jolie had a double mastectomy, in case you hadn’t heard. How dare she remove those ticking time bombs from her chest, amiright? Like, hasn’t she learned by now that her body is public domain and we all get to vote on what she does with it? Sheesh, how selfish can ya get.

grodus: i like this one

Tue, 14 May 2013 21:57:04 -0400

grodus:

i like this one

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Tue, 14 May 2013 21:56:09 -0400

A card from me to all of us.

Sun, 12 May 2013 15:15:21 -0400

pleasedontsqueezetheshaman:

Love to all of you who tried, who are trying, who are waiting for the right person to try with or who never ever want to try and will never hear the end of it. Love to all of you who had to make the difficult or not so difficult decision to end a pregnancy. Love to all of you who have lost children or your relationships with them. Love to all of you who had a mom and miss her or had a mom and wish you could forget. May we all find small ways to care for ourselves and mother each other.

unollodevidro: Violeta Parra - Gracias a la vida

Sat, 11 May 2013 12:22:36 -0400

unollodevidro:

Violeta Parra - Gracias a la vida

holysoul: propers to theswinginsixties: Otis Redding...

Fri, 10 May 2013 19:33:45 -0400

holysoul:

propers to theswinginsixties:

Otis Redding performing at the Atlanta Braves Stadium, 1966.

“I think at this point in our world, we’ve got a really...

Fri, 10 May 2013 19:24:55 -0400

“I think at this point in our world, we’ve got a really confused idea of the way gender and sexuality works. I think we’ve created this really superfluous sort of like binary in the way we think about gender. And I guess I identify as queer because I don’t identify with that. I think that makes us less whole as people. I don’t need to be assigned to what it is I can do or who I can love. And it seems like we keep drawing these battle lines which are completely unnecessary. So that’s what I basically mean. When I say I’m queer, I’m saying that I think human beings are amazing. And love is an honor and an opportunity. And a fragile thing. A fragile process in which there’s no room for doubt, or shame, or hatred.” — Ezra Miller

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You Learn After a while you learn the subtle difference between holding a hand and chaining a...

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You Learn

After a while you learn the subtle difference
between holding a hand and chaining a soul,

and you learn that love doesn’t mean leaning
and company doesn’t mean security.

And you begin to learn that kisses aren’t contracts
and presents aren’t promises,

and you begin to accept your defeats
with your head up and your eyes open
with the grace of a woman, not the grief of a child,

and you learn to build all your roads on today
because tomorrow’s ground is too uncertain for plans

and futures have a way of falling down in mid-flight.

After a while you learn
that even sunshine burns if you get too much.

So you plant your garden and decorate your own soul,
instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

And you learn that you really can endure.

That you really are strong.

And you really do have worth.

And you learn. And learn.

With every good-bye you learn.

Jorge Luis Borges

“This is about the self-mutilating circus we have painted...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 18:50:11 -0400

“This is about the self-mutilating circus we have painted ourselves clowns in. About women who will prowl 30 stores in 6 malls to find the right cocktail dress, but haven’t a clue where to find fulfillment or how wear joy, wandering through life shackled to a shopping bag, beneath those 2 pretty syllables.

About men wallowing on bar stools, drearily practicing attraction and everyone who will drift home tonight, crest-fallen because not enough strangers found you suitably fuckable.”

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coketalk: It’s the Chemicals - Inspired Flight Here’s a nice...

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 18:18:48 -0400

coketalk:

It’s the Chemicals - Inspired Flight

Here’s a nice little dose of musical Xanax to wind down an intense Friday.

humansofnewyork: “You don’t need to go to India to escape...

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 23:37:04 -0400

humansofnewyork:

“You don’t need to go to India to escape materialism. If you want to escape materialism, quit being materialistic.”

"Your skin must be sensitive enough for the lightest kiss and thick enough to ward off the sneers. If..."

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 23:06:23 -0400

“Your skin must be sensitive enough for the lightest kiss and thick enough to ward off the sneers. If you are going to spit in the eye of the world, make sure your back is to the wind.”

- Gloria Anzaldúa, “Speaking In Tongues: A Letter to 3rd World Women Writers” in This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color

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