June 2012
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Many people need desperately to receive this message: ‘I feel and think much as...
– Kurt Vonnegut (via troubled)
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May 2012
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Those who subvert social norms are, ostensibly, people who have forgotten that...
– So Michel Foucault and Jeremy Bentham walk into an elementary school cafeteria* via the Two Whole Cakes blog by Lesley Kinzel (via transformfeminism)
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The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that...
– Albert Camus (via crankyskirt)
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Anonymous asked: hahaha. i'm anonymous because i don't think you'll like me
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Anonymous asked: your style is absolutely amazing. your one of the most original and inspiring people i have ever met.
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The history of the world is not written, the history of Europe is
– Ivan Van Sertimam, Associate Professor, Rutgers University Author of They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Early America (via chainlynx)
Why is it that we learned nothing about Africa and nothing about Asia (beyond two wars in which the US was involved) and nothing about South America...
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Another Transgender Murder: Is Anyone Paying... →
A 37-year-old transgender woman was shot to death in downtown Oakland last weekend, just a block from Frank Ogawa Plaza/Oscar Grant Park, the former site of Occupy Oakland.
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Transgender People Murdered On Average More Than One Person Per Month
Transgender people face well-documented and unconscionable levels of bias-motivated violence. This is especially true of young, low-income transgender...
Anonymous asked: Do you have any pets?
Anonymous asked: Did you ever think as a kid that you'd look as dashingly attractive as you do now?
Anonymous asked: i enjoy your blog immensely. can you tell me a bit about yourself?
April 2012
45 posts
Look how your children grow up. Taught from their earliest infancy to curb their...
– Voltairine de Cleyre (via petitefeministe)
The best part of this essay is when she advocates for children to be brought up with no gender-role stereotyping, and gets in some not-so-subtle digs at heterocentricism and heterosexism in the process.
Did I mention this was written over a hundred years...