March 2012
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freibiergesicht:
13 Year Old Jada Williams Persecuted by the Rochester City School District Over her essay on Frederick Douglass.
d-ogs:
beautifulbrwn:
“On Saturday, February 18, 2012, the Frederick Douglass Foundation of New York presented the first Spirit of Freedom award to Jada Williams, a 13-year old city of Rochester student. Miss Williams wrote an essay on her impressions of...
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February 2012
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Public Library doesn't subscribe to the OED...
I have to resort to Merriam’s and I’m slightly upset.
The following day, I attended a workshop about preventing gender violence,...
– Why I Am A Male Feminist (via meggannn)
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burnme-moriarty replied to your photo: STEPHANIE LOOK WHAT ARRIVED TODAY!!!!
Holy wow! I mailed those yesterday!
Wow indeed. Nice job USPS. lol
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In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will...
– T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (via acityofsleepwalkers)
I'm extremely good at two things:
analyzing texts using feminist theory, and playing the Sims 3.
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seabitch:
All the feminism on the internet spoils me because as soon as i go outside i have to be around people who find kitchen jokes funny.
jpegartifacts:
I wish I had as much political power as a fetus.
Where's Finnick? Odair he is.
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The world is full of women
who’d tell me I should be ashamed of myself
if they...
– Margaret Atwood, Helen of Troy Does Countertop Dancing (via grammatolatry)
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Ginsberg
eating-poetry:
No blame. Anyone who wrote Howl and Kaddish earned the right to make any possible mistake for the rest of his life. I just wish I hadn’t made this mistake with him. It was during the Vietnam war and he was giving a great protest reading in Washington Square Park and nobody wanted to leave. So Ginsberg got the idea, “I’m going to shout ‘the war is over’ as loud as I can,”...
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“I’ve given everyone I know/A good reason to go/But I came back with the belief/That everyone I love is gonna leave me.”
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I don’t want to see you end up that way
with your body being poured like...
– (via ahuntersheart)
Woman: Can I have birth control?
Government: No.
Woman: I got pregnant because I didn't have birth control and I don't want the fetus. Can I have an abortion?
Government: No.
Woman: I gave birth to my child but since I wasn't expecting it, I can't afford daycare. Can I have help paying for it?
Government: No.
Woman: My boyfriend isn't excited about sex anymore, because I lost my figure due to pregnancy. Will you pay for his erectile dysfunction pills?
Government: Yes.
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What Lot's Wife Would Have Said (If She Wasn't A...
eating-poetry:
Do you remember when we met in Gomorrah? When you were still beardless, and I would oil my hair in the lamp light before seeing you, when we were young, and blushed with youth like bruised fruit. Did we care then what our neighbors did in the dark?
When our first daughter was born on the River Jordan, when our second cracked her pink head from my body like a promise, did...
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