February 2012
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The Spirit Was...: STAR PEOPLE ARE BEAUTIFUL... →
thespiritwas:
This is the beginning of a 3 part post on STAR’s history. The text from this post comes from Martin Duberman’s STONEWALL:
Sylvia strongly identified with those righteous revolutionaries of the Third World, the Black Panthers and…the Young Lords. She marched occassionally with both groups,…
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For the lesbian of color, the ultimate rebellion she can make against her native...
– Gloria Anzaldua, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, 3rd Edition, p. 41 (via agradschoolbreakup)
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This tribe called “Women of Color” is not an ethnicity. It is one of the...
– - Aurora Levins Morales, My Name is This Story from Telling to Live Latina Feminist Testimonios.
(via mujerinterrumpida)
*click + save* this quote is now in my thesis.
(via agradschoolbreakup)
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derica:
And when we speak we are afraid / our words will not be heard / nor welcomed / but when we are silent / we are still afraid / so it is better to speak / remembering / we were never meant to survive.
from A Litany for Survival, by Audre Lorde [1978]
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[having care, having access to needs like...
—-said today.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s...
– Erica Jong (via deviantfemme)
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Radical self love is not just about ourselves & our own interests, passions...
– Gala Darling (find her website here)
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I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s...
– bell hooks (via socialistscum)
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[an online collection of queer love poems just... →
yes, to poetry chosen family…. and love, i suppose.
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[“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it?...
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones.
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Love has a right to be spoken. And you have a right to know that somebody loves...
– Ursula K. Le Guin
(via internal-acceptance-movement)
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