March 2012
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[dear friends/ comrades/ loves/ peers/ chosen...
as many of you know, i have been distant, far, processing. i am finding accountability for my actions, am in grave reflection and also, seeking healing. if you have a question, an inquiry, are curious about my integrity and my choices, please approach me. i encourage you to have a conversation about me with me. other people can tell their truths and i have my own as well. i have been supportive,...
February 2012
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Cross-racial struggle made clear the work that white women needed to do in order...
– Becky Thompson, “Multiracial Feminism: Recasting the Chronology of Second Wave Feminism,” in Nancy Hewitt, ed., No Permanent Waves: Recasting Histories of U.S. Feminisms (via ohgeeznora)
Peeta: a little bit of bread in my life.
Peeta: a little bit of bagels by my side.
Peeta: a little bit of crackers is all I need.
Peeta: a little bit of pretzels is all I see.
Peeta: a little bit of cheese buns in the sun.
Peeta: a little bit of baguette all night long.
Peeta: a little bit of bread crumbs here I am.
Peeta: a little bit of bread makes me your man.
Peeta: Breadmambo Number 5
I am enough. What I do is enough. What I have is enough. Who I am and what I do...
– THE BEST OF: Sacral chakra affirmations (via serpentpriest)
To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others....
– Thich Nhat Hanh, The Art of Power (via soul-surfer)
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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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