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6:15 pm - Sat, May 18, 2013: 46,978 notes

You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were five minutes ago.

My friend Kim, one of the wisest women I have ever known. (via ordinarywonder)

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africanfashion:

For those of you who criticize Janelle’s signature monochromatic look.From her speech on “Black Girls Rock”:“When I started my music career, I was a maid. I used to clean houses. My mother was a proud janitor. My stepfather, who raised me like his very own, worked at the post office and my father was a trashman. They all wore uniforms and that’s why I stand here today, in my black and white, and I wear my uniform to honor them.This is a reminder that I have work to do. I have people to uplift. I have people to inspire. And today, I wear my uniform proudly as a Cover Girl. I want to be clear, young girls, I didn’t have to change who I was to become a Cover Girl. I didn’t have to become perfect because I’ve learned throughout my journey that perfection is the enemy of greatness.Embrace what makes you unique, even if it makes others uncomfortable.” - Janelle Monáe

This woman
I’m so glad she is here I’m so glad she exists

africanfashion:

For those of you who criticize Janelle’s signature monochromatic look.

From her speech on “Black Girls Rock”:

“When I started my music career, I was a maid. I used to clean houses. My mother was a proud janitor. My stepfather, who raised me like his very own, worked at the post office and my father was a trashman. They all wore uniforms and that’s why I stand here today, in my black and white, and I wear my uniform to honor them.

This is a reminder that I have work to do. I have people to uplift. I have people to inspire. And today, I wear my uniform proudly as a Cover Girl. I want to be clear, young girls, I didn’t have to change who I was to become a Cover Girl. I didn’t have to become perfect because I’ve learned throughout my journey that perfection is the enemy of greatness.

Embrace what makes you unique, even if it makes others uncomfortable.” - Janelle Monáe

This woman

I’m so glad she is here
I’m so glad she exists

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A lot of these dudes, when you challenge them, will say that they don’t have any real feelings about this and that they’re just trolling for the fun of it. They don’t really hate women, they just think it’s funny to… treat women as if they hate them. And… well, first of all, you’re lying to yourself, there’s clearly more to it than that. And, second of all, that doesn’t make it any better! Only somebody who hates women and sees them as less than human would even think that’s a meaningful distinction!

Jay Smooth, Ill Doctrine (via nextyearsgirl)

I firmly believe a vast majority of men hate women. I was just thinking about this today. They won’t admit to it, like this quotation suggestions, but in their opinions and actions it becomes clear they truly hate women.

“No, I LOVE women!” they protest.

Yes, you love looking at women. You love fucking women. You love pushing their buttons and objectifying them and letting them do things for you. You love judging them and masturbating to them and having them on your arm on a night out.

But you do not actually have any respect for women. You view them as inferior, you don’t question this.

I explained this to someone I had dated and of course he wouldn’t hear a word of it.

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They like the idea of women, a false representative, an idealized image, the ceci n’est pas une femme painting. But a real, actual person? Nope.

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6:15 pm - Fri, May 17, 2013: 439 notes

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klaufir:

A speedpaint that is sort of intended to be a companion piece to this.

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takealookatyourlife:

★ Who is your favourite villain?

ILU, JOHN CHO!

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thestormypetrelofcrime:

A little something for all those Pepper haters out there.

I’m calling it: What Movie Were YOU Watching???

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6:15 pm - Thu, May 16, 2013: 89,260 notes

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foxylikeme:

Condom commercial written and directed by a woman. Condoms don’t need to be sexy, we just need to know that they’ll work! Fucking brilliant.

this is awesome

A++++

WAIT - A CONDOM COMMERCIAL THAT DOESN’T SEXUALIZE WOMEN

WHAAAAAAT?!

Actually the greatest

Best thing ive seen all day.

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A woman from the audience asks: ‘Why were there so few women among the Beat writers?’ and [Gregory] Corso, suddenly utterly serious, leans forward and says: “There were women, they were there, I knew them, their families put them in institutions, they were given electric shock. In the ’50s if you were male you could be a rebel, but if you were female your families had you locked up.

Stephen Scobie, on the Naropa Institute’s 1994 tribute to Allen Ginsberg (via thisisendless)

FUCK

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I’m just frozen. Absences of women in history don’t “just happen,” they are made.

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“Don’t you know that slavery was outlawed?”
“No,” the guard said, “you’re wrong. Slavery was outlawed with the exception of prisons. Slavery is legal in prisons.”
I looked it up and sure enough, she was right. The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution says:

“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”

Well, that explained a lot of things. That explained why jails and prisons all over the country are filled to the brim with Black and Third World people, why so many Black people can’t find a job on the streets and are forced to survive the best way they know how. Once you’re in prison, there are plenty of jobs, and, if you don’t want to work, they beat you up and throw you in a hole. If every state had to pay workers to do the jobs prisoners are forced to do, the salaries would amount to billions… Prisons are a profitable business. They are a way of legally perpetuating slavery. In every state more and more prisons are being built and even more are on the drawing board. Who are they for? They certainly aren’t planning to put white people in them. Prisons are part of this government’s genocidal war against Black and Third World people.

Assata (via michellehuxtable)

I tell my students this every single semester.

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6:15 pm - Wed, May 15, 2013: 18,828 notes

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