June 2013
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May 2013
1 post
April 2013
17 posts
“I love you also means I love you more than anyone loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that no one loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that I love no one else, and never have loved anyone else, and never will love anyone else.”
—Jonathan Safran Foer (via fakeville)
“Patricia Hill Collins (1990) locates four major themes in the construction of Black feminist thought, all of which are generated from a Black woman’s “standpoint.” First, Black women empower themselves by creating self-definitions and self-valuations that enable them to establish positive, multiple images and to repel negative, controlling representations of Black womanhood. Second, Black women confront and dismantle the “overarching” and “interlocking” structure of domination in terms of race, class, and gender oppression. Third, Black women intertwine intellectual thought and political activism. Finally, Black women recognize a distinct cultural heritage that gives them the energy and skills to resist and transform daily discrimination. Collins sums these four themes up by saying that Black feminism is “a process of self-conscious struggle that empowers women and men to actualize a humanist vision of community.”
—Ula Taylor in “The Historical Evolution of Black Feminist Theory and Praxis” (via daniellemertina)
Why I almost defriended everyone who had an HRC logo as their profile photo this week
It’s becoming increasingly clear to me that, though I didn’t think about this at the time, I probably started a blog because I need somewhere to vent my boundless rage that is not random people’s Facebook walls. I mean, one thing among the many thousands of things that are guaranteed to raise my blood pressure is when folks get all “the internet isn’t real, and it’s not a viable platform for communication,” but also like, Facebook fights are dumb, I’m supposed to be an adult now.
So here’s the thing that got me all het up this week: gay marriage.
Specifically, these goddamn things:
The Definition.: i get low key annoyed when people are so surprised that afro textured... →
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i get low key annoyed when people are so surprised that afro textured hair is actually really soft and pleasant to the touch. our hair feels like soft, springy cotton. idk why people think it feels like tiny slivers of sandpaper liable to cut you the minute you stroke your hand against it. that…
I just had to educate a teenager & her mother today and the beauty supply store. I think the mom was more grateful that the daughter who’s still got a lot of kinks in her MIND
