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goforthandagitate: amen sister

Tue, 14 May 2013 12:50:21 -0400

amen sister

"No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them."

Tue, 14 May 2013 10:45:34 -0400

“No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them.”

- Assata Shakur (via ethiopienne)

great quote.

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Our government considers this woman a terrorist.

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Wed, 08 May 2013 17:53:37 -0400

brooklynmutt: A Final Embrace: The Most Haunting Photograph...

Wed, 08 May 2013 17:00:50 -0400

brooklynmutt:

A Final Embrace: The Most Haunting Photograph from Bangladesh

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other-wordly: pronunciation | ‘hEr-rIth (HEER-eyeth, with a...

Tue, 07 May 2013 18:21:50 -0400

other-wordly:

pronunciation | ‘hEr-rIth (HEER-eyeth, with a fast heer and a soft th)
submitted by | harry d.
submit words | here

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Tue, 07 May 2013 18:16:29 -0400

she-works: PVM, Guthrie, OK We want to hear from women: What’s...

Tue, 07 May 2013 16:12:41 -0400

she-works:

PVM, Guthrie, OK

We want to hear from women: What’s your note to self – a piece of advice that’s helped you at work? Share your advice at http://she-works.tumblr.com

artkarmaandsex: fuckyeahethnicwomen: fantastic way to find out...

Thu, 02 May 2013 00:01:12 -0400

artkarmaandsex:

fuckyeahethnicwomen:

fantastic way to find out she has a new video & song<3

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In love with this movement anyone up for cross dressing in...

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 13:52:41 -0400

In love with this movement anyone up for cross dressing in #solidarity ??

A hand painted truck raises many questions

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 23:10:31 -0400

A hand painted truck raises many questions

gridchicago: A new city initiative is taking land that’s...

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:04:35 -0400

gridchicago:

A new city initiative is taking land that’s currently dead space, or used only for parking cars, and turning it into public space that could energize neighborhood business strips. On Friday the Chicago Department of Transportation (CDOT) officially launched its “Make Way for People” program to transform surplus asphalt into seating areas and lively plazas, unveiling a new parklet in the parking lane in front of Heritage Bicycles, 2959 N. Lincoln Avenue.

Parking space party: celebrating Chicago’s first permanent parklets

My heart is swelling, it’s a sign.

halftheskymovement: 74 schoolgirls in Afghanistan fell sick...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:26:17 -0400

halftheskymovement:

74 schoolgirls in Afghanistan fell sick after smelling gas and were being examined for possible poisoning, three days after a dozen students fell ill at another girls’ high school in the same city. No one has claimed responsibility for either incident, but mass poisonings are a periodic tactic used by those opposed to girls’ education.

Learn more via Reuters

fuckyeahsouthasia: dispatchesandthoughts: ‘Peace Rickshaws’...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 11:51:32 -0400

fuckyeahsouthasia:

dispatchesandthoughts:

‘Peace Rickshaws’ Promote Colorful Message of Tolerance in Pakistan.

Check out the full story here.

Yes.

designersof: 1 of 16 posters for my Movie Quote Type Poster...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 13:15:22 -0400

designersof:

1 of 16 posters for my Movie Quote Type Poster project. Check out some of the others here: travislcooper.tumblr.com

Travis Cooper Design

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get your work featured by submitting it to designersof.com

isamiahmed: Delhi furious as latest rape victim is 5 years...

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:48:29 -0400

isamiahmed:

Delhi furious as latest rape victim is 5 years old

Read more here: http://bit.ly/17EUbJr

thepeoplesrecord: Today we honor Vandana Shiva, because as the...

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:43:02 -0400

thepeoplesrecord:

Today we honor Vandana Shiva, because as the corporate oligarchy continues to destroy our planet, it is clear that we need more leadership like hers:

Video of Vandana Shiva on Bill Moyers’ show back in July.

Here is a list of additional quotes by Vandana Shiva.

This is Vandana Shiva in February @ ISFIT 2013: Changing Norms.

This is Vandana Shiva @ Rio2012.

This is Vandana Shiva talking about the capitalist patriarchy in March 2013 on Democracy Now with Amy Goodman.

All of these available on our Facebook page: (links: Tumblr | Facebook | Twitter)

maroutian: Why I Am a Male Feminist The word turns off a lot of...

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 12:04:23 -0400

maroutian:

Why I Am a Male Feminist

The word turns off a lot of men (insert snarky comment about man-hating feminazis here) — and women. But here’s why black men should …be embracing the “f” word.

Like most guys, I had bought into the stereotype that all feminists were white, lesbian, unattractive male bashers who hated all men. But after reading the work of these black feminists, I realized that this was far from the truth. After digging into their work, I came to really respect the intelligence, courage and honesty of these women.

Feminists did not hate men. In fact, they loved men. But just as my father had silenced my mother during their arguments to avoid hearing her gripes, men silenced feminists by belittling them in order to dodge hearing the truth about who we are.

I learned that feminists offered an important critique about a male-dominated society that routinely, and globally, treated women like second-class citizens. They spoke the truth, and even though I was a man, their truth spoke to me. Through feminism, I developed a language that helped me better articulate things that I had experienced growing up as a male.

Feminist writings about patriarchy, racism, capitalism and structural sexism resonated with me because I had witnessed firsthand the kind of male dominance they challenged. I saw it as a child in my home and perpetuated it as an adult. Their analysis of male culture and male behavior helped me put my father’s patriarchy into a much larger social context, and also helped me understand myself better.

I decided that I loved feminists and embraced feminism. Not only does feminism give woman a voice, but it also clears the way for men to free themselves from the stranglehold of traditional masculinity. When we hurt the women in our lives, we hurt ourselves, and we hurt our community, too.

~ Byron Hurt
Read his entire post: http://www.theroot.com/views/why-i-am-male-feminist?page=0%2C0

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grand-bazaar: 1920s Malaysia - Tamil Women

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 11:47:57 -0400

grand-bazaar:

1920s Malaysia - Tamil Women

"[Pakistani columnist] Rafia [Zakaria] does have a point; the scale of political violence in Pakistan..."

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 11:35:24 -0400

“[Pakistani columnist] Rafia [Zakaria] does have a point; the scale of political violence in Pakistan is surely far greater than [America’s], and yet its victims received far less sympathetic attention from audiences outside the country than many of those elsewhere in the world. This habituation to the violence done to others (Others?) intersects with Susan Sontag‘s reflections on the suffering of others, and it’s that multi-stranded process of othering that deserves critical reflection. [T]his is about places as well as peoples – about the ways in which habituation and habitus are bound in to apprehensions of different places. Place is one of the crucial ways in which we navigate the world, physically and imaginatively, through the spatial cues provided by the meanings that become attached to place (what does ‘Baghdad’ signify to you?) and the places that become attached to meaning (which places are made to stand for ‘violence’?).”

- Derek Gregory - The tragedies of other places.

Rafia Zakaria’s article in Guernica is worth reading:

Pakistan suffered 652 of [bomb blasts] last year; terrorist attacks took down everything from girls’ schools to apartment buildings and felled members of Parliament, singers, and school children—each person sentenced by coincidence to be at a given location in the moment it became a bomber’s target.

[…]

Boston is no different, no more or less tragic than the bombings that have razed the marketplaces of Karachi, the school in Khost, the mosque in Karbala.

[…]

And yet it seems so. Attacks in America are far more indelible in the world’s memory than attacks in any other country. There may be fewer victims and less blood, but American tragedies somehow seem to occur in a more poignant version of reality, in a way that evokes a more sympathetic response. Within minutes American victims are lifted from the nameless to the remembered; their individual tragedies and the ugly unfairness of their ends are presented in a way that cannot but cause the watching world to cry, to consider them intimates, and to stand in their bloody shoes. Death is always unexpected in America and death by a terrorist attack more so than in any other place.

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In case you haven’t read Susan Sontag’s brilliant work on the same theme (death, inequality, grieving, pain), you can read it now.

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pale-prim-burned-to-ash: this is so perfect. omg. tooo much....

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 16:00:28 -0400

pale-prim-burned-to-ash:

this is so perfect. omg.

tooo much. my heart. it’s weak.