Sticks and stones can break my bones but words can mobilize an entire society in violent hate against me.
Language is never neutral.
May 2013
4 posts
moon or quit, man: For girls with issues... →
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We do not come from a long line of woman who put themselves first.
We are not porcelain and serene.
We are stain glass.
Car crash.
Back roads.
sweaty palms rough and calloused as a result of hanging on too long and too hard.
This is for the girls with issues.
We do…
April 2013
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me reacting to other girls being mean is basically “don’t hate the player hate the gaaaameeee! *sashays away* *comes back and whispers* by game i mean the male-dominated power structure and society that’s tricked you into thinking we’re against each other!!!! you’re pretty too bye”
“Without an emotional, heartfelt grappling with the source of our own oppression, without naming the enemy within ourselves and outside of us, no authentic, nonhierarchical connection among oppressed groups can take place. When the going gets tough, will we abandon our so-called comrades in a flurry of racist/heterosexist/what-have-you panic? To whose camp, then, should the lesbian of color retreat? Her very presence violates the ranking and abstraction of oppression. Do we merely live hand to mouth? Do we merely struggle with the “ism” that’s sitting on top of our heads? The answer is: yes. I think first we do; and we must do so thoroughly and deeply. But to fail to move out from there will only isolate us in our own oppression-will only insulate, rather than radicalize us.”
—“La Güera,” Cherrie Moraga, Loving in the War Years, 1983 (via rosas—sylvestres)
March 2013
83 posts
One of my friends was outside the Supreme Court yesterday protesting for GetEqual. She post this on Facebook today.
“The Human Rights Campaign asked us to take down our trans* flag because ‘marriage equality is not a transgender issue.’
They said this to one of our activists as well as a transgender person who held the flag. We stood our ground, and flew our flag proudly.
That flag flew behind the podium ALL day today, keep an eye for it on the news.”This apparently happened twice. Well done, HRC. Well done. But I’m not allowed to be critical of your campaign. Get the fuck out of here.
“Time spent with cats is never wasted.”
—Sigmund Freud (via katemess)
“Fat people face an absolute torrent of shame, stigma, bullying and oppression almost everywhere we turn. We face it at home from friends and family who have been taught by society that we should be shamed “for our own good” in some kind of logic-defying effort to make us hate ourselves healthy. We face it at work when our company has a point of view about our body size rather than focusing on our work performance. We face it at the doctor’s office when our actual symptoms are ignored and our health put a risk by doctors who diagnose us as fat and prescribe weight loss the minute they see us, never hearing a word we say. We face it from well-meaning strangers who have been taught by society that a fat body is an indication that we need outside advice, especially that of strangers with no particular health training who think that being thin makes them an expert on how to become thin - like being a brunette makes them an expert on willing your hair to turn brown. We face it from not-so-well-meaning strangers who try to beat us down to make themselves feel better in a society that beats everyone down. We are certainly not the only group who faces this, but we face it nonetheless, and - like the trainers on The Biggest Loser - we are told by society that we should be thankful for the massive war being waged against us because their plan of eradicating the world of everyone who looks like us is a kindness, and we should say thank you and get on the treadmill.”
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Ragen Chastain
(Danceswithfat.wordpress.com)
Serving up some realness.
(via chubby-bunnies)
“
Not one single hurtful thing ever got changed by someone grinning and bearing it.
Hurtful things changed because people have said ‘That hurts me. Stop.’
And every time you try to silence someone and tell them that they shouldn’t be hurt, shouldn’t be offended, shouldn’t choose this battle, that this isn’t important and that other things are more important - you are serving the hurtful rather than the hurt.
” —(via loveyourchaos)