June 2012
Historical Slut: I'm so tired of this "No Male... →
quixoticandabsurd:
So tired of it.
Because seriously, nobody batted an eye when I was little and walked out of the theater after seeing Toy Story proclaiming, “Woody is so cool! I want to be just like him!”
Nobody cared that I was a little girl looking up to a male character. Not a single…
“She’s understood the power of stories. Their magical ability to refill the...”
– Kate Morton (via amandaonwriting)
“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most...”
– Sigmund Freud (via narcotic)
“The best day of my life may already be behind me.”
– Edouard Levé (tr. Lorin Stein), from Autoportrait (via the-final-sentence)
the bad dominicana: lovewashername:... →
lovewashername:
borednschooled:
Ciji The Geek: The Korean language, and why it’s fascinating
crankyskirt:
[Disclaimer: I’m not a linguist or a scholar of East Asian studies. I didn’t major in linguistics or East Asian studies. I just have a thing for languages,…
Esoterica: The idea that "we all do it". →
bankuei:
apihtawikosisan:
You are familiar with the theme, I promise.
“We’re all a little racist.”
“Everyone engages in cultural appropriation.”
And so on.
Although the intended message is supposedly, “we’re all human and we make mistakes”, that’s not really what’s being said….
“I am driven by two main philosophies, know more about the world than I knew...”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson (via crookedindifference)
eres una mentirosa: On literacy, constructivism,... →
mijajaja:
literacy is not an amorphous set of skills
a good educator/school will utilize the experiences and practices derived from the cultural life of communities to help students construct meaning
culture and cognition co-construct one another
reading requires two knowledges: social knowledge and…
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white men who think theyre the shit
i am so sick and tired of white men thinking they have a right to my fucking time. here is the difference in approach, 9 times out of 10: black guys approach me and try to strike up a conversation that shows something about themselves; if we get to chatting then they ask if i talk to black guys, and when i say yes then they ask if they can take me out. if i seem disinterested at any point, they...
mijajaja:
Today i spit in a mans face for barking at me
eres una mentirosa: 9 things i was told about race... →
mijajaja:
1 .Please, marry someone who has a green card
I just, don’t want it to be difficult for you.
2. White people I don’t like are Blue Eyed Devils Daddy’ s white professor said all the brown people look the same My father answered with a question that demanded a period without shame, ” yeah…
“People of color have to learn white culture for survival. White people learn...”
– Sara David (via fatwasandfanboys)
or to appear ‘well-rounded’ or ‘spiritual’ or ‘authentic’ or ‘enlightened’ or ‘hip’ or ‘radical’ (via theanimalnamesofplants)
THAT'S SO MAJESTIC: (t.w. disordered eating) to... →
blackgirldangerous:
by Janani Balasubramanian
There are some accepted ways for white girls to deliver poems on eating disorders. They might analyze their mirror and remark on the ugliness of the light refracted back, so thin and so cracked. They might struggle under the weight of a…
“You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And I should die there...”
– D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers (via bookmania)
Esoterica: Words we don't get to use →
bankuei:
Context is everything
Let’s take the word, “bitch”.
What happens when a woman says it to another woman? What happens when they say it as a compliment? What happens when they say it as an insult? What is the usual context for those cases?
When a man says it to a woman, what is the…
Esoterica: Poverty and White Privilege →
darkjez:
suicide-pacts:
I figured I’d right a small, sort of, piece on white privilege while being a minority in poverty. I see a lot of whites trying to get out of the whole “racism = prejudice + power” thing by claiming “omgz i’m a minority” or “b-b-but i’m so poor!” and i figured…
