December 2011
46 posts
Girl Crush: thefameofhealthandfitness
I love thefameofhealthandfitness. I’ve been following her on her past Tumblr where she documented her year long process of becoming a fitness model and it is AWESOME. I love her writing b/c she doesn’t just didn’t do it to be a size 2, she didn’t do it to just look ‘pretty’-she did it because she set out a goal and wanted to show herself she could kick some...
Watchoh fanvids….
coalitiongirl:
Coin-Operated Boy by sarahmg_
Original video here- I just can’t figure out how to embed it from that site. :-\
“‘Who said that time heals all wounds? It would be better to say that time heals...”
– Chris Marker, Sans Soleil
Valkyrie: No Flat Girls: How Allies are Born... →
paxvalkyrie:
(This is a guest post.)
This is a story about gamer culture, casual sexism, the silence of friends, and its fallout - more or less in that order.
Firstly, context. I’m a recent graduate working as a game designer for a social games startup in New York City, and I identify strongly with other…
“This pattern — women can dress like men, but men don’t dress like women —...”
– via Sociological Images (via ellielamothe)
the world according to nouns (she's a carnival):... →
rebelrebelbatcat:
This is about the dynamic between oppressed person speaking up about their oppression to an oppressor, not about any other power dynamic.
Despite always being opinionated and politically involved, I used to have a problem being Too Nice. I was the person that would always try to educate the…
“All of this is typical girl-fear. Once you realize that The Exorcist is,...”
– Rookie, The Season of the Witch (via azelie)
wow, mind blown. never going to look at the exorcist the same way ever a-fucking-gain.
(via witchnymph)
whoa.
(via loveyourchaos)
“And certainly there are very real differences between us, of race, sex, age,...”
– Audre Lorde, “Difference and Survival: An Address at Hunter College” Undated address printed for the first time from the Audre Lorde Paper at Spelman College, in I am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde
(via tgstonebutch)
“What kills love? Only this: Neglect. Not to see you when you stand before me. Not to think of you in the little things. Not to make the road wide for you, the table spread for you. To choose you out of habit not desire, to pass the flower seller without a thought. To leave the dishes unwashed, the bed unmade, to ignore you in the mornings, make use of you at night. To crave another while pecking...
“Women of today are still being called upon to stretch across the gap of male...”
–
The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House, by Audre Lorde (1979)
“Women who are too sexual aren’t taken seriously, and women who aren’t sexual...”
– (via thecryingame)
Yay horribly crippling societal standards of femininity!
(via private-revolution)
