June 2013
48 posts
“Every year white people add 100 years to how long ago slavery was. I’ve heard educated white people say, ‘slavery was 400 years ago.’ No it very wasn’t. It was 140 years ago…that’s two 70-year-old ladies living and dying back to back. That’s how recently you could buy a guy.”
—
Louis C.K. (via 30thcenturyboy)
Sylvester Magee, the (probable) last American born into slavery died in 1971.
The last living child of former American slaves, Mississippi Winn, died in 2010.
Slavery in the territory that is now the United States lasted more than 330 years. We will be 330 years removed from slavery in the year 2195.
(via fishingboatproceeds)
“If
the ocean
can calm itself,
so can you.
We
are both
salt water
mixed
with air.” —Meditation, Nayyirah Waheed (via richmondcee)
the ocean
can calm itself,
so can you.
We
are both
salt water
mixed
with air.” —Meditation, Nayyirah Waheed (via richmondcee)
Play
1:13
resilience
when you set the neighborhood girl on fire, she asked for a glass of gasoline on the rocks. you gave her three, and she drank them all peacefully. but that wasn’t enough. you, you and all your local buddies, gathered around for your bonfire, a few drinks and some nighttime smoke, and you all sat around her, kindling her sparks and adding more logs to her bones, more bones to her hollow tree trunk of a body. talked about getting laid and your asshole boss, talked as casually as the girl burned. she listened to you. she did not judge. she even gathered her own firewood, just to hear you talk more, just to keep you from getting up and going to the shed.
just before you go to snuff her out, she asks you, “but didn’t i keep you warm? but didn’t i burn beautifully? but didn’t i burn as pretty as a star?”
you can’t answer her. you can’t put her out. you walk away, giving time the axe and last breath of her flames.
Get to know me by movies
- the princess diaries: what would you do if you had your own kingdom?
- titanic: tell us an unforgettable story about your ex/current boyfriend/girlfriend
- mean girls: did you ever have a crush on a popular guy at school?
- 27 dresses: upload a picture of your most favorite clothing
- sydney white: would you ever join a sorority/fraternity?
- hachi: a dog's tale: tell us a story about your pet
- the social network: three websites you can't go on a day without logging on to
- twilight: someone you would risk your life for?
- the avengers: tell us about a friend who saved your life
- 50 first dates: tell us a story about your most perfect date
- the hangover: tell us a funny drunk story of yours
- she's the man: if you could switch gender for a day, what would you do?
- 17 again: what would you tell to your 17 year old self?
- john tucker must die: someone broke your heart, would you break theirs?
- the breakfast club: what do people label you?
- juno: pro choice/pro life?
- american pie: tell a story about your first time
- scream: if you and your friends had a sleepover and a serial killer was inside, who would most likely be the first to die?
- freaky friday: first thing you would say or do when you woke up as your mother?
- i know what you did last summer: tell us a fun story about your last summer
Feminist Frequency: Twitter vs Female Protagonists in Video Games →
femfreq.tumblr.com
Thanks #XboxOne #E3 press conference for revealing to us exactly zero games featuring a female protagonist for the next generation.
— Feminist Frequency (@femfreq)
Above is a tweet I made this afternoon in reaction to the fact that none of the games presented at…
Aaaaaand, this is why I need feminism.
“Except you can’t show a topless woman on TV - and you can’t defibrillate a woman in a bra. So victims of heart attacks on TV are *always* male. Did you know that a woman having a heart attack is more likely to have back or jaw pain than chest or left arm pain? I didn’t - because I’ve never seen a woman having a heart attack. I’ve been trained in CPR and Advanced First Aid by the Red Cross over 15 times in my life, the videos and booklets always have a guy and say the same thing about clutching his chest and/or bicep.
And people laugh when I tell them women are still invisible in this world.” —
And people laugh when I tell them women are still invisible in this world.” —
My mom worked for 25 years as an ER nurse and is convinced that a lot of women die simply because folks only know heart attack symptoms that occur in males.
(via darkjez)
Society thinks our bodies are so scandalous that it’s better to put our lives at risk than to show us how to stay safe
(via callingoutsexists)
relive
This is the battle of my mind, and this is how I come out of it: scorched but dripping with resolve. I’ll be the gap-toothed champion of the southeast, and men will never dare lay their hands on me again. And I will hear the pretty-eyed boy scream my name as I jump off the dock, and I will find him in the shipwreck. I’ll kiss him hard before the doctor pulls me out of the water. This is what they call a flashback. Can you hear me? You’re okay. You’re here. He pulls me back into the water. He deepens the kiss. His hands at my hips. It’s too much, I say, but I swallow lake water, and his nails lunge into my ribs. I reach out, but I can’t find anything but that old doctor’s hand.
Don’t go back there. We suffer enough in the present—why suffer the past all over again?
I go back, and I drown those two confused lovers forever. Their faces peer up, toothless, from the sand. The dock has never felt higher. And the world has never felt more warm.
Would it be effective censorship if I just photoshopped man nipples onto girl nipples
