“Slut” is how we vilify a woman for exercising her right to say “yes”. “Friendzone” is how we vilify a woman for exercising her right to say “no”.” — (via mechanicaleternity)
(Source: angels-and-angles, via usesforroots)
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We’re so young. We’re so young. We’re twenty-two years old. We have so much time. There’s this sentiment I sometimes sense, creeping in our collective conscious as we lay alone after a party, or pack up our books when we give in and go out – that it is somehow too late. That others are somehow ahead. More accomplished, more specialized. More on the path to somehow saving the world, somehow creating or inventing or improving. That it’s too late now to BEGIN a beginning and we must settle for continuance, for commencement.
What we have to remember is that we can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start over. Get a post-bac or try writing for the first time. The notion that it’s too late to do anything is comical. It’s hilarious. We’re graduating college. We’re so young. We can’t, we MUST not lose this sense of possibility because in the end, it’s all we have.
Marina Keegan
http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2012/may/27/keegan-opposite-loneliness/
(Source: lolahellis, via looooooooooooooooooooooooooooool)
“It must be said that the starting point is respect for oneself. One can achieve anything, but not everything; so one must know what it is one desires.
-How can we know what we desire?
When we feel well after carrying out a certain task. Consequently, everything which causes us to lose our enthusiasm and self respect, is harmful; even if it means power, money or success.”
— Warrior of Light, Paulo Coehlo
http://www.booooooom.com/2012/05/18/text-works-by-artist-lee-jung/
“Maybe I would be smart if I wasn’t put in this fucking prison of an education!” —
Eva Natividad
fuck yeah!
the personal is political
(Source: penandink)
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Trust rock, she told him. Empty your heart, she taught him. Break fear upon rock. Like the river masters, surrender to nature. Go toward fear. Trust fear. Steer toward rock.
The Mother.
Jack’s heart returned to rest on the memory of love. He filled himself up with the roar of water, the rise of rock. This was a blood debt and maybe he owed it. Better he make the payment than his daughter. The taste of blood bit the back of his throat like salt on a raw wound. After the first swallow, he knew, he would have no fear.
Now his mother’s voice rose in him like a rush of wings: The empty heart had no mourners.
He steered toward danger, he trusted the river-mother.
” — Steer Toward Rock, Fae Myenne Ng“
Microassaults: Conscious and intentional actions or slurs, such as using racial epithets, displaying swastikas or deliberately serving a white person before a person of color in a restaurant.
Microinsults: Verbal and nonverbal communications that subtly convey rudeness and insensitivity and demean a person’s racial heritage or identity. An example is an employee who asks a colleague of color how she got her job, implying she may have landed it through an affirmative action or quota system.
Microinvalidations: Communications that subtly exclude, negate or nullify the thoughts, feelings or experiential reality of a person of color. For instance, white people often ask Asian-Americans where they were born, conveying the message that they are perpetual foreigners in their own land.
” —http://www.microaggressions.com/
I just talked to a grad student doing research on this in the Asian American Center of Disparities Research in Davis today!! Gonna do research with them after this summer internship —- sitting around talking about Asian American identity and the effects on their health? Relevant as fuck :D Plus the grad student is kinda awesome!