December 2012
4 posts
“When it comes to relationships (partnerships & friendships) we’re so...”
– Charlene in The Celestine Prophecy
November 2012
3 posts
“All girls continue to be taught when they are young, if not by their parents...”
– bell hooks in Communion: Female Search for Love (via nepantlera-en-la-frontera)
True shit. We’re taught that if someone doesn’t love us, then we didn’t work hard enough or try hard enough, or we simply weren’t good enough. That kind of psychotic mindset impacts so many young women.
(via...
“We are not trapped. We cannot jump outside the situation, and there is no point...”
– Michel Foucault (‘Sex, Power and the Politics of Identity’ in Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth)
October 2012
1 post
September 2012
7 posts
christel-thoughts:
a lot of people think they deserve the world. a lot of people are wrong.
!!!!!
14 tags
In such an emotionally charged political atmosphere, let me say this, in hopes that it’ll help someone somewhere…
We can disagree with an opinion without attacking the individual. Also, please don’t think that a difference in opinion is an attack against you.
e.g.
Sally: I think red is the best color.
Savannah: I (understand but I) disagree, I think blue is the best...
August 2012
5 posts
“So BE lonely… Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with...”
– Eat, Pray, Love
Below is a snippet by Christine Hassler that made me… well… just read & you’ll see…
…what happens if you start to outgrown the behaviors and beliefs you grew up with? What I see very frequently … is that ppl feel an obligation to carry on the behaviors and beliefs of their parents even if they are in conflict with what they truly want or believe. Out of love and duty, many people even...
July 2012
6 posts
Our habits, our experiences… they neither form nor exist in a vacuum. Growing up in an area where the only veggie mart is full of cockroaches can result in you growing up on only processed food, and never “developing a taste for” vegetables. It can result in you never learning how to cook these things, and spend a considerable amount of time burning up your pots and pans…
Or, how about, if...
“I was looking for something outside of myself to solve a problem that could only...”
“Give people a common enemy, and you will give them a common identity. Deprive...”
– James Alison
Political Reminders
1. That picture with the politically-charged caption that you’re sharing on Facebook isn’t going to change hearts and minds.
2. Canada has universal healthcare, and it’s cold…and it’s tired of you threatening to move there if your candidate loses.
3. Pretty much everywhere else you threaten to move also has universal health care, which should tell you something.
4. Sending death...
“It saddens me to see girls proudly declaring they’re not like other girls –...”
– “I’m not like the other girls”, Claudia Gray (via ceedling)
June 2012
4 posts
“…you are the result of the love of thousands.”
– Linda Hogan, Native American Writer
We are…
5 tags
Spare the Rod Yo!
In recent events, Creflo Dollar spared the rod, choked the child and proceeded to use his shoe. He then expressed that he did nothing wrong in his sermon to his congregation. Creflo… Sir… Which brings me to: Children are not our property. It is not their job to confer upon us the worth and dignity denied to us by others. - Crunktastic (CFC) I find this statement to be so profound. A few...
May 2012
15 posts
“Folks who know me in real life & in unreal life of [social media] can bear...”
– bell hooks
“Poetry is no silent subject…
…words put together just so, said...”
– bell hooks
“…we invoke the bootstrap individualism narrative to deflect the relevance...”
– Michael Eric Dyson
“Poverty’s grinding malevolence is fed in part by social choices and public...”
– Michael Eric Dyson
“We have this fantasy that our interests and the interests of the super rich are...”
– Bill Maher (via sonofbaldwin)
“We have this fantasy that our interests and the interests of the super rich are...”
– Bill Maher (via sonofbaldwin)
April 2012
12 posts
1 tag
“Naw, im good.”
– African American Proverb (via greaterthanwealth)
Lmao!!!
Lust, Lies And Empire: The Fishy Tale Behind... →
npr:
A longstanding myth holds that the reason why Catholics eat fish on Fridays stems from a secret pact a medieval pope made to sell more fish. That’s just a fish tale. But the real story behind fish Fridays is much better. -Maria Godoy
