December 2010
58 posts
“I don’t think any gay person is going to be happy and bring joy to themselves...”
– Sir Ian McKellen (via inherhipstheresrevolutions)
“When I was the rabbi of the Jewish community in Berlin under the Hitler regime,...”
– Joachim Prinz (via azspot)
“And you, Truth:
Give me the strength and the anger
So that when my foot...”
– A. Joyce Andem, “An Anarchist’s Prayer” (via a-n-a-r-c-h-a)
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“Our senses were assaulted by the stench of domination every day. here in the...”
– bell hooks, Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope
“I mean, is ‘fat’ really the worst thing a human being can be? Is ‘fat’ worse...”
– J.K. Rowling (via intellectualexhibitionism)
“Right now, free speech and the right to dissent are being undermined by...”
– bell hooks, Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope
“Since much of the pedagogy of domination is brought to us in the United States...”
– bell hooks, Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope
“Whenever we love justice and stand on the side of justice we refuse simplistic...”
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bell hooks, Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope
“Significantly the assault on progressive educators, and on new ways of knowing,...”
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bell hooks, Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope
“Whereas the conventional dominator classroom remained a place where students...”
– bell hooks, Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope
“Ableism is colonial. It is employed to maintain an ideal body of a white...”
– —Qwi-Li Driskill (found through Aaron). (via theredtree)
I generally wouldn't mention this but: FYRQ is now...
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“The franchise and the virus work on the same principle, what thrives in one...”
– Neal Stephenson (via bradicalmang)
“Orwell warned of a world where books were banned. Huxley warned of a world where...”
– Chris Hedges
vruz: who, for the importance of this brief piece, should be awarded the Pulitzer again, if the said prize wasn’t an already co-opted institution of the mainstream media.
(via vruz)
fuckyeahgenderstudies:
neutresex:
Embracing genders and existing in genders is as revolutionary as rejecting/abolishing/destroying/neglecting genders.
We’ve got to be able to recognize that genders can be powerful, beautiful, liberating, and meaningful tools just as we are able to recognize that genders can be destructive, harmful, and restricting.
:D
“During these past weeks, rather than a nerd takeover, I saw the crumbling of the...”
– Zeynep Tufekci (via azspot)
“A person of good intelligence and of sensitivity cannot exist in this society...”
– George Carlin (via growingupindie)
(via lesbianoutlaw)
“People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and...”
– -James Baldwin (via thegang)
(via giftedboi)
“The state is the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies, too; and this lie...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra (via fuckyeahanarchism)
“Self-loathing is not a fucking character-builder. It doesn’t make you stronger....”
– Jane, Casual Blasphemies (via bear-bones) (via fight-war-not-wars) (via negativepunxvxpts) (via ihatethismess) (via katharsis6) (via pluseyes) (via curvesahead, lipsbetweenthehips)
This is just the TRUTH. Don’t let anyone make you feel less just to line their own pockets. You don’t NEED anything...
“With young women, it’s about teaching the difference between the desire to be...”
– http://jezebel.com/5686773/the-problem-with-being-sexy-but-not-sexual (via angstmuffin)
“The queer, unlike the polite categories of gay and lesbian, revels in the...”
– - Sue-Ellen Case, “Tracking the Vampire” (via arctolatry)
“Cultural ignorance of one sort or another is sustained and nurtured in all...”
– Joe Bageant (via azspot)
“All human experience teaches that methods and means cannot be separated from the...”
– Emma Goldman, My Further Disillusionment in Russia (via elitc)
“Our responsibility to any (r)evolutionary process is not to make revolution, but...”
– I: Growing Counter-Cultures (Do or Die)
“Everything we do has got to contribute to the struggle, because everything they...”
– Audre Lorde
(via neutresex)
“Don’t assume gifts are from the heart. Gifts can just as easily be loaded with...”
– me to an anon on my grandmother and gift giving (via navigatethestream)
“I resented being Asian because I wasn’t white. This kind of racism is in place...”
– David Lee (via jazzonia)
“We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only...”
– Mao Zedong (via fuckyeahmarxismleninism)
“The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies, and...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via ifoundareason)
“People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and...”
– -James Baldwin (via thegang)
I have a lot of Tea Party/Sarah Palin related sentiments to this.
(via giftedboi)
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“The people who run our cities don’t understand graffiti because they think...”
– Banksy - The full quote. (via therecipe)
I like the last sentence especially
(via i-am-the-lighthouse)
“Those in power have made it so we have to pay simply to exist on the planet. We...”
– Derrick Jensen (via fyeahderrickjensen)
http://resmc.tumblr.com/post/2418325161/theslowcoll... →
theslowcollapseofsociety:
“The short definition of anarchy is democracy without the government. Most people love democracy already, and don’t like the government. Anarchism is a commitment to the idea that it would be possible to have a society based on principles of self-organization, voluntary association and mutual aid. It’s not the belief that we WILL have it, or that it’s certain, you...
The term boy is reserved for young males, bellhops, and car attendants, and as a putdown for those males judged inferior. Boy connotes immaturity and powerlessness. Only occasionally do males “have a night out with the boys.” They do not talk “boy talk” at the office. Rarely does our language legitimize carefreeness in males. Rather, they are expected, linguistically, to...
“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with...”
– Maya Angelou (via revolutionnow)
“If a nation expects to be both ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it...”
– Thomas Jefferson (via dream-hope-act)
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been Bamboozled long...”
– Carl Sagan (via anti-propaganda)
“Re-examine all you have been told.
Dismiss what insults your Soul.”
– Walt Whitman
Reblogged from oceanofmind.
(via callumswood)
“Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.”
– Albert Einstein (via tatianayr)
“An anarchist is someone who doesn’t need a cop to make him behave.”
– Ammon Hennacy (via creedminusgun)
“A slut is a person of any gender who has the courage to lead life according to...”
– from ‘The Ethical Slut’ by Dossie Easton and Catherine A. Liszt (via sexisnottheenemy) (via jacobloves) (via yellowbeesteward)
“Preoccupied with self-fulfillment in their private lives, white collar...”
– Steven Seidman (via adamquinn)
“Nothing could be more dangerous than for us to fall prey to the irrational...”
– Tim Wise, Between Barack and a Hard Place: Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama (via tsugaheterophylla)
“Whites must take personal responsibility for addressing racism and white...”
– Tim Wise, Between Barack and a Hard Place: Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama (via tsugaheterophylla)
“Confronting racism is white folks’ responsibility because even though we, in the...”
– Tim Wise, Between Barack and a Hard Place: Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama (via tsugaheterophylla)
“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is...”
– Audre Lorde (via vertebrabyvertebra)
“Perhaps as an old man I will take great comfort in pottering around in a lab and...”
– Julian Assange (via philphys)