May 2013
13 posts
I really love the way that one boring person on Twitter can just destroy a joke and then make the flesh melt off your face a la the creepy Gestapo officer in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
April 2013
16 posts
“After learning my flight was detained 4 hours,
I heard the announcement:
If...”
– Naomi Shihab Nye (b. 1952), “Wandering Around an Albuquerque Airport Terminal.”
(via awelltraveledwoman, clambistro)
Language, culture, travel, food and people. Some of our favourite things in one small, powerful story.
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21 Tips to Keep Your Shit Together When You're...
rosalindrobertson:
A while ago, I penned a fairly angry response to something circulating on the internet – the 21 Habits of Happy People. It pissed me off beyond belief, that there was an inference that if you weren’t Happy, you simply weren’t doing the right things.
I’ve had depression for as long as I can remember. It’s manifested in different ways. I did therapy. I did prozac. I did more...
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WE ASKED MAGGIE IF SHE WAS A FEMMO AND SHE...
I am just going to post this New Statesman article in its entirety and maybe no one will write another asinine “oh but like she was a role model and a secret feminist right?” article again. She wasn’t. She hated feminism. She didn’t do anything for women besides demonstrate a woman could be prime minister of the United Kingdom (the importance of that I will leave to others...
“I’m an English major. It is a language of conquest.
What does it say that I’m...”
– Monica Torres, “Majoring In English,” The Feminist Wire 3/29/13 (via racialicious)
“No, our real problem is the subterranean racism that goes largely unremarked...”
– Waleed Aly: Curse of Australia’s silent pervasive racism (via clambistro)
Sometimes I wonder if this is the reason I’ve only got one interview out of the many jobs I’ve applied for but I’d really rather not think about it because who the fuck wants to think about that when you’re twenty-one and...
I will not get into fights on the Internet I will not get into fights on the Internet I will not get into fights on the Internet I will not get into fights on the Internet
March 2013
25 posts
Cherchez La Femme : Canberra →
naysayersspeak:
the-metres-gained:
monsterpussy:
Hey CBR pals come and watch a whole bunch of great femmos talk femmo! (including me!) and omg Chrissy Gee this post is almost entirely just for you CHECK WHO IS ON THE REST OF THE PANEL, GAL!?
signal boost
Dammit, if this wasn’t a weeknight, I would BE THERE.
OH EM GEEEE YES
So much
“I’d lie in bed every night with my arms wrapped around my baby inside of me knowing that I would never hold him after birth. I’d feel his feet and hands through my own stomach as he moved around, knowing that I wasn’t ever going to feel them after he was born. I’d talk to him and tell him that I would find him again one day and that I and his father loved him and always would. I’d pray to...
gingerhaze:
the thing about Brienne is, I’m certainly in favor of beauty ideals being expanded, but I’m getting a lot of people arguing that she’s not REALLY ugly (in the book) and it’s just like, that’s it, that’s exactly what I was talking about.
It’s just that if you get a description of a woman in a book and it says she has a face “like boiled ham” that could “curdle milk” (approximate...
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The Zumba classes at the Lutheran/Korean Presbyterian Church (they timeshare) next to my block of flats always make Thursday evenings so festive, particularly if my neighbours are pulling their pre-dinner bong.
dul-cin-ea:
On the weekend, over brunch, my friends and I had a long discussion about the way women are conditioned to be polite to avoid discomfort or any type of aggressive behaviour. We all had stories about times where we had stood up to, or been assertive with strangers who were acting entitled or intrusive or otherwise toward us, but largely we acknowledged that was the exception rather...
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lagertha-lodbrok:
“You mean figuratively”
if these words leave your mouth after i use “literally” in the hyperbolic sense and it was very evident that’s how i was using it?
i will literally stomp on your skull while screaming “WORDS CAN HAVE DIFFERENT MEANINGS DEPENDING ON USAGE AND CONTEXT, YOU FUCKING SNOB!”
I once had a completely aggravating argument with a man who was unable to process...
