January 2011
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bespangled:
come on up to the house: URGENT MESSAGE FROM ACTIVIST IN EGYPT. PLEASE REPOST IF YOU CAN!
thunderheist:
roxanneritchi
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“To all the people of world” Alicia Ali Marsden To all the people of world The people in Egypt are under governmental siege. Mubarak regime is banning Facebook, Twitter, and all other popular internet sites Now, the internet are completely blocked in...
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“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant...”
– Martin Luther King Jr. (via a-effekt)
thirty seeds in my pocket. (via ahnka)
so pertinent right now
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“The painful indifference toward our feelings that characterizes any commodity...”
– Claire Fontaine (via lazz)
It seems that there are so many connections to be made between how we’ve thought about true ‘art’ and how we consider food and the land. insert either of those words for art here and you’ll begin to see where my mind is headed.
(via mslilyb)
Hee! I’m glad...
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“How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely...”
– Isaac Asimov, “Prometheus,” The Roving Mind (1983) (via bioephemera)
Todays theme: artists theories of art. Or textiles. Or both.
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“The painful indifference toward our feelings that characterizes any commodity...”
– Claire Fontaine (via lazz)
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curate:
A Call to the People and Governments of the Free World
We call upon all of you to support the Egyptian people’s demands for a life of dignity, liberty and an end of despotism. We call upon you to urge this dictatorial regime to stop its bloodshed of the Egyptian people, exercised throughout the Egyptian cities, on top of which comes the city of Suez.
We believe that the material and...
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Mexican Women's Rights Crusader Susana Chavez... →
padaviya: [trigger warning for sexist and border related violence]
Mexican womens rights activist Susana Chavez tirelessly fought to bring attention to the decade’s long murder of women occurring in Ciudad Juarez. She was an active member of May Our Daughters Return Home, a local group representing victims of the murdered and disappeared women of Juarez and helped to coin the phrase “Ni Una...
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Langton backs Pearson referendum model | The... →
ABORIGINAL leader Marcia Langton has backed Noel Pearson’s call for Aborigines to vote first on whether a referendum on indigenous recognition in the Constitution should go ahead, and declared that Aborigines should determine the model to be put forward.
Things that should be self evident by now, but aren’t.
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thetart:
I am making a passive-aggressive rebuttal to this post without mentioning it directly.
I am, entirely ignorant of the original post, reblogging this post because I think you’re right in the abstract, then being extremely confused when everyone starts yelling at me.
HOW DARE YOU.
I am coming into your conversation, without...
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Attention Sydneysiders!
vanityland:
If you live within an hour of Sydney, have an interest for music, acting, design, writing — basically anything theatre — and are interested in joining a Starkid-style theatre group, please drop a picture of yourself, your talents and why you’d like to join in Surrender Dorothy’s askbox! Please make sure your own ask is enabled so that we can get back to you. And yes, our theme is...
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“I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you...”
– Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson (via thechocolatebrigade)
…and it is on tumblr.
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Dear White Feminists
jaded16india:
This letter is specifically directed to several white feminists — self-identified as such — who wrote to me in OUTRAGE! that I shouldn’t have suggested a non-English term for “genderqueer” because then I’m doing teh reverse-racist and it’s just plain rude. This is my answer:
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Hello.
I know you don’t like talking to me, just the person you’ve constructed as me and taken...
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the bisexual, pansexual, sex-gender-orientation... →
radicallyhottoff:
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freshfeminism:
NO FOR FUCK’S SAKE.
So many things wrong with this.
Bisexual means attraction to two genders. Bi means two. Two genders. Not necessarily women and men. A bisexual person can be attracted to genderqueer individuals and . There was some discussion on my blog about how most peoples’ definitions of...
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Asylum seekers donate to flood appeal →
Refugees detained in Darwin have pitched together what income they have to donate to the free Australians affected by the flooding. Reblog just to put this out there, in advance of the white nationalism-fest that will be Australia Day coming up soon.
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Trans Queers: A Transfags Sex Journal →
transpride:
Trans Queers consist of two transfags of color living in a big city, exploring safe anonymous play with bio-boys. We are committed to documenting the good, the confusing, and the ugly. Not too many of us out there writing about sex with nontrans men, the adventurous intricacies of it, negotiating safety and complicating definitions of queerness. We promise to be honest and vivid...