February 2012
37 posts
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ew i just realized my favorite “brand new” song from when i was 15 appears to be about date rape
Crazy Like Us: The Globalisation of the Western... →
fuckyeahgenderstudies:
I’ve pretty much finished this book and i would heartily recommend it to everyone. It’s definitely the best book i’ve read this year. I found the portions on anorexia nervosa and depression (having personal experience with both and having undertaken academic research on AN) particularly compelling…
“It is a fundamental claim of feminism that women are oppressed. The word...”
– From: Marilyn Frye, The Politics of Reality (Trumansburg, N.Y.,: The Crossing Press, 1983). (via siberia)
celebrate ash wednesday with the smoky eye!!
a life of fragments: if i shared →
latinosexuality:
how many white folks in the field of sexuality/sexology/sex work/sex education/sex therapy/sex counseling/sex et. al. that i personally have encountered and were really receptive to hearing and shifting/including/changing their work to include POC, trans* people, poor…
watching daria because i’m supposed to write a lesson plan for a “self-esteem” class for work
“I know you can be overwhelmed, and you can be underwhelmed, but can you ever...”
– Sylvia Plath (via incorrectsylviaplathquotes)
my sister
saying “fuck my god” instead of “oh my god”
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2 hours actually not sad enough to listen to waxahatchee
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pain management
doctor: Look at your body like a bank. You can make investments, take out withdrawals, make deposits and try not to overdraft.
"crone vision"
-dodie bellamy
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If our conception of what it means to be a worker relies on having a bargaining place at the table with the boss — that is, with certain classical notion of workers’ power — then Lucy isn’t a worker. She isn’t a worker, even though all she ever does is work, as in the four stills from the film above. She’s not going to unionize her coffee shop, nor her fellow sex workers, nor the assistants at...
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“Her willingness to keep treading water without the promise of anything better to...”
– http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/working-beauty/
romantic comedies, the stockholm syndrome of late industrial capitalism
pussy-strut:
2012 is the year i stop thanking dudes for being halfway fucking decent
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margaret atwood, the j.k. rowling of second-wave feminist realism
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isabelthespy:
tomewing:
Elbow: The Mysterious Pattern Inside Everything and How It Will Change the Way We Think About the Economy, Health Care, and the Internet
What is an “Elbow”? As best-selling science journalist Jonathan Brainer explains, it’s a ubiquitous pattern that looks much like its namesake anatomy: a line moves in one direction and then– suddenly– in another. Brainer ingeniously...
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karaj: feminist boredom, capitalist control... →
winnet:
“The psychoanalyst Susie Orbach tells me that there’s an “epidemic of celibacy” in the UK and the United States. So I wonder: is everyone beyond sex (not just the queer scholars who might have, you know, been there and done that, aged out, made art, bought property, endured AIDS,…