May 24, 2013

screaming. yes, please. TAKE ALL MY NOTES, VINTAGE TIM CURRY, TAKE THEM ALL.

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May 16, 2013
'The Baseline Is, You Suck': Junot Diaz on Men Who Write About Women
The Atlantic: It sounds like you're saying that literary "talent" doesn't inoculate a write—especially a male writer—from making gross, false misjudgments about gender. You'd think being a great writer would give you empathy and the ability to understand people who are unlike you—whether we're talking about gender or another category. But that doesn't seem to be the case.
Junot Diaz: I think that unless you are actively, consciously working against the gravitational pull of the culture, you will predictably, thematically, create these sort of fucked-up representations. Without fail. The only way not to do them is to admit to yourself [that] you're fucked up, admit to yourself that you're not good at this shit, and to be conscious in the way that you create these characters. It's so funny what people call inspiration. I have so many young writers who're like, "Well I was inspired. This was my story." And I'm like, "OK. Sir, your inspiration for your stories is like every other male's inspiration for their stories: that the female is only in there to provide sexual service." There comes a time when this mythical inspiration is exposed for doing exactly what it's truthfully doing: to underscore and reinforce cultural structures, or I'd say, cultural asymmetry.
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May 15, 2013
Why fanfic is better than any fake boyfriend

There’s an even better, less expensive way to go about the elaborate business of obtaining romantic fulfillment without a real-life investment.

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April 24, 2013
hoidn: thearcanetheory: androphilia: “Being a woman is not a means to humiliate and punish anyone” After a policeman in the Iranian Kurdish town of Marivan paraded an accused criminal in traditional Kurdish women’s clothes in the streets in order to humiliate him, women marched in the city condemning the use of women’s attire as a kind of humiliation. In support, an internet campaign of Kurdish and other Iranian men has sprung up showing men wearing Kurdish women’s clothes and messages and support. For example, this message says,”wearing Kurdish women’s clothes is not only not an insult, it is instead a great honor for us,” and goes on to describe how women stand side by side with men in every part of society and during wartime. Support the campaign by liking the page! زن بودن ابزار تحقیر و تنبیه هیچ کس نیست (via Ajam Media Collective) WOW so this is great

hoidn:

thearcanetheory:

androphilia:

“Being a woman is not a means to humiliate and punish anyone”

After a policeman in the Iranian Kurdish town of Marivan paraded an accused criminal in traditional Kurdish women’s clothes in the streets in order to humiliate him, women marched in the city condemning the use of women’s attire as a kind of humiliation.

In support, an internet campaign of Kurdish and other Iranian men has sprung up showing men wearing Kurdish women’s clothes and messages and support. For example, this message says,”wearing Kurdish women’s clothes is not only not an insult, it is instead a great honor for us,” and goes on to describe how women stand side by side with men in every part of society and during wartime.

Support the campaign by liking the page!
زن بودن ابزار تحقیر و تنبیه هیچ کس نیست

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WOW

so this is great

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April 23, 2013
rightundermyskin: the-girl-who-cried-bad-wolf: atop-the-treetop: oh how the times have changed  This is definitely worth reblogging. I can’t put into words my love for this photo. I can’t even discribe how much I hate this photo. Nothing has changed! Women are still being pressured into being someone they’re not, are still made to believe that their looks aren’t the right ones. The only thing that has changed is that curvy is the new skinny. What happens now isn’t okay but what happened then isn’t either, damnit. IT’S THE SAME FUCKING CONCEPT AND IT’S NOT OKAY.  THANK YOU

rightundermyskin:

the-girl-who-cried-bad-wolf:

atop-the-treetop:

oh how the times have changed 

This is definitely worth reblogging.

I can’t put into words my love for this photo.

I can’t even discribe how much I hate this photo. Nothing has changed! Women are still being pressured into being someone they’re not, are still made to believe that their looks aren’t the right ones. The only thing that has changed is that curvy is the new skinny. What happens now isn’t okay but what happened then isn’t either, damnit. IT’S THE SAME FUCKING CONCEPT AND IT’S NOT OKAY. 

THANK YOU

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April 22, 2013

artmonia:

Sao Paulo street artist Felipe Carrelli turns abandoned cars into art and garden spaces transforming neighborhood eyesores into beautiful public art installations.

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April 20, 2013
tribalgirlmanifesto: Peggielene Bartels, A.K.A. King Peggy, is currently the King of Otuam, Ghana. She was chosen to be one of only three female kings in Ghana, and when she discovered that male chauvinists wanted her to only be a figurehead, she said: “They were treating me like I am a second-class citizen because I am a woman. I said, ‘Hell no, you’re not going to do this to a woman!’” When she encountered corruption and the threat of embezzlement to the royal funds, she declared “I’m going to squeeze their balls so hard their eyes pop!”King Peggy has maintained her work in Ghana’s embassy in Washington, D.C. while making education affordable in Otuam, installing borehead wells to produce clean drinking water, enforcing incarceration laws to deal with domestic violence, replenishing the royal coffers by taxing Otuam’s fishing industry to improve life in the village, and appointing three women to her council.“Nobody should tell you, ‘You’re a woman, you can’t do it,’” she insists. “You can do it. Be ready to accept it when the calling comes.”Quoted from the Spring/Summer 2012 issue of Ms. Magazine.

tribalgirlmanifesto:

Peggielene Bartels, A.K.A. King Peggy, is currently the King of Otuam, Ghana. She was chosen to be one of only three female kings in Ghana, and when she discovered that male chauvinists wanted her to only be a figurehead, she said: “They were treating me like I am a second-class citizen because I am a woman. I said, ‘Hell no, you’re not going to do this to a woman!’” When she encountered corruption and the threat of embezzlement to the royal funds, she declared “I’m going to squeeze their balls so hard their eyes pop!”

King Peggy has maintained her work in Ghana’s embassy in Washington, D.C. while making education affordable in Otuam, installing borehead wells to produce clean drinking water, enforcing incarceration laws to deal with domestic violence, replenishing the royal coffers by taxing Otuam’s fishing industry to improve life in the village, and appointing three women to her council.

“Nobody should tell you, ‘You’re a woman, you can’t do it,’” she insists. “You can do it. Be ready to accept it when the calling comes.”

Quoted from the Spring/Summer 2012 issue of Ms. Magazine.

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April 18, 2013

typeworship:

Bike Like a New Yorker

Helping cyclists reclaim the streets two wheels at a time, creative agency, Mother, has designed these bird’s-eye perspective billboard and print ads to draw attention to city cyclists.
It’s beautifully executed with this sharply lit photographic style and grungy type, laid out over the streets.

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