mpache:

ladyurduja:

Native Filipina women, circa 1890s.

Native Filipina women, circa 1890s.

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"My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors."

Maya Angelou (via scatterhearted)

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— 3 months ago with 3917 notes

miltonicsmile:

smashingthebinary:

giraffegiraf:

I’ve been googling men in skirts and pretty much every blogger goes ‘but is it acceptable?’, ‘should we be scared?’ I don’t understand how these questions can even be asked when these men look so fly. Just look at this man rocking his skirt, purse and silver shoes with a supreme look of arrogance. Basically, I’m in love.

might be a repost. too lazy to check.

no yeah

I love everything about this

~~………well actually I might have done socks, but I get it, they’re loafers so no socks right ok fine sh sorry I’m ruining it sorry~~

(via visceralmoue)

— 4 months ago with 315 notes

#skirts

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— 4 months ago with 149 notes

"

[TW: Genocide]

Ironically, Adolf Hitler displayed more knowledge of how we treated Native Americans than American high schoolers today who rely on their textbooks. Hitler admired our concentration camps for American Indians in the west and according to John Toland, his biographer, “often praised to his inner circle the efficiency of America’s extermination—by starvation and uneven combat” as the model for his extermination of Jews and [Romani people].

"

James W. Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me (via pupunahsh)

truth! he was a real fan of Andrew Jackson and his tactics too

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— 4 months ago with 2305 notes

fuck yeah sex education: The LGBT Community & Sexual Assault →

sexpositive:

I wrote this presentation for an internship at a Sexual Assault Counseling Center, and adapted it for a Take Back the Night event that I was a part of in college. If you’d like the actual presentation, let me know and I’d be happy to send it along!

The LGBT Community and…

(Source: sexpositive)

— 4 months ago with 106 notes

knowhomo:

LGBTQ* History, Insight, Stories, and Media Representation

Transgender History (via the Radio)

Interview + photos from the transgender archive in Houston, TX.

This is an on-air interview with Daniel Williams, member of the Board of Directors for the Transgender Foundation of America on 90.1 FM KPFT in Houston, TX. The interview took place on Friday, August 27, 2010.

— 4 months ago with 22 notes

sexeducation101:

GYT

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— 4 months ago with 157 notes

"Mentally ill people in general are more likely to be victims of violence than the general population, a statistic that goes up for women, where violence against mentally ill partners is so normalised that it’s made into a fun joke in pop culture on a regular basis. The idea that partners deserve to be abused, or that their nondisabled partners have an ‘excuse’ to abuse them, is widespread when it comes to women with mental health diagnoses; ‘difficult to live with,’ irrational,’ ‘dangerous.’ These are the kinds of statements made about mentally ill women, and the kinds of situations that may force them into institutions where they are exposed to further abuse. Because they are mentally ill, they are less likely to be believed when they report, and less likely to receive assistance."

http://tigerbeatdown.com/2011/11/28/violence-against-women-with-disabilities-probing-the-scope-of-the-problem/ (via splatterdick)

Seriously, I have seen this happen.

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— 4 months ago with 62 notes

"[general trigger warning: domestic violence] The “success” of the battered women’s movement has proven to be a double-edged sword. In order to gain public support, domestic violence advocates portrayed abused women as innocent victims who suffered at the hands of particularly deviant men. While this narrative perhaps sought to combat the idea that abuse was a woman’s own fault, it drew upon dominant ideas of “innocence” and “victimhood” and required that women represent themselves in particular ways in order to be recognized as deserving of assistance. This requirement to pass as a “good victim” reinforced dominant gender norms and also marginalized women of color, immigrant women, working-class women, homeless women, lesbians, gay men, transgender people, and anyone who did not or could not fit these norms."

Priya Kandaswamy, “Innocent Victims and Brave New Laws” from Nobody Passes

This entire essay is so incredibly good. Really, the whole anthology is fantastic so far. Expect more quotes.

(via youarenotyou)

! a friend lent me this book and I haven’t gotten a chance to read it yet. Now I have to.

(via fromonesurvivortoanother)

— 4 months ago with 354 notes