“Travel is little beds and cramped bathrooms. It’s old television sets and slow Internet connections. Travel is extraordinary conversations with ordinary people. It’s waiters, gas station attendants, and housekeepers becoming the most interesting people in the world. It’s churches that are compelling enough to enter. It’s McDonald’s being a luxury. It’s the realization that you may have been born in the wrong country. Travel is a smile that leads to a conversation in broken English. It’s the epiphany that pretty girls smile the same way all over the world. Travel is tipping 10% and being embraced for it. Travel is the same white T-shirt again tomorrow. Travel is accented sex after good wine and too many unfiltered cigarettes. Travel is flowing in the back of a bus with giggly strangers. It’s a street full of bearded backpackers looking down at maps. Travel is wishing for one more bite of whatever that just was. It’s the rediscovery of walking somewhere. It’s sharing a bottle of liquor on an overnight train with a new friend. Travel is ‘Maybe I don’t have to do it that way when I get back home.’”
—Nick Miller (via her0inchic)
June 2013
10 posts
“If it would destroy [a 12-year-old boy] to be called a girl, what are we then teaching him about girls?”
—Tony Porter (via her0inchic)
“Confidence is being able to say ‘Fuck you, I’m the shit’ without opening your mouth, say it with your walk, with your smile, say it with your entire being.”
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Tati-Ana Mercedes
(via her0inchic)
“i think the problem is that many people in america think that racism is an attitude. and this is encouraged by the capitalist system. so they think that what people think is what makes them a racist. racism is not an attitude. if a white man wants to lynch me, that’s his problem. if he’s got the power to lynch me, that’s my problem. racism is not a question of attitude; it’s a question of power. racism gets its power from capitalism. thus, if you’re anti-racist, whether you know it or not, you must be anti-capitalist. the power for racism, the power for sexism, comes from capitalism, not an attitude. you cannot be a racist without power. you cannot be a sexist without power. even men who beat their wives get this power from the society which allows it, condones it, encourages it. one cannot be against racism, one cannot be against sexism, unless one is against capitalism.”
— stokely carmichael (kwame ture)
Love, Locks, Laughter, Words, & Breath: Okay let's break it down for the white people and the kool aid sippers →
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So we all know that generalizing and stereotyping is bad. We get upset about the criminalization of black and latino people, exploitation of Native American culture, demonization of immigrants, and a lot of other super racist stuff. And we’re upset for a very good reason.
So what’s different…
“Find the things that stir your affections for Christ and saturate your life in them. Find the things that rob you of that affection and walk away from them. That’s the Christian life as easy as I can explain it for you.”
—Matt Chandler (via breanna-lynn)
May 2013
4 posts
“What makes the non-South Asian person’s use of the bindi problematic is the fact that a pop star like Selena Gomez wearing one is guaranteed to be better received than I would if I were to step out of the house rocking a dot on my forehead. On her, it’s a bold new look; on me, it’s a symbol of my failure to assimilate.”
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Here is the thing, okay? Coming into a feminist conversation with, “Have you considered that sometimes women acquire free drinks at bars?” is like walking into graduate school during Philosophy finals and saying, “Have you considered that the color blue that I see may not be the color blue that you see?”
Imagine you are the guy who just walked into that Philosophy class and laid that shit down. Imagine the class full of students who have worked very hard and committed themselves and sacrificed to be here, students who have spent several years of their lives learning about this subject. Imagine now their feelings when you go to the head of the classroom with a smirk on your face and demand the professor give you an A for effort. Imagine now that they think you are a douchebag asshole, because they do, and because you are. You are a douchebag asshole because you are obviously so self-centered, arrogant, and completely ignorant of the world around you, that you thought you could walk into a high-level course with no background and no work and say something profoundly simplistic and totally unrelated and also everybody should congratulate you for having done this thing, so brave, so provocative.
You are not asking us a real question. You are simply illustrating, for all to see, your own ignorance. You are saying, “I have not considered the implications of the question I have just asked. I have not taken the time nor effort nor commitment to sit down and ask myself this question. Instead, I have come into your philosophy classroom/office/feminist blog and shat out my question with a smirk, because I believe that my two seconds of thought are worth more than your long-term analysis, because I believe I am worth more.”
“I wish there was a way to know you’re in the good ol’ days before you’ve actually left them.”
—Andy Bernard
April 2013
76 posts
“If you are digging a hole in the wrong place, making it deeper doesn’t help anything.”
—Seymour Chwast (via justkeepbreathing831)
“There are no magical slaughterhouses where animals are fed their favorite meal, make a last phone call to a loved one and voluntarily hold their breath until they die. The act of slaughter is violent, vicious, bloody and hellish. The animals do not sacrifice themselves for your pleasure, tradition or greed. The are dragged in kicking and screaming until their last breath. Don’t fool yourself into thinking that you can eat meat, dairy and eggs and remain disconnected from this violence. The only way out is VEGAN.”
—Gary Smith (via action4animals)
“The fear of getting hurt again has only led you to hurt yourself. Come out now. Come out while there’s still some living left to be done. This person who hurt you doesn’t deserve to still dictate your life decisions. Your discipline and dedication to structure is an illusion. You’re still powerless because you’re letting certain incidents define your life. If you really want to be in control again, you have to learn to let go again. It’s the only way.”
—Ryan O’Connell, The Fear Of Getting Hurt Again (via her0inchic)
“You can’t solve problems unless you face them.”
—(via theselittlewondersstillremain)
