Beyoncé has been Beyoncé-ing for over a year now and you’re still questioning her feminist credentials because her praxis doesn’t match yours. Nicki Minaj has been vocal about her feminism for years but you revoked her credentials because she made a video about her exquisitely crafted rear end and rapped about the men who want to fuck her. To me, all that debate sounded a lot like judgement of other women for the way they chose to express their sexuality. This really confuses me because I thought that sexual agency was a cornerstone of contemporary feminist thought. After all, a woman’s body is her own, and what she chooses to do with it or how she chooses to exercise and experience her sexuality is up to her alone. Except, apparently, if you’re black.
Quotes
Other people are not medicine.
Amy Poehler (via melisica)
The noblest thing I can do is stay and grow with you.
T.B. LaBerge // I like you and I miss you. (via tblaberge)
I DON’T HATE WHITE PEOPLE.
I hate the system of white supremacy that gives them asymmetrical power & unmerited privilege.I DON’T HATE COPS.
I hate the pattern of police brutality that systematically harasses & kills black people & other people of color with impunity.I DON’T HATE SOLDIERS.
I hate the horror of war that terrorizes the most politically and economically vulnerable among us.I DON’T HATE RICH PEOPLE.
I hate the system of capitalism that creates an elite 1% at the expense of the rest of us.It is precisely because of my love for humanity that I get enraged at system’s that prevent people from flourishing & being free.
It’s frustrating to see my righteous anger at unjust systems interpreted as hatred for individuals, but it’s more frustrating to see the oppressed suffer while those maladjusted to injustice remain silent.
I WON’T BE SILENT. SILENCE IS VIOLENCE.
Nyle Fort (via thetalkoflove)
The women whom I love and admire for their strength and grace did not get that way because shit worked out. They got that way because shit went wrong, and they handled it. They handled it in a thousand different ways on a thousand different days, but they handled it. Those women are my superheroes.
Elizabeth Gilbert (via splitterherzen)
Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself – what you’re wearing, who you’re around, what you’re doing. Recreate and repeat.
Warsan Shire (via thatkindofwoman)
Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.
Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.
Sylvia Plath (via fearlessknightsandfairytales)
Solidarity does not assume that our struggles are the same struggles, or that our pain is the same pain, or that our hope is for the same future. Solidarity involves commitment, and work, as well as the recognition that even if we do not have the same feelings, or the same lives, or the same bodies, we do live on common ground.
Sara Ahmed, The Cultural Politics of Emotion (via paradelle)
To everyone decrying “identity politics”
(via faggottariusrising)
I think I fall in love a little bit with anyone who shows me their soul. This world is so guarded and fearful. I appreciate rawness so much.
(via bl-ossomed)