Rey is given a luxury that comes so easily to male heroes – she simply turns a corner, finds a magical item (Luke Skywalker’s Lightsaber, no less) and it awakens the Force in her. Just that. No searing infertility, no rape, no revelation of past abuse, no heartbreak, no sacrifice. No heroine who’s validity is defined by what she has sacrificed, in the way of Katniss handing up her life for her sister, becoming a martyr for a revolution. In the way of Ariel, handing over her power to speak in order to walk on land. No poison apple, no needle on a spinning wheel here.
Quotes
Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.
Maya Angelou (via purplebuddhaproject)
Surround yourself with people who reflect how you want to feel inside. Energy is real and it is contagious.
Massy Arias (via herdirtylittleheart)
I want real human moments.
I want to see you.
I want you to see me.
Waking Life (via touchmeiamfamous)
Be present. Make love. Make tea. Avoid small talk. Embrace conversation. Buy a plant, water it. Make your bed. Make someone else’s bed. Have a smart mouth, and quick wit. Run. Make art. Create. Swim in the ocean. Swim in the rain. Take chances. Ask questions. Make mistakes. Learn. Know your worth. Love fiercely. Forgive quickly. Let go of what doesn’t make you happy. Grow.
Paulo Coelho (via helyanthus)
Men don’t age better than women, they’re just allowed to age.
Carrie Fisher (via phd-student-ttu)
you are not alive
to please the aesthetic
of colonized eyes
Ijeoma Umebinyuo (via theijeoma)
2016 will be a selfish year. My time will be invested on me. On improving myself. I want to become a better person physically and mentally.
Unknown (via deeplifequotes)
I teach a class called ‘Decolonize Your Diet,’ and I talk about the Spaniards arriving in Mesoamerica. One of the first things they tried to change—in addition to religion— was the way people ate. They introduced wheat and tried to make eating bread something that was seen as more valuable than eating corn. They outlawed amaranth, and in South America they outlawed quinoa.
I tell my students to think about how the dominant powers are invested in controlling what their subjects eat, and then to take that concept from the 1500s to our contemporary era and ask themselves, ‘What are the powers that be wanting us to eat right now? Where are all the food subsidies going? How is that influencing what we’re eating? Who’s benefiting and who’s suffering because of that?’ For students, drawing those connections is really powerful, and it gives them a tangible way to analyze relations of power.
Just because someone desires you, it does not mean that they value you.
Read it over.
Again.
Let those words resonate in your mind.
Nayyirah Waheed
(via purplebuddhaproject)