February 2012
55 posts
“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house,...”
– Rumi
“The thing is, it’s patriarchy that says men are stupid and monolithic and...”
– Yes.
“There was nothing good in that free box.”
– (via pdxproblems)
“Charity is the humanitarian mask hiding the face of economic exploitation. In a...”
– - Slavoj Žižek; ‘Violence’, p19
- Yesssss
“Can the hungry go on a hunger strike? Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You...”
– Arundhati Roy
“My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of...”
– Maya Angelou (via xxxi-i-mcmxcii)
“We have a government that says it’s okay to eat Twinkies and Cocoa Puffs and...”
– From sustainable farmer Joel Salatin. Quote captured by Amy Eddings on WNYC Culture blog. (via newanddifferentsun)
“Everyone is trying to save the Muslim woman; Western society must save her from...”
– Nadia El Awady
no. one,
no. one,
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“I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others—young clerks in...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
“It was a splendid morning too. Like the pulse of a perfect heart, life struck...”
– Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway, 1925
what a difference a little sunshine makes
fuckyeahportland:
lookin’ good portland.
“Let’s get one thing out of the way: Mexican immigration is an oxymoron. Mexicans...”
– Sherman Alexie is a poet, short story writer, novelist, and filmmaker. His book “The Lone Ranger and Tonto’s Fist Fight in Heaven,” was on the banned curriculum of the Mexican American Studies Program.
http://progressive.org/sherman-alexie
“The reality of what feminists, find pleasurable is not always politically...”
– Feminist Porn: Sex, Consent, and Getting Off (via butchrag)
