March 2012
86 posts
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February 2012
103 posts
The Glamourbaby Diaries: An Open Letter to FHM... →
rubyveridiano:
Dear FHM Magazine Philippines,
I’ll waste no time and get straight to the point here. I’m not one to use harsh words, but your March 2012 cover is an insult to the global community. On behalf of women of all shapes, sizes, and skin tones, I feel personally angered by the image you’ve…
Iggy Azalea on the XXL freshman list is all wrong. How can you endorse a white...
– Azealia Banks on hipster white girls appropriating Hip-Hop
Reason #238479238749823 to love her.
Also her album is gonna be called “Broke with Expensive Taste”
and she’s working with MIA.
(via urbanafrofuturism)
We spoke all night in tongues,
in fingertips, in teeth.
–
Robert Hass, from “Spring” (via the-final-sentence)
Because your pandan cake left you dissatisfied: A... →
iamabutchsolo:
A White Savior Film (WSF) is a movie that features a white person coming into the lives of a person or people of color (POCs) who are often low-income, troubled, and/or severely oppressed. The troubled times that the people of color are in can be a product of oppression from…
You wander from room to room
Hunting for the diamond necklace
That is already...
– Rumi (via fuckyeahrumi)
Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified....
– bell hooks (via thechanelmuse)
White people in America are a trip, huh? They exterminate the Native American...
– Indeed.
Huey P. Newton in Spike Lee’s “A Huey P. Newton Story” (via sapphrikah)
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Queer Pinay Brunch // Oakland →
the nationalism I seek is one that decolonizes the brown and female body as it...
–
cherrie moraga
(via fromhearttolips)
Feminist Care Packages: A Feminist Care Package... →
feministcarepackages:
Dear Too $hort, We are a collective of people of color who are angered and saddened by your comments in a video for XXL magazine. We are angry because no one at the magazine thought to pull the plug on the interview and we are sad because you seem unaware that you were advocating the…
For the lesbian of color, the ultimate rebellion she can make against her native...
– Gloria Anzaldua, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, 3rd Edition, p. 41 (via agradschoolbreakup)
Dance, when you’re broken open. Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off. Dance in...
– Rumi (via fuckyeahrumi)
I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.
– Pablo Neruda (via stellablu)
Suzy X. isn't real: Women of Color--Let's take... →
a-bayani:
tierracita:
Let’s take back our tags! Meaning post yourself being yourself, without any exotifying pretense and tag the hell out of your post. (I originally said Wednesday, Feb 22nd but fuck it, let’s start now!)
I got really upset/annoyed/raging when I opened the …
hot piece of smokin dyke: xx →
thepoetsspace:
Tonight I can write the saddest lines. Write for example, ‘The night is shattered and the blue stars shiver in the distance.’ The night wind revolves in the sky and sings. Tonight I can write the saddest lines. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too. Through nights like this one…