I can hear you.

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There’s really no such thing as the ‘voiceless.’ There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard

— Arundhati Roy (via socialinertia)

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Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously…

— Osho (via dirrtyflowerchild)

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I’m new! I’m brand new! A new chapter in my life is starting tomorrow! And I can be as new and different as I want. Born again. Tomorrow. With more hope. I know it.

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Identity is not a bunch of little cubbyholes stuffed respectively with intellect, race, sex, class, vocation, gender. Identity flows between, over, aspects of a person. Identity is a river – a process.

— Gloria Anzaldúa (via megamindinhd)

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Maybe it’s just in America, but it seems that if you’re passionate about something, it freaks people out. You’re considered bizarre or eccentric. To me, it just means you know who you are.

— Tim Burton (via savemyplaceillbethere)

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Consider how textbooks treat Native religions as a unitary whole. The American Way describes Native American religion in these words: “These Native Americans [in the Southeast] believed that nature was filled with spirits. Each form of life, such as plants and animals, had a spirit. Earth and air held spirits too. People were never alone. They shared their lives with the spirits of nature.” Way is trying to show respect for Native American religion, but it doesn’t work. Stated flatly like this, the beliefs seem like make-believe, not the sophisticated theology of a higher civilization. Let us try a similarly succinct summary of the beliefs of many Christians today: “These Americans believed that one great male god ruled the world. Sometimes they divided him into three parts, which they called father, son, and holy ghost. They ate crackers and wine or grape juice, believing that they were eating the son’s body and drinking his blood. If they believed strongly enough, they would live on forever after they died.” Textbooks never describe Christianity this way. It’s offensive. Believers would immediately argue that such a depiction fails to convey the symbolic meaning or the spiritual satisfaction of communion.

— Lies My Teacher Told Me, James Loewen (via whoistorule)

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grimefighter:

if you preface your feminism with “i’m not a lesbian” you need to grow up

throwing your lesbian sisters under the bus is not feminist

framing lesbianism as ‘bad’ is not feminist

catering to men (“i’m not like those man-hating feminists, i love cock!”) is not feminist

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cute-slutty-baby-bunny:

Call me a slut in the bedroom and I’m all yours.

Call me a slut on the street and I’ll break your fucking jaw.

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When it comes to men who are romantically interested in you, it’s really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.

— Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture (via thatkindofwoman)

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androphilia:

Muslim Women Against FEMEN

may i kindly object to one thing with one small comment

apparently FEMEN does represent SOME muslims and SOME muslim women as we can see by the tunisian woman.

no women anywhere gets to claim what represents any other woman anywhere. if she cannot claim to represent all muslim women, neither can any other muslim woman… (but you might have already known that..)

otherwise great work!! love it!!

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