February 2011
27 posts
'Gaddafi's son joins Libyan protesters' →
verbalresistance:
The youngest son of the embattled ruler Muammar Gaddafi has joined the pro-democracy protesters in Libya amid an unabated outpouring of rage against Gaddafi, reports say.
According to the reports, Saif al-Arab, Gaddafi’s youngest son, who was sent by his father to cooperate with Libyan security forces in the massive crackdown on pro-democracy protesters joined forces with...
“Masses of poor and working-class women lose access to abortion when there is no...”
– bell hooks, 2000,p. 28, Feminism is for Everybody (via jmndza)
“Feminism has fought no wars. It has killed no opponents. It has set up no...”
– Dale Spender, 1985 (via jpsparkles)
“There was once a man who became unstuck in the world. He took the wind for a...”
– Castles in the Sky
new wave feminism: Saving the Babbys: You're doing... →
edvaliant:
No, I don’t like abortion. It sucks, and I sincerely doubt that any mentally or emotionally normal woman undergoes one without feelings of grief, regret, and probably a million other horrible sensations that I don’t know about since I’ve never had that problem. I know women who…
“It galls us that Western researchers and intellectuals can assume to know all...”
– Tuhiwai Smith (via adailyriot)
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known...”
– Elizabeth Kubler Ros (via cardstohearts)
INNER FAT GIRL: why i’m fat positive. →
innerfatgirl:
I’m a lot of things: I’m queer, white, upper middle class, an organizer, a nerd, a clothes horse…
I’m also fat.
That’s an easy thing for me to say, and it’s a hard thing for many people to hear. And it impacts me more immediately, frequently and overtly than a lot of my identities.
When I tell…
BC Ferries Wi Fi service blocks access to... →
serifedlife:
For real BC Ferries? This is not OK.
“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used...”
– Arundhati Roy (via promotingpeace)
