feminist kitsch

emeraldsapphireandgold:

Protest Poem

by Mendi Lewis Obadike

Should the years continue to press

as they press now, and in their pressing,

press the sugar from my skin, let the stone

that forms inside me be amber.

Should there be aching, then, for sweetness,

should they come looking and find me,

let them find in me this rock, and not

my bitter carapace. This rock, and think

of honey, stored away for safe-keeping.

Tomorrow, who knows?

Should the sun burn on, as it plans to do, and as it burns,

burn down all the trees, let my shadow

be a cool thing, reaching out to shade you.

(Source: juliosalgado83)

“So if you – the oppressed – hurt someone’s feelings, you’re just like the oppressor, right? Wrong. Oppression is not about hurt feelings. It is about the rights and opportunities that are not afforded to you because you belong to a certain group of people. When you use a racist slur you imply that non-whiteness is a bad thing, and thus publicly reinforce a system that denies POC the rights and opportunities of white people. Calling a white person a racist fuckhead doesn’t do any of that. Yes, it’s not very nice. And how effective it is as a tactic is definitely up for debate (that’s a whole other blog post). But it’s not oppression.”

» The Revolution Will Not Be Polite: The Issue of Nice versus Good Social Justice League (via mmmajestic)

(Source: yimmyayo)

fuckyeahfeminists:

Underwater sculpture, in Grenada, in honor of our African ancestors thrown overboard.

(Source: elegantlytasteless)

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Symphonia IX (My Wait is U) - Grimes

WHEN I’M IN THE CAR FOR OVER AN HOUR

howdoiputthisgently:

all the mundanities: US: Sexual Violence, Harassment of Immigrant Farmworkers

(New York) – Hundreds of thousands of immigrant farmworker women and girls in the United States face a high risk of sexual violence and sexual harassment in their workplaces because US authorities and employers fail to protect them adequately, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today……

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peacelovequeer:

ELLE:  I’m watching a video of you two.
Rashida Jones:  Are you watching our lesbian video on YouTube?
Amy Poehler:  Yeah, it’s pretty funny. Someone put together all the scenes of Ann and Leslie and then put a Counting Crows song to it. It looks like Parks and Rec is a love story about two women.
ELLE:  Are you guys hugging right now?
Rashida Jones: Actually, we’re spooning.

(Source: buffyfan357.livejournal.com)