trying to deal with unpoliticized people or having conversations with people who resist any attempts at politicization is so effing draining. remember that the only reason you are able to be who you are today is because of people who took the leap and saw the political in the personal and called that shit out. and challenged it.
Angry Asian Girls United: Dear Kanye,
We are women. Who happen to be Asian. Not for sweet and sour sauce. And your fetishistic behaviour. Get out of here.
2 days ago - 
737
737 forever be a poet
moving line by line
through space/time
connecting you
to infinity
with her black
ink
and white
space
evoking
clarity
sighing out
all that you’ve been
choking back
chalk taste
in your mouth of
that blocked up shit you
hold in your chakras
released
when echoed
by a being
who’s been there
revealing
some universal
truth
how is it
she can reach you
no matter how far
you run
or far from home
you end up
always
listening
forever
be a poet
taking note
of every new leaf
and kissing it
into existence
acknowledging
how hard it is
to grow
but how easy
and how naturally
it comes
this stretching
towards
the sun
knowing
that whatever
lies beyond this
is encompassed
in the whole
and when the sun
is an extinguished flame
the music
of the spheres
will be audible
once again
2 days ago - 1
1 But feminism is not, in fact, all about choosing your choice. It is mostly about recognizing when things are fucked up for women at the societal level, and talking about that, and trying to change it. So sometimes, even when a decision is right for you, you still need to recognize that you made that decision within a social context that overwhelmingly supports your choice, and punishes women who make a different one.
Why I Lose My Mind Every Time We Have the Name Conversation | Kate Harding
Well Amen to that, Kate.
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4 days ago - 5
5
Sybrina Fulton is the mother of Trayvon Martin, the 17-year-old high school student who was shot and killed on Feb. 26, 2012.
***The trial of Trayvon’s accused killer is expected to begin on June 10, 2013. For the latest update in the Trayvon Martin case (as of Feb. 14, 2013) please click: http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/02/14/1594051/whats-happened-in-the-trayvon-martin-case-since-you-stopped-paying-attention/?mobile=nc
THIS IS WHAT THEY DO!! THEY PROLONG THE TRIAL SO EVERYONE FORGETS AND THE KILLER GETS FREE!!! DON’T LET YOUR WILL GO TO WASTE!! PROMOTE PROMOTE PROMOTE!!!
Zimmerman needs to made an example of.
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Nuestra Hermana: STUDY: Lifting as we Climb: Women of Color, Wealth, and America’s Future
HIGHLIGHTSLOWLIGHTS:Excluding vehicles, single black women have a median wealth of $100 and Hispanic women $120 respectively, while their same-race male counterparts have $7,900 and $9,730. The median wealth of single white women is $41,500. To put it another way, single black and Hispanic women have one penny of wealth for every dollar of wealth owned by their male counterparts and a tiny fraction of a penny for every dollar of wealth owned by white women.
Black and Hispanic single mothers with children under age 18 have a median wealth of zero. In contrast, black and Hispanic men who are single fathers have a median wealth of $10,960 and $2,400 respectively.
Nearly half of all single black and Hispanic women have zero or negative wealth
Women experience steeper economic declines when they divorce than men.
Never-married women of color experience the largest wealth disadvantage, with a median wealth of zero
While white women in the prime working years of ages 36-49 have a median wealth of $42,600 (still only 61% of their white male counterparts), the median wealth for women of color is only $5.
Prior to age 50, women of color have virtually no wealth.
Like their white counterparts, men and women of color in the pre-retirement years of ages 50 through 65 have a median wealth between $50,000 and $70,000 more than their younger counterparts ages 36 to 49.
According to federal poverty standards, poverty rates for people age 65 and over are highest for women of color. In 2007 16.7% of white women living alone were poor, but 26% of Asian women living alone, 38.5% of black women living alone, and 41.1% of Hispanic women living alone were poor.
FULL STUDY HERE
The more I read this, the more sick my stomach is becoming. Gotta take a break.
This really scares me as a latina. As in, I’ve read this so many times and personally adding disabled to this; I just don’t know if there’s anyting that can make the internal screaming stop.
But this our fault. This is why as a mentally ill black woman (perceived woman) I’m just like what’s the point of working when I have nothing but debt and even without that the amount of wealth someone in that position is able to amass is so low. Ughhhhhhhhhhhhh. Fuck all everything tho
:| my momma is almost 60 and still doesnt have shit
i have some debt tho hahaha hahah ha ha *slowly lays down on floor*
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1 week ago - 326
326 Self-care includes holding each other accountable because we are interconnected. Loving ourselves includes learning how not to harm each other. Loving ourselves includes disrupting violent patterns in our homes and community-building spaces.
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
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Sacred Economics with Charles Eisenstein - A Short Film (by fiercelightfilms)
Men who want to be feminists do not need to be given a space in feminism. They need to take the space they have in society & make it feminist.
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