February 2012
20 posts
Valentine's Day (Anna Howard Shaw Day)
peanut-sauce:
So, to be honest, I’m actually not that sad to be a single lady on Valentine’s day. If Ben and I were still dating, I know we wouldn’t be doing anything, and if I were dating anyone else, I wouldn’t want to do anything either.
Really, I would just want chocolate because I love chocolate, and some good lovin’.
indeed. my mom made me nutella filled eclairs. I mean yesterday....
“She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that...”
– Simone de Beauvoir (via human-voices)
January 2012
33 posts
13-year-old self-aborts using pencil →
blua:
The girl had no legal access to abortion in Pennsylvania, where her parents must consent. This is the direct consequence of anti-choice zealots: taking away what dignity, respect, and alternatives left were left to a 13 year old who is being controlled, manipulated, and raped by someone more than twice her age. Way to go “pro-lifers”, what an awesome accomplishment: empowering rapists...
We will live longer than I will ... We will be...
~ Lykke Li
Watchso creepy. and so many things wrong with this.
2 tags
“It’s astounding to me that the president is claiming these are recess...”
– Rep. Diane Black(R-Tenn.) Will Prove Congress Isn’t In Recess As Soon As She Returns From Recess
(via robot-heart-politics)
“The test of our progress is … whether we provide enough for those who have...”
– Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The Power of Words: Racially Coded Political... →
stfuconservatives:
Via the Crunk Feminist Collective:
“If politics is about communication, then it is also inherently about language. And language is a complicated medium, especially in the context of rhetoric and persuasion as in the case of politics. … With this contest, as in all past election years, we are subject to contortions of history and murky poetics of politically coded language,...
WatchI quite enjoy Colette!
