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Feb 27th

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Feb 27th

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Feb 27th

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“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only...”

– Rebecca West, 1913

Feb 27th

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Feb 25th

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Amendment One is a family matter →

Written by my friend Jacob Tobia. So if you cannot respect me for who I am, if you cannot respect the rights of gay people, then at least respect the rights of straight people. Respect the right of my straight mother to look at her grandchildren for the first time, to rush over to them, to scoop them out of my arms, to hug them in the way only a new grandmother could and to spoil them for the...

Feb 24th

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It's bigger than Chris Brown →

No, this isn’t about Chris Brown at all. This is about how at every turn we have failed to have a real conversation about how to prevent this from happening again. We gloss over Brown’s troubles because of his celebrity or talents or relative youth, then dismiss the influence he has over the culture, young girls specifically, because, as we have shown time and again the past three...

Feb 23rd

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Feb 23rd

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Feb 23rd

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I don't want to be a feminist anymore. →

Wow. Really moving, and resonates with me a lot. Most of all, I am tired of knowing. Knowing that my eyes have been opened, and that what has been seen cannot be unseen. I am tired of knowing it, when I see something that is wrong. I am tired of knowing that only speaking out can change it. I am tired of knowing exactly how hard and scary it can be to do so. I am tired of knowing that if I am...

Feb 23rd

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Feb 17th

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Jeremy Lin's Grandmother Watches, along with... →

So proud.

Feb 17th

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Feb 14th

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Feb 13th

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Feb 13th

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25 Extremely Upsetting Reactions to Chris Brown at... →

This makes me so sad. So I have noticed that many people’s reactions to this article is “What is wrong with these girls,” or just calling them “stupid and ignorant” and while I understand that reaction (I’ve reacted that way at times too), I find it problematic and emblematic of how our culture tends to deal with these issues. It’s something I’ve...

Feb 13th

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I'm not okay with Chris Brown performing at the... →

“And, this week, Grammy producers confirmed that Chris Brown will be performing on Sunday’s show. “We’re glad to have him back,” said executive producer Ken Ehrlich. “I think people deserve a second chance, you know. If you’ll note, he has not been on the Grammys for the past few years and it may have taken us a while to kind of get over the fact that we were the victim of what happened.”...

Feb 13th

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Feb 13th

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Rachel Hazell: Traveling book binder →

Feb 13th

"Have you ever had any unwanted physical or sexual... →

Amazing piece, deeply resonates with me and probably every one of my female friends and probably every woman my age…and actually, probably every woman, period. Reminds me of the “Not-Rape Epidemic” article I posted a while ago.

Feb 10th

“The role of the imagination is to create new meanings and to discover...”

– Iconic designer and legendary curmudgeon Paul Rand on the role of the imagination. (via curiositycounts)

Feb 8th

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“Life is too short and we cannot spoil it. I don’t have 300 years in front...”

– Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi on artistic freedom, creative process, and why the majority is always wrong.

Feb 8th

“Proposition 8 serves no purpose, and has no effect, other than to lessen the...”

– Ninth Circuit opinion (via chriszee)

Feb 8th

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