March 2012
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Our house now has three ukuleles, a guitar, a mandolin, a highland snare drum, a drum core snare drum, a couple of tin whistles, a bodhran, at least half a dozen harmonicas, a keyboard, and assorted small percussion instruments. And only one of those instruments is borrowed!
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Idzie is Speaking at the Rethinking Everything... →
The Rethinking Everything Conference is one I’ve had my eye on for several years, and came very close to attending as a regular ol’ attendee a couple of years ago when Daniel Quinn (author of Ishmael and Beyond Civilization among other books) was speaking, but ultimately it was just outside my budget. So I was truly thrilled (and honored) to be invited to attend this year as a...
February 2012
19 posts
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“What does it mean to “know how” to do something? Why isn’t the action of doing...”
– Shotgun Seamstress, Feminist Power (via rhiannonloveisnotarobot)
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“But then, the truth was never really the point. Thin women don’t tell their fat...”
– Kate Harding (via rhiannon-random)
another example of thin privilege, your body type doesn’t carry these negative synonyms
(via fatcatsandcurls)
Back home with high speed internet connection once...
I really miss Maine, and the smell of farms and trees, and getting to spend time with lots of critters, and living temporarily with one of my best friends… My two best friends and I want to move in together and have an awesome sustainable homestead/small farm.
Going to Maine for two weeks, leaving tomorrow...
I’ll have some computer access, though don’t know how much… Excited to see one of my best friends for the first time in over 4 months!!
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Haircuts and the Obligation of Attractiveness @... →
this culture rewards and centers around white-cisgender-heterosexual-males above all else. Those men are told from the time they’re small how much they’re worth, how much they’re owed, and that that they have the right to own others, among many things. And women, well, we owe (white-heterosexual-etc.) men our bodies, and our attractiveness. We have an obligation to attempt...
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I want to move in with my two best friends (and...
mr-owls asked: 16 and 6
tranqualizer:
badboydrd:
1. The meaning behind my URL
2. Weakness
3. Bestfriend(s)
4. Last time I cried and why
5. Piercings I have
6. Favorite Band
7. Biggest turn off(s)
8. Fact about my sex life
9. Tattoos I want
10. Biggest turn on(s)
11. Age
12. Ideas of a perfect date
13. Life goal(s)
14. Piercings I want
15. Relationship status
16. Favorite movie
17. A fact about my...
“When you say to a person of color “When I see you, I don’t see you as black! I...”
– Jane Elliot on the absurdity and invalidation of claims of “Color Blindness” by white folk (via brazenbitch)
things to think about when you think about privilege
(via sexxxisbeautiful)
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The zesty joy of weight loss @ Sistermatic... →
[Trigger Warning for talk of weight loss, dieting, “thinspiration,”]
Weight loss is just one more way of stripping women of choices regarding their own bodies, one more way to shame and control them, and one that’s not only emotionally damaging but also incredibly physically damaging. It took me awhile to realize why I found this particular ad so disturbing. There are the...
“Can the hungry go on a hunger strike? Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You...”
– arundhati roy from the guardian (via counterworlds)
Went to a really awesome drag show by Dukes of...
I haven’t actually gone out in the evening in…well, in way too long! And they were just so good. Funny and playful and bizarre. I love when sexuality, gender, and sex are treated so…well, playfully, I guess! It’s just really cool.
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lazy radical: Trigger Warning for eating... →
violetroots:
womenwithspunkandexplosives:unknowablewoman
Alright, Tumblr vegans. Since I’m unable to physically smack y’all upside your nasty dreaded heads, you get this rant instead.
I want to talk about food choices.
If you’re not totally clueless, you’re probably already aware of the classism and racism inherent in the “EVERY1 CAN BE VEG*N!!1” trope. We’ve been down that road with them...
January 2012
90 posts
“Westerners are fond of the saying ‘Life isn’t fair.’ Then, they end in snide...”
– Barbara Alice Mann, Iroquois woman (via cultureofresistance)
How many fucking times did I/we hear this as a child?
(via shannonnagig)
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“As regards knowledge, we need to avoid approaches that imply that everyone needs...”
– by Roland Meighan in the essay Restructuring Education So it Works for Kids and Society from the book Life Learning: Lessons from the Educational Frontier
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Teenage Rebellion: An Unschooling, Respectfully... →
A post of mine has been reprinted over at Scarleteen!! So Exciting!
“One might ask why tobacco is legal and marijuana not. A possible answer is...”
– Deterring Democracy - Noam Chomsky (via noam-chomsky)
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6 Things That I Have To Say About The Hugo...
garlandgrey:
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I tend to stay out of free form Internet Campaigns to attack public figures, for a host of reasons. Some of those reasons are Feminist and some are pragmatic and personal.
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These sorts of things tend to grind everyone down, on both sides. One side is subject to an escalating level of personal attacks in which their opponents attempt to externalize the other person’s...
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“I think it’s a very old and deep-seated double standard that holds that when a...”
– http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/20/jennifer-weiner-female-reviews_n_1219454.html?ref=books#comments (via sabelmouse)
frillysparklybutts:
real women are
women who identify themselves as women
thats it
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Jon Stewart: You don't think two affairs hurt someone who thinks of themselves as a champion of traditional marriage?
John Oliver: What could be more traditional than the arrangement that Gingrich proposed? Throughout history Jon, traditional marriage has meant powerful men doing whatever the fuck they want, whenever the fuck they want.
“11. Bring consent out of the bedroom. I think part of the reason we have trouble...”
– Holly over at The Pervocracy with an excellent 101 post on Consent Culture. Read the whole thing.
I used to want people to chide me into doing things because in some twisted way it meant that they really did want me around (because otherwise they were just being polite). I’ve started to get past...
“The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence...”
– bell hooks (via cultureofresistance)
Word…we do this to all little boys…”quit crying toughen up you are a boy”
(via slumbeauty)
patriarchy hurts everyone.
(via dopegirlfresh)
Just a reminder to people in privileged positions
elfstaranymore:
ohfuckitsoprah:
luckythinks91:
brandnewjones:
bana05:
modernistwitch:
Exceptionalism is not complimentary.
“But you’re not like the rest of them, you’re cool!”
“I can’t believe you know so much about (x thing), I’ve never seen a (member of y marginalized group) talk about this with such authority!”
- it pits us against other people in our group (fuck that) - it...
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“Learning is not something that is done to us, or that we can produce in others....”
– Wendy Priesnitz in the essay Taking Risks & Breaking Rules from Life Learning: Lessons from the Educational Frontier
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“Knowledge is an interconnected web of information and insight and doesn’t...”
– Wendy Priesnitz in the essay Taking Risks & Breaking Rules from Life Learning: Lessons from the Educational Frontier
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“As an unschooled child, I discovered that learning is a part of everyday life....”
– Gea D’Marea Bassett in the essay Self Reliance in Life and in Learning from the book Life Learning: Lessons from the Educational Frontier
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Held Hostage by Small Metal Implements: a Guest... →
I’m delighted to present a guest post by my friend and all ‘round awesome person Kelly Hogaboom! We’ve all experienced similar questioning and reactions from people as school-free learners, and I greatly enjoyed hearing Kelly’s take on the experience of “being held hostage by small metal implements.” I hope you’ll enjoy it too!
Getting talked at,...
“”One day we must ask the question, ‘Why are there forty million poor people in...”
– And this is what really got Dr. MLK killed. (via black-culture)
THIS
(via killthemass)
