for today’s soup: 16 beans & barley
No Lack of Loquaciousness
NSFW. General love of the adorable, the nerdy, the sexy, and smashing the kyriarchy. pronouns are they/their/them. twitter is Sextopus 19, Queer. white. femme. Chaotic Good{ wear }
The fact that you’re struggling doesn’t make you a burden. It doesn’t make you unloveable or undesirable or undeserving of care. It doesn’t make you too much or too sensitive or too needy. It makes you human. Everyone struggles. Everyone has a difficult time coping, and at times, we all fall apart. During these times, we aren’t always easy to be around — and that’s okay. No one is easy to be around one hundred percent of the time. Yes, you may sometimes be unpleasant or difficult. And yes, you may sometimes do or say things that make the people around you feel helpless or sad. But those things aren’t all of who you are and they certainly don’t discount your worth as a human being. The truth is that you can be struggling and still be loved. You can be difficult and still be cared for. You can be less than perfect, and still be deserving of compassion and kindness.
Daniell Koepke (via shetakesflight)
Academic Secrets-
By chance you come across an academic journal article online that needs to be paid for (something like $25-$40), lots of times you can take the authors name from the article, google them for their email, and ask if they can send you their article b/c you’re interested in their work. More often than not, they’ll say ‘cool’ and send it as an attachment.
Heads up!
As a grad student who has published - absolutely
we don’t get any fucking money directly from publishing, it’s all about the lines on our CV to us. So please do try this route! And if you can’t get that — hit me up and I’ll try to get it through my school connections.
I will always do what I can to help someone out. Fuck the ivory tower.
I like this.
(via ethiopienne)
A racist woman is not a feminist; she doesn’t care about helping women, just the women who look like her and can buy the same things she can. A transphobic woman is not a feminist; she is overly concerned with policing the bodies and expressions of others. A woman against reproductive rights — to use bell hook’s own example, and an issue close to your heart — is not a feminist; she prioritizes her dogma or her disgust over the bodies of others. An ableist woman is not a feminist; she holds some Platonic ideal of what a physically or mentally “whole” person should be and tries to force the world to fit inside it.
I have been treating you
like the bandage
when you might actually
be the wound.DAMN.
Angry Brown Matriarch: My Happy Mothers Day Message
Happy Mother’s Day for the mothers who were there for their children.
Happy Mother’s Day for the mothers who can’t be there for their children due to uncontrollable circumstances.
Happy Mother’s Day to the mothers who are no longer in this world.
Happy Mother’s Day for the mothers who wanted to be mothers but can’t be due to physiological reasons.
Happy Mother’s Day for those of us who didn’t have the mothers they deserved. Everyone deserves a wonderful mother.
Happy Mother’s Day to those of us who raised ourselves.
Happy Mother’s Day to those of us who have been abused. We have survived.
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Nia King: Special Mother's Day podcast episode! ›
Is falling in love inherently a political act? In this special Mother’s Day episode of the podcast, I interview my mom about entering an interracial marriage shortly after it became legal, we trade tales of being in non-traditional couples (then vs. now), and she recalls lots of embarrassing stories about me I have completely forgotten. My mom, not unlike myself, is still learning how to be a trans ally. Please don’t judge her too harshly. Highlights include:
- Why my mom will never disown me,
- What she noticed first about my boyfriend, and
- How both of us have been impacted by housing discrimination.
Downloadable version available here.
Cracking up right now listening to my boo’s podcast as they talk about how she told her mom that I’m trans. (also like heads up there is some more serious stuff too) Mother’s day is a weird complicated day for me, but listening to this conversation is making it a bit better.
It reminds me of the “bike to work” movement. That is also portrayed as white, but in my city more than half of the people on bike are not white. I was once talking to a white activist who was photographing “bike commuters” and had only pictures of white people with the occasional “black professional” I asked her why she didn’t photograph the delivery people, construction workers etc. … ie. the black and Hispanic and Asian people… and she mumbled something about trying to “improve the image of biking” then admitted that she didn’t really see them as part of the “green movement” since they “probably have no choice” –
I was so mad I wanted to quit working on the project she and I were collaborating on.
So, in the same way when people in a poor neighborhood grow food in their yards … it’s just being poor– but when white people do it they are saving the earth or something.
comment left on the Racialious blog post “Sustainable Food & Privilege: Why is Green always White (and Male and Upper-Class)” (via sister-bell)
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Aside from Saycon being the first black Elphaba in Broadway, Alexia Khadime was the first black Elphaba in the West End production of Wicked.
Alexia has also performed as Eponine in Les Mis and is currently in London playing Nabulungi in The Book of Mormon.
Thanks Glitterlion. I couldn’t remember her name, but now I am just bathing in the glory of black Elphabas.
(via sistahmamaqueen)
Space Paladin and limited color version for the woman warriors zine Abby, Julia, and Roxie are putting together for MoCCA. From the work I’ve seen for it, looks like the zine’s gonna be bonkers. Might do a limited print run of that top one. Inspired by Andrea’s space babes and Sailor Moon backgrounds.
I can’t not reblog this. Jesus christ Sam I am dying. You’d BETTER be selling prints of this (maybe, pretty please, both of them? I will even let you use my printer).
(via femmedreamboat)
Some great shots from yesterday! Submit yr own
Yesssssss. # some shit that Mills really needs to get on
Some days you wake up and you think to yourself “I want to make a CMYK genderqueer ribbon.” So that’s what you do.
(via queercore)
‘Politically correct’ is just a term assholes came up with so they can dismiss people who have the nerve to want to be respected. Demanding not to be stereotyped is not political correctness, it’s a human right, and you are not some hero for refusing to respect people’s right to be treated like humans.
Dion Beary (via loveyourchaos)
BRB, painting a mural of this quote on every single wall of my school
(via callingoutbigotry)
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We forget we’re
mostly water
till the rain falls
and every atom
in our body
starts to go home
Albert Huffstickler (via paperbackwords)
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