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laurajwryan: Spring, 4/15/2013

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 17:56:14 -0400

Spring, 4/15/2013

"As long as women’s natural body hair is called disgusting and inappropriate while men’s isn’t, I am..."

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 17:07:34 -0400

“As long as women’s natural body hair is called disgusting and inappropriate while men’s isn’t, I am a feminist.
As long as I can’t watch an episode of a popular sitcom without having to sit through multiple sexist comments or “jokes”, I am a feminist.
As long as women have to face the rational fear of being sexually assaulted every time they walk home past dark while men don’t, I am a feminist.
As long as misogyny exists in any country in this world, I am a feminist.
As long as women are being raped, then stoned to death or forced to marry their rapist, I am a feminist.
As long as companies promote men to manager when there are women who are equally as or better qualified, because they find that men look more authoritative, I am a feminist.
As long as women (her choice of clothes, her friendly nature, her weakness, her choice to drink alcohol) get blamed when men rape them, I am a feminist.
As long women’s opinions on online social networks are dismissed with phrases like “tits or gtfo”, “get back to the kitchen”, “are you pms’ing?”, I am a feminist.
As long as dressing like a women is degrading for men and as long as men are insulted with phrases like “you throw like a woman”, clearly implying that being like a woman is shameful, I am a feminist.
As long as both men are women are expected to work, but taking care of children and the household are still largely considered a woman’s job, I am a feminist.
As long as boys and girls are treated differently, expected to act differently, and surrounded by different toys and colours from the day they are born, I am a feminist.
As long as topless women aren’t allowed in public unless they’re on the cover of a men’s magazine, I am a feminist.
As long as women who have sex frequently are generally told they are “sluts”, “lacking self-respect” and “lacking morals” by both men and women, while men who frequently have sex are “just being men” and it’s “natural for them”, I am a feminist.
As long as there are places where women have to pay more for health insurance than men, I am a feminist.
As long as men experience situations with equal gender representation as female-dominated, and don’t consider a group discussion equal unless there are significantly more men then women participants (as has been proven), I am a feminist.
As long as there are men who think it’s their wife or girlfriend’s duty to have sex with him whenever he wants, I am a feminist.
As long as the word feminism (“the movement aimed at equal rights for women”) has a negative connotation, I am a feminist.
As long as misogynist people exist, I am a feminist.”

- LE CHRYSANTHÉME: I am a feminist. (via psychedelicpaisleyprincess)

"I know, when I shower my children with my usual excess of hugs and kisses, that most of those scenes..."

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 21:23:02 -0400

“I know, when I shower my children with my usual excess of hugs and kisses, that most of those scenes will not stay with them. They will forget…(b)ut my hugs and kisses do not vanish without a trace. They remain, at least in aggregate, as fond feelings and emotional bonds. I know that my memory of my parents would overflow any tiny vessel formed from merely the concrete episodes that my consciousness recalls, and I hope that the same will be true of my children. Moments in time may be forever forgotten, or viewed through a hazy or distorting lens, yet something of them nonetheless survives within us, permeating our unconscious. From there, they impart to us a rich array of feelings that bubble up when we think about those who were dearest to our hearts.”

- Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior by Leonard Mlodinow

"The daily work life of industrial, class societies is one of violence. Violence poses as economic..."

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 15:36:00 -0500

“The daily work life of industrial, class societies is one of violence. Violence poses as economic rationality as some of us are turned into extensions of machines, while others become brains detached from bodies. Our industrial process becomes the modern-day rack of torture where we are stretched out of shape and ripped limb from limb. It is violence that exposes workers to the danger of chemicals, radiation, machinery, speedup, and muscle strain. It is violence that condemns the majority to work to exhaustion for forty or fifty years and then to be thrown into society’s garbage bin for the old and used-up. […] The violence of our social order nurtures a psychology of violence, which in turn reinforces the social, economic and political structures of violence.”

- “The Construction of Masculinity and the Triad of Men’s Violence” by Michael Kaufman

Jacob Riis, 5 Cents a Spot, c. 1889

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 22:10:30 -0500

Jacob Riis, 5 Cents a Spot, c. 1889

hmongthrills: My Way Home MY WAY HOME is a documentary film...

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 22:11:32 -0500

hmongthrills:

My Way Home

MY WAY HOME is a documentary film that chronicles a young Hmong - American woman’s journey to reconnect with her past. Born in the jungles of Laos but raised in the United States, twenty-two year old Hmong filmmaker Dao Chang wants to make films about her culture. The only problem is she doesn’t know much about it. Seeking information about the war that changed her family’s destiny and her mother who died in a refugee camp, Dao turns to her father, who protects her from the past. Desperate for answers, Dao travels to Laos in search of an aunt who stayed behind. What she finds is far from what she imagined.

Beate Gordon, Long-Unsung Heroine of Japanese Women’s Rights, Dies at 89

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 12:43:27 -0500

Beate Gordon, Long-Unsung Heroine of Japanese Women’s Rights, Dies at 89:

"Advocates of cultural democracy, of respect for differences and a wider definition of art, are often..."

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 20:09:28 -0500

“Advocates of cultural democracy, of respect for differences and a wider definition of art, are often taunted with the specter of “the lowest common denominator.” But art does not become “worse” as it spreads out and becomes accessible to more people. In fact, the real low ground lies in the falsely beneficent notion of a “universal” art that smoothes over all rough edges, all differences, but remains detached from the lives of most people.”

- Mixed Blessings by Lucy R. Lippard

"In the best of times I can belong to both the culture of my country of origin and to that of my..."

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 16:18:00 -0500

“In the best of times I can belong to both the culture of my country of origin and to that of my country of adoption. In the worst of times I belong nowhere. Most of the time, however, there is just a fluid sense of belonging/nonbelonging, changes in response to the circumstances, personal encounters, and occasional emotional tugs. I no longer wish to completely resolve the duality of my existence.”

- “Whither Home? The Predicament of a Bicultural Existence” by Vishakha N. Desai

"To find a place for oneself in this culture is a political act."

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 16:37:26 -0500

““To find a place for oneself in this culture is a political act.””

- May Sun

"The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know..."

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 18:02:23 -0400

“The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.”

- Oscar Wilde (via loveyourchaos)

kuniflowers: ooh la la this morning

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 10:04:52 -0400

kuniflowers:

ooh la la this morning

yama-bato: JENÖ DULOVITS GRASHALME

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 10:04:37 -0400

yama-bato:

JENÖ DULOVITS

GRASHALME

"Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it."

Sat, 08 Sep 2012 09:20:54 -0400

“Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.””

- Jasper Johns (via yama-bato)

"All in all, regardless of whatever importance Asian American art may have for the future..."

Mon, 03 Sep 2012 21:13:10 -0400

“All in all, regardless of whatever importance Asian American art may have for the future understanding of history, these newfound artifacts from the past, these wonderful creative expressions, can now be enjoyed once again as their creators had intended: as works of emotion, of beauty, of protest, of intellectual engagement, or deeply personal sentiment. These works of art can speak to us across the divide of time. There is no Asian American aesthetic to which a work must adhere to be appreciated. Exactly how we will view these works will depend on how receptive we are to challenges to our assumptions about “American art,” “modern art,” “Asian art,” and even about Asian Americans themselves.”

- “Emerging from the Shadows” by Gordon H. Chang

Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want - The Smiths

Sat, 25 Aug 2012 05:41:19 -0400

Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want - The Smiths

neonmojo: Such Great Heights || Iron and Wine

Fri, 24 Aug 2012 13:36:17 -0400

neonmojo:

Such Great Heights || Iron and Wine

luzfosca: Gérard Castello-Lopes Costa de Lavos, Portugal, 1958

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 14:51:27 -0400

luzfosca:

Gérard Castello-Lopes

Costa de Lavos, Portugal, 1958

Adriana Czernin

Sat, 11 Aug 2012 12:12:47 -0400

Adriana Czernin

mainart: Animated Gif (Hopper 3), 2012 Ibon Mainar

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 22:35:42 -0400

mainart:

Animated Gif (Hopper 3), 2012 Ibon Mainar