May 2013
27 posts
“You must choose between your attachments and happiness.”
– Adyashanti (via theblackmoth)
1 tag
“Black women wake up in the morning, look in the mirror, and see Black women....”
– Michelle Haimoff, on privilege
Or, how privilege dislocates and how dislocation is a privilege. Humanitas and anthropos as two Western concepts of being and knowledge. (via unapologetically-yellow)
“Take a day to heal from the lies you’ve told yourself and the ones that have...”
– Maya Angelou (via the-healing-nest)
Get back to honesty towards yourself and others and enjoy how liberating that can feel. (via gentledom)
“Where will we find strength
if not inside of ourselves?
How else can we...”
– Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)
“Isn’t it odd how much fatter a book gets when you’ve read it several times? As...”
– Inkspell by Cornelia Funke (via melodyandviolence)
Notes on A Scandal: So I write a post on being a... →
radicalrebellion:
and folks feel the need to jump on and add “black person” or tell me that “women in general” face shit.
NO. I meant BLACK women, specifically. Because I live in a world where
Psychology Today, a fairly well respected mental health publication, publishes a study finding…
sociolab:
Do you ever think about the fact that the US has created and legitimized a system of institutionalized inequality by funding schools through property taxes? That basically a child’s education is only as good as the value of the property in their neighborhood. Funny how education is so often viewed as an equalizing factor when there is nothing equal about it.
“You think I’ll be the dark sky so you can be the star? I’ll swallow you whole.”
– Warsan Shire (via royblodgett)
What you say: I'm economically conservative and socially liberal
What I hear: Poor people can starve for all I care so long as I have weed.
4 tags
I have a speculum (unused & still in the...
and I think thats the most accurate representation of how my day went…
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
– Theodore Roosevelt ( daringtofocus.tumblr.com )
April 2013
120 posts
“I think perfection is ugly. I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.”
– Yohji Yamamoto (via lauvra, konsui) (via holymum) (via fawncry) (via takneo) (via slids) (via aetholove)
“Will you tolerate
the strangeness inside of me,
the quirks of my soul?”
– Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)
“I am stronger than this challenge, and this challenge is making me stronger.”
– Modish Prover (via h-o-r-n-g-r-y)
“You should come here now,
sneak through the ink of nightfall
and fall into...”
– Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)
4 tags
Mini Naturals →
glitterlion:
A showcase of Mini Natural Cuties. Submissions Welcome !
Because I want to reblog like every single post they have up, I figured I’d just link.
OMIGOD KAYLA!!!!
7 tags
When you get pulled aside in a Professionalism in...
Because your apprenticeship director wants to talk about your natural hair…
[[MORE]]and wants you to document your experience so they have a precedence to work from in the future????
“The economic nature and the psychological distress of poverty is never discussed...”
–
signofamotekun
(via gynocraticgrrl)
“I have a habit of falling in love with souls who have yet to be at peace with...”
– Farah Gabdon (via peacetranquility)
my whole life
(via queennubian)
