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Yesterday after attending the NYCLU rally for immigrant and reproductive rights and hearing a diverse roster of speakers breakdown abortion access and #DACA politics; and then after doing me and going to Pilates I was checking out my TL and saw that someone put a damn pink pussy hat on the statue of Harriet Tubman in Harlem. #Pinkpussyhats in no way represent the rage, power, and constant radical, resistive stance of a Black feminist like revolutionary Tubman! I was pissed! All day I watched white women many, if not mostly, in their pink pussy hats marching who I never see the rest of the year at DACA rallies, at forums on violence against Black transgender women, or in #Harlem at meetings regarding affordable housing or tenants rights. I was on 14th St and couldn’t get back uptown fast enough last night to snatch that joint off her head. When I got there the hat had already been removed. Someone knew like I knew, the statue was fine as is. #HarrietTubman, like most Black women activists, do not need to don a pink pussy hat, a safety pin, or any other (white) feminist accoutrements to show that we are down with the movement! If recent elections aren’t proof enough, WE ARE THE MOVEMENT! The time and energy used to knit this hat and to climb the statue to place it on top could’ve been used to help and support the real lives of Black women in Harlem. I wish white women would stop playing activist. 45 is a racist misogynist. This is no time to be cute! If you want to f*ck with a statue, go and show your disdain for the statue of J. Marion Sims the “gynecologist” who bought Black women slaves to conduct surgical experiments without anesthesia. Leave this statue alone! #BlackRadicalWomen are already good. We are enough and matter just as we are! #handsoffharriet #BlackHarlemLives #timesup #blacklivesmatter

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CAPTAIN

(via katja blichfeld)
*if anyone would like to do this costume with me, i will provide and create all necessary accoutrements

good reminder

from the cut’s interview with cecile richards:

My mom did not go to fancy schools, but she still became the governor of Texas in the early ’90s. She said “Cecile, this is the only life you get and there are no do-overs. You have to take every chance and every opportunity you get and just think what is the worst that can happen?” And that really has helped me a lot. Young women come to me and say ‘I’m thinking of applying for this,” and then they have a list of reasons why they are not qualified. I never, ever have had a man come to me thinking he’s not qualified. When I was asked to interview for this job at Planned Parenthood, I had a million reasons why I couldn’t do it. I thought about how I had never run anything this big and how I had never worked at the organization before. But as Mom would have said, “What’s the worst thing that could happen?” I did it, and here I am. Our regrets are about the things we never tried, or the times we took ourselves out of the running.

REAL CONVERSATIONS WITH MOM

mom: oh ross buttfucked me today! he left a long message
me: what?!
me: oh my god no you mean something else
me: he buttdialed you
mom: so it’s buttf–
me: buttDIALING

oh it’s so much worse

oh man i was a total fool, i thought the hard part was just taking the GRE and getting into grad school, I WAS SO WRONG, GRAD SCHOOL IS THE TRUE HELL, what have i unleashed

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it’s casual

so many treasures at CVS

all the oddly unique lives in this world

from vulture’s interview with terry gross, about the merits of interviewing:

I like to quote John Updike on this. In his memoir, Self-Consciousness, which I really love, he said he wanted to use his life as “a specimen life, representative in its odd uniqueness of all the oddly unique lives in this world.” That’s kind of how I see interviews. When you’re talking to an artist, you can get insight into the sensibility that created his or her art and into the life that shaped that sensibility. I love making those connections. I think we all feel very alone. I don’t mean that we don’t have friends or lovers but that deep at our core we all have loneliness.

alison rossiter

Alison Rossiter
Defender Argo, expired September 1911, processed 2014
From the series Landscapes
Gelatin Silver Print
5″ × 7″
courtesy of Yossi Milo Gallery
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(discovered via moon lists)

this made me cry

WE STAND WITH YOU ~ the women across the globe who have suffered discrimination and abuse because of the imbalance of power. swipe to watch full video. post pics and videos wearing black tomorrow with the hashtags #TimesUp and #WhyWeWearBlack, and tell us why you wear black and we’ll share! @timesupnow @reesewitherspoon @rashidajones @brielarson @kerrywashington @tessamaethompson

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full disclosure i was listening to cat stevens at the time