December 2010
61 posts
“If the love within your mind is lost and you see other beings as enemies, then...”
– The 14th Dalai Lama
“Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It...”
– Sylvia Boorstein
“Just as the highest and the lowest notes are equally inaudible, so perhaps, is...”
– Allan Watts
Smash the White Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchy:... →
adailyriot:
So, for my “on the side book”, I’m reading Bell Hooks Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope. Here’s some stuff that’ve stood out to me so far:
1. Since well-educated white women with class privilege were uniquely situated to ender the academy via affirmative action policies in…
“An execution is not simply death. It is just as different from the privation of...”
– Albert Camus (via azspot)
Because apparently some of my followers don't know...
mmmfeminism:
dangerouslycoldtea:
A link spam:
This Is What Rape Culture Looks Like [Yes Means Yes]
On “Hey Baby” And The Invisibility Of Managing Sexual Harassment (Invisible To Men, I Mean) [Alas A Blog]
Sexual Force And Reader Consent In Romance [Dear Author]
The Rise Of The Rape Joke [The Guardian]
Race And Assault Collide: The Adrianne Curry Incident [Racialicious]
Rape Culture 101...
“The willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life is the source...”
– Joan Didion
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
– Jiddu Krishnamurti
“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”
– Frederick Douglass
“A treatment method or an educational method that will work for one child may not...”
– Temple Grandin
“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with...”
– Maya Angelou
“An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one’s...”
– Sholem Asch
“Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering -...”
– Buddha
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been Bamboozled long...”
– Carl Sagan (via anti-propaganda)
Jury pool in marijuana case stages ‘mutiny’ →
A funny thing happened on the way to a trial in Missoula County District Court last week.
Jurors – well, potential jurors – staged a revolt.
They took the law into their own hands, as it were, and made it clear they weren’t about to convict anybody for having a couple of buds of marijuana. Never mind that the defendant in question also faced a felony charge of criminal distribution of...
“Across the country, and especially in northern Mexico, the breakdown of the...”
– In Mexico, a legal breakdown invites brutal justice
(via fuckyeahdrugpolicy)
“An anarchist is someone who doesn’t need a cop to make him behave.”
– Ammon Hennacy (via creedminusgun)
“Even our physical structure seems more suited to feelings of love and...”
– The Dalai Lama (via sleepingbuddha)
STFU, Tea Baggers!: 7 Things You Didn't Know About... →
cephalopodswims:
1. Legal in 15 States
Think you know it all about medical marijuana? You might be surprised to learn it’s already legal in 15 states. If you live in AK, CA, CO, HI, MI, MT, NV, NJ, NM, OR, RI, VT, VI, WA — with the proper permit, of course — you can smoke away what…
“Today millions of young women who benefit from the struggles of their mothers...”
– Isabel Allende (via sarahgraham7)
Insight from a Fellow Earthling: garrettcz:... →
garrettcz:
“Coming back to capitalism is like walking into a brick wall. It’s like being hurled into the middle ages. It’s like returning from the future to a place where everyone thinks it was just a dream you had and you say, “No really, I was in a country without advertising, where all the…
“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is...”
– Audre Lorde (via vertebrabyvertebra)
“I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest...”
– Leo Tolstoy (via mohandaskgandhi)
“We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every...”
– Elie Wiesel (via mohandaskgandhi)
“The genuine Anarchist looks with sheer horror upon every destruction, every...”
– Charlotte Wilson
“This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and race, because they...”
– Gloria Steinem
“We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.”
– Dora Russell
“A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and...”
– Mikhail Bakunin
“We wish, in a word, equality - equality in fact as a corollary, or rather, as...”
– Mikhail Bakunin
“It must be said at the outset that the field of mental illness has always been...”
– Margaret Atwood, from Ophelia Has a Lot to Answer For
“It must, needless to say, be stressed that social action cannot await a firmly...”
– Noam Chomsky, from Language and Freedom
“They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that...”
– From The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy
“As far as I’m concerned, being any gender is a drag.”
– Patti Smith
“…our notions of what a human being is problematically depend on there...”
– Judith Butler, in an interview with The Believer Magazine
“We’re trained to see only male or female and to plot people into those...”
– Minnie Bruce Pratt
“Professors rarely speak of the place of eros or the erotic in our classrooms....”
– bell hooks, from Teaching to Transgress
“It is of the nature of an idea to be communicated: written, spoken, done. The...”
– From The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
“We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we...”
– Buckminster Fuller, in Cosmography (1992)
Insight from a Fellow Earthling: The Hundredth... →
onalonelyscreen:
In 1952, ten thousand macaque monkeys were put on the island of Koshima, Japan by an international group of scientists. They were put in a natural, healthy environment and fed coconuts. The one thing about this experiment: the coconut husks were slightly radioactive. A simple washing in fresh…
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“Most people are not liars. They can’t tolerate too much cognitive...”
– Noam Chomsky, in an interview with James Peck
“The universe is composed of subjects to be communed with, not objects to be...”
– Thomas Berry (via commondense)
“Why not go further? I’d like to posit that the human condition is a genetic,...”
– Aphrodisios: DSM-5: Disordering Intersex Disobedience? (via genderqueer)