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Qing, Inner Richmond, March 2013 by Vivian Fu

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Tim, Inner Richmond, April 2013 by Vivian Fu 

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i dont want my words to be taken out of context

i dont want to be infantilized because i refuse to be sexualized

i dont want to be molested at shows or on the street by people who perceive me as an object that exists for their personal satisfaction

i dont want to live in a world where...

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Einstein addressing students at Lincoln University, May 1946. “As for the Negroes this country still has a heavy debt to discharge for all the troubles and disabilities it has laid on the Negro’s shoulders; for all that his fellow-citizens have done and to some extent are still doing to him. To the Negro and his wonderful songs and choirs we owe the finest contribution in the realm of art which America has so far given to the world. And this great gift we owe, not to those whose names are engraved on this ‘Wall of Fame’ but to children of the people, blossoming namelessly as the lilies of the field.” [5] “There is … a somber point in the social outlook of Americans … Their sense of equality and human dignity is mainly limited to men of white skins. Even among these there are prejudices of which I as a Jew am dearly conscious; but they are unimportant in comparison with the attitude of ‘Whites’ toward their fellow-citizens of darker complexion, particularly toward Negroes. … The more I feel an American, the more this situation pains me. I can escape the feeling of complicity in it only by speaking out.”  Racism is America’s greatest disease” and “Racism is a disease of the white man.” Albert Einstein

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A pause from editing. #literarycat

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new posttttt

Just A Girl

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When asked by prosecutors why he didn’t stop the incident, he said, ‘It wasn’t violent. I didn’t know exactly what rape was. I thought it was forcing yourself on someone.’

from CNN.com, testimony by Evan Westlake, 18, a Steubenville football and baseball player

I didn’t know exactly what rape was… A fundamental issue of rape culture.

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And there it is.

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I don’t have the words to express how this makes me feel.

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This is what we’ve taught them.

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by SHARPSHOCK

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Georgia O’Keeffe (Hands)

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