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Here, the question of digital labor and women of color feminism dovetails with questions of consent. Even as the no-cost book fulfilled a critical intellectual need for its marginalized readers, This Bridge circulated online without the consent or knowledge of the women who had produced it, women who had gone so far as to create their own publishing company in order to protect their content and their labor. The contradictory role of This Bridge as a pirated digital object mir- rors the larger contradiction of Tumblr and other vernacular forms of networked pedagogy; bringing critical education to those locked out of mainstream classrooms also means extracting labor from those same marginalized groups. Especially when individuals do not consent to be treated as de facto teachers, then, the power of the social network to construct intimate, empathetic, and dialogic learning can look instead like the most exploitative forms of free labor: on Tumblr, the social network risks becoming, to paraphrase Scholz (2013), both “classroom and factory.

Cassius Adair and Lisa Nakamura “The Digital Afterlives of This Bridge Called My Back: Woman of Color Feminism, Digital Labor, and Networked Pedagogy”  (via mysticben)

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Doulas, if you are in the process of obtaining certifying births and are not charging for them please stop advertising your services as free, because they are are. Even if you aren’t charging it is costing you something. It is not free. Consider trying the phrase, “a complimentary doula package valued at $XXX amount” and use the top amount that you are aiming for please. The value of what you are offering will be perceived completely differently.

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Woman does not feel safe when her own culture, and white culture, are critical of her; when the males of all races hunt her as prey.

Gloria Anzaldúa, Bordelands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, 1987 (via radical-tadpole)

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How is it that fire is so gentle and graceful, yet such a force of destruction

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That face. (via smokingd*ck)

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 You can leave me at home for the next autumn photoshoot. (via kuymdmouse)

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Aubri Ebony

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Having Conversation With Men Moodboard

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sry but depression for me isn’t smudged mascara and crying into a boy’s chest and acting romantic and reckless, it’s honestly just staring at the wall and not showering for days and not going out with friends and feeling so fucking disconnected from everything that i can barely breathe. it’s not pretty. it doesn’t have to be pretty. fuck you for trying to make a mental illness aesthetically pleasing, like it’s something i should be proud of.