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i genuinely think that y’all are just into gendered sexualized violent revenge fantasies where marginalized people enact violent masculinist power over white bodies. and y’all wanna call that feminism and agency and empowerment and black girl magic. when it’s not.

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From Keke Palmer new music video “I don’t belong to you”.

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Satan is here

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the year is 2085. i’m on my death bed, barely able to lift a finger. my doctors and family know i don’t have much time left, so they ask if there’s anything or anyone i’d like to see in these last moments. i ask for a computer.

one of my nieces types what i dictate – i tell her to go to tumblr dot com, an ancient relic from a different time. i have to tell her how to spell it. the new generations, they don’t know. i have her log into my old account, untouched for as long as the site has been abandoned. i have her scroll through my old posts, telling her there’s one i’m looking for – and not so far down, we find it. i tell her to reblog it. she does.

i smile up at her, pat her hand with my remaining strength, and begin to laugh. it’s a loud, joyous laugh. when the sound fades and stops everyone knows – they know i’m dead. amid their tears they wonder, vainly, what on earth “makorra” is, why one would “pop bottles” over it, what it has to do with a disturbing green frog man, and why it was so important that this be my final legacy.

there is a peaceful smile on my stilled face.

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Inktober day 11

The overthinker

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my pdoc said it sounds like my friend has borderline personality disorder... And so I looked it up and like I'm no professional but I was like "yea she does all of this stuff" and "yes this is exactly what she is afraid of/insecure about"

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*nigella lawson voice to myself at 4am*: so now what I'm going to do is I'm going to put the frozen pizza in the oven

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They did hook up. He almost acted like an asshole. She left town for a job tho so we'll see what happens when she gets back

I think my best friend and my ex are hookin up and I’m not mad or nothing I just wanna know Also I think it’s low key a bad idea but also I think it’s kind of cute? Mostly my ex is an ASSHOLE w.r.t. romantic relationships so I’m worried but u know (and being a close friend will not save her frm this, unless he is changed, bc lol it didn’t save me)

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The feminist is the person who is entirely unsurprised by both the fact that virtually all cosmetic operations are performed on women and the fact that virtually all of the people carving women into acceptable shapes are men.

Germaine Greer, The Whole Woman (via feministknits)

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Born women are all too aware of a disharmony between who they are and what their gender role requires of them; some of them too will undergo surgery designed to bring them into line with the Teutonic round-breasted, short-nosed stereotype. Gender identification is never more than approximate. All women as they age are compelled to watch the feminine veils wearing through until only the bedrock of their femaleness is left. A thousand years from now the archaeologists who dig up their bones will know that they were women, and they will come to the same conclusion about the FTM transsexuals as well.

Germaine Greer, The Whole Woman (via feministknits)

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As a way of inducing them to buy products of no use or value, women have been deliberately infected with BDD [body dysmorphic disorder]. Conditions that practically all women ‘suffer from’ are spoken of as unsightly and abnormal, to make women feel that parts of their bodies, perhaps their whole bodies, are defective and should be worked on, even surgically altered.

Germaine Greer, The Whole Woman (via feministknits)

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And this nonsense talk about sexual services, that’s just crazy. First of all, sex is not a service. The nature of sex is one of mutuality. And where you don’t have that mutuality, what you have is sexual abuse.

Rachel Moran x (via malenkee)

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Documentary: Beyond Beats and Rhymes (2006)

From: Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation By Beth E. Richie

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Solano Benitez & Sergio Fanego - Fanego house, Asuncion 2003. Via, photos © Federico Cairoli.

The brick measures everything: the structure, the stairs, the movable panel openings, the floor, the ceiling.