frozen in that light

"Young men need to be socialized in such a way that rape is as unthinkable to them as cannibalism."

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 19:07:51 +0000

“Young men need to be socialized in such a way that rape is as unthinkable to them as cannibalism.”

- Mary Pipher, Clinical Psychologist and Author, Reviving Ophelia

(via svphie)

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Sun, 27 Jan 2013 19:05:42 +0000

"Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do."

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 17:27:42 +0000

“Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.”

- J.D.Salinger (via fuckinq)

feelitinyourbones: wweird: chasing-a-starlight: Two mama cats...

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 17:25:25 +0000

feelitinyourbones:

wweird:

chasing-a-starlight:

Two mama cats who gave birth at the same time, co-mothering their eight new babies.

However, I prefer to think of them as a lesbian cat couple.

lesbian cat couple yes good

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Wed, 23 Jan 2013 20:08:18 +0000

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Mon, 21 Jan 2013 21:20:54 +0000

"Cosmos is a Greek word for the order of the universe. It is, in a way, the opposite of Chaos. It..."

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 21:02:13 +0000

“Cosmos is a Greek word for the order of the universe. It is, in a way, the opposite of Chaos. It implies the deep interconnectedness of all things. It conveys awe for the intricate and subtle way in which the universe is put together.”

- Carl Sagan (via bluishtigers)

"Birds scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn..."

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 22:37:46 +0000

““Birds scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth, but sadly we don’t speak bird.””

- Kurt Cobain (via wearebarebones)

"We gotta start teaching our daughters to be somebodies instead of somebody’s."

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 21:36:50 +0000

“We gotta start teaching our daughters to be somebodies instead of somebody’s.”

- Kifah Shah (via zombiebondage)

"Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness."

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 19:55:47 +0000

“Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.”

- Alejandro Jodorowsky (via blua)

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Thu, 17 Jan 2013 19:54:15 +0000

"Here is the skin that you said you loved draped over the back of the chair in the kitchen. Here..."

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 21:01:19 +0000

“Here is the skin that you said you loved
draped over the back of the chair in the kitchen.
Here are the teeth. Here is the sternum, the
clavicle, the fibula. Here are the angel bones
laid out on top of the dresser like antique
jewelry. Here are the earlobes, the knobbly
elbows, the beauty mark near my temple
that always got a moan out of you. Here are
my thighs, my femur. All ten toes, all ten
fingers. My pubic bone, preserved and
wrapped in a velvet bag. Your name on the
tag. Your name on everything. Here is
the body that loved you. Here is the
heart, bloodied and wanting. Here are
those drunk voice mails, the sober texts.
Here is your promise of staying. Here
is the lonely hum in my brain where your
name used to be. Here is my spine. Here
is all the hollow. Here is all the longing. Here
is the heavy tongue, the scratchy vocal
chords. Here are all of the I love you’s.
Here is the shocking wreck of it all. Here is
how you were closer to me than my bones,
my skin. Here is the quiet city, your empty
side of the bed. Here is the empty. Here is not
knowing whether you loved me or not. Here is
the poem that can’t save us. Here.”

- Kristina H., “On Missing You” (via suiicune)

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Wed, 16 Jan 2013 20:50:51 +0000

"If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it."

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 20:47:56 +0000

““If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.””

- C.S Lewis (via mesmerizedbyyahweh)

"‎”Boys are told from a young age that whatever they do will be excused under the “boys will be boys”..."

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 20:45:51 +0000

“‎”Boys are told from a young age that whatever they do will be excused under the “boys will be boys” mantra, and that “boys will be boys” mentality leads to what I call the “BOILING FROG” problem of women’s sexual boundaries. I call it that because if you put a frog into a pot of boiling water, it will jump right out, but if you put a frog into a pot of room-temperature water and slowly heat it to a boil, the frog will acclimate as it heats and never jump out, eventually boiling to death. Similarly, when we learn as young girls to tolerate “low-level” boundary violations like the ones we often are forced to suffer in silence at school, at home and on the street – bra-snapping, boob-grabbing, ass pinching, catcalling, dick flashing “all in good fun” relentless violations that adults and authorities routinely ignore – it makes it harder for us to notice when even greater boundaries are being violated, eventually leading to the reality that many women who are raped just freeze and fall silent, because that’s what they’ve been taught to do over and over since day one. You tell me what’s more infantilizing: repeatedly letting boys (and grown men) off the hook for their behavior because “boys will be boys” and we can’t ever expect any differently, or creating a consent standard in which all partners take active responsibility for their partner’s safety, and which acknowledges the truly diseased sexual culture we’re soaking in every day.””

- The (nonexistent) terrible, horrible, no good, very bad consequences of enthusiastic consent - Jaclyn Friedman (via queerintersectional)

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Tue, 15 Jan 2013 21:47:46 +0000

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Tue, 15 Jan 2013 20:49:25 +0000

"One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful."

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 20:49:12 +0000

“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”

-
Sigmund Freud (via zombiebondage)

Freud you are drunk.

oh dear GOD.

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 20:48:33 +0000

oh dear GOD.