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I believe wholeheartedly, and without apology, that we have a collective responsibility to the children of our communities even if we did not conceive and bear them. Of course, parents can and should raise their children with their own values. But they should be able to do so in a community that provides safe places to play, quality food to eat, terrific schools to attend, and economic opportunities to support them. No individual household can do that alone. We have to build that world together.

Melissa Harris-Perry, Why caring for children is not just a parent’s job (via msnbc)

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queenofhoes:

TLC - Unpretty

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24ribs: It’s not a difficult concept, and yet we are still protesting.

24ribs:

It’s not a difficult concept, and yet we are still protesting.

joylesslyflinging:

born / starfucker

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confusedtree:

Lady Gaga, Dan Savage, the Human Rights Campaign and the rest of those hug brigade assholes are all intensely focused on creating a really hurtful narrative wherein you can be accepted, you can have your rights, you can be entitled to basic human decency if you show the right type of queerness, if you want to get married, if you can say “We’re just like you! See” that leaves behind queer people, trans people, people of colour, people who don’t fit that narrative in the dust. Time and time again these self-proclaimed activists actually go out of their way to exclude those people. It’s not slipping their mind. They literally don’t want them. Because the world just isn’t ready for that alleged ugliness, according to them. Wait, wait for a bit, then we’ll see about the rest

Your body and your sexuality and your gender and your priorities must meet a minimum level of permissibility and shitheads like Lady Gaga sign off on all of it and everyone gives her a pass because “well at least she’s doing something which is more than we can say about you!”

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mat1t:

‘The Barn Owl Fortune Teller’  A bit of a silly idea but I enjoyed doing it a lot!

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A racist woman is not a feminist; she doesn’t care about helping women, just the women who look like her and can buy the same things she can. A transphobic woman is not a feminist; she is overly concerned with policing the bodies and expressions of others. A woman against reproductive rights — to use bell hook’s own example, and an issue close to your heart — is not a feminist; she prioritizes her dogma or her disgust over the bodies of others. An ableist woman is not a feminist; she holds some Platonic ideal of what a physically or mentally “whole” person should be and tries to force the world to fit inside it.

An Open Letter to Caitlin Moran by Nyux (via redefiningbodyimage)

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el-nuevo-negro:

Queer artists of color you should be aware of if you aren’t already:

Azealia Banks

Zebra Katz

Mykki Blanco

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conniecann: Last words of civil rights activist Josephine Baker (1906-1975), the first African American woman to star in a major motion picture. [x] 

conniecann:

Last words of civil rights activist Josephine Baker (1906-1975), the first African American woman to star in a major motion picture. [x] 

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