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“Poems don’t always have to rhyme, you know. They just have to be creative.”

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"The word “art” is something the West has never understood. Art is supposed to be a part of a community. Like, scholars are supposed to be a part of a community… Art is to decorate people’s houses, their skin, their clothes, to make them expand their minds, and it’s supposed to be right in the community, where they can have it when they want it… It’s supposed to be as essential as a grocery store… that’s the only way art can function naturally."

- Amiri Baraka (via westindians)

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"To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget."

- Arundhati Roy, The Algebra of Infinite Justice (via loveyourchaos)

(Source: a-thousand-desires)

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"In the cybernetic age, the individual becomes increasingly subject to manipulation. His work, his consumption, and his leisure are manipulated by advertising, by ideologies, by what Skinner calls ‘positive reinforcements.’ The individuals loses his active, responsible role in the social process; he becomes completely ‘adjusted’ and learns that any behavior, act, thought, or feeling which does not fit into the general scheme puts him at a severe disadvantage; in fact he is what he is supposed to be…What has happened in modern industrial society is that traditions, and common values, and genuine social personal ties with others have largely disappeared. The modern mass man is isolated and lonely, even though he is part of a crowd; he has no convictions which he could share with others, only slogans and ideologies he gets from the communications media."

- Erich Fromm, from “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness” (via wordythings)

(Source: heartbloodspirit)

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Social justice movements tend to spring up around issues that most people don’t get. Social justice movements tend to spring up around issues that, to most people, don’t seem to matter that much. If people understood that the issues mattered, then organized movements to promote them wouldn’t be necessary.

Until their issues are properly understood, most social justice movements, almost by definition, are going to look whiny to most people. If you can’t understand why the things people are complaining about matter, those people are going to look whiny to you. That is, they’re going to look like they’re complaining about things that don’t matter.

Something to keep in mind when you’re thinking about accusing people in a social justice movement of being whiny: every social justice movement looks whiny if you don’t understand their issues. A lot of the time, the fact that calling attention to their issues is perceived as whiny is precisely the reason why the movement is necessary in the first place.
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- A Thought on Social Justice and Being Whiny | Research to be Done (via brute-reason)

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"‘Passing’ necessarily makes ‘failing’ the fault of the trans* person who doesn’t try hard enough to fit into a stereotyped role of the ‘opposite’ gender, rather than the fault of the systemically and unfalteringly transphobic society that only believes in binary genders, and dictates a very certain, very narrow way for trans* people to be accepted as one of those two genders. The struggle is enough for trans* men and women, but what of the few people who don’t want to be seen as either female or male?"

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Pass/fail: Navigating a World that doesn’t Believe your Gender Exists (via ninjabikeslut)

like seriously…

(via hysthetics)

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"Stop comparing where you’re at with where everyone else is. It doesn’t move you farther ahead, improve your situation, or help you find peace. It just feeds your shame, fuels your feelings of inadequacy, and ultimately, it keeps you stuck. The reality is that there is no one correct path in life. Everyone has their own unique journey. A path that’s right for someone else won’t necessarily be a path that’s right for you. And that’s okay. Your journey isn’t right or wrong, or good or bad. It’s just different. Your life isn’t meant to look like anyone else’s because you aren’t like anyone else. You’re a person all your own with a unique set of goals, obstacles, dreams, and needs. So stop comparing, and start living. You may not have ended up where you intended to go. But trust, for once, that you have ended up where you needed to be. Trust that you are in the right place at the right time. Trust that your life is enough. Trust that you are enough."

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Daniell Koepke (via uxxr)

dear self, put this in your brain

(via rainynighthouse)

(Source: internal-acceptance-movement)

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In themselves, all emotional states of being just are. They can have negative impact if we deny their existence, thereby denying healing for their potential to do harm to self and others. Or they can have negative impact if we express them in unhealthy and inappropriate ways. Likewise, they can have a positive impact if we embrace them and allow them to transform into empowerment through our unconditional acceptance and intent. Or they can have a positive impact if we express them in healthy and appropriate ways.

For example, fear as a warning to danger is a positive thing. Fear as an obstacle to making needed changes is a negative thing. Whether an emotion is positive or negative really depends on how it is used. Still, for most people, unpleasant emotions are perceived as negative and pleasant emotions, positive.
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- from that piece that kept popping up this morning. you know, nearly everyone i know says they dont like to be angry. for me, that unpleasant emotion is strongly positive. im bit by the contrition and mortification-at-own-ignorance unpleasant emotional experience bugs, as well. (via curioustoned)

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"tear down sociosexual machineries with your teeth, don’t get stuck on how to fuck the way you should. like I’m damaged for not touching the way I could, give out your sex in the ways that feel good. be as whipslap and fantasy as you see fit, embody your own idea of ecstasy."

- “how to dissect” (via farfromsprawl)

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