Cat calling.
11/14 21:40 - amajor7 - 91,907 notes
Why is this?
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After college, I can never hear “Hey, guys,” the same way again. forever cringe.
8/28 03:09 - hereticarts - 962 notes
Everyone: why is she with him if he treats her so wrong and/or is so abusive? She needs to leave, or her daughter is going to grow up getting mistreated because of her.
No One: why does he mistreat the two women in his life that should mean the most to him? He needs to either get his act together or let his wife and/or children move on and heal
7/9 15:11 - newwavefeminism - 1,426 notes
“There is absolutely no evidence to support the statement that [America is] the greatest country in the world. We’re 7th in literacy, 27th in math, 22nd in science, 49th in life expectancy, 178th in infant mortality, third in median household income, number four in labor force and number four in exports. We lead the world in only three categories: number of incarcerated citizens per capita, number of adults who believe angels are real, and defense spending where we spend more than the next 26 countries combined, 25 of whom are allies. Now, none of this is the fault of a 20-year-old college student, but you nonetheless are without a doubt a member of the worst period generation period ever period, so when you ask what makes us the greatest country in the world, I don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about.”
—Will McAvoy (Aaron Sorkin), The Newsroom
(via The Sociological Cinema)
7/8 17:02 - 11 notes
“…One thing that can be very alienating about a misconception of feminism is that girls then think that to be a feminist, they have to live up to being perfectly consistent in your beliefs, never being insecure, never having doubts, having all the answers, and this is not true and actually, recognizing all the contradictions I was feeling became easier once I understood that feminism was not a rulebook but a discussion, a conversation, a process.”
—Tavi Gevinson, TEDxTeen: Still Figuring it Out
7/7 14:40 - hellxiareblog - 914 notes
From Bao Phi’s ‘For Us’ in Sông I Sing. #APIA :-) <3 (Taken with Instagram)
7/6 19:39 - fascinasians - 87 notes
“A woman’s place is in the struggle.”
If anyone knows the original source of this poster, please let me know so I can properly credit it.
7/4 23:18 - 1 note
Agent Orange on Okinawa, 1970s
(The bright orange barrels and the dark blue with orange stripes are A.O.)
7/4 22:56 - deepfriedcoconutbutter - 5 notes
NO WALMART IN CHINATOWN! 反對沃爾瑪在唐人街!
NO WALMART IN LOS ANGELES! 反對沃爾瑪在洛杉磯!Saturday June 30, 2012 @ 10AM | 2012年6月30日，早上10點鐘
L.A. State Historic Park | 洛杉磯唐人街玉米田(Cornfields)公園(Meet at College and Spring, Metro Gold Line Chinatown station for Community Contingent)
(請大家聚集在华埠金線地鐵站 , Spring街和College街)
Join workers, residents, small businesses and community groups in history’s largest anti-Walmart march!
Come together to demand good jobs, support small businesses, and strengthen Chinatown!
請參與我們的示威遊行! 員工,居民,商業與社區組織團結起來要求良好的就業機會与支持小生意, 使我們的唐人街更加繁榮!
Chinatown Community for Equitable Development (CCED) |華埠公平發展會
FMI | 請聯絡 213-986-8887 或 ccedchinatown@gmail.com
Blog | 網站: http://nowalmartinchinatown.tumblr.com/
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CCED is an all-volunteer group of residents, students, teachers, and businesses united for a better Chinatown. | CCED 是由居民 , 學生 , 教師及企業家為建設更好的華埠 , 聯合組成的義工團
6/30 00:58 - nowalmartinchinatown - 2 notes
6/29 01:15 - newwavefeminism - 2,621 notes
I really tried to capture his facial expression.
maybe they just rub me wrong since they’re always explained by some pouty faced dude, but these posts always seem to roughly translate to,
“Dear girl, I know you must be insecure not because the world has told you a lot of specific instructions about how you have to dress and look a certain way in order to be happy and beautiful and to have people like you that is reflected and reinforced in all the tv and movies we watch, the magazines we buy, the commercials that air-
I know the real reason for your insecurity must be that not enough men have told you today that your face looks good no matter what you put on it. Now you feel better, right?”
6/13 23:40 - internal-acceptance-movement - 174,260 notes
“I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people. For example, I am black. I know that. I also know that while I am black I am a human being. Therefore I have the right to go into any public place. White people don’t know that. Every time I tried to go into a public place they stopped me. So some boys had to write a bill to tell that white man, “He’s a human being; don’t stop him.” That bill was for the white man, not for me. I knew I could vote all the time and that it wasn’t a privilege but my right. Every time I tried I was shot, killed or jailed, beaten or economically deprived. So somebody had to write a bill to tell white people, “When a black man comes to vote, don’t bother him.” That bill was for white people.”
—Stokely Carmichael
“Excuse Me, ameriKa” - I Was Born With Two Tongues, from Broken Speak (full album here).
The first and only album from legendary Asian American spoken word collective I Was Born With Two Tongues, comprised of Anida Yoeu Ali, Marlon Esguerra, Emily Chang, and Dennis “Denizen Kane” Kim.
Geeking the fuck out cuz I hadn’t heard the whole thing til now - bless the internet and the poets for being free with their art. This group is the closest thing I know to elders of an Asian American spoken word tradition - and for me, they hit closer to my experience than most classic AsAm literature. It’s eerie and affirming hearing messages and images similar to my writing though I had never heard these pieces before. If someone were to ask me what it’s like being Asian American and I was incapable of writing or speaking it myself, I would refer them to this album.
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still you shuffle my anger aside
want me to bite my lips and watch my words,
yet you cut me with your thoughts.
your stories frame me in fiction
recreated for ideal themes
squeezed my mind for the minor myth
that molds me into your major model
gave me seductive sex appeal to steal your virgin soldiers
and drew me dragon claws to kill your unlucky sons
excuse me if I get too angry.
YOU SPREAD LIES MEANT TO SPREAD MY LEGS.
—excuse me, ameriKa
Stream the rest of the Broken Speak album here.
