(Source: 365daysyoga)
(Source: revelandrioton)
“For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?”
“If you’re comfortable proclaiming that racism is bad when someone dies from it but you’re not comfortable challenging it when it’s “just little stuff” or “only a joke” or “there could be other reasons”, you aren’t fighting racism, you are being complicit with it.”
alexandraerinr (via atrapforfools)
true for so many things.
(Source: revelandrioton)
“Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts, and don’t put up with people that are reckless with yours.”
(Source: hockey-teeth)
“Saying women have power over men because men desire them is like saying gold has power over humans because we collectively decided to agree that it is a valuable substance.”
“A survey of girls in Zimbabwean junior schools in 2000 reported by Amnesty International found 92 per cent had been sexually propositioned by an older man on their way to school, and half of them had experienced unsolicited sexual contact by strangers. Factors such as these mean that, simply by virtue of being born female, millions of children across the world are denied their right to an education. In fact, according to the charity Childline, in South Africa a girl actually has a higher chance of being raped than of learning to read.”
—The Equality Illusion, Kat Banyard
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In South Africa a girl actually has a higher chance of being raped than of learning to read.
In South Africa a girl actually has a higher chance of being raped than of learning to read.
Now bleat that feminism is no longer relevant. Go on. I fucking dare you.
(via cunthorse)
far too important to not re-blog.
(via frankenchick)
(Source: petitefeministe)
“You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.”
