Chloe Fitzpatrick

just collecting things so that one day i might make my own thing

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Dragon flies and mushrooms and wood sorrow and mugwort. Can't wait to run around in the woods all summer.🌱🌿🍃 If you know a teen who needs a great place to be this summer, plz let me know! (at Holmes, New York)

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"If I get married, we're gonna honeymoon in Poundtown. And if that ain't a real place, then I ain't gettin married, Jacko." - @twittels

[oops-thisisamistake]

Cholas are more than Latina sidekicks for Lana Del Rey or concepts for Fergie’s music video. The chola aesthetic was first forged by the marginalized Mexican American youths of Southern California. It embodies the remarkable strength and creative independence it takes to survive in a society where your social mobility has been thwarted by racism. The chola identity was conceived by a culture that dealt with gang warfare, violence, and poverty on top of conservative gender roles. The clothes these women wore were more than a fashion statement—they were signifiers of their struggle and hard-won identity.

‘The Folk Feminist Struggle Behind the Chola Fashion Trend’ - Barbara Calderón-Douglass (via oops-thisisamistake)

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[queer-feminist-quotes]

When you grow up as a girl, the world tells you the things that you are supposed to be: emotional, loving, beautiful, wanted. And when you are those things, the world tells you they are inferior: illogical, weak, vain, empty.

Stevie Nicks (via queer-feminist-quotes)

[lipstick-feminists]

I removed the flag not only in defiance of those who enslaved my ancestors in the southern United States, but also in defiance of the oppression that continues against black people globally in 2015, including the ongoing ethnic cleansing in the Dominican Republic. I did it in solidarity with the South African students who toppled a statue of the white supremacist, colonialist Cecil Rhodes. I did it for all the fierce black women on the front lines of the movement and for all the little black girls who are watching us. I did it because I am free.

 Bree Newsome Speaks For The First Time After Courageous Act of Civil Disobedience (via lipstick-feminists)

[arabellesicardi]

A Church Going People are a Dress-loving People”: Clothes, Communications, and Religious Culture in Early America 

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This is my friend George. He loves ants & aliens.

[casadabiqueira]

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Romualdas Rakauskas, 1981

[rifles]

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Portrait of my friend toorealjelly by me.

Words by Zayn Malik

https://twitter.com/zaynmalik/status/433012329803169792?lang=en

[wocinsolidarity]

The true meaning of solidarity is under serious attack and runs the risk of being drastically changed. The proof of this is how fashionable its usage has become, how easily it rolls off the tongues of all sorts of speakers, how unthreatening it is. If the true meaning of solidarity were understood and intended, visible radical change would be happening in the lives of those who endorse it with their applause. Solidarity is NOT a matter of agreeing with, of being supportive of, of liking, or of being inspired by, the cause of a group of people. Though all these might be a part of solidarity, solidarity goes beyond all of them. Solidarity has to do with understanding the interconnections among issues and the cohesiveness that needs to exist among the communities of struggle.

Ada María Isasi-Díaz, “Solidarity: Love of Neighbor in the 1980s” (via lastuli)

[hazelcills]

Women have been driven mad, “gaslighted,” for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates only male experience. The truth of our bodies and our minds has been mystified to us. We therefore have a primary obligation to each other: not to undermine each others’ sense of reality for the sake of expediency; not to gaslight each other. Women have often felt insane when cleaving to the truth of our experience. Our future depends on the sanity of each of us, and we have a profound stake, beyond the personal, in the project of describing our reality as candidly and fully as we can to each other.

Adrienne Rich (via arabellesicardi)

[fullpraxisnow]

[…] I do not exist to do his feeling for him.  Men who are afraid to feel must keep women around to do their feeling for them while dismissing us for the same supposedly “inferior” capacity to feel deeply. But in this way also, men deny themselves their own essential humanity, becoming trapped in dependency and fear.

Audre Lorde | Man Child: A Black Lesbian Feminist’s Response (1979)

[paroisse]

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Pablo Picasso, Nude, 1931

[ashnicdel]

the view from my 11th floor window.

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“To hold another girl’s face, the trust and control implied in the gesture. The power another girl can give you. It’s such a fragile, precious thing. Makeup is that power: the manipulation of it, the result of it. It’s always been a way for me to redeem power that was never supposed to be mine in the first place.”

Arabelle Sicardi, A Bridge Between Love And Lipstick: Queering the beauty industry.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/arabellesicardi/queer-beauty#.qk3DLAWjbB