Vegan Feminist Activist

Vegan. Bookworm. Feminist. Animal lover. Tea Drinker. UC Santa Cruz. Environmentalist.

[lora-mathis]

“Your heartbreak is not the most important event in the world. Still there are people getting up to start their days, driving to work, making dinner. You think your pain is so loud that it could stop traffic. But know that there is a healing in your insignificance. Your missing them will not stop the highway buzz outside the window. And so? Isn’t there satisfaction in knowing they are not the world? You look for their face everywhere, but no one else sees it.”

— Your Pain Is A Teacher But Not All There Is, Lora Mathis

[lifeinpoetry]

Now even years later, in the controlled stillness of my bedroom, surrounded by things I accumulated after knowing them, wearing clothes they have never seen me in, I am still stuck — nails deep in the scraping the thick gum of their unchanged lives off my shoes.

— Lora Mathis, from “What Continues to Stick,” published in ÖMËGÄ

[talkingtokafka]

Nearly everyone I know feels that some quality of concentration they once possessed has been destroyed. Reading books has become hard; the mind keeps wanting to shift from whatever it is paying attention to pay attention to something else. A restlessness has seized hold of many of us, a sense that we should be doing something else, no matter what we are doing, or doing at least two things at once, or going to check some other medium. It’s an anxiety about keeping up, about not being left out or getting behind.

Rebecca Solnit (via talkingtokafka)

[blythebaird]

Am I a faux feminist for all the times I’ve kept my mouth closed, voice tight & small like a pearl in the presence of men who say misogynistic things? Is it possible to fight the patriarchy quietly? I don’t know. I don’t know. All I know is how complicated it is to feel so small yet so powerful at the same time.

- Blythe Baird, 2017 (via blythebrooklyn)

[bostonpoetryslam]

& who, this time, will serve the reminder that there are more of us than there are of them. & who, this time, will mean that we all have ancestors & some of them built this country. & some of them were fed into the hunger of war to keep this country built. & some of them were dragged across Kelly Ingram Park by the jaws of police dogs. & some of them were pushed like dying weeds down Birmingham by the riot hoses. & some of them washed blood out of their only good pair of marching shoes. & some of them washed blood out of their grandmother’s only pair of good sheets. & some of them buried their children at dawn & pressed their backs against police barricades at dusk.

Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib, “& who, this time,” published in The Rumpus (via bostonpoetryslam)

[blythebaird]

Am I a faux feminist for all the times I’ve kept my mouth closed, voice tight & small like a pearl in the presence of men who say misogynistic things? Is it possible to fight the patriarchy quietly? I don’t know. I don’t know. All I know is how complicated it is to feel so small yet so powerful at the same time.

- Blythe Baird, 2017 (via blythebrooklyn)

[asoftwrongness]

[ufukedmeup-usikfuk]

I helped myself. wiped my own tears. put balm over fresh wounds. plastered parts of my heart that still were hurting. gave myself time. read books that soothed my soul. heard music that calmed my nerves. watched movies that made me smile. bit by bit, piece by piece, I put myself back together again. and I gave myself a second chance because I know that if I didn’t, then no one else would.

Ruby Dhal (via ufukedmeup-usikfuk)

[blythebaird]

I am trying to both be happy and pay attention to the world around me. I do not know if it is possible to do both at the same time.

Blythe Baird (via blythebrooklyn)

[blythebaird]

Am I a faux feminist for all the times I’ve kept my mouth closed, voice tight & small like a pearl in the presence of men who say misogynistic things? Is it possible to fight the patriarchy quietly? I don’t know. I don’t know. All I know is how complicated it is to feel so small yet so powerful at the same time.

- Blythe Baird, 2017 (via blythebrooklyn)

[silly-luv]

[a-laa-mode]

I say “I am a feminist” and you laugh because “Women have rights already” And while you laugh at this movement you are laughing at the 15 million girls who will become child brides this year alone you are laughing at the millions of young girls sold into sex slavery and at the 70% of women in India who are victims of domestic violence and at the one in five rape victims in the United States and at all of the people in the world who are discriminated against because of something as simple as their gender and in turn, I laugh at you for your lack of an understanding towards a movement that affects you  and everyone that you know and love But I do not laugh at your rape jokes  I do not laugh when you tell me to “Shut up and make you a sandwich” I do not laugh at your utter negligence to an issue as important as this Because basic human rights are not funny The very real experiences of those victimized solely due to their sex is not laughable The suffering of my entire gender is not a fucking joke that you are allowed to make.

so stop treating it like it is.  (via a-laa-mode)

[mysharona1987]

[a-b-r-e-losojos-deactivated2019]

Źródło:vegan humor

[choosehopefortheanimals]

From Evolve Campaigns

[memoryjug]

I fuckin hate saying shit like this. I hate it. but if you’re going to say how sad you are that we have lost half of the world’s population of fish since 1970, why do you still eat fish? if you’re worried about the fact that by 2020, 3/4th of the world’s wildlife will be gone, why the fuck are you not vegan? if you are against animal testing, why do you still use makeup brands that test on animals? if you say that you love animals, why do you eat them? actions mean so much more than words, it’s so important to prove yourself. it isn’t hard. it is not that hard.

[thunderandthrottle]