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oh hey! Haven’t been on here in ages but would just like to say that I feel nostalgic for cold winter evenings where I would trudge back to my college apartment where everything was messy and warm and I would watch Nurse Jackie with my best friends until I fell asleep and then I would wake up to go cuddle all four of them in the small dorm beds. Grad school is lovely but lonely.

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La La Land: *wins the oscar* Moonlight:

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, May 20, 1908

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Me: Nothing can stop me now

Myself: *stops me*

you: "cool beans"

me, an intellectual: "chilled legumes"

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I’m in love with the great British bake off

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Experiencing catcalling when you’re not conventionally attractive is such an internal predicament. Because on one hand, when you experience it you’re repulsed. Because it’s still harassment. But on the other hand- you finally feel that someone finds you desirable. And as fucked up as it is, it validates you for yourself.

And if you don’t experience, you wonder if something is wrong with you, like you’re not pretty enough or desirable enough for it.

And I just think it’s really fucked up that our society has shaped us into thinking that there must be something wrong with us if we aren’t harassed, that if we are its okay to feel good about it. It’s fucked up.

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theater truly transcends boundaries by bringing together the worst kind of introverts (english majors) and the worst kind of extroverts (drama kids)

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Drunken, Sunken Irish Coffee Chocolate Cake with Salted Bailey’s Cream

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Sensitive girls club

We meet once a fortnight, cuddle, eat frozen yogurt, watch studio ghibli films and support one another’s fragility and softness

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peanut butter chocolate chip oatmeal cookies | edible perspective

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DARK CHOCOLATE AND RASPBERRY CAKE WITH EARL GREY SWISS MERINGUE BUTTERCREAM

#wedding cake ideas

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Double Chocolate Irish Brownie Cheesecakes

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12 Books to Keep Your Feminism Intersectional

by Crystal Paul of Bustle

1. Women, Race, and Class by Angela Y. Davis

This is definitely one of the must-reads for any intersectional feminist. A bit dated at this point, but still important, it takes a look at the very issues of exclusion that have hindered the feminist movement since abolition days.

2. Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

Honestly, this will just be one of the best books you’ll ever read. It’s not only an important queer, feminist book, it’s also just a beautifully told story of struggle and love.

3. Woman, Native, Other by Trinh T. Minh-ha

Minh-ha delivers a full-frontal attack against the notion of erasure as a means of unified feminism. She argues for a feminism that fights against oppression of all kinds, because women all over the world face oppression at the hands of different forces and factors. And she attacks everything that “others” everything non-white or non-Western. It’s bold and awesome and a classic of postcolonial feminist theory.

4. Assata by Assata Shakur

Assata is part memoir of the radical awakening of a young black woman in the ‘60s and ‘70s, part personal testimony of a broken, racist justice system. In all its parts it’s a lyrical, addictive read that immerses you in one of the most important eras in the Black liberation struggle. By the end you’ll be outraged, angry, and itching for revolution.

5. Random Family by Adrian LeBlanc

Adrian LeBlanc took a lot of care with this book. Working over 10 years and forming close relationships with the families she writes about, LeBlanc offers up an intimate portrait of the lives of two women in a social class that often goes overlooked or misrepresented in popular U.S. culture and scholarly study. It’s importance is in the deeply personal rather treatment, rather than the almost zoological portrayals that often befall lower economic classes.

6. Sex Workers Unite! A History of the Movement from Stonewall to Slutwalk by Melinda Chateauvert

Sex workers are often cast as unwilling victims. Melinda Chateauvert challenges this portrayal by showing that many sex workers are in fact empowered, legitimate workers and have been powerful agents of social change throughout history. This book will make you rethink everything you thought you knew about sex work.

7. The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions by Paula Gunn Allen

An oldie but a goodie, The Sacred Hoop is a corrective on the crucial role of indigenous women in history and tribal tradition. It’s not a perfect book, but it’s an important one that asserts the presence of Native American women.

8. This Bridge Called My Back by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa

This anthology is incredible! It’s got essays, interviews, poetry, and even visual art from women of so many different backgrounds. It’s kind of what intersectional feminism should look like in book form. Or, at least, darn close to it.

9. Women and Gender in Islam by Leila Ahmed

Need to check your assumptions about Islam and the treatment of women in the Middle East? Leila Ahmed’s book is an invitation to do just that. So many stereotypes and assumptions about Muslim women and their treatment under Islam abound, but one can hardly make snap judgements about Islam any more than you can about any other religion. Ahmed dives into the text itself and the history of the Western gaze that has led to misunderstanding about Islam and gender.

10. Gender Trouble by Judith Butler

With Gender Trouble, Judith Butler went straight for bold by questioning the very notion of gender as a part of feminism. If you took a Gender Studies course in college, it was probably on the syllabus. But it’s always worth another look, considering the book was originally written in the ‘90s, when Butler’s straight talk about the complexity of gender and sexuality was pretty ground-breaking. Since then, Butler’s reconsidered some of her ideas in newer books that are also worth picking up.

11. Brick Lane by Monica Ali

Not every book you read has to be a heavy non-fiction read. Actually getting a little fiction into your intersectional diet is a healthy way to dig into perspectives outside of your own on a more personal level. Brick Lane is a look at a young Bangladeshi woman coming of age in the middle of an arranged marriage and thrust into a new culture miles away from home. Whatever perspectives you’re looking to explore, there are so many stories out there that want to be read!

12. On Intersectionality by Kimberlé Crenshaw

Since an intersectional feminist’s work is never done, naturally, you can look forward to a new book on intersectionality straight from the woman herself. Kimberlé Crenshaw’s latest comes out in October this year.

see full article here

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Embarrassingly, the only one of these I’ve read is Random Family, but it’s SO GOOD. I think about it literally every day.

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Also for that list might I add a few of these gems, which also contain womanist works (womanism is very different from Black feminism but both are movements for and by Black women):

Women, Culture, & Politics | Angela Davis

The Meaning of Freedom: And Other Difficult Dialogues | Angela Davis

Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, & the Sacred | M. Jacqui Alexander

The Womanist Idea | Layli Marpayan

But Some of Us Are Brave: All the Women are White and All the Blacks are Men | Akasha Gloria Hull

Sylvia Winter: On Being Human as Praxis | Katherine McKittrick

When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America | Paula J. Giddings

Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman | Michele Wallace

Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction,and the Meaning of Liberty | Dorothy Roberts

Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Line | Alexis Pauline Gumbs