Just a Bowl Of...

A collection of things that strike my fancy. Feminist things, humanist things, poetry, Buddhist philospophy, cooking and food, sex positivity, and queer stuff, all here. A sort of archive of my brain.

[wordsnquotes]

I hope our daughters are born with so much fire in their souls, they could put volcanoes and stars to shame.

Nikita Gill, Girls Made of Fire (via wordsnquotes)

Burn, baby, burn!

[itscolossal]

A Child Peers Over the US/Mexico Border Wall in a Giant New Photographic Work by JR

[justabowlof]

This is amazing work.

[rad-feminism]

The trope of the “crazy” girlfriend is so prevalent and joked about now, that girls getting into relationships are so worried about seeming imposing, that they do not speak out about things that make them uncomfortable, and are forced to let their boyfriends emotionally manipulate them into normalizing otherwise inappropriate behavior. They do not speak up, and then are faced with dealing with an uncomfortable situation for so long, which can really affect their self esteem and emotional health. “Jokes” aren’t always jokes, especially at the expense of women. They are usually integrated into people’s thinking to the extent that they truly affect people’s opinions of women and the way they see them.

[justabowlof]

This.

[lesbianrey]

good job everyone

[jturn]

we’re doing great guys keep it up

[kawaiipoisonivy]

we’re doing amazing sweeties

[areia101]

We are doing fucking amazing 

[justabowlof]

Good job, kiddos. I'm proud of you!

[tankaramo]

me: *gets scared that i’m wasting my life* me: i’m gonna deal with this feeling by taking a long nap in the middle of the day

[justabowlof]

It me.

[blackwomenworldhistory]

The Overlooked Black Women Who Altered the Course of Feminist Art

[wocinsolidarity]

(April 28 2017)

In 1977, the Combahee River Collective, a black feminist organization, gathered in New Jersey for their second retreat, where they worked together to formulate a collaborative letter.  

The Heresies Collective, whose membership consisted predominately of white women, had just published its third feminist art journal, titled “Lesbian Art and Artists,” but had neglected to feature a single woman of color. The Combahee River Collective, which was formed to raise consciousness about race and gender issues, had assembled to craft a response.

“We find it appalling,” they wrote, “that a hundred years from now it will be possible for women to conclude that in 1977 there were no practicing Black and other Third World lesbian artists.”

The critical debate that it provoked was an expression of the complex and often tumultuous relationship between mainstream feminism and the black women who were so often excluded from it—a tension that continues today. The activities undertaken by black women to push back against their erasure, in the late ’60s through the early ’80s, effectively amounted to a desire for a revolution.

It is from this fervor that a current exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum gets its title: “We Wanted A Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-85.”

The show, which is one part of the museum’s year-long initiative to reimagine feminist art, “A Year of Yes,” highlights the work of black women artists during the height of second-wave feminism and serves as a record of their stories—to be remembered for the next hundred years and beyond.

[justabowlof]

Wish I could go see this show in NYC.

[darksilenceinsuburbia]

[justabowlof]

This post just made my night. I mean, do animals really smell flowers, or is this just a matter of good timing?

[weavemama]

yeah so there’s a neo nazi/white supremacy rally going on in charlottesville where they are literally chanting “blood and soil!!” (an actual nazi saying) and the police are doing absolutely nothing about it. no tear gas, no national guard, no heavy police force,, these TERRORISTS are getting away with spreading hatred towards the marginalized and i am absolutely sickened 

[thatmusictheaterguy-deactivated]

spread this like wildfire

[trapbinch]

Is that an actual picture of the event bc wtf that looks like half the campus

[weavemama]

unfortunately yes, here are some more photos from the terrorist rally:

[weavemama]

thankfully a lot of the students are against what’s happening on campus, but there’s something very wrong with this photo. the good guys are hiding their faces and the bad guys are not. this world is getting uglier to the point where human decency has to be hidden.

[sushigirlfriend]

this is still going on just fyi they have not left.

[sushigirlfriend]

now 1 person has been killed, 35 injured as of 5:02pm, 8/12/17

[justabowlof]

WTF.

[dangered]

All I wanna do with my life is to travel and eat good food while laying on beautiful beaches with the love of my life.

[justabowlof]

That's a life plan I can get behind.

[itsagifnotagif]

I actually have so much love for dogs

[justabowlof]

I'm not usually too big on animal photos but the last two made me laugh, so.

[destinyrush]

A hero without a cape

[nyshadidntbreakit]

Her name is Theresa Kachindamoto, and she is a senior chief - political leader of a region with a population of about 900,000 people.

She didn’t run for election; she was appointed, without her knowledge, while she was living and working in a completely different part of the country. She just received a call one day telling her to come back to her childhood home, because she was in charge now.

So she did; and when she arrived, she discovered widespread sexual abuse of children. She browbeat 50 uncooperative local leaders into accepting her decision to annul all the marriages. She then fired four of them when they continued to allow children to be married off in their areas. She still faces widespread opposition from parents who consider it their right to sexually abuse their daughters if they want to; but Kachindamoto very evidently does not give a fuck, and is continuing to use political and legal means to protect children in the region.

She’s not just an anonymous do-gooder; she’s an effective political leader despite incredibly difficult circumstances. Theresa Kachindamoto.

[desiremyblack]

(via TumbleOn)

[justabowlof]

This kind of story gives me life amidst all of the horror that mainstream news loves to report.

[ithelpstodream]

[smartassjen]

Didn’t realize someone had posted this on Tumblr. Cool.

As exhausting as all the blowback I’ve gotten for this (trans women are remarkable able to unify misogynists and radical feminists in their disgust of us), I’ve been really touched by how many people have reached out to say this argument has changed their mind on the subject.

I’m going to keep talking about it until it stops happening, or trans women cease being murdered for triggering male anxieties.

[paul-simons-muse-deactivated202]

Hey this is super important. Thanks for having the bravery to say it.

[racingwest]

reblog guys this is important

[lucasthefandomboy]

@thefingerfuckingfemalefury

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

^ REBLOGGING FOR TRUTH

[justabowlof]

Yesss.

[yahooentertainment]

lmao😂/smh🙄

[freedomjusticewarrior]

Eli Bosnick had the best response to this ridiculousness.

“If I gave you a bowl of skittles and three of them were poison would you still eat them?”

“Are the other skittles human lives?”

“What?”

“Like. Is there a good chance. A really good chance. I would be saving someone from a war zone and probably their life if I ate a skittle?”

“Well sure. But the point-”

“I would eat the skittles.”

“Ok-well the point is-”

“I would GORGE myself on skittles. I would eat every single fucking skittle I could find. I would STUFF myself with skittles. And when I found the poison skittle and died I would make sure to leave behind a legacy of children and of friends who also ate skittle after skittle until there were no skittles to be eaten. And each person who found the poison skittle we would weep for. We would weep for their loss, for their sacrifice, and for the fact that they did not let themselves succumb to fear but made the world a better place by eating skittles.

Because your REAL question…the one you hid behind a shitty little inaccurate, insensitive, dehumanizing racist little candy metaphor is, IS MY LIFE MORE IMPORTANT THAN THOUSANDS UPON THOUSANDS OF MEN, WOMEN, AND TERRIFIED CHILDREN…

… and what kind of monster would think the answer to that question… is yes?”

[justabowlof]

WOW.

[maaarine]

The Huffington Post: “60 Stunning Photos Of Women Protesting Around The World”

[justabowlof]

This is everything.

[memewhore]

[professorspork]

#this single photo here validates the existence of the selfie stick I SWEAR TO GOD

[justabowlof]

Whyyyyyy couldn't I have gotten a selfie with a sloth when I was in Costa Rica??

[wilwheaton]

In reality, just a tiny fraction of Americans — disproportionately young, male, healthy and middle-to-high income — has seen costs sharply increase because of Obamacare. Liberal and conservative experts alike place the number well below 10 million people — 3 percent or less of the population.     Twice that number – disproportionately poorer and less healthy people — gained insurance under Obamacare. Many received immense medical and financial benefits.     True to their anti-government ethos, Republicans disdain Obamacare on tax-and-spending grounds. But ideological complaints that its mandates inhibit freedom never achieved broad resonance. Attacks on its “job-killing” effects faded amid uninterrupted private sector employment gains since it passed.     That left out-of-pocket costs through premiums and deductibles the most potent GOP weapon – even though premiums and deductibles for most Americans were little changed by Obamacare. In fact, Obamacare’s principal impact on the bulk of the population has been political noise.     More than 90 percent of those with health insurance before Obamacare got it from employers or the government, mainly Medicare and Medicaid; their coverage didn’t fundamentally change.

Republicans wage 7-year war against Obamacare on behalf of a tiny fraction of aggrieved Americans

Got that? When you hear someone complain about how ACA hurt them, you are almost certainly listening to someone who is young, white, male, healthy, who earns middle to high income.

(via wilwheaton)

Yes, let's protect the young, white, middle-to-upper income males. Good job, Republicans.

[thetrippytrip]

I can’t believe they oblitered straight men like that

[justabowlof]

This, right here, is why I love Tumblr. 😻😻😻😻