[applequilt]

[dehanginggarden-deactivated2018]

Home of a herbalist in Prague, Czech Republic, August 2016

[puzsy]

dudes will get like shocked and upset when a women openly admits to being afraid of men.

what they dont know is that we’re all afraid of men – some of us are just more vocal about it than others. we all know the rules: watch the bartender pour your drink. don’t let it out of your sight (ever). stay in a group of friends. pretend to be on your phone as you walk to your car. hold your keys like claws between your knuckles. make sure nobody is in the backseat of your car. fight back. don’t stop fighting.

and we know the unspoken rules, too:

don’t talk about it.

pretend it doesn’t hurt.

pretend it doesn’t scare you.

here’s a newsflash, men: we don’t carry pepper spray around because we’re afraid of being attacked by other women. that’s for damn sure.

[blackswallowtailbutterfly]

They know, and they like it because they benefit from it. What they don’t like is that we might collectively decide we’re sick of this shit and put an end to it, or at least make it a lot harder for them to get away with. Which is exactly what happens when we start talking about it with one another. We start effecting change. After all, marital rape was once legal (still is in some places), many forms of sexual assault were, and a woman couldn’t divorce her husband even to save her life (still the case in some places).

A woman afraid is far more likely to smile and nod and be pleasant and quiet, to give them our numbers, to peck their cheeks, to try and stay on that high pedestal they put us on. Men love for us to afraid of them. They just don’t want us self-aware and talking to one another about it.

[puzsy]

dudes will get like shocked and upset when a women openly admits to being afraid of men.

what they dont know is that we’re all afraid of men – some of us are just more vocal about it than others. we all know the rules: watch the bartender pour your drink. don’t let it out of your sight (ever). stay in a group of friends. pretend to be on your phone as you walk to your car. hold your keys like claws between your knuckles. make sure nobody is in the backseat of your car. fight back. don’t stop fighting.

and we know the unspoken rules, too:

don’t talk about it.

pretend it doesn’t hurt.

pretend it doesn’t scare you.

here’s a newsflash, men: we don’t carry pepper spray around because we’re afraid of being attacked by other women. that’s for damn sure.

[grungyradfem]

People in the comment saying there’s no reason to be afraid of men, they they’re not afraid of them, so why should any woman be?… like cool, good for you. I’m glad you’ve had a safe life But I’m one of the 1 in 4 who’s been assaulted. I’m one of the women who was molested as a child. I’m one of the women who’s had men chase me shouting aggressively because I won’t talk to him. I’m one of the women who’s been stalked and stayed up sleepless hoping I don’t get killed when I inevitably drift off because the cops won’t do anything unless he touches me. I’m glad you’re not afraid, but I am. You don’t get to say we’re sad sorry whiny little bitches because we live in fear of yet another awful thing happening to us when it’s completely justified to be terrified for our lives because you can never tell which man is going to rape or murder you or your friends. Have some empathy.

[streetkillaz]

My edit.

[gecelerkadarguzelsin]

[andyoucangetwhatyouwant-moved]

patrick stump really said "if he seems too good to be true, well guess what, he probably is" and i expected myself to recover from that

[thats70s]

National Geographic, 1973

[iweon]

A very beautiful image of these smiley blackfoot. It seemed everything was alright…

Photograph by Mary T. S. Schaffer in 1907.

[tate-iyohiwin]

I just love how humanizing this is, it’s the first time I’ve seen us not depicted as the stoic archetype of this period

[tsoki]

Pictured here are Sampson, Frances Louise, and Leah Beaver who actually were very close friends with the photographer and were regular subjects of her work. It’s amazing what happens when you view us as people rather than museum objects - you capture us as people, as friends, as lovers, as parents rather than the stoic image of genocide and colonialism in-progress. 

If you’re interested in learning more about female photographers and how they aided in representing native peoples through positive representation and ethical photography, I would suggest reading “Trading Gazes.” Mary T.S. Schaffer and other influential female photographers, and friends, of native peoples are given some much-needed recognition in this book while also discussing the white woman’s place in our genocide and colonization. 

[teneral]

good fucking morning *levitates towards you with ill intent*

[vulvva-deactivated20200910]

customers approaching store employees

[garadinervi]

«This is Toni Morrison’s line edits of a draft — one of the final drafts — of Angela Davis’s autobiography and at the time, Toni Morrison was an editor at Random House and she also went on to edit Angela’s classic, now-classic text in feminist studies, women’s studies, Women, Race, and Class. In these pages, Angela is writing about what it’s like to be incarcerated and we really see the care and detail and love that Toni Morrison put into her editing process, and we get a sense of not only both of their writing processes, but also the relationship between the two women.» – in Angela Davis in black and white and gray, by Manisha Aggarwal-Schifellite, «Harvard Gazette», November 27, 2019. From: Angela Davis: Freed by the People, Organized by Elizabeth Hinton (John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences in the departments of history and of African and African American studies at Harvard University) and and the exhibition committee of the Schlesinger Library, The Lia and William Poorvu Gallery, Schlesinger Library, Cambridge, MA, September 20, 2019 – March 9, 2020

[ommanyte]

how dull for you to live your life without any hills to die on, you, on your vast flat barren plains of compromise, acceptance, and accommodation, while I reign supreme over the lush, rolling highlands of stupid shit I have irrationally chosen to stake my entire identity on

[bepeu-deactivated20171202]

do u have a bf

it’s a dream of mine to have a beautiful farm

[alligatorpoem]

me when someone in class is giving a presentation and they’re clearly very nervous bc people are watching

[howdoyouspelluselessness-deacti]

the teacher + the rest of the class anyway

[soracities]

Adonis, ‘Body’, Selected Poems (trans. Khaled Mattawa)

[Text ID: “Rot is also a heart rot is also childhood rot is also what love is.”]

[towerofglass]

[sail-to-live]

Not unusual to have fog near an air cooled condenser.

[towerofglass]

[rickinmar]

Edward Steichen was taken by the beauty of delphiniums and hybridized many new varieties at his Connecticut farm. This photo is from the 1940s.