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samoanmaori • confidently lost

[thiccyonce]

Beyoncé by Kennedi Carter for British Vogue Magazine

[artemisiasea]

Theory is important but only so far as it can be put into action. Octavia Butler said, "Belief initiates and guides action — or it does nothing" and I stand by that

[phyleaspace]

Petite Fleur

[quadriparesis-deactivated201908]

“biological sex is a social construct” doesn’t mean “chromosomes, anatomy, hormones, and genitalia don’t exist”. it means “these exist, but assigning roles, labels, and expectations to certain combinations of these characteristics is a social construct, and an unnecessary and pointless (actually harmful) one at that”.

[deactivatedblog2021-deactivated]

as well as the fact that humans have assigned so many traits as secondary sex characteristics that human sexual dimorphism is a fair amount more fast and loose than many other mammal species, and feeling the intense need to fit every body into Male and Female when so many don’t fit either rigid category is a) a scientifically inaccurate social desire and b) the root of both social stigmas and dangerous unnecessary surgeries on intersex children

[mvtionl3ss]

[kibblesandbitch]

Here’s something to chew on.

[coldasaslab]

about me.jpg

[whistlenotes]

honestly

[poesieplease-deactivated2020061]

In case you wanna read the article this quote is from: http://rolereboot.org/culture-and-politics/details/2016-05-daughter-know-ok-angry/

[cygnaut]

Adaptable girls find socially acceptable ways to internalize or channel their discomfort and ire, sometimes at great personal cost. Passive aggressive behavior, anxiety, and depression are common effects. Sarcasm, apathy, and meanness have all been linked to suppressed rage. Troublesome behaviors, such as lying, skipping school, bullying other people, even being socially awkward are often signs that a teenager is dealing with anger that they are unable to name as anger.

Girls, taught to ignore their anger, become disassociated from themselves.

Anger is so successfully sublimated that girls lose the ability to understand what it feels and looks like. Is her heart racing? Does she feel flushed or shaky? Does she clench her jaws at night? Is she breaking out in hives? Does she cry for no reason? Laugh inappropriately during difficult conversations? Fly off the handle over something that seems inconsequential? You can see where I’m going here…those crazy girl hormones, right? Better to just think of it as a phase.

For too many women, however, the phase never ends. It’s lives spent never expressing anger at all and believing that they don’t have the right or ability to do so without great risk.

[serialreblogger]

While anger in girls and women is overwhelmingly portrayed as irrational, it is, in fact, completely rational.

Girls learn to filter their existences through messages of powerlessness and cultural worthlessness. Girls might be more inclined to depression because coming to terms with your own cultural marginalization and irrelevance is depressing.

This doesn’t mean giving children, girls or boys, a pass for violent, disruptive, or entitled behavior.

[But] girls need to know—and should be told explicitly—that it’s alright to feel  anger.

[biscuitsarenice]

Black Panther Party - Black Power, 1960s

[redrola]

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[yivialo]

[flowerinaflame]

[aidashakur]

shoutout to the pain that gave me understanding

[coutureicons]

rolls, tummies, & thighs

[black-0rpheus]

[soeasytoreplace]

I’m not looking for somebody to heal me

[kekepuaa]

4am thoughts: why is it that whenever dwayne johnson talks about his samoan roots, he p much homogenizes all polynesian islands? these days, i see any polynesian dance showcase he does as dancing for the white man. any kind of media that features ripped (typically) Samoan men performing a haka both embarrasses and bores me to tears.

[notaminnah]