theleoninehasroared.

Ferminist. Spiritual Student. Currently Nomadic. Born Pakistani, Raised in Saudi, educated in Canada and wholly living, breathing and learning in Egypt and tumbl-ing about pop culture, travels, books, politics, social issues and gender politics. Take a seat.

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"I'm so sorry if I'm alienating some of you.

Your whole fucking culture alienates me."

- Bikini Kill from the song White Boy

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Hillary Clinton on Being Asked about Her Clothes

Interviewer: Okay. Which designers do you prefer? 

Hillary Clinton: What designers of clothes? 

Interviewer: Yes. 

Hillary Clinton: Would you ever ask a man that question? 

Interviewer: Probably not. Probably not.

[Via UniteWomen.org; State.gov]

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And my girl Hillary, won that round. Maybe even OWNED it.

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Travel. Open your eyes, challenge yourself, make yourself sick to your stomach if you have to only to be confronted with the deepest of valleys and tallest of mountains reminding you in that moment, those restless feet guided you into the most remarkable chapter of your life.

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Leave it up to them to collectively discuss my marital status as "single" as though doom is impending until the day I sign a marriage contract, ensuring the first step to my real worth as a woman. How will my frail self ever make it before my birthday in such shameful solitude? I'm so glad so many people secretly hope my plane never takes off so I can stay cuddle...in this little suburban hell where we reproduce child after child in efforts to often times save failing marriages because truth be told, that bollywood blockbuster won't ever really be your "picture-perfect" love story. But thank you, I forget, women aren't meant to travel, read, discover themselves, be noble, curious, honest, reflective, hell even inspirational and fully alive. But hit me with the remedy. The answer to the problem of harboring resentment and hatred towards their partners? Ask their neighbors, coworkers and friends to marry of course! A chain reaction you see! My solution? Fumigation.

mon cerebrum (seemijamil).

[grizzlyfogva]

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THURSDAY CHEER

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Yekaterina Samutsevich’s closing statement in the criminal case against the feminist punk group Pussy Riot:

During the closing statement, the defendant is expected to repent or express regret for her deeds, or to enumerate attenuating circumstances. In my case, as in the case of my...

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Pre-taliban Afghanistan circa 1960 showing women browsing records. Wow.

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Persepolis (Parannaud and Marjane Satrapi, 2007)

good + awesome

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Take me back to Sinai. Please?

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I beg young people to travel. If you don’t have a passport, get one. Take a summer, get a backpack and go to Delhi, go to Saigon, go to Bangkok, go to Kenya. Have your mind blown. Eat interesting food. Dig some interesting people. Have an adventure. Be careful. Come back and you’re going to see your country differently, you’re going to see your president differently, no matter who it is. Music, culture, food, water. Your showers will become shorter. You’re going to get a sense of what globalization looks like. It’s not what Tom Friedman writes about; I’m sorry. You’re going to see that global climate change is very real. And that for some people, their day consists of walking 12 miles for four buckets of water. And so there are lessons that you can’t get out of a book that are waiting for you at the other end of that flight. A lot of people—Americans and Europeans—come back and go, Ohhhhh. And the light bulb goes on.

Henry Rollins  (via imageprocessor)

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“I want a soul mate who can sit me down, shut me up, tell me ten things I don’t already know, and make me laugh. I don’t care what you look like, just turn me on. And if you can do that, I will follow you on bloody stumps through the snow. I will nibble your mukluks with my own teeth. I will do your windows. I will care about your feelings. Just have something in there.”

- Henry Rollins (via sexdrugsandmagick)

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If the earth of Pakistan roared, this is how it would sound; powerfully and unabashedly telling. Wow.

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"No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you. We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live.” - Qaid-E-Azam circa 1944 (founder of Pakistan)

http://www.desitwist.com/general-knowledge/quaid-e-azam-muhammad-ali-jinnah-quotes-sayings-6076.html

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