May 2012
8 posts
4 tags
My Letter to Girl Scouts: Stop Dieting Programs →
In response to this press release about Girl Scouts offering dieting programs,
I’m a lifetime Girl Scout with a gold award. As an adult, I’ve worked with summer camps and other outdoor girl programs to try and give back a little of what Girl Scouts as an organization gave to me. I love Girl Scouting, so I was surprised and upset to read that Girl Scouts has partnered with...
2 tags
1 tag
New comic from Erika Moen, writer of Dar. →
4 tags
2 tags
1 tag
2 tags
“It is blasphemous for any of us to say “I am not creative.” All we...”
– Jan Phillips
April 2012
8 posts
1 tag
“You are not weak just because your heart feels so empty.”
– Andrea Gibson (via gymclass-wallflower)
4 tags
“The truth is that in order to succeed at ending fat oppression and weight...”
– Ragen Chastain
2 tags
1 tag
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t...”
– Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum.
3 tags
Kinsey Hope Can't Focus For Shit: Consent →
girlebony:
I believe I’ve seen a comprehensive description of consent once before. Figured I’d contribute as it’s a subject that bears repeating.
Consent is:
Non-coercive: If you’re cojoling, threatening or otherwise trying to “convince” someone to engage in a sexual act with you, you…
3 tags
1 tag
“If you were to press your heart close up against somebody else’s heart...”
– Andrea Gibson (via girlportmanteaued)
March 2012
13 posts
2 tags
“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation, and go to the grave with the song...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via thedrollhouse)
3 tags
“May your work be compelling and original. May it be profound, touching,...”
“If you are divided from your body, you are also divided from the body of the...”
– Philip Shepherd, from New Self New World via Sally McGraw
3 tags
“We all love. And we all love differently. And in many ways we all love badly....”
– Larry Kunofsky, playwright, in an interview with The Happiest Medium
4 tags
3 tags
1 tag
3 tags
2 tags
“Only hang around people that are positive and make you feel good. Anybody who...”
– Amy Poehler (via funeral)
2 tags
2 tags
“The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for...”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson (via nedhepburn)
PREACH.
(via jtotheizzoe)
2 tags
February 2012
13 posts
5 tags
“I don’t know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned...”
– Maya Angelou (via theponderingsofjonathan)
4 tags
“No, you can’t deny women their basic rights and pretend it’s about your...”
– President Barack Obama (via ithedivine)
2 tags
“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable...”
– Carl Jung (via sketchmedesire)
5 tags
5 tags
“Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create...”
– Hattie McDaniel
5 tags
6 tags
“My final thought is a simple but mighty one - it is the obligation we have been...”
– Merrily We Roll Along
2 tags
“As long as the music’s loud enough, we won’t hear the world falling apart.”
– Borgia Ginz
5 tags
3 tags
2 tags
2 tags
January 2012
27 posts
2 tags
4 tags
Nearly 1 in 5 Women in U.S. Survey Report [Rape] |... →
mohandasgandhi:
stfurapeculture:
I amended the title up there because it was actually incorrect. One in 5 women in this study reported rape. A far greater number reported sexual assault that did not meet the study’s definition of rape. Actual report is here if anyone wants to check it out. It should also be noted this was a telephone survey that only included people 18 and older. Given the...
2 tags
6 tags
4 tags
5 tags
8 tags
1 tag
