"Courage, Dear Heart"

philosophers-scone:

latentpower:

awkwardsituationist:

cambridge university students were asked on campus why they needed feminism. here are 60 answers. click the link for over about 600 more.

This is amazing

i am SO glad that lad culture is there. lad culture makes being a student in the UK horrific, for men and for women

I PROMISE TO REBLOG THIS 100 TIMES BECAUSE YES

I had no idea about female Nobels in Physics or the proportion of properties owned by women or why JK Rowling didn’t put her name in the books.

(via unwantedobsolescence)

“I. Those of us born by water are never afraid enough of drowning. Bruises used to trophy my knees from my death-defying tree climb jumps. Growing up, my backyard was a forest of blackberry bushes. I learned early nothing sweet will come to you unthorned.

II. At twelve your body becomes a currency. So Jenny and I sat down and cut up all our clothes into nothing. That year I failed math class but knew the exact number of calories in a carrot stick. I learned early being desired goes hand in hand with hunger.

III. The last time I tried to scream I felt my father climbing up through my throat and into my mouth.

IV. There is a certain kind of girl who reads Lolita at fourteen and finds religion. I painted my eyes black and sucked barroom cherries to red my tongue. There was a boy who promised Judas really did love Jesus. I learned early every kiss and betrayal are up for interpretation.

V. I think he must have conferenced with my nightmares on exactly how to hurt me.

VI. He never broke my heart. He only turned it into a compass that always points me back to him.
”

— Clementine von Radics, In Defense of Loving Him (after Megan Falley)

(Source: clementinevonradics)

“Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.”

— Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book (via kari-shma)

“Rather than fighting for every woman’s right to feel beautiful, I would like to see the return of a kind of feminism that tells women and girls everywhere that maybe it’s all right not to be pretty and perfectly well behaved. That maybe women who are plain, or large, or old, or differently abled, or who simply don’t give a damn what they look like because they’re too busy saving the world or rearranging their sock drawer, have as much right to take up space as anyone else.

I think if we want to take care of the next generation of girls we should reassure them that power, strength and character are more important than beauty and always will be, and that even if they aren’t thin and pretty, they are still worthy of respect. That feeling is the birthright of men everywhere. It’s about time we claimed it for ourselves.”

— I don’t want to be told I’m pretty as I am - I want to live in a world where that’s irrelevant (via brute-reason)

(via fuckyeahfeminists)

(Source: sweetlifeinstyle, via yahighway)