power to the people

My son thinks I'm a jungle gum, but I'm not.
22, a mom, pansexual, feminist and psychology major.
"Without community there is no liberation... but community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences do not exist". -Audre Lorde

One moment I’m perfectly fine, and the next I feel a wave of nausea, then panic. Then I can’t catch my breath and I know I’m about to lose control and all I want to do is escape. Except the one thing I can’t escape from is the very thing I want to run away from … me.

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Let’s Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir, Jenny Lawson

This quote describes me so well it hurts. 

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Carrie Rudzinski - “Delhi’s Belly”

“I am a woman. It does not matter the country I am in. It does not matter the clothing that I wear. The world is still a beast, and he is always hungry.”

Find out more about Carrie, and see more of her work, at her tumblr!

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The Importance of Listening as a Privileged Person Fighting for Justice

In my work, I’m regularly asked, “What can I do? I know that injustice exists, but I feel so powerless. I want to help!” Many folks of privilege struggle to figure out how to act for justice. More often than not, those who are denied access, voice, privilege, and justice in dominant culture know exactly what they need to do. So to that point, my answer to their question is always the same: “Listen.”

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Black women wake up in the morning, look in the mirror, and see Black women. White women wake up in the morning, look in the mirror, and see women. White men wake up in the morning, look in the mirror, and see human beings.

—Michelle Haimoff, on privilege (via jatigi)

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While today’s youth are eager to live in a world where racism does not exist, they do not want to do the political work of changing themselves or society. That world entails confronting pain and hostility. And they are the generations who are constantly told via mass media that only losers feel pain, that the good life is a life without difficulties. They are constantly told that the only peace and happiness they can have will come to them through rugged individualism, through a focus on meeting self-centered needs. In a world where pathological narcissism is the order of the day, it is difficult to arouse collective concern for challenging racism or any form of domination.