I burned your house and ate your Tailor.

im1004:

1968, Asian American high school students attend the Black Panther Party funeral rally for Bobby Hutton,16 years old BPP member.

Nice pic and clip of history. That year, in 1968, my Mom was a new immigrant to the US from China, but she immediately identified with the Black Panthers struggle against racism and began attending civil rights and anti-war rallies, first in Berkeley and then in Chicago. When I was born in New York in the 1970s, my parents were printing a Chinese language progressive socialist newsletter out of our garage. That’s my Asian American upbringing.

chilope:

“we were talking and then i got distracted and forgot to reply to you for 4 hours” a novel by me

What makes the non-South Asian person’s use of the bindi problematic is the fact that a pop star like Selena Gomez wearing one is guaranteed to be better received than I would if I were to step out of the house rocking a dot on my forehead. On her, it’s a bold new look; on me, it’s a symbol of my failure to assimilate. On her, it’s unquestionably cool; on me, it’s yet another marker of my Otherness, another thing that makes me different from other American girls. If the use of the bindi by mainstream pop stars made it easier for South Asian women to wear it, I’d be all for its proliferation — but it doesn’t. They lend the bindi an aura of cool that a desi woman simply can’t compete with, often with the privilege of automatic acceptance in a society when many non-white women must fight for it.

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—	Jaya Bedi, Beyond Bindis: Why Cultural Appropriation Matters (via sociophilia)

I (h)ate everything, a novel by me.

This is what I don’t get - Women are impure because males have touched them. Who’s the dirty one here?

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—	Comment on Jezebel article “Female ‘Purity’ Is Bullshit” (via albinwonderland)

inheritedloss:

joga-luce:

not-enough-fandom:

i wanna dress like a post-apocalyptic rebel leader who beheads her enemies while taking shots of whiskey but then again i also want to dress like a very feminine little girl that frolics through fields of lovely flowers,
my struggle is real

Same

#if i had the money i would dress like both

_{How can I let my sister marry Joffrey? she thought, and suddenly her eyes were full of tears. “Margaery, please,” she said, “you mustn’t.” It was hard to get the words out. “You mustn’t marry him. He’s not like he seems, he’s not. He’ll hurt you.”}

marberytyphoon:

davos: i dont have time for your magic tricks

melisandre: illusions davos you dont have time for my ILLUSIONS.

breakburnandends:

my legs feel so smooth wo- oh my god i missed an entire spot: a memoir