February 2012
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Young Women Often Trendsetters in Vocal Patterns -... →
teachingliteracy:
Whether it be uptalk (pronouncing statements as if they were questions? Like this?), creating slang words like “bitchin’ ” and “ridic,” or the incessant use of “like” as a conversation filler, vocal trends associated with young women are often seen as markers of immaturity or even stupidity.
Right?
But linguists — many of whom once promoted theories consistent with that...
40 gutsy fictional heroines →
amandaonwriting:
We’re celebrating fiery females of the literary world, from the likes of Astrid Lindgren’s precocious Pippi Longstocking and Stieg Larsson’s fearless Lisbeth Salander, to Virginia Woolf’s quietly determined Mrs Ramsay and Agatha Christie’s dignified yet unyielding Miss Marple.
“I have the deepest affection for intellectual conversations. The ability to just...”
– (via unshakeablefaith)
The 10 Most Underrated Lesbian Books →
feminision:
Kathleen Bryson Curvemag.com
definitely going to hunt a few of these down! Thanks!
“There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility...”
– Indian Proverb (via satans-advocate)
“When you don’t have many friends and you don’t have a social life you’re kind of...”
– Tim Burton (via narcoticalupus)
“I will confirm that I was energized, yes. As you can see from the reaction...”
– The only woman who was invited and then prevented from testifying at a GOP hearing on birth control.
House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA), dismissed Sandra Fluke (a third year law student) as an “energized” “college student” who was not “appropriate and qualified” to testify...
“In American today, anti-evolutionism matters because it has become the vanguard...”
– Ken Miller, Biology Professor from Brown University and Roman Catholic, on America’s Darwin Problem (via crookedindifference)
“Sex is not spiritual. There is no god present when I kiss someone, no goddess...”
– Why Sex Is Not Spiritual - San Francisco Arts - The Exhibitionist (via fetters)
“Social justice projects are not either/or endeavors where one can say, ‘We have...”
– Black Feminist Thought - Patricia Hill Collins (via mdevoe)
“[The young black males are] shuttled into prisons, branded as criminals and...”
– In her book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, legal scholar Michelle Alexander writes that many of the gains of the civil rights movement have been undermined by the mass incarceration of black Americans in the war on drugs. (via nprfreshair)
I’m currently reading...
“Republicans don’t even acknowledge that racism exists. There were a couple of...”
– Bill Maher (via barbiehighheels)
“We have proved that women can do what men can do, but we haven’t proved that men...”
– Gloria Steinem (via msandrogynous)
“There is a country where the leading cause of death of pregnant women is murder...”
– Jessica Valenti, in “Equality begins at home: U.S. lags pathetically behind other nations in some basic rights for women.” (via azelie)
Also: “For all of our rhetoric about respecting mothers and parenthood, the United States is the only industrialized nation without paid maternity leave, putting...
