May 2013
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Yes, false rape accusations happen. Run the protocol anyway. I’ve heard that...
– - JAG lawyer, speaking to my husband’s plant during Sexual Assault Prevention Month. (via circusbones)
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Sometimes I can’t look you in the eye; you’re like a building that’s burned out...
– Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces (via misiuq)
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1. There will be several days that you daydream about stepping in front of a...
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If you were the sky Then I’d be the sea And when you shined bright It would reflect in me. When you’re at rest Then I am steady. If you wanna get rough I’m always ready. Past closing at the bars If you show me the stars I’ll open right up And cast them out far. And on the darkest night If you won’t shine a light. Then I’m silent alongside you Until you feel...
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Growing Up Wrong
You were not wrong in first grade
when Jordan Marshall gave...
– Tyler Ford (tylerthelatteboy)
For anyone who wants a personal, physical copy of this poem, it’s available on canvas panel in my Etsy shop!
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I am sobbing. Sobbing…
(via thatfemmeboy)
Biggest lie told in schools: Bullying will not be tolerated.
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My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.
– Virginia Woolf, Selected Letters (via violentwavesofemotion)
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“Don’t you know that slavery was outlawed?”
“No,” the guard said, “you’re...
– Assata (via michellehuxtable)
I tell my students this every single semester.
(via notesofanativesister)
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April 2013
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When you grow up as a girl, the world tells you the things that you are supposed...
– Stevie Nicks (via birdofthesummer)
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I’m not going to censor myself to comfort your ignorance.
– Jon Stewart (via loki-cat)
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She is braille.
I read her with my hands,
her body speaks to me.
I...
– Jhavia Nicole (via weight13ss)
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My earliest memories of my mother
are sunburned. Pink cheeks.
Braids. Dirt...
– Sierra DeMulder, “Evolution in Nine Parts” (via pigmenting)
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katniss: don't worry prim they're not gonna pick you
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March 2013
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I knew a girl who told me; She told me, “You don’t want to know. You don’t want...
– Chris Pureka, Unwelcome (via 0-cclumens)
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February 2013
38 posts
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Last week was really not my week, and today isn’t speaking volumes for this week either.
Girls Don't Count →
I used to think I was getting away with something.
“Girls don’t count,” I’d say, running my fingers up her arm at the bar. “Don’t you know that?”
We both had boyfriends. Long-term boyfriends. Mine had introduced me to the concept.
“I wouldn’t feel threatened,” he’d say. “I know they could never compete.”
He meant that a woman, no matter how attached I got, could never “steal” me away from...
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