they're condoms, Rose.

"Though no one would ever think of using the term honor violence (we reserve that descriptor for brown people who live somewhere else, motivated by religious something-or-other or tribal something-or-other), one-third of women murdered every year in the United States are killed by their intimate partners. In 2005 that amounted to 1,181 women, or three women every day. To put that in perspective, the UN estimates there are 5,000 honor killings every year in the entire world. 5,000 in a world of 6 billion versus nearly 1,200 in a single country of 300 million. In other words, a woman in America runs a greater risk of being killed by her husband or boyfriend than a woman in Pakistan."

Reblogged from madamethursday

(Source: popmuslim)

"Each one of us in this room is privileged. You have a bed, and you do not go to it hungry. We are not part of those millions of homeless people roaming america today. Your privilege is not a reason for guilt, it is part of your power, to be used in support of those things you say you believe. Because to absorb without use is the gravest error of privilege."

Reblogged from thatneedstogo

yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes helping each other!!!!!!!

Audre Lorde (via menarcheintheuk)

"A characteristic of artistic education is for people to tell you that you’re a genius. […] So everybody gets this idea, if you go to art school, that you’re really a genius. Sadly, it isn’t true. Genius occurs very rarely. So the real embarrassing issue about failure is your own acknowledgement that you’re not a genius, that you’re not as good as you thought you were. […] There’s only one solution: You must embrace failure. You must admit what is. You must find out what you’re capable of doing, and what you’re not capable of doing. That is the only way to deal with the issue of success and failure because otherwise you simply would never subject yourself to the possibility that you’re not as good as you want to be, hope to be, or as others think you are."

Reblogged from thatneedstogo

People do this with singers too. My favorite is the Corin Tucker example. “Oh, Corin Tucker was an opera singer.” No, Corin Tucker took some voice lessons in classical and opera singing. This doesn’t mean she headlined at La Scala. This does not mean she was a featured soubrette in The Marriage of Figaro in, like, Vienna. It doesn’t mean she was a supernumerary in Mefistofele at the Lyric. It means she forked over some money for someone to teach her how to sing. It doesn’t even mean she practiced.

Fuck NYU, fuck conservatory, fuck art school, fuck the modernist conception of “genius.” It’s not helpful, it’s not production, and institutions don’t make people artists. 

Legendary designer Milton Glaser, father of the I♥NY logo, on the fear of failure. (via explore-blog)

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