February 2012
“I will tell you a sad story: White people are moving away
From this city...”
– An excerpt from Benjamin Alire Sáenz’s poem “War (in the City in Which I Live)” from Dreaming the End of War. (via informate)
“No, you can’t deny women their basic rights and pretend it’s about your...”
– President Barack Obama (via arsvivendi)
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“So why is feminism regarded as so threatening? A part of this comes from an...”
– The Other F-Word : Feminism & Fear
Me (Annie Atwater) for Capitol Hill Gang
“I was born of heterosexual parents, taught by heterosexual teachers, in a...”
– Harvey Milk (via andyouhavetogivethemhope
)
“Why is it “okay” for men to be angry, or blow off steam, but when women do it -...”
– “Why Latinas Aren’t Allowed to be Angry” on Jezebel (via hermionejg)
“I placed my bet on American workers. And I’d make that same bet again any day of...”
– President Obama on the auto industry’s comeback at the United Auto Workers conference today (via tumblrdems)
Rick Santorum, Meet My Son →
jessicavalenti:
“I’m so grateful that Ronan is my child. I also wish he’d never been born; no person should suffer in this way—daily seizures, blindness, lack of movement, inability to swallow, a devastated brain—with no hope for a cure. Both of these statements are categorically true; neither one is mutually exclusive.”
“Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.
There is no happiness like mine.
I have...”
– Mark Strand, “Eating Poetry” (via rulenumber32)
“Adam Waytz, a professor at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management and a...”
– Why it matters that our politicians are rich - Ideas - The Boston Globe (via sociolab)
“I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.”
– Franz Kafka (via floralnymph)
GPOY like no one’s business.
(via leftist-linguaphile)
“If anything, women have shown in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that they are...”
– Tammy Duckworth (Iraq war vet, Congressional candidate, double amputee, former Black Hawk pilot) is her amazing self in an interview with The American Prospect. (via thepoliticalnotebook)
“With young women, it’s about teaching the difference between the desire to be...”
– Hugo Schwyzer - The Paris Paradox (via problemswithindecision)
“The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence...”
– bell hooks (via hamuu)
maxwell home: Skills-based Learning for Caring for... →
maxwellhomey:
Skills-based Learning for Caring for a Loved One with an Eating Disorder: The New Maudsley Method Skills-based Learning for Caring for a Loved One with an Eating Disorder equips carers with the skills and knowledge needed to support and encourage those suffering from an eating disorder, and to…
How many social workers does it take to change a...
kassaundra:
“The light bulb doesn’t need changing, it’s the system that needs to change.”
None. Social workers never change anything. None. They empower it to change itself! None. The light bulb is not burnt out, it’s just differently lit. None. They set up a team to write a paper on coping with darkness. Two. One to change the bulb and another to put your kids into care. Five. One to screw it...
“Intersectionality is not optional. It is not something you can take off and put...”
– Intersectionality Is Not Optional (via satifice)
Very relevant to a post I’m making later today. -Jess
(via stfuconservatives)
Learning Social Work: The core values of Social... →
studentsocialworker:
SERVICE To help those who need it. To treat everyone like a valued customer. A social worker serves the needs of clients. We have to seek out what your clients or population is lacking and bring it to them. I think of this value and in my head I see a waiter or waitress, or server. I was once the…
One of the great things about having social...
nysocialworkstudent:
is that they can listen to what you’re saying, throw it back at you and help you see it in a new light. It’s like free therapy!
Sometimes I think doing this work I get so caught up in self reflection that I think I can figure everything out myself. That’s probably rarely the case. ;)
“Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board. For some they come in with...”
– Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neal Hurston (via rooftopsedge)
Troy: Abed and I have an agreement. If one of us dies, we're going to stage it to look like a suicide caused by the unjust cancellation of Firefly.
“Intersectionality is not optional. It is not something you can take off and put...”
– Intersectionality Is Not Optional (via satifice
)
“Every time I read an article about conservatives being “pro- life” I am reminded...”
– The ‘Safe, Legal, Rare’ Illusion - NYTimes.com
YES.
(via golden-notebook)
“In a bizarre way, Thatcher’s “feminism” was prescient in that today’s popular...”
– Film Review: The “Feminism” of Maggie Thatcher
welp.
(via so-treu)
“I believe there are too many children who need loving parents to deny one group...”
– Barack Obama
(via loveyourchaos)
BOOM.
(via cacophonouschoas)
“But as to the accusation that we are enabling obesity, we are guilty as charged....”
– ~Shannon, Fierce Fatties-Ironic Ostrich (via randomlancila)
“So often people feel their job is to make people who are hurting feel better....”
– Rachel, Dear Sugar March 2011 (via creatingaquietmind)
“It’s clear to me that sororities can be considered feminist. After all, the...”
– Campus Confidential: A Feminist Rushes A Sorority - The Frisky (via wholeheartedlyalive)
YESYESYESYES
(via caffeinatedfeminist)
“Even though she had been to so many conflicts, so many front-lines, she never...”
– CNN’s Anderson Cooper reflects on his interview with journalist Marie Colvin hours before she was killed in Syria. (source)
Aggie Feminist: Defense of Marriage Act ruled... →
abaldwin360:
Los Angeles Times - A judge on Wednesday declared the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional and ordered the federal government to ignore the statute and provide health benefits to the wife of a lesbian federal court employee.
The ruling by U.S. District Judge…
