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blackfeminism:
How can rape by giving a drug or intoxicant to a person that renders them unable to give consent have a minimum sentence of 0-15 years but possession of drugs without being used for rape has a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years to life?
its almost like we have legalized the systematic oppression of women and people of color
(Source: writingaboutmyrapists, via feminist----killjoy)
" The idea that sex is something a woman gives a man, and she loses something when she does that, which again for me is nonsense. I want us to raise girls differently where boys and girls start to see sexuality as something that they own, rather than something that a boy takes from a girl. "
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (NPR)(Source: try-so-to-live, via feminist----killjoy)
" I’d say go to hell, but I never want to see you again. "
Sylvia Plath (via dream-littledarling)(via fores-ttrial)
" Since her death in 1979, the woman who discovered what the universe is made of has not so much as received a memorial plaque. Her newspaper obituaries do not mention her greatest discovery. […] Every high school student knows that Isaac Newton discovered gravity, that Charles Darwin discovered evolution, and that Albert Einstein discovered the relativity of time. But when it comes to the composition of our universe, the textbooks simply say that the most abundant atom in the universe is hydrogen. And no one ever wonders how we know. "
Jeremy Knowles, discussing the complete lack of recognition Cecilia Payne gets, even today, for her revolutionary discovery. (via blvckovt)(via shantichild)
" Isn’t it rotten? There isn’t any use my telling you I love you. "
Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (via observando)(Source: observando)
" In bed at 4PM
I held my pillow
and thought “oh well”
in regards to my entire life. "
Tao Lin (via wordsthat-speak)(via wordsthat-speak)
