janeanger:

My friend saw this floating around Tumblr and asked me if I knew it existed. I did/do know and I am glad it’s still making the rounds. (Although it would be rad if people left up the original credits to the photographer and news article I found it in. Tumblr’s search functions really don’t, um, function, otherwise I’d re-link it myself.)

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juliascheeleartblog:

No Saints, No Whores. 2011.

i think this is a translation of a spanish protest sign which read

not saints

nor whores

just women

(which has a slightly different meaning than no saints, no whores)

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muxersita:

guerrillamamamedicine:

I grew up hard and am still hard and I don’t care. I did not choose this face or this body and I have learned to live with it and love it and celebrate it and adorn it with tremendous drawings from the greatest artists in the world and I feel good and powerful like a nation that has never been free and now after many hard won victories is finally fucking free. I am beautiful and I am finally fucking free.

I fly my flag of self-esteem for all those who have been told they were ugly and fat and hurt and shamed and violated and abused for the way they look and told time and time again that they were “different” and therefore unlovable. Come to me and I will tell you and show you how beautiful and loved you are and you will see it and feel it and know it and then look in the mirror and truly believe it. If you are offended by my anger and my might at defending my borders and my people you do not deserve entry into my beloved and magnificent country.

If you were raised lovingly and told you were perfect and beautiful and loved and the best at all things, I am just jealous. You had it much better, and so you really should spread that love around as opposed to judging those like me who never had that, never knew what it was like and never could even imagine it. I could learn from you instead of feeling judged by you. Give the less loved and less cared for and less treasured a chance. If I had that opportunity, then my language and attitude might not be so offensive. If I had been told once when I was a little girl that I was pretty (other than when I was being sexually molested – that doesn’t count) it might have made me nicer. It just didn’t happen. So I had to make do and make up for it myself. And that made me a bit on the edgy side. It made me a bit of a bitch.

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When someone says something negative about my face or body I will always and forever just completely lose my shit, because I have so much hatred in me, a violence that lies just beneath the surface of my delightfully illustrated skin. Being called ugly and fat and disgusting to look at from the time I could barely understand what the words meant has scarred me so deep inside that I have learned to hunt, stalk, claim, own and defend my own loveliness and my image of myself as stunningly gorgeous with a ruthlessness and a defensiveness that I fear for anyone who casually or jokingly questions it, as my anger and rage combined with my intense and fearsome command of words create insults meant to maim, kill and destroy.

femme warrior <3

laborreguitina:

juliosalgado83:

“I am UndocuQueer!” is an art project in conjunction with the Undocumented Queer Youth Collective and the Queer Undocumented Immigrant Project (QUIP) that aims to give us undocumented queers more of a presence in the discussion of migrant rights. 

If you want your own “I am UndocuQueer!” image, message me a photograph from the waist up of yourself and a quote telling us what does it mean to be UndocuQueer for you to juliosalgado83@yahoo.com.

beautiful!!

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martianedelweiss:

OK ladies, keep your mustache if you want,  you look good with it

sanelevox:

WHY BLACK FEMINIST ART & LITERARY PUBLICATIONS ARE NECESSARY

Because Audre Lorde said, “Your silence will not protect you.”

Because Barbara Smith said, “but some of us are brave.”

Because Toni Cade Bambara said, “The role of the revolutionary artist is to make revolution irresistible.”

Because Sylvia Wynter says our poetics is our politics is the way we make a world.

Because Anna Julia Cooper, a 19th century figure and former slave, earned a Ph.D. and wrote THE FIRST Black Feminist text, A Voice from the South.

Because Maria Miller Stewart was THE FIRST American woman of any race to serve as a public lecturer before a mixed audience of men and women, blacks and whites (proceeding the Grimke’s antislavery speeches by 5 years).
 

BECAUSE MANY OF YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHO THESE WOMEN ARE!

Because we cannot live without our lives, our contradictions or our words.

Because we fall in love with women of color every day.

Because young Black women STILL think critically and write prophetically.

Because publications are the ONLY way to communicate and globally interact with  past, present, and future Black women.

Because nearly all of the Black feminist publications of the 70s, 80s, and 90s have become extinct.

Because Black people were the ONLY people in the U.S. ever EXPLICITLY forbidden to become literate.

Because if we don’t write ourselves into history, tell our own truths and experiences, can it be said that we were even here?

I am starting a Black Feminist Art and Literary Publication. I am using the term Black to refer to those within the African Diaspora. I am concerned about our limited options. I am calling on Audre Lorde and Barbara Smith. I am calling for Black women theory, criticism, and creative literature writers. I am calling all of my sisters to come and sit at the kitchen table. 

(via sexxistappeal)

dwam:

fuckyeahlesbians:

[Image: Photo of a stencil-paint of a woman and the words, “Yo soy lesbiana y tu por que eres…Heterosexual?” It appears to be signed, “KATY”.]

fuckyeahlesbians:

Street art, via melofilms.com

de-la-tourelle:

PINK RIBBONS (TRAILER) (by nfb)

People actually need to start thinking about all this pink money making machine. 

I remember thinking about this many times when out shopping, when reading magazine or watching tv. I am so glad this is out. 

squared-em:

katydidhats:

HAT GIVEAWAY!!! 

this hat COULD BE YOURS!! this is one of a series i did with female signs on them (the rest of which are available on etsy)

to enter, reblog this and follow katydidhats! i’ll randomly choose a number and announce the winner on january 20th. 

Folks, check this lovely person out. Her hats are beautiful~

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