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"Don’t fool yourself. English isn’t inherently superior, or easier to learn, or more sonically pleasing. Its international usage comes from forceful assimilation and legacy of colonialistic injection. It isn’t a deed that one should take pride in."my uncle left this comment on his friend’s Facebook status, a white British man who was bragging about how easy it is to be a native English speaker when trekking to different nations. (via maarnayeri)
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While every disabled person will have their own take on this for themselves, i am not “differently abled” and i kindly ask that you not insist on calling me that. It may seem like a trivial thing, but it’s not.
When you call me “differently abled” (in most cases this is regarding your perceptions and interpretations of my body), you are obscuring (however intentional or not) the reality that what is actually going on is in part just an ableist social construction made architectural: some people are actively ENabled to be part of their communities/ neighbourhoods/ spaces/ etc, and some of us are actively DISabled from doing so specifically because in general those who are ENabled to do so are the ones making the decisions about how and when and where the constructed environment is created and DISabled folks just have to suck it up because, yknow, ableism.
"Building Radical Accessible Communities Everywhere, dis/diss/differently/abled by Sprinkles McGillicuddy (via fabianromero) -
"How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?"Virginia Woolf, from Selected Essays (via dearthistle)
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"Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive."Hafiz (via energiesoftheuniverse)
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"The odd thing about this life is that you spend half your time trying to get people to listen to you and the rest of the time trying to get them to leave you the fuck alone."Tom Waits (via moonbrains)
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"There is little precedent for fat androgyny. Generally our androgynous icons are svelte and lacking in secondary sex characteristics. David Bowie, Tilda Swinton, Katherine Hepburn; these small-bodied, predominately white figures of androgyny have created an aesthetic with little room for deviation. This means that for those of us with bodies that do not conform to traditional standards of androgyny, we are often misread and misunderstood, even in queer spaces."Fat Queer Tells All: On Fatness and Gender Flatness - By Allie Shyer
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"The goal of colonialism is not just to kill colonized peoples, but to destroy their sense of being people. It is through sexual violence that a colonizing group attempts to render a colonized people as inherently rapable, their lands inherently invadable, and their resources inherently extractable."Heteropatriarchy, A Building Block of Empire — Andrea Smith (via whitedenial-ontrial)
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"I cannot stand small talk, because I feel like there’s an elephant standing in the room shitting all over everything and nobody is saying anything. I’m just dying to say, “Hey, do you ever feel like jumping off a bridge?” or “Do you feel an emptiness inside your chest at night that is going to swallow you?” But you can’t say that at a cocktail party."Paul Gilmartin, The Mental Illness Happy Hour (via conceptnoir)
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"A friend of mine once remarked that when he was growing up, he thought that he was either going to die before he reached adulthood, or he’d grow up to be a nondisabled person. The lack of disabled people on screen taught him that people like him only existed inside the walls of the hospital he visited regularly, and his special school. He had no idea disabled people came in adult form because he’d simply never seen any."
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"I still catch myself feeling blue about things that don’t matter anymore."Kurt Vonnegut (via route-s)
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