May 2012
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You won’t allow me to go to school.
I won’t become a doctor.
Remember this:...
– Poem written by an 11 year old Afghan girl
This poem was recorded in a NYT magazine article about female underground poetry groups in Afghanistan. An amazing article about the ways in which women are using a traditional two line poetry form to express their resistance to male oppression, their...
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April 2012
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Normally, in anything I do, I’m fairly miserable. I do it, and I get grumpy...
– Neil Gaiman (via cottonbutts)
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Look how your children grow up. Taught from their earliest infancy to curb their...
– Voltairine de Cleyre (via petitefeministe)
The best part of this essay is when she advocates for children to be brought up with no gender-role stereotyping, and gets in some not-so-subtle digs at heterocentricism and heterosexism in the process.
Did I mention this was written over a hundred years...
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I think that all writing is useful for honing writing skills. I think you get...
– Neil Gaiman on fanfiction (via wibblywobblyotp)
BECAUSE THIS.
(via mycroftsmindtardis)
Neil Gaiman. Just wrote Smeagol/Gollum slash. Your argument is invalid.
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