January 2012
56 posts
“When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world.” BKS Iyengar — DailyCupofYoga (@DailyCupofYoga)
Girls Get Busy: Kathleen Hanna Is Doing Set Design... →
girlsgetbusyzine:
Original riot grrrl Kathleen Hanna has kept busy as of late, recording a new album with her band the Julie Ruin, spinning records at museums, and making contributions to academia. Turns out she’s got another project on her plate: designing the set for Neal Medlyn’s Wicked…
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The Academic Feminist: Using the Past to Reimagine... →
This is related to my interest in the gender dynamics that don’t fit into clear legal categories. For example, I think there is an under-discussed area of sexual trauma and woundedness that comes from women “going along” with sexual encounters. This is significantly different from rape and sexual assault, but still necessary to address. I’m thinking of instances in which they haven’t said no, and...
GIRLS GET BUSY MANIFESTO - print to stick on your...
girlsgetbusyzine:
girlsgetbusyzine:
Unggghhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Martin on his female characters
Facebook question: What was your intent in providing such female characters of strength in a genre that typically reduces them to witches, wives, and whores?
George R. R. Martin: To be fair, I have my share of witches, wives, and whores. But I try to make them fully fleshed out human witches, wives, and whores. It all goes back to what I said earlier about common humanity. It seems strange that I have to say this, as a sort of weirdly radical statement, but women are people and they are driven by the same desires that drive men, I think. A desire for respect and power, a desire to protect your children. Greed for money, for acclaim, everyone wants to be loved. It is all common humanity. I just try to write my female characters as I write my male characters. I do take into account it is a very patriarchal society. They are limited to certain roles, some of them fit comfortably within the roles their Westerosi society assigned them. And some of them cannot fit comfortably into those roles, and therefore encounter a certain amount of rejection, or tension, or ridicule as they try to pursue their own dreams or as they frustrate their own dreams. All this is great, all this is conflict, it is character tension, it is what story is all about, the human heart in conflict with itself once again. One of the things that pleases me to no end is that I have so many female readers. They do write me, all the time, that they do like my female characters, and I am very pleased with it.
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SOPA EMERGENCY LIST. →
iwishiwaslittleagain:
SOPA Emergency IP list: So if these ass-fucks in DC decide to ruin the internet, here’s how to access your favorite sites in the event of a DNS takedown tumblr.com 174.121.194.34 wikipedia.org 208.80.152.201 # News bbc.co.uk 212.58.241.131 aljazeera.com 198.78.201.252 # Social media reddit.com 72.247.244.88 ...
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I am seriously contemplating the purchase of a five pound bag of YummyEarth Organic Sour Gummie Worms.
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10 Great Albums of 2011 That Happen To Be Made By... →
“The following list of 10 great albums put out by female artists and all-female bands is not meant to be definitive or objective: Think of it as a guided stroll through one person’s experience listening to music in 2011. In presenting these albums this way, I don’t want to suggest that they’re similar because they were all made by women; instead, I’d like it to be a testament to the very...
Grrrl Zine Network →
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Ethiopian girl reportedly guarded by lions →
“Boys are told from a young age that whatever they do will be excused under the...”
– Jaclyn Friedman (via jprugger816)
Harvard Declares Dairy NOT Part of a Healthy Diet →
badxblog:
The Harvard School of Public Health sent a strong message to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and nutrition experts everywhere with the recent release of its “Healthy Eating Plate” food guide. The university was responding to the USDA’s new MyPlate guide for healthy eating, which replaced the outdated and misguided food pyramid.
Harvard’s nutrition experts did...
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Holy Toledo, I think I may have made the most scrumptious cookies ever. Ginger-Lemon-Pecan-Oatmeal cookies. They are legit cookie crack.
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“You always liked Alanis.”
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Things I am making
1. Vegan peanut butter pillow cookies
2. Lentil loaf
3. Moong Dahl
Going to tackle number one on my list before snuggling down with James for an Animaniac marathon :)
