Gorgeously Lovely Flawed: Adventures in AlleyLand

That writers “write” is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I find it is hardly ever true. Writers drink. Writers rant. Writers phone. Writers sleep. I have met very few writers who write at all.

—Renata Adler (via Durga Polashi)  (via thessaly)

Oh my gawd…I AM a writer :)

(via ifidontjust)

I asked all of the gay male students in the room to raise their hand if in the past week they touched a woman’s body without her consent. After a moment of hesitation, all of the hands of the gay men in the room went up. I then asked the same gay men to raise their hand if in the past week they offered a woman unsolicited advice about how to “improve” her body or her fashion. Once again, after a moment of hesitation, all of the hands in the room went up.

These questions came after a brief exploration of gay men’s relationship to American fashion and women’s bodies. That dialogue included recognizing that gay men in the United States are often hailed as the experts of women’s fashion and by proxy women’s bodies. In addition to this there is a dominant logic that suggests that because gay men have no conscious desire to be sexually intimate with women, our uninvited touching and groping (physical assault) is benign.

—Gay Men’s Sexism and Women’s Bodies by Yolo Akili (via plightofthepretty)

Too real to handle

Has happened multiple times with strangers. They seemed surprised when their disclosure, “I’m gay” had little affect on my anger.

(via theangryblackwoman)

Be proud of your skin color. Being dark is not inferior, it’s greatness. What color is a judge’s robe? What color is the original graduation robe? What is the highest color belt in karate? If this color resembles greatness, why are you ashamed of it?

—~Shavez (via dallastar)

(via citycurves)