desi people

Jan
19th
2012

The “success” of the battered women’s movement has proven to be a double-edged sword. In order to gain public support, domestic violence advocates portrayed abused women as innocent victims who suffered at the hands of particularly deviant men. While this narrative perhaps sought to combat the idea that abuse was a woman’s own fault, it drew upon dominant ideas of “innocence” and “victimhood” and required that women represent themselves in particular ways in order to be recognized as deserving of assistance. This requirement to pass as a “good victim” reinforced dominant gender norms and also marginalized women of color, immigrant women, working-class women, homeless women, lesbians, gay men, transgender people, and anyone who did not or could not fit these norms.

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—	Priya Kandaswamy \| “Innocent Victims and Brave New Laws” from Nobody Passes (via derica)

Jan
13th
2012

For being a foreigner… is a sort of lifelong pregnancy - a perpetual wait, a constant burden, a continuous feeling out of sorts. It is an ongoing responsibility, a parenthesis in what had once been an ordinary life, only to discover that that previous life has vanished

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—	Jhumpa Lahiri

Dec
27th
2011

Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men are expected to educate the heterosexual world. The oppressors maintain their position and evade their responsibility for their own actions. There is a constant drain of energy which might be better used in redefining ourselves and devising realistic scenarios for altering the present and constructing the future.

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—	Audre Lorde (via sisteroutsider) audre lorde is always so brilliant. (via no-longer-solo)

Oct
18th
2011

The path for humanity charted out by capitalism, industrialization and colonialism has ended in an abyss. We need another path.

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—	Vandana Shiva, environmental activist (via quotesworthy)

Oct
8th
2011

When a beautiful actress is cast in a movie, executives rack their brains to find some kind of flaw in the character she plays that will still allow her to be palatable. She can’t be overweight or not perfect-looking, because who would pay to see that? A female who is not one hundred per cent perfect-looking in every way? You might as well film a dead squid decaying on a beach somewhere for two hours.

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—	Mindy Kaling Read more http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2011/10/03/111003sh_shouts_kaling#ixzz1ZS2HCQJG

Oct
3rd
2011

because too many women and girls, who look like me, haven’t always been invited to marches like this.… Because young girls, and especially girls of color, are called Jumpoffs. Whores. Sluts. Almost everyday. By friends. By strangers. By parents. By police officers. ’Cause when I took that long walk home after I was raped, my spaghetti strapped dress was turned inside out. And I was afraid to go to the police and be told it was my fault. Scared of someone telling me that being trapped in a room wearing a spaghetti-strapped dress with a man who threatened my life wasn’t rape.

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—	Salamishah Tillet (http://bit.ly/qbazA6 ) (via jonubian)

occupy wallstreet.

“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness — and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe. The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling — their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability. Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them.” - Roy

Sep
30th
2011

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“The only thing worth globalizing is dissent.”
- Arundhati Roy

Sep
30th
2011

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* The essence of globalization is a subordination of human rights, of labor rights, consumer, environmental rights, democracy rights, to the imperatives of global trade and investment.
— Ralph Nader

Sep
16th
2011

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Jul
25th
2011

‎”If we are serious about ending poverty, we have to be serious about ending the systems for wealth creation which create poverty by robbing the poor of their resources, livelihoods and incomes. Before we can make poverty history, we need to get the history of poverty right. It’s not about how much more we can give, so much as how much less we can take.” - Vandana Shiva

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—	http://www.theecologist.org/blogs_and_comments/commentators/other_comments/268520/new_emperors_old_clothes.html (via seaoftinyflames) such a good quote! so on point.