In honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, my college is doing a clothesline project. Here is the shirt I made.

5 Years Later and I’m ready to talk about when I was raped.

@girl-unforgiven

You always matter

Emblem in New Atlantis

We teach females that in relationships, compromise is what women do. We raise girls to see each other as competitors, not for jobs or for accomplishments– which I think can be a good thing– but for the attention of men. We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way that boys are. If we have sons, we don’t mind knowing about our sons’ girlfriends, but our daughters boyfriends? ‘God forbid!’ But of course when the time is right, we expect those girls to bring back the perfect man to be their husband. We police girls, we praise girls for virginity, but we don’t praise boys for virginity. And it’s always made me wonder how exactly this is supposed to work out because *laughs* the loss of virginity is usually a process that involves *laughs*… We teach girls shame. 'Close your legs!’ 'Cover yourself!’ We make them feel as though by being born female, they are already guilty of something. And so, girls grow up to be women who cannot say they have desire. They grow up to be women who silence themselves. They grow up to be women who cannot say what they truly think. And they grow up–and this is the worst thing we do to girls–they grow up to be women who have turned pretense into an artform.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, TedxEuston (x)

I can’t stop rewatching this talk. Adichie is my hero and she just /gets/ these issues so well. She’s incredible, and everyone should watch her talk, if they haven’t already.

(via owning-my-truth)

“Some people will say that a woman being subordinate to a man is a “part of our culture”… So what is the point of culture… culture is really about preservation and continuity of people… culture does not make people; people make culture. So if it is in fact true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, then we MUST make it our culture”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, TEDxEuston (x)

Why all arguments for oppression that say “it’s just a part of our culture” are full of shit. Love this!

(via owning-my-truth)

The Writing Game

1. Write a few letters by hand. 1.1 Write a few nice letters to your friends. Goal: They smile. 1.2 Write a few anonymus letters to a person you don’t know. Then go around your home town and drop them to mailboxes you don’t know.

2. Write an essay of yourself like you were a student in 2560 or something and would need to write about this crazy kid who lived hundrets of years ago

3. “Every picture is a snapshot of a story.” Go to the internet, take a random picture and write the story behind it.

4. Write a love letter. 4.1 Write a love letter as if you were a super villain and in love with the hero. 4.2 Write a love letter as if you lived in the 17th century. 4.3 Write a love letter as if you didn’t knew your crush, but could imagine how they may could be and look like

5. Write about a fictional place you imagined. 5.1 Write a tourists guide about this fictional place.

6. Write a real dramatic death scene. 6.1 Write a real dramatic death scene without any character saying a word.

7. Write a real dramatic proposal. 7.1 Write a proposal where Person B says no. 7.2 Write a story where Person A is totally clumsy so they plan everything to make the proposal as perfect as possible, but totally fail and everything goes wrong, but Person B finds it so cute and is so happy and says yes.

HD phone wallpapers I put together with some of my favourite ‘inspirational’ quotes

please like/reblog if you use them

The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser.