There is only one minority “ruining this country”: The rich. 

There is nothing more beautiful than seeing a person being themselves. Imagine going through your day being unapologetically you.

Steve Maraboli (via quotemadness)

“Hard work causes stress, poor health and early death – above all, it has never solved poverty. We work longer hours now than we’ve done for fifty years, yet the gap between the rich and poor has never been wider. Working hard cannot solve an economic crisis. The fact we are all expected to work so hard is in fact a result of economic crisis: a crisis that did not appear in 2008, but has been with us far longer. This is the crisis at the heart of capitalism: a tension between the 1 percent who control the economy, and want to continually increase their wealth, and the rest of us, who are expected to work ever harder, in order to generate profit and to keep us from occupying our time in meaningful ways like questioning or challenging the status quo.”

– Selina Todd | Strike! Magazine: Fuck Your Hard Work

Talk with people who make you see the world differently.

(via nyu-tah)

there really should be more movies/books about people living with chronic illness that don’t, y’know, end in death or magical cures

Sammy Davis Jr., 1989

This is what a male feminist looks like.

There is a reason why so many poor and oppressed folks are poets- you can write poetry on the bus, on your phone, in the toilet stall on a five minute work break… I think there is a somatic genius to writing poetry about trauma- poems can be a short container for intense experience. You enter into something really intense, and then it is done and you can breathe.

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (Don’t Date Anyone Who Treats You Like Shit)

As of this moment, Kesha is unable to perform features on anyone else’s records, create any live recordings (even of other people’s songs), sing the national anthem on TV or put up an acoustic cover on YouTube without Dr. Luke’s explicit permission. Because Kesha is signed to Gottwald’s publishing company, she is also unable to make a living writing songs for other people (something she’s done in the past — “Til The World Ends,” among others). If Kesha and I wrote a song together right now, I would own 50% of that song and the other half would belong to Dr. Luke. No matter what she does with her career at this point, everything she does will directly benefit her abuser, regardless of whether she’s in the same room with him or not. The systematic sexual harassment and abuse of women in the music industry is nothing new, but Kesha’s situation is a very particular nightmare.

We Asked An Actual Entertainment Lawyer: Why Can’t Sony Help Kesha? (via yayfeminism)

Day 27 watch out I’m coming!

Which do you want: the pain of staying where you are, or the pain of growth?

Judith Hanson Lasater (via thursdays-at-the-coffeeshop)

I’m sorry, from the very core of my heart, if someone told you that you are unworthy: they were lying.

littlemissmoony (via wnq-writers)

teaching

what people think i do

what i actually do