feministd1rection:

men who “know better” but still don’t stop other men from engaging in sexism are filth.

“One day at breakfast, while Ella ate her oatmeal and rambled on about her brother, I recognized in a humbling flash that she was doing exactly what I’d been doing as a writer all these years: the fictional characters in my books had allowed me to understand what was hard for me to understand (which, so far, has been nearly everything). Much like Ella, I’d found myself with an excess of words, the wealth of which far exceeded the pathetic limits of my own biography. I’d needed narrative space to extend myself into; I’d needed more lives. I, too, had needed another set of parents, and someone other than myself to throw my metaphysical tantrums. I’d cooked up those avatars in the soup of my ever-changing self, but they were not me—they did what I wouldn’t, or couldn’t, do. Listening to Ella furiously and endlessly unfurl the Mingus tales, I understood that the need to tell stories was deeply embedded in our minds and inseparably entangled with the mechanisms that generate and absorb language. Narrative imagination—and therefore fiction—was a basic evolutionary tool of survival. We processed the world by telling stories, produced human knowledge through our engagement with imagined selves.”

- Aleksander Hemon, “The Aquarium”

mulanofficial:

87daysbefore:

HERE IT IS

RE: big girls in costumes

Couldn’t reblog this shit fast enough.

can I get a hell yes?

feministd1rection:

people get more upset with me when I say I hate men that warrant it than they do with men who do things that warrant my hate

iamnotlosthere:

mavinbro:

A zombie-bitten father tries to save his infant daughter in this bittersweet short film

So you’ve been bitten by a zombie. So long, conscious brain activity, hello craving for human meat. But the protagonist of the short film Cargo has bigger problems than his impending demise: he has to find a way to save his infant daughter, even if he has to die first to do it.

Directed by Ben Howling and Yolanda Ramke, Cargo was a finalist in Tropfest Australia 2013. It’s also a rather clever take on zombie genre tropes, with a story that isn’t about the survival of self, but the survival of another.

this is why I get so invested in zombie narrative. not because people die, but the ways they survive.

(Source: io9.com)

Good thing we’re too smart to spend all day being uselessly frustrated with ourselves. I mean, that’d be a hell of a waste, right?

blackgirlsgoglobal:

I’m trying to be the Black Amelia Earhart #blackgirlsgoglobal 6.2.13

You look so cute, B!!

guess what just became the official fragrance of brocity