Alexandra

No human being is illegal

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 19:36:20 -0700

No human being is illegal

Amour Fou

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 18:20:31 -0700

Pronunciation: /əˌmʊə ˈfuː, amuʀ fu/

Definition of Amour Fou
noun
1. Wild love. 2. Uncontrollable or obsessive passion.

Being soothed by soul music right now…. This song hits...

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 22:12:41 -0800

Being soothed by soul music right now…. This song hits home

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Tue, 04 Dec 2012 07:44:06 -0800

"I am completely a loner. In my head I want to feel I can be anywhere. There is a sort of..."

Sat, 24 Nov 2012 15:05:58 -0800

““I am completely a loner. In my head I want to feel I can be anywhere. There is a sort of recklessness that being a loner allows me.”

- ― Arundhati Roy

A magazine cover from 1950…. Not too long ago, we were...

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 12:19:22 -0700

A magazine cover from 1950….

Not too long ago, we were not allowed to vote. We were silenced and voiceless because of the color of our skin, and that was the “law”. Things are different now…someone stood up for you and fought for you to have a voice, to be able to vote; someone even died for your right to vote. And yet, there are still people who choose not to vote, and they come up with whatever excuse they can for not doing so.

Something worse than having someone choose for you, decide for you, silence you…. something worse is when you silence yourself. When you give up your right and let someone else make choices and decisions for you. History repeats itself, and freedom and our rights can be compromised and taken away yet again. In fact, some of our rights already have been.

Whatever your excuse for not voting is, it’s not good enough. It is not ok to not exercise your right to vote, the right that you once didn’t have. It is not ok to make excuses. It is not ok for people to have died in vain. Even if you don’t vote for Obama or Romney, you have the option to vote for a third party. What matters is that you vote. What’s important is that you don’t let “them” take back your rights, or dictate you, or decide for you. It’s bad enough that “they” once took and still attempt to take our rights and power from us, but it’s even worse if you bow your head and let them.

The Zodiac Temperament

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 21:25:06 -0700

Capricorn: wow you pissed me off so I'm going to sulk in silence and snap if spoken to
Aquarius: YOU MADE ME UPSET IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD /melts into a dramatic heap
Pisces: I'M GONNA FUCKING THROW THINGS. LIKE THE BIGGEST TANTRUM. YOU HAVE -EVER- SEEN.
Aries: WOW I'M SO MAD for like a second. What's for dinner?
Taurus: BRB SMASHING HEADLONG THROUGH A WALL TO KILL YOU
Gemini: Oh, I'm not mad. Wait. YES I FUCKING AM. Okay maybe not. BUT THEN AGAIN--
Cancer: ...oh. I'm angry. But you'll never know. Till it's too late. Cookie?
Leo: /INDISCERNIBLE NOISES OF RAGE
Virgo: how could you do this to me. how. HOW??? Get out of my life. No wait baby come back...
Libra: Passively plotting your demise.
Scorpio: This'll only sting for a second. Unlike my wounds which'll bleed FOREVER and you'll never hear the end of it. WHIIIINE
Sagittarius: I have to leave before I kill someone. Bye!~

"Your question is: why am I so interested in politics?

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 13:15:10 -0700

‎ But if I were to answer you very simply, I would say this: why shouldn’t I be interested? That is to say, what blindness, what deafness, what density of ideology would have to weigh me down to prevent me from being interested in what is probably the most crucial subject to our existence, that is to say the society in which we live, the economic relations within which it functions, and the system of power which defines the regular forms and the regular permissions and prohibitions of our conduct. The essence of our life consists, after all, of the political functioning of the society in which we find ourselves. So I can’t answer the question of why I should be interested; I could only answer it by asking why shouldn’t I be interested?”

-Foucault

Random thought...

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 01:26:15 -0700

One of the things I love the most about my job is that my hard work does not fatten a white man’s pocket. In fact, it does the opposite. My hard work results in taking from that pocket and having that money be put back where it belongs, in the pockets of the workers who slaved away for it and earned it.

I hope that I never, out of necessity, have to work to make a white man richer, but instead that I continue on the path that I am now, a path that is the complete opposite.

"But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one..."

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 00:54:42 -0700

“But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it the most?”

- Mark Twain (via disemboweled)

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Sat, 13 Oct 2012 07:54:40 -0700

"Hay algunos que nacen con estrella y otros estrellados, y aunque tú no lo quieras creer, yo soy de..."

Tue, 09 Oct 2012 00:00:39 -0700

“Hay algunos que nacen con estrella y otros estrellados, y aunque tú no lo quieras creer, yo soy de las estrelladísimas.”

- Frida Kahlo (via azallie)

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Mon, 08 Oct 2012 23:57:25 -0700

"The people suffer when they pursuit a life or chase a dream that doesn’t belong to them."

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 09:39:28 -0700

““The people suffer when they pursuit a life or chase a dream that doesn’t belong to them.””

"Lastly, you, ungrateful Mexican, have the audacity to speak to the experience of Manzano’s parents..."

Sat, 29 Sep 2012 15:37:00 -0700

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Lastly, you, ungrateful Mexican, have the audacity to speak to the experience of Manzano’s parents and dismiss their life story by arrogantly asserting that México “offered nothing to [ ] them and forced them to leave.” That you can believe yourself superior to them, to us, has little to do with the plight of our peoples, yet much about what you have offered in sacrifice to a country that looks to all of us (yes, you too) with all the hatred, disdain, and perceived inferiority that is felt every time one of us is called a spic.

For all your CNN. The ease with which you refer to one of yours as “illegal.” Your love for whiteness. And your pride in “the country that allowed [Leo Manzano] the opportunity to fulfill his potential.” You, my brother, will always be just another Mexican in the eyes of your master. No amount of public chastising of your kindred will change the fact that in this country you’ll always be one of us; a people displaced in a land we never really left. So let Manzano have his cake and eat it to. Hell, our people helped bake the damn cake anyway.

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- Hairspray & Fideo: From One Spic to Another: A Response to CNN’s Ruben Navarrette Jr. (via dulce)

dulce: Remember that our past is never that long ago…

Sat, 29 Sep 2012 15:16:15 -0700

dulce:

Remember that our past is never that long ago…

thusspakekate: This is, hands down, the best version of this...

Sat, 29 Sep 2012 15:06:17 -0700

thusspakekate:

This is, hands down, the best version of this meme in existence.

" My heritage, my dad as you probably know was the governor of Michigan and was the head of a car..."

Sat, 29 Sep 2012 14:45:21 -0700

“” My heritage, my dad as you probably know was the governor of Michigan and was the head of a car company. But he was born in Mexico, and, uh, had he been born of, uh, Mexican parents, I’d have a better shot at winning this. But he was unfortunately born to Americans living in Mexico. He lived there for a number of years. And, uh, uh, I say that jokingly, but it would be helpful to be, uh … Latino.”—Mitt Romney”

- Daily Kos :: News Community Action

SO MUCH RAGE
(via dulce)

"Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes."

Sat, 29 Sep 2012 14:39:20 -0700

“Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.”

- Antisthenes