"THIS PICTURE WILL NOT CHANGE THE WORLD, BUT I STILL NEED FEMINISM AND I’M GOING TO REALLY, REALLY TELL YOU WHY":

-Because I got called a ***** for wearing a short plaid skirt when I was 10

-and because when Nujood Ali from Yemen was 10 she got divorced

-Because black girls’ names became my classmates’ favorite “joke” when I was 11

-and because when an 11-year-old girl in Texas was ***** by 18 men the New York Times wrote of how the girl “dressed older than her age”

-Because I started counting calories when I was 14

-and because when Malala Yousafzai was 14 she was shot in the head for trying to go to school

-Because I heard a boy greet a girl with “hey ****” today at age 16
-and because when a 16-year-old girl in Steubenville, Ohio was filmed being ***** by two boys at a party while unconscious the CNN reporters talked about how tragic it was because the rapists had such bright futures as athletes

-Because I will have to watch my drink at all bars and parties when I am 22

-and because when CeCe McDonald was 22 she was sentenced to 41 months in prison for defending herself against a man who screamed transphobic, racist insults at her and then slashed her face with a bottle

-Because no matter what age I am the biggest threat to men will still be heart disease, and the biggest threat to women will still be men.

-Because it is not just about me, because it is not just about anger, because it is not just a JOKE, because it is not just about “hating men,” because it is not just about girls with vaginas, because it is not just about ending “****”, because it is not just about white straight girls in Rookie magazine, because it is not just about writing on backs, because it is not just about the fact that gay men are “****” but lesbians are “hot,” because it is not just about pictures of thin white girls being the only google image results for the search phrase “beautiful women”, because it is not just about writing signs, because it is not just about what she was wearing or how many times she said yes before she changed her answer to no, because misogyny is not just about one thing and feminism is not just about one thing and it is not just “a trend” and it will not “happen” in just one way.

-And because yes. It is about equality for EVERYONE, but first and foremost it needs to be about equality for girls, because they are not treated equally to men, in every single sense, and you are not going to take feminism away from me and call me bossy/hostile/aggressive and make this about yourself or make it into a joke, because truth be told, I’m not joking and I’m tired of explaining. If you want to call yourself a feminist, you work hard to spread feminism, you do not turn this into a contest of whose struggle is greater and constantly demand to know what you can get out of feminism personally. Feminism is not just about you, or me, it is about everyone. If you’re male and you’re tired of men being stereotyped as hyper-masculine, soulless, sexist, inherent leader-tyrant creatures, then go out and prove the patriarchy wrong and fight for girls, like someone with a soul who believes in equality would. Then, yes, feminism will be about everyone.


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Just because I potentially could love anyone
It does not mean I want everyone.

Lack of prejudice: that's what I do, and what should be embraced.

At first sight, any person could fascinate me.

Every person is unique and unreapeatable. That is absolutely stupendous.

Some people just don't get me.
But I'm the one who cannot understand
how someone could be so picky
to the point of defining somebody's essence
for this being's gender
before its soul.

Vez ou outra sinto-me como uma nuvem:
Instável,
Em constante mutação.

Fruto da projeção alheia
Faço-me do que queres que eu seja.
O que queres que eu seja
Agora?

Nunca me satisfaço
Com o que sou agora.

No que me transmutarei
Agora?

E agora?

Everything about cycles is picturesque.
That's because everything repeats,
And yet
Is never the same.

I love my ****** catty sundays.
Sundays are often bad,
Cause sometimes I want to **** myself
(Or **** them all)

But somehow a quiet afternoon
With the company of cats
(And cats only)
Can feel very pleasent.

And the week ends
And the weekends
Are not always that bad.
Thanks to my cats!

Meu pranto foi consolado!
Lágrimas confundem-se com água salgada.
Quando o corpo fica gelado,
a alma fica curada.

Sangue
- Aranhas
- Facas
- Ácido
- Unhas
- Cílios
- Águas-vivas
- Vidro
- Pílulas
- Cogumelos
- Dor
- Euforia
- Cores
- Preto
- Vida
- Morte
- Água

Queima é destruição.
Amor é destruição,
amor é queima.
A destruição vem de mim,
está dentro de mim,
pois sou toda amor.
Uso meu coração de cinzeiro
e minha mente de isqueiro.
Minha alma é fumaça.
Sou combustível e comburente
desta combustão,
que é a própria vida.