in vino veritas

lella-omezzin

“Although Arabization policies were implemented to create a false unity of the supposed ‘Arab’ people of North Africa this violent imposition of a foreign language and identity on Imazighen has created alienation and supported colonial entrenchment in the region. These policies continue today: Amazigh parents who want to register their children with Indigenous names are routinely rejected, a policy which has been criticized by human rights organizations. Children are often still physically beaten for speaking their mother tongue in school, as is the case in many other African countries where only colonial languages may be spoken in school. Despite the prominent role of Imazighen in the revolutions in Libya and Tunisia, painfully dubbed the “Arab Spring,” Tamazight continues to be excluded as an official language in these countries. There is a ban on Tamazight in the Moroccan Parliament after Fatima Tabaamrant, an Amazigh MP, asked a question in her native language in a bold action reminiscent of Kurdish MP Leyla Zana. Islamist opposition to Tamazight and the use of its Indigenous script, Tifinagh, continues in Morocco. Does it matter whether the language of dominance is French, English, or Arabic? Certainly not to the children who are forced to reject their ancestors and mother tongue, children who are told they must learn that language in order to be civilized.”

— Nuunja Kahina, “Decolonizing the Mind: The Language of North Africa” (via angrymarocaine)

eenzijdig

when kristin chang said godhood is just like girlhood: a begging to be believed or when laurie penny said it’s no surprise that so many women and girls have control issues around their bodies or when fiona apple said there’s no hope for women or when elana dykewomon said almost every woman i have ever met has a secret belief that she is just on the edge of madness or when carolyn gage said you can terrorize her with her own body and then she will torture herself or when angela carter said i often felt like a female impersonator or when leslie feinberg said i don’t feel like a man trapped in a woman’s body i just feel trapped

helenstroy

“… make death proud to take us.”

— William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra (featured in our 15-book giveaway)

violentwavesofemotion

when audre lorde said “you need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.”

honeyfleshed

“I have led a toothless life, he thought. A toothless life. I have never bitten into anything. I was waiting. I was reserving myself for later on—and I have just noticed that my teeth have gone.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre, The Age of Reason
(via nauseadaily)

tulpa2

i can’t believe people don’t want to be my friend anymore because i’m going through a hard time, have a bad attitude, have nothing interesting to say and am being unlikable 

sunglow-xoxo

Imagine this period of struggle paying off. Imagine being granted way more than you originally bargained for. Stay the course my love. It’s coming. You’re almost there.

decayinginfrontofme

one of the most frustrating aspects of having discussions around mental health & addiction with people who have never struggled with addiction is how they don’t understand how many (and i mean like, on and off, a lot) of addicts don’t want to actually recover (in theory and/or in practice), and why (because that would require a lot of empathy towards addicts to understand how difficult and painful and downright horrible quitting actually is, mentally and physically, even if you have all the money and support in the world), and when they’re screaming at people to go to therapy and hear “i don’t want to quit” back, they think addicts are stupid and don’t understand what they’re doing to themselves and are having lots of fun and enjoy addiction and need to be punished. addiction isn’t as easy as everyone seems to think, it’s not black and white, it’s extraordinarily complicated, conflicting and painful in every way.