Airmail

Feminisms, art, typography, graphic design, food and anything else that catches my fancy. A place to bookmark things I find on the internet.

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The task of an activist is not to navigate systems of oppressive power with as much personal integrity as possible; it is to dismantle those systems.

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Permalink [Quote by Malcome X that reads: If you are not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.]
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If we truly want to bring an end to all gender-based oppression, then we must begin by taking responsibility for our own perceptions and presumptions. The most radical thing that any of us can do is to stop projecting our beliefs about gender onto other people’s behaviors and bodies.

Permalink etiquette-etc: vladislava: glitterfitta: (via itsthefirstday) “Self-care is subversive. Our culture expects for us to not take care of our needs in a self-aware, proactive manner. The systems of oppression thrive on our denial of our needs. Smash the state, know yourself, love yourself.”
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Living here

So I went out for dinner tonight with a couple of the other interns from the university. One of them, A., was talking about how he complained a lot. He further explained that on his way back from the gym (that he managed to find in the Philippines) he saw one of the countless children one sees everyday selling flower necklaces and passed by him as usual. But he couldn’t help but ponder and worry about it for the rest of the night. And it was still worrying him - the immense poverty we see everyday, the chaos, the lack of structure and governance, the filth, the smells. It all seems so hopeless. How does one deal with it? He said he wants to ignore it, to pretend it doesn’t exist. Indeed, many of the choices he makes seem to point to that - he takes buses instead of jeepnies, which are more expensive (relatively speaking) and air conditioned and high off the ground, and cabs to get around. He also lives in an apartment building with security. 

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