“Talking about universal love is easy; to love one person is a humbling commitment.”
— Roger Housden, Ten Poems to Open Your Heart
March 2011
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“Prophets are those who take life as it is & expand it. They refuse to shrink a vision of tomorrow to the boundaries of yesterday.”
—Sr. Joan Chittister
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“The conundrum is that the language to describe the ineffable splendors and possibilities of our lives takes time to master, takes a certain unhurried engagement with the tasks of description, assessment, critique, and conversation; that to speak this slow language you must slow down, and to slow down you must have some inkling of what you will gain by doing so.”
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Rebecca Solnit, “Finding Time” Orion Magazine (Sept/October 2007)
“The rich may never see where the poor live, but they interact with them daily. The working poor see the rich every day. The question is, how do you respond to the disparity?”
— Rev. Christopher Wendell in Claiming the Beatitudes: p.12-13.
“When trans women who present femininely or assert a binary identity are blamed for perpetuating binary gender roles, while it’s forgotten that many or even more cis women do the same, that’s transmisogyny.
When trans women have every aspect of their presentation examined and labeled either hyperfeminine and therefore fake or not feminine enough and therefore male, while the same traits would be seen as normal in cis women, that’s transmisogyny.
When trans women are told that they are politically ignorant when they object to trans men “reclaiming” a derogatory term that has been used specifically against trans women and not against trans men, that’s transmisogyny.
When trans women are told that they need to stop being assertive and strong because it is a sign of male privilege - invariably by “feminists” who, of course, encourage cis women to be assertive and strong - that’s transmisogyny.
When queer women’s spaces have trans women inclusive policies, yet any trans women who attend are generally ignored or not included in discussions, that’s transmisogyny.
” —There’s so much more at the link, and I only included a few here.
(via blackenedbutterfly)
