Reads tagged with “activism”

Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress: A Tender Story of Gender Identity, Acceptance, and Overcoming Bullying

How to swish, swish, swish one’s way into the spaceship of identity.

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Shepard Fairey on Capitalism, Freedom, Selling Out, and What Makes Great Art

“I believe in capitalism with some checks to chill out the evil greedy element. Capitalism is a way for hard work to yield rewards.”

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Eve Ensler on How Trauma Makes Us Leave Our Bodies and Disconnect from Ourselves

“Many of us have left our bodies — we’re not embodied creatures, we’re not living inside our own muscles and cells and sinews.”

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May 9, 1933: Helen Keller’s Searing Letter to the Nazis About Censorship and the Inextinguishable Freedom of Ideas

“You can burn my books… but the ideas in them have seeped through a million channels and will continue to quicken other minds.”

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After Stonewall: The First-Ever Pride Parades, In Vintage Photos

“There were no openly gay policemen, public school teachers, doctors, or lawyers.”

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John Dewey on War and Our Individual Role in Peace

“The present task of the constructive pacifist is to call attention away from the catchwords which so easily in wartime become the substitute for both facts and ideas back to realities.”

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Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Jody Williams on How Your Choices Shape the World, Animated

“Every single thing you do is politics, because the interaction of human beings is politics writ large.”

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Pete Seeger on Combinatorial Creativity, Originality, Equality, and the Art of Dot-Connecting

“All of us, we’re links in a chain. And if we do our job right, there will be many, many links to come.”

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Edie Windsor, Patron Saint of Modern Love

“The more we see each other, the more we love what we see.”

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Happy 50th Birthday, Equal Pay Act: A Brief History and Future of the Gender Wage Gap

“Even in creative fields, such as book publishing, advertising, and journalism, where there was a pool of educated females, women were given menial jobs.”

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Reads tagged with “activism”

How to swish, swish, swish one’s way into the spaceship of identity.

“I believe in capitalism with some checks to chill out the evil greedy element. Capitalism is a way for hard work to yield rewards.”

“Many of us have left our bodies — we’re not embodied creatures, we’re not living inside our own muscles and cells and sinews.”

“You can burn my books… but the ideas in them have seeped through a million channels and will continue to quicken other minds.”

“There were no openly gay policemen, public school teachers, doctors, or lawyers.”

“The present task of the constructive pacifist is to call attention away from the catchwords which so easily in wartime become the substitute for both facts and ideas back to realities.”

“Every single thing you do is politics, because the interaction of human beings is politics writ large.”

“All of us, we’re links in a chain. And if we do our job right, there will be many, many links to come.”

“The more we see each other, the more we love what we see.”

“Even in creative fields, such as book publishing, advertising, and journalism, where there was a pool of educated females, women were given menial jobs.”

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