“We had just gotten off tour with Mudhoney, and I decided to stage-dive. I was wearing a dress and I didn’t realize what I was engendering in the audience. It was a huge audience and they were kind of going ape-shit. So I just dove off the stage, and suddenly, it was like my dress was being torn off of me, my underwear was being torn off of me, people were putting their fingers inside of me and grabbing my breasts really hard, screaming things in my ears like “pussy-whore-cunt”. When I got back onstage I was naked. I felt like Karen Finley. But the worst thing of all was that I saw a photograph of it later. Someone took a picture of me right when this was happening, and I had this big smile on my face like I was pretending it wasn’t happening. So later I wrote a song called “Asking For It” based on the whole experience. I can’t compare it to rape because it’s not the same. But in a way it was. I was raped by an audience, figuratively, literally, and yet, was I asking for it?”
-Courtney Love
This is disgusting. There’s no way this would happen if a male stage dived.
this makes me feel sick to my stomach. how the fuck is this ok?..
If you are part of a privileged group and have to constantly demand that somebody in an oppressed group say “not all (insert privileged group here) are like that”
what you are really demanding is that they reassure you that you’re not like that and you’re not being held accountable
which is a cowardly thing to do and also shows the great lengths you will go to in order to avoid examining your role in a toxic system
(via wretchedoftheearth)
"I don’t know the secret to success, but the secret to failure is trying to please everyone."
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— Bill Cosby (via quote-book)
I got kind of peeved by this video. Is it me, or is this racist?
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Mod note: “Make yourself look Asian”… Racist.
Did you know that looking Asian is as simple as putting some eyeliner on? I had no idea. I’ve been doing it wrong!
Thanks for telling me that I look like what you think you look like and that yellowface is fucking acceptable irrelevant white girl
LOL I had no idea a shitty make up job was all it took to look like me.
At the STWTS opening, I asked people to write their own captions to street harassers.
From Stop Telling Women to Smile Opening at Fresthetic on April 12, 2013. Brooklyn, NY.
Photos by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
(set 1/2)
(Source: stoptellingwomentosmile)
I try not to talk about it, though, because the moment I do, someone always says, “Shut up, you’re Asian. You have genetics on your side.”Very good read
