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Can anyone think of a minimalist feminist symbol which would make a good tattoo?

Can anyone think of a minimalist feminist symbol which would make a good tattoo?

water-veiled:“My eldest daughter, Suldana, is in love with another woman. She is eighteen and she...

water-veiled:

“My eldest daughter, Suldana, is in love with another woman. She is eighteen and she spends her days working at our kiosk selling milk and eggs, and at night she sneaks out and goes down to the beach to see her lover. She crawls back into bed at dawn, smelling of sea and salt and perfume. Suldana is beautiful and she wraps this beauty around herself like a shawl of stars. When she smiles her dimples deepen and you can’t help but be charmed. When she walks down the street men stare and whistle and ache. But they cannot have her. Every day marriage proposals arrive with offers of high dowries but I wave them away. We never talk about these things like mothers and daughters should; but I respect her privacy and I allow her to live.”

— - Diriye Osman, “Fairytales For Lost Children.”

i'm so proud of you. i just want you to know that, through all the pain you've suffered when you didn't deserve it, i'm proud of you. you're such a role model for me. i wish things could have worked out better for you, i wish things were different, but reg

Thank you so much.

I admire you a lot

That’s very kind, thank you.

welseykels:“Maybe if I’d fucked you more and loved you less I could have left this battlefield...

welseykels:

“Maybe if I’d fucked you more and loved you less I could have left this battlefield wearing just bruises and teeth, but I’m sure that even the cavalry knows that there’s a crack in my heart and it’s been leaking your name ever since we stopped fighting this fight. What I’m trying to say is: you win. It’s all yours. I’m tired and I tried. I’m tired and I love you. I’m tired and I didn’t mean to.”

— Azra.T (via 5000letters)

syrian-bitch:“Oh yes, but lostnessis loving someone too, knowing you wouldtake the raft out...

syrian-bitch:

“Oh yes, but lostness
is loving someone too, knowing you would
take the raft out further if it meant
a few more minutes.”

— Jeff Latosik, from “On the General Being of Lostness,” Poetry: New Canadian Poets Issue (December 2017)

violentwavesofemotion:“Scratch my heart to find / The roots of last year’s roses in my breast;” —...

violentwavesofemotion:

“Scratch my heart to find / The roots of last year’s roses in my breast;”

— Edna St. Vincent Millay, from The Collected Poems; “Sonnets,”

Aszra, i need some advice and some soothing words, you are like the sunflower I can watch everyday like it’s July, I have just escaped my husband and his family as I just lost my babyboy due to honour violence, I was 7months pregnant and my soul hurts, how

My sweet angel, I don’t know where my words are. I do know that I am thinking of you, my heart aches for you. I hope one day you are healthy and whole and free.

Really curious to how you managed to leave home? Did you get a job? Are you still studying?

I’m happy to talk to you about it off anon :)