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"We touch things to assure ourselves of reality. We touch the objects of our love. We touch the things we form. Our tactile experiences are elemental. If we reduce their range, as we do when we reduce the necessity to form things ourselves, we grow lopsided." — Anni Albers


Feb 6th | 4464 "

Westerners are fond of the saying ‘Life isn’t fair.’ Then, they end in snide triumphant: ‘So get used to it!’

What a cruel, sadistic notion to revel in! What a terrible, patriarchal response to a child’s budding sense of ethics. Announce to an Iroquois, ‘Life isn’t fair,’ and her response will be: ‘Then make it fair!’ This is the matriarchal approach to learning.

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Barbara Alice Mann, Iroquois woman (via cultureofresistance)

How many fucking times did I/we hear this as a child?

(via shannonnagig)

(Source: socialuprooting, via lipsbetweenthehips)

February 6th / with 4,464 notes

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    Heard this so many times. Also had an elementary school teacher who had it as a giant poster in his classroom. It was...
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