March 2012
19 posts
xeno
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n. the smallest measurable unit of human connection, typically exchanged between passing strangers—a flirtatious glance, a sympathetic nod, a shared laugh about some odd coincidence—moments that are fleeting and random but still contain powerful emotional nutrients that can alleviate the symptoms of feeling alone.
February 2012
27 posts
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“Given the right amount of Orientalist historical cherry picking, “Persianness”...”
– Beyond Mullahs and Persian Party People - The Invisibility of Being Iranian on TV by Roozbeh Shirazi (via destination-illiyyin)
Reblog if you think mohandasgandhi should be an...
mohandasgandhi:
What is going on?
miseengarde:
white girls who want my culture’s bindis and saris and henna
take my skin colour too
and my dark brown lips
take my self-hatred because i don’t fit into the euro-centric ideals of beauty
take the oppression too
take the history of colonization that has devastated my country
and the drones that currently devastate my country
take all the bad stuff too
not just the pretty,...
