"The beauty standard was a reflection of white supremacist aesthetics."
By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 9 years ago

New Favorite Tumblr: Saved by the bell hooks

It’s exactly what it sounds like: Images from the ’90s sit-com captioned with the words of the great bell hooks. Need I say more? 

"The power of patriarchy has been to make maleness feared and to make men feel that it is better to be feared than loved."

"It is the process by which we move from seeing ourselves as objects to acting as subjects
"Black women felt they were asked to chose between a black movement that primarily served the interests of black male patriarchs and a women's movement which primarily served the interests of racist white women.
"Feminist is for everybody"

(h/t Colorlines)

St. Paul, MN

Maya Dusenbery is executive director in charge of editorial at Feministing. She is the author of the forthcoming book Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick (HarperOne, March 2018). She has been a fellow at Mother Jones magazine and a columnist at Pacific Standard magazine. Her work has appeared in publications like Cosmopolitan.com, TheAtlantic.com, Bitch Magazine, as well as the anthology The Feminist Utopia Project. Before become a full-time journalist, she worked at the National Institute for Reproductive Health. A Minnesota native, she received her B.A. from Carleton College in 2008. After living in Brooklyn, Oakland, and Atlanta, she is currently based in the Twin Cities.

Maya Dusenbery is an executive director of Feministing and author of the forthcoming book Doing Harm on sexism in medicine.

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