“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”
— Margaret Mead (via soomuchscience)
“Was Beyoncé attractive, sexy even? To be sure. But more than anything, she was powerful. Few things are more threatening to a male audience than a beautiful, powerful woman who doesn’t need a man, or even a male gaze.
Perhaps folk didn’t consciously notice there wasn’t a single male performer on stage. But for those few minutes, there were no male voices and no male bodies in control, only women who refused to be owned. And it wasn’t women just dancing up there, though the cameras largely focused on that. The women onstage were creating, everything. They appropriated traditional male images and transformed them into female ones — not women just imitating men. They were claiming roles and instruments traditionally held by men: the horns and saxophones, the pyrotechnic guitar solo.
They were fierce, but refused to be masculinized or objectified.”
— A Defiant Dance of Power, Not Sex: Beyoncé, the Super Bowl and Durga by David Henson (via ceedling)
(Source: spacew0man, via topographe)
“If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives.”
— Lemony Snicket (via gyllenhaaled)
(Source: dishevelment, via gyllenhaaled)
