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'The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men.'
-Alice Walker

'Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.'
-Thomas Edison

'My opinion is well known. I do not regard flesh food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for human beings ordinarily to live. I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species.'
-Mahatma Ghandhi

'Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.'
-Albert Einstein

'If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.'
-Paul McCartney

'The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?'
-Jeremy Bentham

My Blog

That’s SO gay - A blog by a real, live homosexual

So basically, as far as being out goes, i have very little to complain about. My youngest brother constantly makes not-very-funny gay jokes, my gran purses her lips and says 'hmmmm' disaprovingly if e...
Posted by on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 00:24:00 GMT

On Beauty

A post-International Women's Day post.Part of Dove's Campaign for Real Beauty There has been quite a bit of debate online recently about the merits and motivations behind Dove's recent Campaign for R...
Posted by on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 22:54:00 GMT

neuron: a poem

i'm a little neuronshort and stouthere is my dendritehere is my axon terminal: S
Posted by on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:30:00 GMT

Blog for choice

Today is the 34th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, which I think is pertinent to the whole world, but which is certainly pertinent to me today as I'm actually in the US. It's also blog for choice day. So...
Posted by on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 01:03:00 GMT

your paradigm or mine?

i liked this poem alot alotPick up lines for feministsBy Lesley Kartali making the move at the bar the club the pro-choice rally or the conference on women's rights in the 21st century is no ea...
Posted by on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 01:49:00 GMT

knock knock

here is a comic:...toothaste for dinner
Posted by on Fri, 17 Mar 2006 18:05:00 GMT

I want...

...ow
Posted by on Sun, 08 Jan 2006 04:59:00 GMT

my knuckles are white.

time to retreat i guess.
Posted by on Wed, 07 Dec 2005 06:03:00 GMT