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Robert Brault  (via inathens)

All of these photos were taken in prison.

At The Community Prisoner Mother Program in Pomona a select group of low level offenders can live with their young children until the child turns seven years old.

In 2011 and 2012, 233 inmates in California’s prison system gave birth while serving their sentences.

In most cases, the newborns went to live with relatives while the women were in prison, but some women had the opportunity to live with their children behind bars.

Louise Glück, Proofs & Theories: Essays on Poetry (with thanks to Whiskey River)

equally accurate about the light at the end of the grad school tunnel that is a phd

Beyoncé's super secret album just dropped this morning, causing quite a stir.In one of the songs, “Flawless” she samples Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's TEDx talk on feminism. In the song she says:

We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller

We say to girls – you can have ambition, but not too much

You should aim to be successful but not too successful otherwise you will threaten the man

Because I am female I am expected to aspire to marriage

I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important

A marriage can be a source of joy and love and mutual support

But why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage and we don’t teach boys the same?

We raise girls to see each other as competitors not for jobs or for accomplishments,

Which I think can be a good thing

But for the attention of men

We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way that boys are

Feminist: A person who believes in the economic, social and political equality of the sexes.

Deborah Simon. Flayed Bears.

Ursus maritimus, polymer clay, faux fur, linen, embroidery floss, acrylic paint, glass, wire and foam, 22”H x 25”D x 19”W, 2012. Photo by Dan Wonderly.

Ursus americanus, polymer clay, faux fur, linen, embroidery floss, acrylic paint, glass, wire and foam, 22”H x 25”D x 19”W, 2013. Photo by Dan Wonderly.