May 2013
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What's Really Going On With White Feminists'...
gradientlair:
Yesterday I posted a photograph of Beyoncé on Ms. Magazine with some probing questions that I have for the article, which included this text:
I will be interested in seeing if the article reveals the nuances of her perspectives (such as ones revealed in her documentary), whether they challenge or affirm patriarchy at times (as she, like many women do both) or will the article...
Sweet like sow sap: When do boys meet girls? →
amber-and-ice:
vagabondaesthetics:
ethiopienne:
vagabondaesthetics:
I was talking to one my homies and she was talking about how she no longer finds Dave Chappelle funny because she believes misogyny permeates through far too many of the sketches that involve women. I can’t really offer any sort of rebuttal to that because I haven’t watched the series in years and the only ones that come...
approximately infinite universe:... →
iinventedeverything:
more to the point. i don’t want to cut of my breasts to make sure i don’t get cancer. i will if i have to, but i don’t want to.
i want to clean up the bajillion pounds of heavy toxins all over the industrial corridor and flying off of the freeways up and down the I75…
“This one time I was Milan and I’m literally around multi-millionaires and...”
– - Amber Rose
Curve Magazine Interview “The Real Amber Rose” (2011)
YES THIS HELLO
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It’s why I don’t buy into these white girl pin-up/burlesque revival fantasies.
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forever reblog coz pinup and burlesque were stolen from woc to begin with.
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Exercise doesn't help depression, study concludes →
rubyvroom:
tooyoungforthelivingdead:
A study into whether physical activity alleviates the symptoms of depression has found there is no benefit. Research published in the British Medical Journal suggests that adding a physical activity intervention to usual care did not reduce symptoms of depression more than usual care alone. This contrasts with current clinical guidance which recommends...
anthonygherkins:
If you can’t concentrate in school because the mere sight of a girl’s bare leg is too much of a distraction, you are probably a danger to society tbh
LatiNegra Sexologist: So... →
jcoleknowsbest:
we gon talk about how Tim Wise has raised more than $13,000 in just a couple days on his kickstarter for his new documentary called “White Like Me”…
People of Color are more than capable of doing that same work.. And many are doing that same work… And they don’t garner that…
A bra that fits me →
Many trans* women were excitedly anticipating the launch of Chrysalis Lingerie, a line of bras and panties made by and for trans* women. Chrysalis put out a very stylized promo featuring softly lit black and white footage of women in their lingerie, looking amazing. After a few delays, the line was finally recently launched. But, alas, it wasn’t what everyone had hoped for. Teagan Widmer...
Please reblog this. I need this to be told.
rosesarecrimson:
Today my Game Design class was playtesting, and the game my group got assigned to was based around getting laid. That was how you “won” the game. Furthermore, there was a mechanic that allowed you to get a girl drunk so that you could have sex with her. When I called said (all male) group out on this, they insisted it wasn’t rape. I naturally called them out on that as well, but...
Emergency abortion funding needed - Women's... →
stfuconservatives:
I got this email from the Women’s Medical Fund today:
Today we learned of a vulnerable woman who needs financial assistance that far exceeds the support that WMF routinely provides.
Deena* is a 28-year-old mother of two who suffers from a major chronic illness. During prenatal care, an ultrasound found that she is carrying a fetus with a rare and dangerous anomaly.
In the...
April 2013
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Tim Brando and Me, We Come From Different Worlds....
publicshaming:
“HERO” is a very sacred word. Ben Shapiro, right wing “journalist” for Breitbart, has a VERY HIGH BAR for heroism, as we discussed in this post earlier.
Apparently, sports commentator Tim Brando shares those sentiments with Shapiro.
Tim Brando would like to make it very clear…Jason Collins, the NBA athlete who just came out as a gay man in the world of professional sports, IS NO...
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Here’s what the champion of children’s hunger looks like. It’s not the person who gets a garden grown outside every school (though that’s good). It’s not the person who successfully arranges private grants to make all school food free for every student (though that’s also good).
It’s the person who creates this omnibus bill: first, doubling the per meal...
Fat Body Politics: Ally Alert: Interview with... →
nicole-clark:
“[Being an ally] means listening. It means checking my privilege. It means recognizing constantly that my experience is not THE experience. It means always trying to be as inclusive as possible. It means apologizing when I fail to do any of these things. It means…
“Abortion seems to be the only medical procedure that people want to deny you...”
– Worry About Your Own Uterus: (via veruca-assault)
“Worry about your own uterus” wise wise words.
(via triplash)
And if you point out “Okay, if the consequences of my birth control failure/mistake/coerced unprotected sex is pregnancy, I am dealing with it by having an abortion”...
Queer Housing: About Us: →
queerhousing:
Queer Housing is a tumblr dedicated to helping queer folk find harmonious housing arrangements. Post or search here if you’re looking to fill a space in your apartment/house or if you’re looking for a room yourself/roommates to search with.
There are too many of us that settle for…
missrep:
#NotBuyingIt @DisneyStore
henryviiisensuite:
and here we have the differences between women’s and boy’s/men’s tshirts
Because Black Widow and Agent Hill just stood around and filed their nails and talked about tampons or something.
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Interrupting our normal conversations for: Duran...
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Why I almost defriended everyone who had an HRC...
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agnesgalore:
It’s becoming increasingly clear to me that, though I didn’t think about this at the time, I probably started a blog because I need somewhere to vent my boundless rage that is not random people’s Facebook walls. I mean, one thing among the many thousands of things that are guaranteed to raise my blood pressure is when folks get all “the internet isn’t real, and it’s...
March 2013
29 posts
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agnesgalore:
It’s becoming increasingly clear to me that, though I didn’t think about this at the time, I probably started a blog because I need somewhere to vent my boundless rage that is not random people’s Facebook walls. I mean, one thing among the many thousands of things that are guaranteed to raise my blood pressure is when folks get all “the internet isn’t real, and it’s not a viable...
veronicadire:
Black Lesbian district attorney chained to a jailhouse wall and denied medication after writing a check tellers thought was fake skyliting:
crackerhell:
aragorn-sass:
iphisquandary:
aragorn-sass:
iphisquandary:
Sharon Henry, a Black lesbian district attorney of San Mateo, walked into a Bank of America and attempted to deposit a check for $27,000 from her domestic...
"Yes" doesn't always mean "yes" when you haven't...
marcelle42:
ladysourpuss:
veeisagenderneutralname:
I feel like this should be obvious. But every time I see someone say “yes means yes; no means no” I cringe a little. Consent isn’t always that simple.
exactly
The “yes means yes, no means no” rhetoric doesn’t bother me most of the time, but the headline/title is true — making your partner afraid to say “no” means that “yes” is survival,...
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Fuck the HRC
malakhgabriel:
By now most folks have already heard the allegations that an HRC staffer asked people to remove a trans* flag because “marriage equality is not a transgender issue.” And we all know that’s complete bullshit. Even in their issued denial, though, they make it clear that they wanted to make their whole political theater action as sanitized as possible. Not only did they not want...
One of my friends was outside the Supreme Court...
foxski:
“The Human Rights Campaign asked us to take down our trans* flag because ‘marriage equality is not a transgender issue.’ They said this to one of our activists as well as a transgender person who held the flag. We stood our ground, and flew our flag proudly. That flag flew behind the podium ALL day today, keep an eye for it on the news.”
This apparently happened twice. Well done, HRC....
Marriage Equality is Important, but I'm not...
midwestgenderqueer:
And on one side of things, I’m glad to see people being active towards an important cause. On the other side of things, I feel like the HRC keeps slapping me in the face. This is what I wrote on my feed:
“Friends, I am touched by the wonderful thoughts people have posted about what their marriage means to them and why marriage equality is so important. And I agree, it is...
“So when all of Facebook goes awash in red, it’s logical to think, “Yeah, but...”
– Nerdy Feminist: On “Slacktivism” and Red Avatars (via notemily)
Making online spaces safer for which LGBT people? Not the ones who have been continually ignored and erased by HRC while simultaneously being used for their fundraising? Not the ones who have been screaming at the top of our lungs...
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Bitter Herbs
stillnotanonymous:
It’s Erev Pesach (Passover Eve, for you my most beloved gentile readers) and with it come all my feelings of self doubt, waning self worth and over all loneliness. I thought I’d be used to it by now. But alas, it is the same with every major Holiday that includes a long meal and adherence to a thousand year old tradition. Tradition that has changed many times over, but for...
“TW: SEXUAL ASSAULT
A gang rape happened in Ohio and no one heard about it. A...”
– Anisha Ahuja, Why Does America Pretend it Doesn’t Hate Women? (Feminspire.com)
“Let me get this out of the way: I don’t like Adria Richards. I think I have good...”
– Adria Richards, PyCon, and How We All Lost | Amanda Blum
Notice how almost all the comments, even those in favor of Adria Richards, many of them (as the one I am quoting here), from White women defending Richards are all about disciplining the uppity Black woman.
They don’t like her tone. Her...
angryasiangirlsunited:
What’s Wrong With the Term ‘Person of Color’
…or at least how it’s used.
by Janani
My tension with the term ‘person of color’ begins in high school. It begins at a stay-away anti-oppression camp in Jefferson City, Missouri. I was grouped with 50 other young people around my age, most of us just starting to put words to our lived experiences: race, class, gender,...
ikarikaworu:
““Bow down bitches,” repeats Beyonce in the opening lines to her new song. These egotistical, derogatory and offensive lyrics coming from the woman who only two years ago told us girls Run the World. I thought you were our feminist pop heroine, Bey?” — Sarah Dean, Who is Beyonce Calling a Bitch? (via stand-tall-ladies)
“Who is Beyonce Calling a Bitch?” ok i’ll start
you
the lady...
Virgin, Whore, Abortion
danialexis:
Until we ditch the virgin-whore complex, there will be no room for a pro-choice argument predicated on autonomy.
Here’s what I mean. The Virgin/Whore dichotomy assumes all women are one or the other. Either you’re the model of pious self-sacrifice, or you’re a hopeless wanton. The self-sacrifice bit is important (so much so it’s also known as the Madonna/Whore dichotomy). Virgins...
Before white people, or people raised into white...
eshusplayground:
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
Read everything. See if there are any staunch disagreements with the point you want to argue. Remember that your ideas, where you focus your attention in an argument, are biased, and though the argument may appear to you to be a dichotomous issue, it may not actually be used as such to the people in the conversation. Example: Yesterday, I argued that...
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Fat Body Politics: shwetanarayan: karnythia:... →
shwetanarayan:
karnythia:
ave-atque-vale:
Lena Dunham Went to India And Felt Really Sorry for All of the Stray Dogs
defyexpectations:
Lena Dunham is television’s It Girl of the moment. She is also probably the most public sufferer of foot-in-mouth disease in recent…
This poor, sad child. They let her out into the world well before she was ready to be a decent citizen of it. Can we...
“Man I feel dirty looking at these pics,” wrote one forum poster at Hack Forums,...”
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Meet the men who spy on women through their webcams | Ars Technica
This is a must read about men who hack women’s computers through RATs (Remote Access Tools) to spy on them and capture their images which are then shared for others to comment and make fun of.
Click on the link which includes...
illegalplumpuddings:
you know…i just saw a gif set for the “invisible war” movie about rape in the US military. and i have all sorts of mixed feelings about it, first and foremost, not being able to even watch the fucking thing, because holy FUCK triggering. but—also—it was *F*eminists that pushed to get women to be able to serve. it was a sign of true empowerment and full citizenship, they...
“Wealthy musician Amanda Palmer, who last year raised $1.2 million on Kickstarter...”
– When People Write for Free, Who Pays?
FYI, this is why Amanda Palmer is a giant SHITMONSTER.
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All while she and her fans rally around her right to perpetuate ableism and appropriate native cultures in order to sell records, and SHAME ON ANY OF US OUT THERE FOR JUDGING HER FOR IT...
Europe is a Grave
stillnotanonymous:
Trigger Warnings: Genocide, sexualised violence, and rape. It being International Woman’s Day, I figured I’d talk about the Holocaust. In case you didn’t know, it’s more shocking that ever thought. You’d think it was impossible for the Holocaust to be an even more terrible moment in history than it already is perceived and conceived to be. The New York Times story...
What is your "Feminism?"
If your “feminism” replicates the prescriptivist and hidebound patterns of kyriarchy, telling women what they should and shouldn’t do, putting them into boxes based on their adherence to your behavioral dogma, then it isn’t any feminism I can recognize.
If your “feminism” appears never wavering from a tunnel-visioned perspective that cannot even acknowledge...
