June 2012
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bad-dominicana:
im starting to realize that the worldwide condition of missing the forest for individual trees
is basically
decontextualization
in a nutshell
when people arent taught to contextualize every day fare into the grand overarching scheme
they will argue for ever that every single separate action and event that forms the network and system we all live under, exists in a vacuum and...
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How Birth Control And Abortion Became Politicized... →
The first segment of this episode is Terry Gross interviewing Jill Lepore about the recent history of birth control and abortion, including Margaret Sanger (Lepore makes a point to explain that Sanger is “not a likable person” and delves into the problem of her association with eugenicists without excusing it)… Honestly, there’s a lot I don’t know about this history,...
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“When someone works for less pay than she can live on - when, for example, she...”
– Barbara Ehrenreich, “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America”
I recently read this book, and while several observations and statistics stuck out to me, this quote, on the last page, I believe really sums things up quite well.
(via lostgrrrls)
Forget the billionaire “job creators” — our...
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From a diehard atheist friend of mine on Facebook:
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
siddharthasmama:
goddamntoothbrush:
siddharthasmama:
“In America, dislike and distrust of atheists is more widespread than for any other identifiable group.” - Psychology Today It is my life goal to change this perception by showing people the beauty and potential of atheism.
I have a huge freaking problem with this. For one, are we going to act like POC,...
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historicalslut:
thesavagesalad:
but really tho i don’t like how this whole anti short skirts anti make up anti so on and so forth is being passed off as “real girl positive” or “feminist” because it’s like
when I was in high school, do you know who covered for me most of the time?
the girls with the short skirts and the bronzer and the tight tops and so on
you know, the girls who were...
May 2012
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“When someone works for less pay than she can live on - when, for example, she...”
– Barbara Ehrenreich, “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America”
I recently read this book, and while several observations and statistics stuck out to me, this quote, on the last page, I believe really sums things up quite well.
pussy-strut:
communistsextips:
Refer to each other’s genitalia as the “means of production” and then refer to handjobs as “seizing the means of production”.
this one i can get behind bc handjobs
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“Free speech as a legal concept only guarantees you the right to speak. It...”
– “Not Okay”: MovieBob on Sexism and Harassment in Nerd Culture. (via jerrymuffinbutt)
always relevant
(via lettherebecramp)
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quiteterribly asked: Hi, I am writing my B.A. thesis in cont. US American culture about women's health. I am writing to you just in case you have some ideas for a research question/thesis. I have just started reading about the socio-cultural discourse of female health, concentrated on weight loss. One standpoint is that health and disease are interchangeable for women. Meaning that women are constructed as...
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“The first is that true gender equality is actually perceived as inequality. A...”
– Lucy Gillam, When Worlds Collide: Fandom and Male Privilege (via bitternessbarbie)
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Feministing: Why do the media and her supposed... →
jonathan-cunningham:
That’s a great question: Breanna Manning said she’d rather die or spend her life in prison than be misgendered on the scale she is. If you support Breanna- if you say that you are Breanna Manning- you need to understand how important this is to her.
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Congressman Maintains It Should Be Legal To Fire... →
spytap:
The crux of his argument is that being gay is a choice - and something a person can change - and that therefore that person should not be protected from workplace discrimination.
Now, despite the fact that “being gay is a choice” is a ridiculously stupid and untrue statement, I’m going to go with that point for argument’s sake and ask the logical follow-ups to that question:
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Let's have a chat, kiddos
rabbleprochoice:
There is not a single popular thing that isn’t problematic. You would be hard pressed to find a celebrity, television show, piece of music, or book that doesn’t have some kind of problem with it.
Harry Potter is a great book series that teaches kids about friendship, love, sacrifice and courage and I could talk about how awesome it is and how big of a fan I am of it for weeks....
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Kickstarter: National Debt
meganamram:
ABOUT THIS PROJECT
Hi you guys! Joe Biden and the rest of the gang here! :) We’re looking for some awesome people to help us Kickstart our dream project of having a functioning federal government! That’s where you come in: all we’re asking for is a little help. And twenty trillion dollars.
As you may know, we (the United States government) are a little strapped for cash. Salvage a...
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“We’ll probably never know how many women inventors there were. That’s because in...”
– FactMonster.com (via stfuconservatives)
This is why we dismantle systematically.
(via meganwest)
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“We let Willow cut her hair. When you have a little girl, it’s like how can you...”
– (On why he let Willow cut all of her hair off)
Read more: Will Smith On Allowing Willow To Cut Her Hair: ‘She Has Got To Have Command Of Her Body’ | Necole Bitchie.com
- He raises a really great point. What would it mean to believe very early that my body was mine. That it’s not for anyone or for...
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That moment when you think, "No way this is real.... →
This is pathetic…
Both Buzzfeed and Jezebel are on the story, which involves [Brad] Fischetti [of LFO] spending hours upon hours praying, taking photos, and yelling at patients outside the Orlando Women’s Center. He posts names of patients and staff, and tweets about how many people go in and out of the center on a given day, including about when patients are sitting in their car, or as he...
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WatchRachel Maddow: Obama declaration ‘icing on the cake’ of legacy advancing gay rights
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“Slut” is how we vilify a woman for exercising her right to say “yes”....”
– (via buildingmosaicsoutoflife)
karkles-the-adorabloodthirsty asked: Browsing your blog, I've seen the word "cissexist" several times, and I'm not entirely sure what that means. ^^; Do you care to explain?
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“I’m (expletive deleted) starving.”
– Celebrity chef Mario Batali • Discussing the diet he’s currently on — he’s eating like he’s on food stamps (an average of $1.48 per meal, or $31 per week) in protest of potential cuts to the federal food stamps program. His family was nice enough to join him in what he calls a conversation starter...
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The House has passed the GOP's Violence Against...
newsweek:
Just happened. So what bill is that? “House Democrats say the Republican-authored law would raise requirements to prove domestic violence and sexual assault, erase confidentiality protections for immigrant women and alert abusers when their victims seek help. They say it would eliminate a path to citizenship for immigrant victims who cooperate with police and cut “culturally competent...
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WatchRachel Maddow interviews NARAL Pro-Choice America President Nancy Keenan
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TW: rape. A note regarding the rape allegations...
fuckyeahlauragrace:
As of right now, nobody has stood up and claimed to have been raped by Laura Grace.
These kind of accusations are commonly used as weapons of oppression against trans*people, especially trans*women. I have been scouring the internet looking for any kind of indication that these might have a grain of truth to them, and have found literally no mention of these incidents...
“Segregation enabled black folks to maintain oppositional worldviews and...”
– -bell hooks (via ekscreates)
Zora Neale Hurston’s critique of Brown v. Board of Education. This is a perspective that we rarely hear about; integration actually hurt Black students in significant ways, making illegal Black institutions which, out of necessity, had offered services which would be...
Honest question:
smut-mutt:
lostgrrrls:
Laura Jane Grace coming out last week make me wonder about this, as it isn’t something I’ve had to deal with personally. The friends of mine who are trans either came out before or relatively shortly after I met them, so there was no history for me to talk about, but… I’ve been listening to Against Me! and going to their shows for several years, so what I’m wondering...
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Honest question:
Laura Jane Grace coming out last week make me wonder about this, as it isn’t something I’ve had to deal with personally. The friends of mine who are trans either came out before or relatively shortly after I met them, so there was no history for me to talk about, but… I’ve been listening to Against Me! and going to their shows for several years, so what I’m wondering...
The Top 6 Reasons Why You Should Hate Dan Savage
Content warning for… a lot of things here. Transphobia, racism, rape culture, slurs…
forgetpolitics:
1. Dan Savage hates trans people and uses transphobic slurs.
“Children have a right to some stability and constancy from the adults in their lives. Perhaps I’m a transphobic bigot, but I honestly think waiting a measly 36 months to cut your dick is a sacrifice any father should be...
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RuPaul Shows Disconnect With Trans Issues,...
quintessential-queer:
transqueery:
Posted by: Bridgette P. LaVictoire on January 16, 2012.
A recent interview between drag performer RuPaul and reporters from SiriusXM, OutQ, and HuffPost Gay Voices underlines the reason why one simply does not ask a drag performer about, well, transsexual issues.
The drag performer born RuPaul Andre Charles is kicking off a new season of his show “RuPaul’s...
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“[F]or the first several years the SAT was offered, males scored higher than...”
– “Gender Bias in College Admissions Tests”, FairTest.org. (via vaginawoolf)
We were told our English Lang GCSEs were often about sport or politics because boys often underperformed in that exam. I can’t even fathom the number of things wrong with this kind of thinking.
(via benedictatorship)
And...
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"Tom Gabel of Against Me! comes out as... →
Major love to Laura Jane Grace (previously known to Against Me! fans as Tom Gabel) for her courage in publicly coming out as a trans woman today. All of my support.
“If I could have chosen, I would’ve been born a woman. My mother once told me she would have named me Laura.” - Against Me!, ‘The Ocean’
April 2012
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One thing I really don't understand about...
Their insistence on using graphic depictions of what abortions involve in order to convince people that it’s wrong.
I can’t believe I never thought about this until today but…
Surgery is never pretty, no matter the type of surgery or body parts in question. So why, if abortion is so wrong because it’s so disgusting, are other surgeries okay and practically never...
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Haven’t been online much due to crunch time with school (term papers and term papers and group projects and speeches… and then finals), and that also coincided with my trip to San Francisco (where I am now) so I really had to cram everything in so I could make this trip guilt and stress free.
But I stopped in at an internet cafe for a few minutes, since I had some time to kill and...
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