December 2011
14 posts
TRIGGER WARNING FOR TRANSPHOBIA LIEK WHOA
coleytangerina:
laranitanz:
Wow, just wow. Libra “gets girls”. So long as said “girls” have a vagina and menstruate. So, you know, not those ridiculous trans women who think they are real women when we all know they’re not. What a load of mean-spirited, offensive, transphobic crap. Might be a good time for me to buy that Mooncup. Fuck you, Libra.
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“If white American feminist theory need not deal with the differences between us,...”
– -Audre Lorde (via soydulcedeleche)
I don’t understand these attacks on feminist theory. There’s tons of women of color fighting for women’s rights. And it’s a little bigoted to think that all white feminists are rich hire help and have time off work to attend conventions.
Some of us ARE just like...
attentioninconsistency:
But isn’t punishment and discipline a good way to teach kids a lesson? Not so, according to Alfie Kohn, author of Unconditional Parenting and a host of other books on discipline and education. “To punish or discipline a child is to deliberately make a child feel bad in the hopes that this will have a positive result,” says Kohn. “But all that punishment can ever buy you...
Well...a tiny bit on Clarisse and Hugo
midwestmountainmama:
notyourkinddear:
fresafresca:
I read this defense of Hugo Schwyzer by Clarisse Thorne over at Role/Reboot, and what strikes me most, is her general indignation that people don’t trust him. The post struck me as scoldy and high-handed and it’s unfortunate because I don’t think she is making a distinction between people that may have threatened violence towards her or...
midwestmountainmama:
remember that time when jessica yee’s book just came out and somebody (i don’t remember if it was yee or latoya or some unrelated blogger—i think it might’ve actually been a white woman, just not sure) asked why no big feminist blog had done a write up or otherwise even mentioned her book. and the wrath of feminist jesus came down—“fill the space” and “she should’ve picked a...
So for a 2011 recap I have to recap 2008?!?-...
blackamazon:
I usually do year end recaps and well this past week has been a doozy so lets go. I ask if you reblogged anything I said about Hugo Schwyzer/Seal Press/Feministe/Feministing/or the current paper thing you reblog this to honor my desire to at least be equally distributed as a writer as I am as an object of study
I have to let you in loved ones on a secret.
I do a lot of this ”...
Oh, Feministe. Or, we like Hugo Schwyzer more than... →
midwestmountainmama:
notyourkinddear:
quixotess:
isabelthespy:
missvoltairine:
galesofnovember:
icewomancometh:
Feministe hosted an interview with a male “feminist” and former sexual predator who’s publicly admitted to making an attempt on his ex-lover’s life (for her own good, apparently). When multiple people point out that he’s not a good dude, Clarisse Thorn decides to close the...
“Because that’s the thing about Scooby-Doo: The bad guys in every episode aren’t...”
– Ask Chris #81: Scooby-Doo and Secular Humanism (via love-and-radiation)
I find this a compelling argument.
(via jhameia)
Reblog if you love Amber Riley. She really needs...
maxadlerisabamf:
Custer Died for Your Sins: The Truth vs. Twilight:... →
liquornspice:
adailyriot:
(via Indian Country Today Media Network)
Quileutes do not turn into wolves.
Quileute culture has no references to vampires or Cold Ones.
Quileute men are not shirtless and prone to violent resolution of disputes.
Quileute women are not passive and subservient…
I hope they take AWL da white folks money. “Yes ma’am this is real, authentic wolfpack...
“Doctors in emergency rooms have no right to refuse to provide medical care to...”
– Erin Gloria Ryan, “Nurses Fight For Their Right To Refuse Women Care”, Jezebel.
(emphasis by dopegirlfresh)
SERIOUSLY.
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Dear cis liberals:
kiriamaya:
I can understand not liking Ann Coulter. I don’t like Ann Coulter! There are lots, and lots, and lots of excellent reasons not to like her.
So why is it that, instead of focusing on those reasons, you instead default to going “lol it’s a tranny”?
I don’t know whether Coulter is trans or not. Furthermore, I don’t care. It’s completely irrelevant to the legitimate reasons not to like...
November 2011
4 posts
October 2011
31 posts
boganette:
When you’re trying to explain why someone shouldn’t wear a ‘sexy native’ costume…And someone brings up that time they wore lederhosen. Not the same thing.
Oh B, the temptation to verbally smack the shit out of that guy … especially loved the “but it’s okay to wear it if you’re CELEBRATING the culture!!!” argument.
NO, WHITE PEOPLE. YOU DON’T GET...
I can't stand how being Pro-Choice has become a...
leonineantiheroine:
esmeweatherwax:
brianthemute:
Because, you know, every baby and every fetus is a woman, right? smh
Oh look, a lifer forgetting about the person actually carrying the foetus. How shocking.
“has become”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Damn feminists, taking over … totally non-feminist, un-woman-focused issues! DAMN THEM I SAY.
Other than the DPB question, there was no overt...
coleytangerina:
Like say pay equity, or women’s over representation in low paid and unpaid jobs, or the fact that 16,630 women underwent a procedure which is still in the Crimes Act last year, or the fact that 1 in 4 women will experience rape or sexual assault in their lifetimes.
Just, you know, a few minor things.
I assure you, I am wearing my surprised face.
UN Recommends Everyone Stop Telling Women What To... →
daskannnichtsein:
mollydruwho:
The UN states that any country restricting a woman’s access to abortion and/or contraception is, in doing so, violating a woman’s human rights.
….finally.
So, we’ve got extremely reputable cancer-related organizations saying abortion doesn’t cause cancer or increase your risk.
We’ve got extremely reputable reports declaring post-abortion depression to be a...
“Friday night we played what was possibly the rowdiest show we’d played yet. A...”
– Suzy X. isn’t real:
Activism.
(via mikkipedia)
no words. great crowd control though—kick the fuckers out!
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Black mothers& child bearers deserve EVERYTHING
liquornspice:
They deserve to get they hair, nails, and toes did every gotdam week. They deserve to go out and have fun, eat some good ass food and have some good ass drank. And they deserve to have some good ass consensual sex too! With however many or few people as they choose!
And they deserve your respect. Especially if it’s YOUR kids they’re raising!
Did you know that Black women (along...
Halloween: Time to wear your Indian Costumes →
With Halloween fast approaching our little monsters will be scrambling for a costume. Every year there should be an awareness campaign about the practice of Americans assuming Indian identity by donning an “Indian costume.” What do “they” get out of playing Indian? Probably, it fills some psychological-spiritual void that is created by the separation of man and nature, the latter to be...
Hipsters love Harrison Ford because he's Indie,...
Chilean girls stage occupation of their own school →
jhameia:
This is like really late but it’s been in my tabs for weeks, so here:
It began early one morning in May, when dozens of teenage girls emerged from the predawn darkness and scaled the spiked iron fence around Chile’s most prestigious girl’s school. They used classroom chairs to barricade themselves inside and settled in. Five months later, the occupation shows no signs of dying and the...
@leonineantiheroine: I have to admit in the cold light of … the next evening … I didn’t handle things brilliantly, but you know how it is when you snipe at someone and they choose to respond with derailing 101 and then three comments later pretend they’re interested in actually debating the merits of the issue. You don’t feel half as bad about having thrown the...
Making movies for white people.
alexandraerin:
How about instead of complaining that there aren’t movies for white people, we do something about it? It’s hard to imagine Hollywood ignoring white people if there were more white people writing scripts, more white people directing movies, more white people ponying up the cash to finance the sorts of pictures that they want to see.
Take Die Hard. Okay, yes, it’s a classic in its...
Fuck
Had a serious friendship moment tonight, and hilariously Tumblr is the only place I can talk about it.
I’m trying to reconcile myself to the fact that maybe I *am* a bad friend and maybe they *are* in the right. But in that case, everyone’s still better off not putting up with *whoever’s* bullshit just because You Have To Stick By Your Friends.
And I’m angry. I’m...
An open letter to Pamela Stirling, editor of The...
coleytangerina:
Cross posted from me at The Lady Garden
Dear Pamela,
I often like The Listener. I was heartened by your balanced and reasonable feature on SlutWalk, I find most of your pieces interesting, and I like reading a publication run by somewhat of a rarity in your industry – a female editor. However, I am immeasurably disappointed that you, as a woman in leadership, allowed this...
Kate Beaton Sums Up Her Historiography
Paris Review: Your work seems to involve a feminist reading of history and literature.
Kate Beaton: I think that’s because I make comics that aren’t all about white presidents.
PickleMeThis: I think people who accept abortion... →
hystericalmarissa:
ashleighknock:
This [which has already been lucky enough not to be one of the 80% of fertilised eggs which are spontaneously aborted]:
[May eventually if everything “goes well”] Turns to this:
Which after a bit of pain and work [comprising nearly a year of your life and irrevocable changes to your body and health, and that’s assuming you’re...
“Women who are fat are said to have ‘let themselves go.’ The very phrase connotes...”
– “Letting Ourselves Go: Making Room for the Fat Body in Feminist Scholarship,” by Cecilia Hartley (via shakethecobwebs)
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"Sex clinics treating more youngsters" aka ALL THE... →
picklemethis:
The Herald has been on a huge gleeful pearl clutching kick recently, and this latest article is another dogpiling on the ‘OH NOES KIDDIES ARE HAVING SEX LALALALALA I CAN’T HEAR YOU’ BS.
The figure leapt to an alarming 3203 in the 15- to 19-year age group with the infection after contracting it from their mothers.
This line makes absolutely no sense if the point of the article...
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Open Letter to Slutwalk
blackamazon:
karnythia:
notforyoutobreak:
blackamazon:
Dear Slutwalk and all of it’s supporters,
Good luck I mean that ,with whatever you intend to do. However with Shira Tennant now just LYING in print , it is obvious we can not continue to hold a dialogue about this.. It’s not just a disagreement. It’s not minor. It’s resource and class violence that sadly is often the outcome...
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“The outrage about the “ground zero mosque” has turned very ugly, as this video...”
– Ground Zeros Slave Graves
(via howtobenoladarling)
also FUCK this notion that if you're poor you can...
golden-notebook:
EDUCATION SHOULD BE A RIGHT
THE LIBERAL ARTS SHOULDN’T JUST BE A CULTURAL BASTION FOR THE PRIVILEGED
IF THE LIBERAL ARTS WEREN’T TRULY IMPORTANT THAN THE PRIVILEGED WOULDN’T KEEP EDUCATING THEIR CHILDREN IN LIBERAL ARTS WHILE TELLING KIDS IN URBAN SCHOOLS THAT LIBERAL ARTS DON’T MATTER, THEY JUST NEED TO STUDY “FOR THE TEST”
IT’S THE PRIVILEGED ELITE’S WAY OF HOARDING...
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“I’d not only get in the cab,” he says, “but I’d take the taxi driver out of the...”
– What Idris Elba would do if he got asked to go to the Sony Pictures offices to discuss the role of James Bond.
Perfect. Human.
(via whineandbeer)
dasfasdffffgggg
(via laurasthinkingwithportals)
Oh, I would SO watch a James Bond movie starring Idris!
(via downlo)
*o*
I need to change my...
soydulcedeleche:
and heres why so many 9 year old lil brown girls seen w their siblings are assumed to be their mothers: brown girls are supposed to be sexually available and active from birth.
we’re born sluts and whores. so we get no benefit of the doubt…not even if we dont have boobs yet.
so, no, i will not be reclaiming the word slut. i will not.
i have never had a choice in that.
September 2011
83 posts
“Who will work these fields?
No. Really. Somebody’s going to have to answer...”
– Anthony Bourdain, Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
I stayed up almost all night last night reading Bourdain’s 330-page screed on food and foodies. Good shit. A little tired today but totally worth it. I love Bourdain’s pound-it-out writing style, which is... 