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“Women are expected to be nice and sweet, to make other people feel comfortable. A woman who says ‘hey, I think there’s a problem here’ is being ‘negative.’ A woman who doesn’t smile while she’s being harassed is ‘humourless.’ A woman who prefers to stay focused on tasks is a ‘cold bitch.’ Significant gendering is involved here; women have an obligation to look and act a certain way and when they don’t, they need to be hassled until they do.” — Unknown (via grrl-meat)
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English transgender activist and law professor Stephen Whittle.
During his childhood, he discovered he was sexually attracted to both men and women, and had a strong desire to be a man, grow a beard and have a hairy chest. When he was 16, he read an article about a person who had transitioned from female to male.
In 1974, he came out as transgender after attending a women’s liberation conference in Edinburgh, Scotland as a member of the Manchester Lesbian Collective. Whittle co-founded the Manchester TV/TS group, the first support group for transgender people in the United Kingdom in 1975.
He also founded and co-ordinated the U.K.’s FTM Network, which he led until 2007. Whittle is also the founder of Press for Change, one of the U.K.’s most successful trans rights lobby groups. He has actively worked to change the U.K.’s laws and social attitudes about transgender individuals, and allowed a television special to be made about his phalloplasty surgery in 2002.
After the U.K.’s Gender Recognition Act came into effect in 2005, he got a new birth certificate and legally married his partner, Sarah Rutherford. They have four children.
That same year, Whittle was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for his services to transgender issues.
Born May 29, 1955.Oh, what a badass.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY STEVE!!!!!
Yes. I couldn’t have said it better myself.
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Fertility Goddess (Yakshi)
At the Museum of Fine Art, Boston.Northern India, second-third quarter of the 1st century A.D.
Yakshis and their male counterparts, yakshas, are semi-divine nature spirits believed to bring good luck, wealth, and other blessings such as the birth of children. They were worshipped in India prior to the development of Buddhism and were placed on early Buddhist monuments to attract good furtune—and converts—to the new religion. The yakshi’s ripe body and unabashed femininity emphasize her role as a source of fertility.
This figure once formed part of a bracket on one of the four large gateways of the monumental railing surrounding the Great Stupa at Sanchi. Originally she reached one arm upward to grasp the branch of a fruit-bearing tree
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Esme Weatherwax: I had an abortion. -
I had an abortion.
I’m not going to tell you how old I was when I had it.
I’m not going to tell you what the circumstances around the pregnancy were.
I’m not going to tell you whether birth control was used or not.
I’m not going to tell you whether it was…
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I’d like to start off by saying that I hate the whole good girl/bad girl dichotomy, and that’s what this tip from Cosmo (That Which Must Never Be Obeyed) is based on. It implies that anything kinky is inherently “bad” and “wicked” (kink-shaming, hello) but note that the specific kink here is specifically “woman on top.” It implies that the woman being on top is also ”wickedly sexy” and somehow different than the norm, which is bad.
Let’s go to the screencap, shall we?
