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ladyatheist: private-revolution: jsmooth995: Leave Michelle...

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 19:06:58 -0400

private-revolution:

jsmooth995:

Leave Michelle Obama Out Of Your Random-Ass Opinions.

(a response to this weird random-ass article)

Amen, HALLELUJAH! Can I just say this man gets even more attractive every time he opens his mouth?

"Women are expected to be nice and sweet, to make other people feel comfortable. A woman who says..."

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 19:00:09 -0400

““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)

fuckyeahgenderstudies: fuckyeahfamousqueers: English...

Tue, 29 May 2012 14:21:01 -0400

fuckyeahgenderstudies:

fuckyeahfamousqueers:

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!!!!!

lacigreen: once-more-sans-feeling: Yes. I couldn’t have said...

Mon, 28 May 2012 13:58:13 -0400

lacigreen:

once-more-sans-feeling:

Yes. I couldn’t have said it better myself.

aenorlemusae: Fertility Goddess (Yakshi) At the Museum of Fine...

Sun, 27 May 2012 00:12:16 -0400

aenorlemusae:

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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Fri, 25 May 2012 15:35:47 -0400

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Fri, 25 May 2012 15:19:41 -0400

Esme Weatherwax: I had an abortion.

Thu, 24 May 2012 13:52:55 -0400

Esme Weatherwax: I had an abortion.:

lavender-labia:

maehemsez:

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…

more tumblrs on fat acceptance / body positivity:

Wed, 23 May 2012 16:54:14 -0400

safespacenetwork:

♥ http://havingafatday.tumblr.com/
♥ http://fat-grrrl-activism.tumblr.com/
♥ http://dailyfatspiration.tumblr.com/
♥ http://bigbeautifulblackgirls.tumblr.com/
♥ http://fuckyeahfatpositive.tumblr.com/
♥ http://fatisattractive.tumblr.com/
♥ http://fuckyeahprettyfatchicks.tumblr.com/

Cosmo-not: "Be the Boss in Bed"

Wed, 23 May 2012 16:51:07 -0400

fuckyeahsexpositivity:

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?

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"There is a long list of terms for the female member. Some prefer vagina as the most appropriate..."

Wed, 23 May 2012 01:17:02 -0400

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There is a long list of terms for the female member. Some prefer vagina as the most appropriate word, while others reject it because of its whiff of clinical detachment or their dislike of its Latin meaning (sheath). Some have introduced the Sanskrit word yoni into Engish usage, disliking both vagina and the entire long list of colloquial terms because of the pornographic or derogatory connotations they carry for some.

As a student of words (my university degrees are in English), I tend to resist being told what words to use or not use for my body parts. I don’t want to be restricted to having only a vagina or yoni because all other words are considered too vulgar to be spoken or written. there is nothing vulgar about my body, and if some words suggest the opposite to many people, I think they need to hear these words proudly spoken (and see them written) enough that innocent words no longer possess such a crazy-making power over us.

I might want to have a cunt one day and a twat the next. On the third day, I might decide that pussy is my favourite word. Cunt, by the way, has an interesting meaning: wedge. It’s the triangular shape of the pubes that suggested the word. The same word root is used to describe something a non-sexual as the wedge-shaped writing of the Babylonian clay tablets, which was called cuneiform writing. Should we be excited about that?

If a woman finds that a certain word makes her feel repulsed about her body, the question becomes how to deal with that feeling […] I don’t think men have a long list of words for their private parts that makes them feel embarassed about themselves.

”

- Ina May Gaskin, Spiritual Midwifery (via nessfraserloves)

feministdisney: A few snapshots: Race, Culture, &...

Mon, 21 May 2012 00:30:52 -0400

"not my fault you forgot how to read!"

(Haitian Vodou/"Voodoo")

nipped his hipster tendencies in the bud

"But it's Germany!11!!" doesn't work.

feministdisney:

A few snapshots: Race, Culture, & Disney

for additional original commentary/information accompanying many of these images, go here.

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Fri, 18 May 2012 15:23:21 -0400

vogon-poetry: Can I get this on a t-shirt or?

Fri, 18 May 2012 15:20:16 -0400

vogon-poetry:

Can I get this on a t-shirt or?

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Wed, 16 May 2012 00:11:30 -0400

State-by-state guide to 2012 anti-choice laws

Mon, 14 May 2012 13:38:23 -0400

rabbleprochoice:

myplannedparenthood:

Don’t think it’s a war on reproductive rights? Check out THIS state-by-state guide to 2012’s anti-choice laws - so far.

Hello tumblr. I’m here to ruin your afternoon.

What a goddamn depressing link.

Love,

Rabble

litost: Links & Resources.

Sun, 13 May 2012 12:52:41 -0400

litost: Links & Resources.:

reclusiveessence:

thatfeministdyke:

Feminism

Finally, A Feminism 101 Blog - Frequently Answered Questions

Feminist Literature (Tumblr)

Feminist texts written by women of color (Tumblr)

fuckyeahfeminists (Tumblr)

grrrlpower (Tumblr)

Racism, Race, & Culture

…

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Sat, 12 May 2012 18:07:48 -0400

"What men mean when they talk about their “crazy” ex-girlfriend is often that she was someone who..."

Tue, 08 May 2012 14:04:28 -0400

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What men mean when they talk about their “crazy” ex-girlfriend is often that she was someone who cried a lot, or texted too often, or had an eating disorder, or wanted too much/too little sex, or generally felt anything beyond the realm of emotionally undemanding agreement. That does not make these women crazy. That makes those women human beings, who have flaws, and emotional weak spots. However, deciding that any behavior that he does not like must be insane– well, that does make a man a jerk.

And when men do this on a regular basis, remember that, if you are a woman, you are not the exception. You are not so cool and fabulous and levelheaded that they will totally get where you are coming from when you show emotions other than “pleasant agreement.”

When men say “most women are crazy, but not you, you’re so cool” the subtext is not, “I love you, be the mother to my children.” The subtext is “do not step out of line, here.” If you get close enough to the men who say things like this, eventually, you will do something that they do not find pleasant. They will decide you are crazy, because this is something they have already decided about women in general.

”

- Lady, You Really Aren’t “Crazy” (via crookedindifference)

thatqueeryoungbuck: frexx

Tue, 08 May 2012 01:22:54 -0400

thatqueeryoungbuck:

frexx