December 2011
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Women on Web, forever reblog →
fuckyeahfeminists:
For those who cannot receive safe abortions in their countries, this is an online medical abortion service which helps people gain safe access to abortion.
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“[TRIGGER WARNING: Rape] Fat women are treated as utterly undesirable in our...”
– Jaclyn Friedman, What You Really Really Want: The Smart Girl’s Shame-Free Guide to Sex and Safety (via khaleesi)
“Anti-femme culture (and feminists aren’t immune to this) thinks the effort put...”
– The Rotund by Marianne Kirby (via ellielamothe)
When feminists criticise femme presentations, I find they are sometimes indistinguishable from men being sexist. ‘You’re just doing what you’re told.’ ‘You’re brainwashed.’ ‘If you were clever you wouldn’t waste time doing this shit.’ ‘You’re worth...
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“We were not born critical of existing society. There was a moment in our lives...”
– Howard Zinn (via vaginawoolf)
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beckysanspants:
Transphobic tequila advertisement in Interview Magazine, April 1996.
transfeminism:sixtyforty:
Transphobic tequila advertisement in Interview Magazine, April 1996.
The above ad is a clear illustration of trans-misogyny. The set up in the first image is the standard sexism that women generally experience to different degrees. The first image implies that all this woman’s...
manarchistryangosling:
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Middle School Boys Learn That They Can Stop Rape →
“With the establishment of a relationship of oppression, violence has already...”
– Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
(via deviantfemme)
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myflagisblackandred:
Support Alex’s Bond and her Release from Abusive Immigration Detention Today!
Alexander is a young, bright and sweet 19 year-old transgender youth from Guatemala. She dreams of living, working, and studying in the United States. Alex has been detained in the Florence Service Processing Center since October 2011. Since Alex is transgender, she is more vulnerable and...
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mohandasgandhi:
“A Jewish state doesn’t prevent a holocaust. In fact, the place where Jews are most in danger happens to be in Israel. And what they call anti-Semitism arising everywhere in the world is usually a reflection of antagonism to policies of the state of Israel. So it has nothing to do with preventing another holocaust.
Now the question about a Jewish state is something quite...
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On that whole Hugo mess...
thefremen:lucypaw:pastimperfection:
You know, I don’t think we need to answer the larger questions about process, accountability, and reform before we decide whether or not anyone with a history of abuse should be given a platform in feminist spaces. Intimate abuse is misogynist. Feminism should privilege women who have suffered horrendous abuse. Feminism should not prioritize the needs or...
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i refuse
miswritten:anthologyz:
to engage in mindless conversations about kim jong-il tonight.
because what worries me more are the ways in which the isolation of his figure has been used to obfuscate seven decades of u.s. military “interests” that (1) arbitrarily bisected the korean peninsula at the 38th parallel while (2) telescoping the DPRK exclusively thru the lens of a security threat or a...
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Updates from Wukan, the fishing village staging... →
For the first time on record, the Chinese Communist party has lost all control, with the population of 20,000 in this southern fishing village now in open revolt.” So begins Telegraph correspondent Malcolm Moore’s report of what he has personally witnessed in the fishing village of Wukan, Guangdong over the past few days. Enraged over government land grabs, villagers have now overrun local...
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Crippling the Right to Organize
UNLESS something changes in Washington, American workers will, on New Year’s Day, effectively lose their right to be represented by a union. Two of the five seats on the National Labor Relations Board, which protects collective bargaining, are vacant, and on Dec. 31, the term of Craig Becker, a labor lawyer whom President Obama named to the board last year through a recess appointment, will...
Full list of companies that pulled ads from All...
zikrayat:
3M (Command, Scotchbrand tape), Airborne Vitamin, Amway, (says it has been misrepresented) Anheuser Busch Inbev (Select55), Art Instruction Schools, Bamboozles, Bank of America (Cash Rewards), Bare Escentuals, Brother International (Ptouch), Campbell’s Soup, Capital One, Church & Dwight (Oxi Clean, Arm & Hammer), City Furniture, Conagra (Hunt’s Diced Tomatoes), ...
TW: suicide, incarceration. Bei Bei Shuai... →
freetohide:psyout:
My friend’s mom started a petition on change.org to help BeiBei Shuai, a mentally ill Chinese immigrant who has been imprisoned without bail in Indiana since April. She is accused of murder because she attempted to kill herself while pregnant, and miscarried her fetus. She is being charged with “feticide”. The whole situation is terribly unjust, but at the very least, she...
“On December 16, call, email, and fax Hennepin County Attorney Michael Freeman...”
– Support CeCe McDonald! Call/email/fax the Hennepin County Attorney (link) [WARNINGS: talk of cissexist/racist violence (by the attackers & the “justice” system), cissexist/racist/gay-bashing slurs, & racist media representation]
some online free faxing places:
http://faxzero.com
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“There clearly is no right to privacy nor sodomy found anywhere in the...”
– Ron Paul
If you somehow interpret this as an endorsement of LGBTQ rights or think that repealing Lawrence v. Texas would lead to more freedoms for GSM people, you are a Certified Fucking Idiot™.
(via paxamericana)
DE BEERS DECISION TO DUMP SEWAGE INTO ATTAWAPISKAT... →
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ndnsurgency:
For fuck sakes!!! I *HATE* Debeers so much it makes me sick to my stomach. The worst part is that people wouldn’t have ever known these things if not for the current media shitstorm happening. i’m glad this is all getting out there, it certainly shows these organizations for how much they value profits over people.
If you didn’t have enough reasons to hate...
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Apparently this poll is still happening →
cognitivedissonance:
You know what to do, Tumblr. As of 11:50 PM EST:
“Hidden away in the Money section of today’s Guardian is this article containing...”
– Free state childcare more than affordable (via ghostlove)
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I don’t understand all these posts that are like “YOU CAN TOO EAT VEGAN CHEAPLY LOOK AT MEEEE” If someone tells me they can’t do something, I just, you know, BELIEVE them because I don’t know their life and circumstances.
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Acknowledging the Death of an Unknown Trans Woman...
transfeminism:
The bodies of women have been turning up for a year now on Gilgo Beach in Long Island. These women are the victims of a serial killer who has been using the remote shore as a dumping ground. A total of 10 bodies have been discovered since the first four women’s remains were found on the overgrown beach last December. The killer has specifically targeted women who were selling...
When we say "rape jokes" are bad or saying the...
greaterthanlapsed:
This is not a call for institutionalized censorship, you ignorant jack-asses. It’s a call for self-awareness, empathy, kindness, and possible even **gasp** self-censorship.
You have the right to say whatever you want. However, I have the right to think you are an asshole.
For fuck’s sake. Why is this all so hard?
I swear, people will fight harder against being a decent...
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Missing First Nations Women of Canada →
lifeloveregret:
According to a Canadian government statistic, young Indigenous women are five times more likely than other women of the same age to die as the result of violence.
Indigenous women have long struggled to draw attention to violence within their own families and communities. Canadian police and public officials have also long been aware of a pattern of racist violence against...
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Are sex offenders and lads’ mags using the same... →
Short answer: yes
“Just six members of the Walton family, heirs to the Walmart fortune, possess...”
– The insane wealth of Walmart’s founding family - Salon
That’s 92 million Americans.
Next time I shop at a big-box store, I hope I remember that.
(via nickdouglas)
Tell ABC Not to Air "Work It"
lgbtlaughs:gqmoments:
‘Work It’ makes a mockery of transgender peoples struggles in the work place and empowers those with dormant transphobia to act on those urges with violence. It reinforces the biased stereotypical misogynistic social constructs that transsexuals are not “real” people and therefore of no worth.
Please add your name to those who ask “Work It” not be aired.
Please sign...
myflagisblackandred:
jejune: It is a privilege to be able to eat any of these types of food
akagoldfish:
icaruscalling:
I’ve been lurking on these vegan-privilege thing on Tumblr for awhile, and I figure, how it’s in not the best idea to finally reply to something inflamed and with over 200 notes already?
I am vegan. I don’t think that everyone has the immediate resources to be vegan.
I...
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NAACP warns black and Hispanic Americans could... →
ladyhippie:
sati5000:
I’m not sure if it’s amusing or incredibly sad that this headline hasn’t made an appearance in a single one of my American news sources.
I really really wish I had a more articulate response than screams of rage.
“Science is not “neutral,” nor is it purely beholden to positivism. People do...”
– More Race Science: They Lock Up Those “Crazy” Negro Agitators and Call Them “Schizophrenic,” regarding Jonathan Metzl’s The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease (via thetart)
this is my father’s story
(via guerrillamamamedicine)
“In my daily life, I have never met a member of this mythical 1%, nor do I...”
– The Anti-Capitalist March and the Black Bloc - Bay of Rage (via combat—wombat)
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rebelrebelbatcat:
House Considers “Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act,” I.e. the We-Don’t-Trust-Women-Of-Color Act
stfusexists:
fuckyeahfeminists:
I’m writing today to ask my fellow women of color reproductive justice activists and our allies to take a united stand against the Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act(PRENDA), a race- and sex-specific...