February 2012
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“The U.S. and its Western allies are sure to do whatever they can to prevent...”
– Noam Chomsky: Article (via stay-human)
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9 Little Known Facts About Notable Women in Black... →
thechanelmuse:
From the article:
Nina Simone - Her involvement in civil rights was spurred by an incident at her first classical piano recital at age 12. During the recital, her parents sat in seats in the front of the building to see her play, but were told to move to the back to make way for white guests. She wasn’t having that though. The young girl refused to perform until her parents were...
“To be honest, I felt hysterical: that Victorian word for the tantrums of...”
– Special Guest Post: Meg Clark on Jonathan Franzen
(via captain-sonic)
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“Men are 150 percent more likely to be the victims of violent crimes than women...”
– Offensive Feminism: The Conservative Gender Norms That Perpetuate Rape Culture, and How Feminists Can Fight Back, by Jill Filipovic (as read in Yes Means Yes)
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“That’s religion: ego masquerading as humility.”
– Bill Maher (via onward-to-the-edge)
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Persons against the Personhood Act in Oklahoma →
ok4rj:
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obscenegestur:
You all better freaking reblog the shit out of this, or I’ll be mad at you forever.
Everyone everywhere should be against this.
oh haaaaay
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“But then, the truth was never really the point. Thin women don’t tell their fat...”
– Kate Harding (via rhiannon-random)
another example of thin privilege, your body type doesn’t carry these negative synonyms
(via fatcatsandcurls)
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TW: Why pro-lifers are lying to themselves and...
oneyoungfeminist:
Dear pro-lifers,
I have a fact to share with you this evening that could very well shock you: People die every day. Yep, you heard me - all the time, for all sorts of reasons. For some reason you have decided to choose “babies” (I use quotations now to say I do not agree with this description, but I’ll stick with it for arguments sake) over all of the other people out there...
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“Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the ‘transcendent’ and all who...”
– Christopher Hitchens (via becauseithinktoomuch)
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“Society has a problem with female nudity when it is not … ”—Badu pauses to get...”
– Erykah Badu: June/July Cover Story [Pg 1] | VIBE (via sexisbeautiful)
Yes, perfect.
(via alienshexv)
BADU!
(via newwavefeminism)
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[TW: rape] More rage...
nessfraserloves:
When 1 in 5 American women are raped in their lifetime, I’m not going to “stop taking it so seriously” because there is a 20% chance that it’s going to happen to me — and even greater chance it’s going to one of the many women I love.
Oh, and in 1995, when thirty-eight percent of women who have been sexually assaulted were assaulted by their husbands, common-law partners, or...
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
– Aldous Huxley (via borzage)
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Indian High Court Rules That the Decision to Abort... →
somepolitics:
In a significant decision, the Punjab and Haryana High Court last week ruled that the right to abort a pregnancy in a marriage rests with the wife and not husband.
“A woman is not a machine in which raw material is put and a finished product comes out. She should be mentally prepared to conceive, continue the same and give birth to a child. The unwanted pregnancy would naturally...
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[tw: rape] Please spread the word!
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needleg33k:
Hey all
My friend is trying to get signatures for a petition against Judge David Farrell. Recently, he sentenced 2 men to 40 months in prison for raping an 11-year old. Why was the sentence so light? Because she looked older than her age and was “willing”, despite the fact that she claimed it was rape. Please reblog as far as the eye can see and sign this petition to...
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Consent
lets-blog-about-sex-baby:
Consent is one of the single most important aspect of any relationship, especially one that is sexual or might become sexual. The biggest thing to remember about consent is that it is not ongoing, meaning that a partner may give consent at one point, and then remove that consent at another. Consent is not given automatically simply because one has given it in previous...
Shameless self-promotion
nessfraserloves:
I’m going to be on The Current tomorrow morning at 9:30am on CBC Radio 1.
And then I’m featured in Sext Up Kids on the CBC at 9pm tomorrow night.
BIG DAY. Please watch/listen/promote/show some love if you can!
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Things I learned from TV.
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
All Asians look like John Cho.
Asians know everything. Seriously, everything. And they can probably fly in secret and they just don’t tell us.
If an Asian person tells you to do something, for the love of god, do it. NEVER cross them.
Black people are all hard. Every one. They’re hard as fuck. You can’t break them with a hammer.
Despite being really hard, black people...
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“Men, in return, thrived. The ego candy they feasted on by virtue of...”
– Why Patriarchal Men Are Utterly Petrified of Birth Control — And Why We’ll Still Be Fighting About it 100 Years From Now (via janedoe225)
An absolutely fantastic article. Amazing. Please go read it.
(via missworded)
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“Now because the majority of abortions are performed in the first trimester, if...”
– JON STEWART, on Virginia’s inhumane, inhuman and shameful “personhood” law that requires women wanting to get an abortion to, in essence, be subject to rape, on The Daily Show (via inothernews)
This chart needs another entry, I think:
(via anarya-c)
That might just be the greatest chart I have...
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TRIGGER WARNING: RAPE
bitchesguidetoetiquette:
Anonymous asked: I have a friend who studies law and we got in an argument regarding rape the other day. He claimed that most cases never get to court because they find out that the woman exaggerated or made it up (or something like that, I’m not good with the legal terms he used). Could this really be the case? I haven’t found any statistics, but since reporting a rape...
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“One day we must ask the question, ‘Why are there forty million poor people in...”
– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr And this is what really got Dr. MLK killed. (via black-culture)
THIS
(via killthemass)
…anti-poverty, anti-war, pro-Black and Brown unity agenda (re: “beyond vietnam”)
Now this is truth.
(via somepolitics)
“Stop degrading the act of sex by calling it ‘opening your legs.’
I’m so sick...”
– flowersarebetterthanbullets on This Post (I made this a quote, because the original picture with text was visually offensive. These pro-life people need to take a graphic design class.)
“Republicans don’t even acknowledge that racism exists. There were a couple of...”
– Bill Maher (via barbiehighheels)
“If an elementary school student has an excellent teacher even for a single year,...”
– Raj Chetty, professor of economics at Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences and a co-author of the study with Harvard Kennedy School’s John Friedman and Columbia Business School’s Jonah Rockoff. (Harvard Gazette)
AKA why teachers should be paid more and we should be working to retain the best and...
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“In reaction to the Athena report, a woman in a snior engineering position...”
– Fine, C. (2010) The Delusions of Gender, Icon Books, p. 51-52 (via captain-sonic)
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“If I’m left without contraception, how can I plan my pregnancies? If I can’t...”
– The (Not) New War on Birth Control - we’re talking about it today. (via myplannedparenthood)
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“I think we can all recognize that the “it’s a joke excuse” is the most...”
– Loose Talk: You can take your “just joking” and shove it. (via shitkrieg)
I will always reblog this when I can.
(via racemash)
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“Boys. Listen. If she says no at any time, that means you stop. If she is passed...”
– The uni lecturer today at o-week (via purple-bones) Oh hey I wish they had said something like this at our o-week because some people certainly didn’t get the memo. (via sazquatch)
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“You may believe through faith [a] completely beneficial thing but if it’s no...”
– JT Eberhard - on the problem of justifying beliefs through faith (via doubtingmarcus)