March 2012
3 posts
“According to the “freedom of religion” clause, the government cannot impose a...”
– —What Religious Freedom Is and What It Definitely Isn’t
Remember to contact your House rep, they are voting on this today. (via stfusexists)
“As the House votes today on allowing every employers to not provide birth...”
– —What Religious Freedom Is, and What It Definitely Isn’t (via stfusexists)
February 2012
54 posts
STFU, White Liberals!: 13 Year Old Jada Williams... →
ladyatheist:
baddominicana:
thatmuchlove:
13 Year Old Jada Williams Persecuted by the Rochester City School District Over her essay on Frederick Douglass.
ai-yo:
jumpstart-therevolution:
theafrosistuh:
beautifulbrwn:
“On Saturday, February 18, 2012, the…
fuck you if you’re a man (especially cisgender) who uses the word “slut”
if you’re a woman (cisgender or otherwise), you should stop too. but i’m not going to say fuck you.
Ginsberg
eating-poetry:
No blame. Anyone who wrote Howl and Kaddish earned the right to make any possible mistake for the rest of his life. I just wish I hadn’t made this mistake with him. It was during the Vietnam war and he was giving a great protest reading in Washington Square Park and nobody wanted to leave. So Ginsberg got the idea, “I’m going to shout ‘the war is over’ as loud as I can,”...
Anonymous asked: i am a prospective wesleyan student and was wondering how hard it is too get in? i get decent grades 4.4 but have been stressing out recently because i dont know if i should even apply?
My brother knows racism before he's even 16. Fuck...
queerhairyvag:
Welp! That’s great! Gonna rant now! AS USUAL WHAT ELSE IS NEW
Before he was 8, things were fine and dandy and he’s a happy adorable snotrag!
He isin’t treated any differently and if he is, he’s too young to notice at the time.
He’s 10. He’s talented at creating animation and draws like a pro.
Early primary school; things are fine but he feels a little confused that he’s one of...
“Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise...”
– Stephen Colbert (via neonspandex)
Fuck yeah, feminists!: punkisays: Ways... →
punkisays:
Ways Gender-Privileged Men Can Challenge Sexism
meeca:
(This list will be forever in-progress. Please add on as you see fit).
Challenge sexist jokes, such as dumb blonde jokes or jokes about rape.
Avoid using words such as “bitch”, “ho”, “slut.”
Recognize when…
“A white college student from a private college goes into a poor neighborhood and...”
– Dr. Patricia Hill Collins quoting Public Allies CEO Paul Schmitz in her talk Answering the Call to Community Service. (via sexartandpolitics)
A microcosm of one of the fundamental issues with the non-profit industrial complex.
(via myflagisblackandred)
“True gender equality is actually perceived as inequality. A group that is made...”
– - Lucy, When Worlds Collide: Fandom and Male Privilege. (via seaofbadstories)
I might have reblogged this already but it’s so good I don’t care.
(via stfufauxminists)
Kyriarchy in action.
(via transstingray)
Also the study where they had women and men talking in a discussion and when women...
“I am a socialist because I believe that socialism will solve the misery of the...”
– Helen Keller (via thenewwomensmovement)
“I’ve had librarians say to me, “People in my school don’t agree with...”
– David Levithan - Supporting Gay Teen Literature (via cake-light)
SERIOUSLY! I’m sick of LGBTQ culture being treated as just some political issue. Queer people aren’t just a handful of people who want to get married, okay? We’re real, and we’re fucking important, and we need to be represented...
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Regarding to these "reactions to Chris Brown at...
I’m finding it a little upsetting how people are being toward the women/girls/others who are making the comments about “Chris Brown can beat me any day.” Of course, these statements are extremely problematic on their own and very disrespectful toward victims of domestic abuse. I can’t fathom why anyone would think such statements are acceptable.
With that being said, I...
I'm not okay with Chris Brown performing at the... →
xiexieputao:
“I’m frustrated that the mainstream media is covering this story like it’s any comeback story, like an exiled prince’s return to a former glory, like this is another political timeline — as though some rich and powerful old white men in the music business have not just issued an enormous ‘f**k you’ to every woman who has been, is or will be on the receiving end of domestic violence....
neonspandex:
i’m literally disgusted and will be perplexed for the rest of my life as to how kanye west got more shit for stealing a microphone from taylor swift than chris brown has ever gotten for beating the shit out of rihanna
too real.
Why I Will Always Side With Rape Accusers Before...
neonspandex:
loveyourchaos:she-hulk-smash:
Why I Will Always Side With Rape Accusers Before Knowing the “Facts”
(trigger warning for rape, sexual abuse, rape culture)
14kgoldnyc:
safercampus:
Yesterday, prosecutors decided that they won’t press charges against Greg Kelly, son of police commissioner Ray Kelly. He was accused of raping a woman—I wrote about it here. I sounded pretty sure I...
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“And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul,...”
– Sylvia Plath (via neonspandex)
Gabrielle.
“Really, conservatives just hate women. They resent the fact that we work, go to...”
– hunnichild (via brienne—of—tarth)
(via unknowablewoman)
feministdisney:
“Kristen Stewart: smiling is not an obligation, professional or otherwise”
outlaw-monarch:
I’m not terribly familiar with her acting work (I personally could not be paid to watch Twilight, and I missed [the Runaways, wasn’t it?]) but I’ve have seen her pictures on the front of magazines and online. I have always thought “what odd expressions she makes!”...
“I usually don’t talk about stuff like this on my show but I really want to thank...”
– Ellen DeGeneres responding to the hate group that is pressuring JC Penney to fire DeGeneres from a spokesperson gig, saying the store will “lose customers with traditional values.” (via jessicavalenti)
Online Feminism's Big Win Against Komen for the... →
jessicavalenti:
My latest at The Nation.
“[The young black males are] shuttled into prisons, branded as criminals and...”
– In her book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, legal scholar Michelle Alexander writes that many of the gains of the civil rights movement have been undermined by the mass incarceration of black Americans in the war on drugs. (via nprfreshair)
stfuconservatives:
We Won! Komen Apologizes For Pissing Everyone Off, Restores Planned Parenthood Funding
However they are going to have to work hard to regain any semblance of trust. We all know that it’s only a matter of time before they try to do this again but try to keep it under the radar (like their defunding of stem cell research). You don’t single out an organization out of...
“The sex drive of men is something we are all comfortable with in this country....”
– riese (via fuckyeahautostraddle)
wow i forgot about this essay
(via autostraddle)
US States and LGBT protections.
neutrois:
States where individuals can be fired for being gay:
Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas Florida Georgia Idaho Indiana Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Michigan Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska North Carolina North Dakota Oklahoma Ohio Pennsylvania South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Virginia West Virginia Wyoming
States where individuals can be fired for being transgender:...
Susan G. Komen Top Officials Resign As Backlash... →
keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus:
Dr. Kathy Plesser, a Manhattan radiologist on the medical advisory board of Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s New York chapter, said she plans to resign from her position unless Komen reverses its decision to pull grant money from Planned Parenthood.
“I’m a physician and my interest is women’s health, and I am disturbed by Komen’s decision because I am a very strong...
