February 2012
92 posts
US Senate and Virginia State Senators: Stop... →
fuckyeahfeminists:
URGENT! Please sign!
This law makes it mandatory for women who are seeking an abortion, either from rape, molestation or accidental pregnancy, to be forced against their will to have a probe inserted into their vagina by medical professionals. Unwilllful penetration by an object is rape! Stop this tea party rape law! Stop it before it passes the senate!
“Sex-negative messages don’t keep people from having sex. They keep people from...”
– Sex-Negative Education and the Spectre of Rape « Sex Positive Activism (via anorable)
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…
The Murder Mile: Tony Hoagland, "Personal" →
airwalker:
Don’t take it personal, they said; but I did, I took it all quite personal— the breeze and the river and the color of the fields; the price of grapefruit and stamps, the wet hair of women in the rain— And I cursed what hurt me and I praised what gave me joy, the most simple-minded of…
“She said,
“When you see these horrible images
why do you stay with them?
Why...”
– Anne Carson, from “The Glass Essay” (via airwalker)
The Murder Mile: Anne Sexton, "Lessons In Hunger" →
reticence-:
‘Do you like me?’ I asked the blue blazer. No answer. Silence bounced out of his books. Silence fell off his tongue and sat between us and clogged my throat. It slaughtered my trust. It tore cigarettes out of my mouth. We exchanged blind words, and I did not cry, and I did…
“Vegan food is soul food in its truest form. Soul food means to feed the soul....”
– Erykah Badu (via zoelicious)
Why it's transgender, and not transgendered. →
“Slut-bashing is a cheap and easy way to feel powerful. If you feel insecure or...”
– [Leora Tanenbaum (Harper Paperbacks, 2000.): Slut! Growing Up Female with a Bad Reputation, p. 238.] (via ratbrat)
“To love is to approach each other center to center.”
– Pierre de Teilhard de Chardin (via elige)
“I didn’t transition, I realised.”
– genderfork (via genderqueer)
“We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh (via joon-seo)
