My friend, Mary Brown, said this on Facebook in response to Oklahoma’s push to pass the Personhood Act. Someone asked if she could have that on a shirt, so I made one. You can have one too!
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Relationships: A Transman and a Lesbian
This is a video addressing the controversy behind a lesbian dating a transman. This has recently come to light within my own personal life because I self-identify as a transman and someone has seen my girlfriend’s identity as an issue because it somehow impacts mine. Please watch and give some feedback! I would love to field any and all questions surrounding it or other trans* issues.
Watch and let me know! Go comment on it in you tube here
Why does it have to be a wave? Can’t it be a wind, constant and unrelenting?
Me, just now, on the waves of feminism (via artemistic)
Fuck yeah, feminists!: Mississippi Wants to Give Fetuses Personhood Rights
The extremist group – Personhood USA - states openly that ‘personhood’ is the political vehicle to overturning Roe v. Wade. On their website, they brag that they have ‘personhood’ petitions in all fifty states. Mississippi Amendment 26 actually states that a fertilized egg is a person even…
You have to question a cinematic culture which preaches artistic expression, and yet would support a decision that is clearly a product of a patriarchy-dominant society, which tries to control how women are depicted on screen. The MPAA is okay supporting scenes that portray women in scenarios of sexual torture and violence for entertainment purposes, but they are trying to force us to look away from a scene that shows a woman in a sexual scenario, which is both complicit and complex. It’s misogynistic in nature to try and control a woman’s sexual presentation of self. I consider this an issue that is bigger than this film. … There is something very distorted about this reality that they’ve created, which is that it is OK to torture women on screen. Any kind of violence towards women in a sexual scenario is fine. But give a woman pleasure? No way. Not a chance. That’s pornography.
Ryan Gosling, actor and feminist, in a letter protesting the NC-17 rating of Blue Valentine. The rating was based on one consensual sex scene. (via azelie)
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Up the Career Ladder, Lipstick In Hand
A little makeup may help your colleagues see you as trustworthy. But that viewpoint can diminish if you wear too much.
Source: The New York Times
From One Survivor to Another: Reasons I am a Feminist
- because equal pay, maternal leave, and other support means that people like my mother don’t have to end up in poverty
- because feminism is one of the few spaces where i can safely and comfortably cry as a man
- because feminism has given me the tools to understand why i was sexually abused and how i can stop it from happening to others
- because feminism has allowed me to understand my abuser(s) and begin the long, painful process of forgiving them and healing
- because i look forward to a future when I and people like me can express their gender and sexuality without fear
- because i love online video games and i want to someday be able to play without fear of being triggered
- because i dream of a day when i can show my children comic books, video games, songs, movies, and tv shows that tell their story, not the story of some identity-erasing monoculture
- because i don’t think that rape and sexual abuse are inevitable or natural
- because i don’t believe in (biological) determinism
- because i was raised to believe that difference is a good thing and can be understood
- because i grew up in a culture that says equality and freedom are human rights
- because i don’t believe in violence
- because i believe that all children should be wanted and cared for
- because i like science, sociology, statistics, economics, politics, religion, psychology, education, history, poetry, philosophy, art, and music. guess what field studies them all? women’s studies
- because i believe vulvas are beautiful— especially the labia minora
- because i believe everyone should know and love their own body
- because i think sex shouldn’t be something that we are ashamed of
- because i love cooking and i love women who cook
- because i love this earth, and the majority of the world’s food is grown by women
- because sometimes i like being asked out instead of having to ask
- because the best men i’ve known have never fit the patriarchal ideal
- because i love men, i just hate patriarchal masculinity
- because i don’t believe all men are rapists
- because i trust women and i want to trust men
- because freeing the most oppressed means freeing all of us
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Source: fromonesurvivortoanother
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