December 2011
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“My body is not a representation of my failures, sins, or mistakes. My body is...”
– Avoid Holiday Weight Shame — Ragen (danceswithfat)
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Partying on New Year's Eve?
Don’t drink and drive-and don’t ride with anybody who does. Tipsy Tow offered by AAA: you don’t have to be a AAA member, from 6pm-6am on New Years Eve/day, they will take your drunk self and your car home for FREE. Save this number… 1-800-222-4357. Please reblog this if you don’t mind.
SIGNAL BOOST
Be safe out there, Tumblrs!
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“Imagine a world where YouTube, Flickr, Facebook or Twitter had never been...”
– Andrew Howard on what SOPA and the Protect IP act mean for the future of the Internet and how they affect you directly. Read it, then watch this, then go do something about it. (via curiositycounts)
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“I asked [Gingrich] if he’s elected, how does he plan to engage gay Americans....”
– Scott Arnold, an adjunct professor at William Penn University, who recently asked Newt Gingrich how the LGBT community should support the candidate. Newt’s answer? Don’t. More. (via gaywrites)
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“Racism, like all forms of bigotry, is what it claims to oppose—victimology. The...”
– Ta-Nehisi Coates, Ron Paul’s Shaggy Defense
Besides being unapologetically racist, Ron Paul is just as mendacious and venal as any other politician, kids. He vehemently defended the racist newsletters and repeated their bullshit until it became politically inconvenient for him. He’s just a total...
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South Carolina man threw a 12-pound bowling ball... →
ultraprism:
feistyfeminist:
Today in rape culture…
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One teachers approach to preventing gender... →
togetherforjacksoncountykids:
“It’s Okay to be Neither,” By Melissa Bollow Tempel
Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got in line for art, and I noticed that she still had not removed her hood. When we arrived at the art room, I said:...
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2011: The War on Contraception (via RH Reality... →
padaviya:
The year 2011will be remembered by reproductive rights supporters as the year that the anti-choice movement really turned up the aggression, destroying the objections of moderate liberals who thought that pro-choice activists were being hysterical little ladies with our constant warnings about anti-choicers.
Up until late 2010, you could still find many a liberal who would argue...
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“The love expressed between women is particular and powerful, because we have had...”
– Audre Lorde (via abklynmyracle)
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Dear overly angry feminists
lesbianoutlaw:
ladyatheist:
newageasfuck:
Hello, my brothers and sisters! Today I have something to discuss with you.
That thing is the idea of ‘bad feminists’.
By ‘bad feminists’ I mean feminists who are in porn, wear makeup, wear the Hijab, are stay at home mothers, etc.
What you need to understand is that all of those acts, can be acts of feminism when people do it of their own...
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“Hi, my name is Idil, and I’m a Feminist” →
yourhijabi:
by Idil Farah Friday, May 06, 2011
Being a Somali Feminist sure sucks. I once attended a women’s conference in Alberta, and the topic of discussion revolved around the lived experiences of Muslim-Canadian women who are forced to operate amongst two often-competing paradigms. A semi-prominent social scientist began her treatise against the illiberal cultural practice of female...
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SOPA has NOT been postponed to 2012! The Committee... →
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safetybunny:
catbountry:
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sylverlining:
Despite the fact that Congress was supposed to be out of session until the end of January, the Judiciary Committee has just announced plans to come back to continue the markup this coming Wednesday. This is rather unusual and totally unnecessary. But it shows just how desperate Hollywood is to pass this bill as quickly as...
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“Veils are spooky and challenging to many people. You might feel cut off from a...”
– Tabatha Southey - Minister Kenney, can I become a citizen in these shoes?
(article here)
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“If the anti-abortion movement took a tenth of the energy they put into noisy...”
– Michael J. Tucker (via princesssimon)
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“Of course, men say that all this finery we wear betrays a corrupt heart...”
– Moderata Fonte (1600)
I’ll ignore the “endangering virtue” part because she was writing this in the 16th century (it was published in 1600 but she wrote it prior to that). However, she is one of the only women I have come across who calls men out on their bullshit when it comes to harassing women...
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“[TW: Rape]
Sex-negative messages don’t keep people from having sex. They keep...”
– Sex-Negative Education and the Spectre of Rape « Sex Positive Activism (via anorable)
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Women & Trans Bathhouses
I just got invited to this. Have any of you ever been before? Is it fun / safe space-y / inclusive? Tell me stories! If you answer in an ask and don’t want it published, let me know.
In need of input and feedback.
<3 youdon’tlooklikeafeminist
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“I’m not ashamed to admit that I’m a gay lady. But you don’t need to be banging...”
– Meg (comment on Autostraddle)
Meg, BAMF.
Rick Perry, go catch on fire.
<3 youdon’tlooklikeafeminist
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Gay Man Dies Waiting for the Courts to Grant... →
projectqueer:
by Karen Ocamb
The late Ed Watson and Derence Kernek, his beloved partner of 40 years last March
Sometimes in the fury of the fight, we forget that what we’re fighting for is the fundamental Constitutional right to publicly love the person we love. The Prop 8 hearing Thursday before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals was a stellar example of how empty, vacuous and heartless...
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“Barack Obama says that as the father of two daughters, he wants the government...”
– Katha Pollitt on the HHS overruling the FDA on Plan B access. (via jessicavalenti)
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“Plan B is safer than Tylenol, yet we’re putting barriers to keep young teens...”
– Susan Wood who, in 2005, resigned her job as the top women’s-health official at the FDA, claiming that the agency’s refusal to allow over-the-counter sale of emergency contraception was the result of political pressure by the Bush administration. (via iamdrtiller)
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Dear Rick Perry,
femmenist:
thechroniclesofrin:
perf.
[A gif of Obama looking very serious, and pointing his finger at the audience in a stern way. There are white block letters of text across the bottom of the gif that read “You wanna be Commander-in-chief? You can start by standing up for the men and women who wear the uniform of the United States, even when it’s not politically...
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In memory of Jacob Rogers, 18 →
gaywrites:
Jacob Rogers, a high school senior from Tennessee, ended his life yesterday after enduring years of bullying at school.
Friends say classmates tormented him with anti-gay slurs and left behind notes including passwords to online accounts, so friends and investigators could see evidence of the harassment he endured.
Bloggers started a fund to help his family pay for the funeral...
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“Fashion is one of the very few forms of expression in which women have more...”
– Fashion is a Feminist Issue: Greta Christina (via cholalicious)
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Fox News Made Moscow Riots Look Riotier with... →
zesticola:
gqgqqt:
reallyfoxnews:
The Moscow activists who protested the Russian elections in the streets of Moscow Tuesday did not do a good enough job of looking scary and violent, it seems, because Fox News cut its coverage of the protests with footage riot police and streets on fire — in Athens. Animal New York’s Marina Galperina spotted some suspicious palm trees looking awfully...
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TW: Paedophilia, Sexual Assault, Rape
pansexualpride:
Penn State Scandal: Everybody’s Talking About How Nobody’s Talking About Homosexuality
In this Sunday’s New York Times, author and Bard professor Daniel Mendelsohn talks about that thing we don’t really want to talk about — and me, personally, I would have to say that I also do not want to talk about it — how big of a role homophobia could’ve played in the cover-up at Penn...
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More Sucky News From Michigan: Michigan will be... →
“We are ashamed of our Republican lawmakers today. They continue to attack hardworking gay and transgender citizens rather than rebuilding our state. Anti-gay legislators are pushing a regressive policy agenda that ignores best practices in business and makes our state hostile to gay and lesbian couples. Voters should be outraged.”
Ah. Michigan. State fail. Voters of America, do you see this?...
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“(Forgive the formatting. Might fix it later. Definitely gonna write about the...”
– Land of Heat and Knives: The Fish Metaphor [TW for everything transphobic ever, and discussion of self-injury and suicide]
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“We need to ask ourselves, “How would it feel if it were a crime to love the...”
– Hillary Clinton
related: U.S. makes first-ever push for gay rights abroad
(via newwavefeminism)
How I love Hillary Clinton, let me count the ways.
(via iamateenagefeminist)
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Bachmann Confronted by Eight-Year-Old with Gay... →
projectqueer:
By Julie Bolcer
“My mommy’s gay but she doesn’t need any fixing,” said a young boy who approached Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann at a recent book signing in South Carolina.
In a video of the encounter posted by the Daily Mail, the boy shyly approaches Bachmann at a table, and the congresswoman warmly asks, “What’s your name?” He responds that his...