To Exist on the Earth Is Beyond Any Power to Name.

Not feminism: Oh my God, that woman is wearing make-up and high heels! She can't be a feminist. She's just adhering to the patriarchal expectations of femininity! What a traitor to her gender.
Not feminism: I hate men! Women are so much better than men! All men are rapists and we don't need their help! Men are just there to oppress us and keep us down! Women are the superior gender.
Not feminism: You're giving up your career to have a baby? You're being dictated to by a man! That's the wrong choice! You've slept with twenty men? Wow, way to show that you have no respect for yourself.
Feminism: Women and men are equal. No-one should be discriminated against on the basis of their gender. Women have the right to decide how to live their life, how to dress, what to do with their body and who to love.

upworthy:

MUST SEE: A Teen Pregnancy PSA That Goes Where No Campaign Has Gone Before

For those of us who are tired of teen pregnancy PSAs that forget it takes two to make a baby. See more at the source.

MUST SEE: A Teen Pregnancy PSA That Goes Where No Campaign Has Gone Before

For those of us who are tired of teen pregnancy PSAs that forget it takes two to make a baby. See more at the source.

whoneedsfeminism:

I need feminism because my fifteen-year-old brother doesn’t understand why it might be considered rude if he assumes an unknown person is male.

caliphorniaqueen:

“During the civili rights struggle, Birmingham canceled high school prom for many black teenagers. This weekend, the dance went on for the Class of 1963”

http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/19/living/civil-rights-prom/index.html?hpt=hp_c2

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choiceusa:

Happy Harvey Milk Day!

Questions of gender rights and gender justice are not new to the Middle East, and neither are struggles that we now read under the sign of “feminism.” In fact, a large portion of the laws that are often regarded as oppressive to women and LGBTQ Arabs and/or Muslims are relatively new. They were introduced to the region via the Napoleonic code and the codification and the severe hollowing out of the shar‘ia in modern history. For example abortion, long considered a question of women’s rights in the Western world due its twinned history with Catholicism and Christianity more broadly, was not illegal across the Arab world until the rise of the nation state. Some traditions of fiqh continue take a position on abortion that American feminists might wish could be extended to the United States today. In addition, jurists have and do struggle to understand and promote “progressive” notions of male and female relations and to make room for nonconforming gender persons in the region. In fact, scholars such as Paula Sanders have shown us that several centuries ago Islamic jurists were developing a system of accommodation for hermaphrodites and nonbinary gendered peoples in Islamic communities.

-Maya Mikdashi, in her article How Not to Study Gender in the Middle East.

Read this.

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REQUIRED READING

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Yes yes yes yes yes

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Cultures where rape is a joke are cultures that foster rape.

Amy Richlin, The Garden of Priapus: Sexuality and Aggression in Roman Humor (via lesilencieux)

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itll-never-be-overr:

as a child her random babbling just didnt mean anything. but now…

I KNEW I LOVED HER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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