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.

Fri, 24 May 2013 00:43:47 -0400

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...

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:41:39 -0400

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.

whoneedsfeminism: I need feminism because my fifteen-year-old...

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:40:38 -0400

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,...

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:37:15 -0400

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

choiceusa: Happy Harvey Milk Day!

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:33:24 -0400

choiceusa:

Happy Harvey Milk Day!

"Questions of gender rights and gender justice are not new to the Middle East, and neither are..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:24:24 -0400

“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.

(via hizbullahtwerkteam)

REQUIRED READING

(via actyourrage)

Yes yes yes yes yes

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

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:57:52 -0400

“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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Wed, 22 May 2013 19:56:15 -0400

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Wed, 22 May 2013 19:56:11 -0400

itll-never-be-overr: as a child her random babbling just didnt...

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:49:54 -0400

itll-never-be-overr:

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

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

dallonsmiles: YESSSSSSSSS

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:47:51 -0400

dallonsmiles:

YESSSSSSSSS

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Tue, 21 May 2013 20:00:45 -0400

bitchesguidetoetiquette: Flawless logic at play

Tue, 21 May 2013 19:02:35 -0400

bitchesguidetoetiquette:

Flawless logic at play

"Masses of people think that feminism is always and only about women seeking to be equal to men. And..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 19:00:03 -0400

“Masses of people think that feminism is always and only about women seeking to be equal to men. And a huge majority of these folks think feminism is anti-male. Their misunderstanding of feminist politics reflects the reality that most folks learn about feminism from patriarchal mass media.”

- bell hooks (via ceedling)

samorchard: I did a comic about marriage...

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:35:53 -0400

samorchard:

I did a comic about marriage equality…

(Original: http://www.roostertailscomic.com/?p=1588)

"We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit."

Tue, 21 May 2013 15:52:07 -0400

“We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit.”

- Audre Lorde (via loveyourchaos)

this is social anxiety summed up in two gifs

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:38:39 -0400

this is social anxiety summed up in two gifs

when i’m sad i think of how one day, you’ll wake up on a sunny morning, with a blue sky...

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:42:00 -0400

when i’m sad i think of how

one day, you’ll wake up on a sunny

morning, with a blue sky and

you’ll stretch your spine and it’ll crack your

back in the most satisfying way and you’ll sigh

slowly and fully and a settling peace will course

through your veins as you

realize i am not worth loving

"I was going to die, sooner or later, whether or not I had even spoken myself. My silences had not..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 15:19:21 -0400

“

I was going to die, sooner or later, whether or not I had even spoken myself. My silences had not protected me. Your silences will not protect you…. What are the words you do not yet have? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence? We have been socialized to respect fear more than our own need for language.

I began to ask each time: “What’s the worst that could happen to me if I tell this truth?” …Our speaking out will irritate some people, get us called bitchy or hypersensitive and disrupt some dinner parties. And then our speaking out will permit other women to speak, until laws are changed and lives are saved and the world is altered forever.

Next time, ask: What’s the worst that will happen? Then push yourself a little further than you dare. Once you start to speak, people will yell at you. They will interrupt you, put you down and suggest it’s personal. And the world won’t end.

And the speaking will get easier and easier. And you will find you have fallen in love with your own vision, which you may never have realized you had. And you will lose some friends and lovers, and realize you don’t miss them. And new ones will find you and cherish you. And you will still flirt and paint your nails, dress up and party, because, as I think Emma Goldman said, “If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution.” And at last you’ll know with surpassing certainty that only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth. And that is not speaking.

”

- Audre Lorde (via thepeoplesrecord)

thepensivebrony: “you shouldn’t be depressed, people have it worse than you” finally, after years...

Mon, 20 May 2013 15:16:57 -0400

thepensivebrony:

“you shouldn’t be depressed, people have it worse than you”

finally, after years of searching, the person with the worst life ever is found. formally, they are granted permission to be sad. but only them. only they have earned it. no sads for anyone else at all ever