March 2012
“Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a...”
– Margaret Atwood (via earlyfrost)
nkiita:
Every musical should have one minor character who is aware that everyone is singing and dancing and extremely confused and terrified
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The Best Birth Control In The World Is For People... →
madziontist:
femonster:
If I were going to describe the perfect contraceptive, it would go something like this: no babies, no latex, no daily pill to remember, no hormones to interfere with mood or sex drive, no negative health effects whatsoever, and 100 percent effectiveness. The funny thing is, something like that currently exists.
The procedure called RISUG (reversible inhibition of...
my mom, while watching Twilight
mom: who is Charlie?
me: that's her dad
mom: who is Carlos
me: . . . there is no Carlos
mom: yeah, the guy who lives with Edward. . . Carlos.
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“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To...”
– Arundhati Roy, January 2003, World Social Forum, Porto Alegre, Brazil
(epigraph to Chandra Mohanty’s “U.S Empire and the Project of Women’s Studies: Stories of citizenship, complicity and dissent”)
“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her...
“No one who understands the feminist movement, or who knows the soul of a real...”
– Anne B. Hamman (via earlyfrost)
ally.: How to Get Your Book Banned in Arizona →
fishingboatproceeds:
Step 1: Write about people who aren’t white.
Step 2: THERE IS NO STEP TWO.
You will very rarely see me curse, tumblypoos, but…but…I mean, what the fuck? How is this even possible? This reads like an Onion article.
To be clear, it is now ILLEGAL to teach de la Pena’s…
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Cosmo sex tip #301:
Don’t be scared of doing something a bit more flexible. While you’re on top turn your head 360 degrees whilst screaming ‘the anti-christ has awoken’.
“A white college student from a private college goes into a poor neighborhood and...”
– Dr. Patricia Hill Collins quoting Public Allies CEO Paul Schmitz in her talk Answering the Call to Community Service. (via sexartandpolitics)
“There are the occasions that men—intellectual men, clever men, engaged...”
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Melissa McEwan, of course, on the terrible bargain. My life as a woman, as a queer person, as a fat person, is not your thought experiment. (via sanitywatchers)
This really struck a chord. Even my boyfriend, feminist that he is, can have this reaction when I’m in tears after an NPR story. This...
“A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a...”
– Andrea Dworkin A man, not a woman. (via earlyfrost)
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“Let me tell you some things. I used to... →
feminisminapapercup:
““Let me tell you some things. I used to investigate child abuse and neglect. I can tell you how to stop the vast majority of abortion in the world. First, make knowledge and access to contraception widely available. Start teaching kids before they hit puberty. Teach them about domestic violence and coercion, and teach them not to coerce and rape. Create a strong, loving...
