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jenniferswag: don’t know the source, but the correction is...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:00:05 +0200

don’t know the source, but the correction is perfect

"If you are a white woman and you want to call yourself a feminist, you must acknowledge that your..."

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 08:28:41 +0200

“If you are a white woman and you want to call yourself a feminist, you must acknowledge that your whiteness affords you a privilege that shields you from a lot. You must also acknowledge that you are afforded privileges that some men in this country do not have. Racism and sexism are tightly intertwined. You cannot fight one while ignoring the other.”

- ladyatheist (via ellesugars)

socialistexan: bidyke: hummussexual: Homo-capitalism! It’s...

Sat, 01 Jun 2013 07:58:53 +0200

socialistexan:

bidyke:

hummussexual:

Homo-capitalism! It’s just in time for Pride Season.

No. They. Didn’t.

X_x

Holy shit it’s real

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Thu, 30 May 2013 04:54:39 +0200

a l'allure garconniere: WHY “WHITE SUPREMACIST CAPITALIST PATRIARCHY?”

Tue, 28 May 2013 07:30:09 +0200

a l'allure garconniere: WHY “WHITE SUPREMACIST CAPITALIST PATRIARCHY?”:

BELL HOOKS: I began to use the phrase in my work “white supremacist capitalist patriarchy” because I wanted to have some language that would actually remind us continually of the interlocking systems of domination that define our reality and not to just have one thing be like, you know, gender…

"We do not want a feminism that looks like a social worker behind a desk with concerned eyebrows. We..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 03:46:54 +0200

“We do not want a feminism that looks like a social worker behind a desk with concerned eyebrows. We want a feminism that stays up late at the kitchen table convincing us that we deserve better. We do not want a feminism that will put us up in a rundown state shelter for a short while until we’re ‘back on our feet.’ We want a feminism that will break back into our house we were just kicked out of and tell the landlord he’ll have hell to pay from a mob of angry bitches if he attempts eviction again.”

- “Anarcha-Feminists Take to the Streets”, Dangerous Spaces (via the-red-planet)

anarcho-queer: African immigrant holds hands with Greek...

Sat, 04 May 2013 03:33:00 +0200

anarcho-queer:

African immigrant holds hands with Greek protester during Athens May Day rally.

lavandin: Immigration officer: Why are you entering the...

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 11:50:45 +0200

lavandin:

Immigration officer: Why are you entering the States?

Me: I’m presenting my film at the “American Documentary Film Festival”.

Officer: What’s your film about?

Me: It’s about the Croatian student movement.

Officer: So what are the students doing in Croatia?

Me: They’re fighting against the commercialization of education.

Officer: And how do they exactly plan to de-commercialize it?

Me: They occupied their faculty building.

Officer: I’m glad to hear that stupidity never dies.

Me: But you had huge student protests here in the sixties.

Officer: And what good did that do? Every man has the right to choose how to spend his money. Someone’s got to pay for other people’s education.

Me: The students want the taxpayers to pay for it. Education is a human right.

Officer: No it’s not. There’ll always be people who’ll want to choose how they want their money to be spent. If someone takes my money, it’s called robbery, and I’m allowed to shoot him. Welcome to the United States.

LAX Airport, L.A., California, 2nd April 2013

"Love is about being free and respecting each other’s freedom. Loving you, I love your wings and..."

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 05:16:55 +0200

“Love is about being free and respecting each other’s freedom. Loving you, I love your wings and respect that you’re on a journey. I will try to see you deeply, show up for you, and treasure the time we share. I know that someday you may need to fly out of my sight, and if you do, I may cry, but I will not be lost. I will try to trust that you are where you belong.”

- Yumi Tomsha (via etiquette-etc)

"White people who claim to be ‘color-blind’ only reinforce racism and white privilege by refusing to..."

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 05:09:26 +0200

“White people who claim to be ‘color-blind’ only reinforce racism and white privilege by refusing to acknowledge how the system benefits them while discriminating and oppressing against racial minorities. It’s easy to disregard the racial construct of whiteness when you yourself are white and able to pretend like we live in a ‘post-racial’ society. Racism is still a prevalent issue, so what good is suppose to come by marginalizing it for your comfort? Think about about white folks. It’s far more beneficial for the racially oppressed if you’re aware of racial inequality than blind to it.”

- (via anarcho-queer)

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Mon, 08 Apr 2013 05:43:33 +0200

"Feminists fight against oppression of women, but that can’t be all we’re fighting against. If we’re..."

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 05:08:47 +0200

“Feminists fight against oppression of women, but that can’t be all we’re fighting against. If we’re truly fighting against the oppression of all women (as we should be), we are also fighting against the oppression of all people. Why? Because many women aren’t white, so we have to fight against racism in order to fight for them. Because many women are disabled, so we have to fight against ableism in order to fight for them. Because many women are poor, queer, trans*, or fat, and in order to fight for them, we have to fight against all of their oppressions (and by extension, as said oppressions apply to everyone, including men and people outside the gender binary, of course). When people say they aren’t feminists because they believe in equality for everyone, I just figure they have a different definition of feminism than I do. By my definition, a real feminist has to fight for equality for everyone.”

- Fabulously Fat Fridays: Fat & Feminism, or Why Intersectionality Matters

(via loveyourrebellion)

"I want to live in a world where little girls are not pinkified, but where little girls who like pink..."

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 04:05:13 +0200

“I want to live in a world where little girls are not pinkified, but where little girls who like pink are not punished for it, either. We can certainly talk about the social pressures surrounding gender roles, and the concerns that people have when they see girls and young women who appear to be forced into performances of femininity by the society around them, but let’s stop acting like they have no agency and free will. Let’s stop acting like women who choose to be feminine are somehow colluders, betraying the movement, bamboozled into thinking that they want to be feminine. Let’s stop denying women their own autonomy by telling them that their expressions of femininity are bad and wrong.

Antifemininity is misogynist. What you are saying when you engage in this type of rhetoric is that you think things traditionally associated with women are wrong. Which is misogynist. By telling feminine women that they don’t belong in the feminist movement, you are reinforcing the idea that to be feminine and a woman is wrong, that women who want to be taken seriously need to be more masculine, because most people view gender presentation in binary ways. This rewards the ‘one of the boys’ type rhetoric I encounter all over the place from self-avowed feminists who seem to think that bashing on women is a good way to prove how serious they are when it comes to caring about women and bringing men into the feminist movement.”

- Get Your Anti-Femininity Out Of My Feminism by s.e. smith (via nerdiestofbears)

"When Audre Lorde made that much quoted yet often misunderstood cautionary statement warning us that..."

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 03:58:05 +0200

“When Audre Lorde made that much quoted yet often misunderstood cautionary statement warning us that “the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house,” she was urging us to remember that we must engage in a process of visionary thinking that transcends the ways of knowing privileged by the oppressive powerful if we are to truly make revolutionary change. She was, in the deep structure of this statement, reminding us that it is easy for women and any exploited or oppressed group to become complicit in structures of domination, using power in ways that reinforce rather than challenge or change.”

- bell hooks in essay “feminist theory: a radical agenda” (via daniellemertina)

curious-georgee: maranda elizabeth

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 02:58:07 +0200

curious-georgee:

maranda elizabeth

fuckyeahfeminists: redefiningbodyimage: Just another example...

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 02:47:55 +0200

fuckyeahfeminists:

redefiningbodyimage:

Just another example of how beauty standards and body hate are (and always have been) fabricated.

damn. and now there are products companies making millions off it when it is proven NOTHING “cures” it.

"19% of prime time television characters are non-human while only 17% are women"

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 02:36:21 +0200

““19% of prime time television characters are non-human while only 17% are women””

- A Profile of Americans’ Media Use and Political Socialization Effects: television and the Internet’s relationship to social connectedness in the USA ― Daniel German & Caitlin Lally

There are more “non-humans” on TV than women. Talk about unequal gender representation in the media.

(via yourlittle-bird)

I’m going to reblog this twice in a row to make sure everyone sees it. Women are valued less than non-humans.

THAT IS SOME FUCKING BULLSHIT

(via callingoutbigotry)

"In the modern world, the menstrual taboo mostly takes the form of a certain silence around the..."

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 02:34:37 +0200

“In the modern world, the menstrual taboo mostly takes the form of a certain silence around the subject. Many girls are taught not to discuss their period with boys, or even their fathers. Ads for sanitary products still feature a mysterious blue fluid to show absorbency, and the word vagina can be used in sitcoms, but not tampon ads. Buying menstrual products is seen as excruciatingly embarrassing. And one study showed that a woman just visibly carrying tampons was held in lower esteem than a woman with no tampons on her person.”

- Adventures in Menstruation: Time to Dump Those Silly Taboos

(via loveyourrebellion)

My Name’s Not Baby

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 02:34:31 +0200

My Name’s Not Baby

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Wed, 03 Apr 2013 07:13:42 +0200