October 2011
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September 2011
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What to Wear to a SlutWalk →
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With great passion comes deep ambivalence:... →
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Happy Ninth Anniversary, College Republican Stunt!... →
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“I’ve always understood the word “slut” to mean a woman who freely enjoys her own...”
– Alice Walker on Slut Walk (source)
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“Out of curiosity we visited with the RDACBX team after a meeting and the result wasn’t the greatest. Besides being stared at and looked at as if we were invading their space, the predominantly young, white and liberal Occupiers sent over one of the few African American men over to talk to us. When we asked them why they didn’t approach us themselves and build with us, they replied that “they...
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“Recruiting more “full-pay” students — those who don’t need financial aid — is...”
– Inside Higher Ed
So, tell me again about affirmative actions & all those unqualified black & brown people stealing spots from more qualified white male students. Go on, let’s hear it. Or can we finally admit that shit was never ever true?
(via karnythia)
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“Feminism is not about being equal to men [all men are not equal. A black man...”
– crunk feminist collective (via southerntellect)
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I'm holding a racial reality bakesale.
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dumbthingswhitepplsay:
sourcedumal:
anedumacation:
tsg2011:
Native American people are holding cupcakes in a room.
White people enter the room, and each get to take a cupcake from a Native person. Then, they kill the Native Americans, and corral the remaining empty-handed Native Americans into a corner.
Then, they go into another room and force black people into the...
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“White supremacist ideology is based first and foremost on the degradation of...”
– Dr. Cornel West (@CornelWest)
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Kyriarchy & Privilege 101: List of privileges... →
privilege101:
white - privilege checklist
male - privilege checklist
cis - privilege checklist
masculine
heterosexual - privilege checklist
sexual - tumblog creating a privilege checklist
monosexual
binary gender - privilege checklist (imperfect)
non-intersex
temporarily able bodied - privilege checklist
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Stop Stalling, Start Creating →
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“Well of course this is a war on birth control and abortions and everything,...”
– GOP Rep. Wayne Christian when asked about his support for abortion restriction and regulations, and whether they’re “a war on birth control.”
via Feministing’s Texas GOP rep says it straight: “Of course this is a war on birth control”
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What Every Woman Should Know →
In the United States a massive legislative campaign against abortion rights is taking its toll on a woman’s right to choose. ‘What Every Woman Should Know’ is a report by Susie Cagle on the war that’s being waged against women’s health in the United States.
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Isn't He Lovely: Five Signs of Masculinity in... →
LAWL
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“There’s a huge difference between harassing a woman and trying to start a...”
– Catcalling Is a Problem: How to Talk to a Woman Without Being Rude, Creepy or Scary (via petitefeministe)
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Watchthe cutest thing you’ll see today
kingkristi:
itsstaceface:
soo cute. and when they do the cat daddy, AWW !
I can’t even right now…
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“The reason racism is a feminist issue is easily explained by the inherent...”
– Barbara Smith, 1979 (via regazzadilupo)
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Where Does the Racialized Pro-Life Movement Stand... →
…I’d like to know where the racialized anti-abortion movement is now.
Where is Life Dynamics, the group behind blackgenocide.com? Where do they stand on legal lynching?
Where is Radiance Foundation co-founder Ryan Bomberger? His group recently erected billboards across Sacramento that say “Fatherhood begins in the womb” and show a black man kissing the stomach of a black woman who...
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Lynching Remixed: The Execution of Troy Davis -... →
…We cannot understand the killing Davis outside of a long history of lynching Black men (and women and children) for crimes that they didn’t commit and often, when no crimes were even alleged. Lynchings were frequently committed just for sport, while white families brought their children along and hosted picnics as happy spectators. These days conservative (white) Americans fancy...
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On the Executions of Troy Davis and Lawrence... →
….The fact that the Brewer and Davis executions happened to occur on the same day should not distract from the fact that Brewer’s execution actually represents an extremely rare concurrence of events, whereas Davis’ does not. The odds against a white person being put to death for killing a black person are staggeringly high. According to the ACLU:
While white victims account...
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So let's just recap this year in American justice...
uprightcitizens:
Straight white woman guilty of murdering her own child: acquitted.
Straight, wealthy white man guilty of raping a working-class woman of color: case dismissed.
Innocent black man: death by lethal injection.
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I know I can fight rape culture by...
(via Feministe)
I know I can fight rape culture by ….
* speaking up when I see it
* asserting myself vocally and confidently when I feel uncomfortable or violated
* watching what is happening around me even when I have no idea who or what I am seeing
* practicing enthusiastic consent with all my partners in an effort to spread the love, and always expecting more/better from humanity in...
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“I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like...”
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer (via loveyourchaos)
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A Message To Women From A Man: You Are Not “Crazy”... →
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Mad Men, and the new crop of retro sexist TV shows... →
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“When you cut facilities, slash jobs, abuse power, discriminate, drive people...”
– Martin Luther King (via anticapitalist)
still relevant
(via stfuhypocrisy)
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stfuhypocrisy:
“The Virginia Board of Health passed the most severe abortion clinic regulations in the nation on Thursday, which health advocates say could effectively close down all 22 abortion providers in the state. The regulations, commissioned by the state legislature and written by the Virginia Department of Health, are largely unrelated to patient health and safety. They would treat...
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