June 2012
::QUEER HAIRY VAGINA::: #617 →
thisiswhiteprivilege:
White privilege is being the beauty ideal pretty much everywhere for everyone and never feeling that in order to be beautiful you must poison your hair with chemicals, sew another person’s hair into your scalp, or bleach your skin. (Don’t try to compare white girls…
I love the term 'we're expecting' when talking...
Because it makes it sound like there’s more than one outcome.
Yeah, we’re expecting a baby.
But it could be a velociraptor.
Struggling To Be Heard: tranzient:... →
tranzient:
strugglingtobeheard:
deliciouskaek:
sourcedumal:
youngbadmanbrown:
Some data OKCupid has collected about race and dating
Just because I’m still on this, peep some of this data collected by OKCupid.
But you know, facts aren’t important at all, we…
::QUEER HAIRY VAGINA::: fumblingtowardshappiness:... →
fumblingtowardshappiness:
I don’t like mean girls.
I’m getting that vibe from Azealia Banks and Njenna Redd Foxx and it’s making me not like their music. “Silly Bitch”, “Ima Read”, and the end of the song “Van Vogue” all seem so toxic.
The mean girl anthem has never meant anything to me,…
I really tried to get into Njenna’s work but I just couldn’t for this very reason.
And I'm so fucking beautiful I can't stand it:... →
feministwhoniverse:
I have created this list because, whilst the occasional quote here and there containing problematic statements is easy to write off as ‘words being taken out of context’, seeing all of these quotes, articles, tweets, as well as some meta on major characters written by…
“We often talk about the “school-to-prison pipeline” for boys —but for girls, it...”
– Yasmin Vafa, “Invisible Prisoners: Why Are So Many Girls Placed in Solitary Confinement?” (via politicsoflocation)
“Imagine you’re at a party. A guy offers you a drink. You say no. He says “Come...”
– The art of “no,” continued: Saying no when you’ve already said yes. « CaptainAwkward.com
I love this post SO MUCH.
(via heavenearthandhoratio)
“Grown women are, after all, meant to have hair on their armpits, vulva and legs....”
– The Politics of Body Hair
YUSSSS
(via frrrass)
What this showcases (in a way that was probably not intentional) is that femininity isn’t a thing you are; it’s not defined as ‘like a woman’. Femininity is a thing you do. It’s a set of performed actions and behaviors that a person can take or not...
the bad dominicana: sexedhorrorstories: If you... →
sexedhorrorstories:
If you need help paying for an abortion and live in the US, the National Network of Abortion Funds can help. Clicking the link will take you to their website where you can find an abortion fund near you.
If you recently had unprotected sex and/or experienced…
“[fanfiction is] beautiful really. so many words dedicated to gay sex. cocks...”
– cassie, on fanfic (via freakingdork)
“RENAMING: Dutch colonists called the Khoi-khoi people “Hottentots” (stutterers)....”
– RACISM, HISTORY AND LIES: Some doctrines of racial supremacy as classically taught in Euro/American institutions, textbooks and media (via humanformat)
Another example of white renaming which, for some mysterious reason, leaps to my mind: “China”. White people came up with that word. You may or may...
Off On a Tangent: The Crime Reading List For Those... →
thevmonologues:
bookavore:
offonatangent:
So I’m not yet certain if Gillian Flynn’s GONE GIRL is my favorite crime novel of 2012, but it will almost certainly be up there. And so far I’d say it’s a favorite of a great many people thus far, hitting #2 on the NYT bestseller list its first week out, tons and tons of raves/ongoing reads in my…
Well, this is just fucking FANTASTIC.
Normally...
Library creates AMAZING social media campaign for... →
fuckyeahfeminists:
stfuconservatives:
A library in Troy, Michigan was at the mercy of a well-funded Tea Party campaign to oppose a .7% tax increase. So they created a Facebook page, Twitter account, Foursquare location, and other social media pages for a Book Burning Party. People took notice. Voter turnout was 342% greater than expected. The library won.
Behold the power of social media,...
erosum: Excuse me for a brief defense of... →
thepoliticalnotebook:
So you’ve all at least seen the baby-in-the-briefcase cover to accompany Anne-Marie Slaughter’s piece in this Atlantic provocatively titled “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All.” I’d like to preface my criticisms (which you all knew were coming), by saying that I…
