February 2011
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“When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding...”
– Sandi Toksvig
(Sandi Toksvig is the one who pointed out to me that the Bayeaux Tapestry was made by women. She is incredibly awesome.)
(via ladiesmakingcomics, learninglog)
Sandi Toksvig is one of my favourite guest panelists on Q.I. She absolutely is awesome. (I just watched the ‘History’...
January 2011
Sexism within the football/soccer industry →
Submitted by paper-lace:
A campaign to remind people that sexworkers are...
Submitted by swallowedwhole:
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Front/1224098.html
Submitted by fuckyeahcarmen:
http://www.youtube.com/user/girleffect
and also girleffect.org
everyone should see this!!
Sister- stand up!
Submitted by marcharsealasmontanas:
http://www.myspace.com/56492024/music/songs/41456107
Sister-stand up!- Lena Malmborg
This awesome song gives me strength to keep fighting for my ideas and rights when I have trouble finding it. I hope it helps you guys too!
Oh.
Submitted by resident-frankenstein:
adventures in discrimination.
Submitted by bootyxparlour:
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this is me, folks. (formerly theagentvagina, under the new handle, booty parlour.)
well, this story is kind of old, and pretty short but it’s still worth telling. a semester or two ago, in my sociology class, my sociology professor told us to come next class period with a story of a time we experienced racism. well, being that i don’t go out very...
xicana grrrl: Multiply-feminine →
xicanagrrrl:
new identification. Because I’ve got multiple approaches to femininity, because I feel that I act out of a place of femininities more than of Womanhood, because the multiple means that I take masks off at least to switch but also to breathe. Because multiply-feminine allows me to see the many…
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Sex Worker's Rapist Charged with "Theft of... →
loveyourrebellion:
katstories:
Remember this? Most people don’t. In 2007 in Philadelphia, a prostitute was gang raped at gunpoint and the judge dismissed the case, calling it “theft of services.”
Disgusting.
“We’re not attacking women who fit the standard, we’re attacking the fact that...”
– chauvinistsushi (via mangouste)
I’m totally going to reblog this because this definitely was a reader submission to my blog.
Also, it’s still, super relevant.
(via newwavefeminism)
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Never cook your cabbages twice:*: African... →
cmirir:
For the better part - most Africans have two weddings. The traditional one in all its glory and then the ‘civil’ wedding - also in all its glory.
Over the past two weeks, I’ve really been thinking about these marriages and what is happening in them - in this generation of mine and the older…
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“Being born a woman is an awful tragedy… Yes, my consuming desire to mingle with...”
– Sylvia Plath (via bibliofeminista)
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“Civil rights are important but not the whole story of freedom”
– Angela Davis (guess who is less than 40 feet away from her!)
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"Women not Objects"
Submitted by hhartzenberg:
This is both heartening and disheartening in equal measure.
From BBC news, http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/leicester/hi/people_and_places/newsid_9357000/9357750.stm :
” Leicester girls fined for defacing lap dancing poster“We said what we felt, but now we’re paying the price for it” - said Dee
Two teenage girls from Leicester have been fined...
How to Talk To an Anti-Feminist →
Submitted by rockerrepro:
8 sexist TV Ads →
Submitted by emilysavill:
Nina Moon just
shook hands with Yellow Rage. My life is complete.
frombelowfromabove asked: →
Hello, I’m wondering, what do you think of this. http://feministing.com/2011/01/08/the-feministing-five-tristan-taormino/ I already know some of her work as an advocate of open relationships. As I see now, she also writes for NYT, but also Cosmo, Playboy, Glamour, Men’s Health and stuff. I don’t know if it’s just me, but I am becoming more and more allergic to people that...
“The law discriminates against rape victims in a manner which would not be...”
– (via blackenedbutterfly)
“No way around it — female soldiers deal with issues men don’t even think about....”
– SERGEANT STEPHANIE JAMES
This is really, really a story worth reading. Please click on the link and read the full story:
I rarely hear the stories of female veterans (a very, very new phenomenon in our society), but “since 2002, 165,000 female U.S. soldiers have served in the Middle East.”
...
Submitted by anysignsoflife:
When I’m walking down the street, or in a pub, or just plain minding my own business in any public place, there are a few things people should realise:
I am not your baby.
I am not your sexy momma.
I do not want to be groped by you.
No, I am not a slut, or a bitch, just because you are threatened by me, or I reject you.
Yes, I am a young woman, but no, I am not there for your amusement, or...
Submitted by sammielynne:
http://www.neatoshop.com/product/Femin-Its-Sticky-Notes
Wanted to share this with you :P
Submitted by dearest-forsaken:
“All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But…I can ride and wield blade, and I do not fear either pain or death.”
—The Two Towers, J.R.R. Tolkien
