Lipstick Feminists

This is a feminist blog focusing on current events, pop culture, queer and race issues, and sex. We smash patriarchy and the gender binary here.
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nasmonasmo:

“violate those laws that directly or indirectly buttress our oppression.”

Angela Davis, Political Prisoners, Prisons, and Black Liberation

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Hello ladies. You’ve really been unfairly neglected in Crash Course World History and also in world history textbooks everywhere. Like, there will be a whole chapter exploring the exploits of great men and then at the end there will be one sentence that’s like ‘Also women were doing stuff at the time and it was important, but we don’t really know what it was… So back to Alexander the Great!’ HIStory has been very good at marginalising and demeaning women and we’re going to fight against that as we move forward in the story of human civilization.

John Green, An Open Letter to the Ladies, Alexander the Great and the Situation…the Great? Crash Course (via loverwife)

People talk about sexual assault like it’s a bad habit that men have.

Jon Stewart (via pnasty)

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Schools have classes called “women’s studies,” and “African-American literature” because the standard for existence set by white men has yet to be rescinded in this age. “Normal” history is the history of a certain class of white people, from the perspective of men. All the other histories are precisely that: other.

Cunt: A Declaration of Independence. (via shakethecobwebs)

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A baffling, infuriating trend has cropped up in reviews of The Hunger Games: critics bodysnarking on Jennifer Lawrence. “A few years ago Ms. Lawrence might have looked hungry enough to play Katniss,” writes the New York Times’ Manohla Dargis, “but now, at 21, her seductive, womanly figure makes a bad fit for a dystopian fantasy about a people starved into submission.” The Hollywood Reporter’s Todd McCarthy comments that Lawrence’s “lingering baby fat shows here.” And—most bluntly—Hollywood Elsewhere’s Jeffrey Wells calls Lawrence a “fairly tall, big-boned lady” who’s “too big” for Josh Hutcherson, who plays Katniss’s romantic interest. (In case the message didn’t come through: Wells thinks Jennifer Lawrence is BIG. He also thinks we should be wary of “certain female critics” who “may be susceptible to the lore of this young-female-adult-propelled franchise.”)

Jennifer Lawrence Is Not “Too Big” to Play Katniss (via usakeh)

“if critics are going to pick on a 21-year-old woman for not being skinny enough for a fantasy film, why haven’t they been more consistent in their critiques of actors’ bodies? I haven’t seen much concern about Liam Hemsworth’s muscular frame, even though his character in The Hunger Games occupies the same food-strapped world as Katniss.” (via dupery)

God help us all if this girl is being described as “big-boned” or is being criticised for her “lingering baby fat”.

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For fuck’s sake.

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They would have found something to criticize ANYWAY. She’s the female main. Too beautiful, too ugly, too skinny, too fat, too what-have you, they would have said it, she’s a woman, her body is the most important.

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misskayvee:

“It is both humiliating and humbling to discover that a single generation after the events that constructed me as a public personality, I am remembered as a hairdo.”

—Angela Davis

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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

Maya Angelou (via xxxi-i-mcmxcii)

ETERNALLY CO-SIGNED. I’ve known brilliant insightful people who never finished college, never finished high school, and even some that can’t read/write beyond signing their name. I’ve also known people with PhDs and ivy league degrees who are airheads that are really goddamn good at jumping through hoops.

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“intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy” — YES what a great way to put it.

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ibelieveingatsby:

So much love for this goddess of a woman.

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I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.

Mary Wollstonecraft (via a-vindication)

I am proud to have participated in the ‘Read Across America’ program at Emerson Elementary School in Compton, CA. I read Dog Breath by Dav Pilkey to the sweetest 1st and 3rd grade children.

‘Read Across America’ is a program that was designed to promote literacy and instill a lifelong love of reading in elementary school students. Promoting education is an effort that is close to my heart. Illiteracy contributes to poverty; encouraging children to pick up a book is fundamental.

I believe education is a universal right. I committed to this program with the understanding that people would have their own opinions about what I have done, who I am and what I represent.

I am an actor. I am an artist. I am a daughter. I am a sister. I am a partner. I have a past that some people may not agree with, but it does not define who I am.

I will not live in fear of it. To challenge non-profit education programs is an exercise in futility, counter-productive and anti-educational.

I cannot thank my fans and ‘Read Across America’ enough for supporting my decision. Your support and kind words continue to inspire me. I believe in the future of our children, and I will remain an active supporter and participant in education-focused initiatives.

Sasha Grey [source] (via squeetothegee)

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