February 2012
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“Your legs are a melody my hands would like to play and your hips are a note that...”
– The Cat Empire - The Rhythm
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"International Anti-Street Harassment Week: 10...
TRIGGER WARNING [sexual assault, harassment, victim blaming]
I’ve dealt with cat calls, sexist comments, public masturbation, and stalking — and in every single one of these instances it was about power and it was gender-based. It needs to stop. The more people that stand up and acknowledge this is a problem, the more male allies there are, the more likely it becomes that these things...
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"A Few Good Reasons Why White People Should Not...
I was reading up on dreads the other day. Read this today. Never even thought about this way before. Deconstructing/(un)learning privilege is an ongoing process.
2 pages. Read it.
http://zinelibrary.info/files/dreads.pdf
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TRIGGER WARNING: Sexual assault, rape culture,...
Re: Fourth sexual assault reported at Carleton University between October 30, 2011 and Feb 16, 2012.
“ghost-plot: That’s horrible. What is the school doing about it?” The Coalition for a Carleton Sexual Assault Support Centre has been campaigning for such a centre on campus since the fall of 2007 after a high profile (read: violent) sexual assault took place in a lab at Carleton...
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Trigger Warning: Sexual Assault
It’s February 16th, 2012. A fourth sexual assault has been reported at my school (Carleton University) since October 30, 2011. That’s four sexual assaults over the course of less than four months reported on campus. The vast underreporting of instances of assault — particularly sexual assault — means there are likely many, many more that have gone unreported. One is one...
“Gender essentialism is the assumption that women are naturally like this, while...”
– Jennifer Kesler, Why there will be no more gender essentialist comments allowed on this site (via wewantrevolutiongirlstylenow)
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An Ex-Marine Explains Why Military Women Shouldn’t...
TRIGGER WARNING “When a crime is committed, let us not continue to live in the Dark Ages where we blame the victim for the crime of the perpetrator. It is this long-outdated attitude which has allowed rape and sexual assault to run rampant in our armed forces for far too long, and it is only by extinguishing these misconceptions that we can hope to bring an end to this epidemic.” Make...
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Valentine's day: A celebration of love or a...
“I get that some of these articles and ads are supposed to be lighthearted. I get that some of it is supposed to be just funny. But they’re not. They’re a perpetuation of stereotypes from another decade and I’m just sick and tired of advice that assumes all women and all men want the same things.”
Article: Sexism, Stereotypes Fill Valentine’s Day: Are Americans Stuck in a...
Happy Feed Capitalism Day!
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The Immediate Need For Emotional Justice (Yolo...
“Emotional justice is about working with this wounding. It is about inviting us into our feelings and our bodies, and finding ways to transform our collective and individual pains into power. Emotional justice requires that we find the feeling behind the theories. It calls on us to not just speak to why something is problematic, but to speak to the emotional texture of how it impact us;...
Brown Grrlz Project: Let’s Get “Real”: Transwomyn... →
thebrownggrrlzproject:
“Womyn[1] born womyn”, “Biological womyn”, “REAL womyn”. Other than being hurtful ways to discredit the innate womynhood of me and my transgender sisters- I’ve questioned the use of these terms for as long as I can remember. Yet and still, I often find myself having to face these…
Please read this.
morewaterdeeperbreaths asked: Sorry to bother your inbox with a favor, but I'm trying to raise money for VDAY: A global movement to end violence against women and girls. I'm doing this by donating 50% of the proceeds of every February purchase of my photography from my Etsy shop (TakeDeeperBreaths on Etsy). I've just posted the link on my Tumblr, and looking for friendly feminists who might visit my Tumblr to...
End Violence Against Women and Girls! →
morewaterdeeperbreaths:
I just added a few new photos to my Etsy shop (can be accessed by clicking the link above). Just wanted to put it out there again that I am donating 50% of every purchase made in February to VDAY: A global movement to end violence against women and girls (www.vday.org). I would really appreciate if you could reblog this post. I’d really like to raise some money for such...
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Except I'm not sorry...
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Why Are (Some) Men Still Afraid of Feminism?
A friend of mine has been asking for more resources on this blog that address men’s experiences in relation to feminism. Michael Kaufman, Ph.D., is a writer and speaker who engages men and boys in promoting gender equality. He is the co-founder of the White Ribbon Campaign, a campaign which seeks to engage men in ending violence against women. His blog post “Why Are (Some) Men Still...
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