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nevver: God save the Queen

nevver:

God save the Queen

2 days ago  2,145 notes View high resolution

the claim that sex workers “sell our bodies” is not only logically absurd (i was a prostitute for years, but my body is still right here with me), but totally sexist because it is based on the notion that a woman’s sexuality is her entire worth. the belief behind this expression is that since a woman has nothing of value to offer except her sexuality, if she “sells” that she has “sold herself” and there is nothing left. the fact that anti-sex worker activists use this expression so often says a lot about them.
– Maggie McNeal Commenting on Chicago Tribune article (via frankengrrl)

(Source: thefumoblu, via frankengrrl)

4 days ago  4,049 notes

fuckyeahfemmes: I got A LOT of comments on my “You are Nothing Without Feminist Art” tote bag in Wisconsin today…

fuckyeahfemmes:

I got A LOT of comments on my “You are Nothing Without Feminist Art” tote bag in Wisconsin today…

(via girlsmakebetterrainbows)

1 week ago  58 notes

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slutTALK: The (Un)Conference


In an open, participant-driven conference, we will facilitate panels, discussions and workshops on rape culture, victim-blaming and sexual stigma, and the term “slut”. We will invite discussion surrounding the SlutWalk name and whether it should be changed. Speakers will include representatives from Women Against Violence Against Women, the BC Coalition of People with Disabilities, and the F Word Media Collective.
Saturday, May 26, 2012
1:00pm – 4:00pm | WISE Hall | 1882 Adanac Street
Admission by donation.
How does an “unconference” work?:
An unconference is a participant-driven conference where audience members decide the agenda. Speakers from various organizations will be invited to post their panel topics on a board, and audience members will be invited to do the same. Proposed topics can be prepared in advance, but topics may also be formed on the spot. The audience gets to rearrange the agenda however they want, which means they will get to hear about the topics that most interest them – and they may share their own expertise if they wish.

2 weeks ago 

dirtygirlsdirtylives:

Beastie Boys - “Sure Shot”

RIP MCA.
MCA: “I want to say a little something that’s long overdue/ The disrespect To women has got to be through/ To all the mothers and sisters and the wives and friends/ I want to offer my love and respect to the end”

4 weeks ago  6 notes

We were discussing homosexuality because of an allusion to it in the book we were reading, and several boys made comments such as, “That’s disgusting.” We got into the debate and eventually a boy admitted that he was terrified/disgusted when he was once sharing a taxi and the other male passenger made a pass at him.The lightbulb went off. “Oh,” I said. “I get it. See, you are afraid, because for the first time in your life you have found yourself a victim of unwanted sexual advances by someone who has the physical ability to use force against you.” The boy nodded and shuddered visibly.“But,” I continued. “As a woman, you learn to live with that from the time you are fourteen, and it never stops. We live with that fear every day of our lives. Every man walking through the parking garage the same time you are is either just a harmless stranger or a potential rapist. Every time.” The girls in the room nodded, agreeing. The boys seemed genuinely shocked. “So think about that the next time you hit on a girl. Maybe, like you in the taxi, she doesn’t actually want you to.
–

Homophobia: The fear that another man will treat you like you treat women.

(Source: andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com, via sloppyvirginloser)

1 month ago  54,211 notes

kindymaling:

no sorry santorum you have to carry your dead presidential campaign to full term

(via squeats)

1 month ago  13,334 notes

rookiemag: Ashley Judd, on The Daily Beast:  Patriarchy is not men. Patriarchy is a system in which both women and men participate. It privileges, inter alia, the interests of boys and men over the bodily integrity, autonomy, and dignity of girls and women. It is subtle, insidious, and never more dangerous than when women passionately deny that they themselves are engaging in it. This abnormal obsession with women’s faces and bodies has become so normal that we (I include myself at times—I absolutely fall for it still) have internalized patriarchy almost seamlessly. We are unable at times to identify ourselves as our own denigrating abusers, or as abusing other girls and women. <3 Anaheed

rookiemag:

Ashley Judd, on The Daily Beast: 

Patriarchy is not men. Patriarchy is a system in which both women and men participate. It privileges, inter alia, the interests of boys and men over the bodily integrity, autonomy, and dignity of girls and women. It is subtle, insidious, and never more dangerous than when women passionately deny that they themselves are engaging in it. This abnormal obsession with women’s faces and bodies has become so normal that we (I include myself at times—I absolutely fall for it still) have internalized patriarchy almost seamlessly. We are unable at times to identify ourselves as our own denigrating abusers, or as abusing other girls and women.

<3 Anaheed

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tsarevich: Au Café (1922), Maurice Branger okay maybe i am just the last one to find out about this, but i have seen this photo EVERYWHERE for basically my entire life, sold on mugs and trays and posters and shit, but i never knew that the women in this photo were solita solano and djuna barnes aka lesbian modernist authors?? idk it just gives me great joy to think of this image inevitably being part of the paraphernalia collections of a lot of those people who bemoan women’s lack of ~class~ these days UNLIKE IN OLDEN TIMES OF COURSE WHEN LADIES WERE LADIES and didn’t go around doing things like writing books full of gay oops

tsarevich:

Au Café (1922), Maurice Branger

okay maybe i am just the last one to find out about this, but i have seen this photo EVERYWHERE for basically my entire life, sold on mugs and trays and posters and shit, but i never knew that the women in this photo were solita solano and djuna barnes aka lesbian modernist authors??

idk it just gives me great joy to think of this image inevitably being part of the paraphernalia collections of a lot of those people who bemoan women’s lack of ~class~ these days UNLIKE IN OLDEN TIMES OF COURSE WHEN LADIES WERE LADIES and didn’t go around doing things like writing books full of gay

oops

(via garconniere)

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nevver: God save the Queen

nevver:

God save the Queen

the claim that sex workers “sell our bodies” is not only logically absurd (i was a prostitute for years, but my body is still right here with me), but totally sexist because it is based on the notion that a woman’s sexuality is her entire worth. the belief behind this expression is that since a woman has nothing of value to offer except her sexuality, if she “sells” that she has “sold herself” and there is nothing left. the fact that anti-sex worker activists use this expression so often says a lot about them.
– Maggie McNeal Commenting on Chicago Tribune article (via frankengrrl)

(Source: thefumoblu, via frankengrrl)

fuckyeahfemmes: I got A LOT of comments on my “You are Nothing Without Feminist Art” tote bag in Wisconsin today…

fuckyeahfemmes:

I got A LOT of comments on my “You are Nothing Without Feminist Art” tote bag in Wisconsin today…

(via girlsmakebetterrainbows)

(Source: maleficus-juicy, via girlsmakebetterrainbows)

slutTALK: The (Un)Conference


In an open, participant-driven conference, we will facilitate panels, discussions and workshops on rape culture, victim-blaming and sexual stigma, and the term “slut”. We will invite discussion surrounding the SlutWalk name and whether it should be changed. Speakers will include representatives from Women Against Violence Against Women, the BC Coalition of People with Disabilities, and the F Word Media Collective.
Saturday, May 26, 2012
1:00pm – 4:00pm | WISE Hall | 1882 Adanac Street
Admission by donation.
How does an “unconference” work?:
An unconference is a participant-driven conference where audience members decide the agenda. Speakers from various organizations will be invited to post their panel topics on a board, and audience members will be invited to do the same. Proposed topics can be prepared in advance, but topics may also be formed on the spot. The audience gets to rearrange the agenda however they want, which means they will get to hear about the topics that most interest them – and they may share their own expertise if they wish.

dirtygirlsdirtylives:

Beastie Boys - “Sure Shot”

RIP MCA.
MCA: “I want to say a little something that’s long overdue/ The disrespect To women has got to be through/ To all the mothers and sisters and the wives and friends/ I want to offer my love and respect to the end”

We were discussing homosexuality because of an allusion to it in the book we were reading, and several boys made comments such as, “That’s disgusting.” We got into the debate and eventually a boy admitted that he was terrified/disgusted when he was once sharing a taxi and the other male passenger made a pass at him.The lightbulb went off. “Oh,” I said. “I get it. See, you are afraid, because for the first time in your life you have found yourself a victim of unwanted sexual advances by someone who has the physical ability to use force against you.” The boy nodded and shuddered visibly.“But,” I continued. “As a woman, you learn to live with that from the time you are fourteen, and it never stops. We live with that fear every day of our lives. Every man walking through the parking garage the same time you are is either just a harmless stranger or a potential rapist. Every time.” The girls in the room nodded, agreeing. The boys seemed genuinely shocked. “So think about that the next time you hit on a girl. Maybe, like you in the taxi, she doesn’t actually want you to.
–

Homophobia: The fear that another man will treat you like you treat women.

(Source: andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com, via sloppyvirginloser)

kindymaling:

no sorry santorum you have to carry your dead presidential campaign to full term

(via squeats)

rookiemag: Ashley Judd, on The Daily Beast:  Patriarchy is not men. Patriarchy is a system in which both women and men participate. It privileges, inter alia, the interests of boys and men over the bodily integrity, autonomy, and dignity of girls and women. It is subtle, insidious, and never more dangerous than when women passionately deny that they themselves are engaging in it. This abnormal obsession with women’s faces and bodies has become so normal that we (I include myself at times—I absolutely fall for it still) have internalized patriarchy almost seamlessly. We are unable at times to identify ourselves as our own denigrating abusers, or as abusing other girls and women. &lt;3 Anaheed

rookiemag:

Ashley Judd, on The Daily Beast: 

Patriarchy is not men. Patriarchy is a system in which both women and men participate. It privileges, inter alia, the interests of boys and men over the bodily integrity, autonomy, and dignity of girls and women. It is subtle, insidious, and never more dangerous than when women passionately deny that they themselves are engaging in it. This abnormal obsession with women’s faces and bodies has become so normal that we (I include myself at times—I absolutely fall for it still) have internalized patriarchy almost seamlessly. We are unable at times to identify ourselves as our own denigrating abusers, or as abusing other girls and women.

<3 Anaheed

tsarevich: Au Café (1922), Maurice Branger okay maybe i am just the last one to find out about this, but i have seen this photo EVERYWHERE for basically my entire life, sold on mugs and trays and posters and shit, but i never knew that the women in this photo were solita solano and djuna barnes aka lesbian modernist authors?? idk it just gives me great joy to think of this image inevitably being part of the paraphernalia collections of a lot of those people who bemoan women’s lack of ~class~ these days UNLIKE IN OLDEN TIMES OF COURSE WHEN LADIES WERE LADIES and didn’t go around doing things like writing books full of gay oops

tsarevich:

Au Café (1922), Maurice Branger

okay maybe i am just the last one to find out about this, but i have seen this photo EVERYWHERE for basically my entire life, sold on mugs and trays and posters and shit, but i never knew that the women in this photo were solita solano and djuna barnes aka lesbian modernist authors??

idk it just gives me great joy to think of this image inevitably being part of the paraphernalia collections of a lot of those people who bemoan women’s lack of ~class~ these days UNLIKE IN OLDEN TIMES OF COURSE WHEN LADIES WERE LADIES and didn’t go around doing things like writing books full of gay

oops

(via garconniere)

"the claim that sex workers “sell our bodies” is not only logically absurd (i was a prostitute for years, but my body is still right here with me), but totally sexist because it is based on the notion that a woman’s sexuality is her entire worth. the belief behind this expression is that since a woman has nothing of value to offer except her sexuality, if she “sells” that she has “sold herself” and there is nothing left. the fact that anti-sex worker activists use this expression so often says a lot about them."
slutTALK: The (Un)Conference
"We were discussing homosexuality because of an allusion to it in the book we were reading, and several boys made comments such as, “That’s disgusting.” We got into the debate and eventually a boy admitted that he was terrified/disgusted when he was once sharing a taxi and the other male passenger made a pass at him.The lightbulb went off. “Oh,” I said. “I get it. See, you are afraid, because for the first time in your life you have found yourself a victim of unwanted sexual advances by someone who has the physical ability to use force against you.” The boy nodded and shuddered visibly.“But,” I continued. “As a woman, you learn to live with that from the time you are fourteen, and it never stops. We live with that fear every day of our lives. Every man walking through the parking garage the same time you are is either just a harmless stranger or a potential rapist. Every time.” The girls in the room nodded, agreeing. The boys seemed genuinely shocked. “So think about that the next time you hit on a girl. Maybe, like you in the taxi, she doesn’t actually want you to."

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