February 2012
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Telling you about your thin privilege ≠ being...
shakethecobwebs:
If that’s honestly your first response for being called out for thin-privilege denial, you’re only furthering the point. “Thin” is not synonymous with “beautiful” and no matter how shitty it is to be told to “eat a sandwich,” it is still not the same as “go die you fat fuck.” Body-shaming is always wrong, but “you’re too skinny!” can’t even compare with the systemic and...
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I was sitting in class today
awildvuvuzelaappeared:
and realized that instead of talking about what should happen to a woman who gets pregnant from a rape, politicians should be talking about preventing rape all together, and then i wondered why none of the politicians have thought about it that way.
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“And yet a woman’s weight is seen by American culture as an outward manifestation...”
– Everybody, Every Body: the Media’s Erasure of Fat Girls
this is a really articulate way of describing why despite being a cisgendered woman with 100% cisgender privilege, I still have extreme issues with seeing myself as a woman.
(via ladiebear)
kaye wrote this and kaye is really amazing and...
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“I recall my grandmother and father telling me, when I was about 10, about a...”
– Jamia Wilson, “Black Herstory: ‘The Trial of the Decade,’” Ms. Magazine blog, 2/21/12 (via racialicious)
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“I love animation because in the world of animation, you can be anything you...”
– CHRIS ROCK, introducing the Best Animated Film Oscar. (via inothernews)
The fact that a fat woman being a princess is so unbelievable to the Academy says a lot. Also, this quote is right on point.
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ACTUALLY JUST SCREAMED
khaleesi:
I FUCKING LOVE YOU OCTAVIA SPENCER
FUCK YEAH A WOMAN OF SIZE AND COLOR JUST WON
FUCK YEAH SHE DID
FUCK YEAH SHE’S AMAZING
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CALL FOR ZINE SUBMISSIONS!
rosietheriotgrrrl:
I’m looking to put together a zine about self-love and body positivity. I’m looking for submissions of any kind: personal stories, poetry, fiction writing, art, photography, anything!
If you’re interested in submitting or would like more information, drop a line in my ask or reply to this post! I’m super excited to get started working on this! Let’s make a beautiful,...
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healthysexyhappy:
My body is amazing. It may not look like the girls in the magazines, but that doesn’t matter to me anymore. My legs let me travel and explore the world I live in. My core keeps me stable and steady in this roller coaster of a world. My arms lead my hands to touch, feel, and experience my life. I can run. I can dance. I can do yoga. I can lift. I can swim. I can smile. I can...
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Anonymous asked: Can someone be pro-life and a feminist?
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“Now because the majority of abortions are performed in the first trimester, if...”
– JON STEWART, on Virginia’s inhumane, inhuman and shameful “personhood” law that requires women wanting to get an abortion to, in essence, be subject to rape, on The Daily Show (via inothernews)
I am cringing.
(via mangocupcakes)
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“A recent article from the Los Angeles Times shocked no one when it revealed that...”
– Oscar is an Old White Man: What Does that Mean for Women in Hollywood? (via sparkamovement)
Yeah, I look super fat in that last picture. I GET...
tangledupinlace:
I’ve got to play a raucous game of Banagrams and eat some ice cream, so I’ll make this short.
Those intense feelings of anger and upset you feel when you think about how visible my fat body is in that outfit picture, are not, and will never be about, your concern about my quality of life or my ability to suck the world dry of resources in order to sustain this offensive...
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Public Statement: “We Are the 44%” Coalition... →
sparkamovement:
TW for sexual assault
Last week popular hip-hop magazine XXL posted a video on its website (XXL.com) from Too $hort, a 45-year old rapper who came to prominence in the late 80’s for his raunchy lyrics and videos. In what was called his “fatherly advice” video, the rapper instructed 12, 13, and 14-year-old boys on how to “turn out” their female classmates. In a transcript from...
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Miss Piggy On Beauty
iamabutchsolo:
lizziegoneastray:
homeisaheartbeat:
What are your top beauty tips?
Start out perfect and don’t change a thing. Always accentuate your best features by pointing at them. And conceal your flaws by sucker punching anyone who has the audacity to mention them.
Perfect quote is perfect.
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“And yet a woman’s weight is seen by American culture as an outward manifestation...”
– Everybody, Every Body: the Media’s Erasure of Fat Girls (via sparkamovement)
You’ve seen this post before, I think - only now it’s up on SPARK! Yay!
(You’ll note the original entry now links to SPARK, as it should).
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“I’d like to raise both of my middle fingers to him and anyone who thinks...”
– M.I.A. (via transformfeminism)
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This just in:
sparkamovement:
Oscar voters are 94% white and 77% male.
File under: “stuff we totally already knew but it’s so depressing to have confirmation,” “no wonder War Horse got a best picture nod.”
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“I’m a wild girl…I paw at the ground and run under the moon. I like the feel of...”
– Libba Bray, Beauty Queens (via listentoabook)
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“Male privilege has been with us for — how long? Ten thousand years? A hundred...”
– Sara Robinson, on “Why Patriarchal Men Are Utterly Petrified of Birth Control — And Why We’ll Still Be Fighting About it 100 Years From Now” — Everyone should read this article. (via sadsister)
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NYPD Monitored Muslim Students All Over Northeast →
NEW YORK — The New York Police Department monitored Muslim college students far more broadly than previously known, at schools far beyond the city limits, including the Ivy League colleges of Yale and the University of Pennsylvania, The Associated Press has learned.
Police talked with local authorities about professors 300 miles away in Buffalo and even sent an undercover agent on a...
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"If" Black Women Were White Women
notesonascandal:
soydulcedeleche:
August 23, 2009 In “If Men Could Menstruate,” Gloria Steinem makes the persuasive argument that “Whatever a ‘superior’ group has will be used to justify its superiority, and whatever an ‘inferior’ group has will be used to justify its plight.” For too long the definition of racism has been a fight between white and black manhood or “who’s the bigger...
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[Trigger Warning for eating disorders, diet talk]
sexxxisbeautiful:
pompadoursandpincurls:
[Trigger Warning for eating disorders, diet talk] Yes, “I just love cheese” is a perfectly acceptable reason not to be vegan.
rabbitfeminist:
radicallane:
violetroots:
womenwithspunkandexplosives:unknowablewoman
Alright, [white] Tumblr vegans. Since I’m unable to physically smack y’all upside your nasty dreaded heads, you get this rant...
“On a somewhat serious note today because of a conversation the other day:
I...”
– You Didn’t Thank Me For Punching You in the Face « Views from the Couch (via golden-notebook)
Oh my god, this… THIS. It is THIS mentality that is the beginnings of abuse culture, especially for young girls. I was told that shit when I was young. We TRAIN our girls to think that assholish...
“The first is that true gender equality is actually perceived as inequality. A...”
– Fanfic Symposium: When Worlds Collide (via bitterbuffalo)
OMG I LOVE THIS ESSAY SO MUCH. This is the thing that made me embrace slash a few years ago because before I was like “uh-oh I can’t do that it’s something GIRLS do D:” /coolstorybro
(via onetrueharem)
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Oh, just a sidenote--
Thank you so much to the people who’ve written in my inbox thanking me or saying that I’ve helped you. I am so grateful that I’ve been able to do that for you. I won’t be responding to them individually; I’m just going to keep there as nice little notes to remember. xo
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himchi asked: Scotland has had a cracking campaign as regards rape and ideas of culpability for a few years now, one commercial in particular being simple and impactful. Youtube rapecrisisscotland rape commercial. it should be entitled, Not Ever.
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Hello, people were angered by my post about how...
I appreciate you reaching out to me, even when it’s with vitriol and condescension and nastiness. It means I hit a nerve, which means what I had to say was worthwhile! However, the few of you (or maybe just one, several times) missed this part of the BFF house rules:
Jerks will be mocked mercilessly if I feel it’s amusing enough to do so. Mostly, they’ll be ignored.
Now I understand...
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Seeking Queer Women/Genderqueer People of Color!
sexxxisbeautiful:
Hello I’m Micole, and I’m beginning a research project, and hopefully also turn it into a documentary, on the sex lives of queer women/female bodied genderqueer people of color. It’s a short 10 question survey, please give as much detail as possible. It explores both race and gender in relation to queer relationships and sex lives. I seems that this particular topic is...
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“The thing is, it’s patriarchy that says men are stupid and monolithic and...”
– On claiming to be a stupid man who doesn’t know anything « Zero at the Bone (via grrlyboy)
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[TRIGGER WARNING: Misogyny, rape] Hi there.
Common misconceptions about and questions asked of misandry, misogyny, and feminism.
1. You feminists just hate men!
I have never met a woman, feminist or not, who hates men. I have met women who fear men or are uncomfortable around men, but never one who hates them. If they exist, and I have SERIOUS doubts that they do, then it’s likely they have a reason - please see question two for...
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TAKE ACTION: Send a #bc4us Valentine to Congress... →
Congress is currently gearing up to put the entire women’s preventive care package in jeopardy based on the objections of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops. On February 11th, President Obama announced that these regulations will be implemented so that every insurance company will be required to include birth control coverage without co-pay or deductible – even if religiously affiliated...
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“But then, the truth was never really the point. Thin women don’t tell their fat...”
– Kate Harding (via rhiannon-random)
another example of thin privilege, your body type doesn’t carry these negative synonyms
(via fatcatsandcurls)
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“Fat people who love themselves scare the shit out of people who don’t love...”
– Tigress Osborn (via buttahlove)
“When teachers are afraid to stand up for their students, as were Justin’s, and...”
– Dear America: You Have a Gay Problem (via kileyrae)
WORD, when nine children are dead because a school board has forbidden teachers to talk about homosexuality, you need to realize that your policy is wrong in the worst possible way.
(via name-em-shame-em)
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