February 2012
58 posts
baddominicana:
CDC on racial differences in drug use:
“White high school students are seven times more likely than blacks to have used cocaine; eight times more likely to have smoked crack; ten times more likely to have used LSD and seven times more likely to have used heroin. What’s more, white youth ages 12-17 are more likely to sell drugs: 34% more likely, in fact than their black...
“Why is it accepted that some people who eat a ton of food can stay thin, but not...”
– Some Things I Don’t Understand « Dances With Fat (via sixtyforty)
“Intersectionality is not optional. It is not something you can take off and put...”
– Intersectionality Is Not Optional (via satifice)
“Intersectionality is not optional.” There should be shirts that say these. I’ll SPECIFICALLY wear them to my womens studies classes
(via newwavefeminism)
“The way for the creative community (and indeed, the entire world) to address...”
– http://www.tomandlorenzo.com/2012/02/glee-on-my-way.html (via tomandlorenzo)
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not all femmes are female...
catamite:
not all femmes are cis…
not all femmes are into butches…
not all femmes are bottoms…
not all femmes wear dresses…
not all femmes belong to you…
…but all femmes are fabulous.
reblog this if you are a fabulous femme, or you love fabulous femmes
“But that raises another question, one that may be more important than “what is...”
– Apple’s big chance to ‘act different’ on labor - The Washington Post (via pastthestorm)
BREAKING: Virginia Personhood Bill Officially Dead →
acaterpillarscheme:
fuckyeahfeminists:
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A New Policy Against Self-Harm Blogs
staff:
One of the great things about Tumblr is that people use it for just about every conceivable kind of expression. People being people, though, that means that Tumblr sometimes gets used for things that are just wrong. We are deeply committed to supporting and defending our users’ freedom of speech, but we do draw some limits. As a company, we’ve decided that some specific kinds of content...
Fuck Yeah FTMs!: Free T for USA trans guys →
zedweiller:
fuckyeahftms:
If you are an American trans guy who can’t get T because of lack money or your insurance doesn’t cover it, you may be able to get it for free directly from the pharmaceutical company that makes it.
One example is ‘Abbot’ who produce Androgel. They have a website (linked below) that is…
read on!
kelsium:
Virginia’s proposed legislation is what happens when men spend their entire lives thinking a vagina is just a hole attached to a mysterious baby-making machine and set of breasts. No, really. They “didn’t know” it would be invasive because they didn’t know that a person with a brain lives in there.
“It isn’t a president, whether his name is Ron Paul or Barack Obama who gets good...”
– Tim Wise » Of Broken Clocks, Presidential Candidates, and the Confusion of Certain White Liberals (via sociolab)
the thing about michael fassbender...
athinkinganimal:
mswyrr:
…is that he’s a domestic violence committing, female co-star intimidating asshole. You can read the details of what he did to his female partner at the link. Regarding his treatment of female costars: Keira Knightly didn’t want him spanking her during one of their scenes in a film & said so while tied up; in reply he said “Keira, you’re tied to a bed. You’re not...
SHE WEARS SHORT SKIRTS I WEAR T-SHIRTS, SHE'S A...
An open letter to the feminist movement.
ephemeralcat:
I am a FAAB, femme-presenting genderqueer person. This means that I rarely, if ever, pass as anything other than female. And since I am almost always read as female by strangers, they treat me as if I were a woman.
This means that I, too, get catcalls and wolf whistles.
I, too, cannot walk down the street by myself without someone beeping their horn or yelling out their window at...
“If you are a white woman and you want to call yourself a feminist, you must...”
– ladyatheist (via mamaatheist)
BOOM.
(via getsnarly)
Always reblog!
(via jadedfucker)
“In the US, abortion is framed as a deeply moral and highly emotional issue. In...”
– via Feministing, “A new script for talking about abortion”
(thanks to keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus for sending this to me!)
Amazing. This describes the stigma around those who get abortions SO well. My decision was not a hard one. It wasn’t gut-wrenching or emotional for me in any way.
I am...
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“I don’t want to be a feminist anymore. Like a five-year-old, I want to close my...”
– I don’t want to be a feminist anymore.
(via notafraidofruins)
Not today, but there are definitely days I feel this.
Watchcaffeinatedfeminist:
curiousgeorgiana:
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redhead-monster:
Okay, forget everything I have ever complained about or told you to do, politically. Forget if you don’t read political posts. Stop. WATCH/READ THIS RIGHT NOW.
For those of you who for some reason cannot or do not want to watch the video, allow me to summarize. Right now there is a law that has passed the Virginia...
If you live in the United States and don't have... →
fattiesinlove:
repede:
cakemeister:
Today in Useful Fucking Things That No One Tells You About: the Prescription Assistance Program (PAP) offers a discount drug card to uninsured Americans. The card is accepted at over 56,000 pharmacies nationwide, including CVS, RiteAid, Walgreens, and Safeway, and offers a discount of up to 75%.
I was fired a few years ago and was afraid I would have to...
5 tags
VA/DC Area Folks: Arlington County Mental Health...
zedweiller:
Apparently, four out of five Arlington County (Virginia) mental health clinics are closing on June 30th, this year. My professor told me in class tonight.
I think we should do something about this! Who’s with me? Reblog and tell yo’ friends so we can all start looking into this and seeing what we could do about it!
I would be interested in knowing more about this!
“So I decided to become a midwife… I wanted to deliver a thousand babies. And as...”
– Emma Goldman (via fuckyeahanarchism)
For a while I wanted to be a doula and sneakily get people to raise their children as socialist revolutionaries.
(via provocatoria)
I love this so much.
“[I]t’s hard to talk about the feelings, because they make you feel vulnerable...”
– —Michelle Tea in DON’T LEAVE YOUR SPERMY BOWLS IN THE SINK (via queerfatfemme)
I’ve so been loving this series on XOJane.
“And don’t give me that, “Oh we reached out to communities of color but they...”
– From “…On Taking Up Space” by witchymorgan on the Bklyn Boihood blog
I also love the paragraph after this one but it’s a short article and I’ve included links. This could be a good resource to send people if they don’t get why POC often don’t feel comfortable in many queer/trans* spaces.
(via...
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“An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern.”
– Tony Benn (via sugarspiceandstuds)
Strong People Don't Have Needs & Other Myths That...
arewomenhuman:
(Trigger warning)
karnythia:
I’ve been tweeting all morning about #rapeculture & #abuseculture, and someone asked me what I meant when I referred to Strong People Myths. I think some/most of us are familiar with the Strong Black Woman Trope right? Right. For those that are unfamiliar with it, it can best be summed up as the idea that black women are so strong they don’t...
dreadpiratezoe:
I won’t stop talking about this because Chris Brown literally sent Rihanna to the hospital and people are still putting him up on a pedestal and saying “Look at this man. This is someone you should look up to. This is someone you should aspire to be.”
Even though he beat his girlfriend’s face in so badly that she got sent to the hospital.
The Grammys are telling people to look...
“Most Americans won’t notice these lost opportunities. They don’t get out much or...”
– Rogue Columnist (via azspot)
Reblogging without further comment, because none is necessary.
(via undercovernun)
I’m not happy with it! I demand train kingdom. Those leading the charge of Train Kingdom may choose to rename it to something more practical and adult. But the point is, Train Kingdom.
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“As we have so recently and publicly discussed, girls and women have “anger...”
– Soraya L. Chemaly, Stop Telling Girls They’re Hysterical (via sparkamovement)
GPOY
(via queennubian)
“There’s a push to make people ashamed of being offended by anything, as if it...”
– The 7 Stupidest Things That Make People Proud | Cracked.com (via upshot)
“Someone who offends you hasn’t ‘got’ you or ‘won’. What they said, and why, matters. They don’t get a free pass on being scrutinized on any of that just because they got a certain reaction.”
(via erikawithac)
I like the...
“Because if Harry Potter taught us anything, it’s that nobody deserves to live in...”
– Harry Potter Alliance on LBGT organizations (via faberrum)
