March 2012
108 posts
"My sister lost her baby... and my state requires... →
stfuconservatives:
leeleeleelee submitted: “This is the reality of Texas’ ultrasound for abortion bill. A 30 year old Texas woman’s fetus’ heart stopped beating after 12 weeks. The options given were to wait until miscarriage, give birth to it, or to abort it (the preferred, safest option). She has to look at an ultrasound of her already dead fetus and if she looks away, she will have to...
February 2012
87 posts
“Sex-negative messages don’t keep people from having sex. They keep people from...”
– Sex-Negative Education and the Spectre of Rape « Sex Positive Activism (via ideaofnorth)
stephtronic:
I think the worst thing about Rick Santorum is the point where you realize that he’s not a fictional character. He actually exists and is being completely serious. That’s the worst thing.
“I hate it when they say, “He gave his life for his country.” Nobody gives their...”
– Admiral Gene LaRocque (via humanformat)
jpegartifacts:
I wish I had as much political power as a fetus.
cunt: iamateenagefeminist: “The following day, I... →
iamateenagefeminist:
“The following day, I attended a workshop about preventing gender violence, facilitated by Katz. There, he posed a question to all of the men in the room: “Men, what things do you do to protect yourself from being raped or sexually assaulted?” Not one man, including…
Why Patriarchal Men Are Utterly Terrified of Birth... →
Georgia Democrats to propose limitations on... →
bitchiamtheswanqueen:
tehsunshine:
historicalupstart:
As members of Georgia’s House of Representatives debate whether to prohibit abortions for women more than 20 weeks pregnant, House Democrats planned to introduce their own reproductive rights plan: No more vasectomies that leave “thousands of children … deprived of birth.”
Suck on that.
I approve.
I find this so clever and...
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What the fuck.
I just had the most infuriating and disappointing conversation with a group of people about domestic violence.
The really interesting thing was no one in the group knew I was a feminist, but then a man called me a feminist. And once that happened, it seemed although I had been demonized. And then, everything at that point was dismissed BECAUSE I was a feminist.
And then they continued calling...
Support Gender Equality at UVM! →
fedupvermont:
Recently, University of Vermont has been in the spotlight after a Fraternity survey asked members “If you could rape someone, who would it be?” This egrarious expression of rape culture ignited a fire of action to combat sexism and rape culture at the University and society as a whole.
Please help us create a safe, supportive and gender equal culture for students, faculty,...
“Here’s the thing about being a girlie girl. I think there was a generation...”
– Zooey Deschanel (via mezasaurusrex)
“I’d like to raise both of my middle fingers to him and anyone who thinks...”
– M.I.A. (via janejacqueline)
If men could get pregnant, birth control pills...
seriouslyamerica:
*cis men
Black people serve 60% longer sentences than... →
leftcollection:
“A new study by M. Marit Rehavi of the University of British Columbia and Sonja B. Starr of the University of Michigan Law School shows that Black Americans receive almost 60% long prison sentences than white Americans who committed the same crime.
The study covered 58,000 federal criminal cases and found that there was a significant difference between the sentences given to...
If You're Not Upset, You're not Paying Attention →
iamateenagefeminist:
Today in Washington DC the GOP held a Congressional oversight hearing about the new birth control mandate.
Not one woman was on the panel for the hearing.
Let me repeat.
In a hearing about birth control, an issue that affects largely women, not one woman was on…
Tumblr users launch petition to have fellow... →
halvgal:
lau-ra-sau-rus:
14kgoldnyc:
mohandasgandhi:
producermatthew:
Tumblr users are asking 1,000 bloggers to sign an online petition that calls for a controversial publisher to be removed as an editor of an enhanced tag on the site.
The petition targets user “Ryking,” with the claim that the blogger has defended “rapists, calling women who disagree with him ‘feminazis,’ using...
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“It’s not that Chris Brown is categorically unforgivable. It’s more that he’s no...”
– VICE on Cord’s Chris Brown post (via tyleroakley)
chris brown's reaction to criticism for performing... →
grrrlvirus:
he shows zero remorse and zero self control.
sign the petition: http://www.change.org/petitions/the-grammys-apologize-to-domestic-violence-survivors
“The Virgina bill is actually worse than the other bills because it also mandates...”
– I’d reblog inothernews’s post of this quote, but I apparently can’t reblog answered questions. (via siphersaysstuff)
