December 2011
107 posts
NOTE TO SELF
verashorribleworld:
Inget är förevigt
Grrrl Writes: lavender-labia: autumn-and-eve: It’s... →
lavender-labia:
autumn-and-eve:
It’s not a dumb question, don’t worry! I’m here for this kind of stuff xp Transmisogyny is the marginalization of trans women. It’s sort of like cissexism + binarism affecting men = transmisogyny. Trans women’s identities are invalidated because…
In Pursuit of Adequacy: Have you ever noticed →
diontheblacksupremacist:
whenever black people are bitter toward white people, everyone acts as if that black person is the problem? They’re told to change their actions: don’t let it upset you, don’t judge all white people based on the bad ones, don’t generalize, etc. Is there any bigger…
very good explanation of why reversed racism doesn’t exist.
“Take out a piece of paper
Put your name up in the corner
Take out a piece of...”
– Tell me so - Bikini Kill
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In Pursuit of Adequacy: Female privilege? →
stfufauxminists:
brightblackdaylight:
As feminists, we tend to think a lot about male privilege (stuff like the fact that men are more likely to be bosses and CEOs and less likely to get raped), but not very much about female privilege. I stumbled across this, a list of female…
I'm a cheeky bastard.: privilege; a poem for men... →
splitsplat:
feministslut:
[TW: RAPE]
dopestdee:
privilege is simple: going for a pleasant stroll after dark, not checking the back of your car as you get in, sleeping soundly, speaking without interruption, and not remembering dreams of rape, that follow you all day, that woke…
Top 5 Ways That White Women Continue to Discredit... →
laborreguita:
1) Say we are too “involved” or biased in regards to the subject, and claim that you are more “objective”.
This is frequently done to silence people who are trying to tell their own story. Academia is famous for this, but it happens outside academia as well. For example, who are the acknowledged “experts” about our cultures, religions, and lives? Why are there white upper-class...
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nom-chompsky:
if there’s one thing tumblr has taught me, its that if there’s anyone out there who is oversensitive, its white people. learn to take a fucking joke, we’ve taken damn near everything else.
Watchanonymissexpress:
#FEMEN ‘tortured, left naked in forest’ after KGB topless protest
Three Ukrainian FEMEN activists have allegedly been kidnapped by Belarusian KGB officers who threatened the protesters with knives, cut their hair and then left the women alone in the woods, says the movement’s webpage.
The activists disappeared on Monday in the Belarusian capital, Minsk, after protesting...
The "Accidental" Rapist: the importance of... →
Too many play what I call the stoplight game. Traffic signals, of course, have three colors: red for stop, yellow for caution, green for go. Good drivers are taught to stop on “red,” which functions as a “no.” But of course, even at the busiest urban intersections, no light stays red indefinitely. If you wait long enough at a stoplight, every red will become green. And when all we do ...
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Because We Must: We Are Damaged; We Are Strong; We... →
becausewemustdotorg:
(TRIGGER WARNING; RAPE)
I’m having a really difficult time trying to sort all of this out. I’ve been through a whole lot but my life and my story is far from original. Sometimes all of this feels like more than I could ever handle.
Yet I am so privileged. The ways that I fit into this world…