December 2011
Blaming feeling shitty on brain chemistry helps me to feel slightly better about feeling shitty.
“FEMME SHARKS DON’T EAT OUR OWN.
FEMME SHARKS LIKE TO EAT THOUGH
FEMME SHARKS...”
– femme shark manifesto, written by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha http://www.myspace.com/leahlakshmi/blog/422741071 (via ourchangingsky
)
we are survivors who are more than what we survived. i needed this.
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A Campaign to Draw Doctors to a Weight-Loss... →
ugh no stop why
NAACP warns black and Latin@ Americans could lose... →
pompadoursandpincurls:
I don’t want to live on this planet anymore.
I find it really telling that this article is in the Guardian and not, say, the New York Times or the Washington Post or even someplace like Politico or Gawker. Where’s that liberal media bias now?
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what the fuck is this jenny craig commercial
it’s really just mariah carey as naked as ~tastefully possible and random people dancing.
mariah, why?
“Women cannot be expected to struggle alone against the forces of discrimination...”
– Benazir Bhutto in a 1995 speech in Beijing at the World Conference of Women. This is a beautiful speech, go read all of it. (via thepoliticalnotebook)
She was one unapologetic, proud, progressive Pakistani and I respect her for it immensely.
(via mehreenkasana)
again. White people: all the same.
Q: But sometimes whites feel that all white people are being similarly equated, when in fact attitudes among whites range from the Ku Klu Klan right over to the saints.
Toni Morrison: Black people have always known that. We've had to distinguish among you because our lives depended on it. I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everyone's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons
i think i’m just doomed to creepily pine after hot musicians in amazing bands forever
“In the instances when POC say shit like ‘Oh I can’t stand white folk’ or ‘Damn...”
– Briana
“but u guise reverse racism is real!!!1!!one!! im realy prejusidse against bcus im white every1 hatez me”
(via grrrlfoxxx)
And this is why it is not “aggressive” to want to protect our own needs, cultures, and seek out better representation of people like us. Excuse me if I just can’t...
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blackamazon:
midwestmountainmama:
ok, so the thing i want to make visible. remember how angry the *F*eminists were about anybody who defended julian asange? to the point there was a big fight on democracy now! between naomi wolf and jaclyn friedman over how stupid naomi was to be defending a rapist?
ok, but here we sit now, with many of those same *F*eminists who went on the rampage against...
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for some reason this was the funniest thing EVER
mom: hey, I just wanted to let you know i'm running about fifteen minutes late, as usual.
me: perfect! I am also running about fifteen minutes late.
mom: we must be related!
A list of evidence of @BuckAngel putting down...
queerinsurrection:
transcreature:
iragray:
Here he put someone down for being poor and insinuated it was some form of punishment since the OP doesn’t like that Buck is transmisogynistic or classist.
Here he posted a video of queer people of color as a token of his anti-racism?
[TW: CISSEXISM AND BODY SHAMING] Here is a screencap of a tweet he posted in response to someone who pointed out...
“I’m fat positive because I’m a feminist, and I refuse to acknowledge in the...”
– You’re Welcome - Why I’m Fat Positive
this is enough. thank you.
(via anorable)
“If white American feminist theory need not deal with the differences between us,...”
– Audre Lorde (via thethirddecade1121) I reblog this quote every time it comes on my dash. (via ethiopienne
)
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got my period for the first time in 10 weeks! it’s a christmas miracle.
“Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.”
– Josephine Hart (via cultureofresistance, mols) (via sanityscraps) (via shannonnagig) (via notforyoutobreak) (via karnythia) (via angrybrownbaby) (via witchsistah) (via blackamazon
)
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I think today I’m going to go to Forever 21 and buy eleven thousand colorblocked/horizontally stripd T-shirts.
The Unfathomable Cuts in Housing Aid | The Nation →
thecurvature:
The one place you won’t hear any discussion, much less acknowledgment, of the nation’s spiraling housing affordability crisis is around Washington, DC, by its political class and its media enablers. There the conference rooms and cable news studios echo with talk of deficit reduction via sharp budget cuts, with special relish for so-called discretionary programs like housing...
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OkCupid messages are a lot funnier if I imagine...
pompadoursandpincurls:
people, man. no effort. not even a bad pick-up line.
YES YES YES THIS AHAAHAHAHAAHAHA
Gender-Neutral Equivalents to Boyfriend/Girlfriend
imperilled:
pastthestorm:
significantfigs:
transcending-anatomy:
Obviously, this is an incomplete list.
Paramour
Significant Other/SO
Genderfriend
Lover
Sweetie/Sweetheart
Partner
Cuddle buddy
Soul mate
Steady
[name]friend
Mate
personfriend
I personally love “main squeeze.”
I will only ever say “sweetie” in a British accent per River...
“Using ‘gay and lesbian’ as a phrase that’s supposed to include the whole queer...”
– Lindasusan Ulrich, bisexual-identified LGBTQ+ activist and principal author & editor of the 2011 San Francisco Human Rights Commission report “Bisexual Invisibility: Impacts and Recommendations” (via bialogue-group
THAAAANK YOU. similar problems happen when people say “queer” but...
Gender-Neutral Equivalents to Boyfriend/Girlfriend
significantfigs:
transcending-anatomy:
Obviously, this is an incomplete list.
Paramour
Significant Other/SO
Genderfriend
Lover
Sweetie/Sweetheart
Partner
Cuddle buddy
Soul mate
Steady
[name]friend
Mate
personfriend
I personally love “main squeeze.”
I will only ever say “sweetie” in a British accent per River...
Joint Degree PhD (Anthropology)/MPH Program →
I think this is what I want to do! :DDDD
I think I just decided I may want to study medical anthropology. I want to turn the anthropological gaze back on contemporary U.S. culture, specifically popular culture, and look at what it says about particular health concerns. I’m fairly sure that the stigmas that accompany disability and fatness fall under the purview of medical anthropology. Health disparities research falls under the...
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more lars & the real girl (spoilars!)
lars’ actually very fucking convincing panic attack made me cry. real talk.
also the community response in this film is kind of overwhelming me. they come together and they very gently leverage the nature of the delusion against him—treating her as fully real allows them time to gently deprive him of her by offering to cut her hair, giving her a job, asking if she’d like to...
49% match
rando on okcupid: hi
me: no
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i am really not loving Lars and the Real Girl.
it’s not really ABOUT him. it’s really about his brother and his sister-in-law and his doctor and the people around him.
here’s the thing. the stories of the people who love people with mental illness does need to be told in an open, honest way.
but they cannot be the only stories about mental illness that get told.
Lars and the Real Girl should be a story about a man who...
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definatalie:
bossyfemme:
definatalie:
I wish I could just reblog pretty pictures with abandon like I used to but since I started doing image descriptions I notice I reblog random images less and less. I think it’s because a lot of the time I have no fucking idea what is going on in an image and lots of times visual symbols can just fly straight over my head. I also think it’s something to do...
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my life is so full of synchronicity right now.
mostly involving ryan gosling movies.
[Trigger warning] On Being a Sex Positive Rape...
fox-power:
As a sex- and body-positive person, I know that there is nothing wrong with having consensual sex with whoever you want, and that human bodies are beautiful. As a survivor of rape, anything even vaguely connected to sex causes guilt and fear, and that my body is a source of weakness and shame.
Sometimes it can be difficult to reconcile these two very different notions, in both my...
quelola asked: Yes yes yes. Using fake uggs as a way of embracing the ugly is totally valid. Also, havin knock offs as a way to break down symbols of class is also legit.
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[TW] 'Tell loved ones they are overweight this... →
ARE YOU SHITTING ME!?!!??!!?!?
Fat Health and Resistance
fatandtheivy:
The conclusion of my beast of a term paper about fat women denied IVF.
It can be expected at there are still unanswered questions about the health of fat people seeking IVF. Indeed, I have been advised to start this paper by stating the supposed health concerns and statistics and then providing information proving those concerns misguided or at least incomplete. As an activist,...
blackamazon:
So.
Remember when someone went really hard at me an a loved one about ” their hard work ” at feministe/ing and how they shouldn’t be erased and how HARD their position was and how they HOPED we “lost” social justice cause they were being denied their something or other ?
So now we have a book on dating and a site that is SO OUT OF TOUCH WITH NON SELF SERVING REALITY it...
Oh, Feministe. Or, we like Hugo Schwyzer more than... →
midwestmountainmama:
notyourkinddear:
quixotess:
isabelthespy:
missvoltairine:
galesofnovember:
icewomancometh:
Feministe hosted an interview with a male “feminist” and former sexual predator who’s publicly admitted to making an attempt on his ex-lover’s life (for her own good, apparently). When multiple people point out that he’s not a good dude, Clarisse Thorn decides to close the...
Food Stamp Etiquette: Human Kindness
tangledupinlace:
by DRESDEN on NOVEMBER 9, 2011
This is now officially the first month in two years that my family has not been depending on food stamps to feed ourselves. The moment that I realized that I no longer qualified for these benefits was incredibly triumphant for me. Within the same moment of celebrating I also felt so incredibly thankful. I have no idea how my family would have...
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Surviving the Holidays in a Fat-Negative...
metrofats:
Last weekend, MetroFats held a very successful skills share around body-shaming during holiday visits with family. We discussed the following questions:
What about holiday gatherings is hard for you? Is it just about body size, or is there other stuff too? What kinds of thoughts and feelings do the holidays provoke?
How do we cope with body-shaming in the moment?
How do we...