January 2011
71 posts
“Coming into a feminist conversation with, “Have you considered that sometimes...”
– The above is a great excerpt from a post at Fugitivus a couple years ago. The post is longish, and definitely worth a read, but this particular quote stood out.
You can probably imagine the stupid ass shit that doesn’t get out of The Border House moderation queue. ”HAVE YOU CONSIDERED THAT MEN ARE...
“There are problems in today’s world that cannot be solved by the level of...”
– Einstein (via cavesoflilith)
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“Women don’t get raped because they were drinking or took drugs. Women do not get...”
– Jessica Valenti (via sillysocialisthippie)
I hate that this has to be explained. I really, really do. For some reason, on college campuses, this fact is taken for granted.
Everyone adopts the “there’s nothing we can do about it” mentality and just tells the girls to be careful. The same men that...
anellaluciax: dailymurf: Domestic violence:... →
dailymurf:
Domestic violence: women’s charities face 100% funding cuts
In an era of senseless cuts to vital public services, here’s one that in its brutal scale and short-sightnedness almost beggars belief: Devon county council’s proposals to reduce funding for domestic violence…
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On 'Corrective Rape' in S.A; Read and sign... →
This is a petition that calls to make ‘corrective rape’ a hatecrime in South Africa. Please take the time to read it and sign!
neutresex:
TRIGGER WARNING: links to photo and text surrounding sex violence
thefeministhub:
Please reblog to get the word out. And please, please, please sign this. It takes two seconds to enter in your information that could save many women’s ...
“Taught from infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to...”
– Mary Wollstonecraft (via songofablackbird)
=Anarcha=: Ten Things Everyone Should Know About... →
a-n-a-r-c-h-a:
Race is a modern idea. Ancient societies, like the Greeks, did not divide people according to physical differences, but according to religion, status, class or even language. The English word “race” turns up for the first time in a 1508 poem by William Dunbar referring to a line of kings.
Race…
Ten things everyone should know about race