Feminista / Teacher / Student
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Azizah, a film by Hanifah Walidah & Olive Demetrius
Azizah translated means “My powerful beloved”. Azizah looks at the lives or...
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“No pills! No pussy!”
Sign from today’s Seeing Red Rally at Texas State Capitol.
[NB: The defunding of the Women’s Health Program in TX will...
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Ways Gender-Privileged Men Can Challenge Sexism
(This list will be forever in-progress. Please add on as you see fit).
- Challenge sexist jokes, such...
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nothing better then a coffee shop with good jams, a good book and a delicious soy decaf white chocolate mocha with caramel drizzle which isn’t in...
[tw for transmisogynistic slur]
Today someone asked me what I think of the event called “Hey tranny, it’s tranny” occuring during Seattle Pride. Here’s what I had to say
For me, it’s a lot less about the word being a “bad” word or someone being bad for using it as much as it is about being…
oppressedbrowngirlsdoingthings:
Woah woah woah woah
What is this cartoon trying to imply? The REAL war on women? Because people who are against the U.S. government’s infringement on a person’s right to choose and access to birth control could NEVER be an advocate for other women’s issues.
The fuck? Seriously. I hate people who pull this shit.
stop
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MUSLIM WOMEN AS YOUR SCAPEGOAT FOR YOUR POLITICAL POINTS FUCK
“Maria My Love” | Winner Best U.S. Feature Film, New York International Latino Film Festival 2011
Ana (Judy Marte) is a young woman trying to reimagine her life after her mother’s death during the course of one California spring. Filled with resentment over her father’s mistakes, Ana feels disconnected from herself and everyone around her. Swept up by new romance (Brian Rieger) and a warm reunion with her half-sister (Lauren Fales), Ana is so taken by the newfound support and love in her life that she sets out to find someone—anyone other than herself—to help. She finds a volunteer project in Maria (Karen Black), a reclusive hoarder who has alienated her own family with her compulsive behavior. As the two become unlikely friends and confidantes, Ana finds herself in an emotionally complex relationship that reveals some uncomfortable truths about herself.
This quote seems particularly urgent at this present moment—within and without the repro rights fight. This plagues so many of our movements: the powerful use our most intimate issues to divide us and to make us think that our liberation is not bound to one another.
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whatfreshhellisthis wrotean amazing post about trans* people being excluded from the reproductive rights movement (scarlip then added amazing commentary on to it and h/t to one of my most favorite Tumblrs, prolongedeyecontact for posting both).
I am so incredibly guilty of saying, “While this may be directed at cis women (or that cis women may be the main targets of this anti-choice legislation), it affects more people than just them.” I will never say that again. (via keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus)
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“You know what? Reimburse me for the Iraq War and oil subsidies!”
(via keepyourbsoutofmyuterus)
When women complain about the glass ceiling, it isn’t so we can guilt or shame our bosses into a promotion. Nor is it a statement that my company (or my boss) must be sexist because I didn’t get that last promotion. Many women who complain about the glass ceiling don’t want to be a CEO - or…
1 Million Hoodies for 1 Million signatures on Change.org. The 1 Million Hoodie march is both physical and virtual—WEAR YOUR HOODIE ON WEDNESDAY 3/21 (tomorrow) and upload a pic to Twitter, Facebook or Instagram with the hashtag #millionhoodies.
Tell people why you are marching and encourage them to sign the Change.org petition.
SIGN THE PETITION HERE and encourage others to do the same!
(via weroccupyunited)
An(other) instance of how the crime this teen committed was walking while Black. Being while Black and male in our effed upped social system that institutionalizes racism and advances a necropolitics of disciplining/punishing the “surplus” bodies of Black men constructed as inherently violent. It is not irrelevant that the man who executed Trayvon Martin is so committed to the so-called “criminal justice” system of which he is a student. I plan to write more about that soon.
The local police don’t know yet if walking while Black constitutes an offense against someone holding a gun. Three weeks after Trayvon’s death. They are still figuring it out.
We vociferously “protect” some people’s “right to own a gun” while completely ignoring a young man’s right to walk and move his body freely in (a white) space. I hate guns and I effing hate racism. Justice for Trayvon now.
