April 2013
4 posts
“Abortion seems to be the only medical procedure that people want to deny you...”
– Worry About Your Own Uterus: (via veruca-assault)
“Worry about your own uterus” wise wise words.
(via triplash)
therewerebirds:
triflesandparsnips:
This morning my daughter, who is nearly four, saw the stretch marks on my hips and stomach. She ran her hands over them and asked what they were.
“I got them when I grew up,” I said, “and a few more when I had you.” I grinned down at her. “They’re my stripes. You’ll get stripes too when you grow up.”
She was overjoyed. “Really?”
I think she’s in her room...
March 2013
1 post
قلب الأم (A Mother's Heart) —Ibrahim B. Mikhail...
yourdailynarcissist:
أغرى امرؤٌ يوماً غُلاماً جاهلاً بنقوده حتى ينال به الوطرْ One day a man tempted, a foolish boy With his money to safeguard the boy from harm ائتني بفؤادِ أمك يا فت :قال ولك الدراهمُ والجواهر والدررْ He told him: “Boy, bring me the Heart of your mother, And to you I’ll give jewels, coins, and pearls.” فمضى وأغرز خنجراً في صدره والقلبُ أخرجهُ وعاد على الأثرْ So he went and...
February 2013
12 posts
“If somebody is investing time, resources, and energy into convincing you of your...”
– Harriet Jay (via esmegruenwald)
I so needed to hear that today!
I don't have sex.
Patriarchy: Prude.
I have sex.
Patriarchy: Slut.
I have safe sex.
Patriarchy: Prude and slut at the same time.
I got pregnant from having unprotected sex.
Patriarchy: Dumbass slut.
I got an abortion.
Patriarchy: Baby killer.
I had the kid.
Patriarchy: Welfare queen.
I got married, then had sex, then had a kid.
Patriarchy: K, but we'll pay you less and blame your being a mother.
I got married, then had sex, and became a full time mother.
Patriarchy: You're a welfare queen too.
I got married, then had sex, then worked at the same time.
Patriarchy: You're a terrible mother, and don't ask us for help with daycare. Get back in the kitchen.
I don't care what you think.
Patriarchy: What a bitch.
What the fuck can I do to make you happy, patriarchy?
Patriarchy: lol what a doormat.
thediscreetcharmoftheproletariat:
There is a damn fine line between infanitilizing a woman and protecting her.
Social Justice Problems
on tumblr: guys we need to have a serious discussion about the erasure of nonbinary trans* people
in real life: ok, I guess I have to explain to my entire class how "feminist" is not an insult
“Tragically we are witnessing a resurgence of harmful misogynist assumptions that...”
– bell hooks, Feminism is for Everybody (via yakotta)
Birthing While Black →
reverieofb:
sweetblackgrannies:
Despite an incredible birthing experience facilitated by my personal angel/ob-gyn, from almost the moment my baby took her first breath, her mother was treated like a 14-year-old drug-addicted welfare queen, there to push out yet another daddy-less baby. Seriously.
They tested my newborn for drugs (though I’ve never taken an illicit substance in my entire...
January 2013
17 posts
“I think the problem is that many people in America think that racism is an...”
– Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) answering a question about racism, sexism, and capitalism.
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tug8RJyLoz0
(via disciplesofmalcolm)
becausechocolatethatswhy:
a white feminist is a white woman who identifies with the feminist movement and it’s various goals which include challenging rape culture, equal pay, etc..
white feminism doesn’t see anything wrong with pushing women of colour under the bus to supposedly achieve whatever goals it perceives as paramount to the feminist movement
I guess I’m a white feminist but...
theoppressedlittlefetus:
bendthedirt:
Just so you guys know you cant use the same argument for abortion that you do for gay marriage: “If you dont agree with it dont get one”
Gay marriage is about love and that statement actually makes sense because it IS only about the consenting people.
Abortion is about murder…. and it ISNT only affecting the mother. It is affecting the father, the baby,...
Just some randoms things...: Troubling number of... →
abaldwin360:
(The Raw Story) - Hundreds of women have been arrested, convicted, jailed, detained in mental institutions or forced to endure medical procedures as a result of the “criminalisation of pregnancy” over the last four decades, a new report has found.
In the first study of its…
“And I know Fuck is a bad word, but it sounds so good.
Good, like flipping off...”
– Andrea Gibson [x] (via thesoundofthelifeofthemind)
Racism 101: Are you a Racist?: Deep South Racism →
racismschool:
In the deep South, we have that good ole boy racism. We house the racists that all other racists call “Them.” Deep South racism dictates that I know exactly where it is and where it isn’t safe for me to roam. Deep South racism posts signs that say, “No Niggers Allowed.” Often with the word “…
we’ve got a very similar dynamic in germany, with many “national befreite...
People don't do it "wrong", maybe they do it on...
esmegruenwald:
That just came up in a discussion with my sibling. There’s no wrong way to cut a tomato, really.
universal truth.
“They say I’m a beast.
And feast on it. When all along
I thought that’s what a...”
– Sandra Cisneros, “Loose Woman” (via someotherchick)
Low on Clichés: theburiedlife: What Love means to... →
theburiedlife:
What Love means to a 4-8 year old: A group of professional people posed this question to a group of 4 to 8 year-olds, ’What does love mean?’ The answers they got were broader and deeper than anyone could have imagined
See what you think:
‘When my grandmother got arthritis , she couldn’t bend over and paint her toenails anymore.. So my grandfather does it for her all the time ,...
Person: You're bisexual? Aren't you just experimenting?
Me: I did experiment. My research yielded a positive result with a five-sigma significance, in accordance with theoretical predictions, and I am currently pursuing some promising practical applications. If you're interested in further reading, I have recently published an article on the subject in J. Fuck Off. Thanks for asking.
December 2012
26 posts
myhijabsaysimcool:
some people could easily be replaced with nutella
feedingmyboychick:
I do not drink… alcohol. And The Man is on a medication that makes it a Very Bad Idea for him to have more than about one drink at any given time. But it’s New Year’s (okay, for some of us it is, Ms Already-5773-for-months), so I get him a $7 individual sized champagne bottle. I’ve forgotten about it by the time we get home and he’s unloading the groceries, until I hear “oh...
9 tags
All Power To The Councils! A documentary history... →
very interesting book! you can download it for free.
elizabitchtaylor:
I’m such a nice girl, I’m so sick of being fuckzoned!!!!!!!
What’s the fuckzone you ask? it’s this zone that guys put you in where they only want to fuck you; they don’t want to have a friendship with you and they aren’t satisfied with emotional commitment, they just want sex!!!!!
I’m a nice girl!!!! Stop putting me in the fuckzone!!!!!!!
story of my life.
“I think in many cases, your morality is deeply lacking if all you want is a...”
– -Sister Joan Chittister (via stfuprolife)
PREACH, SISTER!
(via fuckyeahfeminists)
“Now, we have been told that we have an argument here about speech, not about...”
– Andrea Dworkin, Pornography Is A Civil Rights Issue, transcript of her 1986 testimony before the Attorney General’s Commission on Pornography, as printed in Letters From A War Zone source (via inapaste)
“but now? even as a warning i can’t whisper the horrors of what we allow to...”
– Adrienne Maree Brown, love letter to the babies/they are all ours (via jessicavalenti)
5 tags
“When I was a kid, I used to go over to friend’s houses and notice that their...”
– The Pervocracy, Everyone else is doing it… right? (via slutwalksignideas)
