December 2011
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“Feminism directly confronts the idea that one person or set of people [has] the...”
– Liz Stanley and Sue Wise
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History is herstory too
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“You don’t have to be anti-man to be pro-woman.”
– Jane Galvin Lewis
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“The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the...”
– Shirley Chisholm
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“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only...”
– ~Rebecca West, “Mr Chesterton in Hysterics: A Study in Prejudice,” The Clarion, 14 Nov 1913, reprinted inThe Young Rebecca, 1982
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“I was told that whistling wasn’t ladylike, but I knew even then that women...”
– Anonymous, quoted inKindling the Spirit by Lois P. Frankel
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“When feminism itself becomes its own form of oppression, what do we have to say...”
– Feminism For REAL
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QBits: UN official tells nations to end gay... →
qbits:
U.N.’s High Commissioner For Human Rights, Navi Pillay urged countries to outlaw all forms of abuse based on sexual orientation.
By FRANK JORDANS, Associated Press – 2 hours ago
GENEVA (AP) — The U.N.’s top human rights official urged countries Thursday to abolish legal…
Why Rappers Are Suddenly Speaking Out in Support... →
by Chris Lee
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It would be great if more people can submit stories/quotes and I can credit you/put your blog as a source.
http://seaofbadstories.tumblr.com/submit
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Going home at a certain hour
As a girl I’m not really afraid of walking at night back in Hong Kong because I grew up there and it seems almost absurd to have to look at your back paranoid. Secondly, its not that I despise men that talk to me because some are not such dicks at times. But when a guy goes on about how I can get raped in my village, he is almost insulting my home. I know these people, they are my neighbour...
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It's OK to Be Neither: An article by a 1st grade... →
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On Sex, Drugs, and Feminism: A Q&A WIth Hugo... →
lookoutsideyourself:
This guy fucking fascinates me.
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Judgements
I just wrote that post about the insults that I don’t understand. I want to go deeper into the issues. It is simply so easy to just dismiss something with a judgement. It’s easy to just say “it’s just because they are just a bunch of alcoholics.” “Oh she probably had some daddy issuess woooooooooOOOOooo” “Shes just fucked, who cares?”
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November 20th is Transgender Day of Remembrance. →
shapefutures:
Too often, people overlook the T in LGBTQ. Even within the LGBTQ community there can still be a lack of acceptance, a lack of knowledge or acknowledgment of trans issues, and a great deal of transphobia.
November 20th is a day on which we remember the many transgender and gender-variant individual whose lives were taken by others because of who they were. This is the 12th or...
???: Russia: A Bill To Silence Millions →
youth-of-a-nation:
Political leaders in St. Petersburg are about to vote on law that will make it illegal for any person to write a book, publish an article or speak in public about being gay, lesbian or transgender. The ruling party led by President Medvedev and Prime Minister Putin could make millions of people…
sarahtay.: Russia making it illegal to say gay in... →
sarahtay:
I just added my voice to this urgent appeal, standing for human rights in Russia and all over the world. Medvedev and Putin’s party is pushing a law to vote this week that would make any mention of lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender issues illegal.
The bill, being introduced as early as this…
