February 2012
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“Rape culture is a culture in which people who have survived a violent crime are...”
– (i wish i could put this on a business card and hand it out to people who make rape jokes. the flip side would say FUCK YOU)
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white privilege doesn't mean white people have... →
ethiopienne:
It means that white people do not have to deal with institutionalized, systemic racism in addition to their everyday problems. It means institutionalized, systemic racism does not cause white people’s everyday problems. It means when white people go home and turn on their TVs after a long, hard day at work, they can rest assured knowing that they will not only be guaranteed to see...
“I love animation because in the world of animation, you can be anything you...”
– CHRIS ROCK, introducing the Best Animated Film Oscar. (via inothernews
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Birth control cost calculator: because this IS... →
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“When I say that I miss you I mean something more —
I mean I’ve been biding my...”
– Andrea Gibson, Yarn (via upsofloatingmanybellsdown
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Watchgood:
Our associate editor Nona Willis Aronowitz was on the new Melissa Harris-Perry show on MSNBC this weekend talking identity politics. In the above clip, she reps for all the secularists out there who’ve been irked by the GOP’s “religious freedom” rhetoric. She asks, “What about secular freedom?…What about those of us who don’t want to be governed by religion?”
Later in the show, she also...
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“I believe there are too many children who need loving parents to deny one group...”
– Barack Obama
(via loveyourchaos)
IS THIS REAL LIFE?
(via whimsyandmayhem)
The Bechdel Test and Race in Popular Fiction
crystalsavestheday:
1. It has to have two POC in it.
2. Who talk to each other.
3. About something other than a white person.
No Joss Whedon show passes, neither does Supernatural, or Being Human.
Veronica Mars passes, but doesn’t pass the original Bechdel Test.
Check out a few more here.
Sexual violence against women is the result of the... →
guardiancomment:
Gloria Steinem writes for us about the “false image of manhood that makes men act violently and risk their lives against their own interests as humans”.
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Fuck yeah, feminists!: Santorum: Blames Wife For... →
newwavefeminism:
liberalsarecool:
George Stephanopoulos asked Rick Santorum on Sunday “to explain a remark in his book, It Takes a Family, that accuses ‘radical feminists’ of undermining families and trying to convince women that they could find fulfillment only in the…
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Step Up and Step Back: more on the role of men in... →
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Occupy Theory →
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Are You Hard-Wired For Compassion? How About... →
“Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, “It might have been.”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via libraryland)
My adviser's mom wrote this. Go Team! →
Unpacking the invisible knapsack: white privilege
