February 2012
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“Why am I the slave of Man? Why is my brain said not to be the equal of his...”
– Voltairine de Cleyre in “Sex Slavery” (1890)
Utah House Passes Bill Banning All Sex Ed Unless... →
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thesexuneducated:
Look everyone! More religious cross over into the government! Look everyone! Governments completely ignoring hard data like states with abstinence only sex education programs have high teen pregnancy rates!
Wow! It sounds like Utah REALLY wants to see a skyrocketing abortion rate!
Hey, teenagers of America? You can all come stay at my house until...
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Woman: Can I have birth control?
Government: No.
Woman: I got pregnant because I didn't have birth control and I don't want the fetus. Can I have an abortion?
Government: No.
Woman: I gave birth to my child but since I wasn't expecting it, I can't afford daycare. Can I have help paying for it?
Government: No.
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“If it was a real race, the white,straight dudes would’ve started running 400...”
– Elon James White on affirmative action, via the Melissa Harris-Perry Show, MSNBC (via seriouslyamerica)
just watched this on TV actually. Right before they discussed affirmative action, they talked about The Help and the disney-fication of the jim crow south and the commodification of black woman’s...
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9 Little Known Facts About Notable Women in Black... →
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From the article:
Nina Simone - Her involvement in civil rights was spurred by an incident at her first classical piano recital at age 12. During the recital, her parents sat in seats in the front of the building to see her play, but were told to move to the back to make way for white guests. She wasn’t having that though. The young girl refused to perform until her parents were...
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“There are tons of people– male people, even!– who don’t have sex. […] I know...”
– Tim Gunn Hasn’t Had Sex In 29 Years, And It’s None Of Our Fucking Business | No, Seriously, What About Teh Menz? (via sexisnottheenemy)
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The Business of Being Born →
brofisting:
Yo Tumblr want to see a neat documentary?? We watched this in Feminist Theories class and it’s super, super interesting. Like super interesting. Movies about home-births and mid-wives! Weirdly, this movie actually made me less freaked out the entire idea of pregnancy. Not that it’s like, on a list of relevant topics to me at this point in my life, but still. It’s also totally free on...
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“I demand the independence of woman, her right to support herself; to live for...”
– Emma Goldman, 1897 (via thenewwomensmovement)
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What Lot's Wife Would Have Said (If She Wasn't A...
succulentsaskie:
eating-poetry:
Do you remember when we met in Gomorrah? When you were still beardless, and I would oil my hair in the lamp light before seeing you, when we were young, and blushed with youth like bruised fruit. Did we care then what our neighbors did in the dark?
When our first daughter was born on the River Jordan, when our second cracked her pink head from my body ...
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