March 2012
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“He was not a male chauvinist - he was just a man who understood that men were...”
– Sandra Marton, The Ice Prince, Mills & Boon, p.119
It’s always nice when you want to enjoy a romance novel and the hero is completely misogynistic.
Seriously I know the M&B narrative is deeply problematic, but this is just ridiculous. The sad thing is, misogyny aside, Sandra Marton...
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Update: 11 year old trans girl lost appeal →
everythingbutharleyquinn:
liz-the-wiz:
thatfeministdyke:
transawareness:
The above article is an update. Her mother went to appeal to keep her out of the psychiatric ward and lost. She will be institutionalized because of her expression of her gender. She will be held until she conforms to male gender and then released to foster care, not her mother who was supporting her.
Please, if...
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YO, ADELAIDE!
internalcompass:
I’m organising another Tumblr meetup! Saturday 14th April, 2:00PM @ the Rundle Mall Balls!
Come meet some awesome people with awesome blogs and be generally awesome.
Reblog!
Do I have any followers in Adelaide? Wanna come along?
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miseengarde:
white girls who want my culture’s bindis and saris and henna
take my skin colour too
and my dark brown lips
take my self-hatred because i don’t fit into the euro-centric ideals of beauty
take the oppression too
take the history of colonization that has devastated my country
and the drones that currently devastate my country
take all the bad stuff too
not just the pretty,...
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“When, as happened recently in France, an attempt is made to coerce women out of...”
– Arundhati Roy (via grrrlstudies)
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“Oddly enough, the politicians who most loudly condemn liberal policies as...”
– Yunte Huang, In defense of socialism
Keep reading
(via theweekmagazine)
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Why Pro-Choice Legislation IS Pro-Life
theintentionalife:
Being pro-women and pro-choice isn’t a liberal conspiracy.
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Re: People "Choose To Be Poor"
theintentionalife:
An occupier at Occupy Nashville was told that tonight, a Tennessee representative said that people “choose to be homeless” while he was defending his support of HB 2638 (which will criminalize the homeless). This is the letter that she sent him:
Dear Representative Faison, I was at Legislative Plaza tonight and I unfortunately had to leave around 9:30 p.m. I heard that just...
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Pieces Of Mee: KONY 2012: Causing more harm than... →
pomee:
Dear Jason Russell,
After being bombarded with your KONY 2012 crusade, I have no choice but to respond to your highly inaccurate, offensive, and harmful propaganda. I realized I had to respond in hopes of stopping you before you cause more violence and deaths to the Acholi people (Northern…
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“It’s a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical...”
– Sugar Street (Naguib Mahfouz)
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2 Personal Decisions That Can Change The World →
theintentionalife:
1. Love all people regardless of whether you like them. Love does not mean you agree with or like everything a person does, supports, or believes. In the words of C.S. Lewis, ”Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.” Go out and love your friends and family, but also your enemies (Matthew 5:43-48).
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