February 2012
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The way we talk about it. (Trigger Warning: death... →
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It sincerely bothers me when people sandwich mourning of some young people with comments on brightness or talent and that they “had a bright future ahead of” them while completely overlooking others. It’s right up there with using only a certain caliber of young person as an example that those certain groups of people can be functional.
A person does not have more...
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Here’s how I see the Complex working, using myself as an example: I could have...
– Andrea Plaid in “‘No, I Would Follow the Porn Star’s Advice,” from Feminism FOR REAL: Deconstructing the Academic Industrial Complex of Feminism edited by Jessica Yee
I love everything about this quote.
(via mylifeasafeminista)
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Stop degrading the act of sex by calling it “opening your legs.”
I’m so sick...
– flowersarebetterthanbullets on This Post (I made this a quote, because the original picture with text was visually offensive to my eyes. These pro-life people need to take a graphic design class.)
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Is the United States the only country where more... →
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Trigger Warning
A fantastic article about prison rape and sexual assault, it’s prevalence in the United States prison system, and the links between prison sexual assault and sexual assault of non-prisoner women.
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You being all mysterious with your cheekbones, and turning your coat collar up...
– Watson, totally in love
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You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the...
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via sacren)
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This girlchild was born as usual
and presented dolls that did pee-pee
and...
– -Marge Piercy, “Barbie Doll”
I found this poem in a book of mine and thought you may enjoy it. I think it’s something all of us can relate to. The idea of being a perfectly able, healthy, happy person, and told not to feel that way until we go to great extremes to conform to beauty ideals.
Kind...
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Calculator: How Expensive is Birth Control? →
To hear some conservative politicians tell it, you’d think birth control pills fall from the sky and IUDs grow on trees. During the recent controversy over President Barack Obama’s rule requiring insurance companies to offer birth control free of charge, GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum claimed birth control “costs just a few dollars.” Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.) went...
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