My friend Dina talks about how she lost her arm and includes some intense pictures.
I am overwhelmed and moved at the response my offer has received! Wish I’d included more specifics in my original post, please pass this on as well.
This will answer the questions from many of the people who have messaged. Was answering personally, but every time I refreshed my page I got more…
I would like to offer my sewing skill and time. There are probably many young gender queer and trans folk on tumblr who want to bind their chests and don’t have the money/family support to purchase a quality binder, and don’t have the ability/resources to make their own. Because I don’t want…
A Real Princess Coloring Book - Download and print off the pdf and pass it on to all the little boys and girls your giving presents to this weekend.
Including a real Prince Charming
Please stop telling me I’m pretty Please stop telling me I’m fat
Please stop telling me I’m crazy Just cause I love every cat
Please stop calling me a spinster Just cause I wont lie with you
I know you’d be calling me a whore If I went home with you
Don’t tell me I need protecting Don’t say I need to be saved
Don’t tell me I’m PMSing If your mindless ignorance sends me into a rage.
If I’m a liberated equal Just as accomplished as a man
Just as worthwhile and smart and kind and good and rational Why won’t you represent me as I am?
Please stop telling me I’m lonely Cause I’ve never found a man
Who doesn’t kneel before me Or try to keep me down
Don’t try to put my value In the value of my face
Standing with your dollybirds Will never be my place
Don’t assume I have a special Bond with every other woman,
That I don’t get what you’re saying Or understand just what you’re doing
Don’t tell me it’s fine Cause I can fall back on my looks
I’d rather leave my husband Than ever leave my books
If I’m a liberated equal Just as accomplished as a man
Just as worthwhile and smart and kind and good and rational Why won’t you represent me as I am?
The awful thing about the media the thing that makes me really pissed
Is there are millions of real women out there But they’re writing about dolls when they should focus more on us.
If I’m a liberated equal Just as accomplished as a man
Just as worthwhile and smart and kind and good and rational Why won’t you represent me as I am?
The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that they engage in acts of psychic self-mutilation, that they kill off the emotional parts of themselves. If an individual is not successful in emotionally crippling himself, he can count on patriarchal men to enact rituals of power that will assault his self-esteem.
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| — | bell hooks (via femfreq) |
This is a thing that happened.
Helen Lewis wrote an article on the New Statesman yesterday on the online harassment experienced by Anita Sarkeesian, which I’ve been following for a while. To recap:
American blogger Anita Sarkeesian, who launched a Kickstarter programme to raise $6,000 to…
