Feminism and Poetry

"The function of a historian is neither to love the past nor to emancipate himself from the past, but..."

Sat, 07 Jan 2012 23:18:01 -0500

“The function of a historian is neither to love the past nor to emancipate himself from the past, but to master and understand it as the key to the understanding of the present”

- E.H. Carr (via that-demned-elusive-pimpernel)

loveasaradicalact: goodleftund0ne: Occupy Boston:...

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 16:31:08 -0500

loveasaradicalact:

goodleftund0ne:

Occupy Boston: “Pro-Corporate” Rally (12/17/11), by John Horton

[Image description: Four images. The first is a person in a crowd holding a sign that reads “Let them eat cake” in all capital letters. The word “cake” is written in pink. The next image has the words “Blood 4 Oil” written (4 is written numerically, and the words “blood” and “four” are in red. The third image has three people holding a large cloth. On it is written in what appears to be white chalk “Bigger cages! Longer chains!”. Underneath, in red chalk, they have drawn and anarchist symbol and after it written the number 4 and then “wage slavery” (“Anarchists for wage slavery”). The fourth and final image is of a backpack made to look like a red and white name tag. The words “Hello, my name is” are printed on the backpack, and written in in red and black sharpie are the words “Not Important” in all caps. End description.]

This is fantastic.

Africa’s Abortion Wars

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 16:30:39 -0500

Africa’s Abortion Wars:

loveasaradicalact:

praisethelorde:

naijacentric:

excentricyoruba:

Edgar Kuchingale, a doctor in Malawi who also attended the conference, told me that to this day prejudice, especially about immoral sexual behavior, remains a major hurdle. But for Brookman-Amissah, now vice president for Africa of Ipas, a reproductive-health nongovernmental organization, the problem mostly lies elsewhere: “It is not as if it is by custom that Africans are against abortion. Rather, it is the colonial laws that we need to get rid of.”

Many restrictive abortion laws in Africa date back to colonial codes, and the bigotry of the law has trickled through society. Mali’s law is based on the Napoleonic Code from 1810, which forbade abortion. Nigeria’s, one of the world’s most restrictive, dates back to a British provision from 1861.

Like so many other ‘African’ ideas and laws.

the thing about naija is that you can go to a pharmacy and get drugs to induce an abortion, over the counter, so like most laws all that ish is for show

Yup. In Ivory Coast you can even get it properly done in a clinic. Even though it’s “illegal”… there are so many colonial laws that are still effective in Africa, i wonder what is this thing they call independence and celebrate every year. Seriously.

To all those who say that we need colonial/imperial activity to protect human (esp. women’s) rights.

Sorry I haven’t been posting much, I’ve started like 378 different blogs and I need to...

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 16:30:00 -0500

Sorry I haven’t been posting much, I’ve started like 378 different blogs and I need to really start this one back up again. :)

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Sat, 03 Dec 2011 23:55:40 -0500

Short Skirts Magically Turn Women Into Bitches

Sat, 03 Dec 2011 22:41:28 -0500

Short Skirts Magically Turn Women Into Bitches:

As this study makes clear, women still police other women’s sexuality. It reminds us too of what we already know: that policing does tangible damage to women’s relationships with other women. Few things do more to fray the already tenuous bonds of sisterhood. But what this study (and so many others before it) miss is the obvious point that this competitive “bitchiness” towards other women rests on the assumption that men are so unreliable that there’s no point in trying to “police” their behavior. If women believed that men had the power to resist sexual temptation, if they believed that male infidelity was the result of a choice rather than a biological inevitability, then women wouldn’t feel nearly as threatened by cleavage.

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Sat, 03 Dec 2011 22:36:39 -0500

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Sat, 03 Dec 2011 22:34:46 -0500

I usually hate calling out for followers, but I would love to find some blogs that really enjoy...

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:31:26 -0500

I usually hate calling out for followers, but I would love to find some blogs that really enjoy poetry or human rights.

If you’re a blog that likes either of these things, I would totally love to follow you if you like this post or follow me. <3

podunkqueer: Also… Sorry to frighten the fuck out of my new...

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:27:16 -0500

podunkqueer:

Also…

Sorry to frighten the fuck out of my new followers.

THIS^ is love. I was dying, due to pcp pneumonia and acute respiratory failure/distress. I lost over 150lbs, one of my lungs collapsed and will never re inflate, I had chest tubes, multiple IV’s, I was on a ventilator, had a tracheostomy, had to re-learn how to walk, talk, eat and breathe on my own, all over again. My husband, was there for me EVERY. FUCKING. DAY. The amazing doctors and nurses at KU Medical Center ALL commented on how amazingly dedicated my husband was. How few husbands show such tenderness and love. I would have died, had he not been there to keep me going.

I have a man who wiped my ass for me because I messed myself in my hospital bed.

Now, tell me that we are going to ruin the sanctity of marriage and I will bust your fucking teeth out.

"[TW: Rape] You have nothing to feel ashamed of. I want you to know you didn’t do anything wrong...."

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:26:58 -0500

“[TW: Rape] You have nothing to feel ashamed of. I want you to know you didn’t do anything wrong. Please know that you were chosen by a monster. It’s not your fault. You didn’t ask for it and, most of all, you didn’t deserve it.”

- Writer-director Tyler Perry • In an open letter, published by The Daily Beast, to an 11-year-old alleged victim in the Jerry Sandusky case. “Do you know that at the young age of 11 you had more courage than all the adults who let you down?” he writes. “All of the ones who didn’t go to the proper authorities, all of the ones who were worried about their careers, reputations, or livelihoods. All of the ones who didn’t want to get involved. Or even the ones who tried to convince your mother not to fight. You are stronger than them all! I wonder what they would have done if it were their own child.” You rock, Tyler. (via shortformblog)

Why is this making me cry?

I’m in tears. This is wonderful.

(via goldenheartedrose)

Not everyone is awful.

(via mcgoats)

sexistappeal: [Image: An off-white patch with a black screen...

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:14:57 -0500

sexistappeal:

[Image: An off-white patch with a black screen printed design. Centred is the trans* symbol, with three fists added to it. Text above reads, “ONE STRUGGLE” and below, “STICK TOGETHER”]

wanderlustqueer:

If you think only women can be feminists, you are not a feminist.

If you think all women have vaginas, you are not a feminist.

If you think women are already equal, you are not a feminist.

If you think slut-shaming is okay, you are not a feminist.

If you think rape jokes are funny, you are not a feminist.

If you think rape is caused by victims, you are not a feminist.

If you think women are the only victims and men the only rapists, you are not a feminist.

If you think women should be virginal, you are not a feminist.

If you think men should be the bread-winners, you are not a feminist.

If you think trans* women are not “real women,” you are not a feminist.

I could go on all day. STOP THIS MISOGYNIST BULLSHIT.

Yesssss! Who created this fantastic piece of work?

melodycool: Street Art - Women

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:45:31 -0500

melodycool:

Street Art - Women

This isn’t funny. Women have been struggling for hundreds...

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:44:16 -0500

This isn’t funny.

Women have been struggling for hundreds of years to achieve social status and the ability to have a well-paying, decent job. It’s not even anywhere near appropriate or funny to confine them to just a home or to stereotype them. Women can play video games, obviously, and they are capable of much more than ironing a shirt. The person who made this, as well as the people who posted/reblogged it really need to grow up and learn about how not all women are “housewives” (even though there’s nothing wrong about being one).

"A woman’s hair is her glory."

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:35:29 -0500

“A woman’s hair is her glory.”

- Maya Angelou (via perfectlycontradicted)

rosie-the-riveter: Excuse my language, but what the fuck is this shit. I don’t understand...

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:30:35 -0500

rosie-the-riveter:

Excuse my language, but what the fuck is this shit.

I don’t understand why people think this is funny. This is disgusting.

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Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:20:38 -0500

"The thing is, it’s patriarchy that says men are stupid and monolithic and unchanging and incapable...."

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:09:12 -0500

“The thing is, it’s patriarchy that says men are stupid and monolithic and unchanging and incapable. It’s patriarchy that says men have animalistic instincts and just can’t stop themselves from harassing and assaulting. It’s patriarchy that says men can only be attracted by certain qualities, can only have particular kinds of responses, can only experience the world in narrow ways. Feminism holds that men are capable of more – are more than that.”

- On claiming to be a stupid man who doesn’t know anything « Zero at the Bone

Exactly this. This is why I despise it when men refuse to have a conversation with me about these issues and instead play dumb.

(via ladyatheist)

THANK YOU

(via byallflowers)

“If I Should Have A Daughter” by Sarah Kay

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 01:47:35 -0500

“If I Should Have A Daughter” by Sarah Kay

"She had turned her face up into a rain of light, and came on smiling. The light trickled down her..."

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:34:53 -0500

“

She had turned her face up into
a rain of light, and came on smiling.

The light trickled down her forehead
and into her eyes. It ran down

into the neck of her sweatshirt
and wet the white tops of her breasts.

Her brown shoes splashed on
into the light. The moment was like

a circus wagon rolling before her
through puddles of light, a cage on wheels,

and she walked fast behind it,
exuberant, curious, pushing her cane

through the bars, poking and prodding,
while the world cowered back in a corner.

”

- Ted Kooser, “A Blind Woman”