My supercool friend is saving up for top surgery and would love your help (Sex Toys for Top Surgery)
Want to start the year off right with some awesome new toys while simultaneously helping a queer save for top surgery and supporting a sex-positive, feminist store? Make a $10 donation to my ChipIn page and you’ll get a chance to win a $100 Babeland giftcard. $100 in Babeland bucks could get you…
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“When we learn that a senior woman has been raped, we don’t stop to question where she was, what she was doing, or even what she was wearing, because we assume the rapist to be scurrilous. This attitude needs to extend to every single incident of rape. The victim is never responsible for the actions of hir rapist. Let me say that again because it bears repetition, the victim is never responsible for the action of hir rapist.”Womanist Musings: 90 Year Old Grandmother Raped In Detroit. (via sexartandpolitics) (via skirtonfire)
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…Watch this video! Seriously. The show sets up a scenario, first with a white guy trying his best to take the chain off of a bike connected to a pole in a park. People mostly pass by him or give him the benefit of the doubt. After over an hour, an old couple decided to try to talk him out of it. Now, same spot, a black actor wearing something very similar to the white actor before him sets up the same scenario. He uses all of this equipment to try to break the chain and IMMEDIATELY people are all over him. I mean IMMEDIATELY. They damn near mob the guy, whipping out their phones, yelling at him, surrounding him, grabbing his stuff. Nothing tends to shock me much but I’m seriously floored to see it like this in this controlled setting. Watch it.
And then when they put the white actress in there, all the [guys] wanna help her get the bike. And they really do!
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One day you people will actually care and reblog this. But he’s still missing and people are still looking for him and maybe there’s someone out there that knows someone who knows someone on the internet that know him or saw him that night or even recently, who know but he could be out there. I’m going to keep posting this and if you get annoyed unfollow me. If you care then reblog it. If you don’t care let me know so I can unfollow you.
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Dorianisms: I received this message on my personal and am responding here.
…That would be a really lovely thing if it were true.
Sadly, it’s a lie. It’s a big, fat, ugly lie. It’s the lie that liars who lead the pro-life movement tell over and over and over again.
It’s the lie that the liars who run crisis pregnancy centers tell over and over and…
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FWD/Forward: Reproductive Justice is for Everyone, Even People You Don’t Like
For people with disabilities, the reproductive justice discussion is extremely personal. People debate whether we should be allowed to have children, people believe that compromising our bodily autonomy is acceptable for the ‘greater good,’ and people debate whether or not we should have been born. For people who were born with disabilities, hearing people claim that parents having disabled children is akin to child abuse is rather appalling.
The thing about reproductive justice is that it’s not just for the people you like and the people you agree with. It’s not just for young, nondisabled, cisgender women who want to use birth control right now and have access to abortions, with the possibility of having children later. It’s also for parents of large families. It’s also for disabled parents. It’s also for religious parents. It’s also for disabled children. It’s also for people who are not interested in having children. It’s for everyone living in a body, no matter what kind of body it is, no matter what kind of life that person leads. Reproductive justice, true justice, should be all-encompassing.
Excluding people with disabilities from the conversation by either being actively hostile or dismissing our concerns is not reproductive justice.
(From the same post): “You have the right to decide if you want to have children or not, and to determine their number, timing, and spacing.”
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colored queer waters: realization
its strange how since joining tumblr, I’ve gotten more and more comfortable with radical politics.
I honestly think its because people on tumblr search for the WHOLE truth, and nothing less. i also think people on tumblr, or at least those who i choose to interact with, understand that personal…
This is a really articulate way of explaining some major political issues at Hampshire and I’m so glad you wrote it. Especially as a new Hampshire student, I spent some time working out how people think and react there. Now, I think I have a vague sense of it, and I’m going to go ahead and ignore most of it because these people are not better than I am (regardless of what some of them may think). There is a lot I can learn from a lot of people, especially people who have different opinions than I do, but I will not get sucked into their belief that “I’m doing it wrong”.
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Female Soldiers and Rape: War Within for Military Women
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What does it tell us that female soldiers deployed overseas stop drinking water after 7 p.m. to reduce the odds of being raped if they have to use the bathroom at night? Or that a soldier who was assaulted when she went out for a cigarette was afraid to report it for fear she would be demoted — for having gone out without her weapon? Or that, as Representative Jane Harman puts it, “a female soldier in Iraq is more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire.”
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