January 2011
11 posts
Personal Breakthrough
Today I got harassed on the street again. And for the first time I SAID something about it INSTINCTIVELY. I didn’t have to give myself a pep talk. I didn’t have to remind myself that I deserve a safe space. And I didn’t look down and walk away quickly.
Some dude gave me an extremely aggressive stare down when I walked into work. In front of his friends. And it was obviously...
False empowerment
At this exact moment, this post is on my Facebook newsfeed three times:
“I don’t usually “re-post” other ppls status’ but I like this one:
Tough girls come from Alabama, Sweet girls come from Indiana and Barbie girls come from California, but we Louisiana girls have fire & ice in our blood! We can be a princess, throw a left hook, pack heat, hang with the boys,...
Dorothy Parker's The Second Oldest Story plus some...
Go I must along my ways Though my heart be ragged, Dripping bitter through the days, Festering, and jagged. Smile I must at every twinge, Kiss, to time its throbbing; He that tears a heart to fringe Hates the noise of sobbing. Weep, my love, till Heaven hears; Curse and moan and languish. While I wash your wound with tears, Ease aloud your anguish. Bellow of the pit in Hell Where...
The feminist-slut connection
wheniknew:
I knew I was a feminist when my father called me a slut for sleeping with my then-boyfriend. He’ll never know how much that hurt me… but also empowered me.
Writing my own slut-shamed story for When I Knew earlier this week has had a huge effect on me… it was so cathartic to put it out there, because I’ve never told that story in public before, and I shy away from doing...
“But what most men don’t realize is that all women in our society are on the...”
– Charlie Glickman, The Most Important Thing That Men Who Have Sex With Women Need to Know (via tulletulle)
PippiLongstockingism
I’ve told people for a long time that my religion is Pippi Longstockingism. Those books are so awesomely funny, so fantastically entertaining and so wonderfully feminist and important that a nice copy of them is my standard baby gift for new parents. The central tenets of Pippi Longstockingism? Girls are strong, funny and awesome. Love yourself, love your life. And if people don’t get...
ayunas heart: Not Shaving My Vagina →
cestness:
hobbiton:
mybiggestregretever:
My biggest regret ever is not shaving my vagina before “doing things.” He was all like, “eww omg why don’t you shave that’s gross.” And then I’m like, “I’ve never needed to until you came along.” We never ended up doing anything and he broke up with me two…
wow, life is so hard for 14 years olds now a days…
Life actually IS insanely hard...
Super Sloppy Seventeenths
This is my personal, painful story of how I became a feminist. It’s not an academic look at feminism, and it’s not the most coherent thing I’ve ever written, it’s just completely emotionally honest.
Share your story of when you realized you were a feminist at wheniknew. It’s a fantastic new blog about when you first realized you were a feminist, inspired by the book...
New Hospital Visitation Regulations for LGBT... →
rosalarian:
This. Is. HUGE.
These new regulations require all hospitals participating in Medicaid and Medicare programs – virtually every hospital in the country – to permit patients to designate visitors of their choosing and prohibit discrimination in visitation based on a number of factors, including sexual orientation and gender identity.
This is so incredibly important- first and...