February 2012
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Tiger Beatdown › No One Will Protect You: The... →
Boys wearing dresses is still shocking, however, and for one very simple reason: sexism. As long as we live in a society that values the masculine and devalues the feminine, people who choose femininity when masculinity is readily available to them will be a threat to the status quo, and will therefore be seen as rebels or perverts. If you ever want to check whether sexism is still a thing, just...
“I recall my grandmother and father telling me, when I was about 10, about a...”
– Jamia Wilson, “Black Herstory: ‘The Trial of the Decade,’” Ms. Magazine blog, 2/21/12 (via racialicious
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“But when I recently found myself labeled as a girl who takes pictures of herself...”
– My picture, my expression, my life
I love this so much, especially coming from Izzy, one of SPARK’s resident eighth graders. So much Facebook photo judging is dripping with misogyny and attacking girls who are just trying to navigate the super weird, super fraught journey of growing up in...
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ROOKIE: The Year of My Eating Disorder →
I wanted to be the best at something, even if it landed me in the hospital.
[EXCLUSIVE] Too $hort: "This Is a Wake-Up Call for... →
supasoulsis:
“Feminism is hard,muddy,but worth-it work.”~Dream Hampton
#ItsAlwaysBeenBiggerThanTooShort
“…when I taped the XXL video, my goal was that this was some kind of comedy piece. So I am sitting there and the thing that I am saying is actually reminiscent of when we as little boys were being bad and (what) we were doing something or learning or practicing. But now...
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Santorum: Blames Wife For Women In The Work Force...
newwavefeminism:
liberalsarecool:
George Stephanopoulos asked Rick Santorum on Sunday “to explain a remark in his book, It Takes a Family, that accuses ‘radical feminists’ of undermining families and trying to convince women that they could find fulfillment only in the workplace”
Mr. Santorum said that his wife, Karen, had written that section of the 2005 book — though only his name...
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“A recent article from the Los Angeles Times shocked no one when it revealed that...”
– Oscar is an Old White Man: What Does that Mean for Women in Hollywood?
If you're interested in hearing me talking about... →
whooo, go ness!
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Public Statement: “We Are the 44%” Coalition... →
TW for sexual assault
Last week popular hip-hop magazine XXL posted a video on its website (XXL.com) from Too $hort, a 45-year old rapper who came to prominence in the late 80’s for his raunchy lyrics and videos. In what was called his “fatherly advice” video, the rapper instructed 12, 13, and 14-year-old boys on how to “turn out” their female classmates. In a transcript from the video, he said:...
kelsium:
Virginia’s proposed legislation is what happens when men spend their entire lives thinking a vagina is just a hole attached to a mysterious baby-making machine and set of breasts. No, really. They “didn’t know” it would be invasive because they didn’t know that a person with a brain lives in there.
Hey undergraduate students – we want to hear from... →
SAFER’s great, help ‘em out!
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“And yet a woman’s weight is seen by American culture as an outward manifestation...”
– Everybody, Every Body: the Media’s Erasure of Fat Girls
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This just in:
Oscar voters are 94% white and 77% male.
File under: “stuff we totally already knew but it’s so depressing to have confirmation,” “no wonder War Horse got a best picture nod.”
“True gender equality is actually perceived as inequality. A group that is made...”
– Lucy, When Worlds Collide: Fandom and Male Privilege. (via seaofbadstories)
“Too $hort, an elder statesman in the rap game, has made a career of portraying...”
– Akiba Solomon, Too $hort and the Anatomy of a Weak Apology, Ebony.com 2/14/12 (via racialicious)
Important question for you all!
crystalsavestheday:
So as you know I’m going to be speaking at the Women in the World Summit 2012 on the and one of my tasks is to ask all of you
what kind of questions/issues would you be interested in the young women (me) involved in social media and internet activism talk about?
Let me know!!
Also check out page 14!!! So amazing to see my name in this program.
And ya’ll I’m going to get...
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“‘Girl power’ has been co-opted from having the power to create...”
– Lyn Mikel Brown
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North Carolina's anti same sex marriage amendment...
pluralisms:
which, by the way, is ALREADY illegal in NC. The amendment, which will be voted on May 8th, says that ”“Marriage between one man and one woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized in this state.”
This has severe consequences for all unmarried couples in the state, straight or gay, and especially for unmarried women, who are significantly more likely...
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TAKE ACTION: Send a #bc4us Valentine to Congress... →
Congress is currently gearing up to put the entire women’s preventive care package in jeopardy based on the objections of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops. On February 11th, President Obama announced that these regulations will be implemented so that every insurance company will be required to include birth control coverage without co-pay or deductible – even if religiously affiliated...
OMG YOU GUYS/GALS OMG
crystalsavestheday:
I was invited to speak at the Women in the World Summit!
And there’s going to be a panel of “girl activists” who use the internet as part of their activism and they wanted girls within the LGBTQ community and/or communities of people of color.
And guess who’s going to be there:
Hosted by Tina Brown, Diane von Furstenberg, Jane Harman, Leymah Gbowee, Sheryl Sandberg, Meryl...
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Girls & young women on the Internet: Kickaction... →
kickaction.ca wants to know how girls & young women are using the Internet, what all-girl spaces online provide the girls who use them, and how the Internet has improved or otherwise changed the way girls see themselves. Help them out by leaving a comment, & you could win a $25 iTunes gift card! You’ll also be helping them—and all their allies, like us!—create better...
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“I understand that sexualized female characters on television are a dime a dozen,...”
– Sherlock Goes Sexist: Arthur Conan Doyle is Very Disappointed
Facebook censors cupcakes! →
veggielezzyfemmie:
Facebook refuses to remove pages that promote rape and sexual assault and instead asks the page owners to add a [humor] tag to make sure everyone knows the graphic and often threatening content was just a “joke.” But now the site has started taking down pictures of a tray of vulva cupcakes as “pornography.” What gives, Facebook? Rape jokes are cool, women’s anatomy in food...
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the problem of traditionally gendered acts of...
Benevolent sexism [aka chivalry] may not be physically violent, but it has a pretty similar outcome to hostile sexism… . . A group of psychologists … ran a study to find out does benevolent sexism influence how girls’ feel about their bodies?
The researchers used a simple test to measure the effects of benevolent sexism on how women felt about their bodies (this is called ...
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“The outrage is tiresome and deeply hypocritical, in all the tiresome ways you’ve...”
– M.I.A. shouldn’t have apologized
lulu-illumination asked: I work at Toys R' Us. I'd seriously rethink encouraging your followers to go and create more work for the workers. Change wont come from me or my coworkers having to go through all the toys to pick up your notes. Everything has a section b/c it makes it easier to find and reshop things(which means putting things back where they go b/c most of you are too lazy to do it and don't...
