February 2012
157 posts
“For medical experts, the appearance of external genitalia tends to be considered...”
– Regulating Middlesex by Anne Bloom, found in the anthology Fault Lines, edited by David M. Engel and Michael McCann (via reinventionoftheprintingpress)
“Some bodies can afford plastic surgery, braces, and weekly facials, while others...”
– Donna Nicol (via croatoan)
Five Myths About Women in Combat →
fuckyeahfeminists:
This is from May, but consider Santorum’s recent bullshit comments about women not being able to ‘handle’ combat just as well this is relevant. Thanks to the reader who suggested I post this!
Here’s the list. Click the link for explanations and the whole article.
Women are too emotionally fragile for combat.
Women are too physically weak for the battlefield.
The presence...
“So when the Irish, when Germans, when Italians were coming, and they didn’t...”
– Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Race-The Power of an Illusion (via lati-negros)
“Being a Black man in America is like having another job.”
– Arthur Ashe
American athlete and social activist
(via coffee-talk)
“As a mounting body of research is showing, wealth can actually change how we...”
– Why it matters that our politicians are rich - Ideas - The Boston Globe (via sociolab)
“The only way you can truly complain about Affirmative Action is if you ignore...”
– Elon James White (via humanformat)
“America touts itself as the land of the free, but the number one freedom that...”
– Tom Morello (via iwanttheairwaves)
“The result of these differences, say researchers who work on money and social...”
– Why it matters that our politicians are rich - Ideas - The Boston Globe (via sociolab)
Extreme poverty in US has more than doubled since... →
anticapitalist:
A policy brief recently issued by the National Poverty Center (NPC) reveals that the number of households in the US living on less than $2 a day per person has increased by 130 percent since 1996, from 636,000 to some 1.46 million today.
This means that some 4 million people in “the richest country on earth” (according to US capitalism’s apologists) are surviving on less than...
shakethecobwebs:
I am inherently valuable
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“Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are...”
– Karl Marx (via sinidentidades)
Woman: Can I have birth control?
Government: No.
Woman: I got pregnant because I didn't have birth control and I don't want the fetus. Can I have an abortion?
Government: No.
Woman: I gave birth to my child but since I wasn't expecting it, I can't afford daycare. Can I have help paying for it?
Government: No.
“This tribe called “Women of Color” is not an ethnicity. It is one of the...”
– Aurora Levins Morales, My Name is This Story from Telling to Live Latina Feminist Testimonios.
(via mujerinterrumpida)
“You make yourself strong because it’s expected of you. You become confident...”
– Jodi Picoult (via thepajamawarrior)
Things You Shouldn't Say To...
fuckyeahfeminists:
journeytoanewcreation:
People suffering from depression:
“Stop being so negative!” “You choose to be sad” “You don’t even have anything to be sad about” “There are millions worse off than you, just get a grip!”
People struggling with self-harm:
“You’re just doing it for attention!” “Those cuts aren’t even that bad” “You don’t even have a reason to cut/burn yourself” “You...
The psychological poverty trap →
Shafir has proved that anyone faced with adverse conditions will consistently make bad economic decisions. An experiment he conducted with Mullainathan and Zhao placed financially-savvy Princeton students from prominent families under the stressful and rushed conditions that poor people face every day. They were given questions to answer in a series of timed rounds, but were permitted to...
“If an elementary school student has an excellent teacher even for a single year,...”
– Raj Chetty, professor of economics at Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences and a co-author of the study with Harvard Kennedy School’s John Friedman and Columbia Business School’s Jonah Rockoff. (Harvard Gazette)
AKA why teachers should be paid more and we should be working to retain the best and...
“If I’m left without contraception, how can I plan my pregnancies? If I can’t...”
– The (Not) New War on Birth Control - we’re talking about it today. (via myplannedparenthood)
The Peculiar Kind: web series about queer women of... →
midwestgenderqueer:
The Peculiar Kind is a web series that candidly explores the lives and experiences of queer women of color with eye-opening and unscripted conversations. Episode one of The Peculiar Kind explores “Party Etiquette” i.e. Jealousy, Flirting, One Night Stands, Using Protection, Getting Home Safely, & Hate Crimes. Included in this episode are “OUR NEWS”, a segment brought to...
“There is something inherently wrong with a health-care system that allows a...”
– APA Chief Executive Officer Norman B. Anderson, PhD, 2011 (via travelhikepsych)
“The billionaires and their supporters in Congress are hell-bent on taking us...”
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (via azspot)
You can’t help but absolutely MARVEL at Bernie Sanders.
(via depressingfacts)
We certainly need more Bernies in Congress.
(via sarahlee310)
“The stain of racism and sexism is not just for women and people of color. It’s...”
– (via unapproachableblackchicks)
“People don’t necessarily know what they want. That’s okay. Sometimes you don’t...”
– On Good Consent, Part One | No, Seriously, What About Teh Menz? (via sexisnottheenemy)
“Less than two years ago, Americans watched in horror as the systems that were...”
– Frances Beinecke, NRDC President, in the Seattle Times. (via nrdc)
Republican Sheriff and Romney state co-chair... →
truth-has-a-liberal-bias:
mamaatheist:
FLORENCE, Ariz. —Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu built a reputation as a rising, conservative star by taking a hardline stance against illegal immigration, attacking the Obama administration and appearing alongside Sen. John McCain in a 2010 re-election ad in which McCain urged federal officials to just “complete the danged fence.”
But, on Saturday,...
[TW rape culture] Intersections within rape...
stfurapeculture:
We can’t possibly hope to change rape culture unless we acknowledge and work to change the ways in which lots of other issues contribute to it. Aside from sexism and misogyny, which we have discussed widely, check out these other examples [TW on some of the links]:
Race/Racism plays a part in rape culture.
Women who identify as mixed race, or as Native American or Alaska...