February 2012
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grrrlVIRUS, feminism and racism within our...
the grrrlVIRUS international group on tumblr is a lively and active community that is usually incredibly supportive. however, racism and unchecked white privilege have soured the environment more than once. recently there was a thread about cultural appropriation. in the thread many racist remarks were made and a general hostile and silencing environment towards women of colour was fostered. by...
Eating Disorder Recovery Stories →
no means no. no does not mean that i want to talk...
Sterling Lovely: Attention white people →
cruelyouth:
Yeah, I guess I’m going to have to write this again. Something that has been repeated by PoC and other magrinalized groups on here over and over…
Racism is NOT only about “getting your feelings hurt,” nor is any other oppression.
Personally, I didn’t decide to open up about my…
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Women and the Environment
http://www.un.org/ecosocdev/geninfo/sustdev/womensus.htm
http://www.wedo.org/
_huda hassan: Discovering Black Feminism, The... →
love-huda:
It was this time one year ago that Milca and myself were in the midst of planning for The Africana. Our original goal and purpose for this blog was on an entirely different path from where it is today. Both of us being avid blog followers, we wanted to create a place where we could make use of our…
“Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect...”
– bell hooks (via thepurpleballoons)
sex, sexuality and female fetishism →
“when people say ‘sex’ they often mean the penetration of the vagina with a penis. this is the standard definition in a heteronormative male supremacist culture. it is such a standard definition that all other forms of sexuality and sex are negated or designated to the realm of foreplay, fetishism and kink. queer sex, between two women or between two men, is seen as an anomaly or as...
clementine cannibal: some thoughts on slut →
clementinecannibal:
i’ve been thinking a lot about the word ‘slut’ and what it means to me as a reclaimed word. i have tried to explain over and over that choosing to reclaim ‘slut’ has nothing to do with how many sexual partners you’ve had (kinda like how reclaiming dyke isn’t dependent on yr number of same sex…
clementine cannibal: yes i am a slut →
clementinecannibal:
yes i am a slut. because i have big tits that pour out of pretty much every shirt. because i like to show them off. because i used to charge 200 an hour and sometimes i would come and my client wouldn’t cuz that’s how much i was into fucking. because i’ve had trains run on me. because i liked it….
