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DON'T DRIVE DRUNK.
From 6pm-6am on New Year’s Eve/Day AAA will take your drunk self and your car home for FREE, member or not: 800-222-4357
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Alien Cathouse brothel to feature 'girls from... →
I’d be interested in hearing from some people who’d be working here.
December 2011
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“The love expressed between women is particular and powerful, because we have had...”
– Audre Lorde (via abklynmyracle)
H.O.P.E. House: A Trans Safety House and... →
artoftransliness:
Looks like a great cause to support or a great resource for those out there who have been kicked out of their homes.
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mohandasgandhi:
It’s always “cool” to be relatively young in the academic world because people tend to be impressed you were able to accomplish what you did at such a young age… unless you’re a woman and especially in a male dominated field.
In the cases of those who were merely born without penises, the conversation switches from praise to immense skepticism.
“Did you do this by yourself?”
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“I think if we get freedom for women, then they are probably going to do a lot of...”
– Alice Paul on women obtaining freedom, i.e. the vote. (via fyeahwomenshistory)
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An 'Inconvenient Truth': Income Inequality →
newwavefeminism:
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Is income inequality becoming the new global warming? In other words, is this another case where the facts of an existential threat lose traction among a weary American public as deniers attempt to reduce them to partisan opinions?
It’s beginning to seem so.
A Gallup poll released on Thursday found that, after rising rather steadily for the past two decades, the...
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Feinstein Introduces Due Process Guarantee Act
liberalsarecool:
On December 15, just hours after the Senate had passed the compromise version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), Senator Diane Feinstein (D-Calif., left)) introduced a bill, supported by several of her colleagues from across the aisle, to extract at least one of the sharpest teeth from the freedom-devouring monster created by the NDAA.
The measure, entitled...
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Some useful [white, heterosexual, & male]...
Some links that may be useful to you folks
White privilege [PDF]:
Peggy McIntosh, Associate Director of the Wellesley College Center for Research on Women, describes white privilege as “an invisible package of unearned assets, which I can count on cashing in each day, but about which I was ‘meant’ to remain oblivious. White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of...
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My body, my rules: a case for rape and domestic...
*Trigger warning for sexual violence*
I started working at Starbucks on August 22, 2006. That was a little over five years ago. Every year we have annual reviews where I generally get to argue with someone younger than me who makes significantly more than do about why my hard work, aching back, cracking hands, sore wrists, the bags under my eyes, the burns, the bruises on my arms, the cuts...
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Women on Web, forever reblog →
For those who cannot receive safe abortions in their countries, this is an online medical abortion service which helps people gain safe access to abortion.
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TW: Murder of women. ATTN midwest sex workers!!... →
delicatetbone:
One week. Two car trunks. Four women dead.
Detroit police may be on the hunt for a killer who might be targeting escorts after it was discovered that three of the four women found dead this month are linked to sex-related advertisements onBackpage.com, police said Monday.
The website includes dozens of come-hithers from metro Detroit escorts offering exotic fantasies and erotic...
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In-laws Suck! →
I just started this blog for anyone who’d like company and support in dealing with their partners’ families. All genders and sexualities welcome.
http://inlawssuck.tumblr.com/
Much love,
FYF Jacquie
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“Twilight” as a cautionary tale about traditional...
Bella is warned by numerous people and events throughout the course of the story that she is actively pursuing her own destruction – but she’s so dependent on Edward and caught up in the idea of the romance that she refuses to see the situation for what it is. Charlie tells her Edward is bad news. Edward tells her that he believes he is damned, and devoid of a soul. He further tells her...
Rainbow Resources - a resource for working with... →
genderqueer:
Submission from immeljacket:
Here’s an amazing resource made by some of the very talented people at IFM-SEI, dedicated to working with kids under thirteen on topics of gender and sexual identity. Rainbow Resources contains activities for educators trying to work on their own gender/sexuality knowledge, as well as fun activities to do with young participants.
LGBTQ Intimate Partner Violence Up in 2010, Says... →
projectqueer:
By Winston Gieseke
A new report from the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP) reveals that six intimate partner violence (IPV)-related murders were reported in the United States in the LGBTQ community in 2010, the same number reported in 2009. In the cases from 2010, four of the victims identified as female. The report, titled “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,...
Jon Stewart Crushes Fox News In The 2011 Ratings →
mamaatheist:
The reason why Fox News feels so threatened by Jon Stewart is because his program is more popular than anything not named Bill O’Reilly on the network. Not only is Stewart popular, but he is popular with the coveted young demographics that Fox News struggles with. The average Fox News viewer is 65 years old. For years, the Fox News model of success has been powered by viewers...
Don't ever hesitate. Reblog this. This should be...
Depression Hotline: 1-630-482-9696 (UK: Depression Alliance, 0845 123 2320)
Suicide Hotline: 1-800-784-8433 (UK: Samaritans, 08457 90 90 90)
LifeLine: 1-800-273-8255
Trevor Project: 1-866-488-7386
Sexuality Support: 1-800-246-7743 (UK: London Lesbian & Gay Switchboard (serves all LGBTQ people), 0300 330 0630)
Eating Disorders Hotline: 1-847-831-3438 (UK: National Centre for Eating Disorders, 01372 469 493)
Rape and Sexual Assault: 1-800-656-4673 (UK: SupportLine, 01708 765 200)
Grief Support: 1-650-321-5272 (UK: The Bereavement Trust, 0800 435 455)
Runaway: 1-800-843-5200, 1-800-843-5678, 1-800-621-4000 (UK: Homeless UK, 0808 800 70 70)
Exhale: After Abortion Hotline/Pro-Voice: 1-866-4394253 (UK: Marie Stopes, 0845 120 3641)
Crisis Chat Online: www.crisischat.org
Domestic Violence: 1-800-799-7233 (UK: National Domestic Violence Helpline, 0808 2000 247, Broken Rainbow (for same-sex relationships), 020 8359 9507)
Get Connected (puts you in touch with appropriate hotline (UK only)): 0808 808 4994
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The Issues with transablism and transethnicism
Transabled: You being a perfectly healthy person without any disability and so lives a life of privilege not having to face the realities of such disabilities for some reason decides to identify as disabled regardless of the fact that you are a person of great health. This greatly devalues the issues the disabled community has and makes a mockery of their life. It makes being disabled seem...
I give you the 2012 Republican Presidential...
Michele Bachmann: "Don’t misunderstand. I am not here bashing people who are homosexuals, who are lesbians, who are bisexual, who are transgender. We need to have profound compassion for people who are dealing with the very real issue of sexual dysfunction in their life and sexual identity disorders.” (2004)
Ron Paul: "The rate of AIDS infection is on the increase again. From the gay point of view, the reasons seem quite sensible. First, these men don't really see a reason to live past their fifties. They are not married, they have no children, and their lives are centered on new sexual partners... because sex is the center of their lives, they want it to be as pleasurable as possible, which means unprotected sex. Third, they enjoy the attention & pity that comes with being sick." (1995 in a newsletter)
Rick Perry: "I'm not ashamed to admit that I'm a Christian, but you don't need to be in the pew every Sunday to know there's something wrong in this country when gays can serve openly in the military but our kids can't openly celebrate Christmas or pray in school. " (2011 in a campaign ad)
Mitt Romney: "I should tell my story. I'm also unemployed." (2011 while speaking to unemployed people in Florida. Romney's net worth is over $200 million.)
Newt Gingrich: "She's not young enough or pretty enough to be the wife of the President. And besides, she has cancer." (1994, about his first wife)
Rick Santorum: "Is anyone saying same-sex couples can’t love each other? I love my children. I love my friends, my brother. Heck, I even love my mother-in-law. Should we call these relationships marriage, too?" (2008)
Michele Bachmann: "Carbon dioxide is portrayed as harmful. But there isn't even one study that can be produced that shows that carbon dioxide is a harmful gas." (2009 during a debate)
Mitt Romney: "PETA is not happy that my dog likes fresh air." (2006, when questioned about driving 12 hours with his dog in a cage strapped to the top of his car)
Funding grants for Young Femininists →
chauvinistsushi:
newwavefeminism:
check it out and spread the word!
CALL FOR PROPOSALS 2011-2012
FRIDA | The Young Feminist Fund mobilizes resources, funds and strengthens the participation and leadership of young feminist activists globally. The goal of The Young Feminist Fund (FRIDA) is to provide accessible, strategic and responsive funding for young feminist-led initiatives, and to...
(TW: Rape) Dear co-workers (and dear internet),
bookishfeministash:
You do not joke about rape. You are not fucking funny. Instead, you are reminding someone of the worst goddamn experience of their life. Hilarious, right?
I hate everyone today.
Deer god, gimmie some smirnoff.
mom: you see racism everywhere. its not healthy.
me: it IS fuckin everywhere. THATS whats unhealthy as fuck. NOT the fact i can fucking see it. wtf?
Made of Star Dust and Tears: numol: $1,000 API... →
numol:
$1,000 API Restaurant Worker Scholarship – Deadline is March 15th!
numol:
please pass this around if you can.
SHUI KUEN AND ALLEN CHIN SCHOLARSHIP 2012
NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS
Two $1,000 scholarships for restaurant workers and children of restaurant workers are…
“I hate how the phrase ‘have some self respect’ is used to shame women who are...”
– Unknown (via grrrlstudies)
Also, to non-black people who might listen to...
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
This especially goes if you are white or East Asian… Please don’t tell us that “we’ll find someone awesome eventually”. Please don’t tell us that “no one deserved us”. The worst thing we can hear at those times is “it will happen for you!” by a person considered far above the desirability scale to us. Literally, the worst. Just give us a hug and hate the system that put us...