February 2011
RadioGirl: Reflections of a White, Female Race...
(via RadioGirl at DailyKos)
Learning to listen – really listen – to people of color and believe what they say when they are describing their experiences in a white supremacist society didn’t come naturally to (virtuous, white) me. It came painfully, and the lessons demanded an intensity of self-reflection and self-examination that was usually embarrassing, often excruciating because it...
January 2011
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Alec82: The Globalization of Homohate: Time to Ask...
(via Alec82 @ DailyKos)
Last Wednesday, Ugandan gay activist David Kato was bludgeoned to death. On Saturday, the pastor who presided over his funeral called for gays to repent “or be punished by God.”
Kato’s death did not take place in a vacuum. The Uganda anti-gay bill introduced in parliament in October of 2009 was partially the product of an alliance between...
Fat Mama
telegantmess:
(trigger warnings for mentions of body hatred and eating disorders behind the cut. Also pictures.)
Inspired by this post.
I have been back and forth on posting pictures of my belly.
I’m at almost 6 months now, and my belly has definitely gotten poochy :) I love it.
One of my first worries about pregnancy had to do with my hatred of my body.
For years I would freak out over my...
queerscholar-deactivated2011121 asked: I love your blog = )
so-fresh-and-so-bean asked: I read your blog/post on choice, and I really liked it. I'm glad that other people other there can see beyond the shallow nature (no pun intended) of "born this way" arguments.
Save The Ditches Fund!
jaded16india:
Given that we dusty mudsquatting peeps exist to be saved by Nice Imperial Person, that we don’t even have a steady internet access or know about tumblr’s existence, I thought I should do some thing to help Nice Imperial Person so that they may come and save me from my ditch already. As you know, I’m the representative of all ditches in the world, you can do some or all of the...
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dopper0189: 30 years of right-wing violence in...
(via dopper0189 at DailyKos)
As not wanting to be accused of exploiting the tragedy in Arizona I decided to wait a little while before I published this diary. Many people have been justifiably outraged at the traditional media’s insistence that “both sides” use violent rhetoric. But since 1980 the numbers of deaths by right-wing terrorist numbers over 200, versus 7 by the...
Let's analyse this shall we...
meandmychimpanzee:
My parents have 2 kids… Me and my sister.
My sister had sex in a field at the age of 14, nearly got pregnant. Had letters sent home from school for misbehaving and disrupting an exam. She failed all but one of her GCSE’s and is now at college doing health & social care. She didn’t have a job until she turned 17.
She is Cis and Straight.
I passed all of my GCSE’s. Never...
I just noticed
95orbust:
that I haven’t had my period since September.
That’s 5 months.
I’m scared. I’m really scared. My mom noticed that I haven’t been asking her to buy me tampons and now she’s worried. I don’t know what to do. I want to tell her, so badly. But I’ve been lying to her about it for so long, that she’ll probably get really pissed.
My period has been gone ever since my weight went under 108....
Bisexual Boys I have Known →
When I was in college and recently out as bisexual, I had a hard time believing everyone else wasn’t a little bi too. I started asking boys I knew: just a little bi? At parties, I suggested boys…
Loyarburok: Let’s have KRS in my backseat
fuckyeahmenstruation:
(via loyarburok)
By Lim Kar Mern
A critique of the government’s sex education plan, PKRS, so shrouded in taboo that the word “sex” did not even make it into the plan’s name.
KRS = Sex?
It’s not a textbook publishing company for students studying for their PMR, it’s not your inter-state tennis tournament title, and no it’s not a (yet another) Government scholarship....
Re: Periods
erikawithac:
I’ve seen several conversations going around my dash lately about attitudes towards menstruation. I’ve hesitated to add my two cents via reblogging because as a cis-woman who is lucky enough that since I’ve been on birth control, my period has been very manageable, I’m really hesitant to wind up derailing other, important conversations about menstruation.
I’m not here to tell...
Menstrual Cramps Relief
iheartpaganism:
Yoga Sequence (10-15 minutes)
1. Sounding Breath (Ujjayi) 2. Squatting Pose (Nishadita Asana) 3. Knee Rocking 4. Knee Hug (Apanasana) 5. Seated Angle (Baddha Konasana) 6. Spinal Twist (Matsyendrasana) or Modified Spinal Twist (Parivrtta Asana) 7. Through-the-Hole Stretch (Avati Ayana) 8. Child pose (Garbhasana)
Sequence from Essential Yoga: An Illustrated Guide to Over 100...
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[ACLU] Spying On Surfing: Why We Need a "Do Not...
(via ACLU at DailyKos)
By Christopher Calabrese, Legislative Counsel, ACLU Washington Legislative Office
The new model of Internet advertising scares the heck out of us. It’s called behavioral targeting. What that amounts to, in a nutshell, is following you around the web from site to site recording your movements and using that record to sell you personalized ads. All those ads that...
Third World Protest as US Spectator Sport
zuky:
I’m not a fan of the US cultural habit of turning political turmoil in faraway lands into a gawkworthy spectator sport. I came to this realization in the aftermath of the 1989 protests in Tiananmen Square, as it gradually dawned on me that sheltered, largely clueless people who had no stake in what was happening had little business pushing their intrusive, hungry gaze into such...
Speech Through Silences →
I got an invite from the Embassy Library this week, inviting me to a dinner they’re holding to celebrate Virginia Woolf’s birthday, the invite carries the stamp of the Bloomsbury Press that the…
And You Thought We Damn Dusty Womminz Made Up The...
jaded16india:
Click this only if you can take puking in your mouth.
This is a screen cap from the Girl Store, where one can buy books and school supplies for Indian girls. I admire their goal but I won’t lie, I started crying looking at this.
There are many animated ‘doll-like’ girls you can choose to help. Upon placing the cursor, they move.
These doll-girl-pity-objects look either sad...
Buck Angel's Women's HIV/AIDS Prevention PSA →
Hi. This is my Public Service Announcement on the importance of safe sex and the prevention of HIV/AIDS. Playboy playmate,fitness expert and HIV/AIDS educator Rebekka Armstrong speaks about how…
wankerlogic-deactivated20110204 asked: How do you chose your clothing? What does your dress say about you? How would people treat you differently if you appeared differently?
untitledunidentifiedunfinished asked: Hi, I'm doing a costume design project about trans* bodies, and I was wondering if you or your followers might be able to help me out with my research. I'm looking for personal experiences and anything related to trans* people's experiences of their bodies. My eventual aim is to create some costumes based on the feedback I get. I have made a blog dedicated to the project, which you...
Trans Flagging →
Flagging Trans Ontologies, Not Fetishes
We have endeavoured to make opinicus rampant completely pan gender, so that every flag can be read on any body. In this vein, we removed…
i have an old, gray, fat, pussy that has pushed...
radicallyhottoff:
and I say that not to do some genital essentializing bullshit where i’m all—ooh, my womb makes me a wombon and my vag is a sacred portal of life!!!
i say that instead to say—at one point—i had a very nice porn pussy. the fuckable kind that would get me laid and/or married. i nourished it with virginity and kept it a fresh gift for my future spouse. i had a high end pussy.
for...
let's pretend we don't exist: When the Apocalypse... →
jaded16india:
iced-chai:
This post is a sort of reply to the following post, which I came across on tumblr:
title: “shangri-la”
i always look at the world for how beautiful it is, which can be found everywhere and anywhere as long as you look for it. but one day, man will destroy all that is left of that; and when i’ve had enough and want to make the whole world disappear, i will walk...
