May 2012
47 posts
“Listen,
It does not matter what you say. As a woman, as a woman of color, as a...”
– via PersephoneMagazine (via soydulcedeleche)
“Plenty of oppressive bullshit goes down under the guise of nice. Every day,...”
– The Revolution Will Not Be Polite: The Issue of Nice versus Good (Social Justice League)
I’ve been thinking about niceness a lot lately. I’m not sure it’s as beneficial as I used to think it was.
(via meganwest)
Some of the scariest people I know have being “nice” down to a fine...
Fuck Yeah, Gender Studies!: Promoting a different... →
fuckyeahgenderstudies:
oiletries. Women’s aid websites recommend that, in preparing to leave an abusive partner, after getting together legal documents and identification, money and some clothes, victims should get together toiletries. Often these things are overlooked; just as often, such items aren’t readily available at women’s centres and refuges. So… someone decided to do something about...
Sigh
Feeling a little down because only one friend outside my immediate family remembered.
But according to some people it’s my responsibility to tell people it’s my birthday (aka The Annual Meltdown Day), or to just put it on Facebook. WTF? I’m not a fucking troll for attention, thank you.
*eats a piece of my imaginary queer cake*
STFU, Conservatives: Ever wonder why I'm on a... →
extantecstasy:
Because the media reacts like this when we’re less than perfect. Because our emotional range gets stunted and limited.
Because so many aspects of our culture normalize rape on a subconscious level.
Because Kansas and Arizona pass bills that allows the beliefs of a doctor or pharmacist to trump the health of a woman. And because fetuses are becoming increasingly more important...
“I don’t think it’s terribly controversial to note that women, from a young age,...”
– Jennifer duBois, Writing Across Gender (via florida-uterati)
This was why my 5th Form English teacher giving us Anne McCaffrey’s “Dragonflight” to read was a truly radical act.
Historical Slut: Members Of New GOP Women’s Caucus... →
abaldwin360:
The 24 Republican Congresswomen in the U.S. House announced yesterday that they have joined to form the Women’s Policy Committee, a caucus aimed at “raising the profile of GOP women in diverse achievements and providing a unique, unified voice on a wide range of critically important issues.”
But a ThinkProgress review of their voting records shows that the two dozen women have...
“Studies have shown, that, indeed, introverts are more likely than extroverts to...”
– Quiet: The Power of Introverts, by Susan Cain (via nerdyninjanicole)
Indeed. I have a whole other life many people (including my parents) may not even comprehend.
Lynne Jamneck: Queer sf Anthology Re-released →
lynnejamneck:
t’s here! The Lambda Award shortlisted anthology of sf I edited and compiled for Lethe Press in 2008 has now been re-released by Untreed Reads in a host of e-book formats. You can buy Periphery direct from the publisher, as well as amongst others Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Apple iBookstore, Scribd, All Romance Books and DriveThru Fiction. Description: Periphery is as much about the...
Why should it be up to me to do all the heavy...
Man: *says something sexist*
Woman: *giggles*
Me: "Don't let him get away with saying that. Do something!"
Woman: "I'd have to care enough to do something about it."
Me: *facepalm, sigh*
I’m watching Carl Sagan’s “Cosmos” series right now (and starting in on the book) and I am LOVING IT SO HARD. 30 years old, and still so beautiful.
I do however find it very Euro/US and male centric. I wonder if Carl was alive today whether he’d revist the notions of euro/male centric science and history, or even if he did (if anyone knows in books/essays/forums if...
“We’ll probably never know how many women inventors there were. That’s because in...”
– FactMonster.com (via stfuconservatives)
THIS. And women scientists, because they’d be credited to or published under their fathers/husbands/brothers/male research colleagues name.
“On Mother’s Day, no one is going to send me flowers or a card. I will not be...”
– —I am nobody’s mother and I never will be, by Kat Kinsman
I’m really happy that this was published. As Mother’s Day approaches, I am certainly grateful to my mother, and equally certain that I would not make the same choices that she did. I will never have children - I have no desire to have them...
Obama: I Love Lamp.
Fox News: Obama Declares War On Fixed Wall Light Fittings.
“When a man is homophobic or effemiphobic he is reminding us, in no uncertain...”
– Son of Baldwin (via sonofbaldwin)
Thoroughly relevant to the homophobic screed directed my way today.
STFU, Conservatives: It passed. →
dionthesocialist:
After all the campaigning, all the analysis, all the Facebook groups, and tweets, and tumbles, Amendment One passed. This isn’t about banning gay marriage in North Carolina, because gay marriage, as it has been said many times before, is already banned here. To be honest, I’m not quite sure what this amendment was about. It’s language is dramatically stark: the only domestic...
The day before my 40th birthday I wrote a letter... →
One of the nicest guys (without the TM) in the world and one of my favourite people of all time turned 40 today. And he wrote a gorgeous letter to himself back in 1987 (a terrible wonderful year for me too)
You’re too young to have regrets and your future self doesn’t believe in them anyway so please go forward knowing that you will never be given anything in your life you...
More thoughts on "IUDs fer all!"
Will genderqueer people on the DPB be mis-gendered and have it “suggested” they acquire the state sanctioned contraceptives?
Will lesbians be required to be held up to the same standards? What if said lesbians are not out, especially to their WINZ case manager, for reasons of safety?
How invasive will WINZ get on health care privacy? What if a person on the DPB has reproductive...
What Happens Next: A Gallimaufry: The Avengers →
fozmeadows:
Warning: spoilers.
Seriously now, internets. Level with me: am I honest to dog the only human alive who didn’t think The Avengers movie was the most awesome thing in the history of things? More than that - am I alone in thinking that by Joss Whedon’s earlier standards, it was a great big pile…
Oh lawdee brilliant. Read it. Read it all.
I liked the movie but even I kept...
Free birth control! (but only if you're a female...
New Zealand’s women hating continues as the government announces access to free contraception. Sounds great! Ah, but only a) if you’re female b) if you’re on the DPB c) certain long-term contraceptives.
I’m so incensed I can barely think straight, so here are some links to immediate reactions with better commentary than I could offer in my incapable-of-those-wordy-things...
So, I saw The Avengers, and it was a lot of fun.
I would like to thank all the people I follow on Tumblr who are comic/Avengers fans who have posted gif sets, quotes and promosquee over the last year or so. I enjoyed my viewing of “The Avengers” MORE because I recognized and enjoyed your squee, and squeezed every ounce of fanfic shipping out of it.
Plus, Tom Hiddleston’s cheekbones. Yes, I giggled like the 12 year old I am...
Fuck yeah, feminists!: Way to show that girls... →
laura-raptor:
My store got two books in today. Both survival guides. Both feature strong images on the front. Promising survival techniques for ‘boys only’ and ‘girls only’. Let’s look at the boys, shall we?
How to Survive Anything: Boys Only!
Featuring articles such as “How to Survive a Shark Attack”, “How to Survive if You’re in a Plane Crash”, “How to Survive a Flash Flood”, and many...
Wild Unicorn Herd: A list of PoC Sci-Fi/Fantasy... →
madamethursday:
stfuconfederates:
Octavia E. Butler
L.A. Banks
Tananarive Due
N.K. Jemisin
Nalo Hopkinson
Samuel R. Delany
Haruki Murakami
Andrea Hairston
Shaun Tan
Steven Barnes
Nisi Shawl
Nnedi Okorafor
Dark Matter (compilation series)
The Carl Brandon Society (organization)
Thanks to everybody who contributed!
Feel free to reblog & add more.
Where’s Michelle...
Diane Revoluta: Something is rotten in the state... →
dianerevoluta:
Yesterday, somewhere between 2000-5000 people marched in Wellington against the government’s plans to partially sell state assets. This followed a similar sized march in Auckland last weekend and a week-long hikoi starting in Cape Reinga. After last year’s record low voter turn out, it would…