February 2012
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“Why am I the slave of Man? Why is my brain said not to be the equal of his...”
– Voltairine de Cleyre in “Sex Slavery” (1890)
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“I demand the independence of woman, her right to support herself; to live for...”
– Emma Goldman, 1897
Okay, Ladies, You Can Talk About Birth... →
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi is organizing a Democratic Steering and Policy Committee event on Thursday to allow Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown University law student who tried to testify at last week’s House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing, a chance to talk about the issue.
Pelosi aides say the House recording studio has denied a request to broadcast the event,...
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Westboro Baptist Church- Phone, Names, Addresses,...
Westboro Baptist Church
3701 SW 12th St
Topeka, KS 66604
(785) 273-0325
Fred W. and Margie M. Phelps, Sr.
Westboro Baptist Church
3701 S.W. 12th Street
Topeka, Kansas 66604
phone: 785-273-0325 and 785-273-0338
fax: 785-273-9228
Fred W. Phelps. Jr. and Betty Phelps
3600 S. W. Holly Lane
Topeka, Kansas 66604
home: 785-272-4135
Jr.’s work: 785-296-3195
Margie J....
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Green Your Period: DivaCup Review and Giveaway
becauseiamawoman:
I finally did it! I used my DivaCup, and let me tell you- there is no going back. For those of you who aren’t familiar with what it is, a DivaCup is a menstrual cup that you insert when you have your period. It catches all your menstrual blood, and when it is full you simply dump it in the toilet, rinse it out, and re-insert it!
According to their website, the DivaCup may be...
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t4yl0rb4t35 asked: Sweet blog :)
An open letter to the feminist movement.
ephemeralcat:
I am a FAAB, femme-presenting genderqueer person. This means that I rarely, if ever, pass as anything other than female. And since I am almost always read as female by strangers, they treat me as if I were a woman.
This means that I, too, get catcalls and wolf whistles.
I, too, cannot walk down the street by myself without someone beeping their horn or yelling out their window at...
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Fixing the Broken
Great post about the GOP, Religious Right, and healthcare by my colleague at innocencejaded.wordpress.com:
“I’ve already posted a few opinions about the current healthcare debate, and I have already expressed my concerns with the opposition it has seen. In short, I’m for it, regardless of my religious stance. Hilariously, it is widely opposed by the Christian right, and I have also...
“Am I arguing that girls and women shouldn’t be held responsible for their...”
– Emily Maguire, Princesses & Pornstars: Sex, Power, Identity.
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Gender & Heart Health →
fuckyeahgenderstudies:
Patriarchal medicine kills women.
Read this.
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an online collection of queer love poems just... →
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“Since we all came from a woman, got our name from a woman, and our game from a...”
– Tupac Shakur
“Rape culture is telling girls and women to be careful about what you wear, how...”
– I might just copy and paste this so I can have this perfect answer ready when people say things like “but how does this “rape culture” actually affect women?” (via women-with-knives)
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I JUST GOT FUNDING!!
I’m going to the Association of Women in Psychology’s national feminist conference in Palm Springs next month where I get to listen to lectures by BELL HOOKS! So excited!! :o)
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“The thing is, it’s patriarchy that says men are stupid and monolithic and...”
– On claiming to be a stupid man who doesn’t know anything « Zero at the Bone
“The road to happiness does not end with a ring on your finger. Glass slippers...”
– Words that encouraged me this morning. Found in the February edition of Underwired an essay (finding my own glass slipper) by Christy H. Williams (via hellobritti)
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Studying Gender Studies!
fuckyeahgenderstudies:
Made rebloggable by request.
Hi, FYGS! I was wondering if you knew of any good graduate schools for Gender Studies (or Women’s or Sexuality Studies or any combination of the three) in the US?
onefallingstartoanother
That’s a really tough question. It depends on a lot of factors. What are you going to graduate school for? an MA or a PhD? Are you looking to begin an...
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"Pro-Its-None-of-my-Business"
A friend of mine, fellow Sociology major, and equality advocate, gives his take on the term “pro-life” and the recent Susan G. Komen fiasco:
“I hate the label “pro-life.”
It doesn’t make sense to me.
Because of the recent uproar involving the Susan G. Komen decision to pull funding from Planned Parenthood, I have seen a lot of banter back and forth between “pro-life” and...
NYPD's racist Stop-and-Frisk hits new record →
fuckyeahmarxismleninism:
Feb. 14 - New York Police Department officers last year stopped and questioned more than 680,000 people on the street.
The so-called stop-and frisks totaled 684,330, a record since the NYPD began yearly tallies of the tactic in 2002.
It’s a 14 percent increase over 2010.
The Wall Street Journal (http://on.wsj.com/yF0Re4 ) reports that it couldn’t be determined how many...