The National Mall got a new memorial yesterday, if only briefly. As part of One Billion Rising, Baltimore-based feminist group FORCE installed a temporary memorial recognizing survivors of sexual assault. The group greated giant letters out of a statement from a rape survivor and floated the eight-foot-tall words onto the reflecting pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial.
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"As a society, we encourage girls and women to be emotionally accessible, and in touch with their feelings; we say that it’s an innately feminine trait. We say it, that is, until they have feelings that make us uncomfortable, at which point we recast them as melodramatic harpies, shrieking banshees, and basket cases."Tori Amos (via queerintersectional)
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I saw a news report about this on T.V., she was a straight A Student who had perfect attendance and everything. Everyone loved and respected her for her skills, but when she started this experiment and people thought she was pregnant, they started treating her like garbage. Even her teachers started looking down on her like she was scum of the earth. The only people who knew she was doing this as an experiment were her school principle, her health care teacher and her father. Her own mother thought she was pregnant.
I mean even her friends turned on her, it was horrid. Very very sad, and as soon as she revealed during an assembly that the pregnancy was false, a lot of people were in shock as she brought up all the horrible things they said and did to her because they thought she was pregnant.
The reason for the experiment was to see how people would react and treat her if they thought she was pregnant, as opposed as to treating her as the straight A “Perfect” student they usually did. And it proved that people were horrible scumbags to her as soon as they thought she was.holy shit. this is fucking awesome
Let’s not forget the fact that if she were a Becky, she would have gotten a TV show.
BOLDED
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Virginia Woolf, 1882-1941
…in case anyone thought female author bias was a new thing.
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The world doesn’t need feminism/equal gender rights? Wailing mother holds 3 month old daughter who was beaten to death by her own father for being born female.
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"While character evolves, reveals, beauty is static, a mask, a magnet for projection."Susan Sontag, “A Photograph is Not an Opinion. Or Is It?”
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» Feminist Resources
- Audre Lorde’s The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House
- Audre Lorde’s Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
- Aurora Levins Morales’s Radical Pleasure: Sex and the End of Victimhood
- bell hooks’ Cultural Criticism & Transformation
- Chandra Talpade Mohanty’s Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses
- Combahee River Collective Statement
- Dorothy Allison’s A Question of Class
- Judith Butler documentary
- Leslie Feinberg’s We Are All Works in Progress
- Paula Gunn Allen’s Who is Your Mother?: Red Roots of White Feminism
- R.W. Connell’s The Social Organization of Masculinity
- Sandra Lee Bartky’s Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power
- Sandra Cisneros’s Guadalupe the Sex Goddess
- Sojourner Truth’s Ain’t I a Woman?
- Susan Bordo’s The Body and the Reproduction of Femininity
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"What is it that threatens Western feminist authors when they represent European women as strong and powerful despite the terrible tortures to which they are subjected under patriarchy, but represent the Indian woman, similarly subordinated, as weak and helpless?"
FEMINISM, IMPERIALISM AND ORIENTALISM: THE CHALLENGE OF THE ‘INDIAN WOMAN’ BY JOANNA LIDDLE AND SHIRIN RAI
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"Men who want to be feminists do not need to be given a space in feminism. They need to take the space they have in society & make it feminist."
Kelley Temple, National Union of Students UK Women’s Officer (via offices)
^^^^ I believe this as much as I believe anything. ^^^^
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I’ve been doing a much better job of this lately. I’ve talked three groups of dudes out of being assholes so far.
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