February 2012
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40 Days of Choice: Who's your pro-choice hero/ine? →
40daysforchoice:
Every day, as part of 40 Days of Choice, we’ll be nominating a pro-choice heroine or hero who has contributed to the struggle for reproductive rights. Doctors, campaigners, politicians, male or female, famous or not, let us know who you think we should include. Email us or tweet your…
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Athletic Body Diversity →
womenfighters:
This makes me want to take my “How to Draw the Marvel Way!” book out to the barbecue and set it on fire.
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Workfare in Context →
This week has seen a huge furore over the Government’s “workfare” scheme, whereby unemployed people, and those on disability benefits, can be forced to work for 30 hours a week. If they refuse, they can have their benefits removed for a period of three months. Amidst the uproar, I thought it might be worthwhile to detail some of the other work- and benefit-related policies that currently exist...
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tumblaighre:
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Remember that Justin Bieber fantasy confession Tumblr a while ago? This whole Chris Brown apologism thing reminds me of that, and how so many of those ‘confessions’ were from teenage girls essentially imagining themselves being actually raped by Justin Bieber. The whole “Team Breezy” phenomenon seems pretty similar; ignorant expressions of support from girls who (presumably,...
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Women's History: This Day in Women's History: Maud... →
fyeahwomenshistory:
Maud Slye was an American pathologist who was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. A historian of women and science wrote that Slye “‘invented’ genetically uniform mice as a research tool.” Her work focused on the heritability of cancer in mice. She was also an advocate for…
The result of neo-colonialism is that foreign capital is used for the...
– Kwame Nkrumah, Neo-Colonialism, the Last Stage of Imperialism
January 2012
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86 per cent of [Big Four supermarket] employees (interviewed across four regions...
– Shelf-stackers aren’t the only victims: The cost to the state of subsidising low pay with tax credits and housing benefit is huge (via tooyoungforthelivingdead)
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I'm pretty sick of this nexplanon implant
I’m thinking of getting it taken out. I had really horrible pains in my abdomen the other day and I think they were caused by it. I’ve been on it for months and haven’t stopped having my period. Also my acne is back with full force.
Fucking pharmaceutical companies need to stop being arseholes and support contraceptive research for men. I am sick of taking hormones all the...
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How to Juggle
thegreatdamfino:
It’s best to start off with three balls. Four is recklessness, and two is impressing nobody. To obtain the balls, take a trip to the dispensary - best to order spares, lest your first failures are so spectacular that the balls themselves vacate your menace. If you can’t afford to buy, scrump some decent-sized apples. But remember, a glutton makes a good juggler not. Put two...
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Sorry,
having an ipad means I basically completely ignore tumblr, even though I have Riplr.
If you want to keep hearing my thoughts then message me for my twitter, because my updating on here will probably be very rare from now on.
xo
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December 2011
54 posts
No wonder some women are unconsciously passive aggressive when expressing anger,...
– Why Women Aren’t Crazy (via lagrandefille)
I hate when people claim that women are crazy or complicated or don’t know what they want because fuck you. When a woman is vocal about her opinions, desires, feelings, you call her a bitch or crazy or hysterical. Women have been taught that the only way...
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-18) →
Thunderheist (9)
Brenda Lee (2)
Chuck Berry (2)
The Shins (2)
Wizzard (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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I'm off tumblr until I can get to watch TIE'88
No spoilers for me! See you in a couple of weeks.
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Can you be anti-porn and pro-sex? →
skiptracer:
GRAGH. There was me thinking that this would be a genuinely more positive spin on this weird hyperbolic vendetta against porn, especially as I class myself as a pro-sex feminist. BUT NO. This calls for a slightly inarticulate rant.
IT IS SO PATRONISING. And guess what? It is no different from every single other damned anti-porn feminist article I’ve ever read. I hate the argument,...
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Bad feelings happen; that doesn’t mean you pull out a chair and invite...
– anon