February 2012
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“Only hang around people that are positive and make you feel good. Anybody who...”
– Amy Poehler (via tulletulle) YEP started livin my life by this a while ago. (via harrietta) This basically used to be my facebook ‘about me’ section. Just to remind myself and others that I don’t have any obligation to go to parties/gatherings/pubs/barbecues that I know will be full of sexist...
Feb 29th
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Feb 29th
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Feb 29th
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Hello potential marriagees!
tumblaighre: Want to propose to me? Worried your proposal will be lost in the avalanche of offers? Then use this handy and efficient form! link Hahahhaaa! I love this!
Feb 29th
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Feb 25th
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“True gender equality is actually perceived as inequality. A group that is made...”
–  Lucy, When Worlds Collide: Fandom and Male Privilege. (via seaofbadstories)
Feb 25th
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Feb 25th
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Feb 25th
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Feb 23rd
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Activate the Mechanism!: You don't actually think... →
religiousragings: like-an-echo: When you hear that a woman gets an abortion, you go nuts about the fetus having rights. You feel sorry for the poor baby. You feel angry because the baby was done injustice. It’s about the baby. Taking the trigger word here (abortion) out of the…
Feb 23rd
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Feb 23rd
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Feb 22nd
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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…
Feb 22nd
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Feb 21st
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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.
Feb 20th
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Feb 19th
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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...
Feb 19th
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tumblaighre: (TW?) 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,...
Feb 15th
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Feb 11th
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Feb 2nd
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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…
Feb 2nd
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“The result of neo-colonialism is that foreign capital is used for the...”
– Kwame Nkrumah, Neo-Colonialism, the Last Stage of Imperialism
Feb 2nd
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Feb 1st
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