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June 2013

what is the no condoms as evidence bill?

There was actually a link in the post about this that I had just posted that explained exactly what it was and what to do about it. Check it out here.

Jun 18, 20133 notes
Never regret a skin tight red dress.

Im mostly worried that its going to fit poorly since I’m only 5’1” and its a long dress. :( Thanks for the supportive dress thoughts though! 

Jun 18, 201313 notes
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Jun 18, 201332 notes
#take action
Thanks for sharing your experience about getting the Mirena IUD. I have heard insertion is easier on women who have borne children, had you had any children prior to this?

No I have not had any children. 

Jun 18, 20132 notes
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Jun 18, 201314,390 notes

thesexuneducated:

sad-alien:

DO NOT HAVE ONE FEMINIST ICON
HAVE MANY
DO NOT HEAR ONE FEMINIST OPINION
HEAR MANY

limiting yourself to a single, unopposed political viewpoint does not allow you to develop your politics, and instead stunts them.
you cannot grow as a feminist and mature your feminist politics if you only bear witness to ONE of the THOUSAND strands.

yesyesyesyes

Jun 18, 2013481 notes
Jun 18, 20132,892 notes
“Self-care includes holding each other accountable because we are interconnected. Loving ourselves includes learning how not to harm each other. Loving ourselves includes disrupting violent patterns in our homes and community-building spaces.” —

Alexis Pauline Gumbs, quoted by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha in a transformative justice workshop at Hampshire earlier this year.

Stuff I’m finding as I “clean” my room.

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Jun 18, 20132,974 notes
No 20-Week Abortion Ban. → action.rhrealitycheck.org

rhrealitycheck:

Write your Representative today to let them know you’re opposed to any 20-week abortion ban in America. Tell them: let’s leave medical care to the experts, leave personal decisions in the hands of women, and leave science in the hands of scientists. 

Jun 18, 201381 notes
#take action #20-week abortion ban
I hope it's ok to ask you this. I'd been with my boyfriend for a few years and we regularly had sex. A few years ago we came home from a party and I was really drunk, and he was a bit too. He wanted to have sex with me but I said no, but he didn't listen and pinned me down and had sex with me. Eventually he got the message and stopped because I was upset. Was this rape? I find it hard to trust people now because I don't think they'll listen either. What can I do?

I actually have a post on determining if what happened to you was rape, and it sounds like this may be one of those situations. It is definitely normal for you to find it hard to talk to someone, but there are people who care and who will listen. If you need to talk, you can always contact me directly. There are also a lot of resources that might be of help in my resources section. If you are looking for area-specific resources or just someone to talk to, I would also take a look at RAINN which runs an online and phone hotline that can get you the resources you need or lend an ear.

Jun 17, 20134 notes
#rape #sexual assault #trigger warning #TW:rape
I'm reading Crime and Punishment. And this quote really stuck out to me: “I used to think, indeed, that if woman are equal to men in all respects, even in strength (as is maintained now) there out to be equality in [fighting], too. Of course, I reflected afterward that such a question ought not really to arise, for there ought not to be fighting and in the future society fighting is unthinkable… And that it would be a queer thing to seek for equality in fighting.” Fyodor Dostoevsky
Jun 17, 201313 notes
Hi! Is this one person's blog or multiple? I'm a bit thrown off by the general description of the blog on the right side and the separate page for contributors. Sorry if I should know this I haven't been following long.

Thank you for bringing this up! Although this blog is run by just one person (BCIAW’s founder, Ally), BCIAW also works with several contributors to bring readers a steady stream of original and thought-provoking posts. If you wish to join the team, please fill out and submit this application. My description has now been updated to reflect this.

 Just a bit of backstory on this- I recently brought in some contributors to help keep the original content flowing since I started working full-time last month. You can find their posts by looking in the contributors page, (but so far Angela is the only one who has had something posted). 

Jun 17, 20133 notes
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Jun 17, 201395,026 notes
#sexual harrassment #sexual assault
“The study offers further depressing insights. Not only did the male pretend jurors prove “significantly more likely” to find the obese female defendants—rather than the slim ones—guilty, but the trim male participants were worst of all, frequently labeling the fat women “repeat offenders” with “awareness” of their crimes.” —

Study: Male Jurors More Likely To Find Heavier Women Guilty - ThinkProgress (via brooklynmutt)

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Jun 17, 20131,425 notes
“One senior member of a leading national magazine when asked how someone could pay the bills to affording life in New York while working a full-time internship famously told us that if we couldn’t pull an unpaid internship off, then we didn’t want to succeed badly enough. When we asked how he pulled it off, he told us about how he lived in his parents’ spare apartment upstate while working his internship.” —Unpaid internships and a culture of privilege are ruining journalism

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Jun 17, 20131,342 notes
I really really hope you do your weekly feminist reader. i think its a great idea and I for one would love to read it.

I really hope I can too! I spend a lot of time online looking for articles for social media curation at work, and I happen across a lot that I want to share with everyone. This seemed like a great way to share them all at once!

Jun 16, 20135 notes
Can you have a reusable cloth menstrual pad giveaway? I want some so badly, but they're really expensive!

I would love to, but I don’t make or regularly work with any companies who sell cloth menstrual pads. A fairly cheap and easy alternative is to make them yourself, and coincidently I have a whole bunch of links on how to do this on my resource page.

Jun 16, 201313 notes
“

For most of America, Psy is a funny name, a funny face, and a funny personality. He doesn’t sing in English and most people just don’t get it leaving most of them to not take him seriously. It’s easy to strip the significance behind “Gangnam Style” down if you don’t know what it means and solely find entertainment in the Asian guy shaking his hips. But what most people don’t realize is that Psy doesn’t take himself seriously. He’s a satirist and political dissident. “Gangnam Style” was a commentary, not just a fun pop tune with a silly dance.

Gangnam is Seoul’s wealthiest and flashiest neighborhood. For South Koreans, Gangnam represents the ideal life of excess and consumerism. Psy’s character in the video is a wannabe Gangnamite. He dreams he’s living the flashy, excessive lifestyle while he’s really just like everyone else, swimming in a public pool and riding the subway. But never in the video does it seem that Psy’s character is unhappy. He’s content to play in a children’s playground and meet the girl of his dreams in the subway. “Gangnam Style” is much more that we have made it, but that’s not surprising considering Psy’s background and how little we know about it.

In America, it seems like “Gangnam Style” was Psy’s big break when in fact the song had been released on his sixth studio album and his music career hadn’t been about making flashy and catchy songs. He believes music is the key to overcoming the intolerance embedded in his country’s political systems. Throughout his career, his songs have been banned for inappropriate content and have been surrounded by controversy, not to mention the fact that he fought his mandatory military draft.

Psy is a voice for his people. He’s fighting the oppression and intolerance he sees in his culture through his music. And by ignoring his worth and his value, we’re reducing the culture of South Korea into a short man with funny pants doing a ridiculous dance.

”
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Opinion: American media chooses to undervalue artists like Psy from “Gangnam Style”  (via kpop-confessions)

THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS

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