Because I am a Woman

I am a graduate student studying in Worcester, MA. I am also a peer sex educator, reproductive justice activist, and feminist.

This blog is about sex-positivity, sex-ed, feminism, reproductive justice, birth justice, intersectionality, and activism.

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Posts tagged "TRUTH"

loverofsoul:

Can’t reblog this enough.

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stfuconservatives:

Followers, you never disappoint. Mere hours after I asked for someone with graphic design skillz to put together a design for anti-CPC stickers, reader lamesor sent me these beauties. I put them in the Zazzle store, and they should be posted there soon. If you don’t want to spend money, just print out the image and tape it up.

I’m contacting some independent sticker printers to see about bulk prices on bumper stickers; I’d love to forego the middleman entirely and just sell these directly. In the mean time, though, Zazzle!

If there’s another pro-choice product you want to see in the store (regular stickers, posters, whatevs), just let me know.

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For so long everyone has wanted to hold on to the belief that the United States is a class-free society - that anyone who works hard enough can make it to the top. Few people stop to think that in a class- free society there would be no top.

bell hooks (via grrrlstudies)

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When I have sex, I don’t just get off on my own kinks and my own pleasure. I also get off on my partner’s pleasure. The sight, the sound, the feel, of someone in my bed who’s getting excited and getting off… that’s hot. It’s not particularly selfless or noble of me — it’s just hot. The more I care about someone, the more true that is… And if you can’t get off on the sight and sound and feel of your partner’s pleasure — even if what you’re doing isn’t your particular favorite thing — then what the hell are you doing in a sexual / romantic relationship?

Greta Christina’s Blog: Broccoli or Tofu? Sexual Differences in Relationships (via sexisnottheenemy) (via thechocolatebrigade) (via sexular) (via scentsandsubtlesounds)

Well said. (via bedsider)

That women are joining in the ongoing disassembling of my appearance is salient. Patriarchy is not men. Patriarchy is a system in which both women and men participate. It privileges, inter alia, the interests of boys and men over the bodily integrity, autonomy, and dignity of girls and women. It is subtle, insidious, and never more dangerous than when women passionately deny that they themselves are engaging in it. This abnormal obsession with women’s faces and bodies has become so normal that we (I include myself at times—I absolutely fall for it still) have internalized patriarchy almost seamlessly. We are unable at times to identify ourselves as our own denigrating abusers, or as abusing other girls and women.

Ashley Judd (via feminismis4everyone)

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My femininity makes me no less intelligent, curious, sassy, political, perceptive, passionate, or just plain full of strength. Judging me for it, though, seems to contradict the work of our mothers and just seems plain petty. I don’t think it’s on my shoulders to change who I inherently am to fit any sort of cultural stereotype; I’m still going to accomplish the things I set out to, it just might surprise a few more people who are still stuck on that whole judging a book by its cover train.

Julia Gazdag (via obliviyawn)

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