A racist woman is not a feminist; she doesn’t care about helping women, just the women who look like her and can buy the same things she can. A transphobic woman is not a feminist; she is overly concerned with policing the bodies and expressions of others. A woman against reproductive rights — to use bell hook’s own example, and an issue close to your heart — is not a feminist; she prioritizes her dogma or her disgust over the bodies of others. An ableist woman is not a feminist; she holds some Platonic ideal of what a physically or mentally “whole” person should be and tries to force the world to fit inside it.

An Open Letter to Caitlin Moran by Nyux (via redefiningbodyimage)

A woman who is anti-sex work and anti-sex workers’ rights is not a feminist; she doesn’t want women to be able to choose their professions if it’s a choice that she disagrees with.

(via stripperina)

me about to talk in public: *rehearses what im going to say 50 times in my brain*
me: today how you are

randomness-is-epic:

officialdogblog:

procrastinators are able to do 30 minutes of work in 8 hours and 8 hours of work in the 30 minutes before it’s due

that’s what i call talent

(Fonte: circumcisions)

“I never know why. I only know who.”

jessicavalenti:

Shhhh…no one tell Fox News that the “wedding kiss” picture they’re using to accompany a piece about traditional gender roles is actually of a same sex couple. (MADE MY DAY)

jessicavalenti:

Shhhh…no one tell Fox News that the “wedding kiss” picture they’re using to accompany a piece about traditional gender roles is actually of a same sex couple. (MADE MY DAY)

milfordman:

be careful about telling smart kids how smart they are because they will inevitably develop a complex and suffer from feelings of inadequacy for the rest of their goddamn lives

(Fonte: nprfandom)

Men’s misery does deserve sympathy, but not if it means we ignore how men contribute to that misery, where it comes from, and what men get in exchange for it. It’s all too easy to go from sympathy for men to forgetting that patriarchy and male privilege even exist. Part of what makes it so easy is misunderstanding what privilege is, where it comes from, and how it is distributed. Many men argue, for example, that men are privileged only to the degree that they feel privileged. A key aspect of privilege, however, is to be unaware of it as privilege. In addition, even though men as a group are privileged in society, factors such as race, class, sexual orientation, and disability status affect how much privilege each man gets to enjoy and how he experiences it.

Privilege can take many forms, and its distribution among people in a society is a complicated process. Privilege can be something as simple as being heard and taken seriously when we say something, of being served promptly and courteously in a store or restaurant, or of being free to move around or express an opinion. It can take the form of wealth or power or having other people clean up after us and take care of our needs. In every case, what makes something privilege is the unequal way in which it is distributed and the effect it has of elevating some people over others.

Allan G. Johnson, The Gender Knot  (via tabularasae)

(Fonte: wretchedoftheearth)

Scout Paré-Phillips
Impressions (Self-Portrait Series), 2011

(Fonte: jonyorkblog)

inchells:

hoursago:

it was really cute how far back bilbo had to tilt his head back for that hug
because
he’s so short

inchells:

hoursago:

it was really cute how far back bilbo had to tilt his head back for that hug

because

he’s so short

image

(Fonte: escocse2)

tastefullyoffensive:

Challenge accepted.[via]

tastefullyoffensive:

Challenge accepted.

[via]

nevver:

le Bat
nuestrahermana:

“Not Victims/ Not Passive / Combative Women! Revolution” (Close translation) 

nuestrahermana:

“Not Victims/ Not Passive / Combative Women! Revolution” (Close translation) 

(Fonte: bioloca)

Picture yourself when you were five. In fact, dig out a photo of little you at that time and tape it to your mirror. How would you treat her, love her, feed her? How would you nurture her if you were the mother of little you? I bet you would protect her fiercely while giving her space to spread her itty-bitty wings. She’d get naps, healthy food, imagination time, and adventures into the wild. If playground bullies hurt her feelings, you’d hug her tears away and give her perspective. When tantrums or meltdowns turned her into a poltergeist, you’d demand a loving time-out in the naughty chair. From this day forward I want you to extend that same compassion to your adult self.

Kris Carr (via rachel-berry)

(Fonte: cl0ckwise)