Tag: feminism

i-am-a-fish:

queeranarchism:

bartfargo:

riftwitch:

fattyatomicmutant:

Petition to refer to TERFs as FARTs, which stands for Feminist Appropiating Reactionary Tranaphobe

“Trans-Exclusionary-Radical-Feminist,” when you think about it, is a VERY kind term. To be called a TERF is for the person to admit that they still consider you a feminist.

But what kind of feminist excludes so many women from their movement? If you hate so many women for what they are, you really don’t deserve to be called any kind of feminist, radical or otherwise.

Anti-trans people: Stop calling us terfs it’s insulting

fattyatomicmutant, about to coin a new term: ‘K

Feminist Appropiating Reactionary Transphobe

is far far more accurate too.

ima just spread this

madmaudlingoes:

tygermama:

penfairy:

why DO teenage girls go through a witch/occult phase? I had tarot cards and a spellbook and I knew a group of girls who messed with ouija boards and another who had ghost hunting equipment. “oh yeah Cindy’s just going through that girly phase where she tries to raise the dead.”

theory – we want power and know our culture doesn’t want to give us any?

Addendum: witches are one of the few cultural figures of female empowerment that don’t derive their power from their relationship to a man.

Plus, most forms of christianity and christian society is full of layers upon layers of contradictory rules and customs that you’re supposed to somehow untangle and balance to work out how to be a Good Person TM.

Witchcraft, at its most elemental, boils down to ‘do no harm but take no shit’, which not only simplifies things a lot, but also puts the weight of ‘good’ and ‘evil’ back on your individual choices and isn’t anchored to some overarching set of benchmarks that most people don’t actually need to follow to the letter to live a happy, productive, and compassionate life.

The true magic is the freedom you carve out for yourself, and I can’t think of anything more appealing to a young woman trying to work out who she is rather than what she’s been told she is her whole life.

falling4westallen:

spoonmeb:

note-a-bear:

milkdromeduh:

mythicromantic:

micdotcom:

Watch: Terry Crews has some brilliant points about feminism — including an apt parallel to Civil Rights.

Thank you for hitting all those nail Terry

You can tell he’s really been doing self-reflection in addition to research from how he frames his answer.

Terry is my manspo, truly
Like…my man has been doing work.

Terry and the Rock are two men who have really talked about their personals struggles and growth. I’m here for it.

Nothing more attractive than a person who tells the truth, acknowledges their mistakes and grows from them.

Surround yourself with other beautiful brown and black and indigenous and morena and Chicana, native, Indian, mixed race, Asian, gringa, boriqua babes.
Let them uplift you.
Rage against the motherfucking machine.
Question everything anyone ever says to you or forces down your throat or makes you write a hundred times on the blackboard.
Question every man that opens his mouth and spews out a law over your body and spirit.
Question every single thing until you find the answer in a daydream.
Don’t question yourself unless you hurt someone else.
When you hurt someone else, sit down, and think, and think, and think, and then make it right.
Apologize when you fuck up.
Live forever.
Consult the ancestors while counting stars in the galaxy.
Hold wisdom under tongue until it’s absorbed into the bloodstream.
Do not be afraid.
Do not doubt yourself.
Do not hide
Be proud of your inhaler, your cane, your back brace, your acne.
Be proud of the things that the world uses to make you feel different.

Juliet’s letter to herself in Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera (via biandlesbianliterature)

I love my library.

[Stack of library books including The Fictional Woman, Too Fat Too Slutty Too Loud, History Is All You Left Me, More Happy Than Not, Drag Teen, The Moonlight Dreamers, Tell It To The Moon, and When We Rise. In the background is another stack of Kerry Greenwood’s Corinna Chapman mysteries without library stickers.]

A varied diet

Trying to balance the grim textbookiness of Naomi Wolf’s The Beauty Myth with Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire, The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman, season six of Castle, and Avengers Academy 2.0 and I think I’m getting whiplash. I mean, we need more feminism and magic and less patriarchy and captialism and variety is the spice of life, and The Beauty Myth is too hardcore to read without breaks, but going from that to magical doors and back again is kinda wild.