February 2012
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The Do’s and Don’ts of Being a Good Ally →
thatfeministdyke:
1. Don’t derail a discussion. Even if it makes you personally uncomfortable to discuss X issue…it’s really not about you or your comfort. It’s about X issue, and you are absolutely free to not engage rather than try to keep other people from continuing their conversation.
2. Do read links/books referenced in discussions. Again, even if the things being said make you...
Source rambles about rap/hip hop music and white...
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izythequeergirl:
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I was just discussing today how mainstream white media always likes to push out rap and hip hop as the most misogynistic and homophobic music to ever exist on the planet. White feminists have also joined in on this racist ass bandwagon, completely ignoring how many rap songs are indeed philosophical and have a deeper fucking meaning.
Prescriptive...
Source rambles about rap/hip hop music and white...
sourcedumal:
I was just discussing today how mainstream white media always likes to push out rap and hip hop as the most misogynistic and homophobic music to ever exist on the planet. White feminists have also joined in on this racist ass bandwagon, completely ignoring how many rap songs are indeed philosophical and have a deeper fucking meaning.
Prescriptive white feminists don’t want to hear...
Jailbreak the Patriarchy: Or Shitty Ideas
friendlyangryfeminist:
So autumn-and-eve posted on her tumblr about an extension called “Jailbreak the Patriarchy” saying that if anyone uses it to unfollow her.
Curious, I wandered off to look at it and holy shit.
Jailbreak the Patriarchy is shit.
It’s an extension for Google Chrome. It turns all male pronouns into female pronouns and vice versa. It doesn’t take gender neutral pronouns into...
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Chicago Alderman to Introduce Policy for Police... →
“It’s a human rights issue,” [Chicago alderman Proco Joe] Moreno told the [Windy City] Times. His proposed ordinance will address a “hole in the policy of the police of Chicago,” he added. It comes after years of lobbying by LGBT rights groups and other organizations, along with complaints about police interactions with transgender Chicagoans. For instance, one...
“I’ll call you women instead of girls, just so long as I get paid more than you...”
– Tom Lehrer (via zekespolitics)
Tom Lehrer is a national treasure. *hums “New Math” to herself*
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British university tells students drag as... →
Student leaders at Exeter University warned that cross-dressing could be deemed as offensive as ‘blacking up’.
Squeezing into dresses and attempting to apply make-up has long been a popular means by which some male undergraduates, particularly members of sports teams, unwind and bond.
But a message sent by the university’s Student Guild ahead of a week of events to celebrate...
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A subtle juxtaposition
Four stories that came across my Google Reader main feed on the same day:
Transphobic Ad Asks Viewers To “Spot The Stallions From The Mares”
HRC’s Joe Solmonese (AKA that asshole who kicked trans* people out of ENDA a week after he promised trans activists he wouldn’t) Named National Co-Chair for Obama Campaign
22-year-old transgender woman beaten, placed in critical condition in...
The Gaytriarchy Attacks!
friendlyangryfeminist:
Yeah, I’m always going to feel uneasy that the queer folks who profit the most (goal-wise and financially) off LGBT+ politics are white, affluent cis men when most victims of anti-LBGT+ violence are transgender, low-income women of color.
And now kids, we’re going to have a test on what intersectionality actually means!
Hear, hear.
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Clinton says “culture” is no excuse for female... →
Amen. Too bad she won’t take the same stand on intersex genital mutilation (IGM) which is routinely performed on infants in her own country for no legitimate medical reason, only to conform with the strict sexual binarism of our culture.
Genital mutilation is wrong, no matter if the mutilator is wearing a mullah’s robes or a white lab coat.
“No.”
– Actress Julianne Moore, when asked if she gained a newfound respect for Sarah Palin after delving deeper into Palin’s life to portray her in the upcoming film “Game Change.” (via mamaatheist)
I just passed 200 followers!
To celebrate, here’s some shameless self-promotion:
For those of you who aren’t aware, I also run a blog dedicated to the depiction of women in comics, highlighting notable female comics creators and discussing the intersections of the comics medium with feminism. It’s called Comics Are for Girls!
I am also the creator of the MRA Marmoset meme and sole admin of Marmsy’s...
From feministfilm to you: a [probably] exhaustive...
feministfilm:
Out of around 130:
Yvonne Hudson, 1980-1981 (featured player only)
Danitra Vance, 1985-1986
Ellen Cleghorne, 1991-1995
Maya Rudolph, 2000-2007
Nasim Pedrad, 2009-present
That’s it. You’re welcome.
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I Read "Trans/Love" and it was Awesome... →
Trans/Love: Radical Sex, Love & Relationships Beyond the Gender Binary, a recent collection from editor Morty Diamond, is intensely personal and sexy, but is about far more than sex — instead, it explores the many ways of navigating love and self across the gender spectrum.
With pieces from filmmaker Silas Howard, writer Max Valerio, author and performer Julia Serano, author Sassafras...
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Kate Moenning Cast As Lesbian Detective in... →
Squee!
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Quora: Are Facebook policies to censor pictures of... →
Short answer: Yes, but… This is indeed a double standard that falls unfairly on the shoulders of women. The idea that a woman’s chest is by its very nature sexual and a male’s is not relies on framing the world solely from the perspective of the heterosexual male. Any straight woman or gay man can tell you that a man’s chest can indeed be very sexual: Hey girl,...
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“It would be incredibly easy to say to ourselves ‘Rihanna has gotten over it....”
– Mychal Denzel Smith
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So... The A-List: New York came to the Ali Forney...
I personally wasn’t there at the time of the filming and wouldn’t have wanted to be on camera anyway, but what the actual fuck? Apparently, only pretty people have anything relavent to say on the subject.
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Virginia school proposes ban on students wearing... →
[A Virginia school district] wants to prohibit students from wearing clothing “not in keeping with a student’s gender” and that “causes a disruption and/or distracts others from the education process or poses a health or safety concern.”
The ban came about after some male students at one of the district’s three high schools dressed like girls and other students complained. It is unclear if the...
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Quora: Are gender-segregated public washrooms... →
Short answer: Not really. Considering that men’s restrooms tend to be quite a bit dirtier than their counterparts for women, it’d be much easier to make the argument that they are, if anything, misandric, but even that is a rather silly argument. However, this isn’t to suggest that their is no problem with public restrooms being segregated by gender. There are many. The first...
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Hey, LEGO, if you really want to attract girls to...
You’re welcome. I’ll assume my check is in the mail.
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Man assaults wife, (male) judge orders him to take... →
A Florida man received a rather unusual sentence this week in a domestic dispute. Joseph Bray needed to post bond, after he allegedly threw his wife into a couch, held her down by her neck and raised his fist against her. But a judge decided jail or bail or any kind of monetary penalty was too much.
So he gave him an order: to buy his wife a bouquet of flowers, take her to dinner at Red Lobster...
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16-Year-Old Girl Sends MIT Acceptance Letter Into... →
Things that are hard: getting accepted to MIT as a 16-year-old girl. Things that are harder: sending your MIT acceptance letter into space.
Both impressive feats were achieved by Erin King, a 16-year-old from Georgia. It turns out MIT sends its formal acceptance letters in tubes, and it’s apparently become something of a tradition to “hack” those tubes, i.e. finding a cool way to use them for...
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British Government rejects posthumous pardon of... →
Widely regarded as the father of modern computer science, Alan Turing was instrumental in the Allied success in World War II due to his work on breaking codes used by Nazi Germany and its allies.
In 1952, he was prosecuted for being homosexual. Two years later, he took his own life.
As a queer person with Aspergers, Turing is a personal hero of mine. (Side-note: while the Big Gay organizations...
Black Herstory: Rosa Parks Did Much More than Sit... →
fempop:
fyeahwomenshistory:
Rachel Griffin
As a Black feminist scholar, every February I find myself troubled by the ways that we simultaneously remember and forget women who look like me. Not that I’m satisfied with the memory of Black women every other month of the year but February–Black History Month–can be especially disappointing. I find myself wanting to rant to anyone within earshot,...
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Blake Lively Slurs Trans People... Again [TW:... →
Lively [used the t-word again in another interview for the March issue of Elle magazine she’s on the cover of.
She had this problematic full of fail comment embedded in it when expressing her hopes to have children one day:
I hope to have a few girls one day. If not girls, they better be trannies. Because I have some amazing shoes and bags and stories that need to be appreciated.
Notice the...
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UPDATE: Trans woman stabbed in D.C. dies. She was... →
The transgender woman who was stabbed at a Washington, D.C., bus stop Thursday night has died, and activists have identified her as Deoni Jones, 22. She was stabbed in the head about 8:15 p.m. at a bus stop at East Capitol Street N.E. and Sycamore Road and taken to a hospital in grave condition. She died early Friday morning, Metro Weekly reports. The paper reports that Mara Keisling, executive...
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Anyone in NYC interested in guerilla activism...
…particularly near the Metropolitan Community Church of New York on W 36th St between 9th and 10th Ave (where I am staying).
Feel free to take pictures of my art and post them online. I don’t have a camera.
And don’t be afraid to donate to the shelter I’m staying at, Sylvia’s Place. Go here and remember to write “Sylvia’s Place” in the comments box of your donation. Thank you.
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NWBC’s Donna James: Number Of African-American... →
Female African-American entrepreneurs are on the rise, according to recent data from National Women’s Business Council head Donna James, with the total number of African-American woman-owned businesses climbing rapidly in the U.S.
How rapidly? Unfortunately the most recent data available only goes back as far as 2007, according to the BET, which reported on the NWBC’s findings. But their report...
"The Only Moral Abortion is My Abortion", When the... →
ohvraiment:
“The sister of a Dutch bishop in Limburg once visited the abortion clinic in Beek where I used to work in the seventies. After entering the full waiting room she said to me, ‘My dear Lord, what are all those young girls doing here?’ ‘Same as you’, I replied. ‘Dirty little dames,’ she said.” (Physician, The Netherlands)
the hypocrisy of this is so infuriating
“The stain of racism and sexism, is not just for people of color or women, it’s...”
– Viola Davis (via feminishblog)
Love Viola Davis.
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Former Xerox CEO Anne Mulcahy Slams All-Male... →
“We’re long past having to defend or explain why women should be on boards, given all the data that shows how companies with female as well as male directors perform better. It’s unfortunate when companies with a large percentage of women constituents don’t reflect that in their boardrooms. It doesn’t make sense for a company that claims to be so forward looking to not have any women directors....
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Another Trans Woman Attacked in D.C. →
Metro Transit Police say a transgender woman was stabbed Thursday night at a bus stop in Washington, D.C. WUSA9.com reports that the victim, whose name is not known, was taken to the hospital in grave condition after being stabbed in the head at approximately 8:15 p.m. near the intersection of East Capitol Street N.E. and Sycamore Road. The suspect is an African-American male in his 40s. The...
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abuLoving Father Wants Daughter Institutionalized... →
A German dad sounds like he needs a lesson from the princess boy’s family — he’s apparently threatening to put his 11-year-old daughter in a mental institution because she’s transgender.
According to German-language website Taz, the girl, identified as Alexandra, is a happy kid who lives with her mom and likes pink, Harry Potter, and her stuffed unicorn. Since she identifies as...
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The NYPD's Routine Abuse of Transgender People →
A transgender woman tells Gawker that after she was arrested for a minor violation this month, New York City police officers berated her and left her cuffed to a wall for 28 hours.
Temmie Breslauer is suing the New York Police Department for assault, battery, false imprisonment, and violation of her civil rights. After being arrested for using a subway card that wasn’t hers, she says, she...
ok now i'm reading Naomi Wolf's Beauty Myth
newwavefeminism:
and she actually compares the way women in America are “routinely naked” to ACTUAL SLAVERY. Saying “in the antebellum South, young black male slaves were naked while serving the clothed white masters at table. To live in a culture in which women are routinely naked where men aren’t is to learn inequality in little ways all day long.”
making the choice to dress a certain way,...
