Bits and bobs from a British glasses-wearing, sweary, fat, disabled, atheist ex-Catholic, anti-capitalist, pacifist feminist lesbian with eclectic tastes.
I normally blog at incurable-hippie.blogspot.com.
When men are oppressed, it’s a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it’s tradition.
—South American feminist, Bernadette Mosala (via zhenotdel)
(Source: revolutionarypetunias)
“i am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.” - audre lorde
I wanna meet the bad girl at 26; she looks like a proper party girl. And to be fair, she may well be an outcast at 40 but damn, what a ride it was. Totally worth it.
(Source: jesshardiman)
When did you first feel like a grown woman and not a girl? We wrote down our answers and shared them, first in pairs, then in larger groups. The group of women was racially and economically diverse, but the answers had a very similar theme. Almost everyone first realized they were becoming a grown woman when some dude did something nasty to them. “I was walking home from ballet and a guy in a car yelled, ‘Lick me!’” “I was babysitting my younger cousins when a guy drove by and yelled, ‘Nice ass.’” There were pretty much zero examples like “I first knew I was a woman when my mother and father took me out to dinner to celebrate my success on the debate team.” It was mostly men yelling shit from cars. Are they a patrol sent out to let girls know they’ve crossed into puberty? If so, it’s working.
I’ve always understood the word ‘slut’ to mean a woman who freely enjoys her own sexuality in any way she wants to; undisturbed by other people’s wishes for her behaviour. Sexual desire originates in her and is directed by her. In that sense it is a word well worth retaining.
—Alice Walker (via subconciousevolution)
Asking women to put up with sexism for the ‘greater good’ is a time-honoured part of the leftist movement. It’s been written about plenty in terms of the anti-racist movement, for example, and the suffrage movement in the UK actually grew out of women’s frustration with sexism in the abolitionist movement. The unwillingness of unions to support dinner ladies in their gender pay gap claims is another example.
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When will we start to understand that any movement which asks women to put up with sexism as a sacrifice for the group, as if sexism isn’t part of the problem, is doomed to fail? (read more…)
This Ada Lovelace Day on October 7, share your story about a woman — whether an engineer, a scientist, a technologist or mathematician — who has inspired you to become who you are today. Write a blog post, record a podcast, film a video, draw a comic, or pick any other way to talk about the women who have been guiding lights in your life. Give your heroine the credit she deserves!
Vintage Pro-Choice Photo: WE WILL NOT GO BACK to the days of bloody coathangers!
