February 2012
39 posts
Twitter / @Bloggies: Weblog of the Year: Autost... →
alisonofagun:
confessionsofacreativewriter:
autostraddle:
WE WON WEBLOG OF THE YEAR
It also won the Best Entertainment Weblog and Best Community Weblog awards! YAY for Autostraddle! Well deserved :)
So…how many Straddlers have to be sacrificed? It was one for every award Autostraddle was nominated for but didn’t win, right?
No sacrificed Straddlers! Autostraddle won everything it was...
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Twitter / @Bloggies: Weblog of the Year: Autost... →
autostraddle:
WE WON WEBLOG OF THE YEAR
It also won the Best Entertainment Weblog and Best Community Weblog awards! YAY for Autostraddle! Well deserved :)
Then It Was:June Jordan
ancestryinprogress:
Then it was
our eyes locked slowly
on the pebble wash
of humus leaves and
peeled the plummet belly
of a thundercloud
You bent your neck
beneath a branch my
arms enclosed
and slipped your shadow
over me
Soon we had bathed
the sun fell at our feet
and broke into the sliding
ferment of our warmth
we were an early evening
“If you are a white woman and you want to call yourself a feminist, you must...”
– ladyatheist (via mamaatheist)
this this this this this
(via serpiente-elefante)
Dear Feminism:
andythenerd:
I think you’re swell and I generally appreciate what you’re doing for women. However, there’s one little thing I’d like to point out, before there’s any further confusion:
TRANS WOMEN
ARE
WOMEN
Anyway, I’m sure there was just a slight misunderstanding, and I look forward to you incorporating this fact into your future endeavors.
Hugs!
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flapjackstate:
[image: one picture of an aisle with blue toy packaging and another with pink packaging].
sparkamovement:
The issue isn’t that girls shouldn’t cook and have fun with it. It’s that we’re being told by companies, toy stores, and their marketing teams that this is the way it’s supposed to be. Girls should cook and clean (essentially playing “mom”) while boys create, destroy, and...
PUSSIES & ANKHS: Examples of White Privilege →
aprilzosia:
stfuandlistenwhitepeople:
iamsher-locked:
kaxbeokay:
iamsher-locked:
thecultofcraze:
dank-potion:
Not getting followed around in a store.
Not getting stopped by the police without probable cause.
Not getting your credentials and…
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Today in things that made me cry
Well, I nearly cried. I had to stop myself.
First I read this rather sterling piece of reporting from Rolling Stone:
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/one-towns-war-on-gay-teens-20120202
and was alternately devastated and enraged. I couldn’t form my thoughts with any kind of coherence because they were busy being assaulted by those aforementioned alternating emotions.
This...
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“What’s it like, being on benefits? Being on disability benefits – “I’ve had a...”
– Cutting to the heart of the welfare state, Caitlin Moran (via eatstarchmom)
