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Rachel Dolezal and Soldier Blue
Rachel Dolezal and Soldier Blue
I used to know a guy who was a lot like Rachel Dolezal. Instead of pretending to be Black, though, he pretended to be Indigenous. He dressed and did his hair like his idea of how a native dressed (so he had a balding mohawk, and wore lots of feathers and dangly jewelry.) He wrote and talked extensively in great gruesome detail, about the suffering of native people under colonization. The thing…
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So what’s new?
So what’s new? For a long time I’ve largely let the site languish. I feel like there’s so much I want to do with this site that it’s overwhelming. Today I did something I’ve been thinking about for a long time: I changed the title of the website. Why world domination? Well, to quote my late friend Katherine (aka Opalcat), “Why not?” “World Domination Headquarters” was the name of Katherine’s…
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A lot of people have written asking if I will ever update again, and I don’t want to leave you hanging.
The answer is that I am not sure where this blog is going. When I began this blog I was still working out what bras fit me and worked best for my shape. I was also several cup sizes smaller than I am now.
My breasts have grown a lot since I began this blog. When I started here, I was…
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Crochet Thoughts
I am steadily leveling up in crochet.
Here are some things I am learning: many crochet patterns are super-simple.
Want to make a simple baby blanket? Choose a stitch. Chain to the approximately desired width, then do as many rows as you want. Then put on an edging, if you want. That’s it! The same goes for a very simple scarf. The hard part is maintaining tension and making your stitches even and…
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Balls and Skeins
I am in some ways lazy. I don’t want to make any more work for myself than absolutely necessary.
So since I began crocheting, I’ve pulled yarn straight from the center of the skein. The only time I’ve rolled a yarn into balls was when I frogged half-finished scarf from years ago and balled that yarn to make into a new project; I went ahead and balled the rest of it, too.
From now, on, though, I…
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Crochet
I learned to crochet about 5 or 6 years ago. I learned just the basic single crochet at that time, and used it for a few projects. I didn’t keep crochet-ing because I found that a) I preferred wool or wool-blend yarns and they were out of my budget and b)I didn’t have the bandwidth then to learn more stitches or how to properly crochet from patterns, etc.
A few weeks ago I saw a photo of a…
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Okay so I know I said I plan on staying low-key, but I’ve been going through and reading the comments and reblogs that I missed (about the psa) and thinking a lot about some of the arguments made against it and one of them in particular has been getting to me. I’m not going to…
This is also a fairly goofy misuse of privilege theory, in a couple of ways: A) privilege is always multi-axial and is never an absolute set of coordinates. Therefore, saying “women who work in Walmart don’t have privileges that sex workers lack” to critique discussions of whorephobia is ridiculous in the same way that saying “a rich gay dude is more privileged than a poor, straight woman” is to critique a discussion of homophobia. The point of talking about privilege is not to establish individual, hypothetical cases of “who has it hardest”, but to talk about what systemic pressures and abuses certain groups of people are free from. Second of all, the argument that “whorephobia exists, therefore sex work should be regulated (eg, remain criminalized)” is just plain old silly. That’s like saying (I continue to use a comparison to queerness because I am also queer as well as being a sex worker), “people should not flaunt their non-heterosexuality, since violent homophobia exists” — the fact that civilians stigmatize (and thereby endanger) sex workers does not mean that sex work is *inherently* stigmatic or dangerous.
"The point of talking about privilege is not to establish individual, hypothetical cases of “who has it hardest”, but to talk about what systemic pressures and abuses certain groups of people are free from."
This is so perfect and concise and I hope I can remember to whip it out when white dudes attempt to derail.
Over half of all farm workers in the US are undocumented foreign born workers, while over 30% of farm workers don’t speak English at all. This is a population uniquely vulnerable to exploitation and abuse. If you want to protect farm workers don’t buy agricultural produce. Make it illegal to purchase produce! They can still be paid for their labour, of course, because we care deeply about them and their welfare! Which is why we aren’t doing any outreach to farm workers. Just ending demand for their product! No more tomatoes! End demand for corn! Make it ILLEGAL TO BUY SQUASH!
me.
If they want to do this risky work let them do it on the shady black market farms willing to risk jail time for selling produce to buyers willing to gamble! That will save them!
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It makes NO SENSE to do outreach to marginalised populations: offering trainings on legal rights, maintaining a longstanding presence in and around their communities to develop trust and relationships, finding out what they need and nonjudgmentally offering it: condoms, clean needles, clinic info, food, warm clothes—none of that makes any sense! Seriously banning tomatoes is the only way to save the trafficked farm worker, trust me.
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I encourage you to reblog this. This is a good post to go viral! Do it.
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White women have the privilege of being able to ignore, mock or deride women of color and still be taken seriously as feminists.
Women of color have no choice but to treat white women with nothing but deference and respect if they want to be taken seriously as feminists.
Do you see the double standard?
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important to remember your history, i’d like to see the current lgbt/queer movement take some pointers from the 80s-90s radicals
I know, right? These days maybe we should say "assimilation = death."
so i’ve seen a few posts from current & former sex workers about how the word “prostitute” shouldn’t be used and i was hoping someone could explain why
Prostitute is a slur because it was coined to reinforce the criminalization and pathologization of commercial sexual labor. It is also not the term by which sex workers usually self-identify. I’m on mobile right now, but let me know if you want citations, or have other questions, and I’ll get back to you.
This is not a true history of the etymology of the word "prostitute."
As a somewhat older lady who has been involved in SW for decades, and who spent her childhood observing the business from a close range, I can say that in my historical experience, the only sex workers who considered it a slur were the whorephobic ones, usually strippers.
Only recently have young sex workers decided that the word "prostitute" is a slur and tbh, I think that's just whorephobia in action.
so i’m reading the handmaiden’s tale and i would really like to know why noone who recommended margaret atwood to me mentioned how she’s kind of a radfem? these kinda things shit me heaps. like when people recommend books and don’t mention the wildly off shit the author was into, at least at the…
I haven’t read this book in a while but I’m struggling to remember what it is that might align her writing with radfems?
I had a quick google but would be super interested to hear your thoughts?
She writes one of her defiant women characters in the Handmaid’s Tale’s repressive misogynist dystopia ending up in a brothel for the leadership as her ultimate spiritual defeat and not as a clever survival strategy. Then again, that could just be her protagonist’s narrow minded viewpoint rather than Atwood’s herself, because I know she’s written some sex worker celebrating poetry, as well as having a migrant sex worker (who started underage) totally defuse and shame her boy lover when he makes the mistake of pitying her in _Oryx and Crake_. And then there’s the well written and not at all downtrodden stripper/brothel worker character in Oryx and Crake’s sequel. Or maybe her feminism evolved into being pro sex worker slowly, as The Handmaid’s Tale predates the Oryx and Crake books by quite a bit.
It’s been ages and ages since I read the Handmaid’s Tale, but didn’t that theocracy (initially, at least) gain power by collaborating with anti-porn feminists to pass censorship laws?
I’m obviously biased here, but I didn’t read the Moira/Jezebel part of the story as being the most downtrodden bit either — Moira’s not fertile, iircc, and can’t be a handmaid or a wife, which are the only options that have even the possibility of long term, non-transported survival, so given that all solutions are temporary for her, she takes an option that allows her a modicum of personal freedom and the opportunity to at least clandestinely sexually connect with women, and thus be not wholly subsumed by the system. Did I overrosy it or misremember?
I think leighalanna has it right. Moira did not regard her place in the brothel as the ultimate spiritual defeat; Offred saw it as a spiritual defeat. Moira saw herself as making the best of a bad and ultimately fatal situation.
I think what we were seeing is that different women had different ways of coping with their own unique situations in Gilead. We are also seeing that even in Gilead, even knowing what Moira has been through, Offred is a judgernaut. She judges Moira negatively for choosing the brothel life (and eventual transportation and death) over immediate transportation and death. How is this different from the way that Fred's wife judges Offred?
Not everyone is a revolutionary. Or, not everyone remains a revolutionary after they have been tortured.
However, Moira did not end up in the brothel as "a clever survival strategy." Moira does not expect to survive. She chose the brothel as a way of postponing what she saw as her inevitable demise at the hands of the patriarchal rulers of Gilead. Moira has done her part for the cause, she has suffered enough, and she's making the best of the time she has left.
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Women do not have to follow a man’s dress code.
i feel it i do but rape isn’t caused by a ‘lack of self control’ and suggesting that it is does nothing but justify sexual violence. All abuse/violence is entirely calculated and deliberate, perpetrators are completely in control of their actions.
I hate this argument.
I can’t stand slutwalk, I’m not going to lie.
It’s a lot of things:
The lack of acknowledgment, as Olive says right there, that clothes have nothing to do with it. “Clothes” and “asking for it” are after the fact statements claimed by the defense, they aren’t reasons for rape. Claimed by the defense only in cases where the victim went to the police, was not talked out of reporting or recanting, a valid kit and report was taken, and the DA saw enough of a case to try to prosecute. “Clothes” and “asking for it” are slogans come up with by family and friends to protect themselves from the knowledge that someone they know and care about is a rapist.
Men know this. They rape the fully clothed all the time.
Women know this. Women get raped fully clothed, women get raped at home, women get raped in their families, by their families, by intimate partners far more than by strangers who see a short skirt and think “ah! A defense!”
I’ve been catcalled and threatened as a trans kid in baggy clothes, I’ve been catcalled and threatened in femme lesbian gear. I’ve been assaulted by family, by a friend I let crash at my house, by a guy who let me and my friend crash at his house, and by bouncers at work. What we wear doesn’t matter.
Even the idea of reclaiming slut—look at the women who find it appealing. Women who’ve been threatened with it if they misbehave, but not women who’ve grown up slapped with the word since birth, marked as sexually available through skin colour or class status.
We already know we weren’t asking for it either. We know our slut status is the bedrock for the good middle class white woman to define herself against. Why would we reclaim it? Why reclaim a word that creates a dichotomy? A dichotomy that we will never benefit from?
Slutwalk has no analysis for any of this. In a movement that’s about “dressing slutty” to prove that “no woman asks for rape” there’s no room for acknowledgment or analysis of any of these things: the historical construction of black women’s sexuality to keep white male prerogatives alive and black Americans oppressed, white working women being labelled accessible bc they were forced to leave the home to work and be in public, an automatic loss of chastity.
Slutwalk doesn’t have an analysis for rape and abuse. The claim “no woman is asking for it” elides the fact that “asking for it” is an excuse. Men know that. Abusers are fully in control of their actions. They know to stop just short of causing damage that will incriminate them, they know to pick victims who will never be believed: that’s why most sexual assault occurs in the family or by people you know.
Where is this in slutwalk? Where is this conversation amid the festive and barely dressed attendees? It’s about empowerment, they say, but how and whose?
I know from reading about former slutwalks, from the topless glee of my early dyke marches: the watchers don’t care why you’re topless. The onlookers are stoked by the titillating scene of groups of young women “dressed slutty”. The ostensible point of slutwalk “don’t rape!”, already obfuscated, gets entirely lost in the viewing.
The original purpose of slutwalk, as I understand it, was for rape victims to wear the clothing in which they had been raped, or similar, to point out that clothing has nothing to do with rape. Somewhere along the way it got co-opted by this whole idea that people should "dress slutty" as a form of activism. And that is too bad.
Re Foner’s history of the states, has anyone else read it? It’s really really good, he has another book on reconstruction that I think should be mandatory for high school students, probably jr yr, but anyway—
He just does such a good job at showing the way that our rights were constructed umm...
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MOTHA FUCKIN SCIENCE
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They turned RNA into an anti-virus program. That is amazing.
Let me restate this in case it didn’t sink in the first time
Researchers physically DELETED ALL TRACES of the HIV virus from a human cell.
ALL OF IT.
IF YOU ARE NOT EXCITED ABOUT THAT I DON’T THINK YOU KNOW WHAT HIV IS
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In general middle class being thought of as normal slash average throws me off b/c in the UK if you say middle class you mean someone privileged
US has this ideal that most people are middle class but it’s not true anymore, it’s pretty meaningless now. Some of them got richer, most of them got poorer.
But bizarrely, most people in the US, regardless of their actual income level, consider themselves middle class. It is one of the ways that USians have been conned. I have no idea how it happened, I think it's very strange.
I think that’s the point of the idea, honestly. That no one can, but everyone should try.
Try until you’re nothing. Shrink until there’s nothing left. Use a fake Voice, act so stupid that people wonder if something is “wrong” with you. Notice the quotes. Starve yourself, engage in eating disordered behaviour, wear painfully tight clothing constricts your every breath. Be a girl, be nothing. Be everything and nothing all at once. Don’t ever cut your hair shorter than your shoulders. Make sure your toenails are always polished. Wear makeup even when you don’t want to. Always spend the most of your money on perfumes, lipsticks, new panties no one will ever see! Be a girl! Be a pretty girl and dress up like a Barbie doll. Oh you’re too fat to be a Barbie doll? Well then maybe you should wear this constricting undergarment that barely lets you breathe so that your dress can look smooth. Here to help.
and why? What does it all boils down to? Why should you do all of this? Why? I just want to scream it out loud! Why should we, women, have to do all of this? Because people are f****** haters. That’s why.
You can’t have a set of tits that are flawless and be good at something at the same time without having to also make sure other people are comfortable because they are not as good as you.
Because people are haters. Because people are racist, misogynist, fatphobic, classist pieces of shit.
Reblogging for truth, is all.
