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Ask Jim Kirk about his feminist agenda

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On the Women’s March ‘Guiding Vision’ and its inclusion of Sex Workers

I am proud of the work I’ve done as part of the Women’s March policy table – a collection of women and folk engaged in crucial feminist, racial and social justice work across various intersections in our country. I helped draft the vision and I wrote the line “…and we stand in solidarity with sex workers’ rights movements.” It is not a statement that is controversial to me because as a trans woman of color who grew up in low-income communities and who advocates, resists, dreams and writes alongside these communities, I know that underground economies are essential parts of the lived realities of women and folk. I know sex work to be work. It’s not something I need to tiptoe around. It’s not a radical statement. It’s a fact. My work and my feminism rejects respectability politics, whorephobia, slut-shaming and the misconception that sex workers, or folks engaged in the sex trades by choice or circumstance, need to be saved, that they are colluding with the patriarchy by “selling their bodies.” I reject the continual erasure of sex workers from our feminisms because we continue to conflate sex work with the brutal reality of coercion and trafficking. I reject the policing within and outside women’s movements that shames, scapegoats, rejects, erases and shuns sex workers. I cannot speak to the internal conflicts at the Women’s March that have led to the erasure of the line I wrote for our collective vision but I have been assured that the line will remain in OUR document. The conflicts that may have led to its temporary editing will not leave until we, as feminists, respect THE rights of every woman and person to do what they want with their body and their lives. We will not be free until those most marginalized, most policed, most ridiculed, pushed out and judged are centered. There are no throwaway people, and I hope every sex worker who has felt shamed by this momentarily erasure shows up to their local March and holds the collective accountable to our vast, diverse, complicated realities.

#Janet mock #womensmarch #sex workers rights #trans rights #trans lives matter

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We named the other planets in our solar system after gods but named our own planet “dirt”

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gold star for that moment of self-awareness

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Fat shaming — not lack of willpower — is why so many Americans struggle with their weight

Seemingly well intentioned instances of fat shaming — like discouraging someone from eating dessert or saying they need to be more active — are socially acceptable because they’re framed as concern.

But in a sick twist, fat shaming is proven to be counterproductive.

The language we use to talk about weight and the assumptions we make based on a person’s size can contribute to more weight gain and less self care, like seeking medical attention.

Fat shaming can spike stress hormones that can increase weight gain. Read more

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i did an important art project today

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Design is available here! Just print out on 8.5x11″ paper, cut along the gray lines, paint the back of the paper with craft glue (i used Mod Podge) and wrap it around a plain glass pillar candle. Voila: your very own secular and/or idolatrous Space Mom candle! Please remember that Carrie Fisher’s dad was Jewish every time you look at it, cause, you know.

#carrie fisher #saint carrie #devotional

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Supergirl x The Flash crossover

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So true.

#supergirl #the flash #calista flockhart

The 5yo was getting uppity so I told him to “make me a sandwich”, to which he said “no you’re a sandwich” and now we call each other “sandwich” and it’s a hilarious joke when you are 5.

#parenting

"In societies that function well, there are various safety nets in place to prevent a bad break from leading to a tailspin for particularly vulnerable victims. Compared to many other rich nations, the U.S. is not such a society — all too often, when vulnerable Americans encounter a bad break, there’s nothing underneath them to stop their slide. Instead, devastation follows, sometimes in the form of bankruptcy and addiction and death."

#nymag #obamacare #social justice

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Molly went to North Carolina to expose a KKK rally disguised as a Trump victory party and found a counter protest that sent the cowards scurrying.

PHOTOESSAY: The KKK Counter Protest That Scared The Racists Away

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Happy Batman Day

#batman #dc comics #lgbtq

"I think the NHL’s reluctance to support women’s hockey has a lot to do with the fact that culturally women’s hockey is seen as antithetical to the NHL. Women’s hockey is practically civil disobedience; women in sports still get an untold amount of shit from people, and women’s sports generally pushes back against gender stereotypes and essentialism. Harrison Browne’s jersey is one of the best-selling jerseys in the NWHL. If the NHL starts supporting women’s hockey, I think it inevitably leads to a higher level of awareness about stuff like head injuries/fighting, toxic masculinity in sports, gender, LGBTQ issues, and classism. The NHL probably doesn’t want to confront that stuff; it’s volatile"

#nwhl #women's hockey #nhl #women's sports #dontfightthereferee