Deliciously Feminist

a blog about equity and love for women, men and everyone in between

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The Trevor Project

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The best ad campaign I’ve ever seen.

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Holy shit.

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Never not Reblogging.

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Wow

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Dear the whole world,

If you have the desire to cheat on your partner, talk to them about it. If you have an overwhelming urge to fuck someone else and you think you're actually going to, have the decency to break up with your partner before you get your dick out.

[fuckyeahsexeducation]

Can lesbians really contract STIs? Do trans guys who only have sex with cis women really have to use barriers? Does anyone actually use dental dams? Do they work? 
To be clear: this confusion about how and why to have safer sex is not because of those sexist tropes that “lesbian sex” or vulvas...

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This is an awesome blog post

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Right now, I've got to say, I'm happy that I've moved to NZ

I hail from Pennsylvania, where there's weirdly a city-liberalism and rural-conservatism existing side by side, and it seems that the conservatism is winning out in the last year or so.  And it seems as though the last 2 years have just all been downhill for the whole country in terms of women and basically all minorities.  Immigrants are speaking up, women are speaking up, trans* people are speaking up, but for every step each group gains forward, there are 5 steps back at this point.  But the presidential election made me feel as though the actual popular ideas of the country are progressive, liberal, humanist ideas.  So how are we still getting all of this political conservative bullshit prevailing?  

It's money, right?  Legacies?  These people aren't REALLY voted into office by popular vote...they can't be.  Because we can't have all of these restrictions on human rights made by mostly men and basically all white people in office - there's got to be a disconnect between the opinions of the general American populous who have been exposed to different ideas and people and religions and socio-economic realities and these overwhelmingly privileged politicians who are making rules about my uterus and the right of my best friends to get married.  

Here in New Zealand, life is ACTUALLY better.  I don't care about this land of the free shit - NZ has actually recently been voted the safest place to live, and there is a much smaller gender wage gap, and there are many more women in politics.  Sure, it has its problems, but it's safer and more fair and I have only been harassed in the street twice in a year and a half.  Abortions are free.  The health care system is infinitely better.  Minimum wage is about 2x larger; an actual livable wage.

We actually need to split America into smaller countries with independent governments and ideas and healthcare systems, because we're really not getting anything done for the greater good.  Everyone keeps asking me why I don't ever want to move home, and there are so many reasons why.

[pleonasticfantastic]

Don’t feed the trolls: it’s probably the most common refrain in online discussions, especially when dealing with misogynists in feminists conversations. The idea is that the best way to deal with sexists is to starve of them of the attention they’re so clearly desperate for. Besides, we think, why sink to their level? But the high road is overrated. It requires silence in the face of violent misogyny, and a turn-the-other cheek mentality that society has long demanded of women. A vibrant feminist movement has ensured women don’t take injustices laying down offline - so why would we acquiesce on the Internet? …The truth is - despite stereotypes that paint feminists as forever negative - doing feminist work requires boundless optimism. It means believing that people have the ability to be better, that culture can change, and maybe even that people who hate can learn to love. It’s exhausting. Sometimes reminding ourselves how hilariously stupid the opposition can be is a necessary break from the burden of idealism.”

— Fuck the High Road: The Upside of Sinking to Their Level, Jessica Valenti’s latest at The Nation (via pleonasticfantastic)

Truth

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We’ve got a clinic crisis on our hands.

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This is actually insane

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[fuckyeahsexeducation]

I’ve been really excited to read My Princess Boy by Cheryl Kilodavis. I’ve heard a lot about it and I just love the idea of supporting Designated Male At Birth children to be themselves especially if that includes wearing dresses and being what our culture defines as “feminine". My...

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This book sounds awesome and I want to buy it just to take it around to places where I babysit and read it to all the children!

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Does anyone else see a commercial/tv show/movie and immediately evaluate the demographics?

I think it's just the nature of an anthropology/sociology student training.  It's pretty depressing.  I just saw an Apple commercial and the first woman featured was black and I got excited but then they showed like 10 white people and all white couples and I was like ugh and then they showed an Indian girl.  But seriously guys let's get this together.  Except it ruins every movie/tv show for me because I automatically start counting the POC and the women and it always makes me sad.

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I forgot my login details for like 6 months so I couldn't get on tumblr but I'm totally back

...sorry guys.  I'm back now. :) And ready to focus on sexxxxxual information

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wow.

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love grey's

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preach

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What happens when men enter women’s feminist spaces? Dale Spender did an experiment to find out, and published the results in Man Made Language: Present at the discussion, which was a workshop on sexism and education in London, were thirty-two women and five men. Apart from the fact that the tape revealed that the men talked for over 50 per cent of the time, it also revealed that what the men wanted to talk about – and the way in which they wanted to talk – was given precedence.

http://weirdward.wordpress.com/2012/12/05/time-for-a-timely-quote-or-no-more-what-about-teh-menz/ (via sisterresister)

This is kind of really crazy

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[vochoice]

Does your state suck at reproductive rights? Find out!

Tired of all those election maps? Here’s a new map to look at.

This one shows grades given to the 50 states for their progressiveness (or regressiveness) on reproductive health and rights. A report card put out by the Population Institute ranks states on availability of birth control, rates of unintended and teen pregnancy, access to emergency contraception and abortion, and sex-ed policy.

The worst state in the union? That would be Mississippi, which scores an F-. Eight other states failed too: Arizona, Florida, Louisiana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Tennessee.

On the bright side: Go left coast! Washington state wins top honors with the only A+ in the union, while California and Oregon get straight-up A’s. (Not that the West Coast states are perfect. Looks like there’s some grading on a curve here.)

The report outlines the ongoing “political assault” on reproductive rights:

While Congress has rejected efforts by social conservatives to defund Title X, [the federal program that provides low-income and uninsured individuals in the U.S. with access to birth control and other preventive healthcare services,] several states have slashed their funding for family planning clinics, and, rejecting the overwhelming weight of research findings, many states are promoting abstinence education in lieu of proven comprehensive sex education curricula. Many states are adopting abortion curbs and other restrictions that are forcing the closure of family planning clinics. Several states are debating “personhood’ amendments to their constitutions that would potentially criminalize all abortions and restrict access to several forms of hormonal birth control.

That unimpressive record earns the country as a whole a C-.

[fuckyeahsexeducation]

Pennsylvania makes me sad :( But they have been doing that for a while.  As always, the east coast is where it's at.  If I ever go back to the States, it'll be the east coast.

[poopypantsmcsharts]

“women should” should NEVER come out of your mouth unless followed by “not have to deal with societal pressures or conform to any standard”