fecundcunt

I am a 20 something year old art major living in the south side of Chicago. This tumblr is for sharing my inspirations and random thoughts. For my personal work please visit http://www.fecundcunt.wordpress.com

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me pulling a knife on my grandma

[and-exhaleee]

IS SHE WEARING A LIFE ALERT

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yes and she’s gonna need it

[fecundcunt]

wormwoman

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feminist (2014); when you spend so much time with the folks here at tumblr dot com, i think you kind of forget that in the real world, feminism is still regarded as extreme and has this weird bad connotation to it. we talk about classic feminist literature in my lectures and i’m shocked by how many people disagree with feminist ideals. every single person in my life has this internalized misogyny that they aren’t even aware of. that’s why, for my final photography project, i decided to cover feminism. i utilized an institutional-type wall and two simple continuous profoto lights to create a man-on-the-street vibe and recruited some of the most passionate feminists i know to pose with signs. it’s a simple idea for those of us who are so passionate about feminism, but i’m hoping it will help open the eyes of my classmates who never give these ideas a second thought.

[orangeis]

Never in my wildest dreams could I’ve dreamt up this scene.

[myrosecolouredgirl]

"FANART IS NOT REAL ART!!!"

Do we need to talk about the relationship between the Renaissance and the Bible

[karaj]

how to make yourself a work of art instead of other people making you into something you might not approve of.

hannah wilke (via karaj)

[theforce]

are any terms more annoying than “girl crush” and “man crush” please stop nobody cares about your fragile heterosexuality

[gloriacristina-photo]

They fucking lost my film

Dropped off 9 rolls…got back 5.

[disappearing-photos]

This would happen to me.

[fecundcunt]

Must be CSW

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[thatssoscience]

Less “Big Bang Theory,” More Dana Scully: What It’s Going to Take to Lead More Girls Into Science

This article touches on the profound impact cultural icons have and the lack of icons for women in STEM fields today.

Dana Scully influenced generations of women (including me!). “The Scully Effect” inspired women to flock to fields typically dominated by men, like science and law enforcement, because of the bad ass role model Dana Scully was. The actress who played her, Gillian Anderson, knows of the effect her character had.

Anderson responded that she’s long been aware of the Scully Effect, and has frequently heard from girls “who were going into the medical world or the science world or the FBI world or other worlds that I reigned, that they were pursuing those pursuits because of the character of Scully.”

Yet Dana Scully is no where to be found now. Where Dana Scully once ruled we now have Penny on The Big Bang Theory who gets played for laughs as a “silly woman” among serious male scientists. (Don’t even get me started on the treatment of “nerds” and “scientists” on that show. Just listen to where the laugh track plays. They aren’t laughing with Sheldon, they are laughing AT him.)  

Emily Graslie said it best “There should be some woman on some show on some channel, I keep searching for her, and I don’t think she exists. There is no female equivalent of Brian Cox, Neil DeGrasse Tyson.”

While these men do great things for the image of science in the public eye, there is literally no female version, on scripted programs or otherwise. They aren’t there. So Emily, myself, and many others have had enough. We’ve taken matters into our hands.

If the 741,343 views on Emily’s video on the subject are any indication, I don’t think we are the only ones who are fed up. 

Read more at Yes Magazine

[thebrainscoop]

Some day soon we will have actual women scientists and engineers as positive role-models in the media, instead of having to settle for being inspired by fictional characters. 

[maisonderriere]

The rarest of the rare: a men’s magazine advocating hairy armpits on women.

[teensemen]

THERE IS HOPE

[femmejota]

My pits are just as hairy. Not sure my girlfriend is too crazy about them tho

[fuckyeahlavernecox]

In Laverne We Trust

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[thecheekylibertarian]

Women aged 15-44 are more likely to be maimed or die from male violence than cancer, traffic accidents, and war combined.

Feminist talk at Students For Liberty’s 2013 Austin Regional Conference and why feminism is not outdated (via cuntcastle)

& some women - women of color, trans women, disabled women, poor women - are MUCH more likely to experience violence than white/cis/abled/class privileged women (and marginalized women have less recourse in the legal system to have anything done about the violence done to them.) 

All women exist in a culture with a specter of violence surrounding them at every turn, but let’s not let aggregate level statistics allow us to believe that we face equal risks.

(via femmetrash)

[chancesdances]

12/6/13 

[iamkiam]

Chances Dances: summoning a New Queer Reality for First Fridays at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Don’t miss this momentous event!

Dec 6, 6-10 pm at the MCA

I’m so excited to be a part of this along with so many of my dear friends and chosen family :)

[dudah-misc]

If only guys were so aggressive towards rapists as they are towards the possibility of a woman not shaving for a month

[scenicroutes]

I am surprised by how much sex I have had in my life that I didn’t want to have. Not exactly what’s considered “real” rape, or “date” rape, although it is a kind of rape of the spirit - a dishonest portrayal or distortion of my own desire in order to appease another person. I said yes because I felt it was too much trouble to say no. I said yes because I didn’t want to have to defend my “no,” qualify it, justify it - deserve it. I said yes because I thought I was so ugly and fat that I should just take sex every time it was offered, because who knew when it would be offered again. I said yes to partners I never wanted in the first place, because to say no at any point after saying yes for so long would make our entire relationship a lie, so I had to keep saying yes in order to keep the “no” I felt a secret. That is such a messed-up way to live, such an awful way to love. So these days, I say yes only when I mean yes. It does require some vigilance on my part to make sure I don’t just go on sexual automatic pilot and let people do whatever. It forces me to be really honest with myself and others. It makes me remember that loving myself is also about protecting myself and defending my own borders. I say yes to me.

Margaret Cho, “Yes Means Yes” (via lalondes)

If I could go back in time I would change a lot of things. It’s funny, being a kid and thinking you’re an adult and thinking that sex is a legitimate way to make people like you.

(via lollerization)

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