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Likes long walks on the beach, drinks with tiny umbrellas, nail art, and smashing the patriarchy. Dislikes MRAs, uncomfortable shoes, and poorly crafted puns. Anti-porn radical feminist, survivor, and baked goods goddess.

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Hint for politicians: If you are this clueless about female anatomy, you really shouldn’t be trying to legislate it. 

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just nicki’s verse because i got tired of always skipping to get there

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even if you don’t like nicki or rap you have to admit this verse is pure art

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Let’s not forget this is the verse Kanye almost cut because it shitted on every rapper in the game.

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“It was like that moment when I thought about taking Nicki’s verse off of “Monster” because I knew people would say that was the best verse on the best Hip Hop album of all time or arguably top ten albums of all time. And I would do all that work, eight months of work on “Dark Fantasy” and people to this day would say to me  ‘My favorite thing was Nicki Minaj’s verse.’” - Kanye West (x) LMAO IT HAPPENED

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These are… actually pretty inspiring.

Cool.

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Forever reblog.

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“you are never taller than when you stand up for yourself”

thats just awesome

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“You’re the result of 4 billion years of evolutionary success; F***ING ACT LIKE IT.”

My fave right there.

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When life gets harder, you must have just leveled up.

Inspirational fucking post right there.

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The last one is my favorite. 

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Adult Wednesday Addams: Planned Parenthood

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Watch: This is who and what is really at the root of rape culture

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Men who are fake progressive but are lowkey just as ignorant and dangerous as their openly misogynistic counterparts terrify me.

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giddy up. photos by hendy mp (previously featured) 

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I KNEW SHIT LIKE THIS WAS GONNA HAPPEN I FUCKING KNEW IT AND THIS IS EXACTLY WHY I FUCKING HATE THE BOOKS AND ESPECIALLY THE FILM (x)

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لا أبحث عن نصفي الأخر لأنني لستُ نصفًا. -I’m not searching for my other half because I’m not a half.

Realizing this is one of the things that made the biggest difference in my life, not just in my relationships. (via glittergrrrrl)

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First Human X-ray 1896. The woman, Marie Curie, who took part in this experiment had so many X-rays taken that she developed a form of blood cancer and died.

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Took part? TOOK PART????? SHE FUCKIN INVENTED THAT SHIT WITH HER BAE (that’s pierre curie)! Please don’t erase her enormous contributions and sacrifices to science by reducing her to some fuckin test subject k thanks. 

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I mean the unit of measurement for radioactivity is called a curie. 

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Kurdish woman speaking about why she is fighting with YPJ for an autonomous Kurdish state + against ISIS. 

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I honestly had no idea Kurds were so progressive when it comes to gender equality.

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I haven’t heard a single thing I didn’t like about the Kurds/YPG, re: their resistance, that I haven’t liked. Respect.

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Kol hakavod to the fighters.

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Check this out. God she’s so brave.

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Tumblr, may I offer you a pug in this trying time?

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Instead of spending money on a ticket to see 50 Shades of Grey, donate that money to a women’s shelter. Help people who have been treated the way Ana is treated by Christian.

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DO THIS

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Take former FDNY Captain Brenda Berkman, for example. Berkman was one of a group of women who sued the fire department for sex discrimination in 1982 and won; she became one of the first women firefighters in New York City. The harassment she faced was downright dangerous - in addition to her male colleagues playing sexist pranks like covering her locker in a huge bra, they also tampered with her protective equipment and drained her air tanks. Berkman has said they were sending a clear message: Your life might be at risk if you pursue this. Asking individual women to enter hostile spaces to make them better is really asking women to make men better – and to make men better at women’s own risk. But it shouldn’t be women’s responsibility to fix men or deal with their misogyny. Instead, men should be taking it upon themselves to treat women with respect, and demand their other male colleagues do the same.

Women can’t end sexism in the workplace just by showing up, my latest at the Guardian US (via jessicavalenti)

this is for any dude who talks about women not working in coal mines or whatever stupid bullshit they spout, not realizing that women have ALWAYS tried to enter dangerous careers, and we have ALWAYS been kept out by men.

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WHO KNEW IT WAS THA T EASY

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A long time ago, when you were a wee thing, you learned something, some way to cope, something that, if you did it, would help you survive. It wasn’t the healthiest thing, it wasn’t gonna get you free, but it was gonna keep you alive. You learned it, at five or six, and it worked, it *did* help you survive. You carried it with you all your life, used it whenever you needed it. It got you out—out of your assbackwards town, away from an abuser, out of range of your mother’s un-love. Or whatever. It worked for you. You’re still here now partly because of this thing that you learned. The thing is, though, at some point you stopped needing it. At some point, you got far enough away, surrounded yourself with people who love you. You survived. And because you survived, you now had a shot at more than just staying alive. You had a shot now at getting free. But that thing that you learned when you were five was not then and is not now designed to help you be free. It is designed only to help you survive. And, in fact, it keeps you from being free. You need to figure out what this thing is and work your ass off to un-learn it. Because the things we learn to do to survive at all costs are not the things that will help us get FREE. Getting free is a whole different journey altogether.

Mia McKenzie, creator of Black Girl Dangerous, author of The Summer We Got Free (via etiquette-etc)

i think i gasped a little when i read this because it’s almost word-for-word my therapist’s explanation of why i learned to be anxious as a child (“if your dad might blow up at any minute then your anxiety protects you”) and why it’s not helping me now (“he’s not here anymore”). 

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Ooh my therapist talked about talking about my life as exploitation and I went bone silent

The things we we learn to survive don’t always make us thrive

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wow. this is hittin home for me in so many ways~ Wishin everyone good luck on their journey of unlearning~ (via kenyabenyagurl)

…This.  All of it.

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