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We’re not trying to make anyone anything they’re not. We just want everyone to hold equal value.
The only women who should be able to call themselves feminists are the intersectional ones. Because feminism is about the furthuring of women. All women. Not just cis women, or white women, or ablebodied women, or straight women, or neurotypical women. If you are only standing up for women who are like you then all you are doing is trying to make yourself part of the oppressors and leaving everyone else to suffer.
i don’t get why people believe feminists hate men
i don’t get why a movement that is for women is so misunderstood to the point where it’s still about men
Isn’t that always what it comes back to? Ugh.
‘You are not responsible for other people’s actions. They are. I don’t care how fat you are. I don’t care how funny-looking your are. I don’t care how old or disabled or poor or underemployed or uneducated you are. I want you, right here, right now, to stop holding yourself responsible for other people’s bad behaviour. You are not obligated to tolerate or indulge cruelty or nastiness of any sort just because you are not perfect in every way. No one is perfect and no one should be made to feel that their imperfections mean they must take responsibility for the fact that someone else is nasty, cruel, or abusive.’
The Unapologetic Fat Girl’s Guide to Exercise, Hanne Blank (via fatmisandry)
It sucks that “feminism” and “misandry” are so often confused and their definitions have to be explained over and over and over again. If you are a misandrist, that means you hate men (likewise, if you are a misogynist, that means you hate women). If you are a feminist, that means you believe that men and women should be treated equally. That’s the definition. It’s about bringing women to power without taking it away from men. If anything, it’s giving men more power, because feminism is also about making sure that men stop being socially stigmatized for what is conventionally considered “feminine,” like being a stay at home parent or openly expressing emotion. Feminism is not about hating men. Feminism is about loving everyone"
http://hellogiggles.com/shailene-woodley-feminist-just-doesnt-know?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=HGFB&utm_campaign=post (via phoebe-bird)
when ppl talk about erasing the idea of virginity i want to make it clear: that means erase the social implications of virginity, erase the idea that virginity determine’s a woman’s value or purity. that does NOT mean people cannot or should not consider personal and emotional implications of their first sexual experiences. just because it is not a big deal for some people does not mean that you are wrong for wanting to take it slowly or for wanting to save yourself or dress modestly or whatever. the idea of feminism is connected strongly to the idea of bodily autonomy for women, and a lot of the sex positivity movement erases the wants and needs of asexual people or anyone who views sex more seriously. there are young girls out here feeling guilty for being scared to lose their virginity because people are saying that virginity doesn’t exist. the social concept of virginity isn’t real; it’s socially constructed. the emotional impacts of sex, or of your first time doing ANYTHING (moving out, getting drunk, kissing, buying a car, whatever) are very real and different for everyone. if your first time having sex is a big deal for you, you aren’t wrong or stupid or anti-feminist for feeling that way.
I am not enhanced by the failure or perceived superiority over others. You aren’t either. You can’t help the world if you improve the situation only for yourself.
Honestly, you probably can’t change the whole world. Few of us can. But if enough people help even just a few people along the way, it can amount to the same thing.
I’m not upset that Shailene Woodley doesn’t consider herself to be a feminist...
I’m frustrated and disheartened that she doesn’t seem to understand what feminism is about.
Men, I am tired of you telling me to smile, as if my face exists for your pleasure. I am tired of you telling me I have pretty eyes — please don’t come so close that you can see the color of my eyes. I am tired of of you stopping me on the sidewalk under the guise of needing directions, only to then explain in great detail what you think of my face, my body, my clothes — as if my time belongs to you, as if I stepped out my front door this morning hoping to please you. And to every man who has ever argued that these are just compliments, that you are just trying to be nice: please know that every time you approach me in these ways, and every time you whisper at me as I pass, I am reminded that you regard me as prey. I am reminded that you have a desire to consume me, and that you believe it is your right to do so. I am reminded that I am vulnerable to predators hiding in broad daylight. Men in suits. Men in jeans. Men in sweatshirts. Men in FedEx uniforms. Men in all manner of uniforms. Men who do not care that their name and company are listed on their uniforms.
How to Cry at Starbucks in Just a Few Easy Steps — Medium (via brutereason)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie quotables...
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[A series of quotes from author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on colored squares with certain words enlarged for emphasis.
1. Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.
2. Show a people as one thing, only one thing,over and over again, and that is what they become.
3. Our histories cling to us. We are shaped by where we come from.
4. A student told me it was such a shame the Nigerian men were physical abusers like the father character in my novel. I told him that I had recently read a novel called American Psycho and that it was a shame that young americans were serial murderers.
5. I often make the mistake of thinking that something that is obvious to me is obvious to everyone else.
6. His advice to me (and he was shaking his head sadly as he spoke) was that I should never call myself a feminist because feminists are women who are unhappy because they cannot find husbands.
7. At some point I was a Happy African Feminist who does not hate men. And who likes lip gloss and wears high heels for herself and not for men.
8. About 52% of the world’s population are women. But most of the positions of power and prestige are occupied by men. The late Kenyan Nobel Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai put it simply and well when she said, “The higher you go, the fewer women there are.”
9. Because of writers like Chinua Achebe and Camara Laye…I realized that people like me, girls with skin the color of chocolate, who’s kinky hair could not form ponytails, could also exist in literature.
10. My college roommate asked if she could listen to what she called my ‘tribal music,’ and was very disappointed when I produced my tape of Mariah Carey.]
The one about Nigerian men being abusers is especially ironic because, if you read Purple Hibiscus, the protagonist’s father is literally the most “westernized” character in the book. As I read the character, I think he is presented as 100% a product of colonialism. He is a “good” colonized subject, fervently christian and against anything associated with Igbo traditions and religion, and he enforces his ideals onto his family with physical abuse. The patriarchal values he embodies are not Nigerian but British.
That student missed the point like whoa.
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As long as people are disenfranchised and have reason to distrust the system, gangs are going to exist in the absence of a society that welcomes and values all of its members.
Someone calling a white person ‘wonder bread’ isn’t racist. It’s rude, but it’s not racist. Wonder bread as an offensive term has no weight, no meaning. It’s just something to push your buttons. Using the N-word is racist - it has meaning and weight and brings up a past that should’ve never happened. The comparison between rude and racist is like squares and rectangles - every square is a rectangle, but not every rectangle is a square. Every racist comment you hear is rude, but not every rude comment you hear is racist.”
from an in-class debate about white supremacy (via seehowtame)
^More on the “reverse racism” discussion.
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I am working with a classmate to help raise money for an after school program to buy sneakers, so the kids can participate in a fun run. They are working so had d to train for it. Their families cannot always afford to buy proper fitting shoes for them, so even a small donation is greatly appreciated!
I don’t even know what to say about this fuckshit.
This is disgusting
Prudence read her tho . Yall need to see the slayage
Thank you, Prudence.